AWS Contracts in the South West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 191 415 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.98% 11.44% 9.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.52% 33.15% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 352 299
10th Percentile £325 £425 £425
25th Percentile £450 £506 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £662 £638
90th Percentile £696 £713 £680
England median daily rate £556 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -7.29% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 1
10th Percentile - £57.78 -
25th Percentile - £60.70 £47.02
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year - +61.59% -19.55%
75th Percentile - - £49.52
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £74.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.59% +34.55% -5.17%

All Cloud Skills
South West

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 812 1,252 1,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.43% 34.50% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 1,010 861
10th Percentile £202 £288 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £590
90th Percentile £688 £719 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 55 25
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £19.46 £17.50
Median hourly rate £15.20 £53.35 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.52% +113.40% -44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £52.36
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.02
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.66% -2.23%

AWS
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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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 74 £481 -13.48% 109
Gloucestershire -4 58 £588 -0.42% 51
Wiltshire -42 32 £600 +4.35% 12
Devon -19 9 £600 +4.35% 21
Somerset -5 4 £450 -28.00% 17
Cornwall - 4 £388 -
Dorset -2 3 £350 -31.71% 13
AWS
England

AWS
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 9 (4.71%) Confluence
2 3 (1.57%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 67 (35.08%) Azure
2 20 (10.47%) Serverless
3 17 (8.90%) GCP
4 15 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (6.81%) Amazon S3
5 13 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (6.81%) OpenShift
5 13 (6.81%) PaaS
6 9 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (4.71%) SaaS
7 8 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.14%) GitHub
9 4 (2.09%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.09%) Pulumi
10 3 (1.57%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.57%) AWS CodeCommit
10 3 (1.57%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.71%) Network Security
1 9 (4.71%) PBX
1 9 (4.71%) VoIP
2 7 (3.66%) AMQP
3 5 (2.62%) VPN
4 4 (2.09%) Firewall
5 3 (1.57%) DNS
6 2 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.05%) LAN
6 2 (1.05%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.05%) WAN
7 1 (0.52%) DHCP
7 1 (0.52%) DMZ
7 1 (0.52%) Junos
7 1 (0.52%) SDH
7 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.76%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (4.71%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.19%) InfluxDB
4 7 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.57%) MySQL
7 3 (1.57%) Power BI
7 3 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.05%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.05%) Flink
8 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.05%) OLAP
8 2 (1.05%) OLTP
8 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (14.66%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.81%) JIRA
3 9 (4.71%) Rational DOORS
4 8 (4.19%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.66%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.66%) GitLab
5 7 (3.66%) Selenium
6 6 (3.14%) Artifactory
6 6 (3.14%) Git
7 4 (2.09%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.57%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.05%) JUnit
9 2 (1.05%) Snyk
10 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.52%) Babel
10 1 (0.52%) ERwin
10 1 (0.52%) ESLint
10 1 (0.52%) git-flow
10 1 (0.52%) JMeter
10 1 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 21 (10.99%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.85%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.76%) Telecoms
4 10 (5.24%) Finance
5 7 (3.66%) Digital Economy
5 7 (3.66%) Legal
6 5 (2.62%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.09%) German Language
8 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Electronics
9 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (26.18%) Developer
2 31 (16.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.14%) Architect
4 21 (10.99%) Senior
5 17 (8.90%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (7.33%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (6.28%) Data Engineer
8 11 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.71%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) SOC Engineer
11 7 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Angular Developer
12 6 (3.14%) AWS Data Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Database Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Senior Database Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Test Engineer
13 5 (2.62%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.85%) React
2 19 (9.95%) AngularJS
3 16 (8.38%) Node.js
4 14 (7.33%) Spring
5 8 (4.19%) .NET
5 8 (4.19%) Vue
6 7 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (3.66%) YAML
7 6 (3.14%) Laravel
7 6 (3.14%) Next.js
7 6 (3.14%) React Native
7 6 (3.14%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.62%) CSS
8 5 (2.62%) RESTful
9 4 (2.09%) Flask
9 4 (2.09%) HTML
9 4 (2.09%) PySpark
9 4 (2.09%) REST
9 4 (2.09%) SQLAlchemy
10 3 (1.57%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.81%) Public Cloud
2 11 (5.76%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.71%) Blackberry
3 9 (4.71%) Security Posture
3 9 (4.71%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.14%) PKI
5 5 (2.62%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (2.09%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.05%) IoT
9 1 (0.52%) Clustering
9 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.52%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.52%) Linux
2 7 (3.66%) Windows
3 3 (1.57%) Kali Linux
3 3 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.05%) Android
4 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.52%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.52%) Solaris
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (36.13%) DevOps
2 44 (23.04%) CI/CD
3 36 (18.85%) Agile
4 27 (14.14%) Full Stack Development
5 26 (13.61%) Software Engineering
6 22 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (9.42%) ArchiMate
9 15 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (7.33%) Project Management
10 14 (7.33%) SDLC
11 13 (6.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (6.81%) TOGAF
12 12 (6.28%) OO
13 11 (5.76%) Digital Strategy
13 11 (5.76%) ITIL
13 11 (5.76%) OOP
13 11 (5.76%) Programme Management
13 11 (5.76%) Unit Testing
13 11 (5.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 63 (32.98%) Python
2 42 (21.99%) Java
3 36 (18.85%) JavaScript
4 27 (14.14%) SQL
5 20 (10.47%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.42%) C
7 16 (8.38%) Go
8 15 (7.85%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.71%) Bash
9 9 (4.71%) C#
10 6 (3.14%) PHP
11 5 (2.62%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.57%) R
13 2 (1.05%) Bicep
13 2 (1.05%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.05%) Scala
13 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.52%) Dart
14 1 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 107 (56.02%) Security Cleared
2 68 (35.60%) DV Cleared
3 45 (23.56%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.81%) Degree
5 8 (4.19%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (3.66%) HND
7 5 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.09%) CCNP
9 3 (1.57%) OSCP
9 3 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.05%) CEH
10 2 (1.05%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.05%) IBM Certification
10 2 (1.05%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (1.05%) SANS
11 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.81%) QA
2 8 (4.19%) NCSC
3 7 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.66%) NIST
4 5 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.09%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.09%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (21.99%) Docker
2 9 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.14%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.09%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.57%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (31.94%) Terraform
2 41 (21.47%) Kubernetes
3 37 (19.37%) Ansible
4 20 (10.47%) Grafana
4 20 (10.47%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.76%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (4.19%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.09%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 3 (1.57%) OPNET
8 3 (1.57%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.05%) Argo
9 2 (1.05%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.52%) SCCM
10 1 (0.52%) SELinux
10 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.38%) VMware
3 14 (7.33%) Google
4 13 (6.81%) Cisco
5 11 (5.76%) IBM
6 10 (5.24%) Juniper
6 10 (5.24%) Nokia
7 9 (4.71%) Avaya
7 9 (4.71%) Ericsson
7 9 (4.71%) Ribbon
8 8 (4.19%) Splunk
9 5 (2.62%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.09%) Databricks
10 4 (2.09%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.57%) SAP
12 1 (0.52%) EMC
12 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.52%) Oracle
12 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.52%) Veritas