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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 24 10
Rank change year-on-year +9 -14 +9
Contract jobs citing AWS 70 41 97
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 8.11% 6.45% 10.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.04% 26.11% 35.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 36 84
10th Percentile £377 £425 £313
25th Percentile £450 £475 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -0.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £675
90th Percentile £709 £656 £734
South West median daily rate £540 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

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 189 157 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 21.90% 24.69% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 104 219
10th Percentile £363 £213 £269
25th Percentile £406 £341 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -4.41% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £687 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 8
10th Percentile £18.20 - £19.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.26 £29.81
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.13 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -17.80% -49.23%
75th Percentile £68.44 £28.99 £36.94
90th Percentile £93.75 - £61.13
South West median hourly rate £32.75 £27.13 £20.00
% change year-on-year +20.74% +35.63% -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 15 January 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 5 (7.14%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (4.29%) Apache
3 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.71%) Azure
2 16 (22.86%) GCP
3 8 (11.43%) GitHub
3 8 (11.43%) npm
4 7 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.14%) Serverless
5 5 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.29%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.29%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.86%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) DNS
1 2 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.43%) 2G
2 1 (1.43%) 5G
2 1 (1.43%) DHCP
2 1 (1.43%) HTTP
2 1 (1.43%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.43%) VPN
2 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.00%) Power BI
3 6 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.14%) Oracle ODI
4 5 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (7.14%) Star Schema
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.71%) MySQL
5 4 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.29%) ClickHouse
6 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.29%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.86%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 14 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (12.86%) Git
3 5 (7.14%) DBeaver
4 4 (5.71%) GitLab
5 1 (1.43%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.43%) Maven
5 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.14%) Finance
3 11 (15.71%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.86%) Electronics
6 2 (2.86%) Law
6 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.86%) Marketing
6 2 (2.86%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (15.71%) Developer
1 11 (15.71%) Lead
2 10 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 7 (10.00%) Architect
4 5 (7.14%) Analyst
4 5 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (5.71%) Security Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.71%) Tester
6 3 (4.29%) Consultant
6 3 (4.29%) ETL Tester
6 3 (4.29%) ForgeRock Developer
6 3 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Senior
6 3 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Technical Leader
7 2 (2.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.57%) Node.js
2 19 (27.14%) React
3 5 (7.14%) CSS
3 5 (7.14%) HTML
3 5 (7.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (7.14%) REST
4 4 (5.71%) Next.js
4 4 (5.71%) OAuth
4 4 (5.71%) OAuth2
4 4 (5.71%) Spring
5 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.29%) OpenID
5 3 (4.29%) RESTful
5 3 (4.29%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (4.29%) SAML
5 3 (4.29%) Vue
6 2 (2.86%) .NET
6 2 (2.86%) Express.js
6 2 (2.86%) PySpark
6 2 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.57%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.57%) Replication
3 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) IoT
5 2 (2.86%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.43%) Clustering
6 1 (1.43%) CMDB
6 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Windows
2 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (41.43%) CI/CD
2 22 (31.43%) Agile
3 21 (30.00%) DevOps
4 13 (18.57%) Mentoring
4 13 (18.57%) Software Engineering
5 12 (17.14%) Analytics
5 12 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 9 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (12.86%) ETL
8 9 (12.86%) Microservices
9 7 (10.00%) Data Modelling
9 7 (10.00%) Migration
9 7 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (8.57%) RBAC
10 6 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.29%) Python
2 22 (31.43%) TypeScript
3 18 (25.71%) SQL
4 17 (24.29%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.43%) Java
6 5 (7.14%) Ruby
7 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.86%) Bicep
8 2 (2.86%) C#
8 2 (2.86%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (38.57%) Security Cleared
2 26 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.71%) Degree
4 3 (4.29%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) OCA
5 2 (2.86%) OCP
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.43%) CSPO
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Data Quality
1 6 (8.57%) GDPR
2 3 (4.29%) PSD2
2 3 (4.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) GRC
4 1 (1.43%) NCSC
4 1 (1.43%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) QA
4 1 (1.43%) SLA
4 1 (1.43%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Docker
2 5 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (30.00%) Terraform
2 15 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.00%) Ansible
4 4 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.29%) Argo
5 3 (4.29%) Grafana
5 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.86%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.86%) Kibana
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.43%) Puppet
7 1 (1.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.43%) Oracle
3 4 (5.71%) Google
4 3 (4.29%) Databricks
4 3 (4.29%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.29%) Ping Identity
4 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.86%) SAP
5 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.43%) Brocade
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco
6 1 (1.43%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.43%) Foundry
6 1 (1.43%) NetApp
6 1 (1.43%) VMware
6 1 (1.43%) Zscaler