AWS Contracts in Bristol

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 55 75 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 10.24% 7.10% 7.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.33% 27.37% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 56 88
10th Percentile £338 £325 £400
25th Percentile £363 £334 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £550 £650
90th Percentile £675 £613 £722
South West median daily rate £575 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 - -
South West median hourly rate £78.70 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +61.59%

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 165 274 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 30.73% 25.92% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 194 295
10th Percentile £213 £259 £318
25th Percentile £355 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £557 £570 £630
90th Percentile £668 £630 £711
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 24
10th Percentile - £12.86 £18.40
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.96 £28.88
Median hourly rate £18.51 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.08% +14.58% +140.00%
75th Percentile £27.25 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £37.50 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
% change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.00%) Azure
2 14 (25.45%) GCP
3 3 (5.45%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.64%) GitHub
4 2 (3.64%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.82%) dbt
5 1 (1.82%) Firebase
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) DNS
2 4 (7.27%) Firewall
3 2 (3.64%) DHCP
4 1 (1.82%) HTTP
4 1 (1.82%) Network Security
4 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.27%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.64%) Power BI
3 2 (3.64%) Redis
4 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.82%) Looker
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.91%) GitLab
3 5 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 5 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (1.82%) Git
General
1 18 (32.73%) Finance
2 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.82%) Public Sector
4 11 (20.00%) Electronics
4 11 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 11 (20.00%) Marketing
4 11 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Developer
1 10 (18.18%) Lead
2 8 (14.55%) Applications Support
2 8 (14.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Applications Developer
3 7 (12.73%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Architect
3 7 (12.73%) Support Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Azure Developer
4 6 (10.91%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) C# Application Developer
4 6 (10.91%) C# Developer
4 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Senior
5 4 (7.27%) Administrator
5 4 (7.27%) AWS Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.00%) CSS
2 10 (18.18%) HTML
3 8 (14.55%) .NET
4 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.64%) Hugging Face
4 2 (3.64%) Node.js
4 2 (3.64%) OAuth
4 2 (3.64%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.82%) Angular 2
5 1 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.82%) Django
5 1 (1.82%) HTML5
5 1 (1.82%) Kafka
5 1 (1.82%) LDAP
5 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.82%) OpenID
5 1 (1.82%) React
5 1 (1.82%) SAML
5 1 (1.82%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.64%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.64%) Clustering
4 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) PKI
4 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.82%) Linux
2 5 (9.09%) Windows
3 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.82%) Android
4 1 (1.82%) CentOS
4 1 (1.82%) Solaris
4 1 (1.82%) Unix
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (49.09%) CI/CD
2 17 (30.91%) DevOps
3 14 (25.45%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 11 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 11 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 10 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (18.18%) Service Management
5 10 (18.18%) Software Delivery
5 10 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 9 (16.36%) Migration
6 9 (16.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (16.36%) Software Engineering
7 8 (14.55%) Computer Science
7 8 (14.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (14.55%) Service Delivery
7 8 (14.55%) TDD
7 8 (14.55%) User Experience
7 8 (14.55%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.27%) Python
2 11 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (16.36%) SQL
4 8 (14.55%) C#
5 5 (9.09%) Bash
6 4 (7.27%) Perl
7 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.82%) Ruby
9 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) Azure Certification
3 8 (14.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (14.55%) Degree
4 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.82%) GDPR
1 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.82%) NCSC
1 1 (1.82%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (25.45%) Terraform
2 13 (23.64%) Kubernetes
3 9 (16.36%) Ansible
3 9 (16.36%) Grafana
4 8 (14.55%) Puppet
5 7 (12.73%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.82%) Kibana
6 1 (1.82%) logstash
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.82%) SCCM
6 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) SAP
2 9 (16.36%) Google
3 6 (10.91%) VMware
4 4 (7.27%) MuleSoft
4 4 (7.27%) SnapLogic
5 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.64%) NVIDIA
6 2 (3.64%) Oracle
7 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.82%) Veritas