AWS DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in Work from Home is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 251 257
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 -20
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 77 232 452
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.91% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.95% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 194 365
10th Percentile £425 £488 £475
25th Percentile £500 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +5.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £644 £722 £625
90th Percentile £700 £863 £688
UK median daily rate £545 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -9.17% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

AWS DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS DevOps.

AWS DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

AWS DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, AWS DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) AWS
1 77 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (72.73%) Terraform
3 43 (55.84%) CI/CD
4 39 (50.65%) Kubernetes
5 36 (46.75%) Python
6 34 (44.16%) Security Cleared
7 33 (42.86%) Docker
8 32 (41.56%) SC Cleared
9 27 (35.06%) Ansible
9 27 (35.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (33.77%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (33.77%) Serverless
11 22 (28.57%) Bash
12 20 (25.97%) Jenkins
12 20 (25.97%) Linux
13 17 (22.08%) Amazon S3
14 16 (20.78%) Agile
14 16 (20.78%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (19.48%) Public Sector
15 15 (19.48%) Containerisation
16 14 (18.18%) GitLab
16 14 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (16.88%) Grafana
18 12 (15.58%) Amazon EKS
18 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
18 12 (15.58%) Git
19 11 (14.29%) Test Automation

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.30%) nginx
2 1 (1.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (33.77%) AWS Lambda
2 26 (33.77%) Serverless
3 17 (22.08%) Amazon S3
4 16 (20.78%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (15.58%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (14.29%) Azure
7 11 (14.29%) GitHub
7 11 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (12.99%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (12.99%) Route 53
9 7 (9.09%) PaaS
10 6 (7.79%) OpenShift
10 6 (7.79%) SaaS
11 5 (6.49%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (5.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (5.19%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.69%) Firewall
2 4 (5.19%) DNS
2 4 (5.19%) Network Security
3 3 (3.90%) DHCP
3 3 (3.90%) LAN
3 3 (3.90%) WLAN
4 2 (2.60%) VPN
5 1 (1.30%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.90%) InfluxDB
4 3 (3.90%) MySQL
5 1 (1.30%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (25.97%) Jenkins
2 14 (18.18%) GitLab
3 12 (15.58%) Git
4 4 (5.19%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.90%) JIRA
6 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.30%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.30%) Gradle
6 1 (1.30%) Maven
6 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (19.48%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.39%) Law
2 8 (10.39%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Finance
4 3 (3.90%) Banking
4 3 (3.90%) Retail
5 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Marketing
5 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.69%) AWS CDK
2 8 (10.39%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (6.49%) AWS SAM
4 3 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.60%) React
6 1 (1.30%) ADO
6 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.30%) EDI
6 1 (1.30%) JSON
6 1 (1.30%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.30%) LDAP
6 1 (1.30%) Next.js
6 1 (1.30%) Node.js
6 1 (1.30%) RESTful
6 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.60%) Life Science
3 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) Clustering
4 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.97%) Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.49%) Ubuntu
3 5 (6.49%) Windows
4 4 (5.19%) Unix
5 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.30%) CentOS
6 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) DevOps
2 43 (55.84%) CI/CD
3 27 (35.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (20.78%) Agile
5 15 (19.48%) Containerisation
6 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 8 (10.39%) Observability
9 7 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (6.49%) Computer Science
11 5 (6.49%) Configuration Management
11 5 (6.49%) Migration
11 5 (6.49%) Project Management
12 4 (5.19%) Continuous Delivery
12 4 (5.19%) DevSecOps
12 4 (5.19%) High Availability
12 4 (5.19%) OOP
12 4 (5.19%) Performance Testing
13 3 (3.90%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (46.75%) Python
2 22 (28.57%) Bash
3 8 (10.39%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.09%) Go
5 5 (6.49%) Groovy
6 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.60%) Java
8 2 (2.60%) R
9 1 (1.30%) PHP
9 1 (1.30%) Scala
9 1 (1.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (44.16%) Security Cleared
2 32 (41.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.39%) Degree
4 7 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 6 (7.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) GDPR
1 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (72.73%) Terraform
2 39 (50.65%) Kubernetes
3 27 (35.06%) Ansible
4 13 (16.88%) Grafana
5 6 (7.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.49%) Kibana
7 3 (3.90%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.30%) Graylog
8 1 (1.30%) logstash
8 1 (1.30%) Nagios
8 1 (1.30%) Puppet
8 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (6.49%) Splunk
2 4 (5.19%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.30%) Ariba
5 1 (1.30%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.30%) Google
5 1 (1.30%) ICL
5 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.30%) SAP
5 1 (1.30%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.30%) VMware