AWS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 34 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 135 164 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.11% 5.77% 7.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.75% 19.36% 23.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 112 200
10th Percentile £375 £415 £407
25th Percentile £460 £456 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £695 £650
South East median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.30 -
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +38.61% -22.90%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 720 847 1,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.24% 29.80% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 614 826
10th Percentile £275 £315 £183
25th Percentile £413 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £683 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 17
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.15 £12.31
25th Percentile £19.37 £20.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.58 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.89% +26.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £59.95 £59.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £72.66
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.08 £21.28
% change year-on-year +0.61% +8.46% +1.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Berkshire -6 90 £625 +19.05% 53
Buckinghamshire +9 32 £450 -18.18% 13
Oxfordshire +3 13 £500 -16.67% 17
AWS
South East

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (5.19%) Confluence
2 5 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.96%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.74%) JBoss
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.74%) SAS
4 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 56 (41.48%) Azure
2 15 (11.11%) GCP
3 14 (10.37%) Amazon S3
4 10 (7.41%) SaaS
5 9 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (6.67%) Serverless
6 7 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (5.19%) Amazon EMR
6 7 (5.19%) OpenShift
7 6 (4.44%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.70%) IaaS
8 5 (3.70%) PaaS
9 4 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.96%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
10 3 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.93%) SSL
1 8 (5.93%) VPN
2 7 (5.19%) Network Security
3 5 (3.70%) Firewall
4 4 (2.96%) LAN
4 4 (2.96%) WAN
5 2 (1.48%) DNS
5 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (11.85%) Oracle Database
2 16 (11.85%) Oracle Database 11g
3 8 (5.93%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.19%) Big Data
5 4 (2.96%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.96%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.96%) Impala
5 4 (2.96%) MariaDB
5 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.22%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.48%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.48%) MySQL
7 2 (1.48%) Power BI
7 2 (1.48%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 22 (16.30%) JIRA
2 20 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 16 (11.85%) GitLab
4 14 (10.37%) Selenium
5 13 (9.63%) Cucumber
6 12 (8.89%) REST Assured
6 12 (8.89%) SonarQube
7 7 (5.19%) Git
8 4 (2.96%) Visual Studio
9 3 (2.22%) JUnit
10 2 (1.48%) ERwin
11 1 (0.74%) Appium
11 1 (0.74%) JMeter
11 1 (0.74%) Maven
11 1 (0.74%) Mockito
11 1 (0.74%) MSTest
11 1 (0.74%) NUnit
11 1 (0.74%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.74%) Subversion
11 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.89%) Finance
4 9 (6.67%) Law
5 8 (5.93%) Police
6 7 (5.19%) Banking
6 7 (5.19%) Retail
7 4 (2.96%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (2.96%) Digital Healthcare
7 4 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.74%) Automotive
8 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.74%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (29.63%) Developer
2 25 (18.52%) Architect
3 19 (14.07%) Senior
4 14 (10.37%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 12 (8.89%) Analyst
6 10 (7.41%) Software Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.19%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Java Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Lead
10 5 (3.70%) Consultant
10 5 (3.70%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.96%) Network Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.81%) REST
2 16 (11.85%) Web Services
3 13 (9.63%) ARM Templates
3 13 (9.63%) Java EE
4 12 (8.89%) .NET
5 9 (6.67%) Node.js
6 8 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (5.93%) React
7 7 (5.19%) CSS
7 7 (5.19%) HTML
7 7 (5.19%) Spring
7 7 (5.19%) Spring Boot
8 6 (4.44%) Kafka
8 6 (4.44%) Vue
9 5 (3.70%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.70%) Laravel
10 4 (2.96%) Ionic Framework
10 4 (2.96%) Next.js
10 4 (2.96%) React Native
10 4 (2.96%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 8 (5.93%) PKI
4 5 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.96%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.96%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.48%) IVR
7 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.74%) Life Science
8 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.63%) Linux
2 9 (6.67%) Windows
3 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (38.52%) DevOps
2 30 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 27 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (19.26%) Migration
5 23 (17.04%) Containerisation
6 22 (16.30%) Agile
7 20 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
8 19 (14.07%) Data Migration
8 19 (14.07%) Unit Testing
9 18 (13.33%) Architectural Design
10 17 (12.59%) CI/CD
10 17 (12.59%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (12.59%) Decision-Making
10 17 (12.59%) Test Automation
11 16 (11.85%) Microservices
11 16 (11.85%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (11.85%) Secure Coding
12 15 (11.11%) Clean Code
12 15 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (23.70%) SQL
2 28 (20.74%) Java
3 17 (12.59%) PL/SQL
4 11 (8.15%) C#
5 9 (6.67%) Python
6 7 (5.19%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.44%) Ruby
7 6 (4.44%) Scala
8 5 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.96%) PHP
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) Go
10 1 (0.74%) R
10 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 41 (30.37%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.63%) Degree
4 4 (2.96%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.96%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.96%) CCNP
4 4 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.22%) MCSE
6 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) CBAP
7 1 (0.74%) CCNA
7 1 (0.74%) CEH
7 1 (0.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.74%) CSPO
7 1 (0.74%) IIBA
7 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.22%) NCSC
1 3 (2.22%) NIST
1 3 (2.22%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) FATCA
2 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.74%) MiFID
2 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (27.41%) Docker
2 14 (10.37%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.96%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.48%) HDFS
6 2 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 29 (21.48%) Terraform
3 19 (14.07%) Ansible
4 12 (8.89%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (8.89%) Podman
5 8 (5.93%) Rancher
6 7 (5.19%) Istio
7 3 (2.22%) Grafana
7 3 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.48%) Graylog
8 2 (1.48%) Nagios
8 2 (1.48%) SCCM
9 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.74%) Kibana
9 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (14.81%) Oracle
2 11 (8.15%) Google
2 11 (8.15%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.41%) VMware
4 7 (5.19%) Cisco
5 6 (4.44%) Splunk
6 4 (2.96%) Informatica
7 3 (2.22%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (2.22%) SAP
7 3 (2.22%) Virgin Media
8 2 (1.48%) Meraki
8 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.74%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.74%) Concur
9 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.74%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.74%) Workday
9 1 (0.74%) Zscaler