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 15 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 61 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 7 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.52% 0.87% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.47% 2.07% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £440 £513 -
25th Percentile £481 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £715 £744 -
90th Percentile £754 £775 -
South West median daily rate £785 £638 £600
% change year-on-year +23.14% +6.25% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £86.55 - -
25th Percentile £87.00 - -
Median hourly rate £95.50 - -
75th Percentile £102.88 - -
90th Percentile £103.10 - -
South West median hourly rate £95.50 - -

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 477 290 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 35.65% 41.91% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 157 188
10th Percentile £236 £213 £336
25th Percentile £438 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £665 £716 £750
South West median daily rate £529 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.86% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 51 115
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.22 £43.75
25th Percentile £26.00 £22.63 £60.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -50.00% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.56 £80.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £70.00
% change year-on-year +138.57% -64.07% +7.69%

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 15 August 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) 3GPP
1 4 (57.14%) TETRA
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) tcpdump
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) ArchiMate
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
2 4 (57.14%) MODAF
2 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 4 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 4 (57.14%) TOGAF
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Service Design
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (42.86%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Istio
2 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) ArcSight
1 1 (14.29%) Cribl.io
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk