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 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 60 77
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 -13
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 5 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.37% 0.84% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.04% 1.92% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £426 £513 -
25th Percentile £447 £613 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £638 £775
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% -17.74% +40.91%
75th Percentile £597 £744 £788
90th Percentile £629 £775 -
South West median daily rate £800 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +28.00% - -

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 483 313 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 35.86% 43.84% 42.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 173 179
10th Percentile £225 £235 £348
25th Percentile £428 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -5.77% -13.33%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £634
90th Percentile £664 £775 £750
South West median daily rate £538 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -2.27% -0.18% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 59 91
10th Percentile £18.45 £18.13 £55.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.63 £64.38
Median hourly rate £62.00 £33.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.07% -52.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £77.80 £74.50 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £70.00
% change year-on-year +146.52% -64.07% +11.11%

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 13 September 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) tcpdump
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
4 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
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%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Istio
3 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (20.00%) Cribl.io
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk