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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 19 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS 73 70 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 10.01% 7.58% 10.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.04% 29.05% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 61 98
10th Percentile £380 £375 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -3.09% +1.15%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £790
South West median daily rate £550 £551 £600
% change year-on-year -0.18% -8.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -56.25% -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +114.29% -55.13% -

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 243 241 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 33.33% 26.08% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 159 251
10th Percentile £305 £268 £313
25th Percentile £386 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £638
90th Percentile £650 £775 £713
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 15
10th Percentile £18.13 £66.25 £25.35
25th Percentile £18.51 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% +15.79%
75th Percentile - - £54.38
90th Percentile £35.63 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £34.80
% change year-on-year -73.04% +101.18% +58.16%

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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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Bristol over the 6 months to 19 September 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

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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 5 (6.85%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (4.11%) Apache
3 2 (2.74%) Confluence
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (38.36%) Azure
2 9 (12.33%) GCP
2 9 (12.33%) GitHub
3 7 (9.59%) npm
4 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.22%) Snowflake
5 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.11%) SaaS
7 3 (4.11%) Serverless
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.74%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.74%) OCI
9 1 (1.37%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) Firewall
2 2 (2.74%) DNS
3 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.37%) VPN
3 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.92%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.85%) Oracle ODI
3 5 (6.85%) Power BI
4 4 (5.48%) Oracle Database
4 4 (5.48%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (5.48%) Star Schema
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.11%) ClickHouse
5 3 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.11%) MySQL
5 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (2.74%) Tableau
7 1 (1.37%) Big Data
7 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (16.44%) Jenkins
2 11 (15.07%) GitLab
3 5 (6.85%) Git
4 4 (5.48%) DBeaver
4 4 (5.48%) JIRA
5 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
General
1 18 (24.66%) Finance
2 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.74%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.74%) Banking
6 2 (2.74%) Electronics
6 2 (2.74%) Law
6 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.74%) Marketing
6 2 (2.74%) Tech for Good
6 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Lead
2 10 (13.70%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Data Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Architect
4 8 (10.96%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) Developer
6 5 (6.85%) AWS Architect
6 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Quality Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.48%) Technical Leader
7 4 (5.48%) Web Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Administrator
8 3 (4.11%) DBA
8 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.51%) React
2 17 (23.29%) Node.js
3 5 (6.85%) CSS
3 5 (6.85%) HTML
3 5 (6.85%) Next.js
4 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.48%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 3 (4.11%) .NET
6 2 (2.74%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.74%) Express.js
6 2 (2.74%) Spring
7 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.37%) JWT
7 1 (1.37%) Kafka
7 1 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.37%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.37%) REST
7 1 (1.37%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.96%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.48%) Replication
4 3 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.11%) IoT
5 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.44%) Linux
2 5 (6.85%) Unix
3 3 (4.11%) Windows
4 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.37%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) DevOps
2 24 (32.88%) CI/CD
3 21 (28.77%) Agile
3 21 (28.77%) Migration
4 16 (21.92%) Mentoring
5 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (19.18%) Software Engineering
7 11 (15.07%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (13.70%) Analytics
9 9 (12.33%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (10.96%) Data Modelling
10 8 (10.96%) ETL
11 7 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (8.22%) Microservices
12 6 (8.22%) Test Automation
13 5 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (6.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 5 (6.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.77%) TypeScript
2 17 (23.29%) JavaScript
2 17 (23.29%) SQL
3 16 (21.92%) Python
4 6 (8.22%) Java
5 3 (4.11%) Bash
5 3 (4.11%) C#
5 3 (4.11%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.74%) Bicep
6 2 (2.74%) Perl
6 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.37%) Ruby
7 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) AWS Certification
3 6 (8.22%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.74%) Degree
4 2 (2.74%) OCA
4 2 (2.74%) OCP
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) GDPR
3 1 (1.37%) GRC
3 1 (1.37%) NCSC
3 1 (1.37%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (34.25%) Terraform
2 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.33%) Puppet
4 8 (10.96%) Ansible
5 5 (6.85%) Grafana
5 5 (6.85%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.11%) Data Guard
6 3 (4.11%) Kibana
6 3 (4.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.37%) logstash
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle
2 3 (4.11%) Databricks
2 3 (4.11%) VMware
3 2 (2.74%) Google
3 2 (2.74%) SAP
4 1 (1.37%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.37%) Brocade
4 1 (1.37%) Cisco
4 1 (1.37%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (1.37%) Foundry
4 1 (1.37%) IBM
4 1 (1.37%) Okta
4 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.37%) Salesforce