AWS Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 142 138
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +20
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 216 432 862
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.46% 1.76% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.84% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 353 674
10th Percentile £450 £458 £438
25th Percentile £505 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £800 £713 £650
90th Percentile £850 £863 £729
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

AWS Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer.

AWS Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

AWS Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer.

AWS Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 216 (100.00%) AWS
2 132 (61.11%) Python
3 126 (58.33%) DevOps
4 95 (43.98%) Terraform
5 72 (33.33%) Finance
5 72 (33.33%) Agile
6 70 (32.41%) Kubernetes
7 69 (31.94%) JavaScript
8 63 (29.17%) CI/CD
9 60 (27.78%) dbt
9 60 (27.78%) Java
10 59 (27.31%) Apache Airflow
11 58 (26.85%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (25.46%) Snowflake
12 55 (25.46%) Asset Management
13 54 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
13 54 (25.00%) Dremio
13 54 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
13 54 (25.00%) gRPC
14 52 (24.07%) Investment Management
15 47 (21.76%) Data Lake
16 46 (21.30%) Security Cleared
16 46 (21.30%) Hedge funds
17 45 (20.83%) TypeScript
17 45 (20.83%) Docker
18 44 (20.37%) Software Engineering
19 41 (18.98%) Serverless
19 41 (18.98%) AWS Lambda
20 39 (18.06%) Front Office
20 39 (18.06%) Apache

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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 59 (27.31%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (18.06%) Apache
3 6 (2.78%) Confluence
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 216 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (27.78%) dbt
3 55 (25.46%) Snowflake
4 41 (18.98%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (18.98%) Serverless
5 30 (13.89%) Amazon S3
6 27 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (12.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (10.19%) Azure
9 21 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (6.94%) GitHub
13 14 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (6.48%) Route 53
14 13 (6.02%) GCP
15 12 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (5.09%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
18 8 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.17%) Firewall
2 5 (2.31%) DNS
2 5 (2.31%) Network Security
3 4 (1.85%) DHCP
4 3 (1.39%) LAN
4 3 (1.39%) WLAN
5 2 (0.93%) VPN
6 1 (0.46%) IPv4
6 1 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (26.85%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
2 54 (25.00%) Dremio
3 47 (21.76%) Data Lake
4 38 (17.59%) Apache Ignite
5 21 (9.72%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (8.33%) Big Data
7 17 (7.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.78%) DynamoDB
10 6 (2.78%) MySQL
10 6 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.78%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.85%) Tableau
12 3 (1.39%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.93%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.93%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (10.65%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.33%) Git
3 17 (7.87%) GitLab
4 12 (5.56%) JIRA
5 5 (2.31%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.93%) JMeter
6 2 (0.93%) Snyk
7 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) Gradle
7 1 (0.46%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.46%) Maven
7 1 (0.46%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.46%) Selenium
7 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.46%) Storybook
7 1 (0.46%) VisualWorks
General
1 72 (33.33%) Finance
2 39 (18.06%) Front Office
3 36 (16.67%) Banking
4 31 (14.35%) Investment Banking
5 17 (7.87%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.41%) Social Skills
7 8 (3.70%) Law
8 4 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.85%) Retail
9 3 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
11 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (25.00%) gRPC
1 54 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 39 (18.06%) NumPy
3 38 (17.59%) Pandas
3 38 (17.59%) SciPy
4 15 (6.94%) AWS CDK
5 11 (5.09%) React
6 10 (4.63%) Node.js
7 9 (4.17%) PySpark
8 8 (3.70%) Redux
9 7 (3.24%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (3.24%) Vue
10 4 (1.85%) AWS SAM
10 4 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.39%) Kafka
11 3 (1.39%) YAML
12 2 (0.93%) ADO
12 2 (0.93%) React Native
13 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.30%) Hedge funds
2 35 (16.20%) Fixed Income
3 28 (12.96%) Derivative
3 28 (12.96%) Equities
3 28 (12.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (7.87%) Clustering
5 11 (5.09%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (4.63%) Pricing Data
7 6 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.93%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.46%) Life Science
11 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.89%) Linux
2 11 (5.09%) Windows
3 8 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.24%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.31%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.39%) Unix
7 1 (0.46%) Android
7 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.46%) CentOS
7 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (58.33%) DevOps
2 72 (33.33%) Agile
3 63 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 55 (25.46%) Asset Management
5 52 (24.07%) Investment Management
6 44 (20.37%) Software Engineering
7 35 (16.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (10.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 20 (9.26%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (8.80%) Data Engineering
10 19 (8.80%) Test Automation
11 18 (8.33%) Containerisation
11 18 (8.33%) Greeks
11 18 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (7.41%) Analytics
12 16 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (6.48%) ETL
14 12 (5.56%) Computer Science
14 12 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 10 (4.63%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 132 (61.11%) Python
2 69 (31.94%) JavaScript
3 60 (27.78%) Java
4 45 (20.83%) TypeScript
5 27 (12.50%) Go
6 24 (11.11%) Bash
7 18 (8.33%) SQL
8 8 (3.70%) Scala
9 7 (3.24%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.31%) C#
11 4 (1.85%) Groovy
12 3 (1.39%) C++
12 3 (1.39%) Perl
12 3 (1.39%) Ruby
12 3 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.93%) C
13 2 (0.93%) PHP
13 2 (0.93%) R
14 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.46%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 46 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.06%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.48%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.09%) Degree
5 8 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.65%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.39%) NCSC
4 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.93%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) NIST
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (20.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 95 (43.98%) Terraform
2 70 (32.41%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.96%) Ansible
4 24 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.94%) Grafana
6 7 (3.24%) Kibana
7 5 (2.31%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.93%) Nagios
8 2 (0.93%) Puppet
8 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.46%) Argo
9 1 (0.46%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.46%) Graylog
9 1 (0.46%) logstash
9 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (5.09%) Databricks
2 9 (4.17%) Splunk
3 4 (1.85%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.85%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.85%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.39%) Informatica
4 3 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.46%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.46%) Google
5 1 (0.46%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.46%) VMware