Amazon Linux Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Linux AMI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Amazon Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon Linux 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 298 343 474
Rank change year-on-year +45 +131 +149
Contract jobs citing Amazon Linux 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.013% 0.012%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.51% 0.13% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £414 £355 £571
25th Percentile £417 £363 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £375 £603
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -37.76% -3.60%
75th Percentile £442 £388 £636
90th Percentile £443 £395 £651
UK median daily rate £413 £375 £633
% change year-on-year +10.00% -40.71% +5.42%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Amazon Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Amazon Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon Linux trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon Linux
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon Linux.

Amazon Linux daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon Linux
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Datadog
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
1 1 (16.67%) Spinnaker
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (66.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Server Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Linux Server Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
1 5 (83.33%) Project Delivery
1 5 (83.33%) Service-Level Objective
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Debt
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Argo
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kibana
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) logstash
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Tanium