AWS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 36 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 140 169 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.24% 5.75% 7.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.42% 20.00% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 117 208
10th Percentile £375 £417 £407
25th Percentile £463 £456 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £608
90th Percentile - £695 £650
South East median daily rate £578 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +0.43% +4.55% +10.00%
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% -22.90%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 760 845 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.44% 28.76% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 616 835
10th Percentile £275 £300 £181
25th Percentile £413 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.74 £21.49 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.23 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.59% +43.95% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.73 £59.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £24.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -5.24% +16.39% -4.32%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire -3 93 £625 +19.05% 44
Buckinghamshire +8 34 £470 -14.55% 17
Oxfordshire +1 13 £500 -16.67% 15
AWS
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (5.71%) Confluence
2 6 (4.29%) OpenStack
3 5 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) JBoss
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.71%) SAS
5 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 52 (37.14%) Azure
2 14 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 14 (10.00%) GCP
3 11 (7.86%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (7.86%) Serverless
4 9 (6.43%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
5 7 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 7 (5.00%) SaaS
6 6 (4.29%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.86%) IaaS
7 4 (2.86%) PaaS
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.71%) SSL
2 7 (5.00%) VPN
3 5 (3.57%) Firewall
3 5 (3.57%) Network Security
4 4 (2.86%) LAN
4 4 (2.86%) WAN
5 2 (1.43%) DNS
5 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (22.14%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (12.86%) Oracle Database
2 18 (12.86%) Oracle Database 11g
3 10 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.00%) Big Data
5 4 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.86%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.86%) Impala
5 4 (2.86%) MariaDB
5 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.14%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.43%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.43%) MySQL
7 2 (1.43%) Power BI
7 2 (1.43%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 23 (16.43%) JIRA
2 22 (15.71%) Jenkins
3 17 (12.14%) GitLab
4 14 (10.00%) Selenium
5 13 (9.29%) Cucumber
6 12 (8.57%) REST Assured
6 12 (8.57%) SonarQube
7 9 (6.43%) Git
8 5 (3.57%) JUnit
9 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.43%) ERwin
11 1 (0.71%) Appium
11 1 (0.71%) JMeter
11 1 (0.71%) Maven
11 1 (0.71%) Mockito
11 1 (0.71%) MSTest
11 1 (0.71%) NUnit
11 1 (0.71%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.71%) Subversion
11 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.00%) Finance
4 9 (6.43%) Law
5 8 (5.71%) Police
6 7 (5.00%) Banking
6 7 (5.00%) Retail
7 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.86%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (2.86%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.43%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.43%) Legal
10 2 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.71%) Automotive
11 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (30.71%) Developer
2 27 (19.29%) Architect
3 18 (12.86%) Senior
4 15 (10.71%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 13 (9.29%) Analyst
6 11 (7.86%) Java Developer
7 10 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.29%) Full Stack Developer
9 6 (4.29%) Java Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.57%) Consultant
10 5 (3.57%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Lead
10 5 (3.57%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.71%) REST
2 17 (12.14%) Web Services
3 13 (9.29%) ARM Templates
3 13 (9.29%) Java EE
4 11 (7.86%) .NET
4 11 (7.86%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (7.86%) Node.js
5 9 (6.43%) Spring
5 9 (6.43%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.71%) React
7 7 (5.00%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.00%) CSS
7 7 (5.00%) HTML
8 6 (4.29%) Kafka
8 6 (4.29%) Vue
9 5 (3.57%) Laravel
9 5 (3.57%) RESTful
10 4 (2.86%) Ionic Framework
10 4 (2.86%) React Native
10 4 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.86%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.71%) PKI
2 8 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.86%) Credit Risk
4 4 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.86%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) iPad
7 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.71%) Life Science
7 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.00%) Linux
2 7 (5.00%) Windows
3 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (40.00%) DevOps
2 32 (22.86%) Software Engineering
3 28 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (18.57%) Agile
5 25 (17.86%) Migration
6 23 (16.43%) Containerisation
7 21 (15.00%) Data Migration
7 21 (15.00%) Unit Testing
8 20 (14.29%) Architectural Design
8 20 (14.29%) Microservices
8 20 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 20 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 19 (13.57%) Decision-Making
10 18 (12.86%) CI/CD
10 18 (12.86%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (12.86%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (12.86%) Secure Coding
11 17 (12.14%) Clean Code
11 17 (12.14%) Software Testing
12 16 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 34 (24.29%) SQL
2 30 (21.43%) Java
3 19 (13.57%) PL/SQL
4 10 (7.14%) C#
4 10 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.71%) Python
6 6 (4.29%) Scala
7 5 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.57%) Ruby
7 5 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.14%) PHP
9 2 (1.43%) Go
10 1 (0.71%) Bash
10 1 (0.71%) R
10 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 45 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.29%) Degree
4 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.86%) CCNP
4 4 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.14%) MCSE
6 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.71%) CBAP
7 1 (0.71%) CCNA
7 1 (0.71%) CISSP
7 1 (0.71%) CSPO
7 1 (0.71%) IIBA
7 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.29%) QA
2 3 (2.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.14%) NCSC
2 3 (2.14%) NIST
3 2 (1.43%) FATCA
3 2 (1.43%) MiFID
4 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (27.14%) Docker
2 13 (9.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.14%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.43%) HDFS
5 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (27.14%) Kubernetes
2 30 (21.43%) Terraform
3 22 (15.71%) Ansible
4 12 (8.57%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (8.57%) Podman
5 9 (6.43%) Rancher
6 7 (5.00%) Istio
7 3 (2.14%) Grafana
7 3 (2.14%) Kibana
7 3 (2.14%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.43%) Graylog
8 2 (1.43%) Nagios
8 2 (1.43%) SCCM
8 2 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (15.71%) Oracle
2 11 (7.86%) Google
3 10 (7.14%) VMware
4 9 (6.43%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.00%) Cisco
6 6 (4.29%) Splunk
7 4 (2.86%) Informatica
7 4 (2.86%) SAP
7 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.14%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.14%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.14%) Virgin Media
9 2 (1.43%) Calypso
9 2 (1.43%) Concur
9 2 (1.43%) Meraki
9 2 (1.43%) Murex
9 2 (1.43%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (1.43%) Wallstreet Suite
9 2 (1.43%) Workday