AWS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 37 36
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS 146 138 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.66% 5.14% 5.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.57% 18.28% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 95 117
10th Percentile £357 £375 £417
25th Percentile £500 £460 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £738 £688 £695
South East median daily rate £550 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.65
Median hourly rate - - £23.30
75th Percentile - - £24.95
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £35.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -50.00% +38.61%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +20 110 £550 -12.00% 249
Buckinghamshire +12 30 £575 +27.78% 193
Oxfordshire 0 8 £550 +10.00% 145
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 4 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.05%) Apache
2 3 (2.05%) Confluence
3 2 (1.37%) Camunda
3 2 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Avolution ABACUS
1 2 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.68%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 87 (59.59%) Azure
2 37 (25.34%) GCP
3 19 (13.01%) GitHub
4 16 (10.96%) Serverless
5 11 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (7.53%) SaaS
5 11 (7.53%) Snowflake
6 8 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.11%) PaaS
8 5 (3.42%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.42%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.05%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 2 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.59%) TCP/IP
2 13 (8.90%) MPLS
3 11 (7.53%) BGP
3 11 (7.53%) Firewall
4 9 (6.16%) VLAN
5 8 (5.48%) Network Security
5 8 (5.48%) NGFW
5 8 (5.48%) SD-WAN
5 8 (5.48%) WAN
6 7 (4.79%) VPN
7 6 (4.11%) DNS
8 5 (3.42%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (3.42%) OSPF
9 4 (2.74%) SSL
9 4 (2.74%) VSAN
10 3 (2.05%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (2.05%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (2.05%) LAN
11 2 (1.37%) HTTP
11 2 (1.37%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.75%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.59%) Big Data
3 13 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.48%) Data Lake
4 8 (5.48%) MySQL
4 8 (5.48%) Oracle Database
4 8 (5.48%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.11%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (3.42%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.42%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.42%) Power BI
6 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.74%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.74%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.05%) Tableau
9 2 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.37%) GIS
9 2 (1.37%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 25 (17.12%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.33%) JIRA
3 17 (11.64%) GitLab
4 13 (8.90%) Cucumber
4 13 (8.90%) Git
4 13 (8.90%) REST Assured
4 13 (8.90%) Selenium
5 10 (6.85%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.42%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.05%) ERwin
7 3 (2.05%) JUnit
7 3 (2.05%) Mockito
8 2 (1.37%) JMeter
8 2 (1.37%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.68%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.68%) jMock
9 1 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 54 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.97%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (11.64%) Finance
4 13 (8.90%) Telecoms
5 11 (7.53%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.16%) Law
7 4 (2.74%) Police
8 2 (1.37%) Automotive
8 2 (1.37%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.37%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Electronics
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 43 (29.45%) Architect
2 18 (12.33%) Developer
3 13 (8.90%) Software Engineer
3 13 (8.90%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (7.53%) Senior
6 10 (6.85%) Java Developer
7 9 (6.16%) Java Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) Resilience Manager
9 7 (4.79%) Security Architect
9 7 (4.79%) Technical Architect
10 6 (4.11%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.42%) Automation Tester
11 5 (3.42%) AWS Architect
11 5 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Senior Architect
11 5 (3.42%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.75%) REST
2 13 (8.90%) Java EE
3 10 (6.85%) ARM Templates
4 9 (6.16%) JSON
5 7 (4.79%) AngularJS
6 6 (4.11%) .NET
6 6 (4.11%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.42%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.42%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (2.74%) Django
8 4 (2.74%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.74%) Kafka
8 4 (2.74%) Node.js
8 4 (2.74%) RESTful
8 4 (2.74%) Web Services
8 4 (2.74%) XML
9 3 (2.05%) Hibernate
9 3 (2.05%) HTML
9 3 (2.05%) SAML
9 3 (2.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.53%) Public Cloud
2 10 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.85%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.42%) PKI
5 5 (3.42%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.05%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.37%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.96%) Windows
2 15 (10.27%) Linux
3 10 (6.85%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.11%) Unix
5 5 (3.42%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.37%) AIX
7 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (32.19%) DevOps
2 42 (28.77%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (24.66%) CI/CD
3 36 (24.66%) Migration
4 29 (19.86%) Continuous Integration
5 26 (17.81%) Agile
6 24 (16.44%) Containerisation
6 24 (16.44%) Microservices
7 23 (15.75%) Data Migration
8 22 (15.07%) Configuration Management
8 22 (15.07%) Software Engineering
9 20 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (13.01%) Test Automation
11 18 (12.33%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (12.33%) TOGAF
12 16 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (10.27%) Decision-Making
14 13 (8.90%) DevSecOps
14 13 (8.90%) Enterprise Architecture
14 13 (8.90%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 44 (30.14%) Python
2 35 (23.97%) SQL
3 24 (16.44%) Java
4 9 (6.16%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.48%) Bash
6 7 (4.79%) C#
6 7 (4.79%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.74%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.05%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.37%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.68%) Bicep
10 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.68%) Magik
10 1 (0.68%) Perl
10 1 (0.68%) Scala
10 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 39 (26.71%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.53%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (6.16%) CCNP
5 8 (5.48%) CISSP
5 8 (5.48%) Degree
5 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.79%) MCSE
7 6 (4.11%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.42%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.42%) CISM
9 3 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.05%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.05%) PMP
9 3 (2.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.37%) CCNA
10 2 (1.37%) CEH
10 2 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.22%) NIST
2 10 (6.85%) NCSC
3 9 (6.16%) QA
4 8 (5.48%) GDPR
5 6 (4.11%) HIPAA
6 4 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.37%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (21.23%) Docker
2 12 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.11%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.74%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.68%) Postfix
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.68%) vSphere
5 1 (0.68%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 27 (18.49%) Ansible
2 26 (17.81%) Terraform
3 25 (17.12%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.16%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (6.16%) Podman
5 5 (3.42%) Puppet
6 4 (2.74%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.05%) SCCM
8 2 (1.37%) Kibana
8 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.68%) CASB
9 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.68%) Grafana
9 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.68%) QRadar
9 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.64%) VMware
3 11 (7.53%) Oracle
4 10 (6.85%) Cisco
5 9 (6.16%) Databricks
5 9 (6.16%) Google
6 7 (4.79%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.42%) Splunk
8 3 (2.05%) SAP
8 3 (2.05%) Sparx
8 3 (2.05%) Virgin Media
9 2 (1.37%) Citrix
9 2 (1.37%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.37%) F5
9 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.37%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.37%) Workday
10 1 (0.68%) New Relic
10 1 (0.68%) Rapid7