AWS Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Work from Home is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 433 519
Rank change year-on-year +112 +86 -56
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 31 37 115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.14% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.15% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 32 94
10th Percentile £663 £438 -
25th Percentile £700 £509 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +12.50% +17.07%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £750
90th Percentile - - £875
UK median daily rate £750 £663 £600
% change year-on-year +13.21% +10.42% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 14,380 24,650 42,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 17,416 30,864
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% +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 573 564 610
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

AWS Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

AWS Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer.

AWS Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS Software Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

AWS Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, AWS Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (93.55%) Agile
2 29 (93.55%) Finance
3 28 (90.32%) Python
4 27 (87.10%) JavaScript
4 27 (87.10%) Front Office
4 27 (87.10%) Apache
4 27 (87.10%) Asset Management
4 27 (87.10%) SciPy
4 27 (87.10%) NumPy
4 27 (87.10%) Protocol Buffers
4 27 (87.10%) Pandas
4 27 (87.10%) TypeScript
4 27 (87.10%) gRPC
4 27 (87.10%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (87.10%) Amazon Athena
4 27 (87.10%) Apache Ignite
4 27 (87.10%) Dremio
4 27 (87.10%) dbt
4 27 (87.10%) Apache Arrow
5 22 (70.97%) Investment Banking
5 22 (70.97%) Banking
5 22 (70.97%) Java
6 21 (67.74%) Fixed Income
6 21 (67.74%) Investment Management
7 16 (51.61%) Data Lake
7 16 (51.61%) Snowflake
7 16 (51.61%) Hedge funds
7 16 (51.61%) Derivative

AWS Software Engineer 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 27 (87.10%) Apache
1 27 (87.10%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (87.10%) dbt
3 16 (51.61%) Snowflake
4 11 (35.48%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (87.10%) Amazon Athena
1 27 (87.10%) Apache Arrow
1 27 (87.10%) Apache Ignite
1 27 (87.10%) Dremio
2 16 (51.61%) Data Lake
General
1 29 (93.55%) Finance
2 27 (87.10%) Front Office
3 22 (70.97%) Banking
3 22 (70.97%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Electronics
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (87.10%) gRPC
1 27 (87.10%) NumPy
1 27 (87.10%) Pandas
1 27 (87.10%) Protocol Buffers
1 27 (87.10%) SciPy
2 6 (19.35%) Node.js
3 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
3 5 (16.13%) React
3 5 (16.13%) Redux
3 5 (16.13%) Vue
4 1 (3.23%) .NET
4 1 (3.23%) Kafka
4 1 (3.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (67.74%) Fixed Income
2 16 (51.61%) Derivative
2 16 (51.61%) Equities
2 16 (51.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (51.61%) Hedge funds
3 4 (12.90%) Pricing Data
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (93.55%) Agile
3 27 (87.10%) Asset Management
4 21 (67.74%) Investment Management
5 12 (38.71%) Greeks
6 7 (22.58%) Analytics
7 6 (19.35%) Data Architecture
7 6 (19.35%) Fintech
8 5 (16.13%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 5 (16.13%) Performance Attribution
9 1 (3.23%) API Management
9 1 (3.23%) CI/CD
9 1 (3.23%) Computer Science
9 1 (3.23%) Containerisation
9 1 (3.23%) Data Pipeline
9 1 (3.23%) Digital Marketing
9 1 (3.23%) Full Stack Development
9 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 1 (3.23%) Microservices
9 1 (3.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (90.32%) Python
2 27 (87.10%) JavaScript
2 27 (87.10%) TypeScript
3 22 (70.97%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) Ruby
4 2 (6.45%) Scala
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (38.71%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) SAP