AWS Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 11 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 13 9 31
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 13.68% 10.34% 20.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.94% 30.00% 43.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 20
10th Percentile - £575 £503
25th Percentile £150 £594 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £473 £700 £688
90th Percentile £489 £715 £775
Wiltshire median daily rate £537 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.50% - +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 31 30 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 32.63% 34.48% 48.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 52
10th Percentile £152 £209 £266
25th Percentile £300 £398 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -15.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £494 £625 £638
90th Percentile £575 £695 £688
Wiltshire median daily rate £537 £551 £538
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.51% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.43 - -
Median hourly rate £14.57 - £14.36
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.21%
75th Percentile £14.70 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £22.50 - £14.36
% change year-on-year - - -33.21%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon.

AWS job vacancy trend in Swindon

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Swindon over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Swindon

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Anypoint
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) iPaaS
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
2 2 (15.38%) SSL
2 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Military
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Network Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) IT Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 2 (15.38%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
5 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
5 2 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (15.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) Java
1 2 (15.38%) Python
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
1 2 (15.38%) F5
1 2 (15.38%) MuleSoft
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce