AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS SAM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS SAM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 695 818
Rank change year-on-year +106 +123 -146
Contract jobs citing AWS SAM 9 24 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.040% 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.10% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 21
10th Percentile £500 £401 £463
25th Percentile £509 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +37.14%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £638
90th Percentile £606 £586 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +29.41% -19.05% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

AWS SAM is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

AWS SAM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS SAM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS SAM in the UK

AWS SAM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS SAM.

Daily rate trend for AWS SAM in the UK

AWS SAM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS SAM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS SAM in the UK

AWS SAM
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS SAM within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +115 8 £550 +4.76% 2
Work from Home +131 7 £538 +10.26% 1
London +91 6 £563 +9.76% 1
UK excluding London +62 2 £550 +29.41% 1
North of England +33 2 £550 +4.76% 1
North West +16 2 £550 +4.76% 1

AWS SAM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Serverless
2 8 (88.89%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (44.44%) Azure
5 3 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
6 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) GCP
7 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Lead
3 3 (33.33%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Developer
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 3 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 3 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
4 1 (11.11%) Jest
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (11.11%) Next.js
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) Observability
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Data Management
5 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
5 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) SIEM
5 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
3 4 (44.44%) Go
3 4 (44.44%) Python
4 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes