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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 18 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 188 202 344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 9.59% 7.65% 10.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.81% 28.82% 34.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 161 273
10th Percentile £377 £425 £413
25th Percentile £456 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -8.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.71% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -55.13% -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £73.50 £46.18 £72.50
% change year-on-year +59.16% -36.30% +8.21%

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 591 701 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.14% 26.53% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 458 765
10th Percentile £213 £236 £300
25th Percentile £355 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £663
90th Percentile £694 £685 £725
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 42 56
10th Percentile £18.13 £20.85 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £33.50 £19.09
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +100.00% +60.92%
75th Percentile £34.50 - £78.00
90th Percentile £36.75 - £79.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS 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 16 September 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

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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 16 September 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 74 £539 +1.08% 80
Wiltshire +19 34 £550 -8.33% 7
Gloucestershire -2 23 £594 +5.56% 81
Devon -2 18 £520 -20.00% 29
Somerset +10 14 £488 -15.22% 12
Dorset 0 9 £550 +35.80% 15
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.19%) Confluence
2 5 (2.66%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (1.60%) Apache
3 3 (1.60%) Camunda
4 2 (1.06%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.06%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (48.94%) Azure
2 41 (21.81%) GCP
3 26 (13.83%) Serverless
4 20 (10.64%) GitHub
5 15 (7.98%) Amazon S3
5 15 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.72%) npm
7 7 (3.72%) Snowflake
8 6 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.19%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.19%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.13%) SaaS
11 3 (1.60%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.45%) Firewall
2 9 (4.79%) VPN
3 6 (3.19%) Network Security
4 5 (2.66%) DNS
5 4 (2.13%) SD-WAN
5 4 (2.13%) WAN
6 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.06%) SSL
8 1 (0.53%) BGP
8 1 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.53%) MPLS
8 1 (0.53%) OSPF
8 1 (0.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.72%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.72%) MySQL
4 6 (3.19%) Power BI
4 6 (3.19%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.66%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.66%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (2.66%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (2.13%) Star Schema
7 3 (1.60%) Big Data
7 3 (1.60%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.60%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.60%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (14.36%) GitLab
2 24 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.51%) JIRA
4 8 (4.26%) Cypress.io
4 8 (4.26%) Git
5 6 (3.19%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.13%) DBeaver
6 4 (2.13%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.60%) JUnit
8 2 (1.06%) Selenium
9 1 (0.53%) Appium
9 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.53%) Code Climate
9 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.53%) Maven
9 1 (0.53%) Snyk
9 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 48 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.62%) Public Sector
3 34 (18.09%) Finance
4 16 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.26%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.19%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.19%) Military
7 5 (2.66%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.66%) Banking
7 5 (2.66%) Electronics
7 5 (2.66%) Marketing
8 4 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Law
9 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.53%) Aviation
10 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 35 (18.62%) Developer
2 24 (12.77%) Architect
3 18 (9.57%) Senior
4 17 (9.04%) Lead
5 16 (8.51%) Analyst
6 14 (7.45%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.26%) Consultant
9 8 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.26%) Software Developer
9 8 (4.26%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.72%) AWS Architect
10 7 (3.72%) Backend Developer
11 6 (3.19%) DBA
11 6 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.19%) Network Architect
11 6 (3.19%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.83%) Node.js
2 24 (12.77%) React
3 14 (7.45%) AngularJS
4 11 (5.85%) AWS CDK
5 8 (4.26%) HTML
5 8 (4.26%) Spring
6 7 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.19%) CSS
7 6 (3.19%) REST
7 6 (3.19%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.66%) Next.js
9 4 (2.13%) Kafka
9 4 (2.13%) OAuth
9 4 (2.13%) OpenID
9 4 (2.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 4 (2.13%) RESTful
10 3 (1.60%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (1.60%) Django
10 3 (1.60%) NumPy
10 3 (1.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.04%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.19%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (3.19%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.19%) Replication
5 4 (2.13%) IoT
5 4 (2.13%) PKI
6 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.23%) Linux
2 17 (9.04%) Windows
3 10 (5.32%) Unix
4 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.53%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.32%) CI/CD
2 56 (29.79%) Agile
3 49 (26.06%) DevOps
4 35 (18.62%) Containerisation
5 30 (15.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (14.36%) Migration
7 26 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (12.23%) Software Engineering
9 22 (11.70%) Test Automation
10 20 (10.64%) Mentoring
10 20 (10.64%) Microservices
11 18 (9.57%) Analytics
12 16 (8.51%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (7.98%) ETL
13 15 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (7.45%) DevSecOps
15 13 (6.91%) Incident Response
16 12 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.66%) Python
2 28 (14.89%) JavaScript
2 28 (14.89%) TypeScript
3 25 (13.30%) SQL
4 20 (10.64%) Java
5 19 (10.11%) Bash
6 16 (8.51%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.66%) C
8 3 (1.60%) Bicep
8 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.06%) C++
9 2 (1.06%) Go
9 2 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.06%) Perl
9 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.53%) C#
10 1 (0.53%) Groovy
10 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 83 (44.15%) Security Cleared
2 53 (28.19%) SC Cleared
3 31 (16.49%) DV Cleared
4 14 (7.45%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.79%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.19%) CISSP
7 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.13%) CISM
7 4 (2.13%) Degree
8 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.06%) MCSE
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.06%) OCA
9 2 (1.06%) OCP
9 2 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.53%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.32%) NIST
3 8 (4.26%) GDPR
3 8 (4.26%) QA
4 5 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.66%) NCSC
5 3 (1.60%) Basel III
5 3 (1.60%) IFRS
5 3 (1.60%) IFRS 17
5 3 (1.60%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.06%) GRC
6 2 (1.06%) JSP 440
6 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (20.21%) Docker
2 6 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (29.79%) Terraform
2 34 (18.09%) Kubernetes
3 24 (12.77%) Ansible
4 15 (7.98%) Puppet
5 13 (6.91%) Grafana
6 11 (5.85%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.13%) Data Guard
7 4 (2.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (1.60%) Kibana
8 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.60%) Podman
8 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.06%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.53%) logstash
10 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.91%) Oracle
3 8 (4.26%) SAP
4 6 (3.19%) Splunk
5 5 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.13%) Google
6 4 (2.13%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.13%) VMware
7 3 (1.60%) Databricks
8 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.06%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.06%) Cisco
8 2 (1.06%) F5
8 2 (1.06%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.06%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.06%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.06%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.53%) Citrix
9 1 (0.53%) Juniper