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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 67 48 98
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.80% 8.12% 9.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.18% 30.38% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 42 79
10th Percentile £375 £428 £313
25th Percentile £450 £475 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £640 £625 £675
90th Percentile £715 £674 £705
South West median daily rate £537 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.46% +4.35% -

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 196 158 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 19.88% 26.73% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 106 227
10th Percentile £363 £213 £267
25th Percentile £405 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +2.50% -0.99%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £502
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.69% -8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 5
10th Percentile - - £24.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £27.13 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% -17.80% -49.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £28.99 £48.75
90th Percentile £93.75 - £73.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £27.13 £15.74
% change year-on-year +111.98% +72.33% -72.63%

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 15 February 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 4 (5.97%) Apache
1 4 (5.97%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.28%) Azure
2 18 (26.87%) GCP
3 9 (13.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (11.94%) GitHub
4 8 (11.94%) npm
5 7 (10.45%) OpenShift
6 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.96%) Serverless
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.46%) Snowflake
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.48%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) DNS
1 2 (2.99%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.49%) 2G
2 1 (1.49%) 5G
2 1 (1.49%) DHCP
2 1 (1.49%) HTTP
2 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (28.36%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.94%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.96%) Power BI
4 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.97%) Oracle ODI
5 4 (5.97%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (5.97%) Star Schema
6 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.49%) MySQL
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (22.39%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.93%) Git
3 5 (7.46%) GitLab
4 4 (5.97%) 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 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Public Sector
3 9 (13.43%) Finance
4 8 (11.94%) 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
7 1 (1.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (16.42%) Lead
2 10 (14.93%) Architect
2 10 (14.93%) Developer
3 8 (11.94%) Data Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Quality Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Security Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Data Migration Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) ETL Tester
7 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Technical Leader
7 3 (4.48%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.87%) Node.js
2 15 (22.39%) React
3 6 (8.96%) REST
4 5 (7.46%) CSS
4 5 (7.46%) HTML
5 4 (5.97%) OAuth
5 4 (5.97%) OAuth2
5 4 (5.97%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 4 (5.97%) Spring
6 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.48%) OpenID
6 3 (4.48%) RESTful
6 3 (4.48%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (4.48%) SAML
6 3 (4.48%) SOAP
6 3 (4.48%) Vue
7 2 (2.99%) .NET
7 2 (2.99%) Kafka
7 2 (2.99%) Next.js
8 1 (1.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.46%) Replication
3 2 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.49%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.49%) Clustering
4 1 (1.49%) CMDB
4 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Windows
3 1 (1.49%) Unix
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
2 21 (31.34%) DevOps
3 19 (28.36%) Agile
4 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (19.40%) Mentoring
6 12 (17.91%) Roadmaps
7 11 (16.42%) Analytics
8 10 (14.93%) ETL
8 10 (14.93%) Software Engineering
9 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
9 9 (13.43%) Migration
9 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (11.94%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (11.94%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (10.45%) RBAC
12 6 (8.96%) ITIL
12 6 (8.96%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.84%) Python
2 17 (25.37%) TypeScript
3 16 (23.88%) JavaScript
4 14 (20.90%) SQL
5 7 (10.45%) Java
6 5 (7.46%) Ruby
7 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.99%) C#
8 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.49%) Bash
9 1 (1.49%) Bicep
9 1 (1.49%) Go
Qualifications
1 28 (41.79%) Security Cleared
2 27 (40.30%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) Degree
4 3 (4.48%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.49%) CSPO
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) GDPR
2 6 (8.96%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.48%) PSD2
4 3 (4.48%) QA
4 3 (4.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.49%) NCSC
5 1 (1.49%) NIST
5 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.49%) SLA
5 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (19.40%) Docker
2 4 (5.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (32.84%) Terraform
2 18 (26.87%) Kubernetes
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%) Kibana
7 1 (1.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.46%) Oracle
3 4 (5.97%) Google
4 3 (4.48%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.48%) Ping Identity
4 3 (4.48%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.99%) SAP
6 1 (1.49%) Databricks
6 1 (1.49%) Foundry
6 1 (1.49%) NetApp
6 1 (1.49%) Zscaler