Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 67 78
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.60% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.48% 0.57% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £472 - -
25th Percentile £505 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile £585 - -
South West median daily rate £563 £650 £563
% change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -10.00%

All Cloud Skills
Bristol

Amazon EC2 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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 202 176 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.37% 24.86% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 117 218
10th Percentile £335 £213 £284
25th Percentile £401 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £643
90th Percentile £650 £775 £703
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 10
10th Percentile - - £20.03
25th Percentile - £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £47.31 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.12% +43.37% -49.23%
75th Percentile £31.24 £69.69 -
90th Percentile £93.75 £81.25 £52.88
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +29.17% -63.64%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Bristol

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Bristol over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in Bristol

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Kong
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Database Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Database Security
3 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle