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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 195 207 307
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.42% 9.80% 10.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.19% 33.28% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 163 250
10th Percentile £375 £425 £398
25th Percentile £454 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £685 £688
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £67.15
25th Percentile £63.98 - £74.13
Median hourly rate £67.35 - £78.00
75th Percentile £70.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £84.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.98% - -16.04%

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 668 622 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 28.83% 29.45% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 415 677
10th Percentile £259 £250 £229
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £700
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 33
10th Percentile - £13.10 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.83 £14.93
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +29.17% -63.64%
75th Percentile £36.00 £68.75 £33.00
90th Percentile £70.71 £70.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -11.67% +29.09% +3.29%

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 18 December 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

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 18 December 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 +12 75 £525 -3.67% 88
Wiltshire -5 42 £550 -10.20% 49
Gloucestershire -12 31 £550 -7.56% 80
Somerset +1 14 £600 +4.35% 33
Devon -10 12 £575 -4.23% 80
Dorset +8 9 £285 -35.37% 43
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 7 (3.59%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (2.05%) Apache
2 4 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.05%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.03%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) Documentum
5 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 104 (53.33%) Azure
2 42 (21.54%) GCP
3 19 (9.74%) GitHub
4 18 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.72%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (8.72%) Amazon S3
5 17 (8.72%) Serverless
6 13 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 10 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (5.13%) OpenShift
7 10 (5.13%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.10%) npm
9 7 (3.59%) Snowflake
10 6 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.13%) Firewall
2 9 (4.62%) VPN
3 7 (3.59%) Network Security
4 5 (2.56%) DNS
4 5 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.56%) WAN
5 4 (2.05%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.54%) DHCP
6 3 (1.54%) HTTP
7 2 (1.03%) LAN
7 2 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.03%) SSL
8 1 (0.51%) 2G
8 1 (0.51%) BGP
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.51%) SAN
8 1 (0.51%) VLAN
8 1 (0.51%) Wireless
8 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.79%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.13%) Power BI
5 9 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.59%) Oracle ODI
7 7 (3.59%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (3.59%) Star Schema
8 5 (2.56%) Big Data
8 5 (2.56%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.05%) MySQL
10 3 (1.54%) ClickHouse
10 3 (1.54%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.54%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.54%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.03%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 30 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.77%) Git
3 18 (9.23%) GitLab
4 7 (3.59%) DBeaver
5 6 (3.08%) JIRA
6 5 (2.56%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.03%) Postman
7 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.51%) Maven
8 1 (0.51%) Mocha
8 1 (0.51%) Snyk
General
1 55 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.03%) Public Sector
3 21 (10.77%) Finance
4 17 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.62%) Military
6 8 (4.10%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.56%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.05%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.05%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.54%) Banking
9 3 (1.54%) Electronics
9 3 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.54%) Marketing
10 2 (1.03%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (16.92%) Developer
2 28 (14.36%) Architect
3 24 (12.31%) Analyst
4 23 (11.79%) Senior
5 16 (8.21%) Data Engineer
6 13 (6.67%) Lead
7 11 (5.64%) Security Analyst
7 11 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (5.13%) Security Engineer
9 9 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.59%) Quality Engineer
12 6 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.08%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.08%) Network Architect
13 5 (2.56%) Linux Engineer
13 5 (2.56%) Security Architect
13 5 (2.56%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.85%) Node.js
2 24 (12.31%) React
3 14 (7.18%) REST
4 9 (4.62%) RESTful
5 8 (4.10%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.59%) CSS
6 7 (3.59%) HTML
6 7 (3.59%) OAuth
6 7 (3.59%) OAuth2
6 7 (3.59%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 6 (3.08%) .NET
7 6 (3.08%) OpenID
7 6 (3.08%) SOAP
7 6 (3.08%) Spring
8 5 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.56%) Express.js
8 5 (2.56%) Next.js
8 5 (2.56%) SAML
9 4 (2.05%) Vue
9 4 (2.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.18%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.13%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.10%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.10%) Replication
6 6 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.05%) CMDB
7 4 (2.05%) IoT
8 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.03%) PKI
9 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.31%) Linux
2 14 (7.18%) Windows
3 9 (4.62%) Unix
4 5 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.41%) Agile
2 69 (35.38%) CI/CD
3 59 (30.26%) DevOps
4 34 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (13.85%) Containerisation
7 25 (12.82%) Microservices
8 20 (10.26%) Analytics
8 20 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (9.23%) Mentoring
10 17 (8.72%) Software Engineering
11 16 (8.21%) Test Automation
12 15 (7.69%) ETL
13 14 (7.18%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (7.18%) DevSecOps
13 14 (7.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (7.18%) Incident Response
13 14 (7.18%) Migration
13 14 (7.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 55 (28.21%) Python
2 29 (14.87%) TypeScript
3 27 (13.85%) Java
4 26 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 26 (13.33%) SQL
5 20 (10.26%) Bash
6 18 (9.23%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.10%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.56%) Ruby
9 4 (2.05%) Bicep
9 4 (2.05%) C
10 3 (1.54%) C#
11 2 (1.03%) Go
11 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.51%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (52.31%) Security Cleared
2 76 (38.97%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.36%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.15%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.15%) CISSP
5 11 (5.64%) Degree
6 7 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.08%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (3.08%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (3.08%) SANS
8 4 (2.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.05%) CISM
9 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.03%) OCA
10 2 (1.03%) OCP
10 2 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.13%) GDPR
3 9 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.62%) NCSC
3 9 (4.62%) NIST
4 8 (4.10%) QA
5 3 (1.54%) JSP 440
5 3 (1.54%) PSD2
5 3 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.03%) GRC
6 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.03%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.51%) SLA
7 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (21.03%) Docker
2 13 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (25.64%) Terraform
2 41 (21.03%) Kubernetes
3 24 (12.31%) Ansible
4 13 (6.67%) Grafana
5 12 (6.15%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.56%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.05%) Argo
8 4 (2.05%) Kibana
8 4 (2.05%) Puppet
9 2 (1.03%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.03%) PingFederate
9 2 (1.03%) Podman
9 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.03%) SCCM
10 1 (0.51%) logstash
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.51%) Nagios
Vendors
1 35 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.69%) Oracle
3 9 (4.62%) Red Hat
4 8 (4.10%) Splunk
5 6 (3.08%) Dell
5 6 (3.08%) Google
5 6 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.56%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.56%) Ping Identity
6 5 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.05%) Cisco
7 4 (2.05%) F5
8 3 (1.54%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.54%) Databricks
8 3 (1.54%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.54%) Juniper
8 3 (1.54%) NetApp
8 3 (1.54%) SAP
9 2 (1.03%) ESRI
9 2 (1.03%) MuleSoft