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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 378 185 201
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.07% 9.45% 7.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.61% 30.13% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 143 158
10th Percentile £415 £375 £425
25th Percentile £466 £457 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -3.93% -4.58%
75th Percentile £675 £662 £664
90th Percentile £765 £738 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £55.88 - -
25th Percentile £83.46 £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £98.82 £75.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.76% +114.29% -55.13%
75th Percentile £99.12 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -34.03%

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 979 614 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.09% 31.36% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 421 441
10th Percentile £335 £213 £250
25th Percentile £428 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £532
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -10.71% -3.27%
75th Percentile £647 £590 £625
90th Percentile £730 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 35 43
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £25.26
25th Percentile £15.24 £18.69 £33.00
Median hourly rate £19.42 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -73.04% +112.12%
75th Percentile £49.69 £34.13 -
90th Percentile £87.26 £36.90 -
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.58 £34.47
% change year-on-year +32.90% -25.79% +4.44%

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 24 September 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 24 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the South West

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 24 September 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 -3 94 £550 +1.62% 98
Wiltshire +11 72 £528 -4.09% 31
Devon +4 64 £560 +7.18% 28
Somerset -1 53 £683 +40.15% 46
Gloucestershire +6 33 £550 -8.33% 186
Dorset +6 31 £428 -22.27% 35
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 18 (4.76%) Apache
2 17 (4.50%) Confluence
3 16 (4.23%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.53%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 183 (48.41%) Azure
2 80 (21.16%) GCP
3 34 (8.99%) Serverless
4 29 (7.67%) Amazon S3
5 24 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (5.82%) GitHub
7 20 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (5.03%) Snowflake
9 18 (4.76%) dbt
10 16 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (3.97%) Power Platform
12 13 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (3.17%) Entra ID
14 11 (2.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 9 (2.38%) Amazon Bedrock
15 9 (2.38%) OpenShift
16 7 (1.85%) Amazon Cognito
16 7 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
17 6 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (8.47%) DNS
1 32 (8.47%) Firewall
2 28 (7.41%) TCP/IP
3 25 (6.61%) DHCP
4 18 (4.76%) VSAN
5 9 (2.38%) VLAN
6 6 (1.59%) VPN
7 5 (1.32%) BGP
7 5 (1.32%) Network Security
7 5 (1.32%) OSPF
8 3 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.79%) Wireless
9 2 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.53%) CTI
9 2 (0.53%) IPsec
9 2 (0.53%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.53%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (4.50%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.97%) Power BI
4 14 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (3.17%) Oracle Database
7 11 (2.91%) Tableau
8 10 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (2.65%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (2.38%) Flink
10 8 (2.12%) Big Data
10 8 (2.12%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.12%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.85%) Metadata
12 6 (1.59%) MySQL
12 6 (1.59%) SAP HANA
13 5 (1.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (11.90%) Git
2 34 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.47%) GitLab
4 19 (5.03%) JIRA
5 6 (1.59%) JUnit
6 4 (1.06%) Liquibase
6 4 (1.06%) Selenium
7 3 (0.79%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.53%) Maven
8 2 (0.53%) RStudio
8 2 (0.53%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.26%) Codeception
9 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.26%) GoCD
9 1 (0.26%) Gradle
9 1 (0.26%) NUnit
9 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 57 (15.08%) Public Sector
3 35 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (9.26%) Finance
4 12 (3.17%) Banking
5 10 (2.65%) Military
6 4 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.06%) Local Government
7 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
7 3 (0.79%) Police
8 2 (0.53%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.53%) Aviation
8 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.26%) Advertising
9 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (21.16%) Developer
2 55 (14.55%) Architect
3 37 (9.79%) Data Engineer
3 37 (9.79%) Lead
4 34 (8.99%) Senior
5 29 (7.67%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (7.14%) Product Manager
6 27 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 24 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (6.35%) Digital Product Manager
8 20 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (5.29%) Lead Architect
9 18 (4.76%) Java Developer
10 17 (4.50%) Technical Architect
11 15 (3.97%) AWS Architect
11 15 (3.97%) Python Developer
12 14 (3.70%) Site Engineer
12 14 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 14 (3.70%) Software Engineer
13 12 (3.17%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (28.04%) Terraform
2 33 (8.73%) React
3 28 (7.41%) AWS CDK
4 25 (6.61%) Spring Boot
5 23 (6.08%) Spring
6 19 (5.03%) Kafka
7 18 (4.76%) Node.js
8 17 (4.50%) REST
9 15 (3.97%) .NET
10 13 (3.44%) RESTful
11 11 (2.91%) HTML
12 10 (2.65%) CSS
13 9 (2.38%) React Native
14 8 (2.12%) LDAP
14 8 (2.12%) Next.js
15 7 (1.85%) Apache NiFi
16 6 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
16 6 (1.59%) OAuth
16 6 (1.59%) OpenID
17 5 (1.32%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 63 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.23%) PKI
5 14 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
8 8 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.85%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.85%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.59%) Replication
11 5 (1.32%) Clustering
11 5 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.81%) Linux
2 33 (8.73%) Windows
3 10 (2.65%) Unix
4 9 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.79%) Rocky
6 3 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.53%) CentOS
7 2 (0.53%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Android
8 1 (0.26%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (33.07%) CI/CD
2 122 (32.28%) Agile
3 96 (25.40%) DevOps
4 95 (25.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (17.20%) Containerisation
7 60 (15.87%) AI
7 60 (15.87%) Roadmaps
8 56 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
9 52 (13.76%) Software Engineering
10 51 (13.49%) Data Pipeline
11 50 (13.23%) Microservices
12 47 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
13 43 (11.38%) DevSecOps
14 40 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 39 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (10.05%) Analytics
17 33 (8.73%) ETL
18 32 (8.47%) Data Modelling
18 32 (8.47%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 130 (34.39%) Python
2 81 (21.43%) SQL
3 59 (15.61%) Java
4 33 (8.73%) Bash
5 30 (7.94%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.61%) PowerShell
7 23 (6.08%) C#
8 22 (5.82%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.91%) Go
10 10 (2.65%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.12%) R
11 8 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.06%) PHP
13 3 (0.79%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Bicep
14 2 (0.53%) C++
14 2 (0.53%) Groovy
14 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 183 (48.41%) Security Cleared
2 112 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 79 (20.90%) DV Cleared
4 24 (6.35%) AWS Certification
5 19 (5.03%) Degree
6 15 (3.97%) CISSP
7 12 (3.17%) VCAP
8 11 (2.91%) CISM
9 8 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.53%) CCNA
14 2 (0.53%) CCSK
14 2 (0.53%) MCSE
14 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.08%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.29%) QA
3 9 (2.38%) NCSC
4 6 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.59%) NIST
5 5 (1.32%) GDPR
5 5 (1.32%) ISO 9000
5 5 (1.32%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.06%) SLA
7 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 75 (19.84%) Docker
2 31 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.35%) Active Directory
4 21 (5.56%) vSphere
5 19 (5.03%) VMware NSX
6 17 (4.50%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.79%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.53%) Corosync
8 2 (0.53%) KVM
9 1 (0.26%) iptables
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.26%) NFS
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.26%) zsh
Systems Management
1 101 (26.72%) Kubernetes
2 49 (12.96%) Ansible
3 16 (4.23%) Grafana
4 14 (3.70%) VxRail
5 12 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.12%) Argo
7 6 (1.59%) Istio
7 6 (1.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.79%) Pacemaker
9 2 (0.53%) Cilium
9 2 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.53%) linkerd
9 2 (0.53%) Nagios
9 2 (0.53%) Podman
10 1 (0.26%) Kibana
10 1 (0.26%) OPNET
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.20%) VMware
3 29 (7.67%) Google
3 29 (7.67%) Oracle
4 15 (3.97%) Databricks
5 9 (2.38%) Cisco
5 9 (2.38%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.12%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.85%) SAP
8 6 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.59%) Splunk
9 5 (1.32%) OneLogin
10 4 (1.06%) webMethods
11 3 (0.79%) Thales
12 2 (0.53%) ArcSight
12 2 (0.53%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.53%) F5
12 2 (0.53%) IBM
12 2 (0.53%) Virgin Media
13 1 (0.26%) Foundry