AWS Contracts in Berkshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 45 34
Rank change year-on-year +25 -11 -16
Contract jobs citing AWS 105 83 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.01% 4.34% 5.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.72% 16.18% 18.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 56 68
10th Percentile £461 £456 £407
25th Percentile £500 £513 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £688 £660
90th Percentile £663 - £700
South East median daily rate £525 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -9.48% +0.87% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.65
Median hourly rate - - £23.30
75th Percentile - - £24.95
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -53.33% +57.89%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 393 513 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.70% 26.84% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 357 378
10th Percentile £325 £328 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £663 £688 £719
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 13
10th Percentile £24.66 £20.49 £17.50
25th Percentile £29.63 £41.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £23.30
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +150.21% +3.56%
75th Percentile £61.75 £61.60 £75.75
90th Percentile £77.19 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £23.22 £24.00
% change year-on-year +22.77% -3.27% +14.29%

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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

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

AWS
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 20 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
Reading +17 47 £550 -18.52% 78
Windsor +8 22 £500 -16.67% 9
Bracknell +17 11 £529 +5.70% 7
Wokingham -3 8 £500 +8.11% 8
Slough -3 4 £588 - 22
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 4 (3.81%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.86%) Apache
3 2 (1.90%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.95%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 51 (48.57%) Azure
2 20 (19.05%) GCP
3 17 (16.19%) Serverless
4 15 (14.29%) GitHub
5 12 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.62%) SaaS
7 6 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.76%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.81%) PaaS
9 4 (3.81%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.86%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 3 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.90%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.67%) Firewall
2 5 (4.76%) Network Security
2 5 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.81%) MPLS
4 3 (2.86%) BGP
4 3 (2.86%) DNS
4 3 (2.86%) HTTP
5 2 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.90%) LAN
5 2 (1.90%) MQTT
5 2 (1.90%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.90%) VLAN
5 2 (1.90%) VPN
5 2 (1.90%) WAN
6 1 (0.95%) 5G
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.95%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.95%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.95%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.38%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (11.43%) Big Data
3 8 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.62%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.71%) MySQL
5 5 (4.76%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.76%) Oracle Database
5 5 (4.76%) Power BI
6 4 (3.81%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.81%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.81%) Tableau
7 3 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 23 (21.90%) Jenkins
2 18 (17.14%) JIRA
3 14 (13.33%) GitLab
4 13 (12.38%) Cucumber
4 13 (12.38%) REST Assured
4 13 (12.38%) Selenium
5 10 (9.52%) SonarQube
6 8 (7.62%) Git
7 3 (2.86%) ERwin
7 3 (2.86%) JUnit
7 3 (2.86%) Mockito
8 2 (1.90%) JMeter
8 2 (1.90%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.95%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.95%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.95%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.95%) jMock
9 1 (0.95%) Maven
General
1 43 (40.95%) Social Skills
2 28 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.52%) Finance
4 8 (7.62%) Law
5 7 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.81%) Police
6 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.90%) Automotive
7 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Billing
8 1 (0.95%) Electronics
8 1 (0.95%) French Language
8 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.95%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.95%) Marketing
8 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Retail
8 1 (0.95%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (21.90%) Architect
2 13 (12.38%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (11.43%) Software Engineer
4 11 (10.48%) Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (8.57%) Java Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Resilience Manager
7 8 (7.62%) Senior
8 7 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) AWS Architect
9 5 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.00%) REST
2 13 (12.38%) Java EE
3 10 (9.52%) ARM Templates
4 9 (8.57%) JSON
5 5 (4.76%) .NET
5 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.76%) Node.js
6 4 (3.81%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.81%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.81%) Web Services
6 4 (3.81%) XML
7 3 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (2.86%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.86%) HTML
7 3 (2.86%) React
7 3 (2.86%) SOAP
7 3 (2.86%) Spring
8 2 (1.90%) Apache Camel
8 2 (1.90%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
1 6 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.86%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.90%) Infotainment
4 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.90%) PKI
4 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.33%) Linux
2 12 (11.43%) Windows
3 6 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.76%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.81%) Unix
6 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (40.00%) DevOps
2 30 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (21.90%) CI/CD
4 20 (19.05%) Configuration Management
4 20 (19.05%) Migration
4 20 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 18 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
6 15 (14.29%) Agile
6 15 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 15 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 15 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 13 (12.38%) Decision-Making
7 13 (12.38%) High Availability
7 13 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (12.38%) Software Architecture
8 10 (9.52%) Analytics
8 10 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (8.57%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.33%) Python
2 23 (21.90%) SQL
3 20 (19.05%) Java
4 9 (8.57%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.76%) Bash
5 5 (4.76%) C#
6 4 (3.81%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.86%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.95%) Bicep
9 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.95%) Perl
9 1 (0.95%) Scala
9 1 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.81%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.81%) CCNP
4 4 (3.81%) CISSP
4 4 (3.81%) Degree
5 3 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.90%) CCSP
6 2 (1.90%) CEH
6 2 (1.90%) CISM
6 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.90%) SANS
7 1 (0.95%) CCSK
7 1 (0.95%) CISA
7 1 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.95%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) GDPR
2 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) NIST
4 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (21.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.90%) vSphere
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.95%) Postfix
3 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (22.86%) Ansible
2 22 (20.95%) Terraform
3 19 (18.10%) Kubernetes
4 9 (8.57%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (8.57%) Podman
5 3 (2.86%) Puppet
6 2 (1.90%) Kibana
6 2 (1.90%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.95%) CASB
7 1 (0.95%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.95%) Grafana
7 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.95%) QRadar
7 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.57%) Oracle
3 7 (6.67%) Databricks
3 7 (6.67%) Google
4 5 (4.76%) Splunk
5 3 (2.86%) Cisco
5 3 (2.86%) SAP
5 3 (2.86%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.90%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.90%) Sparx
6 2 (1.90%) VMware
6 2 (1.90%) Workday
7 1 (0.95%) Citrix
7 1 (0.95%) Forcepoint
7 1 (0.95%) IBM
7 1 (0.95%) Intel
7 1 (0.95%) Juniper
7 1 (0.95%) MicroStrategy