AWS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,777 3,590 7,198
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.81% 14.33% 16.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.65% 36.26% 39.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 2,762 5,605
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £473 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £663
90th Percentile £800 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 28 33
10th Percentile £58.50 £31.89 £47.25
25th Percentile £67.50 £48.51 £51.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +12.53% +54.21%
75th Percentile £73.00 £78.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £88.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -26.67% +14.43% +52.42%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

AWS is in the Cloud Services 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 cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,442 9,900 18,189
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.18% 39.51% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,921 7,297 13,593
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 127 179
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.15 £20.38
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +54.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%

AWS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

AWS trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

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 a work from home option citing AWS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing AWS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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
1 135 (7.60%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (6.19%) Apache
3 64 (3.60%) Confluence
4 32 (1.80%) nginx
5 20 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.56%) CMS
8 9 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
8 9 (0.51%) JBoss
8 9 (0.51%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.51%) WordPress
9 8 (0.45%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.39%) Drupal
10 7 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.28%) IIS
11 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.28%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.39%) Trello
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.11%) Weka
6 1 (0.056%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.056%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (0.39%) Endur
1 7 (0.39%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.17%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Magento
5 2 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.056%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.056%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.056%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.056%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.056%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 577 (32.47%) Azure
2 306 (17.22%) GCP
3 181 (10.19%) Serverless
4 157 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
5 147 (8.27%) Amazon S3
6 125 (7.03%) Snowflake
7 120 (6.75%) dbt
8 100 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
8 100 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 96 (5.40%) GitHub
10 77 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 77 (4.33%) SaaS
11 74 (4.16%) Amazon EKS
12 58 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 53 (2.98%) PaaS
14 52 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
15 45 (2.53%) IaaS
16 44 (2.48%) OpenShift
17 42 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
17 42 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.50%) Firewall
2 51 (2.87%) Network Security
3 44 (2.48%) DNS
4 40 (2.25%) SSL
5 36 (2.03%) VPN
6 29 (1.63%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.13%) HTTP
8 19 (1.07%) DHCP
9 17 (0.96%) WAN
10 16 (0.90%) LAN
11 13 (0.73%) BGP
11 13 (0.73%) Wireless
12 12 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (0.62%) VLAN
14 9 (0.51%) NAS
14 9 (0.51%) OSPF
14 9 (0.51%) SAN
14 9 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.45%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
3 100 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
4 98 (5.51%) Apache Arrow
4 98 (5.51%) Dremio
5 96 (5.40%) Data Lake
6 87 (4.90%) Apache Ignite
7 63 (3.55%) MySQL
8 62 (3.49%) Relational Database
9 61 (3.43%) SQL Server
10 57 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
11 54 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 53 (2.98%) NoSQL
13 45 (2.53%) DynamoDB
13 45 (2.53%) MongoDB
14 44 (2.48%) Big Data
15 39 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
16 32 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
16 32 (1.80%) Oracle Database
17 31 (1.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 154 (8.67%) Jenkins
2 127 (7.15%) Git
3 126 (7.09%) JIRA
4 88 (4.95%) GitLab
5 42 (2.36%) Selenium
6 38 (2.14%) Cypress.io
7 32 (1.80%) Cucumber
8 29 (1.63%) SonarQube
9 22 (1.24%) Maven
10 18 (1.01%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.96%) JMeter
11 17 (0.96%) JUnit
12 15 (0.84%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.68%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.68%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.62%) Postman
15 9 (0.51%) webpack
16 8 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
16 8 (0.45%) TestNG
General
1 345 (19.41%) Finance
2 287 (16.15%) Social Skills
3 159 (8.95%) Public Sector
4 143 (8.05%) Banking
5 142 (7.99%) Front Office
6 93 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
7 82 (4.61%) Investment Banking
8 37 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 34 (1.91%) Retail
10 25 (1.41%) Marketing
11 19 (1.07%) Law
11 19 (1.07%) Manufacturing
12 17 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (0.90%) Retail Banking
14 15 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.56%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 500 (28.14%) Developer
2 296 (16.66%) Architect
3 228 (12.83%) Senior
4 211 (11.87%) AWS Engineer
5 189 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 172 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 131 (7.37%) Lead
8 98 (5.51%) Java Developer
9 92 (5.18%) Full Stack Developer
10 88 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
11 80 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
11 80 (4.50%) Data Engineer
12 76 (4.28%) Python Developer
13 74 (4.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 68 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
15 66 (3.71%) Analyst
16 64 (3.60%) Python Engineer
16 64 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
17 60 (3.38%) AWS Architect
18 56 (3.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (10.69%) React
2 144 (8.10%) Node.js
3 111 (6.25%) gRPC
4 110 (6.19%) Protocol Buffers
5 103 (5.80%) Kafka
6 95 (5.35%) REST
7 92 (5.18%) Pandas
8 84 (4.73%) NumPy
9 83 (4.67%) RESTful
9 83 (4.67%) SciPy
10 81 (4.56%) AngularJS
11 80 (4.50%) Spring Boot
12 79 (4.45%) .NET
13 78 (4.39%) Spring
13 78 (4.39%) Web Services
14 70 (3.94%) CSS
14 70 (3.94%) HTML
15 58 (3.26%) GraphQL
16 50 (2.81%) AWS CDK
17 42 (2.36%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 133 (7.48%) Fixed Income
2 129 (7.26%) Hedge funds
3 118 (6.64%) Derivative
4 108 (6.08%) Equities
5 96 (5.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 56 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 55 (3.10%) Public Cloud
8 48 (2.70%) Cloud Native
9 46 (2.59%) PKI
10 44 (2.48%) Product Ownership
11 42 (2.36%) Data Centre
12 36 (2.03%) Management Information System
12 36 (2.03%) Onboarding
13 33 (1.86%) Clustering
14 24 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
14 24 (1.35%) Replication
15 21 (1.18%) Algorithms
15 21 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
16 18 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 187 (10.52%) Linux
2 102 (5.74%) Windows
3 51 (2.87%) Unix
4 40 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.73%) Android
8 12 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.51%) Solaris
9 9 (0.51%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.34%) CentOS
12 3 (0.17%) VMS
13 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.11%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.056%) tvOS
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (31.34%) Agile
2 487 (27.41%) DevOps
3 345 (19.41%) CI/CD
4 321 (18.06%) Software Engineering
5 189 (10.64%) Microservices
6 177 (9.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 165 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
7 165 (9.29%) Test Automation
8 164 (9.23%) Analytics
9 161 (9.06%) Full Stack Development
10 159 (8.95%) Asset Management
11 138 (7.77%) Containerisation
12 131 (7.37%) Migration
13 130 (7.32%) Investment Management
14 92 (5.18%) Scrum
14 92 (5.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 84 (4.73%) TDD
16 81 (4.56%) Continuous Integration
17 80 (4.50%) ETL
17 80 (4.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 559 (31.46%) Python
2 382 (21.50%) Java
3 329 (18.51%) JavaScript
4 265 (14.91%) TypeScript
5 250 (14.07%) SQL
6 119 (6.70%) Go
7 103 (5.80%) Bash
8 73 (4.11%) C#
9 66 (3.71%) PHP
10 61 (3.43%) PowerShell
11 46 (2.59%) Scala
12 44 (2.48%) Ruby
13 29 (1.63%) C++
14 28 (1.58%) C
15 27 (1.52%) Perl
15 27 (1.52%) R
16 21 (1.18%) PL/SQL
17 20 (1.13%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.79%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 395 (22.23%) Security Cleared
2 339 (19.08%) SC Cleared
3 125 (7.03%) Degree
4 71 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 54 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 28 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.18%) CISSP
10 20 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (0.90%) CISM
12 14 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 13 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 10 (0.56%) CISA
16 10 (0.56%) CREST Certified
17 6 (0.34%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.43%) QA
2 53 (2.98%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.19%) NCSC
5 36 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.91%) NIST
7 19 (1.07%) GDPR
7 19 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.79%) SLA
9 8 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.17%) GPG13
12 3 (0.17%) MiFID
13 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.11%) GxP
13 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 292 (16.43%) Docker
2 110 (6.19%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.056%) Firmware
9 1 (0.056%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.056%) HDFS
9 1 (0.056%) IAG
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.056%) RACF
9 1 (0.056%) UAG
9 1 (0.056%) vCloud
9 1 (0.056%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.056%) XenApp
9 1 (0.056%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 365 (20.54%) Kubernetes
2 325 (18.29%) Terraform
3 143 (8.05%) Ansible
4 60 (3.38%) Grafana
5 57 (3.21%) Prometheus
6 36 (2.03%) Progress Chef
6 36 (2.03%) Puppet
7 22 (1.24%) Kibana
8 16 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
9 14 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.68%) Nagios
10 12 (0.68%) Packer
11 10 (0.56%) SCCM
12 8 (0.45%) Consul
12 8 (0.45%) Podman
13 7 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
13 7 (0.39%) Netcool
13 7 (0.39%) Tivoli
13 7 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 6 (0.34%) logstash
Vendors
1 120 (6.75%) Microsoft
2 117 (6.58%) Oracle
3 65 (3.66%) Google
4 57 (3.21%) Splunk
5 55 (3.10%) VMware
6 40 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 38 (2.14%) Cisco
8 35 (1.97%) CyberArk
9 30 (1.69%) IBM
10 26 (1.46%) Databricks
10 26 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.46%) SAP
11 21 (1.18%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.18%) Salesforce
12 20 (1.13%) Dynatrace
13 18 (1.01%) Genesys
14 16 (0.90%) BeyondTrust
14 16 (0.90%) Bloomberg
15 14 (0.79%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.79%) Qualys