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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 36 20
Rank change year-on-year -13 -16 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 80 97 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.19% 5.58% 7.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.33% 18.69% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 67 139
10th Percentile £453 £406 £408
25th Percentile £513 £451 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £600
90th Percentile - £700 £676
South East median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.30 -
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -53.33% +57.89% -27.53%

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 522 519 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.36% 29.84% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 377 514
10th Percentile £325 £375 £202
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 11
10th Percentile £20.49 £17.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £20.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £58.30 £23.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.21% +3.56% +120.80%
75th Percentile £61.55 £75.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.27% +14.29% -4.55%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -15 55 £675 +22.73% 30
Bracknell -5 12 £500 +16.62% 1
Windsor - 4 £600 - 3
Slough +10 2 - - 4
Wokingham 0 2 £463 -28.85% 3
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 3 (3.75%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) CMS
3 1 (1.25%) JBoss
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 41 (51.25%) Azure
2 10 (12.50%) GCP
3 8 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 8 (10.00%) SaaS
4 7 (8.75%) OpenShift
4 7 (8.75%) Serverless
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.75%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.75%) IaaS
7 3 (3.75%) PaaS
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) SSL
2 5 (6.25%) Network Security
3 4 (5.00%) VPN
4 1 (1.25%) Firewall
4 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.25%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (16.25%) Oracle Database
2 13 (16.25%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.50%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.25%) MySQL
5 1 (1.25%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 15 (18.75%) JIRA
3 14 (17.50%) GitLab
3 14 (17.50%) Selenium
4 13 (16.25%) Cucumber
5 12 (15.00%) REST Assured
5 12 (15.00%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.00%) Git
7 3 (3.75%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.50%) JUnit
9 1 (1.25%) Appium
9 1 (1.25%) JMeter
9 1 (1.25%) Mockito
9 1 (1.25%) MSTest
9 1 (1.25%) NUnit
9 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Law
4 8 (10.00%) Police
5 2 (2.50%) Retail
6 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (38.75%) Developer
2 15 (18.75%) Architect
3 13 (16.25%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 10 (12.50%) Senior
5 8 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.75%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Java Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Lead
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) AWS Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Consultant
9 4 (5.00%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.75%) Analyst
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.25%) REST
2 15 (18.75%) Web Services
3 13 (16.25%) ARM Templates
3 13 (16.25%) Java EE
4 5 (6.25%) .NET
4 5 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (5.00%) Node.js
5 4 (5.00%) Spring
5 4 (5.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.75%) React
6 3 (3.75%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.50%) Apache Camel
7 2 (2.50%) CSS
7 2 (2.50%) HTML
7 2 (2.50%) Kafka
7 2 (2.50%) Mustache
7 2 (2.50%) RESTful
7 2 (2.50%) Vue
8 1 (1.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 8 (10.00%) PKI
2 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.50%) IVR
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (55.00%) DevOps
2 24 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 22 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 20 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 19 (23.75%) Migration
6 16 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 15 (18.75%) Configuration Management
7 15 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (17.50%) Architectural Design
8 14 (17.50%) Decision-Making
8 14 (17.50%) Unit Testing
9 13 (16.25%) CI/CD
9 13 (16.25%) Clean Code
9 13 (16.25%) Data Migration
9 13 (16.25%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (16.25%) Secure Coding
9 13 (16.25%) Software Architecture
9 13 (16.25%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) Java
2 15 (18.75%) SQL
3 13 (16.25%) PL/SQL
4 6 (7.50%) Python
4 6 (7.50%) Ruby
5 5 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.00%) C#
6 4 (5.00%) PHP
7 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.25%) Bash
8 1 (1.25%) Go
8 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (48.75%) Security Cleared
2 30 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.75%) Degree
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.25%) CBAP
7 1 (1.25%) CEH
7 1 (1.25%) CISSP
7 1 (1.25%) CSPO
7 1 (1.25%) IIBA
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) QA
1 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (38.75%) Docker
2 12 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (38.75%) Kubernetes
2 24 (30.00%) Terraform
3 16 (20.00%) Ansible
4 12 (15.00%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (15.00%) Podman
5 8 (10.00%) Rancher
6 7 (8.75%) Istio
7 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.25%) Grafana
8 1 (1.25%) Graylog
8 1 (1.25%) Kibana
8 1 (1.25%) Nagios
8 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) Oracle
2 8 (10.00%) Google
3 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.25%) Splunk
5 4 (5.00%) VMware
6 3 (3.75%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (3.75%) Virgin Media
7 2 (2.50%) Cisco
8 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.25%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.25%) SAP
8 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.25%) Zscaler