AWS Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
South West > Bristol

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Bristol is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.10% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £505 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £510 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 909 584 1,003
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 97.50% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 317 597
10th Percentile £263 £182 £267
25th Percentile £400 £330 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 66 162
10th Percentile £17.87 £35.00 £33.00
25th Percentile £33.50 £61.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £68.75 £72.38
90th Percentile £67.84 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

AWS Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

AWS Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Platform Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 3 February 2026, AWS Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring AWS Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sentry
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

AWS Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Sentry
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform