AWS SAM Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring AWS SAM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS SAM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 339 470
Rank change year-on-year +37 +131 +144
Contract jobs citing AWS SAM 2 6 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.039% 0.027%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.078% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £488 £500 £408
25th Percentile £489 £503 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +10.26% -7.14%
75th Percentile £527 £584 £500
90th Percentile £529 £619 £525
UK median daily rate £506 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.95% +4.76% -12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

AWS SAM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

AWS SAM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS SAM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

AWS SAM
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 SAM.

AWS SAM daily rate 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform