AWS Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 155 140
Rank change year-on-year +42 -15 -11
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 230 207 455
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.32% 1.35% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 1.44% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 182 366
10th Percentile £413 £441 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.14% -2.29% +4.35%
75th Percentile £838 £766 £700
90th Percentile £875 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

AWS Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Engineer.

AWS Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 230 (100.00%) AWS
2 174 (75.65%) Python
3 128 (55.65%) Agile
4 116 (50.43%) Finance
5 115 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 112 (48.70%) DevOps
7 109 (47.39%) CI/CD
8 103 (44.78%) Asset Management
8 103 (44.78%) Front Office
9 102 (44.35%) Amazon Athena
10 101 (43.91%) dbt
11 100 (43.48%) Apache Iceberg
11 100 (43.48%) Terraform
12 99 (43.04%) Apache Airflow
13 94 (40.87%) Dremio
14 92 (40.00%) Apache Arrow
15 87 (37.83%) JavaScript
16 85 (36.96%) Kubernetes
17 82 (35.65%) Docker
18 80 (34.78%) Apache
19 79 (34.35%) Java
20 75 (32.61%) TypeScript
21 74 (32.17%) AWS Lambda
21 74 (32.17%) Serverless
22 68 (29.57%) Apache Ignite
23 64 (27.83%) Amazon ECS
23 64 (27.83%) Fixed Income
24 58 (25.22%) PySpark
25 56 (24.35%) Pandas
25 56 (24.35%) SciPy

AWS Engineer 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 99 (43.04%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (34.78%) Apache
3 36 (15.65%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.61%) Confluence
4 6 (2.61%) nginx
5 3 (1.30%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 230 (100.00%) AWS
2 101 (43.91%) dbt
3 74 (32.17%) AWS Lambda
3 74 (32.17%) Serverless
4 64 (27.83%) Amazon ECS
5 51 (22.17%) GCP
6 47 (20.43%) Snowflake
7 46 (20.00%) Amazon S3
8 43 (18.70%) Amazon EC2
9 36 (15.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (14.78%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (14.78%) OpenShift
11 27 (11.74%) GitHub
12 17 (7.39%) Dagster
13 14 (6.09%) Azure
14 12 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (5.22%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (3.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 9 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.65%) Firewall
2 11 (4.78%) HTTP
3 8 (3.48%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.17%) DNS
5 4 (1.74%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.87%) Internet
6 2 (0.87%) SSL
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (44.35%) Amazon Athena
2 100 (43.48%) Apache Iceberg
3 94 (40.87%) Dremio
4 92 (40.00%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (29.57%) Apache Ignite
6 35 (15.22%) Data Lake
7 27 (11.74%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (7.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (6.96%) DynamoDB
11 10 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (3.48%) Parquet
12 8 (3.48%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (2.17%) Big Data
15 4 (1.74%) Apache Hive
15 4 (1.74%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.74%) Presto
16 3 (1.30%) NoSQL
16 3 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (14.35%) Artifactory
2 29 (12.61%) Jenkins
3 25 (10.87%) GitLab
4 20 (8.70%) Git
5 9 (3.91%) JIRA
6 5 (2.17%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.74%) Poetry
7 4 (1.74%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.30%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (1.30%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.87%) Mocha
9 2 (0.87%) Postman
9 2 (0.87%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.43%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.43%) Travis CI
General
1 116 (50.43%) Finance
2 103 (44.78%) Front Office
3 55 (23.91%) Banking
4 41 (17.83%) Investment Banking
5 15 (6.52%) Social Skills
6 6 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.61%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.74%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.30%) Retail
9 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (25.22%) PySpark
2 56 (24.35%) NumPy
2 56 (24.35%) Pandas
2 56 (24.35%) SciPy
3 48 (20.87%) React
4 42 (18.26%) Node.js
5 40 (17.39%) gRPC
5 40 (17.39%) Protocol Buffers
6 39 (16.96%) Kafka
7 29 (12.61%) Vue
8 28 (12.17%) J2EE
9 27 (11.74%) AngularJS
10 13 (5.65%) AWS CDK
11 12 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (4.78%) Redux
13 10 (4.35%) JSON
14 8 (3.48%) RESTful
15 7 (3.04%) GraphQL
16 5 (2.17%) REST
17 4 (1.74%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 64 (27.83%) Fixed Income
2 48 (20.87%) Equities
3 47 (20.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 37 (16.09%) Derivative
4 37 (16.09%) Hedge funds
5 12 (5.22%) Pricing Data
6 7 (3.04%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.87%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Vector Graphics
11 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.43%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.74%) Linux
2 11 (4.78%) Windows
3 9 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.61%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.30%) Unix
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (55.65%) Agile
2 115 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 112 (48.70%) DevOps
4 109 (47.39%) CI/CD
5 103 (44.78%) Asset Management
6 46 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (19.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 39 (16.96%) Data Engineering
8 39 (16.96%) Fintech
8 39 (16.96%) Investment Management
9 32 (13.91%) Open Source
10 28 (12.17%) Migration
11 27 (11.74%) Performance Attribution
12 18 (7.83%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (7.39%) Containerisation
13 17 (7.39%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (6.96%) Order Management
14 16 (6.96%) Risk Management
15 15 (6.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 174 (75.65%) Python
2 87 (37.83%) JavaScript
3 79 (34.35%) Java
4 75 (32.61%) TypeScript
5 38 (16.52%) Go
6 32 (13.91%) SQL
7 17 (7.39%) Bash
8 8 (3.48%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.30%) Groovy
9 3 (1.30%) Perl
9 3 (1.30%) Ruby
10 2 (0.87%) C#
11 1 (0.43%) DAML
11 1 (0.43%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 36 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.96%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.22%) Degree
5 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.61%) QA
2 5 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.43%) NIST
3 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (35.65%) Docker
2 4 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (43.48%) Terraform
2 85 (36.96%) Kubernetes
3 24 (10.43%) Ansible
4 17 (7.39%) Grafana
5 13 (5.65%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.78%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.48%) Kibana
8 5 (2.17%) Puppet
9 4 (1.74%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.74%) logstash
10 2 (0.87%) Argo
10 2 (0.87%) Consul
10 2 (0.87%) Packer
11 1 (0.43%) QRadar
11 1 (0.43%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 7 (3.04%) Red Hat
2 6 (2.61%) Databricks
3 5 (2.17%) Splunk
4 3 (1.30%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.87%) Cribl.io
5 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.87%) Imperva
5 2 (0.87%) Informatica
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco
6 1 (0.43%) Google
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.43%) New Relic
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle
6 1 (0.43%) Qualys
6 1 (0.43%) SAP
6 1 (0.43%) Tenable
6 1 (0.43%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.43%) VMware