AWS Job Trends in Bristol

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -20 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 117 141 337
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 4.30% 15.72% 10.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.08% 43.65% 34.01%
Number of salaries quoted 107 124 263
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £40,450
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,698 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,181 £87,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 507 323 991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 18.65% 36.01% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 383 271 811
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -3.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,246 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.48% - -4.55%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

AWS job vacancy trend in Bristol

AWS
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Bristol

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 6 (5.13%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.56%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (1.71%) Apache
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.85%) Site Server
4 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (5.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 56 (47.86%) Azure
2 25 (21.37%) GitHub
3 18 (15.38%) GCP
4 9 (7.69%) Serverless
5 8 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (6.84%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (5.98%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (4.27%) Datadog
8 5 (4.27%) Snowflake
9 4 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.42%) SaaS
10 3 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.56%) dbt
10 3 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.71%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.69%) Internet
2 2 (1.71%) Firewall
3 1 (0.85%) DHCP
3 1 (0.85%) DNS
3 1 (0.85%) NAS
3 1 (0.85%) Network Security
3 1 (0.85%) SAN
3 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 8 (6.84%) Power BI
3 7 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.98%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.13%) Data Vault
4 6 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (5.13%) Tableau
5 5 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.56%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (2.56%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.71%) MySQL
8 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.85%) GIS
9 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.85%) Redis
9 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Git
2 8 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.13%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (4.27%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.71%) DBeaver
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.85%) Vite
General
1 25 (21.37%) Finance
2 19 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (14.53%) Social Skills
4 9 (7.69%) Multimedia
5 8 (6.84%) Local Government
6 7 (5.98%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.13%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.13%) Retail
8 3 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.71%) Billing
9 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (17.09%) Architect
1 20 (17.09%) Senior
2 19 (16.24%) Developer
3 17 (14.53%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (12.82%) Trainee
5 14 (11.97%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (8.55%) Security Architect
6 10 (8.55%) Senior Developer
6 10 (8.55%) Software Developer
7 9 (7.69%) Lead
8 8 (6.84%) C++ Developer
8 8 (6.84%) Senior C++ Developer
9 7 (5.98%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (5.98%) Platform Architect
10 6 (5.13%) Analyst
10 6 (5.13%) AWS Architect
10 6 (5.13%) Engineering Manager
10 6 (5.13%) Programmer
10 6 (5.13%) Security Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.55%) CSS
1 10 (8.55%) HTML
2 7 (5.98%) React
3 6 (5.13%) Hugging Face
3 6 (5.13%) Matplotlib
3 6 (5.13%) Node.js
3 6 (5.13%) NumPy
3 6 (5.13%) Pandas
3 6 (5.13%) scikit-learn
3 6 (5.13%) Streamlit
4 5 (4.27%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.42%) MFC
6 3 (2.56%) .NET
7 2 (1.71%) OAuth
7 2 (1.71%) REST
7 2 (1.71%) RESTful
7 2 (1.71%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (1.71%) Vue
8 1 (0.85%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.85%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.84%) NHS
3 6 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.13%) PKI
4 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.71%) IoT
6 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.85%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.11%) Linux
2 6 (5.13%) Windows
3 5 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.27%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (31.62%) CI/CD
2 32 (27.35%) DevOps
3 27 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (21.37%) Mentoring
5 23 (19.66%) Cloud Security
6 16 (13.68%) Agile
6 16 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (13.68%) Threat Modelling
7 15 (12.82%) Decision-Making
7 15 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (12.82%) Test Automation
8 14 (11.97%) Analytics
9 13 (11.11%) Incident Response
10 12 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (10.26%) Data Engineering
10 12 (10.26%) SDLC
10 12 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (10.26%) Visualisation
11 11 (9.40%) AI
11 11 (9.40%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.04%) Python
2 16 (13.68%) SQL
3 13 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.26%) R
5 10 (8.55%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.84%) C++
6 8 (6.84%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.98%) Bash
7 7 (5.98%) C#
8 6 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (4.27%) PHP
10 3 (2.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (18.80%) AWS Certification
2 20 (17.09%) Security Cleared
3 18 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 16 (13.68%) Azure Certification
5 15 (12.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.98%) CISSP
8 6 (5.13%) CISM
8 6 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (4.27%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.71%) Degree
11 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (11.11%) NIST
3 9 (7.69%) GDPR
4 8 (6.84%) NCSC
5 7 (5.98%) PCI DSS
6 6 (5.13%) Accessibility
7 4 (3.42%) Data Quality
8 3 (2.56%) Def Stans
8 3 (2.56%) NIST 800
9 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 11 (9.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (21.37%) Terraform
2 10 (8.55%) Ansible
3 7 (5.98%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.13%) Puppet
5 5 (4.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.85%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.85%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.13%) Cognos
2 6 (5.13%) MicroStrategy
3 5 (4.27%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.56%) Databricks
4 3 (2.56%) Oracle
5 2 (1.71%) Cisco
5 2 (1.71%) Dell
5 2 (1.71%) Splunk
6 1 (0.85%) Foundry
6 1 (0.85%) Palantir
6 1 (0.85%) Sophos
6 1 (0.85%) VMware