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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS 63 78 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 10.73% 7.33% 8.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.43% 27.66% 27.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 61 84
10th Percentile £345 £325 £402
25th Percentile £385 £363 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £620 £550 £638
90th Percentile £675 £599 £713
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +124.86% - -
South West median hourly rate £78.70 £35.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +124.86% -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 207 282 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 35.26% 26.50% 29.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 199 266
10th Percentile £231 £258 £325
25th Percentile £355 £338 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £570 £627
90th Percentile £650 £625 £704
South West median daily rate £488 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 22
10th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £20.78
25th Percentile - £67.19 £31.25
Median hourly rate £18.51 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.56% +21.74% +47.44%
75th Percentile £18.87 - £65.00
90th Percentile £37.50 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -46.09% -36.36% +155.81%

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 31 May 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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.68%) Azure
2 12 (19.05%) GCP
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.76%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.17%) GitHub
4 2 (3.17%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.59%) dbt
5 1 (1.59%) Firebase
5 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) DNS
1 5 (7.94%) Firewall
2 2 (3.17%) DHCP
3 1 (1.59%) HTTP
3 1 (1.59%) Network Security
3 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.35%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.17%) Power BI
3 2 (3.17%) Redis
4 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.59%) Looker
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.11%) GitLab
3 5 (7.94%) Bitbucket
3 5 (7.94%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 19 (30.16%) Finance
2 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Electronics
3 10 (15.87%) Manufacturing
3 10 (15.87%) Marketing
3 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 10 (15.87%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Developer
2 10 (15.87%) Lead
3 9 (14.29%) Architect
3 9 (14.29%) Senior
4 8 (12.70%) Applications Support
4 8 (12.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Applications Developer
5 7 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Support Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) AWS Architect
6 6 (9.52%) Azure Developer
6 6 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) C# Application Developer
6 6 (9.52%) C# Developer
6 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Administrator
7 4 (6.35%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (6.35%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.63%) CSS
2 12 (19.05%) HTML
3 8 (12.70%) .NET
4 6 (9.52%) React
5 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.17%) Hugging Face
6 2 (3.17%) OAuth
6 2 (3.17%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.17%) Spring
7 1 (1.59%) Django
7 1 (1.59%) Kafka
7 1 (1.59%) LDAP
7 1 (1.59%) Node.js
7 1 (1.59%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.59%) OpenID
7 1 (1.59%) SAML
7 1 (1.59%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.17%) Clustering
4 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.17%) PKI
4 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.46%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.59%) Android
3 1 (1.59%) CentOS
3 1 (1.59%) Solaris
3 1 (1.59%) Unix
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.27%) CI/CD
2 17 (26.98%) DevOps
3 13 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (20.63%) Migration
4 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (15.87%) Containerisation
5 10 (15.87%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (15.87%) Digital Marketing
5 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (15.87%) Programme Management
5 10 (15.87%) Service Management
5 10 (15.87%) Software Delivery
5 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
6 9 (14.29%) Agile
6 9 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 8 (12.70%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (12.70%) TDD
7 8 (12.70%) User Experience
7 8 (12.70%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.81%) JavaScript
1 15 (23.81%) Python
2 11 (17.46%) SQL
3 8 (12.70%) C#
4 4 (6.35%) Bash
4 4 (6.35%) Perl
5 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.17%) Java
6 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.70%) Azure Certification
2 8 (12.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (12.70%) Degree
3 7 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
2 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.59%) NCSC
2 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (23.81%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) Terraform
2 13 (20.63%) Kubernetes
3 9 (14.29%) Ansible
3 9 (14.29%) Grafana
4 7 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 7 (11.11%) Puppet
5 1 (1.59%) Kibana
5 1 (1.59%) logstash
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.59%) SCCM
5 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) SAP
2 8 (12.70%) Google
3 6 (9.52%) VMware
4 4 (6.35%) MuleSoft
4 4 (6.35%) SnapLogic
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.17%) NVIDIA
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle
7 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.59%) Veritas