AWS Contracts in Berkshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 34 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 93 103 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.69% 5.68% 7.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.43% 20.44% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 73 137
10th Percentile £461 £411 £408
25th Percentile £522 £453 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £613
90th Percentile - £688 £671
South East median daily rate £575 £569 £550
% change year-on-year +0.98% +3.53% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.30 -
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +38.61% -18.25%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 566 504 713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.54% 27.81% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 363 531
10th Percentile £330 £392 £184
25th Percentile £450 £470 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 14
10th Percentile £20.49 £15.44 £17.68
25th Percentile £41.25 £19.63 £21.01
Median hourly rate £58.30 £28.40 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +105.28% +30.42% +3.44%
75th Percentile £61.60 £67.31 £63.75
90th Percentile £61.96 £79.19 £85.37
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.23 £21.05
% change year-on-year -0.04% +10.33% -4.32%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Berkshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Berkshire

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -5 66 £650 +18.18% 27
Bracknell -5 15 £500 +16.62% 2
Windsor - 4 £600 - 4
Wokingham 0 1 £450 -30.77% 2
Hungerford - 1 £475 -
AWS
South East

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 6 (6.45%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.30%) Confluence
3 2 (2.15%) nginx
4 1 (1.08%) CMS
4 1 (1.08%) JBoss
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.01%) Azure
2 10 (10.75%) GCP
2 10 (10.75%) Serverless
3 9 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (9.68%) Amazon S3
4 8 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (7.53%) OpenShift
6 5 (5.38%) SaaS
7 4 (4.30%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.23%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.15%) IaaS
9 2 (2.15%) PaaS
9 2 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.60%) SSL
2 4 (4.30%) Network Security
2 4 (4.30%) VPN
3 2 (2.15%) Firewall
3 2 (2.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (19.35%) Oracle Database
2 18 (19.35%) Oracle Database 11g
3 9 (9.68%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.23%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.15%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.15%) MySQL
5 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.08%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 16 (17.20%) GitLab
2 16 (17.20%) JIRA
3 14 (15.05%) Selenium
4 13 (13.98%) Cucumber
5 12 (12.90%) REST Assured
5 12 (12.90%) SonarQube
6 7 (7.53%) Git
7 5 (5.38%) JUnit
8 2 (2.15%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.08%) Appium
9 1 (1.08%) JMeter
9 1 (1.08%) Mockito
9 1 (1.08%) MSTest
9 1 (1.08%) NUnit
9 1 (1.08%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.08%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.68%) Law
4 8 (8.60%) Police
5 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.15%) Retail
8 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (38.71%) Developer
2 17 (18.28%) Architect
3 15 (16.13%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 11 (11.83%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.68%) Senior
6 7 (7.53%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Full Stack Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Java Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Consultant
8 5 (5.38%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Lead
8 5 (5.38%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) AWS Developer
9 4 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.66%) REST
2 17 (18.28%) Web Services
3 13 (13.98%) ARM Templates
3 13 (13.98%) Java EE
4 10 (10.75%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (7.53%) Node.js
5 7 (7.53%) Spring
5 7 (7.53%) Spring Boot
6 6 (6.45%) .NET
7 5 (5.38%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.38%) RESTful
8 4 (4.30%) SOAP
9 3 (3.23%) J2EE
9 3 (3.23%) React
9 3 (3.23%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (2.15%) Apache Camel
10 2 (2.15%) HTML
10 2 (2.15%) Kafka
10 2 (2.15%) Mustache
10 2 (2.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) Cloud Native
1 8 (8.60%) PKI
2 7 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.30%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.30%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) iPad
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (55.91%) DevOps
2 29 (31.18%) Software Engineering
3 23 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (24.73%) Migration
4 21 (22.58%) Containerisation
5 20 (21.51%) Technical Leadership
5 20 (21.51%) Test Automation
6 19 (20.43%) Architectural Design
6 19 (20.43%) Data Migration
6 19 (20.43%) Unit Testing
7 18 (19.35%) Agile
7 18 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
7 18 (19.35%) Secure Coding
8 17 (18.28%) Clean Code
8 17 (18.28%) Decision-Making
8 17 (18.28%) Software Testing
9 16 (17.20%) Configuration Management
9 16 (17.20%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (15.05%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.81%) Java
1 24 (25.81%) SQL
2 19 (20.43%) PL/SQL
3 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.38%) C#
4 5 (5.38%) Python
4 5 (5.38%) Ruby
5 3 (3.23%) PHP
5 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.15%) Go
7 1 (1.08%) Bash
7 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (52.69%) Security Cleared
2 40 (43.01%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.83%) Degree
4 4 (4.30%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.08%) CBAP
6 1 (1.08%) CEH
6 1 (1.08%) CISSP
6 1 (1.08%) CSPO
6 1 (1.08%) IIBA
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (36.56%) Docker
2 11 (11.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.15%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (36.56%) Kubernetes
2 27 (29.03%) Terraform
3 21 (22.58%) Ansible
4 12 (12.90%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (12.90%) Podman
5 9 (9.68%) Rancher
6 7 (7.53%) Istio
7 3 (3.23%) Kibana
8 2 (2.15%) Grafana
8 2 (2.15%) Graylog
8 2 (2.15%) Nagios
8 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (22.58%) Oracle
2 8 (8.60%) Google
3 6 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.45%) Splunk
4 4 (4.30%) VMware
5 3 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (3.23%) Virgin Media
6 2 (2.15%) Cisco
6 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.08%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.08%) SAP
7 1 (1.08%) Zscaler