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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 345 446
Rank change year-on-year +38 +101 +159
Contract jobs citing Amazon Linux 7 2 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.069% 0.014% 0.041%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.61% 0.12% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile £435 £355 £543
25th Percentile £469 £363 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £565
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -33.63% -9.60%
75th Percentile £575 £388 £660
90th Percentile - £395 £677
UK median daily rate £475 £375 £600
% change year-on-year +26.67% -37.50% -

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 1,147 1,614 3,208
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.27% 11.08% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 1,091 2,244
10th Percentile £288 £233 £241
25th Percentile £378 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -4.81% -0.95%
75th Percentile £580 £589 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 45 121
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £14.00 £25.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.64 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +268.59% -66.41% +12.49%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £67.50
90th Percentile - £71.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -9.76% -41.18% +88.89%

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
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon Linux over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Amazon Linux daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Route 53
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SSH
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (57.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Server Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Linux Server Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
1 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
1 5 (71.43%) Project Delivery
1 5 (71.43%) Service-Level Objective
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Debt
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (28.57%) Protective Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) FortiGate
1 2 (28.57%) Kibana
1 2 (28.57%) Packer
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Tanium