AWS Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 144 132
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 +22
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 208 441 900
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.38% 1.76% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.84% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 357 704
10th Percentile £450 £463 £438
25th Percentile £500 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £769 £700 £650
90th Percentile £850 £818 £729
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

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 14,049 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,416 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

AWS Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

AWS Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer
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 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 a work from home option citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 7 May 2024, 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.

1 208 (100.00%) AWS
2 125 (60.10%) DevOps
3 124 (59.62%) Python
4 92 (44.23%) Terraform
5 70 (33.65%) Kubernetes
6 68 (32.69%) Agile
7 65 (31.25%) CI/CD
8 63 (30.29%) Finance
9 58 (27.88%) JavaScript
10 52 (25.00%) dbt
11 51 (24.52%) Java
12 50 (24.04%) Amazon Athena
12 50 (24.04%) Apache Airflow
13 47 (22.60%) Snowflake
14 46 (22.12%) Serverless
14 46 (22.12%) Asset Management
15 45 (21.63%) Docker
15 45 (21.63%) Protocol Buffers
15 45 (21.63%) gRPC
15 45 (21.63%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (21.63%) Dremio
15 45 (21.63%) Apache Arrow
16 44 (21.15%) Security Cleared
17 43 (20.67%) Investment Management
18 40 (19.23%) Data Lake
19 38 (18.27%) SC Cleared
19 38 (18.27%) Software Engineering
19 38 (18.27%) TypeScript
20 37 (17.79%) Hedge funds
20 37 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code

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 50 (24.04%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (15.38%) Apache
3 6 (2.88%) Confluence
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 208 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (25.00%) dbt
3 47 (22.60%) Snowflake
4 46 (22.12%) Serverless
5 45 (21.63%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (16.35%) Amazon S3
7 27 (12.98%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (12.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (11.06%) Azure
10 21 (10.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (9.13%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (7.21%) GitHub
14 14 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (6.73%) Route 53
15 13 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
16 12 (5.77%) GCP
16 12 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (5.29%) Amazon EMR
18 9 (4.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.81%) Firewall
2 5 (2.40%) DNS
2 5 (2.40%) Network Security
3 4 (1.92%) DHCP
4 3 (1.44%) LAN
4 3 (1.44%) WLAN
5 2 (0.96%) VPN
6 1 (0.48%) IPv4
6 1 (0.48%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (24.04%) Amazon Athena
2 45 (21.63%) Apache Arrow
2 45 (21.63%) Dremio
3 40 (19.23%) Data Lake
4 31 (14.90%) Apache Ignite
5 22 (10.58%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (9.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (7.69%) Big Data
8 12 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.88%) DynamoDB
10 6 (2.88%) MySQL
11 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.40%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.40%) Tableau
12 3 (1.44%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.96%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (10.58%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.65%) Git
3 17 (8.17%) GitLab
4 13 (6.25%) JIRA
5 5 (2.40%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.96%) JMeter
6 2 (0.96%) Snyk
7 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.48%) Gradle
7 1 (0.48%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.48%) Maven
7 1 (0.48%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.48%) Selenium
7 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.48%) Storybook
7 1 (0.48%) VisualWorks
General
1 63 (30.29%) Finance
2 31 (14.90%) Front Office
3 30 (14.42%) Banking
4 25 (12.02%) Investment Banking
5 18 (8.65%) Social Skills
6 17 (8.17%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.85%) Law
8 5 (2.40%) Retail
9 4 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Marketing
12 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.63%) gRPC
1 45 (21.63%) Protocol Buffers
2 31 (14.90%) NumPy
2 31 (14.90%) Pandas
2 31 (14.90%) SciPy
3 15 (7.21%) AWS CDK
4 12 (5.77%) PySpark
5 10 (4.81%) React
6 9 (4.33%) Node.js
7 7 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (3.37%) Redux
8 6 (2.88%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.88%) Vue
9 4 (1.92%) AWS SAM
9 4 (1.92%) Kafka
9 4 (1.92%) YAML
10 3 (1.44%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.96%) ADO
11 2 (0.96%) React Native
12 1 (0.48%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.79%) Hedge funds
2 28 (13.46%) Fixed Income
3 22 (10.58%) Derivative
3 22 (10.58%) Equities
3 22 (10.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (7.21%) Clustering
5 12 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.88%) Pricing Data
7 4 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.96%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.96%) Life Science
10 1 (0.48%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.94%) Linux
2 13 (6.25%) Windows
3 8 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.37%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.44%) Unix
7 1 (0.48%) Android
7 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.48%) CentOS
7 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (60.10%) DevOps
2 68 (32.69%) Agile
3 65 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 46 (22.12%) Asset Management
5 43 (20.67%) Investment Management
6 38 (18.27%) Software Engineering
7 37 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (11.06%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (10.10%) Data Engineering
10 20 (9.62%) Test Automation
11 19 (9.13%) Containerisation
11 19 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (9.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 18 (8.65%) Analytics
13 16 (7.69%) Greeks
13 16 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
14 15 (7.21%) ETL
15 12 (5.77%) Computer Science
15 12 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (5.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 124 (59.62%) Python
2 58 (27.88%) JavaScript
3 51 (24.52%) Java
4 38 (18.27%) TypeScript
5 24 (11.54%) Bash
5 24 (11.54%) Go
6 19 (9.13%) SQL
7 8 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.85%) Scala
8 5 (2.40%) C#
9 4 (1.92%) Groovy
10 3 (1.44%) Perl
10 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.96%) C++
11 2 (0.96%) PHP
11 2 (0.96%) R
12 1 (0.48%) C
12 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.48%) Ruby
12 1 (0.48%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 44 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.27%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.21%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.29%) Degree
5 9 (4.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.10%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.44%) NCSC
4 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.96%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (21.63%) Docker
2 4 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (44.23%) Terraform
2 70 (33.65%) Kubernetes
3 29 (13.94%) Ansible
4 21 (10.10%) Prometheus
5 14 (6.73%) Grafana
6 7 (3.37%) Kibana
7 5 (2.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.96%) Puppet
8 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.48%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.48%) Graylog
9 1 (0.48%) logstash
9 1 (0.48%) Nagios
9 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (4.81%) Databricks
2 6 (2.88%) Splunk
3 5 (2.40%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.92%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.44%) Informatica
6 2 (0.96%) Oracle
7 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.48%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.48%) Google
7 1 (0.48%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.48%) VMware