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 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 12 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 361 195 214
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.04% 10.42% 6.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.14% 34.51% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 157 170
10th Percentile £405 £360 £398
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £743 £693 £725
England median daily rate £550 £538 £563
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £55.58 £73.12 -
25th Percentile £78.75 £74.05 -
Median hourly rate £94.02 £76.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.34% +119.57% -55.13%
75th Percentile £100.63 £78.40 -
90th Percentile £102.73 £78.58 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.75% +54.29% -36.74%

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 972 565 841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 27.04% 30.20% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 405 604
10th Percentile £305 £225 £233
25th Percentile £413 £355 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £523
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.09% -5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £687
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 40 50
10th Percentile £14.36 £18.13 £13.74
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -73.04% +40.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £29.06 -
90th Percentile - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +58.05% +14.32% -33.33%

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 July 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 10 July 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 July 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 -8 93 £550 +4.76% 47
Wiltshire +6 68 £503 -16.25% 14
Devon +4 58 £538 +3.46% 11
Somerset +4 49 £600 +20.00% 27
Dorset +12 35 £409 -25.64% 11
Gloucestershire 0 35 £575 -6.50% 84
Cornwall -3 1 £750 +15.38% 2
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 17 (4.71%) Apache
1 17 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.77%) Confluence
3 8 (2.22%) IIS
4 5 (1.39%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.55%) nginx
7 2 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 178 (49.31%) Azure
2 65 (18.01%) GCP
3 32 (8.86%) Serverless
4 31 (8.59%) Amazon S3
5 22 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (5.82%) GitHub
7 20 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (5.54%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (4.16%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.49%) Datadog
10 9 (2.49%) dbt
10 9 (2.49%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (2.49%) OpenShift
10 9 (2.49%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.43%) Firewall
2 14 (3.88%) DNS
3 13 (3.60%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.49%) DHCP
5 7 (1.94%) VSAN
6 6 (1.66%) VLAN
7 5 (1.39%) BGP
7 5 (1.39%) Network Security
7 5 (1.39%) OSPF
8 4 (1.11%) 3GPP
8 4 (1.11%) TETRA
8 4 (1.11%) VPN
9 3 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.55%) CTI
10 2 (0.55%) IPsec
10 2 (0.55%) NAS
10 2 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.55%) SAN
10 2 (0.55%) WAN
11 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.82%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.54%) Power BI
3 19 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.16%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.32%) Oracle Database
7 12 (3.32%) Tableau
8 11 (3.05%) MySQL
9 10 (2.77%) Flink
10 9 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.94%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.66%) Big Data
13 6 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.39%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.11%) DynamoDB
15 4 (1.11%) Metadata
15 4 (1.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (10.53%) Git
2 26 (7.20%) GitLab
3 25 (6.93%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.05%) JIRA
5 7 (1.94%) JUnit
6 6 (1.66%) Selenium
7 4 (1.11%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.11%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.55%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.28%) Codeception
10 1 (0.28%) GoCD
10 1 (0.28%) Gradle
10 1 (0.28%) JBehave
10 1 (0.28%) Maven
10 1 (0.28%) MLflow
10 1 (0.28%) Mockito
10 1 (0.28%) NUnit
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
General
1 63 (17.45%) Social Skills
2 42 (11.63%) Public Sector
3 35 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.65%) Finance
5 13 (3.60%) Military
6 6 (1.66%) Banking
7 4 (1.11%) Retail
8 3 (0.83%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.83%) Local Government
8 3 (0.83%) Police
8 3 (0.83%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.55%) Legal
9 2 (0.55%) Marketing
10 1 (0.28%) Advertising
10 1 (0.28%) Aviation
10 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (20.50%) Developer
2 60 (16.62%) Architect
3 35 (9.70%) Lead
4 30 (8.31%) Java Developer
5 29 (8.03%) Data Engineer
5 29 (8.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (8.03%) Senior
6 27 (7.48%) Product Manager
7 24 (6.65%) Digital Product Manager
8 21 (5.82%) Software Engineer
9 20 (5.54%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.54%) Site Engineer
9 20 (5.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 19 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (4.99%) AWS Architect
11 18 (4.99%) Python Developer
11 18 (4.99%) Software Developer
12 17 (4.71%) Technical Architect
13 16 (4.43%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
13 16 (4.43%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.97%) Spring Boot
2 35 (9.70%) Spring
3 32 (8.86%) React
4 23 (6.37%) AWS CDK
5 19 (5.26%) Node.js
6 18 (4.99%) .NET
6 18 (4.99%) Kafka
7 15 (4.16%) REST
8 14 (3.88%) RESTful
9 11 (3.05%) .NET Framework
10 10 (2.77%) HTML
10 10 (2.77%) HTML5
10 10 (2.77%) Redux
11 9 (2.49%) CSS
11 9 (2.49%) CSS3
11 9 (2.49%) Jest
11 9 (2.49%) LDAP
11 9 (2.49%) Spring MVC
12 6 (1.66%) SailPoint
13 5 (1.39%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.42%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.66%) Legacy Code
6 6 (1.66%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.39%) Clustering
7 5 (1.39%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.39%) PKI
7 5 (1.39%) Replication
8 4 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.11%) IVR
9 3 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 51 (14.13%) Linux
2 29 (8.03%) Windows
3 13 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.39%) Rocky
5 5 (1.39%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.39%) Unix
6 4 (1.11%) Debian
7 1 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
7 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (31.30%) Agile
2 104 (28.81%) CI/CD
3 102 (28.25%) DevOps
4 72 (19.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (17.17%) Containerisation
6 58 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (14.96%) Roadmaps
8 52 (14.40%) Microservices
9 51 (14.13%) Analytics
10 47 (13.02%) AI
11 45 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (12.47%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (11.08%) Software Engineering
13 36 (9.97%) Data Engineering
14 34 (9.42%) ETL
15 33 (9.14%) Platform Engineering
16 31 (8.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 31 (8.59%) Technical Leadership
17 30 (8.31%) Observability
18 29 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 114 (31.58%) Python
2 74 (20.50%) SQL
3 62 (17.17%) Java
4 35 (9.70%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.82%) Bash
6 20 (5.54%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.32%) Go
7 12 (3.32%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.77%) C#
8 10 (2.77%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.77%) R
9 3 (0.83%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.83%) Bicep
9 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.55%) C++
10 2 (0.55%) Groovy
10 2 (0.55%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.55%) PHP
10 2 (0.55%) Scala
10 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 158 (43.77%) Security Cleared
2 113 (31.30%) SC Cleared
3 52 (14.40%) DV Cleared
4 16 (4.43%) Degree
5 13 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.22%) CISSP
7 7 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.11%) CISM
9 4 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.55%) CCSK
11 2 (0.55%) VCAP
11 2 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.28%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.54%) QA
2 14 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.49%) GDPR
4 8 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.66%) NCSC
6 5 (1.39%) ISO 9000
6 5 (1.39%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.11%) NIST
8 3 (0.83%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.55%) HL7
9 2 (0.55%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (19.94%) Docker
2 17 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.60%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.77%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.49%) vSphere
6 8 (2.22%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.55%) Corosync
7 2 (0.55%) KVM
7 2 (0.55%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.28%) iptables
8 1 (0.28%) NFS
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 88 (24.38%) Kubernetes
2 81 (22.44%) Terraform
3 31 (8.59%) Ansible
4 21 (5.82%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.54%) Grafana
6 12 (3.32%) Argo
7 6 (1.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.11%) Nagios
9 3 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.83%) Istio
9 3 (0.83%) Pacemaker
9 3 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.83%) VxRail
10 2 (0.55%) Cilium
10 2 (0.55%) Kibana
10 2 (0.55%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.55%) linkerd
10 2 (0.55%) Podman
10 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (7.76%) Microsoft
1 28 (7.76%) Oracle
2 18 (4.99%) Databricks
3 17 (4.71%) VMware
4 10 (2.77%) Google
5 8 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.94%) Cisco
6 7 (1.94%) CyberArk
6 7 (1.94%) SAP
7 5 (1.39%) Splunk
8 4 (1.11%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.83%) F5
10 2 (0.55%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.55%) ESRI
10 2 (0.55%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.55%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.28%) Okta
11 1 (0.28%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.28%) Tenable
11 1 (0.28%) Thales