AWS Contracts in Southampton

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 23 18
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 10 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 9.01% 4.02% 3.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.48% 14.29% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 3
10th Percentile £414 £447 £415
25th Percentile £459 £545 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £590 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.30% +31.00% -10.89%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £500
90th Percentile £691 - £515
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -

All Cloud Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23 49 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 20.72% 28.16% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 21
10th Percentile £386 £200 £425
25th Percentile £460 £206 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -16.67% +8.25%
75th Percentile £624 £634 £550
90th Percentile £706 - £598
Hampshire median daily rate £520 £575 £543
% change year-on-year -9.57% +5.89% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.25
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +67.41%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £54.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £17.69 £21.00
% change year-on-year +210.91% -15.76% +5.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Southampton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Southampton.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Southampton

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Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Southampton over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Southampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Developer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Angular 2
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (50.00%) Device Driver
1 5 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (50.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) IVR
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
1 7 (70.00%) SDLC
2 6 (60.00%) Architectural Design
3 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (50.00%) Cloud Enablement
3 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 5 (50.00%) Device Driver Development
3 5 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 5 (50.00%) Project Management
3 5 (50.00%) Signal Processing
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) RBAC
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 4 (40.00%) C
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Criteo
1 1 (10.00%) Google