AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 63 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +22
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 3 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.35% 0.15% 1.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.79% 0.30% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £370 - £603
25th Percentile £400 £763 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -41.94% +10.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £613 £788 -
90th Percentile £710 - £800
South West median daily rate £631 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +5.21% -11.11% +17.39%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bristol

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Bristol.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 379 328 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 44.59% 48.52% 48.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 159 262
10th Percentile £282 £225 £332
25th Percentile £427 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £700
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 59 84
10th Percentile £17.69 £25.26 £37.02
25th Percentile £19.72 £60.00 £58.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% -6.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -61.31% +4.00% -3.85%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Bristol

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in Bristol

AWS Certification
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Database Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle