[dragonwriter]

> I'm starting to feel that perhaps the python/django market is overly flooded at the moment

Python is a super popular language for newbies and people converting from less currently in demand languages, and Django is the dominant web framework, so there's probably lots of moderately skilled people with low (for development) salary demands available for Python/Django jobs.

> I have noticed a high percentage of jobs seem to want you to have a bunch of AWS experience. I've messed around with EC2 instances but that is about it.

Yeah, I am guessing a lot want CloudFront/API Gateway/Lambda experience and others. You seem to be looking for a Sr. position where you need either real deep expertise in a component of the stack, or coverage of the whole stack (or a large subset) in use and a good story about ability to pick up the rest and guide architecture and implementation approach choices or somewhat less tech skill and deep experience of the problem domain. If you are going out of the area where you have that depth (Perl on the tech side, ERP on the domain side), you may have to temporarily aim lower until you can build the necessary breadth or domain/tech-specific depth.