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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,763 3,717 7,338
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.57% 14.52% 16.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.04% 36.74% 39.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,360 2,845 5,730
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £472 £488 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £660
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 28 22
10th Percentile £55.25 £31.89 £46.25
25th Percentile £67.50 £48.51 £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +31.11% +40.63%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.25 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.75 £88.30 £78.61
UK median hourly rate £50.59 £74.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -31.64% +34.55% +27.91%

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 5,502 10,118 18,500
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.12% 39.53% 41.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,950 7,445 13,815
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £426 £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 87 127 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.45 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.82 £21.31 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +96.36% -28.35%
75th Percentile £46.88 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.40 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.07%

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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 3 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 3 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
1 117 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (5.16%) Apache
3 62 (3.52%) Confluence
4 30 (1.70%) nginx
5 20 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.57%) 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 (0.40%) Drupal
10 7 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.28%) IIS
11 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.28%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.40%) Trello
3 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.11%) Weka
6 1 (0.057%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.057%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (0.40%) Temenos T24
2 6 (0.34%) Endur
3 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.17%) Shopify
6 2 (0.11%) Magento
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.057%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.057%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.057%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.057%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.057%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.057%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.057%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.057%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 567 (32.16%) Azure
2 294 (16.68%) GCP
3 185 (10.49%) Serverless
4 160 (9.08%) AWS Lambda
5 150 (8.51%) Amazon S3
6 109 (6.18%) Snowflake
7 105 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
8 103 (5.84%) dbt
9 101 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 97 (5.50%) GitHub
11 75 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 75 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
11 75 (4.25%) SaaS
12 61 (3.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 55 (3.12%) PaaS
14 51 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
15 47 (2.67%) IaaS
15 47 (2.67%) OpenShift
16 43 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
17 42 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 77 (4.37%) Firewall
2 52 (2.95%) Network Security
3 44 (2.50%) DNS
4 39 (2.21%) SSL
5 35 (1.99%) VPN
6 28 (1.59%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.13%) DHCP
8 18 (1.02%) WAN
9 17 (0.96%) LAN
10 15 (0.85%) HTTP
11 13 (0.74%) BGP
12 12 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (0.68%) Wireless
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%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (6.07%) Amazon Athena
3 102 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
4 87 (4.93%) Apache Arrow
4 87 (4.93%) Dremio
5 86 (4.88%) Data Lake
6 77 (4.37%) Apache Ignite
7 63 (3.57%) MySQL
8 62 (3.52%) Relational Database
9 60 (3.40%) SQL Server
10 54 (3.06%) NoSQL
11 51 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 50 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
13 45 (2.55%) MongoDB
14 44 (2.50%) DynamoDB
15 43 (2.44%) Big Data
16 40 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
17 38 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
18 32 (1.82%) Oracle Database
19 31 (1.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 159 (9.02%) Jenkins
2 124 (7.03%) JIRA
3 123 (6.98%) Git
4 85 (4.82%) GitLab
5 45 (2.55%) Cypress.io
6 40 (2.27%) Selenium
7 33 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 29 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 22 (1.25%) Maven
10 19 (1.08%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.91%) JUnit
12 15 (0.85%) JMeter
12 15 (0.85%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.68%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.62%) Postman
15 10 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.51%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.51%) webpack
17 8 (0.45%) Artifactory
17 8 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 333 (18.89%) Finance
2 286 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 168 (9.53%) Public Sector
4 137 (7.77%) Banking
5 130 (7.37%) Front Office
6 92 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
7 77 (4.37%) Investment Banking
8 36 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 31 (1.76%) Retail
10 27 (1.53%) Marketing
11 22 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.08%) Law
13 17 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (0.91%) Retail Banking
15 15 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.57%) Electronics
17 10 (0.57%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 509 (28.87%) Developer
2 290 (16.45%) Architect
3 220 (12.48%) Senior
4 205 (11.63%) AWS Engineer
5 178 (10.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 162 (9.19%) Software Engineer
7 132 (7.49%) Lead
8 99 (5.62%) Full Stack Developer
8 99 (5.62%) Java Developer
9 81 (4.59%) Data Engineer
9 81 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
10 77 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
11 75 (4.25%) Python Developer
12 72 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 71 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
14 64 (3.63%) Analyst
15 61 (3.46%) AWS Architect
15 61 (3.46%) Python Engineer
16 59 (3.35%) Senior Software Engineer
17 55 (3.12%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (11.06%) React
2 140 (7.94%) Node.js
3 100 (5.67%) Kafka
4 99 (5.62%) gRPC
5 98 (5.56%) Protocol Buffers
6 97 (5.50%) REST
7 84 (4.76%) Pandas
7 84 (4.76%) RESTful
8 80 (4.54%) Spring
9 79 (4.48%) Spring Boot
10 78 (4.42%) AngularJS
11 77 (4.37%) .NET
12 75 (4.25%) CSS
12 75 (4.25%) NumPy
13 74 (4.20%) SciPy
14 73 (4.14%) HTML
15 72 (4.08%) Web Services
16 56 (3.18%) AWS CDK
17 55 (3.12%) GraphQL
18 43 (2.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 122 (6.92%) Fixed Income
2 116 (6.58%) Hedge funds
3 109 (6.18%) Derivative
4 99 (5.62%) Equities
5 87 (4.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 58 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
6 58 (3.29%) Public Cloud
7 50 (2.84%) Cloud Native
8 46 (2.61%) PKI
9 43 (2.44%) Product Ownership
10 42 (2.38%) Data Centre
11 34 (1.93%) Onboarding
12 30 (1.70%) Clustering
12 30 (1.70%) Management Information System
13 24 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
13 24 (1.36%) Replication
14 22 (1.25%) Algorithms
15 21 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
17 17 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 179 (10.15%) Linux
2 101 (5.73%) Windows
3 47 (2.67%) Unix
4 42 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.74%) Android
8 12 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.51%) Solaris
10 8 (0.45%) Windows 10
11 7 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.34%) CentOS
13 3 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.11%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.11%) zOS
15 1 (0.057%) tvOS
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (31.14%) Agile
2 473 (26.83%) DevOps
3 344 (19.51%) CI/CD
4 307 (17.41%) Software Engineering
5 194 (11.00%) Microservices
6 181 (10.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 172 (9.76%) Test Automation
8 165 (9.36%) Full Stack Development
9 164 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
10 160 (9.08%) Analytics
11 148 (8.39%) Asset Management
12 136 (7.71%) Migration
13 131 (7.43%) Containerisation
14 120 (6.81%) Investment Management
15 93 (5.28%) Scrum
16 83 (4.71%) Mentoring
16 83 (4.71%) TDD
17 79 (4.48%) Stakeholder Management
18 78 (4.42%) Continuous Integration
18 78 (4.42%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 547 (31.03%) Python
2 371 (21.04%) Java
3 318 (18.04%) JavaScript
4 262 (14.86%) TypeScript
5 247 (14.01%) SQL
6 114 (6.47%) Go
7 104 (5.90%) Bash
8 70 (3.97%) C#
9 69 (3.91%) PHP
10 56 (3.18%) PowerShell
11 45 (2.55%) Ruby
12 40 (2.27%) Scala
13 28 (1.59%) Perl
13 28 (1.59%) R
14 24 (1.36%) C++
15 23 (1.30%) C
16 21 (1.19%) PL/SQL
17 20 (1.13%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.79%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 390 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 333 (18.89%) SC Cleared
3 114 (6.47%) Degree
4 67 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 51 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 43 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 22 (1.25%) CISSP
10 18 (1.02%) CISM
11 16 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 10 (0.57%) CISA
15 10 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.57%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.45%) Master's Degree
18 6 (0.34%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (3.40%) QA
2 51 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 50 (2.84%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.21%) NCSC
5 35 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.87%) NIST
7 15 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.79%) GDPR
8 14 (0.79%) SLA
9 8 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.17%) GPG13
12 3 (0.17%) MiFID
12 3 (0.17%) WCAG
13 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.11%) GxP
13 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.057%) IFRS
14 1 (0.057%) PMO
System Software
1 283 (16.05%) Docker
2 107 (6.07%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.62%) 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 (0.057%) Firmware
9 1 (0.057%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.057%) IAG
9 1 (0.057%) Lustre
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.057%) RACF
9 1 (0.057%) UAG
9 1 (0.057%) vCloud
9 1 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.057%) XenApp
9 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 353 (20.02%) Kubernetes
2 319 (18.09%) Terraform
3 148 (8.39%) Ansible
4 62 (3.52%) Grafana
5 52 (2.95%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.16%) Puppet
7 37 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.19%) Kibana
9 15 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
10 13 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.68%) Packer
12 11 (0.62%) Nagios
13 9 (0.51%) SCCM
14 8 (0.45%) Consul
14 8 (0.45%) Podman
15 7 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
15 7 (0.40%) Netcool
15 7 (0.40%) Tivoli
15 7 (0.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 5 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 116 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.52%) Oracle
3 60 (3.40%) Google
4 57 (3.23%) VMware
5 55 (3.12%) Splunk
6 39 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 33 (1.87%) CyberArk
8 32 (1.82%) Cisco
9 29 (1.64%) IBM
10 28 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 28 (1.59%) SAP
11 27 (1.53%) Databricks
12 22 (1.25%) Palo Alto
13 19 (1.08%) Dynatrace
14 18 (1.02%) Salesforce
15 16 (0.91%) Bloomberg
16 15 (0.85%) Atlassian
16 15 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
17 14 (0.79%) OpenAI
17 14 (0.79%) Qualys