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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 93 76 63
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.07% 11.09% 6.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.88% 29.80% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 62 54
10th Percentile £425 £355 £383
25th Percentile £488 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £529
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -4.54% -1.58%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £623
90th Percentile £650 £675 £788
South West median daily rate £550 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £65.25 £73.12 -
25th Percentile £78.75 £74.05 -
Median hourly rate £94.00 £76.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% +119.57% -56.25%
75th Percentile £102.69 £78.40 -
90th Percentile £103.03 £78.58 -
South West median hourly rate £98.82 £76.85 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.59% +119.57% -55.13%

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 322 255 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.49% 37.23% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 164 164
10th Percentile £376 £258 £271
25th Percentile £463 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £638 £714
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 29 29
10th Percentile £13.65 £18.13 £30.77
25th Percentile £15.88 £18.51 -
Median hourly rate £19.42 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -73.04% +60.00%
75th Percentile £50.06 - -
90th Percentile £99.13 £37.50 -
South West median hourly rate £36.25 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +92.10% -73.04% +87.79%

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 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in Bristol over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in Bristol

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 (5.38%) Confluence
2 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.08%) Apache
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) ResourceLink
1 1 (1.08%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 41 (44.09%) Azure
2 20 (21.51%) GCP
3 10 (10.75%) dbt
4 7 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (6.45%) Snowflake
6 5 (5.38%) GitHub
6 5 (5.38%) Serverless
7 4 (4.30%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.30%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.23%) Pulumi
9 2 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.15%) Datadog
9 2 (2.15%) IaaS
9 2 (2.15%) PaaS
9 2 (2.15%) SaaS
9 2 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) 3GPP
1 4 (4.30%) TETRA
2 1 (1.08%) Calico
2 1 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.30%) RDBMS
2 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.23%) SAP HANA
4 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.08%) Big Data
5 1 (1.08%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.08%) Metadata
5 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.08%) Power BI
5 1 (1.08%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Git
1 6 (6.45%) GitLab
2 5 (5.38%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.38%) JIRA
3 4 (4.30%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.08%) Codeception
4 1 (1.08%) JUnit
4 1 (1.08%) MLflow
4 1 (1.08%) NUnit
4 1 (1.08%) Selenium
General
1 16 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.45%) Finance
4 5 (5.38%) Military
5 3 (3.23%) Local Government
5 3 (3.23%) Police
6 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.15%) Aviation
6 2 (2.15%) Retail
7 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (29.03%) Architect
2 14 (15.05%) Data Engineer
3 11 (11.83%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (10.75%) AWS Architect
4 10 (10.75%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (9.68%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 9 (9.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (7.53%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Developer
7 6 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Lead
7 6 (6.45%) Senior
7 6 (6.45%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.38%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.75%) React
2 9 (9.68%) Node.js
3 5 (5.38%) GraphQL
3 5 (5.38%) Kafka
4 4 (4.30%) .NET
4 4 (4.30%) OAuth
4 4 (4.30%) PyTorch
4 4 (4.30%) REST
4 4 (4.30%) TensorFlow
5 3 (3.23%) OpenID
5 3 (3.23%) React Native
5 3 (3.23%) RESTful
5 3 (3.23%) SAML
6 2 (2.15%) Flask
6 2 (2.15%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.15%) pytest
6 2 (2.15%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.15%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.15%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.15%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.23%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.23%) Replication
4 2 (2.15%) Autonomous Agent
4 2 (2.15%) Clustering
4 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.08%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.08%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.98%) Linux
2 6 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.30%) Windows
4 2 (2.15%) Unix
5 1 (1.08%) CentOS
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (46.24%) DevOps
2 30 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (22.58%) Agile
3 21 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 19 (20.43%) Containerisation
4 19 (20.43%) Migration
5 18 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (18.28%) Microservices
6 17 (18.28%) Roadmaps
7 14 (15.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (13.98%) AI
8 13 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (13.98%) Software Engineering
9 11 (11.83%) DevSecOps
9 11 (11.83%) Mentoring
10 9 (9.68%) Data Architecture
10 9 (9.68%) Data Governance
10 9 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (9.68%) TOGAF
11 8 (8.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.43%) Python
2 10 (10.75%) SQL
3 9 (9.68%) Java
3 9 (9.68%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.45%) Bash
5 5 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.30%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.23%) PHP
8 2 (2.15%) C#
8 2 (2.15%) C++
8 2 (2.15%) R
9 1 (1.08%) Go
9 1 (1.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (40.86%) Security Cleared
2 36 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.53%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.45%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (4.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.15%) CCNA
7 2 (2.15%) MCSE
7 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.08%) CCSP
8 1 (1.08%) CISM
8 1 (1.08%) CISSP
8 1 (1.08%) Degree
8 1 (1.08%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.53%) QA
2 5 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.30%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.23%) NCSC
5 2 (2.15%) NIST
6 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.08%) GDPR
6 1 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (1.08%) NIST 800
System Software
1 18 (19.35%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) Corosync
3 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.08%) KVM
3 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (25.81%) Terraform
2 23 (24.73%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.45%) Ansible
3 6 (6.45%) Grafana
4 4 (4.30%) Argo
5 3 (3.23%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.23%) Pacemaker
5 3 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.15%) Cilium
7 1 (1.08%) Istio
7 1 (1.08%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (9.68%) Oracle
2 8 (8.60%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.45%) Google
4 5 (5.38%) SAP
5 4 (4.30%) Databricks
5 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.15%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (2.15%) Cisco
6 2 (2.15%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.08%) F5
7 1 (1.08%) IBM
7 1 (1.08%) Splunk
7 1 (1.08%) VMware
7 1 (1.08%) webMethods