AWS Contracts in Reading

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 45 33
Rank change year-on-year +27 -12 -14
Contract jobs citing AWS 48 55 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 8.86% 4.63% 6.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.82% 14.78% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 45
10th Percentile £472 £425 £410
25th Percentile £475 £547 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £688
90th Percentile £683 - £700
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.58% +9.09% +10.00%

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 179 372 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.03% 31.31% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 273 259
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £469 £475 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £674
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £45.97 £56.50 £62.20
25th Percentile £51.17 £56.65 £75.25
Median hourly rate £61.10 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% -26.38% +226.56%
75th Percentile £69.77 £60.60 -
90th Percentile £74.22 £61.17 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £38.66 £58.30 £23.30
% change year-on-year -33.70% +150.21% +3.56%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Reading

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Reading.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Reading

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Reading over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Reading

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (6.25%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) GCP
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (8.33%) Serverless
4 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.25%) GitHub
4 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.17%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (2.08%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.08%) Route 53
6 1 (2.08%) SaaS
6 1 (2.08%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Network Security
2 3 (6.25%) Firewall
3 1 (2.08%) BGP
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.08%) Junos
3 1 (2.08%) LAN
3 1 (2.08%) MPLS
3 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.25%) Big Data
2 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.08%) MySQL
4 1 (2.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 14 (29.17%) JIRA
3 11 (22.92%) GitLab
4 10 (20.83%) Cucumber
4 10 (20.83%) REST Assured
4 10 (20.83%) Selenium
5 7 (14.58%) SonarQube
6 3 (6.25%) JUnit
6 3 (6.25%) Mockito
7 2 (4.17%) JMeter
8 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.08%) DbUnit
8 1 (2.08%) ERwin
8 1 (2.08%) Git
8 1 (2.08%) jMock
8 1 (2.08%) Maven
8 1 (2.08%) Robot Framework
General
1 26 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 21 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.42%) Law
5 4 (8.33%) Police
5 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.17%) Finance
7 1 (2.08%) Electronics
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
1 9 (18.75%) Java Engineer
1 9 (18.75%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (18.75%) Software Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Resilience Manager
3 5 (10.42%) Architect
3 5 (10.42%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Developer
4 4 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (6.25%) Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) CyberArk Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Security Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.08%) REST
2 10 (20.83%) Java EE
3 6 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 3 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 3 (6.25%) Spring
4 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.25%) Web Services
5 2 (4.17%) Apache Camel
5 2 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.17%) HTML
5 2 (4.17%) jQuery
5 2 (4.17%) JSON
5 2 (4.17%) Kafka
5 2 (4.17%) WireMock
5 2 (4.17%) XML
6 1 (2.08%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.08%) JPA
6 1 (2.08%) RESTful
6 1 (2.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) DevOps
2 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 11 (22.92%) CI/CD
4 11 (22.92%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (20.83%) Configuration Management
5 10 (20.83%) Containerisation
5 10 (20.83%) Software Architecture
5 10 (20.83%) Software Engineering
5 10 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (14.58%) Decision-Making
7 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (12.50%) Microservices
9 5 (10.42%) Agile
9 5 (10.42%) High Availability
9 5 (10.42%) Risk Analysis
10 4 (8.33%) Load Testing
10 4 (8.33%) Open Source
10 4 (8.33%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) Python
2 13 (27.08%) Java
3 6 (12.50%) SQL
4 5 (10.42%) Bash
5 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.08%) Scala
7 1 (2.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 16 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.08%) CCSP
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.08%) CISSP
5 1 (2.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) OSCP
5 1 (2.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) vSphere
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.08%) Postfix
3 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 14 (29.17%) Ansible
3 11 (22.92%) Terraform
4 6 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (12.50%) Podman
5 2 (4.17%) Kibana
5 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.17%) Puppet
6 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.08%) Grafana
6 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
1 5 (10.42%) Splunk
2 4 (8.33%) Cisco
2 4 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 3 (6.25%) Broadcom
3 3 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (6.25%) Symantec
4 2 (4.17%) Databricks
4 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.08%) Citrix
5 1 (2.08%) Computacenter
5 1 (2.08%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.08%) Google
5 1 (2.08%) Juniper
5 1 (2.08%) New Relic
5 1 (2.08%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.08%) VMware