Amazon EC2 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
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 Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 259 293
Rank change year-on-year +28 +34 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 106 220 375
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.86% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 2.18% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 165 254
10th Percentile £402 £463 £428
25th Percentile £425 £510 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £713 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
UK median hourly rate - - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +112.50%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Amazon EC2 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 5,467 10,106 18,481
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.09% 39.52% 41.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 7,421 13,809
10th Percentile £350 £371 £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 87 129 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.82 £21.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +96.36% -29.49%
75th Percentile £46.88 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.20 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%

Amazon EC2
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EC2 trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
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 Amazon EC2.

Amazon EC2 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Amazon EC2 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
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 Amazon EC2.

Amazon EC2 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
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 4 (3.77%) Confluence
2 3 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.94%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 105 (99.06%) AWS
2 68 (64.15%) Amazon S3
3 55 (51.89%) Serverless
4 53 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (36.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 33 (31.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 31 (29.25%) Route 53
8 28 (26.42%) Amazon EKS
9 26 (24.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (20.75%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (18.87%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (12.26%) AWS Fargate
13 9 (8.49%) Amazon ECR
13 9 (8.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (8.49%) Azure
13 9 (8.49%) OpenShift
14 7 (6.60%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (6.60%) AWS CodePipeline
14 7 (6.60%) IaaS
14 7 (6.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.43%) Network Security
2 9 (8.49%) Firewall
3 6 (5.66%) DNS
4 4 (3.77%) LAN
4 4 (3.77%) WLAN
5 3 (2.83%) DHCP
5 3 (2.83%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (2.83%) VPN
6 2 (1.89%) Wireless
7 1 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.94%) MQTT
7 1 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.49%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.55%) DynamoDB
4 8 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (7.55%) MySQL
5 7 (6.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (6.60%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.72%) InfluxDB
6 5 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.72%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.77%) Informix
7 4 (3.77%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.83%) Big Data
8 3 (2.83%) MariaDB
8 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 26 (24.53%) Jenkins
2 18 (16.98%) Git
3 17 (16.04%) GitLab
4 6 (5.66%) Selenium
5 5 (4.72%) Artifactory
5 5 (4.72%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.77%) JIRA
6 4 (3.77%) JMeter
6 4 (3.77%) JUnit
6 4 (3.77%) Maven
7 3 (2.83%) Gradle
7 3 (2.83%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.83%) webpack
8 2 (1.89%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.89%) Mocha
8 2 (1.89%) Snyk
8 2 (1.89%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.89%) TestNG
8 2 (1.89%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.04%) Finance
3 16 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.60%) Marketing
5 6 (5.66%) Electronics
5 6 (5.66%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.66%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.77%) Banking
6 4 (3.77%) Retail
7 2 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (25.47%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (23.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (16.98%) Architect
4 15 (14.15%) Developer
5 14 (13.21%) AWS Architect
5 14 (13.21%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (13.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 13 (12.26%) Senior
7 11 (10.38%) Lead
8 8 (7.55%) Java Developer
9 7 (6.60%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Lead Architect
10 6 (5.66%) Lead Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.77%) AWS Developer
11 4 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.09%) AWS CDK
2 10 (9.43%) Node.js
3 8 (7.55%) React
3 8 (7.55%) REST
4 6 (5.66%) Spring
5 5 (4.72%) Kafka
5 5 (4.72%) LDAP
5 5 (4.72%) OAuth
5 5 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.77%) Express.js
6 4 (3.77%) Middleware
6 4 (3.77%) RESTful
6 4 (3.77%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.77%) Web Services
7 3 (2.83%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.83%) Redux
8 2 (1.89%) Chai
8 2 (1.89%) JAXB
8 2 (1.89%) JAX-RS
8 2 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Public Cloud
1 6 (5.66%) Replication
2 5 (4.72%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.72%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.83%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.89%) IoT
5 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.89%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.94%) Clustering
6 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (30.19%) Linux
2 14 (13.21%) Windows
3 12 (11.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.60%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.77%) Unix
5 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.83%) CentOS
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.94%) VMS
8 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
2 40 (37.74%) DevOps
3 39 (36.79%) CI/CD
4 30 (28.30%) Agile
5 16 (15.09%) Containerisation
5 16 (15.09%) Test Automation
6 15 (14.15%) Microservices
6 15 (14.15%) Migration
7 13 (12.26%) Scrum
8 12 (11.32%) High Availability
8 12 (11.32%) Software Engineering
9 11 (10.38%) Kanban
9 11 (10.38%) Roadmaps
10 8 (7.55%) Configuration Management
10 8 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (6.60%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (6.60%) Observability
11 7 (6.60%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (6.60%) Service Design
12 6 (5.66%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.45%) Python
2 27 (25.47%) Java
3 18 (16.98%) TypeScript
4 14 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 13 (12.26%) Bash
5 13 (12.26%) SQL
6 6 (5.66%) Groovy
7 5 (4.72%) Go
8 3 (2.83%) C
9 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.89%) Perl
9 2 (1.89%) PHP
9 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.94%) C++
10 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.04%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (4.72%) Degree
5 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.94%) OCP
8 1 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.77%) QA
2 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.89%) SLA
3 1 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.94%) IFRS
3 1 (0.94%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 23 (21.70%) Docker
2 7 (6.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 42 (39.62%) Terraform
2 37 (34.91%) Kubernetes
3 24 (22.64%) Grafana
4 20 (18.87%) Ansible
5 11 (10.38%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.55%) Progress Chef
6 8 (7.55%) Puppet
7 7 (6.60%) Kibana
8 3 (2.83%) Consul
8 3 (2.83%) Packer
9 2 (1.89%) Salt
9 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.94%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.94%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.94%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.94%) Graylog
10 1 (0.94%) Icinga
10 1 (0.94%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.94%) Nagios
10 1 (0.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (11.32%) Oracle
2 8 (7.55%) SAP
3 7 (6.60%) Splunk
4 5 (4.72%) VMware
5 4 (3.77%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.77%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.83%) Databricks
6 3 (2.83%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.89%) Commvault
7 2 (1.89%) Confluent
7 2 (1.89%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.89%) IBM
7 2 (1.89%) Informatica
7 2 (1.89%) Okta
7 2 (1.89%) Qualys
7 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.89%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.89%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.94%) Avid