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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 17 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 76 79 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 11.71% 7.11% 8.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.54% 28.52% 27.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 64 79
10th Percentile £355 £329 £412
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £631 £590 £675
90th Percentile £675 £775 £788
South West median daily rate £550 £546 £589
% change year-on-year +0.69% -7.22% +7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £73.12 - -
25th Percentile £74.05 - -
Median hourly rate £76.85 £35.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.57% -56.25% -
75th Percentile £78.40 - -
90th Percentile £78.58 - -
South West median hourly rate £76.85 £35.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +119.57% -55.13% +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 241 277 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 37.13% 24.93% 29.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 191 253
10th Percentile £235 £270 £338
25th Percentile £355 £367 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -3.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £725
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 28 22
10th Percentile £18.13 £28.66 £20.78
25th Percentile £18.51 £69.06 £30.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +30.23% +37.82%
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile £37.50 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -73.04% +40.00% +140.96%

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 6 July 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 (3.95%) Confluence
1 3 (3.95%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.53%) Azure
2 13 (17.11%) GCP
3 9 (11.84%) GitHub
4 5 (6.58%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.63%) SaaS
7 2 (2.63%) Serverless
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.32%) Firebase
8 1 (1.32%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) DNS
1 5 (6.58%) Firewall
2 2 (2.63%) DHCP
3 1 (1.32%) HTTP
3 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (6.58%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.26%) Power BI
2 4 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.63%) Redis
4 2 (2.63%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.32%) Looker
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (19.74%) GitLab
2 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.58%) Bitbucket
3 5 (6.58%) JIRA
4 2 (2.63%) DBeaver
4 2 (2.63%) Git
General
1 23 (30.26%) Finance
2 17 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.16%) Electronics
4 10 (13.16%) Manufacturing
4 10 (13.16%) Marketing
4 10 (13.16%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.26%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.63%) Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (18.42%) Lead
2 12 (15.79%) Developer
3 11 (14.47%) Senior
4 9 (11.84%) Architect
5 8 (10.53%) Applications Support
5 8 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Applications Developer
6 7 (9.21%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Azure Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) C# Application Developer
7 6 (7.89%) C# Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Administrator
8 5 (6.58%) AWS Architect
8 5 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.11%) CSS
2 12 (15.79%) HTML
3 8 (10.53%) .NET
3 8 (10.53%) React
4 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.63%) Hugging Face
5 2 (2.63%) Node.js
5 2 (2.63%) OAuth
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (2.63%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.63%) Spring
6 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.32%) Django
6 1 (1.32%) LDAP
6 1 (1.32%) Next.js
6 1 (1.32%) SAML
6 1 (1.32%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.32%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Data Centre
1 9 (11.84%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (3.95%) Replication
3 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.63%) Clustering
3 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.63%) PKI
3 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.32%) IoT
4 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.05%) Linux
2 6 (7.89%) Unix
3 5 (6.58%) Windows
4 4 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.32%) Android
5 1 (1.32%) CentOS
5 1 (1.32%) Solaris
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.74%) CI/CD
2 24 (31.58%) DevOps
3 22 (28.95%) Migration
4 16 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (19.74%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (18.42%) Agile
6 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (14.47%) Containerisation
7 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
8 10 (13.16%) Digital Marketing
8 10 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (13.16%) Programme Management
8 10 (13.16%) Software Delivery
8 10 (13.16%) Software Engineering
9 9 (11.84%) Computer Science
9 9 (11.84%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (11.84%) Service Management
9 9 (11.84%) TDD
9 9 (11.84%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (10.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.37%) Python
2 15 (19.74%) JavaScript
3 13 (17.11%) SQL
4 8 (10.53%) C#
5 4 (5.26%) Bash
5 4 (5.26%) Perl
5 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.95%) Java
7 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.84%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (11.84%) Degree
2 9 (11.84%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 8 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.58%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.32%) NCSC
3 1 (1.32%) NIST
3 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (21.05%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (26.32%) Terraform
2 13 (17.11%) Puppet
3 12 (15.79%) Kubernetes
4 8 (10.53%) Ansible
4 8 (10.53%) Grafana
5 6 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.32%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.32%) Kibana
6 1 (1.32%) logstash
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.32%) SCCM
6 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) SAP
2 9 (11.84%) Google
3 6 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.89%) VMware
4 5 (6.58%) Oracle
5 4 (5.26%) MuleSoft
5 4 (5.26%) SnapLogic
6 2 (2.63%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.32%) IBM
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.32%) Veritas