AWS Contract Job Trends in the South West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 200 192 242
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 6.98% 11.55% 7.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.17% 35.49% 28.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 156 200
10th Percentile £375 £406 £325
25th Percentile £413 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £706
England median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £52.33 - -
25th Percentile £54.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.35 - £62.50
75th Percentile £98.75 - -
90th Percentile £101.45 - -
England median hourly rate £75.50 £65.25 £51.78
% change year-on-year +15.71% +26.02% -19.72%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 736 541 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.67% 32.53% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 405 641
10th Percentile £227 £227 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 11 26
10th Percentile £18.98 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £53.30 £18.32 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.98% +82.76% -72.82%
75th Percentile £58.75 £28.99 £17.47
90th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £35.20
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

AWS job vacancy trend in the South West

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol -5 69 £538 -0.92% 65
Wiltshire -14 40 £525 -17.78% 17
Gloucestershire -14 33 £550 -10.57% 53
Dorset +13 20 £384 -13.04% 8
Devon -6 19 £445 -25.83% 27
Somerset -10 13 £563 -2.17% 19
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.50%) Apache
3 4 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.50%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.00%) Documentum
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 87 (43.50%) Azure
2 34 (17.00%) GCP
3 24 (12.00%) GitHub
4 19 (9.50%) Serverless
5 18 (9.00%) Amazon S3
6 15 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (7.00%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.00%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.50%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.50%) Datadog
12 7 (3.50%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.50%) Snowflake
14 3 (1.50%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.50%) Firewall
2 4 (2.00%) DHCP
2 4 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.00%) VPN
3 3 (1.50%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.50%) DNS
3 3 (1.50%) HTTP
3 3 (1.50%) LAN
3 3 (1.50%) Network Security
3 3 (1.50%) TETRA
3 3 (1.50%) WAN
4 2 (1.00%) NAS
4 2 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.00%) SAN
5 1 (0.50%) 2G
5 1 (0.50%) BGP
5 1 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.50%) OSPF
5 1 (0.50%) VLAN
5 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.50%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.50%) MySQL
7 7 (3.50%) Power BI
8 6 (3.00%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.00%) Flink
8 6 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.00%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (2.00%) GIS
11 3 (1.50%) Big Data
11 3 (1.50%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (1.50%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 23 (11.50%) Git
2 21 (10.50%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.50%) GitLab
4 4 (2.00%) JIRA
4 4 (2.00%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (1.50%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.50%) DBeaver
5 3 (1.50%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.00%) Postman
6 2 (1.00%) Selenium
6 2 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.50%) JBehave
7 1 (0.50%) JUnit
7 1 (0.50%) Maven
7 1 (0.50%) Mocha
7 1 (0.50%) Mockito
7 1 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 42 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.50%) Public Sector
3 14 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.50%) Finance
4 13 (6.50%) Military
5 5 (2.50%) Tech for Good
6 4 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.00%) Marketing
6 4 (2.00%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.50%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.50%) Banking
8 2 (1.00%) Electronics
8 2 (1.00%) Legal
8 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.00%) Retail
9 1 (0.50%) Law
9 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (22.50%) Developer
2 30 (15.00%) Architect
3 23 (11.50%) Senior
4 18 (9.00%) Analyst
4 18 (9.00%) Java Developer
5 16 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (7.00%) Software Engineer
7 11 (5.50%) Security Analyst
8 9 (4.50%) Data Engineer
8 9 (4.50%) Python Developer
8 9 (4.50%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.00%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.00%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.50%) Lead
10 7 (3.50%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (3.50%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.50%) React
2 18 (9.00%) Spring
3 16 (8.00%) Node.js
4 15 (7.50%) RESTful
4 15 (7.50%) Spring Boot
5 13 (6.50%) REST
6 10 (5.00%) Kafka
7 9 (4.50%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.50%) CSS
7 9 (4.50%) HTML
8 7 (3.50%) SOAP
9 6 (3.00%) .NET
9 6 (3.00%) OAuth
9 6 (3.00%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.50%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (2.00%) Express.js
11 4 (2.00%) OpenID
11 4 (2.00%) PostGIS
11 4 (2.00%) Spring MVC
11 4 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.50%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.50%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.00%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.00%) CMDB
5 4 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.00%) Replication
6 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.00%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.00%) Linux
2 14 (7.00%) Windows
3 7 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.50%) Unix
4 4 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.00%) Debian
5 2 (1.00%) Rocky
5 2 (1.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (33.50%) Agile
2 63 (31.50%) DevOps
3 62 (31.00%) CI/CD
4 34 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (16.50%) Containerisation
6 32 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (13.50%) Analytics
8 22 (11.00%) Microservices
9 20 (10.00%) ETL
10 19 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (9.00%) Migration
11 18 (9.00%) Roadmaps
12 17 (8.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (8.50%) Software Engineering
13 15 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (7.50%) Mentoring
13 15 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (7.00%) Data Pipeline
14 14 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (7.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 63 (31.50%) Python
2 38 (19.00%) SQL
3 37 (18.50%) Java
4 29 (14.50%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.50%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.50%) Bash
7 13 (6.50%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.50%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.50%) Ruby
10 4 (2.00%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.50%) C#
11 3 (1.50%) Go
12 2 (1.00%) Bicep
13 1 (0.50%) R
13 1 (0.50%) Scala
13 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 79 (39.50%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.00%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.50%) Degree
5 12 (6.00%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.50%) CISSP
7 6 (3.00%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (3.00%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (3.00%) SANS
8 5 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.00%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.50%) CISM
12 1 (0.50%) CSPO
12 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.00%) GDPR
2 10 (5.00%) QA
3 9 (4.50%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.50%) NCSC
6 4 (2.00%) NIST
6 4 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.50%) PSD2
7 3 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (1.00%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.50%) SLA
9 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (23.50%) Docker
2 14 (7.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.50%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.00%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (27.00%) Kubernetes
2 38 (19.00%) Terraform
3 18 (9.00%) Ansible
4 15 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.50%) Grafana
6 7 (3.50%) Argo
7 6 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.50%) Dell DRAC
8 5 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.00%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.50%) Kibana
10 3 (1.50%) Nagios
10 3 (1.50%) SCCM
11 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.00%) Puppet
12 1 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.50%) logstash
12 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.50%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 27 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.00%) Oracle
3 8 (4.00%) Databricks
3 8 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.50%) Google
4 7 (3.50%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.00%) Dell
6 5 (2.50%) Splunk
7 4 (2.00%) Cisco
7 4 (2.00%) ESRI
7 4 (2.00%) NetApp
7 4 (2.00%) Ping Identity
7 4 (2.00%) SAP
8 3 (1.50%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.50%) Juniper
8 3 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.50%) VMware
9 2 (1.00%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.00%) F5
9 2 (1.00%) Virgin Media