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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 22 11
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 81 54 105
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 9.99% 7.13% 10.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.03% 28.27% 37.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 47 93
10th Percentile £375 £425 £325
25th Percentile £453 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £700
90th Percentile £713 £788 £790
South West median daily rate £539 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.21% - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £75.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 213 191 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.26% 25.23% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 120 227
10th Percentile £327 £224 £308
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £660 £788 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -6.76% -2.50% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 11
10th Percentile - £25.26 £20.25
25th Percentile - £35.51 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -49.23%
75th Percentile £44.69 - £40.88
90th Percentile £92.13 £72.25 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £50.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.22% +151.25% -65.37%

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 6 December 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 (8.64%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (4.94%) Apache
3 3 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (43.21%) Azure
2 17 (20.99%) GCP
3 12 (14.81%) GitHub
4 9 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 8 (9.88%) npm
6 7 (8.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (8.64%) Snowflake
7 6 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.41%) Serverless
8 5 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.17%) Entra ID
8 5 (6.17%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.94%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.94%) SaaS
10 3 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (2.47%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) DNS
1 2 (2.47%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.23%) 2G
2 1 (1.23%) 5G
2 1 (1.23%) HTTP
2 1 (1.23%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.23%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.23%) VPN
2 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (28.40%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.11%) Power BI
3 8 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (8.64%) Oracle ODI
4 7 (8.64%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (8.64%) Star Schema
5 5 (6.17%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.94%) MySQL
6 4 (4.94%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.70%) ClickHouse
7 3 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.23%) Big Data
9 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.58%) Git
3 7 (8.64%) DBeaver
4 6 (7.41%) GitLab
5 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.23%) JIRA
5 1 (1.23%) Maven
5 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Finance
3 13 (16.05%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.94%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.47%) Electronics
6 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.47%) Law
6 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.47%) Marketing
6 2 (2.47%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (16.05%) Data Engineer
1 13 (16.05%) Lead
2 11 (13.58%) Developer
3 9 (11.11%) Architect
4 7 (8.64%) Analyst
4 7 (8.64%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Quality Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Senior
5 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.94%) Consultant
6 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (4.94%) Security Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) Tester
7 3 (3.70%) ETL Tester
7 3 (3.70%) ForgeRock Developer
7 3 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.93%) Node.js
1 21 (25.93%) React
2 7 (8.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (6.17%) CSS
3 5 (6.17%) HTML
3 5 (6.17%) Next.js
3 5 (6.17%) REST
4 4 (4.94%) OAuth
4 4 (4.94%) OAuth2
4 4 (4.94%) Spring
5 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.70%) OpenID
5 3 (3.70%) RESTful
5 3 (3.70%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (3.70%) SAML
5 3 (3.70%) Vue
6 2 (2.47%) .NET
6 2 (2.47%) Express.js
6 2 (2.47%) Kafka
6 2 (2.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.88%) Replication
3 6 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.70%) IoT
6 1 (1.23%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.23%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.23%) Clustering
6 1 (1.23%) CMDB
6 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Unix
2 3 (3.70%) Windows
3 2 (2.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.98%) CI/CD
2 29 (35.80%) Agile
3 26 (32.10%) DevOps
4 16 (19.75%) Analytics
4 16 (19.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (19.75%) Mentoring
5 14 (17.28%) Migration
5 14 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.05%) Software Engineering
7 12 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (13.58%) ETL
8 11 (13.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (13.58%) Microservices
9 10 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 8 (9.88%) Data Modelling
11 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (8.64%) Decision-Making
12 7 (8.64%) Dimensional Modelling
12 7 (8.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.10%) Python
2 24 (29.63%) TypeScript
3 20 (24.69%) SQL
4 17 (20.99%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.11%) Java
6 5 (6.17%) Ruby
7 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.47%) Bicep
8 2 (2.47%) C#
8 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.23%) Bash
9 1 (1.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 29 (35.80%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.94%) Degree
3 4 (4.94%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.47%) OCA
5 2 (2.47%) OCP
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.23%) CSPO
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.41%) GDPR
3 3 (3.70%) PSD2
3 3 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.47%) WCAG
5 1 (1.23%) GRC
5 1 (1.23%) NCSC
5 1 (1.23%) NIST
5 1 (1.23%) QA
5 1 (1.23%) SLA
5 1 (1.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (17.28%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (32.10%) Terraform
2 13 (16.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.64%) Ansible
4 4 (4.94%) Grafana
4 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.94%) Puppet
4 4 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.70%) Argo
5 3 (3.70%) Data Guard
5 3 (3.70%) Kibana
5 3 (3.70%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.23%) logstash
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.58%) Oracle
3 4 (4.94%) Google
4 3 (3.70%) Databricks
4 3 (3.70%) ForgeRock
4 3 (3.70%) Ping Identity
4 3 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.47%) SAP
5 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.23%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.23%) Brocade
6 1 (1.23%) Cisco
6 1 (1.23%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.23%) Foundry
6 1 (1.23%) Okta
6 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.23%) VMware
6 1 (1.23%) Zscaler