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 25 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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 145 143
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +6
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 218 425 851
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.49% 1.74% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.83% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 350 657
10th Percentile £450 £463 £438
25th Percentile £500 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £850 £713 £650
90th Percentile - £863 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +13.74%
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 13,713 23,257 42,175
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.31% 95.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,255 16,468 30,563
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 540 568
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.71 £25.71 £19.39
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +50.80%
75th Percentile £64.65 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.18 £77.55 £68.40
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.86%

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 25 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 25 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.

1 218 (100.00%) AWS
2 133 (61.01%) Python
3 125 (57.34%) DevOps
4 95 (43.58%) Terraform
5 79 (36.24%) Finance
6 76 (34.86%) Agile
7 74 (33.94%) JavaScript
8 70 (32.11%) Kubernetes
9 67 (30.73%) Apache Airflow
10 66 (30.28%) dbt
10 66 (30.28%) Java
11 65 (29.82%) Amazon Athena
12 62 (28.44%) Snowflake
12 62 (28.44%) Asset Management
13 61 (27.98%) Protocol Buffers
13 61 (27.98%) Dremio
13 61 (27.98%) Apache Arrow
13 61 (27.98%) gRPC
14 59 (27.06%) Investment Management
15 56 (25.69%) CI/CD
16 52 (23.85%) Data Lake
16 52 (23.85%) Hedge funds
17 49 (22.48%) Software Engineering
18 48 (22.02%) TypeScript
19 47 (21.56%) Security Cleared
20 45 (20.64%) Docker
21 44 (20.18%) Front Office
21 44 (20.18%) NumPy
22 43 (19.72%) SciPy
22 43 (19.72%) Pandas

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 67 (30.73%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (19.72%) Apache
3 6 (2.75%) Confluence
4 3 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 218 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (30.28%) dbt
3 62 (28.44%) Snowflake
4 36 (16.51%) AWS Lambda
4 36 (16.51%) Serverless
5 29 (13.30%) Amazon S3
6 26 (11.93%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (11.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (9.63%) Azure
9 18 (8.26%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (6.42%) GCP
11 14 (6.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (5.96%) GitHub
13 12 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.50%) Route 53
14 10 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.67%) Amazon EMR
15 8 (3.67%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (3.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.13%) Firewall
2 5 (2.29%) DNS
2 5 (2.29%) Network Security
3 4 (1.83%) DHCP
4 3 (1.38%) LAN
4 3 (1.38%) WLAN
5 2 (0.92%) VPN
6 1 (0.46%) IPv4
6 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (29.82%) Amazon Athena
2 61 (27.98%) Apache Arrow
2 61 (27.98%) Dremio
3 52 (23.85%) Data Lake
4 43 (19.72%) Apache Ignite
5 20 (9.17%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (9.17%) Big Data
6 15 (6.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.75%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.75%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.83%) MySQL
12 3 (1.38%) InfluxDB
12 3 (1.38%) Tableau
13 2 (0.92%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.92%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (9.63%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.26%) GitLab
3 16 (7.34%) Git
4 11 (5.05%) JIRA
5 5 (2.29%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.92%) JMeter
6 2 (0.92%) Snyk
7 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) Gradle
7 1 (0.46%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.46%) Maven
7 1 (0.46%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.46%) Selenium
7 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.46%) Storybook
7 1 (0.46%) VisualWorks
General
1 79 (36.24%) Finance
2 44 (20.18%) Front Office
3 40 (18.35%) Banking
4 35 (16.06%) Investment Banking
5 19 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.88%) Social Skills
7 8 (3.67%) Law
8 4 (1.83%) Retail
9 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.46%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
11 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (27.98%) gRPC
1 61 (27.98%) Protocol Buffers
2 44 (20.18%) NumPy
3 43 (19.72%) Pandas
3 43 (19.72%) SciPy
4 12 (5.50%) React
5 11 (5.05%) AWS CDK
5 11 (5.05%) Node.js
6 9 (4.13%) Redux
7 8 (3.67%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.67%) Vue
8 7 (3.21%) PySpark
9 6 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.83%) AWS SAM
10 4 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.38%) Kafka
12 2 (0.92%) ADO
12 2 (0.92%) J2EE
12 2 (0.92%) Spring Boot
12 2 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.85%) Hedge funds
2 40 (18.35%) Fixed Income
3 32 (14.68%) Derivative
3 32 (14.68%) Equities
3 32 (14.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (8.72%) Clustering
5 12 (5.50%) Pricing Data
6 11 (5.05%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.38%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.92%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.46%) Life Science
10 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.30%) Linux
2 9 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (4.13%) Windows
3 6 (2.75%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.83%) Unix
4 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.46%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (57.34%) DevOps
2 76 (34.86%) Agile
3 62 (28.44%) Asset Management
4 59 (27.06%) Investment Management
5 56 (25.69%) CI/CD
6 49 (22.48%) Software Engineering
7 33 (15.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (10.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 20 (9.17%) Greeks
10 19 (8.72%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (8.26%) Data Engineering
11 18 (8.26%) Test Automation
12 17 (7.80%) Containerisation
12 17 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (6.88%) Analytics
13 15 (6.88%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (5.50%) Computer Science
14 12 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 11 (5.05%) ETL
15 11 (5.05%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 133 (61.01%) Python
2 74 (33.94%) JavaScript
3 66 (30.28%) Java
4 48 (22.02%) TypeScript
5 27 (12.39%) Go
6 23 (10.55%) Bash
7 18 (8.26%) SQL
8 8 (3.67%) Scala
9 6 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.29%) C#
11 4 (1.83%) C++
11 4 (1.83%) Groovy
12 3 (1.38%) C
12 3 (1.38%) Perl
12 3 (1.38%) Ruby
13 2 (0.92%) PHP
13 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.46%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 47 (21.56%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.96%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.05%) Degree
5 8 (3.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.46%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.47%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.38%) NCSC
3 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) NIST
4 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (20.64%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (43.58%) Terraform
2 70 (32.11%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.84%) Ansible
4 26 (11.93%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.88%) Grafana
6 7 (3.21%) Kibana
7 5 (2.29%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.92%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.92%) Nagios
8 2 (0.92%) Puppet
8 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.46%) Argo
9 1 (0.46%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.46%) Graylog
9 1 (0.46%) logstash
9 1 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (5.50%) Databricks
2 9 (4.13%) Splunk
3 4 (1.83%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.83%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.83%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.38%) Informatica
4 3 (1.38%) Oracle
5 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.46%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.46%) Confluent
5 1 (0.46%) Google
5 1 (0.46%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.46%) VMware