Amazon EC2 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
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 Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 280 292
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 97 196 386
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.80% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 2.01% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 152 257
10th Percentile £400 £469 £437
25th Percentile £425 £511 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £711 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £63.50
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £77.00
% change year-on-year - - +92.50%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Amazon EC2 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 5,395 9,743 18,197
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 39.53% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 7,220 13,607
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
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 88 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £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 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Amazon EC2
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EC2 trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
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 Amazon EC2.

Amazon EC2 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Amazon EC2 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
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 Amazon EC2.

Amazon EC2 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
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 4 (4.12%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.06%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.03%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 96 (98.97%) AWS
2 64 (65.98%) Amazon S3
3 53 (54.64%) Serverless
4 51 (52.58%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (35.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 32 (32.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 29 (29.90%) Route 53
8 28 (28.87%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (27.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (22.68%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (19.59%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (13.40%) AWS Fargate
13 9 (9.28%) Amazon ECR
13 9 (9.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (9.28%) OpenShift
14 7 (7.22%) AWS CloudTrail
14 7 (7.22%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (6.19%) AWS KMS
15 6 (6.19%) Azure
15 6 (6.19%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) Network Security
2 7 (7.22%) DNS
2 7 (7.22%) Firewall
3 3 (3.09%) DHCP
3 3 (3.09%) LAN
3 3 (3.09%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (3.09%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (3.09%) WLAN
4 1 (1.03%) MQTT
4 1 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.03%) VPN
4 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (49.48%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.28%) MongoDB
4 8 (8.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (8.25%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (7.22%) MySQL
6 6 (6.19%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (6.19%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.15%) DynamoDB
7 5 (5.15%) InfluxDB
8 4 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.12%) Informix
8 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database
8 4 (4.12%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (3.09%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (3.09%) MariaDB
9 3 (3.09%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.06%) Big Data
10 2 (2.06%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (22.68%) Jenkins
2 18 (18.56%) Git
3 17 (17.53%) GitLab
4 6 (6.19%) Selenium
5 5 (5.15%) Artifactory
5 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.12%) JIRA
6 4 (4.12%) JMeter
6 4 (4.12%) JUnit
6 4 (4.12%) Maven
7 3 (3.09%) Gradle
7 3 (3.09%) REST Assured
7 3 (3.09%) webpack
8 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.06%) Mocha
8 2 (2.06%) Snyk
8 2 (2.06%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.06%) TestNG
8 2 (2.06%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.37%) Finance
3 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.09%) Banking
4 3 (3.09%) Marketing
4 3 (3.09%) Retail
5 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.06%) Electronics
5 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.03%) Front Office
6 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (27.84%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (25.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (14.43%) AWS DevOps
3 14 (14.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 14 (14.43%) Developer
4 13 (13.40%) Architect
4 13 (13.40%) Senior
5 9 (9.28%) AWS Architect
6 7 (7.22%) Data Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.19%) Lead
8 5 (5.15%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) AWS Consultant
9 4 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Consultant
9 4 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.49%) AWS CDK
2 10 (10.31%) Node.js
3 8 (8.25%) React
3 8 (8.25%) REST
4 6 (6.19%) Spring
5 5 (5.15%) LDAP
5 5 (5.15%) OAuth
5 5 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (4.12%) Express.js
6 4 (4.12%) Kafka
6 4 (4.12%) Middleware
6 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.12%) Web Services
7 3 (3.09%) Redux
8 2 (2.06%) Chai
8 2 (2.06%) CodeIgniter
8 2 (2.06%) Django
8 2 (2.06%) JAXB
8 2 (2.06%) JAX-RS
8 2 (2.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Replication
2 5 (5.15%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.15%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.15%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.09%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.06%) IoT
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.06%) Video on Demand
6 1 (1.03%) Clustering
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (28.87%) Linux
2 12 (12.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (12.37%) Windows
3 6 (6.19%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.12%) Unix
5 3 (3.09%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.06%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (2.06%) CentOS
7 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.03%) VMS
7 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (39.18%) DevOps
2 36 (37.11%) CI/CD
3 35 (36.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (25.77%) Agile
5 16 (16.49%) Containerisation
5 16 (16.49%) Test Automation
6 14 (14.43%) Microservices
7 13 (13.40%) Migration
8 12 (12.37%) High Availability
9 11 (11.34%) Kanban
10 10 (10.31%) Scrum
11 7 (7.22%) Configuration Management
11 7 (7.22%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (7.22%) Service Design
12 6 (6.19%) BDD
12 6 (6.19%) Data Protection
12 6 (6.19%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (6.19%) End-to-End Testing
12 6 (6.19%) Observability
12 6 (6.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 46 (47.42%) Python
2 24 (24.74%) Java
3 18 (18.56%) TypeScript
4 14 (14.43%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.40%) SQL
6 12 (12.37%) Bash
7 6 (6.19%) Groovy
8 4 (4.12%) Go
9 3 (3.09%) C
9 3 (3.09%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.06%) Perl
10 2 (2.06%) PHP
11 1 (1.03%) C++
11 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (25.77%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.49%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.12%) Degree
6 3 (3.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.03%) CCNA
8 1 (1.03%) CCNP
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.03%) MCSA
8 1 (1.03%) MCSE
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.03%) OCP
8 1 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.06%) SLA
3 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.03%) IFRS
3 1 (1.03%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 24 (24.74%) Docker
2 7 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 37 (38.14%) Kubernetes
2 33 (34.02%) Terraform
3 22 (22.68%) Grafana
4 17 (17.53%) Ansible
5 9 (9.28%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.22%) Kibana
6 7 (7.22%) Progress Chef
7 6 (6.19%) Puppet
8 2 (2.06%) Consul
8 2 (2.06%) Packer
8 2 (2.06%) Salt
8 2 (2.06%) SCCM
8 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.03%) AirWatch
9 1 (1.03%) Data Guard
9 1 (1.03%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.03%) Icinga
9 1 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (12.37%) Oracle
2 6 (6.19%) Splunk
2 6 (6.19%) VMware
3 4 (4.12%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.12%) SAP
4 3 (3.09%) Databricks
4 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.09%) Okta
4 3 (3.09%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.06%) Commvault
5 2 (2.06%) Confluent
5 2 (2.06%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.06%) IBM
5 2 (2.06%) Informatica
5 2 (2.06%) Qualys
5 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.06%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.06%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.03%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.03%) Google