AWS Contracts in Reading

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 33 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 -13 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 54 62 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.56% 5.94% 7.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.40% 18.34% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 43 81
10th Percentile £425 £420 £405
25th Percentile £570 £489 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% +15.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £623
90th Percentile - £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £613 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +11.36% +10.00% -4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 375 338 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 31.70% 32.41% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 261 323
10th Percentile £375 £400 £190
25th Percentile £475 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +12.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £613
90th Percentile £688 £725 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £56.50 £62.20 £13.20
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.25 £18.38
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +226.56% -
75th Percentile £60.60 - £33.00
90th Percentile £61.17 - £44.70
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £23.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year +150.21% +3.56% +6.89%

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 1 June 2024.

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 (5.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.85%) JBoss
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (53.70%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) GCP
3 7 (12.96%) OpenShift
4 4 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (7.41%) Serverless
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.56%) SaaS
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.85%) NuGet
7 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Firewall
1 3 (5.56%) Network Security
1 3 (5.56%) VPN
2 2 (3.70%) BGP
2 2 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (3.70%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (3.70%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (3.70%) DMVPN
2 2 (3.70%) EIGRP
2 2 (3.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (3.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (3.70%) IPsec
2 2 (3.70%) MPLS
2 2 (3.70%) OSPF
2 2 (3.70%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (3.70%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.70%) Sourcefire
2 2 (3.70%) WAN
3 1 (1.85%) 4G
3 1 (1.85%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.04%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (22.22%) Oracle Database
2 12 (22.22%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.85%) MySQL
5 1 (1.85%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.85%) Power BI
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 15 (27.78%) JIRA
3 14 (25.93%) Selenium
4 13 (24.07%) Cucumber
4 13 (24.07%) GitLab
5 12 (22.22%) REST Assured
5 12 (22.22%) SonarQube
6 4 (7.41%) Git
7 2 (3.70%) JUnit
8 1 (1.85%) Appium
8 1 (1.85%) JMeter
8 1 (1.85%) Mockito
8 1 (1.85%) MSTest
8 1 (1.85%) NUnit
8 1 (1.85%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.67%) Law
4 8 (14.81%) Police
5 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (50.00%) Developer
2 12 (22.22%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 11 (20.37%) Senior
4 8 (14.81%) Java Developer
5 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 7 (12.96%) Software Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Architect
8 4 (7.41%) Consultant
9 3 (5.56%) Java Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Java Technical Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Ruby Developer
9 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (31.48%) REST
2 13 (24.07%) ARM Templates
2 13 (24.07%) Java EE
3 4 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (7.41%) Node.js
3 4 (7.41%) Spring
3 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.41%) Web Services
4 3 (5.56%) React
4 3 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.70%) Apache Camel
5 2 (3.70%) Kafka
5 2 (3.70%) Mustache
6 1 (1.85%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.85%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (1.85%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.85%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.85%) RESTful
6 1 (1.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) IoT
4 1 (1.85%) PKI
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (64.81%) DevOps
2 23 (42.59%) Software Engineering
3 22 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (37.04%) Containerisation
4 20 (37.04%) Technical Leadership
5 15 (27.78%) Decision-Making
5 15 (27.78%) Migration
5 15 (27.78%) Test Automation
6 14 (25.93%) Configuration Management
6 14 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (24.07%) Architectural Design
7 13 (24.07%) Software Architecture
7 13 (24.07%) Unit Testing
8 12 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 12 (22.22%) Clean Code
8 12 (22.22%) Data Migration
8 12 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (22.22%) Secure Coding
8 12 (22.22%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.33%) Java
2 14 (25.93%) SQL
3 12 (22.22%) PL/SQL
4 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.56%) Python
5 3 (5.56%) Ruby
6 1 (1.85%) Bash
6 1 (1.85%) C#
6 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (53.70%) SC Cleared
1 29 (53.70%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.70%) CCNA
3 2 (3.70%) CCNP
3 2 (3.70%) CISSP
3 2 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.85%) CCSP
4 1 (1.85%) CEH
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) COBIT
1 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.85%) QA
1 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (51.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (42.59%) Terraform
3 15 (27.78%) Ansible
4 12 (22.22%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (22.22%) Podman
5 7 (12.96%) Istio
5 7 (12.96%) Rancher
6 2 (3.70%) Nagios
7 1 (1.85%) Grafana
7 1 (1.85%) Graylog
7 1 (1.85%) Kibana
7 1 (1.85%) Nessus
7 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Oracle
2 8 (14.81%) Google
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.56%) Cisco
4 3 (5.56%) Splunk
5 2 (3.70%) Aruba
5 2 (3.70%) Blue Coat
5 2 (3.70%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.70%) F5
5 2 (3.70%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.70%) Juniper
5 2 (3.70%) McAfee
5 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.70%) Virgin Media
5 2 (3.70%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.85%) Qualys
6 1 (1.85%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds