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 29 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 72 62
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 +30
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 5 1 18
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.64% 0.12% 1.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.48% 0.30% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 16
10th Percentile £515 - £513
25th Percentile £613 £763 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £775 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +14.81% +3.81%
75th Percentile £775 £788 £709
90th Percentile - - £800
South West median daily rate £650 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +13.04%

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 337 338 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 43.09% 40.97% 46.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 158 284
10th Percentile £205 £225 £327
25th Percentile £412 £410 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £598
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -16.32% +11.16%
75th Percentile £644 £631 £675
90th Percentile £775 £758 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 58 83
10th Percentile £18.22 £35.00 £33.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £60.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.37% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.94 £80.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £66.26 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.04% +6.02% -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 29 October 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
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%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Database Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Database Security
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle