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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 16 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS 202 232 344
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.17% 9.60% 10.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.32% 32.81% 36.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 174 279
10th Percentile £375 £425 £406
25th Percentile £456 £491 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £713 £775 £742
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £73.35
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -55.13% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £78.60
England median hourly rate £76.50 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +65.66% -16.04% +2.33%

All Cloud 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 689 707 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.29% 29.25% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 450 734
10th Percentile £225 £250 £263
25th Percentile £381 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 47
10th Percentile - £19.40 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.00 £14.56
Median hourly rate £20.69 £67.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.36% +170.00% -58.68%
75th Percentile £35.51 £70.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £74.00 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.86
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.42% +40.27%

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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the South West

AWS
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
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 15 November 2025. 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 +9 81 £525 -4.55% 84
Wiltshire +6 40 £550 -8.33% 34
Gloucestershire -15 29 £550 -8.33% 90
Devon -7 21 £523 -12.92% 27
Somerset -3 10 £638 +10.87% 19
Dorset 0 7 £550 +19.57% 23
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 7 (3.47%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (1.49%) Apache
2 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.49%) Confluence
2 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) Alfresco
3 2 (0.99%) Camunda
3 2 (0.99%) Documentum
3 2 (0.99%) nginx
4 1 (0.50%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 102 (50.50%) Azure
2 39 (19.31%) GCP
3 27 (13.37%) GitHub
4 23 (11.39%) Serverless
5 19 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (8.91%) Amazon S3
7 16 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.45%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (3.96%) npm
11 8 (3.96%) OpenShift
11 8 (3.96%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.47%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.97%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.95%) Firewall
2 9 (4.46%) VPN
3 6 (2.97%) Network Security
4 5 (2.48%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.48%) WAN
5 3 (1.49%) DNS
6 2 (0.99%) SSL
7 1 (0.50%) 2G
7 1 (0.50%) 5G
7 1 (0.50%) BGP
7 1 (0.50%) DHCP
7 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.50%) MPLS
7 1 (0.50%) NAS
7 1 (0.50%) OSPF
7 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.50%) SAN
7 1 (0.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.94%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (5.45%) Power BI
4 9 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.46%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.46%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.96%) MySQL
6 7 (3.47%) Oracle ODI
6 7 (3.47%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (3.47%) Star Schema
7 5 (2.48%) Big Data
7 5 (2.48%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.48%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.98%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.49%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.49%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.99%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 28 (13.86%) Jenkins
2 23 (11.39%) GitLab
3 17 (8.42%) Git
4 15 (7.43%) JIRA
5 9 (4.46%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.47%) DBeaver
7 4 (1.98%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.49%) JUnit
9 2 (0.99%) Maven
9 2 (0.99%) Postman
10 1 (0.50%) Appium
10 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.50%) WebDriver
General
1 55 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.28%) Public Sector
3 27 (13.37%) Finance
4 17 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.46%) Military
5 9 (4.46%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.48%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.98%) Electronics
7 4 (1.98%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.98%) Marketing
8 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Law
9 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (19.31%) Developer
2 29 (14.36%) Architect
3 27 (13.37%) Analyst
4 18 (8.91%) Senior
5 16 (7.92%) Data Engineer
5 16 (7.92%) Lead
6 11 (5.45%) Security Analyst
6 11 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (4.95%) Security Engineer
8 8 (3.96%) Network Architect
8 8 (3.96%) Software Engineer
9 7 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.47%) Java Developer
9 7 (3.47%) Quality Engineer
9 7 (3.47%) Senior Developer
10 6 (2.97%) DBA
10 6 (2.97%) Security Architect
11 5 (2.48%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.86%) Node.js
2 27 (13.37%) React
3 17 (8.42%) AngularJS
4 11 (5.45%) REST
4 11 (5.45%) Spring
5 10 (4.95%) AWS CDK
6 9 (4.46%) HTML
7 7 (3.47%) CSS
7 7 (3.47%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 7 (3.47%) RESTful
7 7 (3.47%) XML
8 6 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.97%) OAuth
8 6 (2.97%) OAuth2
8 6 (2.97%) OpenID
8 6 (2.97%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.48%) .NET
9 5 (2.48%) Next.js
9 5 (2.48%) SAML
9 5 (2.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.36%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.94%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.95%) Cyber Defence
3 10 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.95%) Replication
4 6 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.98%) IoT
6 4 (1.98%) PKI
7 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.49%) CMDB
7 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.39%) Linux
2 18 (8.91%) Windows
3 14 (6.93%) Unix
4 4 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (37.62%) Agile
2 69 (34.16%) CI/CD
3 61 (30.20%) DevOps
4 37 (18.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (12.87%) Containerisation
7 25 (12.38%) Microservices
8 24 (11.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (11.88%) Mentoring
8 24 (11.88%) Test Automation
9 23 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (10.89%) Migration
10 22 (10.89%) Software Engineering
11 20 (9.90%) Analytics
12 17 (8.42%) ETL
13 16 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (6.93%) DevSecOps
15 14 (6.93%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.25%) Python
2 37 (18.32%) TypeScript
3 35 (17.33%) JavaScript
4 29 (14.36%) Java
4 29 (14.36%) SQL
5 21 (10.40%) Bash
6 19 (9.41%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.47%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.48%) C
9 4 (1.98%) Bicep
10 3 (1.49%) Go
10 3 (1.49%) Ruby
11 2 (0.99%) C#
11 2 (0.99%) C++
11 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (51.49%) Security Cleared
2 76 (37.62%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.37%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.43%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.94%) CISSP
5 12 (5.94%) Degree
6 10 (4.95%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.97%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (2.97%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (2.97%) SANS
8 4 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.98%) CISM
8 4 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.99%) MCSE
10 2 (0.99%) OCA
10 2 (0.99%) OCP
10 2 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.44%) GDPR
2 11 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.95%) NIST
4 9 (4.46%) QA
5 8 (3.96%) NCSC
6 3 (1.49%) PSD2
6 3 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.99%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.99%) GRC
7 2 (0.99%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.99%) WCAG
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
8 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (20.30%) Docker
2 11 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.99%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (29.70%) Terraform
2 39 (19.31%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.89%) Ansible
4 11 (5.45%) Grafana
5 10 (4.95%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.95%) Puppet
6 7 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.98%) Argo
7 4 (1.98%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.98%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (1.98%) Kibana
7 4 (1.98%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (1.98%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.49%) Podman
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.99%) PingFederate
9 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.50%) logstash
10 1 (0.50%) Nagios
10 1 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.42%) Oracle
3 8 (3.96%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.96%) Splunk
4 6 (2.97%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.48%) Dell
5 5 (2.48%) Google
5 5 (2.48%) Ping Identity
5 5 (2.48%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.98%) Cisco
6 4 (1.98%) Juniper
6 4 (1.98%) SAP
7 3 (1.49%) Databricks
7 3 (1.49%) F5
7 3 (1.49%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.99%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.99%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.99%) NetApp
8 2 (0.99%) OpenText