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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS 326 184 194
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.37% 10.39% 5.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.02% 33.33% 23.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 156 158
10th Percentile £406 £363 £334
25th Percentile £450 £480 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +8.14% -6.52%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £600
90th Percentile £738 £705 £688
England median daily rate £546 £540 £563
% change year-on-year +1.11% -4.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £52.61 £73.12 -
25th Percentile £54.56 £74.05 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £76.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% +119.57% -55.13%
75th Percentile £101.56 £78.40 -
90th Percentile £102.88 £78.58 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.30%

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 905 552 815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.00% 31.17% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 398 602
10th Percentile £293 £224 £213
25th Percentile £410 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -4.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £675
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 37 46
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £13.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -63.18% -3.94%
75th Percentile £58.75 £35.34 £70.00
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +61.02% +18.83% -38.69%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -10 80 £558 +5.69% 49
Wiltshire +2 58 £505 -15.83% 13
Devon +11 56 £538 +3.46% 8
Gloucestershire +2 38 £575 -6.50% 48
Somerset -1 37 £575 +15.00% 25
Dorset +14 35 £409 -25.64% 6
Cornwall -4 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 16 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.68%) Apache
3 8 (2.45%) Confluence
3 8 (2.45%) IIS
4 5 (1.53%) Apache Superset
4 5 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.61%) nginx
7 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 158 (48.47%) Azure
2 63 (19.33%) GCP
3 30 (9.20%) Serverless
4 25 (7.67%) Amazon S3
5 20 (6.13%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (5.52%) GitHub
7 17 (5.21%) Power Platform
8 15 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.76%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (2.45%) Datadog
11 8 (2.45%) Snowflake
12 7 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.15%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (1.84%) Azure AKS
14 5 (1.53%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.76%) Firewall
2 8 (2.45%) DNS
3 6 (1.84%) DHCP
4 4 (1.23%) 3GPP
4 4 (1.23%) Network Security
4 4 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.23%) TETRA
4 4 (1.23%) VLAN
5 3 (0.92%) BGP
5 3 (0.92%) OSPF
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.61%) IPsec
6 2 (0.61%) LAN
6 2 (0.61%) NAS
6 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.61%) SAN
6 2 (0.61%) VPN
6 2 (0.61%) WAN
6 2 (0.61%) Wireless
7 1 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.21%) Power BI
2 16 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (4.91%) MySQL
3 15 (4.60%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.60%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.99%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.68%) Tableau
7 9 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.45%) Flink
8 8 (2.45%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.15%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.15%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.84%) Big Data
10 6 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.53%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (10.74%) Git
2 25 (7.67%) GitLab
3 23 (7.06%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.37%) JIRA
5 6 (1.84%) Selenium
6 5 (1.53%) JUnit
7 4 (1.23%) Liquibase
7 4 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.61%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.31%) Codeception
10 1 (0.31%) JBehave
10 1 (0.31%) MLflow
10 1 (0.31%) Mockito
10 1 (0.31%) NUnit
10 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 61 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 35 (10.74%) Public Sector
3 32 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.44%) Finance
5 12 (3.68%) Military
6 5 (1.53%) Banking
7 4 (1.23%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.23%) Retail
8 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.92%) Marketing
8 3 (0.92%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.61%) Legal
10 1 (0.31%) Electronics
10 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.31%) Local Government
10 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Police
10 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (19.63%) Developer
2 56 (17.18%) Architect
3 27 (8.28%) Java Developer
3 27 (8.28%) Product Manager
3 27 (8.28%) Senior
4 26 (7.98%) Software Engineer
5 25 (7.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (7.36%) Digital Product Manager
7 22 (6.75%) Lead
8 21 (6.44%) Data Engineer
9 20 (6.13%) Site Engineer
9 20 (6.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 18 (5.52%) AWS Architect
10 18 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
10 18 (5.52%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.91%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
11 16 (4.91%) Infrastructure Architect
12 15 (4.60%) Software Developer
12 15 (4.60%) Technical Architect
13 14 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (10.12%) Spring Boot
2 31 (9.51%) Spring
3 29 (8.90%) React
4 22 (6.75%) AWS CDK
5 16 (4.91%) Node.js
6 15 (4.60%) Kafka
7 14 (4.29%) .NET
8 12 (3.68%) RESTful
9 11 (3.37%) .NET Framework
9 11 (3.37%) REST
9 11 (3.37%) Spring MVC
10 9 (2.76%) CSS
10 9 (2.76%) CSS3
10 9 (2.76%) HTML
10 9 (2.76%) HTML5
10 9 (2.76%) Jest
10 9 (2.76%) Redux
11 8 (2.45%) LDAP
12 5 (1.53%) Java Concurrency
12 5 (1.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.56%) Cloud Native
2 34 (10.43%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.84%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.53%) Clustering
8 5 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.53%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.53%) Replication
9 3 (0.92%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.92%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 45 (13.80%) Linux
2 24 (7.36%) Windows
3 14 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.53%) Rocky
5 5 (1.53%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.53%) Unix
6 4 (1.23%) Debian
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (30.67%) Agile
2 85 (26.07%) DevOps
3 83 (25.46%) CI/CD
4 54 (16.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (16.26%) Containerisation
6 52 (15.95%) Roadmaps
7 50 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (14.72%) Analytics
9 46 (14.11%) Microservices
10 44 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (13.19%) Software Engineering
12 37 (11.35%) AI
13 36 (11.04%) Data Engineering
13 36 (11.04%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (8.59%) ETL
14 28 (8.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (8.28%) High Availability
15 27 (8.28%) Observability
16 25 (7.67%) Business Intelligence
16 25 (7.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 101 (30.98%) Python
2 68 (20.86%) SQL
3 55 (16.87%) Java
4 32 (9.82%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.60%) PowerShell
6 13 (3.99%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.68%) Bash
7 12 (3.68%) Go
8 9 (2.76%) PL/SQL
8 9 (2.76%) R
9 7 (2.15%) C#
10 3 (0.92%) Bicep
11 2 (0.61%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.61%) C++
11 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.61%) PHP
11 2 (0.61%) Scala
11 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) Rust
12 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 140 (42.94%) Security Cleared
2 108 (33.13%) SC Cleared
3 37 (11.35%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.29%) Degree
5 10 (3.07%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.15%) CISSP
7 5 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.23%) CISM
8 4 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.61%) CCSK
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.52%) QA
2 12 (3.68%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.45%) GDPR
3 8 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.84%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.53%) NCSC
6 4 (1.23%) NIST
7 2 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.61%) HL7
7 2 (0.61%) ISO 9000
7 2 (0.61%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.61%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.31%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (18.40%) Docker
2 11 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.45%) Hyper-V
3 8 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.61%) Corosync
5 2 (0.61%) KVM
5 2 (0.61%) VirtualBox
5 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.61%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) iptables
6 1 (0.31%) NFS
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (22.70%) Kubernetes
2 62 (19.02%) Terraform
3 21 (6.44%) Prometheus
4 20 (6.13%) Ansible
5 17 (5.21%) Grafana
6 10 (3.07%) Argo
7 5 (1.53%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.23%) Nagios
9 3 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.92%) Istio
9 3 (0.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.92%) Pacemaker
9 3 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.92%) SCCM
10 2 (0.61%) Kibana
10 2 (0.61%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.61%) Podman
10 2 (0.61%) Puppet
10 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (7.67%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.06%) Oracle
3 15 (4.60%) Databricks
4 11 (3.37%) Google
5 8 (2.45%) SAP
5 8 (2.45%) VMware
6 7 (2.15%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.53%) Splunk
8 4 (1.23%) Cisco
8 4 (1.23%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.23%) F5
8 4 (1.23%) Virgin Media
9 3 (0.92%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.61%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.61%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.61%) Citrix
10 2 (0.61%) ESRI
10 2 (0.61%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.61%) NetApp
10 2 (0.61%) Palo Alto