AWS Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 467 614
Rank change year-on-year +130 +147 -137
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Specialist 9 4 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.016% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.016% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £513 £548 -
25th Percentile £519 £568 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +17.07% -24.07%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £538
90th Percentile £592 £604 £556
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -19.23%

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 14,245 24,407 42,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 17,249 30,859
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 558 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

AWS Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

AWS Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Specialist
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 Specialist.

AWS Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, AWS Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) AWS Certification
3 6 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (66.67%) Oracle
4 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (55.56%) Azure
4 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
4 5 (55.56%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (55.56%) Cloud Operations
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 5 (55.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (44.44%) Cost Control
5 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
5 4 (44.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (44.44%) Docker
5 4 (44.44%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
5 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
5 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
6 3 (33.33%) Python
6 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 3 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
7 2 (22.22%) Data Science
7 2 (22.22%) PySpark
7 2 (22.22%) Serverless
7 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline

AWS Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (55.56%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
3 2 (22.22%) Tableau
4 1 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
1 2 (22.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (44.44%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (44.44%) Cost Control
2 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (22.22%) Data Science
4 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Database Tuning
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Groovy
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) AWS Certification
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Ariba
3 1 (11.11%) ICL
3 1 (11.11%) SAP