AWS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,756 3,612 7,253
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.63% 14.38% 16.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.29% 36.38% 39.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 2,771 5,662
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £475 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £663
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.17% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 28 23
10th Percentile £58.50 £31.89 £46.25
25th Percentile £67.50 £48.51 £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +28.26% +35.29%
75th Percentile £73.00 £78.25 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.95 £88.30 £78.46
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +27.91%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,438 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.02% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

AWS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

AWS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

AWS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

AWS hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 129 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (5.75%) Apache
3 62 (3.53%) Confluence
4 31 (1.77%) nginx
5 20 (1.14%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.57%) CMS
8 9 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
8 9 (0.51%) JBoss
8 9 (0.51%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.51%) WordPress
9 8 (0.46%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.40%) Drupal
10 7 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.28%) IIS
11 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.28%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.40%) Trello
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.11%) Weka
6 1 (0.057%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.057%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (0.40%) Endur
1 7 (0.40%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.17%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Magento
5 2 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.057%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.057%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.057%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.057%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.057%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 566 (32.23%) Azure
2 301 (17.14%) GCP
3 177 (10.08%) Serverless
4 153 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
5 144 (8.20%) Amazon S3
6 120 (6.83%) Snowflake
7 114 (6.49%) dbt
8 100 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
9 97 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 95 (5.41%) GitHub
11 76 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 75 (4.27%) SaaS
13 74 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
14 58 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 53 (3.02%) PaaS
16 51 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
17 45 (2.56%) IaaS
18 42 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
18 42 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
18 42 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.44%) Firewall
2 51 (2.90%) Network Security
3 43 (2.45%) DNS
4 39 (2.22%) SSL
5 34 (1.94%) VPN
6 28 (1.59%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.08%) DHCP
8 17 (0.97%) WAN
9 16 (0.91%) LAN
10 15 (0.85%) HTTP
11 13 (0.74%) BGP
12 12 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (0.68%) Wireless
13 11 (0.63%) VLAN
14 9 (0.51%) NAS
14 9 (0.51%) OSPF
14 9 (0.51%) SAN
14 9 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.46%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.46%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (6.72%) Amazon Athena
3 98 (5.58%) Amazon RDS
4 96 (5.47%) Apache Arrow
4 96 (5.47%) Dremio
5 94 (5.35%) Data Lake
6 85 (4.84%) Apache Ignite
7 62 (3.53%) Relational Database
8 61 (3.47%) MySQL
9 59 (3.36%) SQL Server
10 53 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
10 53 (3.02%) NoSQL
11 52 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 45 (2.56%) MongoDB
13 44 (2.51%) Big Data
13 44 (2.51%) DynamoDB
14 40 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
15 32 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
15 32 (1.82%) Oracle Database
16 31 (1.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 151 (8.60%) Jenkins
2 124 (7.06%) JIRA
3 122 (6.95%) Git
4 85 (4.84%) GitLab
5 41 (2.33%) Selenium
6 38 (2.16%) Cypress.io
7 31 (1.77%) Cucumber
8 29 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 22 (1.25%) Maven
10 18 (1.03%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.97%) JUnit
12 16 (0.91%) JMeter
13 15 (0.85%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.68%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.63%) Postman
16 10 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 10 (0.57%) CircleCI
17 9 (0.51%) webpack
18 8 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
18 8 (0.46%) TestNG
General
1 340 (19.36%) Finance
2 278 (15.83%) Social Skills
3 157 (8.94%) Public Sector
4 142 (8.09%) Banking
5 139 (7.92%) Front Office
6 91 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
7 81 (4.61%) Investment Banking
8 35 (1.99%) Telecoms
9 33 (1.88%) Retail
10 24 (1.37%) Marketing
11 19 (1.08%) Law
11 19 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 16 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (0.91%) Retail Banking
13 15 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.57%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 505 (28.76%) Developer
2 288 (16.40%) Architect
3 224 (12.76%) Senior
4 209 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
5 180 (10.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 170 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 130 (7.40%) Lead
8 98 (5.58%) Java Developer
9 95 (5.41%) Full Stack Developer
10 84 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
11 80 (4.56%) AWS DevOps
11 80 (4.56%) Data Engineer
12 77 (4.38%) Python Developer
13 74 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 70 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
15 64 (3.64%) Analyst
16 62 (3.53%) Python Engineer
16 62 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
17 57 (3.25%) AWS Architect
17 57 (3.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (10.82%) React
2 143 (8.14%) Node.js
3 109 (6.21%) gRPC
4 108 (6.15%) Protocol Buffers
5 101 (5.75%) Kafka
6 92 (5.24%) REST
7 90 (5.13%) Pandas
8 82 (4.67%) NumPy
8 82 (4.67%) RESTful
9 81 (4.61%) SciPy
10 80 (4.56%) AngularJS
11 78 (4.44%) .NET
11 78 (4.44%) Spring
12 76 (4.33%) Spring Boot
12 76 (4.33%) Web Services
13 69 (3.93%) CSS
14 68 (3.87%) HTML
15 55 (3.13%) GraphQL
16 50 (2.85%) AWS CDK
17 42 (2.39%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.40%) Fixed Income
2 125 (7.12%) Hedge funds
3 115 (6.55%) Derivative
4 105 (5.98%) Equities
5 93 (5.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 58 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
7 55 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 48 (2.73%) Cloud Native
9 46 (2.62%) PKI
10 43 (2.45%) Product Ownership
11 41 (2.33%) Data Centre
12 35 (1.99%) Onboarding
13 33 (1.88%) Management Information System
14 32 (1.82%) Clustering
15 24 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
15 24 (1.37%) Replication
16 21 (1.20%) Algorithms
16 21 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
17 18 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
18 16 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 179 (10.19%) Linux
2 100 (5.69%) Windows
3 47 (2.68%) Unix
4 40 (2.28%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.74%) Android
8 12 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.51%) Solaris
10 8 (0.46%) Windows 10
11 7 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.34%) CentOS
13 3 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.11%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.11%) zOS
15 1 (0.057%) tvOS
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (31.04%) Agile
2 471 (26.82%) DevOps
3 339 (19.31%) CI/CD
4 316 (18.00%) Software Engineering
5 188 (10.71%) Microservices
6 176 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 166 (9.45%) Test Automation
8 162 (9.23%) Full Stack Development
8 162 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
9 161 (9.17%) Analytics
10 157 (8.94%) Asset Management
11 131 (7.46%) Containerisation
11 131 (7.46%) Migration
12 127 (7.23%) Investment Management
13 91 (5.18%) Scrum
14 83 (4.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 82 (4.67%) TDD
16 80 (4.56%) Fintech
16 80 (4.56%) Mentoring
17 79 (4.50%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 551 (31.38%) Python
2 372 (21.18%) Java
3 323 (18.39%) JavaScript
4 263 (14.98%) TypeScript
5 243 (13.84%) SQL
6 118 (6.72%) Go
7 103 (5.87%) Bash
8 72 (4.10%) C#
9 67 (3.82%) PHP
10 57 (3.25%) PowerShell
11 44 (2.51%) Ruby
12 41 (2.33%) Scala
13 28 (1.59%) Perl
14 27 (1.54%) R
15 24 (1.37%) C
15 24 (1.37%) C++
16 21 (1.20%) PL/SQL
17 19 (1.08%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.80%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.46%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 390 (22.21%) Security Cleared
2 334 (19.02%) SC Cleared
3 118 (6.72%) Degree
4 66 (3.76%) AWS Certification
5 50 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 47 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.14%) CISSP
10 18 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (0.91%) CISM
12 13 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (0.68%) Master's Degree
13 12 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.57%) CISA
14 10 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.57%) CREST Certified
14 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.34%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.47%) QA
2 53 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.22%) NCSC
5 36 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.88%) NIST
7 17 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.91%) GDPR
9 14 (0.80%) SLA
10 8 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.17%) GPG13
13 3 (0.17%) MiFID
13 3 (0.17%) WCAG
14 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.11%) GxP
14 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 283 (16.12%) Docker
2 107 (6.09%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.057%) ACF2
9 1 (0.057%) Firmware
9 1 (0.057%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.057%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.057%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.057%) RACF
9 1 (0.057%) vCloud
9 1 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.057%) XenApp
9 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 358 (20.39%) Kubernetes
2 319 (18.17%) Terraform
3 143 (8.14%) Ansible
4 59 (3.36%) Grafana
5 55 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 36 (2.05%) Puppet
7 35 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.20%) Kibana
9 15 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
10 13 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.68%) Nagios
12 11 (0.63%) Packer
13 9 (0.51%) SCCM
14 8 (0.46%) Podman
15 7 (0.40%) Consul
15 7 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
15 7 (0.40%) Netcool
15 7 (0.40%) Tivoli
15 7 (0.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 5 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 117 (6.66%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.55%) Oracle
3 62 (3.53%) Google
4 56 (3.19%) Splunk
5 54 (3.08%) VMware
6 39 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.05%) Cisco
8 33 (1.88%) CyberArk
9 29 (1.65%) IBM
10 27 (1.54%) Red Hat
11 26 (1.48%) Databricks
12 25 (1.42%) SAP
13 21 (1.20%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.14%) Salesforce
15 19 (1.08%) Dynatrace
16 16 (0.91%) Bloomberg
16 16 (0.91%) Genesys
17 15 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
18 14 (0.80%) Atlassian
18 14 (0.80%) OpenAI