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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 15 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS 204 225 327
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.03% 9.61% 10.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.44% 33.53% 35.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 167 262
10th Percentile £375 £425 £406
25th Percentile £456 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £685 £688
90th Percentile £714 £780 £749
England median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
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 £85.00 £46.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year +84.06% -19.69% +17.95%

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 693 671 924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.68% 28.65% 29.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 419 704
10th Percentile £225 £250 £254
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £713
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 27 44
10th Percentile - £18.10 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.63 £14.47
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £22.07
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +58.59% -61.78%
75th Percentile £35.51 £70.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £74.00 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.50
% change year-on-year -24.93% +28.04% +17.78%

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 25 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 25 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 +12 81 £525 -4.55% 80
Wiltshire +5 43 £550 -8.33% 31
Gloucestershire -15 28 £550 -8.33% 59
Devon -5 20 £523 -12.97% 20
Somerset +1 12 £625 +8.70% 30
Dorset +3 6 £410 -10.87% 18
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 (3.43%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (1.47%) Apache
2 3 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.47%) Confluence
2 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.98%) Alfresco
3 2 (0.98%) Camunda
3 2 (0.98%) Documentum
4 1 (0.49%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 104 (50.98%) Azure
2 38 (18.63%) GCP
3 29 (14.22%) GitHub
4 24 (11.76%) Serverless
5 18 (8.82%) Amazon S3
6 17 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (5.39%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.41%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (3.92%) npm
13 7 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.43%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.43%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.90%) Firewall
2 9 (4.41%) VPN
3 6 (2.94%) Network Security
4 5 (2.45%) DNS
4 5 (2.45%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.45%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.45%) WAN
5 2 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.98%) SSL
6 1 (0.49%) 2G
6 1 (0.49%) 5G
6 1 (0.49%) BGP
6 1 (0.49%) DHCP
6 1 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.49%) MPLS
6 1 (0.49%) NAS
6 1 (0.49%) OSPF
6 1 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.49%) SAN
6 1 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.39%) MongoDB
2 11 (5.39%) Power BI
3 10 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.43%) MySQL
6 7 (3.43%) Oracle ODI
6 7 (3.43%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (3.43%) Star Schema
7 5 (2.45%) Big Data
7 5 (2.45%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.96%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.47%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.47%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 29 (14.22%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.76%) GitLab
3 19 (9.31%) Git
4 15 (7.35%) JIRA
5 9 (4.41%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.43%) DBeaver
7 4 (1.96%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.47%) JUnit
9 2 (0.98%) Maven
9 2 (0.98%) Postman
10 1 (0.49%) Appium
10 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.49%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.49%) Mocha
10 1 (0.49%) Selenium
10 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 54 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.57%) Public Sector
3 27 (13.24%) Finance
4 17 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.41%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.43%) Military
7 5 (2.45%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.96%) Electronics
8 4 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.96%) Marketing
8 4 (1.96%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Law
10 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (18.63%) Developer
2 30 (14.71%) Analyst
2 30 (14.71%) Architect
3 17 (8.33%) Senior
4 16 (7.84%) Lead
5 15 (7.35%) Data Engineer
6 12 (5.88%) Security Analyst
7 11 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (4.90%) Security Engineer
9 9 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) Network Architect
11 7 (3.43%) Quality Engineer
11 7 (3.43%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.94%) DBA
12 6 (2.94%) Security Architect
13 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Architect
13 5 (2.45%) Infrastructure Manager
13 5 (2.45%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.24%) Node.js
2 24 (11.76%) React
3 16 (7.84%) AngularJS
4 12 (5.88%) REST
5 9 (4.41%) AWS CDK
5 9 (4.41%) HTML
5 9 (4.41%) Spring
6 8 (3.92%) RESTful
7 7 (3.43%) CSS
7 7 (3.43%) OAuth
7 7 (3.43%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.43%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 7 (3.43%) XML
8 6 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.94%) OpenID
8 6 (2.94%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.45%) .NET
9 5 (2.45%) Kafka
9 5 (2.45%) Next.js
9 5 (2.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.22%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.90%) Cyber Defence
3 10 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.90%) Replication
4 6 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.96%) IoT
6 4 (1.96%) PKI
7 3 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.47%) CMDB
7 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.47%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.25%) Linux
2 17 (8.33%) Windows
3 14 (6.86%) Unix
4 4 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (37.25%) Agile
2 72 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 62 (30.39%) DevOps
4 39 (19.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (12.75%) Containerisation
6 26 (12.75%) Mentoring
6 26 (12.75%) Microservices
7 25 (12.25%) Test Automation
8 22 (10.78%) Analytics
8 22 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (10.29%) Migration
10 20 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (8.82%) Software Engineering
11 18 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (7.84%) ETL
13 14 (6.86%) DevSecOps
13 14 (6.86%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.00%) Python
2 36 (17.65%) TypeScript
3 32 (15.69%) JavaScript
4 25 (12.25%) Java
4 25 (12.25%) SQL
5 19 (9.31%) Bash
6 18 (8.82%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.43%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.45%) Ruby
9 4 (1.96%) Bicep
9 4 (1.96%) C
10 2 (0.98%) C#
10 2 (0.98%) Go
10 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.98%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.49%) C++
Qualifications
1 105 (51.47%) Security Cleared
2 79 (38.73%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.73%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.35%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.88%) CISSP
5 12 (5.88%) Degree
6 10 (4.90%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.94%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (2.94%) SANS
8 4 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.96%) CISM
8 4 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.98%) OCA
10 2 (0.98%) OCP
10 2 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.37%) GDPR
2 11 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.90%) NIST
4 9 (4.41%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.41%) NCSC
4 9 (4.41%) QA
5 3 (1.47%) JSP 440
5 3 (1.47%) PSD2
5 3 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.98%) GRC
6 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.98%) WCAG
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.49%) SLA
7 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (20.59%) Docker
2 11 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (29.90%) Terraform
2 40 (19.61%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.78%) Ansible
4 11 (5.39%) Grafana
5 10 (4.90%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.90%) Puppet
6 7 (3.43%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.96%) Argo
7 4 (1.96%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.96%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (1.96%) Kibana
7 4 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.98%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.98%) Podman
8 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.49%) logstash
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.84%) Oracle
3 8 (3.92%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.92%) Splunk
4 6 (2.94%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.45%) Dell
5 5 (2.45%) Google
5 5 (2.45%) Ping Identity
5 5 (2.45%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.45%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.96%) Cisco
6 4 (1.96%) Juniper
6 4 (1.96%) SAP
7 3 (1.47%) Databricks
7 3 (1.47%) F5
7 3 (1.47%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.98%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.98%) ESRI
8 2 (0.98%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.98%) NetApp