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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,751 3,473 7,165
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.95% 14.21% 16.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.63% 36.13% 39.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,342 2,698 5,563
10th Percentile £405 £425 £425
25th Percentile £475 £489 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £663
90th Percentile £825 £763 £749
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £579
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.69% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 30 33
10th Percentile - £33.96 £47.25
25th Percentile £67.50 £45.63 £51.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +8.71% +54.21%
75th Percentile £73.50 £75.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £88.30 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -26.67% +14.43% +37.98%

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 5,367 9,612 18,223
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.62% 39.34% 41.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,884 7,144 13,617
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 130 167
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.52 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.31 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -1.12%

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 23 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 23 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
1 158 (9.02%) Apache Airflow
2 133 (7.60%) Apache
3 58 (3.31%) Confluence
4 31 (1.77%) nginx
5 21 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
7 10 (0.57%) CMS
8 9 (0.51%) WordPress
9 8 (0.46%) Drupal
9 8 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.40%) JBoss
11 6 (0.34%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.29%) IIS
12 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.29%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 11 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.40%) Trello
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.057%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.057%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.057%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.46%) Temenos T24
2 7 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.29%) Endur
4 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.17%) Shopify
5 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Magento
6 2 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.057%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.057%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.057%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.057%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 558 (31.87%) Azure
2 319 (18.22%) GCP
3 176 (10.05%) Serverless
4 153 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
5 146 (8.34%) Amazon S3
5 146 (8.34%) Snowflake
6 144 (8.22%) dbt
7 105 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 97 (5.54%) GitHub
9 95 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
10 75 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 75 (4.28%) SaaS
11 70 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (2.80%) PaaS
14 48 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
15 46 (2.63%) OpenShift
16 43 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
16 43 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
17 42 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.34%) Firewall
2 52 (2.97%) Network Security
3 45 (2.57%) DNS
4 38 (2.17%) SSL
5 32 (1.83%) VPN
6 28 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.14%) DHCP
7 20 (1.14%) HTTP
8 19 (1.09%) WAN
9 18 (1.03%) LAN
10 13 (0.74%) BGP
11 12 (0.69%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.69%) Wireless
12 11 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (0.57%) VLAN
14 9 (0.51%) MPLS
14 9 (0.51%) OSPF
15 8 (0.46%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.46%) VoIP
16 7 (0.40%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (8.62%) Amazon Athena
2 125 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (7.08%) Dremio
4 123 (7.02%) Apache Arrow
5 119 (6.80%) Data Lake
6 107 (6.11%) Apache Ignite
7 97 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
8 61 (3.48%) SQL Server
9 60 (3.43%) MySQL
10 58 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
11 57 (3.26%) Relational Database
12 56 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 53 (3.03%) Big Data
14 50 (2.86%) NoSQL
15 42 (2.40%) MongoDB
16 40 (2.28%) DynamoDB
17 39 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
18 32 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
18 32 (1.83%) Oracle Database
19 27 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 149 (8.51%) Jenkins
2 133 (7.60%) Git
3 114 (6.51%) JIRA
4 84 (4.80%) GitLab
5 40 (2.28%) Selenium
6 34 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.60%) SonarQube
8 27 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 17 (0.97%) JUnit
10 16 (0.91%) JMeter
10 16 (0.91%) Maven
11 14 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.74%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.69%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 10 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (0.51%) Artifactory
16 9 (0.51%) webpack
17 7 (0.40%) WebDriver
General
1 355 (20.27%) Finance
2 269 (15.36%) Social Skills
3 171 (9.77%) Banking
4 162 (9.25%) Front Office
5 152 (8.68%) Public Sector
6 101 (5.77%) Investment Banking
7 87 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
8 35 (2.00%) Retail
9 28 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 21 (1.20%) Marketing
11 19 (1.09%) Law
12 16 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 16 (0.91%) Retail Banking
13 15 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.57%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 490 (27.98%) Developer
2 286 (16.33%) Architect
3 226 (12.91%) Senior
4 221 (12.62%) AWS Engineer
5 188 (10.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 183 (10.45%) Software Engineer
7 127 (7.25%) Lead
8 95 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (5.25%) Full Stack Developer
9 92 (5.25%) Java Developer
10 81 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
11 78 (4.45%) Data Engineer
12 77 (4.40%) Python Developer
13 76 (4.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 73 (4.17%) Python Engineer
15 69 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
16 63 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
17 62 (3.54%) Analyst
17 62 (3.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 61 (3.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (10.97%) React
2 137 (7.82%) gRPC
3 135 (7.71%) Node.js
4 134 (7.65%) Protocol Buffers
5 110 (6.28%) Pandas
6 105 (6.00%) Kafka
6 105 (6.00%) NumPy
7 102 (5.83%) SciPy
8 86 (4.91%) REST
9 82 (4.68%) AngularJS
10 80 (4.57%) Spring Boot
11 77 (4.40%) .NET
12 75 (4.28%) RESTful
12 75 (4.28%) Spring
13 72 (4.11%) CSS
13 72 (4.11%) HTML
13 72 (4.11%) Web Services
14 58 (3.31%) GraphQL
15 51 (2.91%) AWS CDK
16 44 (2.51%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 151 (8.62%) Fixed Income
1 151 (8.62%) Hedge funds
2 134 (7.65%) Derivative
3 126 (7.20%) Equities
4 115 (6.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 53 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 52 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 46 (2.63%) Cloud Native
8 44 (2.51%) PKI
8 44 (2.51%) Product Ownership
9 43 (2.46%) Data Centre
10 36 (2.06%) Clustering
10 36 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 34 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 25 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
13 24 (1.37%) Replication
14 22 (1.26%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (0.97%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 181 (10.34%) Linux
2 95 (5.43%) Windows
3 53 (3.03%) Unix
4 34 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.74%) Android
8 12 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.51%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.46%) Solaris
11 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.29%) CentOS
13 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.11%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.11%) zOS
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (30.84%) Agile
2 486 (27.76%) DevOps
3 328 (18.73%) CI/CD
3 328 (18.73%) Software Engineering
4 180 (10.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 179 (10.22%) Microservices
6 177 (10.11%) Asset Management
7 166 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
8 165 (9.42%) Full Stack Development
9 163 (9.31%) Analytics
10 161 (9.19%) Test Automation
11 147 (8.40%) Containerisation
12 145 (8.28%) Investment Management
13 124 (7.08%) Migration
14 89 (5.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 82 (4.68%) TDD
16 80 (4.57%) Scrum
17 79 (4.51%) Continuous Integration
17 79 (4.51%) Fintech
18 78 (4.45%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 574 (32.78%) Python
2 395 (22.56%) Java
3 352 (20.10%) JavaScript
4 279 (15.93%) TypeScript
5 253 (14.45%) SQL
6 123 (7.02%) Go
7 102 (5.83%) Bash
8 69 (3.94%) C#
9 68 (3.88%) PHP
10 58 (3.31%) PowerShell
11 43 (2.46%) Ruby
11 43 (2.46%) Scala
12 32 (1.83%) C++
13 30 (1.71%) C
14 25 (1.43%) Perl
15 21 (1.20%) PL/SQL
16 19 (1.09%) R
17 18 (1.03%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.80%) Shell Script
19 7 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 374 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 319 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 124 (7.08%) Degree
4 75 (4.28%) AWS Certification
5 56 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 29 (1.66%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (1.20%) CISSP
10 16 (0.91%) CISM
11 15 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 10 (0.57%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.51%) CCNP
17 9 (0.51%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (3.43%) Data Quality
2 57 (3.26%) QA
3 45 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.23%) NCSC
5 33 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.88%) NIST
6 21 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.09%) GDPR
8 14 (0.80%) SLA
9 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.17%) GPG13
12 3 (0.17%) GxP
12 3 (0.17%) MiFID
13 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 293 (16.73%) Docker
2 108 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.11%) XenApp
8 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.057%) ACF2
9 1 (0.057%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.057%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.057%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.057%) PowerDNS
9 1 (0.057%) vCloud
9 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 368 (21.02%) Kubernetes
2 316 (18.05%) Terraform
3 135 (7.71%) Ansible
4 64 (3.66%) Grafana
5 63 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.94%) Progress Chef
7 32 (1.83%) Puppet
8 21 (1.20%) Kibana
9 16 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
10 15 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.63%) Packer
12 10 (0.57%) SCCM
13 9 (0.51%) Nagios
14 8 (0.46%) Podman
15 7 (0.40%) Argo
15 7 (0.40%) Consul
16 6 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
16 6 (0.34%) Netcool
16 6 (0.34%) Tivoli
16 6 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 119 (6.80%) Microsoft
2 117 (6.68%) Oracle
3 72 (4.11%) Google
4 55 (3.14%) Splunk
5 53 (3.03%) VMware
6 40 (2.28%) Cisco
7 36 (2.06%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.88%) CyberArk
9 29 (1.66%) IBM
10 27 (1.54%) Salesforce
11 22 (1.26%) Databricks
11 22 (1.26%) Palo Alto
11 22 (1.26%) Red Hat
12 20 (1.14%) SAP
13 19 (1.09%) Dynatrace
14 16 (0.91%) BeyondTrust
14 16 (0.91%) Genesys
15 15 (0.86%) F5
16 14 (0.80%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.74%) Qualys