AWS Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
South East > Berkshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Berkshire is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 - 127
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.054% - 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £600
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £400 - £600

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,678 1,093 1,932
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 92.86% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 652 1,036
10th Percentile £303 £300 £213
25th Percentile £404 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £663 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £505 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% +0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 25 120
10th Percentile £20.79 £34.65 £18.82
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.87 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.79 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.33% +5.99% +0.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.00 £68.63
90th Percentile £97.50 £84.23 £85.78
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% -2.22%

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

AWS Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 March 2026. 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 - 1 £400 -
AWS Infrastructure Engineer
South East

AWS Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 23 March 2026, AWS Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring AWS Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) VMware

AWS Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware