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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 22 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 68 47 101
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.95% 7.82% 9.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.34% 29.94% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 41 82
10th Percentile £378 £425 £313
25th Percentile £450 £475 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £650 £619 £675
90th Percentile £722 £663 £723
South West median daily rate £539 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.21% +4.35% -

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 198 157 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 20.25% 26.12% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 104 226
10th Percentile £363 £213 £263
25th Percentile £405 £417 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £600 £601 £625
90th Percentile £695 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile - - £19.58
25th Percentile £16.62 £25.26 £29.81
Median hourly rate £22.27 £27.13 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% -17.80% -49.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £28.99 £36.94
90th Percentile £93.75 - £61.13
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £16.95
% change year-on-year +116.98% +56.39% -70.53%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Bristol over the 6 months to 8 February 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 (7.35%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (5.88%) Apache
3 3 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.41%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.12%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) GCP
3 9 (13.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (11.76%) npm
5 7 (10.29%) GitHub
5 7 (10.29%) OpenShift
5 7 (10.29%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.35%) Serverless
6 5 (7.35%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.41%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.94%) AWS KMS
9 2 (2.94%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) DNS
1 2 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.47%) 2G
2 1 (1.47%) 5G
2 1 (1.47%) DHCP
2 1 (1.47%) HTTP
2 1 (1.47%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.47%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.47%) VPN
2 1 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.29%) Power BI
4 5 (7.35%) Oracle ODI
4 5 (7.35%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.35%) Star Schema
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.47%) MySQL
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.71%) Git
3 5 (7.35%) DBeaver
4 4 (5.88%) GitLab
5 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.47%) Maven
5 1 (1.47%) Mockito
5 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 11 (16.18%) Finance
4 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.94%) Electronics
6 2 (2.94%) Law
6 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.94%) Marketing
7 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (16.18%) Lead
2 10 (14.71%) Developer
3 8 (11.76%) Architect
3 8 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Analyst
4 5 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Quality Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Software Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Security Analyst
5 4 (5.88%) Tester
6 3 (4.41%) Consultant
6 3 (4.41%) ETL Tester
6 3 (4.41%) ForgeRock Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Senior
6 3 (4.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Technical Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.94%) Node.js
2 16 (23.53%) React
3 6 (8.82%) REST
4 5 (7.35%) CSS
4 5 (7.35%) HTML
4 5 (7.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 4 (5.88%) OAuth
5 4 (5.88%) OAuth2
5 4 (5.88%) Spring
6 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.41%) Next.js
6 3 (4.41%) OpenID
6 3 (4.41%) RESTful
6 3 (4.41%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (4.41%) SAML
6 3 (4.41%) SOAP
6 3 (4.41%) Vue
7 2 (2.94%) .NET
7 2 (2.94%) Express.js
7 2 (2.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.82%) Replication
3 5 (7.35%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.47%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.47%) Clustering
5 1 (1.47%) CMDB
5 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Windows
2 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.24%) CI/CD
2 21 (30.88%) Agile
2 21 (30.88%) DevOps
3 15 (22.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (19.12%) Analytics
4 13 (19.12%) Mentoring
5 11 (16.18%) Roadmaps
5 11 (16.18%) Software Engineering
6 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (13.24%) ETL
7 9 (13.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (10.29%) Containerisation
9 7 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.29%) Microservices
9 7 (10.29%) RBAC
10 6 (8.82%) AI
10 6 (8.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.82%) Python
2 18 (26.47%) TypeScript
3 16 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 14 (20.59%) SQL
5 7 (10.29%) Java
6 5 (7.35%) Ruby
7 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.94%) Bicep
8 2 (2.94%) C#
8 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 26 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 25 (36.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.88%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.47%) CSPO
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) GDPR
2 6 (8.82%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.41%) PSD2
3 3 (4.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.94%) QA
5 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.47%) GRC
5 1 (1.47%) NCSC
5 1 (1.47%) NIST
5 1 (1.47%) SLA
5 1 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) Docker
2 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (32.35%) Terraform
2 18 (26.47%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.29%) Ansible
4 4 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.41%) Argo
5 3 (4.41%) Grafana
5 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.94%) Kibana
6 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.47%) Puppet
7 1 (1.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) Oracle
3 4 (5.88%) Google
4 3 (4.41%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.41%) Ping Identity
4 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.94%) SAP
6 1 (1.47%) Brocade
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco
6 1 (1.47%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.47%) Foundry
6 1 (1.47%) NetApp
6 1 (1.47%) VMware
6 1 (1.47%) Zscaler