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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 8 19
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 68 57 80
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.74% 10.78% 7.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.18% 35.63% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 51 61
10th Percentile £367 £355 £325
25th Percentile £450 £406 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +8.72% -13.33%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £576
90th Percentile £723 £675 £638
South West median daily rate £537 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.50% +9.09% -4.35%
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 233 160 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 19.68% 30.25% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 115 200
10th Percentile £350 £213 £240
25th Percentile £410 £359 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £669 £675 £638
South West median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 5
10th Percentile £13.65 £18.13 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.41 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.06 £18.51 £13.85
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% +33.65% -78.69%
75th Percentile £85.31 £31.12 £18.00
90th Percentile £99.88 £37.50 £36.45
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.75 £14.50
% change year-on-year +123.30% +77.59% -74.78%

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 12 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 12 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 4 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.41%) Apache
3 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 34 (50.00%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) GCP
3 9 (13.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (11.76%) Serverless
5 5 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.88%) GitHub
6 4 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.41%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.41%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) 3GPP
1 4 (5.88%) TETRA
2 2 (2.94%) DNS
2 2 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.47%) DHCP
3 1 (1.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.88%) Power BI
3 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.94%) SAP HANA
4 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.47%) Metadata
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.47%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (13.24%) Git
1 9 (13.24%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.29%) GitLab
3 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.47%) DBeaver
3 1 (1.47%) JUnit
3 1 (1.47%) Maven
3 1 (1.47%) MLflow
3 1 (1.47%) Mockito
3 1 (1.47%) NUnit
3 1 (1.47%) Selenium
3 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Finance
4 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.94%) Electronics
5 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) Architect
2 7 (10.29%) Technical Architect
3 6 (8.82%) AWS Architect
3 6 (8.82%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (8.82%) Cloud Architect
3 6 (8.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Analyst
4 5 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Data Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Data Migration Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Lead
5 4 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Security Analyst
5 4 (5.88%) Senior
5 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) REST
2 4 (5.88%) Node.js
3 3 (4.41%) SOAP
4 2 (2.94%) CSS
4 2 (2.94%) Flask
4 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.94%) HTML
4 2 (2.94%) Kafka
4 2 (2.94%) Keycloak
4 2 (2.94%) LDAP
4 2 (2.94%) NumPy
4 2 (2.94%) OAuth
4 2 (2.94%) OpenID
4 2 (2.94%) Pandas
4 2 (2.94%) pytest
4 2 (2.94%) React
4 2 (2.94%) SailPoint
4 2 (2.94%) SAML
5 1 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.47%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.41%) Replication
5 2 (2.94%) Clustering
5 2 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.47%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.47%) CMDB
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 4 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.88%) Windows
3 2 (2.94%) Unix
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.29%) DevOps
2 22 (32.35%) CI/CD
3 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (26.47%) Agile
4 18 (26.47%) Roadmaps
5 13 (19.12%) Containerisation
6 12 (17.65%) Migration
7 11 (16.18%) DevSecOps
7 11 (16.18%) Mentoring
8 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (13.24%) Analytics
9 9 (13.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (11.76%) Data Governance
10 8 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (10.29%) Cloud Security
11 7 (10.29%) Configuration Management
11 7 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (10.29%) Observability
11 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (10.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.59%) Python
2 8 (11.76%) SQL
3 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.94%) Ruby
4 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.47%) Bash
5 1 (1.47%) Go
5 1 (1.47%) Java
5 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.47%) CSPO
6 1 (1.47%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 5 (7.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.41%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.94%) GDPR
4 2 (2.94%) NCSC
4 2 (2.94%) NIST
5 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.47%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Corosync
2 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 17 (25.00%) Terraform
3 7 (10.29%) Ansible
4 5 (7.35%) Grafana
4 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.41%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (2.94%) Cilium
6 2 (2.94%) Pacemaker
6 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.47%) Argo
7 1 (1.47%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.47%) SCCM
7 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (8.82%) SAP
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.88%) Databricks
3 4 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.41%) Google
4 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.94%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.47%) NetApp
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle