AWS Contract Job Trends in Reading

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 27 20
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 82 78 87
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 11.68% 7.21% 8.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.99% 20.37% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 48 63
10th Percentile £293 £494 £460
25th Percentile £325 £619 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £600 £678 £694
90th Percentile £645 £741 £735
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £645 £613
% change year-on-year -26.36% +5.31% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £79.60 - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £100.00 - -
90th Percentile £105.60 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £90.00 £28.50 £61.53
% change year-on-year +215.79% -53.68% -

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 293 383 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 41.74% 35.40% 33.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 241 259
10th Percentile £273 £385 £425
25th Percentile £413 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £660 £670 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -10.55% -4.35% +6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 1
10th Percentile - £27.35 -
25th Percentile £14.75 £29.00 £16.84
Median hourly rate £81.00 £42.50 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year +90.59% +145.10% -67.28%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £17.84
90th Percentile £100.00 £67.70 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £42.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -4.86% -32.54% +186.36%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Reading

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Reading over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Reading

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in Reading over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in Reading

AWS
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 12 (14.63%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.22%) Apache
5 1 (1.22%) CMS
5 1 (1.22%) Drupal
5 1 (1.22%) nginx
5 1 (1.22%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 53 (64.63%) Azure
2 33 (40.24%) GCP
3 9 (10.98%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (9.76%) Entra ID
4 8 (9.76%) GitHub
5 7 (8.54%) Power Platform
6 6 (7.32%) OpenShift
6 6 (7.32%) SaaS
7 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (4.88%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (4.88%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (4.88%) AWS KMS
8 4 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.88%) dbt
8 4 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.66%) IaaS
9 3 (3.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.63%) BGP
1 12 (14.63%) LAN
1 12 (14.63%) MPLS
1 12 (14.63%) WAN
2 10 (12.20%) Firewall
3 7 (8.54%) Wireless
4 6 (7.32%) OSPF
4 6 (7.32%) SNMP
4 6 (7.32%) TACACS
5 4 (4.88%) DHCP
5 4 (4.88%) DNS
5 4 (4.88%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.44%) Network Security
7 1 (1.22%) DWDM
7 1 (1.22%) Internet
7 1 (1.22%) Intranet
7 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.76%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.54%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.88%) Power BI
5 4 (4.88%) Tableau
6 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.44%) Big Data
8 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.22%) MySQL
8 1 (1.22%) Parquet
8 1 (1.22%) PowerCenter
8 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (12.20%) JIRA
2 2 (2.44%) GitLab
3 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.22%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.22%) Git
3 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
General
1 46 (56.10%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.17%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.20%) Finance
4 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.54%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (8.54%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.88%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.22%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (31.71%) Architect
2 11 (13.41%) Senior
3 10 (12.20%) Lead
4 7 (8.54%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (8.54%) Developer
4 7 (8.54%) Security Architect
5 6 (7.32%) Designer
5 6 (7.32%) IP Architect
5 6 (7.32%) IP Designer
5 6 (7.32%) IP Specialist
5 6 (7.32%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.32%) Technical Architect
6 5 (6.10%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (4.88%) Cloud Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) REST
2 6 (7.32%) NETCONF
2 6 (7.32%) RESTful
2 6 (7.32%) YANG
3 4 (4.88%) FastAPI
4 3 (3.66%) OAuth
5 2 (2.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.44%) jQuery
5 2 (2.44%) JSON
5 2 (2.44%) Node.js
5 2 (2.44%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.44%) React
5 2 (2.44%) Web Services
5 2 (2.44%) XML
6 1 (1.22%) OpenID
6 1 (1.22%) Pandas
6 1 (1.22%) PySpark
6 1 (1.22%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.95%) Cloud Native
2 14 (17.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (8.54%) PKI
4 6 (7.32%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.10%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.22%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.98%) Linux
2 7 (8.54%) Windows
3 2 (2.44%) Android
3 2 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.22%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (28.05%) CI/CD
2 23 (28.05%) DevOps
2 23 (28.05%) Roadmaps
3 19 (23.17%) ITIL
3 19 (23.17%) TOGAF
4 18 (21.95%) Validation
5 17 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (18.29%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (18.29%) ITSM
7 14 (17.07%) DevSecOps
7 14 (17.07%) Service Management
8 13 (15.85%) Agile
8 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (14.63%) Change Management
9 12 (14.63%) Network Virtualisation
9 12 (14.63%) Performance Metrics
9 12 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (12.20%) Network Segmentation
10 10 (12.20%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.34%) Python
2 15 (18.29%) SQL
3 9 (10.98%) PowerShell
4 6 (7.32%) Bash
4 6 (7.32%) Java
5 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.44%) C#
7 1 (1.22%) Delphi
7 1 (1.22%) Go
7 1 (1.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (40.24%) AWS Certification
1 33 (40.24%) Security Cleared
2 29 (35.37%) SC Cleared
3 17 (20.73%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (14.63%) CCIE
4 12 (14.63%) JNCIE
5 11 (13.41%) Azure Certification
6 9 (10.98%) CISSP
6 9 (10.98%) Degree
6 9 (10.98%) TOGAF Certification
7 8 (9.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (7.32%) Master's Degree
9 4 (4.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (4.88%) CCSP
9 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (3.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (1.22%) CISM
11 1 (1.22%) OCP
11 1 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) GDPR
1 8 (9.76%) NIST
2 7 (8.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (7.32%) QA
4 4 (4.88%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.88%) NCSC
4 4 (4.88%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.88%) PSD2
5 1 (1.22%) Def Stans
System Software
1 10 (12.20%) Docker
1 10 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (10.98%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.32%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.88%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (24.39%) Terraform
2 17 (20.73%) Ansible
3 10 (12.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.44%) SCCM
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.22%) Nessus
5 1 (1.22%) Nmap
5 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (18.29%) VMware
2 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 13 (15.85%) Google
4 11 (13.41%) Cisco
5 8 (9.76%) Fortinet
6 6 (7.32%) Databricks
6 6 (7.32%) F5
6 6 (7.32%) Juniper
7 4 (4.88%) Citrix
7 4 (4.88%) CloudEndure
7 4 (4.88%) Virgin Media
8 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.44%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.44%) Oracle
9 2 (2.44%) Tenable
10 1 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.22%) IBM
10 1 (1.22%) Informatica
10 1 (1.22%) Intel