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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 382 183 205
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.21% 9.39% 7.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.30% 30.40% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 143 163
10th Percentile £413 £375 £425
25th Percentile £463 £456 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £670 £656 £660
90th Percentile £765 £738 £768
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -0.43%
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% -35.86%

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 972 602 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.97% 30.90% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 415 458
10th Percentile £350 £213 £236
25th Percentile £425 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -10.80% -3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £614
90th Percentile £730 £694 £686
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 33 42
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £25.73
25th Percentile £15.24 £18.51 £33.50
Median hourly rate £19.42 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -73.04% +101.18%
75th Percentile £48.75 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £87.26 £36.00 -
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -

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 21 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 21 September 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 21 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 -5 94 £550 +1.62% 148
Wiltshire +7 73 £525 -4.55% 33
Devon +4 64 £560 +7.69% 34
Somerset 0 53 £683 +40.15% 53
Dorset +8 35 £413 -25.00% 54
Gloucestershire +9 33 £550 -8.33% 243
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 (4.71%) Apache
2 17 (4.45%) Apache Spark
3 16 (4.19%) Confluence
4 7 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
6 2 (0.52%) 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
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 183 (47.91%) Azure
2 80 (20.94%) GCP
3 35 (9.16%) Serverless
4 29 (7.59%) Amazon S3
5 25 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (5.76%) GitHub
7 20 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (4.45%) dbt
8 17 (4.45%) Snowflake
9 16 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (3.93%) Power Platform
11 13 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.14%) Entra ID
13 11 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 10 (2.62%) OpenShift
15 9 (2.36%) Amazon Bedrock
16 8 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (1.83%) Amazon Cognito
17 7 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
18 6 (1.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (8.38%) DNS
1 32 (8.38%) Firewall
2 28 (7.33%) TCP/IP
3 25 (6.54%) DHCP
4 18 (4.71%) VSAN
5 9 (2.36%) VLAN
6 6 (1.57%) Network Security
6 6 (1.57%) VPN
7 5 (1.31%) BGP
7 5 (1.31%) OSPF
8 3 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.79%) Wireless
9 2 (0.52%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.52%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.52%) PABX
9 2 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.52%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.19%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.93%) Power BI
4 14 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (3.14%) Oracle Database
6 12 (3.14%) Tableau
7 10 (2.62%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.62%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.36%) Big Data
8 9 (2.36%) Flink
8 9 (2.36%) MySQL
8 9 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.09%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.83%) Metadata
11 6 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.57%) SAP HANA
12 5 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (12.04%) Git
2 34 (8.90%) Jenkins
3 30 (7.85%) GitLab
4 18 (4.71%) JIRA
5 6 (1.57%) JUnit
6 4 (1.05%) Liquibase
6 4 (1.05%) Selenium
7 3 (0.79%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.52%) Maven
8 2 (0.52%) RStudio
8 2 (0.52%) 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%) MLflow
9 1 (0.26%) NUnit
9 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 79 (20.68%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.18%) Public Sector
3 36 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.16%) Finance
5 11 (2.88%) Banking
6 10 (2.62%) Military
7 4 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.05%) Local Government
8 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.79%) Police
9 2 (0.52%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.52%) Aviation
9 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.52%) Retail
10 1 (0.26%) Advertising
10 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (21.73%) Developer
2 56 (14.66%) Architect
3 37 (9.69%) Lead
4 36 (9.42%) Data Engineer
5 34 (8.90%) Senior
6 29 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (7.07%) Product Manager
8 26 (6.81%) Software Developer
9 24 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (6.28%) Digital Product Manager
10 22 (5.76%) Java Developer
11 21 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.24%) Lead Architect
13 17 (4.45%) Technical Architect
14 15 (3.93%) AWS Architect
14 15 (3.93%) Python Developer
14 15 (3.93%) Site Engineer
14 15 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (3.93%) Software Engineer
15 13 (3.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (27.75%) Terraform
2 37 (9.69%) React
3 29 (7.59%) Spring Boot
4 28 (7.33%) AWS CDK
5 27 (7.07%) Spring
6 19 (4.97%) Kafka
7 18 (4.71%) Node.js
7 18 (4.71%) REST
8 15 (3.93%) .NET
8 15 (3.93%) HTML
9 14 (3.66%) CSS
10 12 (3.14%) RESTful
11 9 (2.36%) HTML5
11 9 (2.36%) React Native
12 8 (2.09%) CSS3
12 8 (2.09%) LDAP
12 8 (2.09%) Next.js
12 8 (2.09%) Redux
12 8 (2.09%) Spring MVC
13 7 (1.83%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 61 (15.97%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.33%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.19%) PKI
5 14 (3.66%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.36%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.83%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.57%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.57%) Replication
12 5 (1.31%) Clustering
12 5 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.18%) Linux
2 33 (8.64%) Windows
3 10 (2.62%) Unix
4 9 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.79%) Rocky
6 3 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.52%) CentOS
7 2 (0.52%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Android
8 1 (0.26%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (32.98%) CI/CD
2 122 (31.94%) Agile
3 97 (25.39%) DevOps
4 96 (25.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (16.75%) Containerisation
7 60 (15.71%) AI
7 60 (15.71%) Roadmaps
8 56 (14.66%) Platform Engineering
9 52 (13.61%) Data Pipeline
9 52 (13.61%) Software Engineering
10 49 (12.83%) Microservices
11 47 (12.30%) Technical Leadership
12 44 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (10.73%) DevSecOps
14 40 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (9.69%) Analytics
16 33 (8.64%) ETL
17 32 (8.38%) Observability
17 32 (8.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 129 (33.77%) Python
2 83 (21.73%) SQL
3 62 (16.23%) Java
4 34 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 33 (8.64%) Bash
6 25 (6.54%) PowerShell
7 22 (5.76%) C#
7 22 (5.76%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.88%) Go
9 10 (2.62%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.36%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.09%) R
12 4 (1.05%) PHP
13 3 (0.79%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.52%) Bicep
14 2 (0.52%) C++
14 2 (0.52%) Groovy
14 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 186 (48.69%) Security Cleared
2 115 (30.10%) SC Cleared
3 78 (20.42%) DV Cleared
4 24 (6.28%) AWS Certification
5 19 (4.97%) Degree
6 15 (3.93%) CISSP
7 12 (3.14%) VCAP
8 11 (2.88%) CISM
9 8 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.52%) CCNA
14 2 (0.52%) CCSK
14 2 (0.52%) MCSE
14 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.24%) QA
3 10 (2.62%) NCSC
4 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.57%) NIST
5 5 (1.31%) GDPR
5 5 (1.31%) ISO 9000
5 5 (1.31%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.05%) SLA
7 2 (0.52%) 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 (19.63%) Docker
2 31 (8.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.28%) Active Directory
4 21 (5.50%) vSphere
5 19 (4.97%) VMware NSX
6 17 (4.45%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.79%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.52%) Corosync
8 2 (0.52%) 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 (26.44%) Kubernetes
2 49 (12.83%) Ansible
3 17 (4.45%) Grafana
4 14 (3.66%) VxRail
5 13 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.09%) Argo
7 6 (1.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 5 (1.31%) Istio
9 3 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.79%) Pacemaker
10 2 (0.52%) Cilium
10 2 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.52%) linkerd
10 2 (0.52%) Nagios
10 2 (0.52%) Podman
10 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.26%) CASB
11 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.12%) VMware
3 28 (7.33%) Oracle
4 27 (7.07%) Google
5 15 (3.93%) Databricks
6 9 (2.36%) Cisco
6 9 (2.36%) CyberArk
6 9 (2.36%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.09%) SAP
8 6 (1.57%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.57%) Splunk
9 5 (1.31%) OneLogin
10 3 (0.79%) Thales
10 3 (0.79%) webMethods
11 2 (0.52%) ArcSight
11 2 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.52%) F5
11 2 (0.52%) IBM
11 2 (0.52%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.26%) Palo Alto