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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 67 45 90
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.14% 8.77% 8.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.91% 31.03% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 40 69
10th Percentile £375 £355 £323
25th Percentile £450 £459 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £548 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £600
90th Percentile £722 £669 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £86.55 - -
25th Percentile £87.00 - -
Median hourly rate £95.50 - -
75th Percentile £102.88 - -
90th Percentile £103.10 - -
South West median hourly rate £79.92 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.97%

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 224 145 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 20.53% 28.27% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 106 202
10th Percentile £350 £206 £263
25th Percentile £405 £329 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £604 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 3
10th Percentile - £21.21 £23.65
25th Percentile £16.62 £25.26 £32.13
Median hourly rate £20.88 £27.13 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.01% -42.89% -26.92%
75th Percentile £93.75 £28.99 £69.38
90th Percentile £101.38 - £81.75
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +116.98% +82.76% -73.84%

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 March 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
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 (4.48%) Apache
1 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.48%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.27%) Azure
2 17 (25.37%) GCP
3 9 (13.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (11.94%) GitHub
5 7 (10.45%) OpenShift
5 7 (10.45%) Serverless
6 6 (8.96%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.46%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.46%) Snowflake
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.48%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.99%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (2.99%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) 3GPP
1 4 (5.97%) TETRA
2 2 (2.99%) DNS
2 2 (2.99%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.49%) 2G
3 1 (1.49%) 5G
3 1 (1.49%) DHCP
3 1 (1.49%) HTTP
3 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.46%) Power BI
3 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.48%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.49%) MySQL
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Git
2 8 (11.94%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.46%) GitLab
4 3 (4.48%) DBeaver
5 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.49%) Maven
5 1 (1.49%) Mockito
5 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.43%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.99%) Electronics
6 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.99%) Marketing
7 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Architect
2 8 (11.94%) Developer
3 7 (10.45%) Data Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Technical Architect
4 6 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Analyst
5 5 (7.46%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.97%) AWS Architect
6 4 (5.97%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Data Migration Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Lead
6 4 (5.97%) Migration Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Security Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) ForgeRock Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) Node.js
2 6 (8.96%) React
3 5 (7.46%) CSS
3 5 (7.46%) HTML
3 5 (7.46%) REST
4 4 (5.97%) Spring
5 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.48%) OAuth
5 3 (4.48%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.48%) OpenID
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 3 (4.48%) RESTful
5 3 (4.48%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (4.48%) SAML
5 3 (4.48%) SOAP
5 3 (4.48%) Vue
6 2 (2.99%) .NET
6 2 (2.99%) Kafka
7 1 (1.49%) JAX-RS
7 1 (1.49%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.97%) Replication
4 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.49%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.49%) Clustering
6 1 (1.49%) CMDB
6 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Windows
3 2 (2.99%) Unix
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) CI/CD
1 23 (34.33%) DevOps
2 21 (31.34%) Agile
3 16 (23.88%) Roadmaps
4 15 (22.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (19.40%) Migration
6 10 (14.93%) Analytics
6 10 (14.93%) Containerisation
6 10 (14.93%) ETL
6 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (13.43%) DevSecOps
7 9 (13.43%) Mentoring
7 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (11.94%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (10.45%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (10.45%) RBAC
9 7 (10.45%) TOGAF
10 6 (8.96%) Data Migration
10 6 (8.96%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.85%) Python
2 13 (19.40%) SQL
3 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.94%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.46%) Java
5 5 (7.46%) Ruby
6 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.99%) C#
7 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.49%) Bash
8 1 (1.49%) Go
8 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (41.79%) Security Cleared
2 27 (40.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (5.97%) Degree
6 3 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.48%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.49%) CSPO
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) Data Quality
1 6 (8.96%) GDPR
2 5 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.46%) QA
3 3 (4.48%) PSD2
3 3 (4.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.99%) NIST
4 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.49%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.49%) SLA
5 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (25.37%) Kubernetes
2 16 (23.88%) Terraform
3 6 (8.96%) Ansible
4 4 (5.97%) Argo
4 4 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.48%) Grafana
5 3 (4.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.99%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.49%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) Google
2 4 (5.97%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) ForgeRock
3 3 (4.48%) Ping Identity
3 3 (4.48%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.99%) Databricks
4 2 (2.99%) SAP
5 1 (1.49%) NetApp
5 1 (1.49%) Zscaler