AWS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS 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 7 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,559 1,788 3,785
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.74% 11.65% 14.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.57% 32.18% 36.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,383 2,896
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £456 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 27
10th Percentile £39.24 £56.25 £30.85
25th Percentile £57.41 £57.19 £55.84
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £92.50 £72.50 £80.50
90th Percentile - - £88.30
UK median hourly rate £75.60 £55.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +37.45% -24.66% +32.73%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

AWS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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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.

AWS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS.

AWS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 125 (8.02%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (6.41%) Apache
3 57 (3.66%) Apache Spark
4 49 (3.14%) Confluence
5 15 (0.96%) nginx
6 13 (0.83%) CMS
7 6 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.38%) WordPress
8 5 (0.32%) Camunda
8 5 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.32%) Traefik
9 4 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.26%) IIS
9 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.13%) CICS
11 2 (0.13%) Documentum
11 2 (0.13%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.38%) Trello
4 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.064%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.38%) Endur
2 6 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.19%) SAP FSCM
4 3 (0.19%) Unica
5 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.064%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.064%) Kondor
6 1 (0.064%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.064%) Odoo
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.064%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.064%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 540 (34.64%) Azure
2 365 (23.41%) GCP
3 248 (15.91%) Serverless
4 213 (13.66%) AWS Lambda
5 164 (10.52%) Amazon S3
6 160 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 138 (8.85%) dbt
8 135 (8.66%) GitHub
9 112 (7.18%) Amazon EC2
10 109 (6.99%) Amazon ECS
11 94 (6.03%) Snowflake
12 88 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (4.55%) SaaS
14 68 (4.36%) Power Platform
15 66 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
16 65 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 65 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
17 59 (3.78%) PaaS
18 46 (2.95%) IaaS
18 46 (2.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 83 (5.32%) Firewall
2 75 (4.81%) DNS
3 59 (3.78%) TCP/IP
4 57 (3.66%) HTTP
5 39 (2.50%) VPN
6 36 (2.31%) DHCP
7 34 (2.18%) BGP
8 29 (1.86%) WAN
9 27 (1.73%) OSPF
10 24 (1.54%) HTTPS
11 22 (1.41%) SSL
12 19 (1.22%) Network Security
13 17 (1.09%) LAN
14 14 (0.90%) MPLS
15 11 (0.71%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.64%) Internet
17 6 (0.38%) Kerberos
17 6 (0.38%) VLAN
18 5 (0.32%) IPsec
18 5 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (8.21%) Amazon Athena
3 110 (7.06%) Apache Iceberg
4 108 (6.93%) Amazon RDS
5 103 (6.61%) Dremio
6 92 (5.90%) Apache Arrow
7 84 (5.39%) Data Lake
8 74 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
9 68 (4.36%) Apache Ignite
10 59 (3.78%) MySQL
11 58 (3.72%) MongoDB
12 52 (3.34%) DynamoDB
13 51 (3.27%) Power BI
14 49 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
15 45 (2.89%) NoSQL
15 45 (2.89%) SQL Server
16 41 (2.63%) Big Data
17 37 (2.37%) Relational Database
18 29 (1.86%) Redis
19 27 (1.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 161 (10.33%) Jenkins
2 137 (8.79%) GitLab
3 108 (6.93%) Git
4 87 (5.58%) JIRA
5 38 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 30 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.67%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.22%) REST Assured
10 18 (1.15%) Selenium
11 16 (1.03%) Maven
12 14 (0.90%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.90%) JMeter
12 14 (0.90%) Postman
13 12 (0.77%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.77%) JUnit
14 11 (0.71%) MLflow
15 9 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 8 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
17 7 (0.45%) Gatling
General
1 334 (21.42%) Finance
2 280 (17.96%) Social Skills
3 182 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 178 (11.42%) Banking
5 167 (10.71%) Front Office
6 148 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (4.49%) Investment Banking
8 30 (1.92%) Retail
9 29 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 23 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.22%) Law
13 18 (1.15%) Marketing
14 14 (0.90%) Legal
15 13 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.64%) Retail Banking
18 9 (0.58%) Tech for Good
19 8 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
20 7 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 390 (25.02%) Developer
2 269 (17.25%) Architect
3 230 (14.75%) AWS Engineer
4 207 (13.28%) Senior
5 180 (11.55%) Software Engineer
6 175 (11.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 141 (9.04%) Data Engineer
8 120 (7.70%) Python Engineer
9 94 (6.03%) AWS DevOps
10 88 (5.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 86 (5.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 83 (5.32%) Python Developer
13 81 (5.20%) Lead
13 81 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
14 74 (4.75%) AWS Developer
15 73 (4.68%) Full-Stack Developer
16 72 (4.62%) AWS Software Engineer
17 69 (4.43%) AWS Architect
17 69 (4.43%) React Developer
18 63 (4.04%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (16.36%) React
2 180 (11.55%) Node.js
3 141 (9.04%) Kafka
4 86 (5.52%) Pandas
5 82 (5.26%) PySpark
6 80 (5.13%) Redux
7 79 (5.07%) AngularJS
8 76 (4.87%) NumPy
9 71 (4.55%) REST
10 68 (4.36%) SciPy
11 67 (4.30%) .NET
11 67 (4.30%) RESTful
12 64 (4.11%) CSS
13 62 (3.98%) Spring
13 62 (3.98%) Spring Boot
14 59 (3.78%) AWS CDK
15 55 (3.53%) Vue
16 53 (3.40%) HTML
17 42 (2.69%) gRPC
18 41 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 119 (7.63%) Fixed Income
2 86 (5.52%) Cloud Native
3 65 (4.17%) Equities
4 63 (4.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 58 (3.72%) Hedge funds
6 41 (2.63%) Derivative
7 37 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 35 (2.25%) Public Cloud
9 33 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.60%) PKI
11 24 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 23 (1.48%) Algorithms
13 22 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (1.28%) Data Centre
14 20 (1.28%) Mobile App
15 19 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.22%) Management Information System
16 17 (1.09%) Onboarding
17 16 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
17 16 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 173 (11.10%) Linux
2 86 (5.52%) Windows
3 39 (2.50%) Unix
4 34 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 34 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.90%) CentOS
6 8 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.32%) AIX
8 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.13%) Android
10 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.13%) Solaris
10 2 (0.13%) VMS
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.064%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.064%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (30.21%) CI/CD
2 463 (29.70%) Agile
3 429 (27.52%) DevOps
4 313 (20.08%) Software Engineering
5 245 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
6 203 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 183 (11.74%) Microservices
8 179 (11.48%) Containerisation
9 163 (10.46%) Asset Management
9 163 (10.46%) Migration
10 151 (9.69%) Analytics
11 144 (9.24%) Full-Stack Development
12 139 (8.92%) Test Automation
13 117 (7.50%) Fintech
14 115 (7.38%) Data Engineering
15 100 (6.41%) Investment Management
16 98 (6.29%) Continuous Integration
17 95 (6.09%) ETL
18 93 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
19 92 (5.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 662 (42.46%) Python
2 329 (21.10%) Java
3 317 (20.33%) JavaScript
4 278 (17.83%) SQL
5 251 (16.10%) TypeScript
6 82 (5.26%) Bash
7 77 (4.94%) Go
8 71 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 60 (3.85%) C#
10 26 (1.67%) Bicep
10 26 (1.67%) PHP
11 23 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 22 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 20 (1.28%) C++
14 16 (1.03%) R
14 16 (1.03%) Ruby
15 13 (0.83%) C
16 12 (0.77%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.71%) Perl
17 11 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 372 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 338 (21.68%) SC Cleared
3 120 (7.70%) AWS Certification
4 102 (6.54%) Degree
5 61 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (3.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 42 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.67%) CISSP
9 23 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.35%) DV Cleared
12 18 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 13 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.71%) CISM
15 10 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.64%) CCNP
15 10 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
16 8 (0.51%) CEH
17 7 (0.45%) GIAC
18 6 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.23%) QA
2 44 (2.82%) GDPR
3 37 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.25%) NIST
5 28 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.15%) HIPAA
6 18 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.03%) NCSC
8 15 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.32%) WCAG
12 4 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.26%) SLA
13 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.13%) FIPS 140-2
System Software
1 297 (19.05%) Docker
2 37 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.32%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.19%) RACF
9 2 (0.13%) Platform Symphony
9 2 (0.13%) vSphere
10 1 (0.064%) HDFS
10 1 (0.064%) NFS
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.064%) Samba
10 1 (0.064%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 372 (23.86%) Terraform
2 328 (21.04%) Kubernetes
3 123 (7.89%) Ansible
4 71 (4.55%) Grafana
5 57 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.89%) Progress Chef
7 38 (2.44%) Puppet
8 22 (1.41%) Packer
9 17 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.03%) Kibana
11 15 (0.96%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.83%) Consul
13 12 (0.77%) Istio
14 10 (0.64%) Rancher
14 10 (0.64%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.51%) Argo
15 8 (0.51%) linkerd
15 8 (0.51%) logstash
15 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
16 7 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 112 (7.18%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.20%) Google
3 79 (5.07%) Oracle
4 63 (4.04%) Databricks
5 47 (3.01%) Cisco
6 45 (2.89%) VMware
7 41 (2.63%) Splunk
8 35 (2.25%) Palo Alto
9 31 (1.99%) Fortinet
10 28 (1.80%) Red Hat
11 25 (1.60%) CheckPoint
11 25 (1.60%) IBM
12 21 (1.35%) SAP
13 20 (1.28%) ServiceNow
14 16 (1.03%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.90%) Okta
16 13 (0.83%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.83%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.77%) New Relic
18 11 (0.71%) F5