AWS Contracts in the South West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 24 13
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 173 187 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.18% 5.90% 11.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.74% 23.70% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 151 343
10th Percentile £358 £325 £425
25th Percentile £463 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £669
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £57.78
25th Percentile - - £60.70
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% +33.33%

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 498 789 1,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.29% 24.88% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 599 981
10th Percentile £235 £205 £300
25th Percentile £400 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £594 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 57
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.06 £19.92
Median hourly rate £18.51 £15.20 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -71.52% +113.40%
75th Percentile £34.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £50.00 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the South West.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the South West

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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 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the South West.

Hourly rate trend 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 9 May 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 +10 58 £525 +10.53% 139
Wiltshire +37 36 £613 +2.08% 16
Gloucestershire -1 33 £615 +4.68% 117
Somerset +15 16 £488 +8.33% 30
Dorset +13 12 £500 +42.86% 21
Devon +10 4 £525 -12.50% 24
Cornwall +4 1 £650 +67.74%
AWS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.47%) Confluence
2 3 (1.73%) Apache
3 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.58%) Camunda
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (46.24%) Azure
2 35 (20.23%) GCP
3 19 (10.98%) OpenShift
4 16 (9.25%) Serverless
5 12 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.20%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.05%) GitHub
7 7 (4.05%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.31%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.73%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.73%) dbt
9 3 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.73%) SaaS
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.14%) DNS
2 17 (9.83%) DHCP
2 17 (9.83%) TCP/IP
3 16 (9.25%) HTTP
4 11 (6.36%) Firewall
5 6 (3.47%) VPN
6 4 (2.31%) Network Security
7 2 (1.16%) BGP
7 2 (1.16%) MPLS
7 2 (1.16%) OSPF
7 2 (1.16%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (1.16%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.16%) VLAN
7 2 (1.16%) WAN
8 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.78%) MongoDB
2 9 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.47%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.89%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.31%) Power BI
7 3 (1.73%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.73%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.73%) GIS
7 3 (1.73%) MySQL
7 3 (1.73%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.73%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.16%) Big Data
8 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.16%) Redis
8 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (8.09%) GitLab
1 14 (8.09%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.36%) JIRA
3 8 (4.62%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.89%) Git
5 1 (0.58%) Code Climate
5 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.65%) Finance
3 25 (14.45%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.25%) Marketing
5 13 (7.51%) Electronics
5 13 (7.51%) Manufacturing
5 13 (7.51%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.31%) Banking
8 2 (1.16%) Aviation
8 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.16%) Retail
8 2 (1.16%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.58%) Advertising
9 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.58%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (17.34%) Developer
2 28 (16.18%) Architect
3 16 (9.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (9.25%) Lead
4 14 (8.09%) Security Architect
5 12 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (6.94%) Senior
6 11 (6.36%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (5.78%) Support Engineer
8 8 (4.62%) Applications Support
8 8 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (4.62%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Applications Developer
9 7 (4.05%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Applications Support Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Consultant
10 6 (3.47%) C# Application Developer
10 6 (3.47%) C# Developer
10 6 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.94%) CSS
2 11 (6.36%) HTML
3 10 (5.78%) Node.js
4 9 (5.20%) .NET
4 9 (5.20%) React
5 7 (4.05%) Spring
5 7 (4.05%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.73%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.73%) Django
7 3 (1.73%) Hugging Face
7 3 (1.73%) NumPy
7 3 (1.73%) OAuth
7 3 (1.73%) PostGIS
7 3 (1.73%) RESTful
7 3 (1.73%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.16%) HTML5
8 2 (1.16%) Metaflow
8 2 (1.16%) OpenID
8 2 (1.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.78%) Data Centre
1 10 (5.78%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.73%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.73%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.16%) Clustering
5 2 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.16%) PKI
5 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (25.43%) Linux
2 33 (19.08%) Windows
3 23 (13.29%) Windows Server
4 17 (9.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) CentOS
5 1 (0.58%) Solaris
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (29.48%) CI/CD
2 41 (23.70%) Containerisation
3 38 (21.97%) DevOps
4 29 (16.76%) Agile
5 26 (15.03%) Service Management
6 23 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (10.98%) Software Engineering
8 18 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (9.83%) ETL
9 17 (9.83%) Migration
10 16 (9.25%) Cloud Security
10 16 (9.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (8.09%) Test Automation
12 13 (7.51%) Digital Marketing
12 13 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (7.51%) Programme Management
13 12 (6.94%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (6.36%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (6.36%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (39.88%) Python
2 29 (16.76%) Java
3 28 (16.18%) SQL
4 26 (15.03%) PowerShell
5 25 (14.45%) Bash
6 19 (10.98%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.62%) C#
8 6 (3.47%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.31%) Perl
10 3 (1.73%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.73%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.16%) C
11 2 (1.16%) Go
11 2 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.58%) PHP
12 1 (0.58%) R
12 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (41.62%) Security Cleared
2 51 (29.48%) DV Cleared
3 36 (20.81%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.09%) AWS Certification
5 13 (7.51%) Azure Certification
6 12 (6.94%) Degree
7 11 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (5.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.16%) CCIE
9 2 (1.16%) CCNP
9 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.16%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.16%) JNCIP
9 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.58%) CISSP
10 1 (0.58%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.58%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.47%) GDPR
2 5 (2.89%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.31%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.73%) Basel III
4 3 (1.73%) IFRS
4 3 (1.73%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.73%) IFRS 9
4 3 (1.73%) NIST
4 3 (1.73%) QA
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.58%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (28.90%) Docker
2 19 (10.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (10.40%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.73%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.73%) vSphere
5 2 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.58%) NFS
6 1 (0.58%) Samba
6 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 56 (32.37%) Terraform
2 46 (26.59%) Kubernetes
3 38 (21.97%) Ansible
4 26 (15.03%) Puppet
5 12 (6.94%) Grafana
6 9 (5.20%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.16%) Automic
8 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.58%) Kibana
9 1 (0.58%) logstash
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.58%) Nagios
9 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.58%) SCCM
9 1 (0.58%) SELinux
9 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (13.87%) VMware
2 17 (9.83%) Red Hat
3 16 (9.25%) SAP
4 14 (8.09%) Google
5 10 (5.78%) Oracle
6 8 (4.62%) Microsoft
7 7 (4.05%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.31%) Cisco
8 4 (2.31%) SnapLogic
9 3 (1.73%) Citrix
9 3 (1.73%) ESRI
9 3 (1.73%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.73%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.73%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.16%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.16%) Juniper
10 2 (1.16%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.16%) Splunk
11 1 (0.58%) Veritas