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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 36 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 -13 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 128 162 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.92% 5.78% 7.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.98% 19.29% 24.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 113 211
10th Percentile £375 £416 £408
25th Percentile £460 £463 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £580 £575 £538
% change year-on-year +0.87% +6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.30 -
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -53.33% +57.89% -27.50%

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 712 840 1,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.34% 29.98% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 612 848
10th Percentile £275 £300 £185
25th Percentile £413 £425 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £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 21 16
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.25 £12.05
25th Percentile £19.37 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% +19.05% -0.24%
75th Percentile £59.95 £56.50 £33.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £73.95
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.65 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.84% +12.62% -2.44%

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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 17 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 17 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 -9 83 £613 +11.36% 50
Buckinghamshire +10 32 £470 -14.55% 19
Oxfordshire +8 13 £500 -16.67% 21
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 7 (5.47%) Confluence
2 5 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.34%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) JBoss
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.78%) SAS
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 58 (45.31%) Azure
2 16 (12.50%) GCP
3 13 (10.16%) Amazon S3
4 10 (7.81%) SaaS
5 9 (7.03%) OpenShift
6 8 (6.25%) Serverless
7 7 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (5.47%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (5.47%) PaaS
8 6 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (4.69%) Snowflake
9 5 (3.91%) IaaS
10 4 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.13%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.34%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.25%) Network Security
1 8 (6.25%) SSL
2 7 (5.47%) VPN
3 4 (3.13%) Firewall
3 4 (3.13%) LAN
3 4 (3.13%) WAN
4 2 (1.56%) DNS
4 2 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.97%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.16%) Oracle Database
2 13 (10.16%) Oracle Database 11g
3 7 (5.47%) Big Data
4 6 (4.69%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.13%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.13%) Impala
5 4 (3.13%) MariaDB
5 4 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.56%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.56%) Power BI
6 2 (1.56%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.56%) Sqoop
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (16.41%) Jenkins
1 21 (16.41%) JIRA
2 15 (11.72%) GitLab
3 14 (10.94%) Selenium
4 13 (10.16%) Cucumber
5 12 (9.38%) REST Assured
5 12 (9.38%) SonarQube
6 7 (5.47%) Git
7 3 (2.34%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.56%) ERwin
8 2 (1.56%) JUnit
9 1 (0.78%) JMeter
9 1 (0.78%) Maven
9 1 (0.78%) Mockito
9 1 (0.78%) MSTest
9 1 (0.78%) NUnit
9 1 (0.78%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.78%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.78%) Subversion
9 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.81%) Finance
4 9 (7.03%) Law
5 8 (6.25%) Police
6 7 (5.47%) Banking
6 7 (5.47%) Retail
7 5 (3.91%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (3.13%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.78%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (28.91%) Developer
2 23 (17.97%) Architect
3 21 (16.41%) Senior
4 13 (10.16%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 12 (9.38%) Analyst
6 10 (7.81%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.47%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Java Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Lead
10 5 (3.91%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Consultant
11 4 (3.13%) Network Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.84%) REST
2 15 (11.72%) Web Services
3 13 (10.16%) ARM Templates
3 13 (10.16%) Java EE
4 11 (8.59%) .NET
5 8 (6.25%) Node.js
6 7 (5.47%) CSS
6 7 (5.47%) HTML
6 7 (5.47%) React
7 6 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (4.69%) Kafka
7 6 (4.69%) Spring
7 6 (4.69%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.69%) Vue
8 5 (3.91%) Laravel
9 4 (3.13%) Ionic Framework
9 4 (3.13%) Next.js
9 4 (3.13%) React Native
9 4 (3.13%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (2.34%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.25%) PKI
2 8 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.13%) Credit Risk
4 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.13%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.56%) IVR
6 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.78%) Life Science
7 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.94%) Linux
2 10 (7.81%) Windows
3 3 (2.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (39.84%) DevOps
2 29 (22.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (21.09%) Software Engineering
4 25 (19.53%) Containerisation
5 22 (17.19%) Migration
6 20 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
7 19 (14.84%) Agile
7 19 (14.84%) CI/CD
8 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (13.28%) Configuration Management
10 16 (12.50%) Architectural Design
10 16 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (12.50%) Data Migration
10 16 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 16 (12.50%) Test Automation
11 15 (11.72%) Unit Testing
12 13 (10.16%) Clean Code
12 13 (10.16%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (10.16%) Software Architecture
12 13 (10.16%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (21.88%) SQL
2 27 (21.09%) Java
3 14 (10.94%) PL/SQL
4 11 (8.59%) Python
5 10 (7.81%) C#
6 7 (5.47%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.69%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.69%) Ruby
7 6 (4.69%) Scala
8 5 (3.91%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.13%) PHP
10 3 (2.34%) Bash
11 1 (0.78%) Go
11 1 (0.78%) R
11 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (36.72%) Security Cleared
2 36 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.16%) Degree
4 5 (3.91%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.13%) CCNP
5 4 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.34%) MCSE
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) CCNA
8 1 (0.78%) CEH
8 1 (0.78%) CISSP
8 1 (0.78%) CSPO
8 1 (0.78%) IIBA
8 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.34%) NCSC
1 3 (2.34%) NIST
2 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.78%) QA
2 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (29.69%) Docker
2 14 (10.94%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.56%) HDFS
6 2 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (28.91%) Kubernetes
2 29 (22.66%) Terraform
3 19 (14.84%) Ansible
4 12 (9.38%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (9.38%) Podman
5 8 (6.25%) Rancher
6 7 (5.47%) Istio
7 4 (3.13%) Grafana
7 4 (3.13%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.56%) Argo
9 2 (1.56%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.56%) SCCM
10 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.78%) Graylog
10 1 (0.78%) Kibana
10 1 (0.78%) Nagios
10 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (12.50%) Oracle
2 11 (8.59%) Google
3 10 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.81%) VMware
4 7 (5.47%) Cisco
5 5 (3.91%) Splunk
6 4 (3.13%) Informatica
7 3 (2.34%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.34%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (2.34%) Virgin Media
8 2 (1.56%) Meraki
8 2 (1.56%) SAP
9 1 (0.78%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.78%) Citrix
9 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.78%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.78%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.78%) Zscaler