AWS Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Amazon Web Services Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 120 113
Rank change year-on-year +39 -7 +6
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 12 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 2
10th Percentile - £548 £619
25th Percentile - £581 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -9.43% +26.19%
75th Percentile - - £703
90th Percentile - - £716
South East median daily rate £500 £569 £588
% change year-on-year -12.09% -3.19% +2.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Berkshire

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Berkshire

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Windsor -1 10 £500 -16.67%
Reading +32 2 £500 -16.67% 5
AWS Engineer
South East

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (91.67%) Python
2 11 (91.67%) DevOps
3 10 (83.33%) GitHub
4 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
5 7 (58.33%) QA
5 7 (58.33%) Docker
5 7 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (58.33%) Serverless
6 6 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (50.00%) Scrum
6 6 (50.00%) JSON
7 5 (41.67%) High Availability
7 5 (41.67%) Ansible
7 5 (41.67%) Terraform
7 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
8 4 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (33.33%) Server Building
8 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
8 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 4 (33.33%) Databricks
8 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
8 4 (33.33%) Big Data
8 4 (33.33%) Open Source
8 4 (33.33%) Azure
8 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
8 4 (33.33%) Git
8 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) GitHub
3 7 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (58.33%) Serverless
4 4 (33.33%) Azure
4 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) SonarCloud
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (50.00%) Scrum
4 5 (41.67%) High Availability
5 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
5 4 (33.33%) Open Source
5 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Server Building
6 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
7 1 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) New Relic