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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS 300 175 194
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.85% 10.21% 5.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.36% 33.46% 24.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 147 160
10th Percentile £402 £360 £325
25th Percentile £431 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £734 £700 £688
England median daily rate £543 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -1.36% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £52.88 - -
25th Percentile £55.13 - -
Median hourly rate £67.35 £78.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +124.86% -55.13%
75th Percentile £100.63 - -
90th Percentile £102.80 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +29.55% -26.67%

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 873 523 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.74% 30.51% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 379 608
10th Percentile £281 £225 £213
25th Percentile £406 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £609 £600
90th Percentile £688 £676 £675
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 33 39
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.13 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -46.09% -36.36%
75th Percentile £58.75 £34.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.94%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -13 73 £575 +10.58% 66
Devon +12 55 £538 +3.46% 17
Wiltshire -1 50 £525 -12.50% 13
Gloucestershire +1 38 £575 -6.50% 46
Dorset +10 33 £409 -25.64% 5
Somerset -4 29 £525 +7.69% 24
Cornwall -5 1 £750 +15.38%
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 15 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.33%) Apache
3 8 (2.67%) IIS
4 6 (2.00%) Confluence
5 5 (1.67%) Apache Superset
5 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.67%) nginx
8 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 147 (49.00%) Azure
2 58 (19.33%) GCP
3 25 (8.33%) Serverless
4 21 (7.00%) GitHub
5 18 (6.00%) Amazon S3
6 16 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (5.33%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.00%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (2.67%) Datadog
11 8 (2.67%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.00%) Snowflake
13 5 (1.67%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.67%) Firewall
2 6 (2.00%) DNS
3 5 (1.67%) DHCP
4 4 (1.33%) 3GPP
4 4 (1.33%) HTTP
4 4 (1.33%) Network Security
4 4 (1.33%) TETRA
5 3 (1.00%) BGP
5 3 (1.00%) LAN
5 3 (1.00%) OSPF
5 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.00%) VLAN
5 3 (1.00%) VPN
5 3 (1.00%) WAN
6 2 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.67%) IPsec
6 2 (0.67%) NAS
6 2 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.67%) SAN
6 2 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.33%) MySQL
1 16 (5.33%) NoSQL
1 16 (5.33%) Power BI
2 12 (4.00%) Tableau
3 11 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.67%) Relational Database
3 11 (3.67%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.00%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.00%) Flink
7 5 (1.67%) Big Data
7 5 (1.67%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.00%) HBase
9 3 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (11.67%) Git
2 24 (8.00%) GitLab
3 22 (7.33%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.67%) JIRA
5 6 (2.00%) Selenium
6 5 (1.67%) JUnit
7 4 (1.33%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.67%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.33%) Codeception
10 1 (0.33%) JBehave
10 1 (0.33%) MLflow
10 1 (0.33%) Mockito
10 1 (0.33%) NUnit
10 1 (0.33%) Snyk
10 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.33%) Spinnaker
General
1 58 (19.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (9.00%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.33%) Finance
5 12 (4.00%) Military
6 5 (1.67%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.67%) Banking
6 5 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.33%) Retail
8 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.00%) Marketing
8 3 (1.00%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.33%) Electronics
10 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (19.33%) Developer
2 53 (17.67%) Architect
3 27 (9.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (9.00%) Product Manager
4 26 (8.67%) Java Developer
4 26 (8.67%) Senior
4 26 (8.67%) Software Engineer
5 24 (8.00%) Digital Product Manager
6 20 (6.67%) Site Engineer
6 20 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 18 (6.00%) AWS Architect
8 17 (5.67%) Python Developer
9 16 (5.33%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
9 16 (5.33%) Infrastructure Architect
10 15 (5.00%) Lead
11 14 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.33%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (4.33%) Technical Architect
13 12 (4.00%) Data Architect
13 12 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.67%) React
1 29 (9.67%) Spring Boot
2 28 (9.33%) Spring
3 20 (6.67%) AWS CDK
4 17 (5.67%) Node.js
5 15 (5.00%) Kafka
6 14 (4.67%) .NET
7 13 (4.33%) RESTful
8 11 (3.67%) .NET Framework
8 11 (3.67%) REST
8 11 (3.67%) Spring MVC
9 9 (3.00%) CSS
9 9 (3.00%) CSS3
9 9 (3.00%) HTML
9 9 (3.00%) HTML5
9 9 (3.00%) Jest
9 9 (3.00%) Redux
10 8 (2.67%) LDAP
11 5 (1.67%) Java Concurrency
11 5 (1.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.67%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.00%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.67%) Clustering
7 5 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.67%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.33%) Replication
9 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) IVR
10 2 (0.67%) NHS
10 2 (0.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.33%) Linux
2 22 (7.33%) Windows
3 12 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.67%) Rocky
4 5 (1.67%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.67%) Unix
5 4 (1.33%) Debian
6 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (32.67%) Agile
2 83 (27.67%) DevOps
3 78 (26.00%) CI/CD
4 51 (17.00%) Containerisation
5 48 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 44 (14.67%) Microservices
7 43 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (13.67%) Analytics
9 37 (12.33%) Software Engineering
10 30 (10.00%) AI
11 28 (9.33%) Data Engineering
11 28 (9.33%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (8.67%) ETL
12 26 (8.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 25 (8.33%) Migration
13 25 (8.33%) Observability
14 23 (7.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (7.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 90 (30.00%) Python
2 54 (18.00%) Java
3 52 (17.33%) SQL
4 33 (11.00%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.33%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.67%) Bash
8 10 (3.33%) Go
9 8 (2.67%) R
10 7 (2.33%) C#
11 6 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.00%) Bicep
12 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.67%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.67%) C++
13 2 (0.67%) PHP
14 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.33%) Scala
14 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (43.67%) Security Cleared
2 103 (34.33%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.67%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.33%) Degree
5 10 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.33%) CISSP
7 5 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.33%) CISM
8 4 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.67%) CCSK
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.67%) QA
2 9 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.67%) GDPR
4 7 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.67%) NCSC
7 4 (1.33%) NIST
8 2 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.67%) HL7
8 2 (0.67%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 60 (20.00%) Docker
2 11 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.67%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.67%) Corosync
6 2 (0.67%) KVM
6 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.67%) vSphere
7 1 (0.33%) iptables
7 1 (0.33%) NFS
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.33%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (23.67%) Kubernetes
2 52 (17.33%) Terraform
3 21 (7.00%) Prometheus
4 19 (6.33%) Ansible
5 17 (5.67%) Grafana
6 8 (2.67%) Argo
7 5 (1.67%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.33%) Nagios
9 3 (1.00%) Pacemaker
9 3 (1.00%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.00%) SCCM
10 2 (0.67%) Cilium
10 2 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.67%) Istio
10 2 (0.67%) Podman
10 2 (0.67%) Puppet
10 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 20 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.67%) Oracle
3 10 (3.33%) Databricks
3 10 (3.33%) Google
4 8 (2.67%) SAP
5 7 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.33%) VMware
6 5 (1.67%) Splunk
7 4 (1.33%) Cisco
7 4 (1.33%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.33%) F5
7 4 (1.33%) Virgin Media
8 2 (0.67%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.67%) Citrix
8 2 (0.67%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.67%) ESRI
8 2 (0.67%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.67%) NetApp
8 2 (0.67%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.33%) Broadcom