AWS SAM Contracts in England

AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring AWS SAM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS SAM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 535 632
Rank change year-on-year +52 +97 +128
Contract jobs citing AWS SAM 2 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.019% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.037% 0.093% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 19
10th Percentile £488 £508 £450
25th Percentile £489 £519 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £527 £588 £550
90th Percentile £529 £613 £600
UK median daily rate £506 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.95% +4.76% -12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

AWS SAM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

AWS SAM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS SAM in England

AWS SAM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS SAM in England

AWS SAM
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +34 2 £506 -10.00% 1
AWS SAM
UK

AWS SAM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform