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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 12 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS 334 195 194
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.41% 11.09% 5.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.95% 35.58% 23.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 159 153
10th Percentile £407 £361 £376
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +5.12% -6.52%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £600
90th Percentile £738 £702 £688
England median daily rate £550 £544 £563
% change year-on-year +1.15% -3.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £54.90 £73.12 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £74.05 -
Median hourly rate £92.50 £76.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.36% +119.57% -55.13%
75th Percentile £102.50 £78.40 -
90th Percentile £102.95 £78.58 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.52%

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 929 548 836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.17% 31.15% 25.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 391 606
10th Percentile £305 £220 £214
25th Percentile £413 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £600
90th Percentile £688 £681 £675
England median daily rate £514 £514 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 37 49
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £13.63
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -72.04% +28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £34.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% +16.98% -36.10%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -9 83 £550 +4.27% 50
Wiltshire +2 63 £505 -15.83% 14
Devon +6 57 £538 +3.46% 15
Gloucestershire +1 37 £575 -6.50% 48
Dorset +14 36 £409 -25.64% 7
Somerset -2 36 £515 +3.00% 20
Cornwall -3 1 £750 +15.38% 1
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 16 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.89%) Apache
3 8 (2.40%) Confluence
3 8 (2.40%) IIS
4 5 (1.50%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.60%) nginx
7 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 160 (47.90%) Azure
2 62 (18.56%) GCP
3 31 (9.28%) Serverless
4 26 (7.78%) Amazon S3
5 21 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (5.69%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (5.39%) GitHub
8 15 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.69%) OpenShift
10 9 (2.69%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (2.40%) Datadog
11 8 (2.40%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.80%) Azure AKS
14 5 (1.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.40%) DNS
2 7 (2.10%) Firewall
3 4 (1.20%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.20%) DHCP
3 4 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.20%) TETRA
4 3 (0.90%) Network Security
4 3 (0.90%) VLAN
5 2 (0.60%) BGP
5 2 (0.60%) IPsec
5 2 (0.60%) NAS
5 2 (0.60%) OSPF
5 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.60%) SAN
5 2 (0.60%) WAN
6 1 (0.30%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.30%) LAN
6 1 (0.30%) MPLS
6 1 (0.30%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.69%) Power BI
2 17 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.09%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.79%) MySQL
4 15 (4.49%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.59%) Tableau
7 11 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (2.69%) Flink
8 9 (2.69%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.10%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.80%) Big Data
10 6 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.50%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (10.48%) Git
2 25 (7.49%) GitLab
3 23 (6.89%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.29%) JIRA
5 6 (1.80%) Selenium
6 5 (1.50%) JUnit
7 4 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.20%) Liquibase
7 4 (1.20%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.60%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.30%) Codeception
10 1 (0.30%) JBehave
10 1 (0.30%) MLflow
10 1 (0.30%) Mockito
10 1 (0.30%) NUnit
General
1 58 (17.37%) Social Skills
2 37 (11.08%) Public Sector
3 32 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.59%) Finance
5 11 (3.29%) Military
6 5 (1.50%) Banking
7 4 (1.20%) Retail
8 3 (0.90%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.90%) Marketing
8 3 (0.90%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.60%) Legal
9 2 (0.60%) Local Government
9 2 (0.60%) Police
10 1 (0.30%) Electronics
10 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (19.76%) Developer
2 58 (17.37%) Architect
3 28 (8.38%) Java Developer
4 27 (8.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (8.08%) Product Manager
5 26 (7.78%) Lead
6 25 (7.49%) Data Engineer
6 25 (7.49%) Senior
6 25 (7.49%) Software Engineer
7 24 (7.19%) Digital Product Manager
8 20 (5.99%) Site Engineer
8 20 (5.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 18 (5.39%) AWS Architect
9 18 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (5.39%) Python Developer
10 16 (4.79%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
10 16 (4.79%) Infrastructure Architect
10 16 (4.79%) Software Developer
10 16 (4.79%) Technical Architect
11 15 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.48%) Spring Boot
2 33 (9.88%) Spring
3 30 (8.98%) React
4 22 (6.59%) AWS CDK
5 17 (5.09%) Kafka
6 16 (4.79%) Node.js
7 15 (4.49%) .NET
8 12 (3.59%) RESTful
9 11 (3.29%) .NET Framework
9 11 (3.29%) REST
9 11 (3.29%) Spring MVC
10 9 (2.69%) CSS
10 9 (2.69%) CSS3
10 9 (2.69%) HTML
10 9 (2.69%) HTML5
10 9 (2.69%) Jest
10 9 (2.69%) Redux
11 8 (2.40%) LDAP
12 5 (1.50%) Java Concurrency
12 5 (1.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 34 (10.18%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.80%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.50%) Clustering
8 5 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.50%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.50%) Replication
9 3 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.90%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) IVR
10 2 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.87%) Linux
2 23 (6.89%) Windows
3 13 (3.89%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.50%) Rocky
5 5 (1.50%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.50%) Unix
6 4 (1.20%) Debian
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
7 1 (0.30%) SUSE
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (30.54%) Agile
2 91 (27.25%) DevOps
3 85 (25.45%) CI/CD
4 57 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (16.47%) Containerisation
6 53 (15.87%) Roadmaps
7 49 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (14.37%) Analytics
8 48 (14.37%) Microservices
9 44 (13.17%) Software Engineering
10 42 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (11.98%) AI
11 40 (11.98%) Data Pipeline
12 36 (10.78%) Data Engineering
13 30 (8.98%) ETL
13 30 (8.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 29 (8.68%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (8.38%) High Availability
15 28 (8.38%) Observability
16 27 (8.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 101 (30.24%) Python
2 72 (21.56%) SQL
3 57 (17.07%) Java
4 33 (9.88%) JavaScript
5 13 (3.89%) PowerShell
5 13 (3.89%) TypeScript
6 12 (3.59%) Bash
6 12 (3.59%) Go
7 10 (2.99%) PL/SQL
8 9 (2.69%) R
9 8 (2.40%) C#
10 3 (0.90%) Bicep
11 2 (0.60%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.60%) C++
11 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.60%) PHP
11 2 (0.60%) Scala
11 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 139 (41.62%) Security Cleared
2 107 (32.04%) SC Cleared
3 39 (11.68%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.49%) Degree
5 10 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.10%) CISSP
7 5 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.20%) CISM
8 4 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.60%) CCSK
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.30%) SANS
11 1 (0.30%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.69%) QA
2 13 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.69%) GDPR
4 8 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.80%) NCSC
6 5 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.20%) NIST
8 3 (0.90%) ISO 9000
8 3 (0.90%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.60%) HL7
9 2 (0.60%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (18.26%) Docker
2 8 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.50%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.60%) Corosync
5 2 (0.60%) KVM
5 2 (0.60%) VirtualBox
5 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.60%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) iptables
6 1 (0.30%) NFS
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (23.05%) Kubernetes
2 65 (19.46%) Terraform
3 21 (6.29%) Prometheus
4 20 (5.99%) Ansible
5 17 (5.09%) Grafana
6 10 (2.99%) Argo
7 5 (1.50%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.20%) Nagios
8 4 (1.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.90%) Istio
9 3 (0.90%) Pacemaker
9 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.60%) Cilium
10 2 (0.60%) Kibana
10 2 (0.60%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.60%) linkerd
10 2 (0.60%) Podman
10 2 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (7.19%) Oracle
2 22 (6.59%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.79%) Databricks
4 9 (2.69%) Google
5 8 (2.40%) SAP
5 8 (2.40%) VMware
6 7 (2.10%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.50%) Splunk
8 4 (1.20%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.20%) Virgin Media
9 3 (0.90%) Cisco
9 3 (0.90%) F5
10 2 (0.60%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.60%) ESRI
10 2 (0.60%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.30%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.30%) Okta
11 1 (0.30%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.30%) Tenable