AWS SAM Contracts with Work from Home Options

AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for AWS SAM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS SAM over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 464 606
Rank change year-on-year +126 +142 -134
Contract jobs citing AWS SAM 6 7 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.039% 0.027% 0.038%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 10
10th Percentile £500 £408 £454
25th Percentile £503 £413 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £556
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% -12.36% +28.99%
75th Percentile £584 £500 £613
90th Percentile £619 £525 £643
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +37.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

AWS SAM is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,647 6,485 13,225
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.91% 25.27% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 4,823 9,761
10th Percentile £331 £394 £398
25th Percentile £428 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +13.54%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 81 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%

AWS SAM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS SAM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS SAM trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS SAM
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 SAM.

AWS SAM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS SAM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS SAM over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

AWS SAM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS SAM
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Lead
3 3 (50.00%) Senior
4 2 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (50.00%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Next.js
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) SIEM
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
3 4 (66.67%) Go
3 4 (66.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform