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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 36 35
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 136 128 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.09% 4.92% 5.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.53% 17.98% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 91 116
10th Percentile £350 £375 £417
25th Percentile £481 £460 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £641
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -9.48% +0.87% +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 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -53.33% +57.89%

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 494 712 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.02% 27.34% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 495 625
10th Percentile £286 £275 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 30 21
10th Percentile £17.20 £15.99 £17.25
25th Percentile £27.11 £19.37 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +70.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.95 £56.50
90th Percentile £76.18 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £23.22 £24.00
% change year-on-year +22.77% -3.27% +14.29%

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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 20 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 20 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 +25 105 £525 -14.29% 181
Buckinghamshire +6 25 £507 +7.77% 55
Oxfordshire -6 8 £550 +10.00% 97
AWS
South East

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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 5 (3.68%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.21%) Apache
2 3 (2.21%) Confluence
2 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.47%) Camunda
3 2 (1.47%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.74%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Avolution ABACUS
1 2 (1.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 75 (55.15%) Azure
2 31 (22.79%) GCP
3 20 (14.71%) GitHub
4 17 (12.50%) Serverless
5 12 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.09%) Snowflake
7 10 (7.35%) SaaS
8 8 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.41%) PaaS
9 6 (4.41%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.68%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.21%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 3 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.47%) Amazon Cognito
13 2 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.09%) Firewall
1 11 (8.09%) TCP/IP
2 10 (7.35%) MPLS
3 8 (5.88%) BGP
3 8 (5.88%) SD-WAN
3 8 (5.88%) WAN
4 7 (5.15%) DNS
4 7 (5.15%) VPN
5 6 (4.41%) VLAN
6 5 (3.68%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (3.68%) Network Security
6 5 (3.68%) NGFW
6 5 (3.68%) OSPF
7 3 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (2.21%) HTTP
7 3 (2.21%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.21%) LAN
7 3 (2.21%) VSAN
8 2 (1.47%) MQTT
9 1 (0.74%) Diameter Protocol
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.97%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.03%) Big Data
3 14 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.62%) MySQL
5 8 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 8 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.41%) Power BI
7 5 (3.68%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.68%) Hadoop
7 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.68%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.94%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.94%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.94%) Tableau
9 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.21%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (18.38%) Jenkins
2 20 (14.71%) JIRA
3 17 (12.50%) GitLab
4 13 (9.56%) Cucumber
4 13 (9.56%) Git
4 13 (9.56%) REST Assured
4 13 (9.56%) Selenium
5 10 (7.35%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.21%) ERwin
6 3 (2.21%) JUnit
6 3 (2.21%) Mockito
7 2 (1.47%) JMeter
7 2 (1.47%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.47%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.74%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.74%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.74%) jMock
General
1 53 (38.97%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.76%) Finance
4 12 (8.82%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.62%) Law
5 9 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.94%) Police
7 2 (1.47%) Automotive
7 2 (1.47%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.47%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.47%) Retail
8 1 (0.74%) Billing
8 1 (0.74%) Electronics
8 1 (0.74%) French Language
8 1 (0.74%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.74%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (25.74%) Architect
2 18 (13.24%) Developer
3 13 (9.56%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (9.56%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (8.82%) Software Engineer
5 11 (8.09%) Senior
6 10 (7.35%) Java Developer
7 9 (6.62%) Java Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Resilience Manager
9 7 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.41%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.68%) Analyst
11 5 (3.68%) AWS Architect
11 5 (3.68%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.91%) REST
2 13 (9.56%) Java EE
3 10 (7.35%) ARM Templates
4 9 (6.62%) JSON
5 7 (5.15%) .NET
5 7 (5.15%) AngularJS
6 6 (4.41%) .NET Framework
6 6 (4.41%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.68%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (3.68%) Node.js
8 4 (2.94%) Django
8 4 (2.94%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.94%) Kafka
8 4 (2.94%) RESTful
8 4 (2.94%) Web Services
8 4 (2.94%) XML
9 3 (2.21%) Hibernate
9 3 (2.21%) HTML
9 3 (2.21%) SOAP
9 3 (2.21%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.35%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.41%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.68%) PKI
5 4 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.94%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.21%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.21%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.47%) Infotainment
7 2 (1.47%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.29%) Linux
2 13 (9.56%) Windows
3 7 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.68%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.94%) Unix
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (32.35%) DevOps
2 41 (30.15%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (25.74%) CI/CD
4 31 (22.79%) Migration
5 25 (18.38%) Continuous Integration
6 21 (15.44%) Agile
6 21 (15.44%) Software Engineering
7 20 (14.71%) Configuration Management
7 20 (14.71%) Data Migration
8 18 (13.24%) Test Automation
9 17 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 17 (12.50%) Microservices
10 16 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (11.03%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (10.29%) Decision-Making
12 14 (10.29%) High Availability
13 13 (9.56%) Analytics
13 13 (9.56%) Data Modelling
13 13 (9.56%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 45 (33.09%) Python
2 34 (25.00%) SQL
3 24 (17.65%) Java
4 10 (7.35%) Bash
5 9 (6.62%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.15%) C#
7 4 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.94%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.74%) Bicep
10 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.74%) Magik
10 1 (0.74%) Perl
10 1 (0.74%) Scala
10 1 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.62%) Degree
4 7 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.41%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.68%) CCNP
6 5 (3.68%) CISSP
6 5 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.21%) MCSE
8 3 (2.21%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.21%) PMP
8 3 (2.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.47%) CCNA
9 2 (1.47%) CCSP
9 2 (1.47%) CEH
9 2 (1.47%) CISM
9 2 (1.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) QA
2 8 (5.88%) GDPR
3 6 (4.41%) HIPAA
3 6 (4.41%) NCSC
3 6 (4.41%) NIST
4 4 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (19.12%) Docker
2 8 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.68%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.21%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.21%) vSphere
5 2 (1.47%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.74%) Postfix
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.74%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (19.12%) Terraform
2 24 (17.65%) Ansible
3 22 (16.18%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.62%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (6.62%) Podman
5 3 (2.21%) Puppet
6 2 (1.47%) Kibana
6 2 (1.47%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.74%) CASB
7 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.74%) Grafana
7 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.74%) QRadar
7 1 (0.74%) SCCM
7 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.62%) Cisco
2 9 (6.62%) Databricks
2 9 (6.62%) Google
2 9 (6.62%) Oracle
3 8 (5.88%) VMware
4 6 (4.41%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.68%) Splunk
6 3 (2.21%) SAP
6 3 (2.21%) Sparx
6 3 (2.21%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.47%) Citrix
7 2 (1.47%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.47%) F5
7 2 (1.47%) IBM
7 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.47%) Workday
8 1 (0.74%) New Relic