AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Reading

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 90 80
Rank change year-on-year +48 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 33 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 4.68% 0.092% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.89% 0.26% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 3
10th Percentile £306 - £380
25th Percentile £475 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.71%
75th Percentile £600 - £619
90th Percentile £744 - £630
Berkshire median daily rate £516 - £410
% change year-on-year - - -16.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £76.00 - -
25th Percentile £82.75 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £96.88 - -
90th Percentile £101.75 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £90.00 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 256 385 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 36.31% 35.39% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 210 283
10th Percentile £255 £329 £210
25th Percentile £358 £484 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £672 £620
90th Percentile £625 £738 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £485 £558 £500
% change year-on-year -13.08% +11.60% -8.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 12
10th Percentile £65.00 £42.69 £58.86
25th Percentile £76.00 £48.18 £60.59
Median hourly rate £90.00 £61.76 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +45.73% -2.42% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £69.69 £66.77
90th Percentile £98.00 £77.39 £74.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +5.70% -2.39% +173.91%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Reading

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in Reading over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in Reading

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Certification in Reading over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in Reading

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (18.18%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (48.48%) Azure
3 9 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 6 (18.18%) OpenShift
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (12.12%) AWS Control Tower
5 4 (12.12%) AWS KMS
5 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 4 (12.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) BGP
1 6 (18.18%) Firewall
1 6 (18.18%) LAN
1 6 (18.18%) MPLS
1 6 (18.18%) OSPF
1 6 (18.18%) SNMP
1 6 (18.18%) TACACS
1 6 (18.18%) WAN
1 6 (18.18%) Wireless
2 4 (12.12%) DHCP
2 4 (12.12%) DNS
2 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 20 (60.61%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Finance
4 7 (21.21%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
6 4 (12.12%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Architect
2 6 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Designer
2 6 (18.18%) IP Designer
2 6 (18.18%) Technical Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Security Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Architect
5 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Cloud Native
2 8 (24.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (18.18%) Data Centre
4 4 (12.12%) PKI
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
6 1 (3.03%) Clustering
6 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) DevSecOps
1 14 (42.42%) Validation
2 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
2 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (39.39%) Roadmaps
3 11 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
6 7 (21.21%) Agile
6 7 (21.21%) DevOps
6 7 (21.21%) High Availability
6 7 (21.21%) Migration
6 7 (21.21%) MODAF
6 7 (21.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 7 (21.21%) SIEM
6 7 (21.21%) Technology Roadmap
7 6 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
7 6 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) Bash
3 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 16 (48.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (27.27%) Azure Certification
3 9 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (24.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (21.21%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (18.18%) CCIE
6 6 (18.18%) JNCIE
7 5 (15.15%) CISSP
8 3 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (9.09%) CCSP
8 3 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (6.06%) Degree
10 1 (3.03%) CISM
10 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (3.03%) OCP
10 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 4 (12.12%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.12%) NCSC
3 3 (9.09%) NIST
3 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 3 (9.09%) PSD2
4 1 (3.03%) Def Stans
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 6 (18.18%) VMware NSX
3 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.12%) Hyper-V
3 4 (12.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (45.45%) Terraform
2 10 (30.30%) Ansible
3 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) VMware
2 11 (33.33%) Cisco
3 6 (18.18%) F5
3 6 (18.18%) Fortinet
3 6 (18.18%) Juniper
4 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.12%) Citrix
5 4 (12.12%) CloudEndure
6 1 (3.03%) IBM
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle