AWS Job Trends in Reading

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 6 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 35 116 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 5.97% 15.16% 12.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.55% 42.49% 38.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12 56 66
10th Percentile - £52,500 £49,375
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £84,063 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,250 £93,125 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -24.14% +7.41% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Reading

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 137 273 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 23.38% 35.69% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 88 128 242
10th Percentile £28,750 £38,500 £33,325
25th Percentile £41,875 £47,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,125 £85,000 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £49,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.60% +13.64% -15.38%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Reading

AWS
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Reading over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary 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 6 (17.14%) OpenStack
2 2 (5.71%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) Amazon ECS
1 19 (54.29%) Serverless
2 18 (51.43%) Amazon EKS
3 12 (34.29%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (34.29%) Azure
4 7 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 6 (17.14%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (11.43%) GCP
7 3 (8.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.86%) dbt
9 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) DNS
3 2 (5.71%) DHCP
3 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (57.14%) Relational Database
3 12 (34.29%) RDBMS
4 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.71%) MySQL
6 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.86%) Looker
6 1 (2.86%) Metadata
6 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.86%) Power BI
6 1 (2.86%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (54.29%) Jenkins
2 13 (37.14%) JUnit
3 12 (34.29%) JMeter
3 12 (34.29%) Mockito
4 9 (25.71%) Git
5 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.86%) GitLab
General
1 14 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Games
4 1 (2.86%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (60.00%) Developer
2 18 (51.43%) Java Developer
3 17 (48.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (42.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 12 (34.29%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Senior
7 3 (8.57%) Analyst
7 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (8.57%) Lead
7 3 (8.57%) Security Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (5.71%) Product Owner
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Data Centre Manager
9 1 (2.86%) Data Centre Project Manager
9 1 (2.86%) Java Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (57.14%) Spring
2 19 (54.29%) REST
2 19 (54.29%) Spring Boot
3 17 (48.57%) Web Services
4 13 (37.14%) Hibernate
5 12 (34.29%) ActiveMQ
5 12 (34.29%) Apache Camel
5 12 (34.29%) HTML
5 12 (34.29%) jQuery
5 12 (34.29%) JSON
5 12 (34.29%) WireMock
5 12 (34.29%) XML
6 9 (25.71%) React
7 8 (22.86%) Node.js
8 6 (17.14%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (17.14%) Kafka
8 6 (17.14%) Mustache
9 3 (8.57%) RESTful
10 2 (5.71%) Next.js
11 1 (2.86%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (5.71%) Clustering
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.71%) Replication
4 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.86%) AS400
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) Agile
1 24 (68.57%) CI/CD
2 21 (60.00%) Microservices
3 19 (54.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (54.29%) TDD
4 18 (51.43%) SDLC
5 12 (34.29%) BDD
5 12 (34.29%) Process Management
5 12 (34.29%) Workflow
6 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (17.14%) DevOps
6 6 (17.14%) Scrum
7 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 5 (14.29%) Security Architecture
8 3 (8.57%) AI
8 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (8.57%) High Availability
8 3 (8.57%) Identity Management
8 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 20 (57.14%) Java
3 15 (42.86%) Python
4 12 (34.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.71%) SQL
5 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.86%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (8.57%) CCSP
2 3 (8.57%) CEH
2 3 (8.57%) CISA
2 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.57%) CISM
2 3 (8.57%) CISSP
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (8.57%) GRC
2 3 (8.57%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.71%) NCSC
4 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 22 (62.86%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (34.29%) Kibana
3 2 (5.71%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
4 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Dynatrace
1 12 (34.29%) Splunk
2 3 (8.57%) Google
2 3 (8.57%) Palo Alto
2 3 (8.57%) Tenable
3 2 (5.71%) Cisco
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Informatica
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce