Hybrid/Remote AWS Specialist Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Specialist daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 321 389
Rank change year-on-year +19 +68 +177
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Specialist 10 6 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.10% 0.050% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.053% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile £396 - -
25th Percentile £456 £180 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £181 £500
Median % change year-on-year +190.86% -63.90% -18.37%
75th Percentile £541 £525 £525
90th Percentile £586 £630 -
UK median daily rate £544 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -5.48% +27.78% -20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 9,283 11,301 17,850
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.26% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,082 7,123 12,525
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 203 394
10th Percentile £14.78 £19.59 £16.74
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.25 £24.81
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% -14.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.30 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.33% -12.22% +64.38%

AWS Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Specialist' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Specialist job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

AWS Specialist
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid AWS Specialist job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid AWS Specialist job vacancies

AWS Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Specialist over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

AWS Specialist daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, AWS Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring AWS Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Ping Identity
2 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 4 (40.00%) OpenID
3 4 (40.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) SAML
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (30.00%) OAuth
4 3 (30.00%) Okta
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) SailPoint
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 3 (30.00%) Terraform
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials

AWS Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) IaaS
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) OpenID
1 4 (40.00%) SAML
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth
2 3 (30.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Identity Management
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) API Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (10.00%) CRM
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Ping Identity
2 3 (30.00%) Okta
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft