Amazon Linux Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Linux AMI
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 Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon Linux over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 464 610
Rank change year-on-year +116 +146 -137
Contract jobs citing Amazon Linux 2 4 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.016% 0.025%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.13% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £355 £553 -
25th Percentile £363 £558 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year -33.63% -9.60% +19.05%
75th Percentile £388 £613 £638
90th Percentile £395 £641 -
UK median daily rate £375 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -40.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Amazon Linux is in the Operating Systems 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 operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,560 3,419 5,347
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.37% 13.66% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 2,409 3,780
10th Percentile £225 £243 £300
25th Percentile £350 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £607
90th Percentile £685 £725 £676
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 103 152
10th Percentile £12.80 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.27 £30.36 £19.63
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +22.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.50 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.17
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

Amazon Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Amazon Linux trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon Linux
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 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeCommit
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) MariaDB
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 2 (100.00%) Laravel
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP