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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 52 79
Rank change year-on-year -22 +27 0
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.40% 0.36% 0.095%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.13% 0.76% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £543 £433 -
25th Percentile £579 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.52% - -
75th Percentile £724 £588 -
90th Percentile £758 £618 -
South West median daily rate £644 £619 £625
% change year-on-year +4.04% -1.00% +11.11%
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 442 262 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 35.33% 47.21% 45.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 138 229
10th Percentile £247 £235 £310
25th Percentile £438 £366 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £650
90th Percentile £698 £696 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 55 118
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.51 £43.75
25th Percentile £35.00 £31.13 £54.74
Median hourly rate £62.50 £64.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -8.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £67.67 £68.00 £76.88
90th Percentile £75.60 £75.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% -3.23% -5.34%

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 May 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) 3GPP
1 4 (80.00%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
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
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) ArchiMate
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (80.00%) MODAF
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (80.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (60.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) Service Design
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Trade-off Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Argo
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform