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 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 60 68
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +26
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 5 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.46% 0.18% 0.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.13% 0.38% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £380 - £685
25th Percentile £425 £763 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -36.29% +10.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £612 £788 £750
90th Percentile £713 - £800
South West median daily rate £475 £631 £700
% change year-on-year -24.75% -9.82% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.75 - -
Median hourly rate £95.50 - -
75th Percentile £103.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 443 265 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 40.42% 47.92% 46.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 135 252
10th Percentile £358 £202 £351
25th Percentile £450 £359 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £661
90th Percentile £775 £740 £713
South West median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 54 101
10th Percentile £17.87 £32.20 £43.75
25th Percentile £21.46 £60.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.56 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £57.29
% change year-on-year -48.46% +13.47% -11.87%

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 7 March 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) 3GPP
1 2 (40.00%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) 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%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
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
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (40.00%) ArchiMate
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) MODAF
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle