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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 25 10
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 +8
Contract jobs citing AWS 76 49 105
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 9.29% 6.93% 10.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.00% 28.00% 38.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 45 90
10th Percentile £380 £425 £324
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 £619 £663 £697
90th Percentile £704 £788 £790
South West median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +4.35%

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 200 175 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.45% 24.75% 26.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 116 221
10th Percentile £336 £213 £300
25th Percentile £400 £397 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £650
90th Percentile £650 £775 £720
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 10
10th Percentile - - £20.03
25th Percentile - £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £47.31 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.12% +43.37% -49.23%
75th Percentile £28.73 £69.69 -
90th Percentile £93.75 £81.25 £52.88
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +46.34% -64.50%

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 14 December 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 (9.21%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (5.26%) Apache
3 3 (3.95%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (43.42%) Azure
2 17 (22.37%) GCP
3 9 (11.84%) GitHub
3 9 (11.84%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.53%) npm
5 7 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (9.21%) Snowflake
6 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.58%) Entra ID
7 5 (6.58%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.58%) Serverless
8 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.95%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (3.95%) SaaS
10 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) DNS
1 2 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.32%) 2G
2 1 (1.32%) 5G
2 1 (1.32%) HTTP
2 1 (1.32%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.32%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.32%) VPN
2 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (28.95%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.84%) Power BI
3 8 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (9.21%) Oracle ODI
4 7 (9.21%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (9.21%) Star Schema
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.26%) MySQL
5 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.95%) ClickHouse
6 3 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.32%) Big Data
8 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 11 (14.47%) Git
3 7 (9.21%) DBeaver
4 3 (3.95%) GitLab
5 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.32%) JIRA
5 1 (1.32%) Maven
5 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Finance
3 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.63%) Law
6 2 (2.63%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Electronics
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (17.11%) Data Engineer
2 12 (15.79%) Lead
3 11 (14.47%) Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Architect
5 7 (9.21%) Analyst
5 7 (9.21%) Quality Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Security Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Senior
7 4 (5.26%) Tester
8 3 (3.95%) Consultant
8 3 (3.95%) ETL Tester
8 3 (3.95%) ForgeRock Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Technical Leader
9 2 (2.63%) AWS Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.32%) Node.js
1 20 (26.32%) React
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (6.58%) CSS
3 5 (6.58%) HTML
3 5 (6.58%) Next.js
3 5 (6.58%) REST
4 4 (5.26%) OAuth
4 4 (5.26%) OAuth2
4 4 (5.26%) Spring
5 3 (3.95%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.95%) OpenID
5 3 (3.95%) RESTful
5 3 (3.95%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (3.95%) SAML
5 3 (3.95%) Vue
6 2 (2.63%) .NET
6 2 (2.63%) Express.js
6 2 (2.63%) PySpark
6 2 (2.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.53%) Replication
3 6 (7.89%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.58%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.95%) IoT
6 1 (1.32%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.32%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.32%) Clustering
6 1 (1.32%) CMDB
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.21%) Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Unix
2 1 (1.32%) Windows
2 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.79%) CI/CD
2 27 (35.53%) Agile
3 24 (31.58%) DevOps
4 16 (21.05%) Analytics
5 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (17.11%) Mentoring
6 13 (17.11%) Software Engineering
7 11 (14.47%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (14.47%) ETL
7 11 (14.47%) Migration
7 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (13.16%) Microservices
9 9 (11.84%) Roadmaps
10 8 (10.53%) Data Modelling
10 8 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (9.21%) Dimensional Modelling
11 7 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (9.21%) Test Automation
12 6 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.21%) Python
2 23 (30.26%) TypeScript
3 20 (26.32%) SQL
4 17 (22.37%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.84%) Java
6 5 (6.58%) Ruby
7 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.63%) Bicep
8 2 (2.63%) C#
8 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.32%) Bash
9 1 (1.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (35.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.26%) Degree
3 4 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.63%) OCA
5 2 (2.63%) OCP
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.32%) CSPO
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.89%) GDPR
3 3 (3.95%) PSD2
3 3 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.32%) GRC
5 1 (1.32%) NCSC
5 1 (1.32%) NIST
5 1 (1.32%) QA
5 1 (1.32%) SLA
5 1 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (15.79%) Docker
2 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (30.26%) Terraform
2 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.21%) Ansible
4 4 (5.26%) Grafana
4 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.95%) Argo
5 3 (3.95%) Kibana
6 2 (2.63%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.63%) Puppet
7 1 (1.32%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.16%) Oracle
3 3 (3.95%) Databricks
3 3 (3.95%) ForgeRock
3 3 (3.95%) Google
3 3 (3.95%) Ping Identity
3 3 (3.95%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.32%) Brocade
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco
5 1 (1.32%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.32%) Foundry
5 1 (1.32%) Okta
5 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.32%) SAP
5 1 (1.32%) VMware
5 1 (1.32%) Zscaler