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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 14 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 373 180 202
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.48% 9.44% 7.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.83% 32.20% 26.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 139 164
10th Percentile £410 £355 £425
25th Percentile £450 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £551
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.45% -8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £626
90th Percentile £750 £700 £764
England median daily rate £550 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile £56.25 £73.12 -
25th Percentile £87.00 £74.05 -
Median hourly rate £98.82 £76.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% +119.57% -55.13%
75th Percentile £100.00 £78.40 -
90th Percentile £102.50 £78.58 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £50.59
% change year-on-year -3.45% +43.31% -27.73%

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 986 559 755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 27.70% 29.33% 26.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 389 539
10th Percentile £335 £217 £248
25th Percentile £421 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £616 £588 £613
90th Percentile £706 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 39 44
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £13.08
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £33.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +109.33% -73.04% +76.99%
75th Percentile £58.75 £29.13 -
90th Percentile £91.78 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%

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 3 August 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 3 August 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 3 August 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 -4 94 £550 +6.80% 94
Wiltshire +8 74 £500 -14.89% 9
Devon +5 59 £538 +3.46% 15
Somerset -1 59 £640 +32.99% 32
Dorset +10 32 £409 -25.64% 19
Gloucestershire +4 30 £575 -8.91% 78
Cornwall - 1 £750 -
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 (4.56%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.29%) Apache
3 11 (2.95%) Confluence
4 8 (2.14%) IIS
5 5 (1.34%) Apache Superset
6 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.54%) nginx
8 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.27%) JBoss
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
1 1 (0.27%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 182 (48.79%) Azure
2 69 (18.50%) GCP
3 37 (9.92%) Serverless
4 31 (8.31%) Amazon S3
5 27 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (5.63%) Power Platform
7 19 (5.09%) GitHub
8 18 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (3.49%) Snowflake
11 10 (2.68%) dbt
12 9 (2.41%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (2.41%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (2.14%) Datadog
14 7 (1.88%) Amazon Bedrock
15 6 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.43%) Firewall
2 23 (6.17%) DNS
3 21 (5.63%) TCP/IP
4 18 (4.83%) DHCP
5 16 (4.29%) VSAN
6 6 (1.61%) VLAN
7 5 (1.34%) BGP
7 5 (1.34%) OSPF
8 4 (1.07%) 3GPP
8 4 (1.07%) Network Security
8 4 (1.07%) TETRA
8 4 (1.07%) VPN
9 3 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.54%) CTI
10 2 (0.54%) IPsec
10 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.27%) EIGRP
11 1 (0.27%) MPLS
11 1 (0.27%) SAN
11 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.63%) Power BI
2 20 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.75%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.49%) Tableau
7 12 (3.22%) Oracle Database
7 12 (3.22%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (2.41%) Flink
8 9 (2.41%) MySQL
9 8 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.14%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.14%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.88%) Big Data
11 6 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.61%) Metadata
12 5 (1.34%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (9.92%) Git
2 25 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.43%) GitLab
4 13 (3.49%) JIRA
5 6 (1.61%) JUnit
6 5 (1.34%) Selenium
7 4 (1.07%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.54%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.27%) Codeception
10 1 (0.27%) GoCD
10 1 (0.27%) Gradle
10 1 (0.27%) Maven
10 1 (0.27%) MLflow
10 1 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 68 (18.23%) Social Skills
2 48 (12.87%) Public Sector
3 34 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.97%) Finance
5 13 (3.49%) Military
6 6 (1.61%) Banking
7 4 (1.07%) Local Government
7 4 (1.07%) Retail
8 3 (0.80%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.80%) Police
9 2 (0.54%) Aviation
9 2 (0.54%) Marketing
9 2 (0.54%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.27%) Advertising
10 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.27%) Legal
10 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (20.11%) Developer
2 64 (17.16%) Architect
3 36 (9.65%) Lead
4 30 (8.04%) Data Engineer
5 29 (7.77%) Senior
6 27 (7.24%) Product Manager
7 26 (6.97%) Java Developer
7 26 (6.97%) Platform Engineer
8 24 (6.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (6.43%) Digital Product Manager
9 21 (5.63%) Site Engineer
9 21 (5.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 20 (5.36%) Software Developer
11 19 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (4.83%) AWS Architect
12 18 (4.83%) Python Developer
12 18 (4.83%) Software Engineer
13 17 (4.56%) Lead Architect
13 17 (4.56%) Technical Architect
14 16 (4.29%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.85%) Spring Boot
2 31 (8.31%) Spring
3 30 (8.04%) React
4 24 (6.43%) AWS CDK
5 20 (5.36%) .NET
6 19 (5.09%) Node.js
7 18 (4.83%) Kafka
8 16 (4.29%) REST
9 14 (3.75%) RESTful
10 11 (2.95%) .NET Framework
11 10 (2.68%) HTML
12 9 (2.41%) CSS
12 9 (2.41%) HTML5
12 9 (2.41%) React Native
12 9 (2.41%) Redux
13 8 (2.14%) CSS3
13 8 (2.14%) Jest
13 8 (2.14%) LDAP
13 8 (2.14%) Spring MVC
14 6 (1.61%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 57 (15.28%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.12%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.75%) PKI
5 13 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.88%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.61%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.34%) Clustering
10 5 (1.34%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.34%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.34%) Replication
11 4 (1.07%) IVR
12 3 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 55 (14.75%) Linux
2 36 (9.65%) Windows
3 13 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.34%) Unix
6 4 (1.07%) Rocky
6 4 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.80%) Debian
8 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (31.10%) Agile
2 110 (29.49%) CI/CD
3 102 (27.35%) DevOps
4 82 (21.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (16.35%) Containerisation
7 55 (14.75%) Roadmaps
8 52 (13.94%) Microservices
9 51 (13.67%) AI
10 47 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (12.33%) Analytics
11 46 (12.33%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (12.06%) Platform Engineering
13 43 (11.53%) Technical Leadership
14 42 (11.26%) Software Engineering
15 36 (9.65%) ETL
16 35 (9.38%) DevSecOps
17 34 (9.12%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (8.85%) Data Engineering
18 33 (8.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 123 (32.98%) Python
2 73 (19.57%) SQL
3 60 (16.09%) Java
4 31 (8.31%) Bash
4 31 (8.31%) JavaScript
5 29 (7.77%) PowerShell
6 14 (3.75%) C#
7 13 (3.49%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.95%) Go
9 10 (2.68%) R
10 9 (2.41%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.80%) BeanShell
11 3 (0.80%) Bicep
11 3 (0.80%) PHP
11 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.54%) C++
12 2 (0.54%) Groovy
12 2 (0.54%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.54%) Scala
12 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 178 (47.72%) Security Cleared
2 122 (32.71%) SC Cleared
3 65 (17.43%) DV Cleared
4 17 (4.56%) AWS Certification
5 15 (4.02%) Degree
6 10 (2.68%) VCAP
7 8 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.14%) CISSP
8 5 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.07%) CISM
9 4 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.54%) CCSK
11 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.36%) QA
2 17 (4.56%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.14%) GDPR
4 7 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.88%) NCSC
5 5 (1.34%) ISO 9000
5 5 (1.34%) NIST
5 5 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.07%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.54%) HL7
7 2 (0.54%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (20.11%) Docker
2 25 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.36%) Active Directory
4 18 (4.83%) vSphere
5 17 (4.56%) VMware NSX
6 16 (4.29%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.54%) Corosync
7 2 (0.54%) KVM
7 2 (0.54%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.27%) iptables
8 1 (0.27%) NFS
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 90 (24.13%) Terraform
2 89 (23.86%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.72%) Ansible
4 18 (4.83%) Grafana
4 18 (4.83%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.22%) VxRail
6 10 (2.68%) Argo
7 6 (1.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.80%) Istio
8 3 (0.80%) Pacemaker
8 3 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.54%) Cilium
9 2 (0.54%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.54%) linkerd
9 2 (0.54%) Nagios
9 2 (0.54%) Podman
9 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.27%) OPNET
Vendors
1 29 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.51%) Oracle
3 25 (6.70%) VMware
4 19 (5.09%) Databricks
5 14 (3.75%) Google
6 10 (2.68%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.41%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.88%) Cisco
8 7 (1.88%) SAP
9 5 (1.34%) Splunk
10 4 (1.07%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.80%) F5
11 3 (0.80%) Thales
12 2 (0.54%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.54%) IBM
12 2 (0.54%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.54%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.54%) Virgin Media
13 1 (0.27%) Denodo
13 1 (0.27%) Okta