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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 24 11
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 84 53 108
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 10.43% 6.87% 10.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.71% 27.75% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 45 95
10th Percentile £378 £425 £325
25th Percentile £456 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £700
90th Percentile £713 £788 £790
South West median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £75.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 217 191 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.96% 24.77% 27.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 117 230
10th Percentile £328 £220 £299
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £589 £638 £650
90th Percentile £671 £788 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -7.19% -2.05% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 11
10th Percentile - £25.26 £20.25
25th Percentile - £56.00 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -49.23%
75th Percentile £33.75 - £40.88
90th Percentile £90.50 - £80.00
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £22.07
% change year-on-year -66.67% +205.85% -61.78%

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 29 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 (8.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (4.76%) Apache
3 3 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (41.67%) Azure
2 17 (20.24%) GCP
3 16 (19.05%) GitHub
4 9 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 8 (9.52%) npm
6 7 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (8.33%) Snowflake
7 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (5.95%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.95%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.95%) OpenShift
8 5 (5.95%) Serverless
9 4 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (3.57%) SaaS
11 2 (2.38%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) DNS
1 2 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.19%) 2G
2 1 (1.19%) 5G
2 1 (1.19%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.19%) VPN
2 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.71%) Power BI
3 8 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (8.33%) Oracle ODI
4 7 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (8.33%) Star Schema
5 5 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.76%) MySQL
6 4 (4.76%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.57%) ClickHouse
7 3 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.19%) Big Data
9 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.10%) Git
3 10 (11.90%) GitLab
4 7 (8.33%) DBeaver
5 1 (1.19%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.19%) JIRA
5 1 (1.19%) Maven
5 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.43%) Finance
3 13 (15.48%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.38%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.38%) Electronics
6 2 (2.38%) Law
6 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.38%) Marketing
6 2 (2.38%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (17.86%) Lead
2 13 (15.48%) Data Engineer
3 11 (13.10%) Developer
4 10 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Architect
6 7 (8.33%) Analyst
6 7 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Senior
7 5 (5.95%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.76%) Consultant
8 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Security Analyst
8 4 (4.76%) Technical Leader
8 4 (4.76%) Tester
9 3 (3.57%) DBA
9 3 (3.57%) ETL Tester
9 3 (3.57%) ForgeRock Developer
9 3 (3.57%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.00%) Node.js
1 21 (25.00%) React
2 7 (8.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (5.95%) CSS
3 5 (5.95%) HTML
3 5 (5.95%) Next.js
4 4 (4.76%) OAuth
4 4 (4.76%) OAuth2
4 4 (4.76%) REST
4 4 (4.76%) Spring
5 3 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.57%) OpenID
5 3 (3.57%) RESTful
5 3 (3.57%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (3.57%) SAML
5 3 (3.57%) Vue
6 2 (2.38%) .NET
6 2 (2.38%) Express.js
6 2 (2.38%) Kafka
6 2 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.52%) Replication
3 6 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.95%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.57%) IoT
6 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.19%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.19%) Clustering
7 1 (1.19%) CMDB
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.10%) Linux
2 5 (5.95%) Unix
3 3 (3.57%) Windows
4 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 29 (34.52%) Agile
2 29 (34.52%) DevOps
3 20 (23.81%) Mentoring
4 19 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (21.43%) Migration
6 16 (19.05%) Analytics
7 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (15.48%) Software Engineering
10 12 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (13.10%) ETL
11 11 (13.10%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (11.90%) Microservices
13 8 (9.52%) Data Modelling
13 8 (9.52%) Roadmaps
13 8 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (8.33%) Decision-Making
14 7 (8.33%) Dimensional Modelling
14 7 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (30.95%) Python
2 24 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 20 (23.81%) SQL
4 17 (20.24%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.71%) Java
6 5 (5.95%) Ruby
7 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.38%) Bicep
8 2 (2.38%) C#
8 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.19%) Bash
9 1 (1.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 29 (34.52%) Security Cleared
2 26 (30.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.95%) Degree
4 4 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.38%) OCA
5 2 (2.38%) OCP
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) CSPO
6 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (3.57%) PSD2
3 3 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.38%) WCAG
5 1 (1.19%) GRC
5 1 (1.19%) NCSC
5 1 (1.19%) NIST
5 1 (1.19%) QA
5 1 (1.19%) SLA
5 1 (1.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (34.52%) Terraform
2 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.33%) Ansible
3 7 (8.33%) Puppet
4 4 (4.76%) Grafana
4 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.57%) Argo
5 3 (3.57%) Data Guard
5 3 (3.57%) Kibana
5 3 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.19%) logstash
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.10%) Oracle
3 4 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (3.57%) Databricks
4 3 (3.57%) ForgeRock
4 3 (3.57%) Ping Identity
4 3 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.38%) SAP
5 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.19%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.19%) Brocade
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco
6 1 (1.19%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.19%) Foundry
6 1 (1.19%) IBM
6 1 (1.19%) Okta
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.19%) VMware
6 1 (1.19%) Zscaler