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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 23 10
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 83 61 115
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 10.35% 7.73% 11.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.93% 29.47% 38.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 52 103
10th Percentile £385 £425 £353
25th Percentile £456 £472 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £694
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 231 207 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.80% 26.24% 28.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 126 244
10th Percentile £324 £225 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £589 £623 £650
90th Percentile £650 £781 £718
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 13
10th Percentile - £32.08 £22.80
25th Percentile - £67.19 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -49.23%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile £55.63 - £75.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year -73.04% +171.84% -55.41%

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 8 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 (8.43%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (4.82%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.96%) Azure
2 14 (16.87%) GitHub
3 12 (14.46%) GCP
4 9 (10.84%) Power Platform
5 8 (9.64%) npm
5 8 (9.64%) Snowflake
6 6 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.02%) Entra ID
7 5 (6.02%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.61%) SaaS
8 3 (3.61%) Serverless
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (2.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) 2G
1 1 (1.20%) 5G
1 1 (1.20%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.20%) VPN
1 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.92%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.84%) Power BI
3 8 (9.64%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (8.43%) Oracle ODI
4 7 (8.43%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (8.43%) Star Schema
5 5 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.82%) MySQL
6 4 (4.82%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.61%) ClickHouse
7 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.20%) Big Data
9 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.25%) GitLab
3 8 (9.64%) Git
4 7 (8.43%) DBeaver
5 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.20%) JIRA
5 1 (1.20%) Maven
5 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.69%) Finance
3 11 (13.25%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.41%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.41%) Electronics
6 2 (2.41%) Law
6 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.41%) Marketing
6 2 (2.41%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.20%) Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (16.87%) Lead
2 13 (15.66%) Developer
3 12 (14.46%) Data Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Senior
6 7 (8.43%) Architect
6 7 (8.43%) Quality Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Technical Leader
8 4 (4.82%) Tester
9 3 (3.61%) AWS Architect
9 3 (3.61%) DBA
9 3 (3.61%) ETL Tester
9 3 (3.61%) ForgeRock Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (31.33%) React
2 21 (25.30%) Node.js
3 7 (8.43%) CSS
3 7 (8.43%) HTML
3 7 (8.43%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
4 6 (7.23%) Spring
5 5 (6.02%) Next.js
6 4 (4.82%) OAuth
6 4 (4.82%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.61%) OpenID
7 3 (3.61%) RESTful
7 3 (3.61%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (3.61%) SAML
7 3 (3.61%) Vue
8 2 (2.41%) .NET
8 2 (2.41%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (2.41%) Express.js
8 2 (2.41%) PySpark
8 2 (2.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.64%) Replication
3 6 (7.23%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.02%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) IoT
5 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.20%) Clustering
7 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.84%) Linux
2 5 (6.02%) Unix
3 3 (3.61%) Windows
4 2 (2.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (38.55%) CI/CD
2 29 (34.94%) Agile
3 27 (32.53%) DevOps
4 19 (22.89%) Migration
5 18 (21.69%) Mentoring
6 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (18.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (18.07%) Software Engineering
8 14 (16.87%) Analytics
9 13 (15.66%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (14.46%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (14.46%) ETL
11 11 (13.25%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (10.84%) Microservices
12 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (8.43%) Dimensional Modelling
13 7 (8.43%) Test Automation
14 6 (7.23%) Data Modelling
14 6 (7.23%) Disaster Recovery
14 6 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 26 (31.33%) TypeScript
2 22 (26.51%) Python
3 21 (25.30%) JavaScript
3 21 (25.30%) SQL
4 11 (13.25%) Java
5 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.61%) Ruby
7 2 (2.41%) Bicep
7 2 (2.41%) C#
7 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.20%) Bash
Qualifications
1 27 (32.53%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.02%) Degree
5 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.41%) OCA
6 2 (2.41%) OCP
6 2 (2.41%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.20%) CSPO
7 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.02%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.02%) GDPR
3 3 (3.61%) PSD2
3 3 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.41%) WCAG
5 1 (1.20%) GRC
5 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.20%) NCSC
5 1 (1.20%) NIST
5 1 (1.20%) QA
5 1 (1.20%) SLA
5 1 (1.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (14.46%) Docker
2 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (31.33%) Terraform
2 10 (12.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.43%) Ansible
3 7 (8.43%) Puppet
4 4 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.61%) Argo
5 3 (3.61%) Data Guard
5 3 (3.61%) Grafana
5 3 (3.61%) Kibana
5 3 (3.61%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.20%) logstash
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.25%) Oracle
3 4 (4.82%) Google
4 3 (3.61%) Databricks
4 3 (3.61%) ForgeRock
4 3 (3.61%) Ping Identity
4 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.41%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.20%) Brocade
6 1 (1.20%) Cisco
6 1 (1.20%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.20%) Foundry
6 1 (1.20%) IBM
6 1 (1.20%) Okta
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.20%) VMware
6 1 (1.20%) Zscaler