AWS Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 22 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 79 55 112
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 9.89% 7.01% 10.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.41% 27.64% 38.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 46 99
10th Percentile £375 £425 £324
25th Percentile £450 £475 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £700
90th Percentile £695 £788 £790
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -56.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +114.29% -55.13% -4.00%

All Cloud Skills
Bristol

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 217 199 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 27.16% 25.35% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 121 234
10th Percentile £321 £225 £279
25th Percentile £400 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £650
90th Percentile £650 £788 £724
South West median daily rate £500 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -7.19% -2.05% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 12
10th Percentile - £25.26 £18.23
25th Percentile - £50.63 £29.81
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -49.23%
75th Percentile £26.31 - £36.94
90th Percentile £87.25 - £76.88
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £22.07
% change year-on-year -66.67% +205.85% -61.78%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

AWS job vacancy trend in Bristol

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Bristol over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Bristol

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing AWS

AWS
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 7 (8.86%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (3.80%) Apache
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.51%) Azure
2 14 (17.72%) GCP
2 14 (17.72%) GitHub
3 9 (11.39%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.13%) npm
5 7 (8.86%) Snowflake
6 6 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.33%) Entra ID
7 5 (6.33%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.80%) SaaS
9 3 (3.80%) Serverless
10 2 (2.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) 2G
1 1 (1.27%) 5G
1 1 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.27%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.27%) VPN
1 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (30.38%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.39%) Power BI
3 7 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.86%) Oracle ODI
3 7 (8.86%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (8.86%) Star Schema
4 5 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.06%) MySQL
5 4 (5.06%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.80%) ClickHouse
6 3 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.27%) Big Data
8 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (16.46%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.66%) GitLab
3 8 (10.13%) Git
4 7 (8.86%) DBeaver
5 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.27%) JIRA
5 1 (1.27%) Maven
5 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.78%) Finance
3 11 (13.92%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.06%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.53%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.53%) Electronics
6 2 (2.53%) Law
6 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.53%) Marketing
6 2 (2.53%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (18.99%) Lead
2 12 (15.19%) Data Engineer
3 11 (13.92%) Developer
4 9 (11.39%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Analyst
5 7 (8.86%) Quality Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Architect
7 5 (6.33%) Senior
7 5 (6.33%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Security Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.06%) Technical Leader
8 4 (5.06%) Tester
9 3 (3.80%) Consultant
9 3 (3.80%) DBA
9 3 (3.80%) ETL Tester
9 3 (3.80%) ForgeRock Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.58%) Node.js
1 21 (26.58%) React
2 7 (8.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (6.33%) Next.js
4 4 (5.06%) CSS
4 4 (5.06%) HTML
4 4 (5.06%) OAuth
4 4 (5.06%) OAuth2
4 4 (5.06%) Spring
5 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.80%) OpenID
5 3 (3.80%) RESTful
5 3 (3.80%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (3.80%) SAML
5 3 (3.80%) Vue
6 2 (2.53%) .NET
6 2 (2.53%) Express.js
6 2 (2.53%) PySpark
6 2 (2.53%) REST
7 1 (1.27%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.99%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.13%) Replication
3 6 (7.59%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.33%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.80%) IoT
7 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.27%) Clustering
8 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.39%) Linux
2 5 (6.33%) Unix
3 3 (3.80%) Windows
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.04%) CI/CD
2 28 (35.44%) DevOps
3 26 (32.91%) Agile
4 18 (22.78%) Mentoring
5 17 (21.52%) Migration
6 16 (20.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (18.99%) Analytics
8 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (16.46%) Software Engineering
10 12 (15.19%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (13.92%) ETL
11 11 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (13.92%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (12.66%) Microservices
13 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (8.86%) Dimensional Modelling
14 7 (8.86%) Roadmaps
14 7 (8.86%) Test Automation
15 6 (7.59%) Containerisation
15 6 (7.59%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.38%) TypeScript
2 23 (29.11%) Python
3 19 (24.05%) SQL
4 16 (20.25%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.39%) Java
6 4 (5.06%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.80%) Ruby
8 2 (2.53%) Bicep
8 2 (2.53%) C#
8 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.27%) Bash
9 1 (1.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 25 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 22 (27.85%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.33%) Degree
4 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.53%) OCA
5 2 (2.53%) OCP
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.27%) CSPO
6 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.33%) GDPR
3 3 (3.80%) PSD2
3 3 (3.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.53%) WCAG
5 1 (1.27%) GRC
5 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.27%) NCSC
5 1 (1.27%) NIST
5 1 (1.27%) QA
5 1 (1.27%) SLA
5 1 (1.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (17.72%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (32.91%) Terraform
2 11 (13.92%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.86%) Ansible
3 7 (8.86%) Puppet
4 4 (5.06%) Grafana
4 4 (5.06%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.80%) Argo
5 3 (3.80%) Data Guard
5 3 (3.80%) Kibana
5 3 (3.80%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.27%) logstash
7 1 (1.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 15 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) Oracle
3 4 (5.06%) Google
4 3 (3.80%) Databricks
4 3 (3.80%) ForgeRock
4 3 (3.80%) Ping Identity
4 3 (3.80%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.53%) SAP
6 1 (1.27%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.27%) Brocade
6 1 (1.27%) Cisco
6 1 (1.27%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.27%) Foundry
6 1 (1.27%) IBM
6 1 (1.27%) Okta
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.27%) VMware
6 1 (1.27%) Zscaler