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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 12 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 73 54 76
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.99% 10.04% 7.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.20% 32.73% 28.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 48 57
10th Percentile £378 £336 -
25th Percentile £450 £361 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +9.47% -15.56%
75th Percentile £650 £611 £550
90th Percentile £719 £675 £610
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £65.25 - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £94.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% - -
75th Percentile £102.69 - -
90th Percentile £103.03 - -
South West median hourly rate £67.35 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -14.43% - -

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 250 165 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 20.53% 30.67% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 117 193
10th Percentile £363 £213 £243
25th Percentile £412 £355 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £560 £569
90th Percentile £668 £671 £630
South West median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 8
10th Percentile £13.65 - £12.64
25th Percentile £15.88 £18.13 £13.58
Median hourly rate £16.62 £18.51 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% -43.48% -45.42%
75th Percentile £59.06 £27.25 £69.06
90th Percentile £99.13 £37.50 £70.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £14.50
% change year-on-year +210.64% +27.66% -72.82%

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 26 April 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 26 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in Bristol

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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 3 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.74%) Apache
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.95%) Azure
2 21 (28.77%) GCP
3 11 (15.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (10.96%) Serverless
5 5 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.48%) GitHub
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.11%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.74%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.74%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) 3GPP
1 4 (5.48%) TETRA
2 2 (2.74%) DNS
2 2 (2.74%) HTTP
2 2 (2.74%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.37%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.74%) Power BI
2 2 (2.74%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.37%) Big Data
3 1 (1.37%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.37%) Metadata
3 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Git
2 6 (8.22%) GitLab
2 6 (8.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) Codeception
3 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.37%) JUnit
3 1 (1.37%) MLflow
3 1 (1.37%) Mockito
3 1 (1.37%) NUnit
3 1 (1.37%) Selenium
General
1 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.11%) Finance
4 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Electronics
5 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (34.25%) Architect
2 10 (13.70%) AWS Architect
3 9 (12.33%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 9 (12.33%) Cloud Architect
3 9 (12.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 7 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Technical Architect
5 6 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Data Architect
6 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Lead
7 4 (5.48%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Security Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) REST
2 6 (8.22%) Node.js
3 5 (6.85%) React
4 4 (5.48%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.11%) OAuth
5 3 (4.11%) SOAP
6 2 (2.74%) Flask
6 2 (2.74%) Kafka
6 2 (2.74%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.74%) LDAP
6 2 (2.74%) OpenID
6 2 (2.74%) pytest
6 2 (2.74%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.74%) SAML
7 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.37%) NumPy
7 1 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.37%) Pandas
7 1 (1.37%) Play Framework
7 1 (1.37%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.55%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.74%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.74%) Clustering
3 2 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.74%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.74%) Replication
4 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.37%) CMDB
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) Linux
2 4 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.48%) Windows
3 2 (2.74%) Unix
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) DevOps
2 22 (30.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (27.40%) CI/CD
4 18 (24.66%) Roadmaps
5 17 (23.29%) Agile
6 14 (19.18%) Containerisation
6 14 (19.18%) Migration
7 11 (15.07%) Mentoring
7 11 (15.07%) Microservices
8 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (13.70%) DevSecOps
8 10 (13.70%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.96%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (10.96%) Data Governance
9 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (9.59%) Analytics
10 7 (9.59%) Observability
10 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (9.59%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.18%) Python
2 6 (8.22%) SQL
2 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
3 3 (4.11%) Java
4 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.74%) PHP
4 2 (2.74%) Ruby
5 1 (1.37%) Bash
5 1 (1.37%) Go
5 1 (1.37%) Scala
5 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (43.84%) Security Cleared
2 31 (42.47%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.11%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CSPO
6 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) QA
2 5 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.48%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.74%) GDPR
5 2 (2.74%) NCSC
6 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.37%) NIST
6 1 (1.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (20.55%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) Corosync
2 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (28.77%) Kubernetes
2 18 (24.66%) Terraform
3 5 (6.85%) Ansible
4 4 (5.48%) Grafana
4 4 (5.48%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.11%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (2.74%) Cilium
6 2 (2.74%) Pacemaker
7 1 (1.37%) Argo
7 1 (1.37%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.37%) SCCM
7 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (6.85%) SAP
2 4 (5.48%) Databricks
2 4 (5.48%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.11%) Google
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.74%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.37%) F5
5 1 (1.37%) NetApp