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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 37 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 129 159 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.87% 5.52% 7.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.62% 18.88% 22.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 108 205
10th Percentile £390 £413 £406
25th Percentile £454 £468 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £671 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £575 £575 £538
% change year-on-year - +6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.30 -
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -51.72% +52.63% -27.53%

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 732 842 1,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.62% 29.25% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 608 864
10th Percentile £300 £313 £205
25th Percentile £413 £425 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 14
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.15 £17.38
25th Percentile £20.56 £18.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £26.58 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +89.05% +26.42% -0.12%
75th Percentile £60.44 £58.50 £46.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £76.53
South East median hourly rate £27.22 £30.23 £20.50
% change year-on-year -9.97% +47.46% -2.61%

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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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -2 81 £600 +9.09% 36
Buckinghamshire +9 35 £490 -10.91% 16
Oxfordshire +4 13 £500 -16.67% 23
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 (5.43%) Confluence
2 6 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.78%) JBoss
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 58 (44.96%) Azure
2 19 (14.73%) GCP
3 12 (9.30%) Amazon S3
4 11 (8.53%) OpenShift
4 11 (8.53%) SaaS
5 7 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (5.43%) Amazon EMR
5 7 (5.43%) PaaS
5 7 (5.43%) Serverless
5 7 (5.43%) Snowflake
6 6 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.88%) IaaS
8 4 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.10%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.33%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.53%) Network Security
2 9 (6.98%) VPN
3 8 (6.20%) SSL
4 6 (4.65%) Firewall
4 6 (4.65%) WAN
5 4 (3.10%) LAN
6 3 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.55%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.55%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (1.55%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.55%) DMVPN
7 2 (1.55%) DNS
7 2 (1.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (1.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (1.55%) IPsec
7 2 (1.55%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.55%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.55%) Sourcefire
7 2 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.73%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.53%) Oracle Database
2 11 (8.53%) Oracle Database 11g
3 9 (6.98%) Big Data
4 6 (4.65%) Impala
4 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.88%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.10%) Apache Hive
6 4 (3.10%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.33%) Power BI
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.55%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.55%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.55%) Sqoop
8 2 (1.55%) Tableau
9 1 (0.78%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (19.38%) JIRA
2 23 (17.83%) Jenkins
3 16 (12.40%) GitLab
4 14 (10.85%) Selenium
5 13 (10.08%) Cucumber
6 12 (9.30%) REST Assured
6 12 (9.30%) SonarQube
7 10 (7.75%) Git
8 3 (2.33%) Maven
8 3 (2.33%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.55%) ERwin
9 2 (1.55%) JUnit
10 1 (0.78%) JMeter
10 1 (0.78%) Mockito
10 1 (0.78%) MSTest
10 1 (0.78%) NUnit
10 1 (0.78%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.78%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.78%) Subversion
10 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.75%) Finance
4 9 (6.98%) Law
5 8 (6.20%) Banking
5 8 (6.20%) Police
5 8 (6.20%) Retail
6 6 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.88%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (3.10%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.78%) Automotive
10 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (27.91%) Developer
2 21 (16.28%) Architect
3 20 (15.50%) Senior
4 11 (8.53%) Analyst
4 11 (8.53%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 10 (7.75%) Java Developer
5 10 (7.75%) Software Engineer
6 7 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (5.43%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (4.65%) Consultant
7 6 (4.65%) Java Engineer
7 6 (4.65%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (4.65%) Lead
8 5 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Network Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.10%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.18%) REST
2 15 (11.63%) Web Services
3 13 (10.08%) ARM Templates
3 13 (10.08%) Java EE
4 9 (6.98%) Node.js
4 9 (6.98%) React
5 8 (6.20%) .NET
5 8 (6.20%) Kafka
5 8 (6.20%) Spring
6 7 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (4.65%) CSS
7 6 (4.65%) HTML
7 6 (4.65%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.10%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.10%) Ionic Framework
8 4 (3.10%) Laravel
8 4 (3.10%) Next.js
8 4 (3.10%) React Native
8 4 (3.10%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (3.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.53%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.98%) PKI
3 6 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (4.65%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.10%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.10%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.55%) IVR
7 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) IoT
8 1 (0.78%) Life Science
8 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.18%) Linux
2 10 (7.75%) Windows
3 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.88%) DevOps
2 28 (21.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (19.38%) Software Engineering
4 23 (17.83%) Containerisation
4 23 (17.83%) Migration
5 20 (15.50%) CI/CD
5 20 (15.50%) Technical Leadership
6 18 (13.95%) Agile
6 18 (13.95%) Configuration Management
6 18 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (13.18%) Decision-Making
7 17 (13.18%) Test Automation
8 16 (12.40%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (10.08%) Architectural Design
9 13 (10.08%) Data Migration
9 13 (10.08%) Software Architecture
9 13 (10.08%) Unit Testing
10 12 (9.30%) Microservices
10 12 (9.30%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (8.53%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.26%) Java
2 24 (18.60%) SQL
3 14 (10.85%) Python
4 11 (8.53%) PL/SQL
5 8 (6.20%) C#
6 7 (5.43%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.43%) Scala
7 6 (4.65%) Ruby
8 5 (3.88%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.10%) Bash
9 4 (3.10%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.33%) PHP
11 2 (1.55%) Go
11 2 (1.55%) R
12 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.03%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.30%) Degree
4 5 (3.88%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.33%) CCNA
6 3 (2.33%) CCNP
7 2 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.55%) CISSP
7 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.78%) CCSP
8 1 (0.78%) CEH
8 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.10%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) COBIT
3 1 (0.78%) QA
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (28.68%) Docker
2 14 (10.85%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.10%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.55%) HDFS
6 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (31.01%) Kubernetes
2 30 (23.26%) Terraform
3 20 (15.50%) Ansible
4 12 (9.30%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (9.30%) Podman
5 9 (6.98%) Rancher
6 7 (5.43%) Istio
7 4 (3.10%) Grafana
7 4 (3.10%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.55%) Argo
9 2 (1.55%) Control-M
9 2 (1.55%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.55%) Nagios
9 2 (1.55%) SCCM
10 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.78%) Kibana
10 1 (0.78%) Nessus
10 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (9.30%) Oracle
2 11 (8.53%) Google
3 10 (7.75%) Cisco
3 10 (7.75%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.20%) VMware
5 6 (4.65%) Splunk
6 5 (3.88%) Informatica
7 4 (3.10%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.33%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.33%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.33%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.55%) Aruba
9 2 (1.55%) Blue Coat
9 2 (1.55%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.55%) F5
9 2 (1.55%) McAfee
9 2 (1.55%) Meraki
9 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.55%) Virgin Media