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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 63 52 81
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.63% 9.96% 7.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.88% 33.77% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 47 61
10th Percentile £363 £349 £325
25th Percentile £450 £397 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £622 £624
90th Percentile £725 £671 £700
South West median daily rate £535 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £86.55 - -
25th Percentile £87.00 - -
Median hourly rate £95.50 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% - -
75th Percentile £102.88 - -
90th Percentile £103.10 - -
South West median hourly rate £79.92 £78.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.55% +25.92% -12.59%

All Cloud Computing 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 226 154 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 20.18% 29.50% 26.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 113 196
10th Percentile £350 £213 £236
25th Percentile £405 £355 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £673 £675 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 5
10th Percentile £15.14 - £12.53
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.06 £26.50 £13.85
Median % change year-on-year -31.85% +91.34% -78.69%
75th Percentile £93.75 £33.25 £18.00
90th Percentile £100.63 £53.98 £36.45
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +116.98% +82.76% -74.78%

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 27 March 2026.

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 4 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.76%) Apache
3 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.03%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) GCP
3 8 (12.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (12.70%) Serverless
4 5 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.94%) GitHub
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.35%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (3.17%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) 3GPP
1 4 (6.35%) TETRA
2 2 (3.17%) DNS
2 2 (3.17%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.59%) 2G
3 1 (1.59%) 5G
3 1 (1.59%) DHCP
3 1 (1.59%) HTTP
3 1 (1.59%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.35%) Power BI
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.17%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.59%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Git
1 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.94%) GitLab
3 2 (3.17%) DBeaver
4 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.59%) Maven
4 1 (1.59%) MLflow
4 1 (1.59%) Mockito
4 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Finance
5 4 (6.35%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.17%) Electronics
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.17%) Marketing
7 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Architect
2 7 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 6 (9.52%) AWS Architect
3 6 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
3 6 (9.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Architect
4 5 (7.94%) Analyst
4 5 (7.94%) Data Architect
5 4 (6.35%) Data Migration Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Developer
5 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Lead
5 4 (6.35%) Migration Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Security Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) REST
2 3 (4.76%) SOAP
3 2 (3.17%) CSS
3 2 (3.17%) HTML
3 2 (3.17%) Kafka
3 2 (3.17%) Node.js
3 2 (3.17%) NumPy
3 2 (3.17%) OAuth
3 2 (3.17%) OAuth2
3 2 (3.17%) OpenID
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (3.17%) Pandas
3 2 (3.17%) RESTful
3 2 (3.17%) SAML
4 1 (1.59%) JAX-RS
4 1 (1.59%) LESS
4 1 (1.59%) Sass
4 1 (1.59%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.59%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Replication
5 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.59%) CMDB
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Windows
3 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Unix
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.92%) DevOps
2 21 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 18 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (25.40%) Roadmaps
5 15 (23.81%) Agile
6 13 (20.63%) Migration
7 10 (15.87%) Containerisation
7 10 (15.87%) Mentoring
8 9 (14.29%) Analytics
8 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (14.29%) DevSecOps
9 8 (12.70%) ETL
9 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (12.70%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (11.11%) Data Governance
10 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (11.11%) TOGAF
11 6 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (9.52%) Data Migration
11 6 (9.52%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.40%) Python
2 9 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.17%) Ruby
3 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.59%) Bash
4 1 (1.59%) Go
4 1 (1.59%) Java
4 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 27 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.59%) CSPO
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (9.52%) QA
2 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.94%) GDPR
3 3 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.17%) NCSC
4 2 (3.17%) NIST
4 2 (3.17%) PSD2
4 2 (3.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.59%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (19.05%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (26.98%) Kubernetes
2 14 (22.22%) Terraform
3 5 (7.94%) Ansible
4 3 (4.76%) Grafana
4 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.17%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.59%) Argo
6 1 (1.59%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.59%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.76%) Databricks
2 3 (4.76%) SAP
2 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.17%) ForgeRock
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle
3 2 (3.17%) Ping Identity
3 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.59%) Google
4 1 (1.59%) NetApp
4 1 (1.59%) Zscaler