AWS DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in Work from Home is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 248 255
Rank change year-on-year -25 +7 -46
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 78 242 460
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.92% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.97% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 199 378
10th Percentile £425 £488 £475
25th Percentile £500 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £631 £713 £625
90th Percentile £688 £863 £679
UK median daily rate £545 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -9.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,497 24,934 42,852
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.26% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,690 17,596 30,939
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £745 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 591 610
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £12.88
25th Percentile £22.50 £27.63 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.00 £68.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

AWS DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps
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 AWS DevOps.

AWS DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS DevOps over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

AWS DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, AWS DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 78 (100.00%) AWS
1 78 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (71.79%) Terraform
3 44 (56.41%) CI/CD
4 40 (51.28%) Kubernetes
5 37 (47.44%) Python
6 36 (46.15%) Docker
7 33 (42.31%) Security Cleared
8 31 (39.74%) SC Cleared
9 28 (35.90%) Ansible
9 28 (35.90%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (35.90%) Serverless
9 28 (35.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (28.21%) Bash
11 21 (26.92%) Linux
12 20 (25.64%) Jenkins
13 19 (24.36%) Amazon S3
14 17 (21.79%) Agile
14 17 (21.79%) Containerisation
15 16 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (20.51%) Public Sector
15 16 (20.51%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (17.95%) GitLab
18 13 (16.67%) Grafana
18 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
19 12 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
19 12 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 12 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch

AWS DevOps Skill Set
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 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) Apache
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.28%) nginx
2 1 (1.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (35.90%) AWS Lambda
2 28 (35.90%) Serverless
3 19 (24.36%) Amazon S3
4 16 (20.51%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (15.38%) Azure
6 12 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (12.82%) Route 53
8 9 (11.54%) GitHub
9 8 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (8.97%) PaaS
11 6 (7.69%) OpenShift
11 6 (7.69%) SaaS
12 5 (6.41%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (5.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (5.13%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.54%) Firewall
2 4 (5.13%) DNS
2 4 (5.13%) Network Security
3 3 (3.85%) DHCP
3 3 (3.85%) LAN
3 3 (3.85%) WLAN
4 2 (2.56%) VPN
5 1 (1.28%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.41%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.85%) InfluxDB
4 3 (3.85%) MySQL
5 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.28%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 14 (17.95%) GitLab
3 12 (15.38%) Git
4 4 (5.13%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.85%) JIRA
6 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.28%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.28%) Gradle
6 1 (1.28%) Maven
6 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (20.51%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.26%) Law
2 8 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.41%) Finance
4 3 (3.85%) Banking
4 3 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.28%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Marketing
5 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.54%) AWS CDK
2 8 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (7.69%) AWS SAM
4 3 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.56%) React
6 1 (1.28%) ADO
6 1 (1.28%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.28%) EDI
6 1 (1.28%) JSON
6 1 (1.28%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (1.28%) LDAP
6 1 (1.28%) Next.js
6 1 (1.28%) Node.js
6 1 (1.28%) RESTful
6 1 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.56%) Life Science
4 1 (1.28%) Clustering
4 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.28%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.92%) Linux
2 7 (8.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.41%) Ubuntu
3 5 (6.41%) Windows
4 4 (5.13%) Unix
5 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.28%) CentOS
6 1 (1.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 28 (35.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (21.79%) Agile
4 17 (21.79%) Containerisation
5 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (14.10%) Test Automation
7 7 (8.97%) Observability
7 7 (8.97%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (7.69%) Computer Science
8 6 (7.69%) Configuration Management
8 6 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (6.41%) Migration
9 5 (6.41%) Project Management
10 4 (5.13%) Continuous Delivery
10 4 (5.13%) DevSecOps
10 4 (5.13%) High Availability
10 4 (5.13%) OOP
10 4 (5.13%) Performance Testing
11 3 (3.85%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (47.44%) Python
2 22 (28.21%) Bash
3 8 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.97%) Go
5 5 (6.41%) Groovy
6 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.56%) Java
7 2 (2.56%) R
8 1 (1.28%) PHP
8 1 (1.28%) Scala
8 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 31 (39.74%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.54%) Degree
4 8 (10.26%) AWS Certification
5 6 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.56%) GDPR
1 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.28%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (46.15%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (71.79%) Terraform
2 40 (51.28%) Kubernetes
3 28 (35.90%) Ansible
4 13 (16.67%) Grafana
5 6 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.41%) Kibana
7 4 (5.13%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.56%) Puppet
9 1 (1.28%) Graylog
9 1 (1.28%) logstash
9 1 (1.28%) Nagios
9 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (6.41%) Splunk
2 4 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.56%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.56%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.28%) Ariba
5 1 (1.28%) Brio
5 1 (1.28%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.28%) Databricks
5 1 (1.28%) Google
5 1 (1.28%) ICL
5 1 (1.28%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.28%) SAP
5 1 (1.28%) VMware