AWS Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Reading

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Berkshire > Reading

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Reading 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 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.100% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £400 - £600

All Contract IT Job Roles
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 946 636 1,113
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 94.78% 93.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 383 652
10th Percentile £303 £313 £213
25th Percentile £417 £425 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.22% -6.82%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £615
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 3 47
10th Percentile £57.20 - £20.17
25th Percentile £80.75 - £52.21
Median hourly rate £84.00 £70.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -5.23%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.60 £71.75
90th Percentile £104.40 £75.75 £87.49
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £61.79 £58.30
% change year-on-year +34.33% +5.99% +0.83%

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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 Reading.

AWS Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Reading

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

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

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 Reading 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 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:

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