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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,748 3,435 7,154
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.01% 14.17% 16.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.73% 36.03% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 2,684 5,535
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £470 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £666
90th Percentile £838 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 31 35
10th Percentile - £35.00 £45.50
25th Percentile £67.50 £42.30 £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +6.81% +10.15%
75th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £77.41
90th Percentile £75.00 £88.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £74.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -25.68% +12.91% +11.56%

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 5,341 9,534 18,322
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.70% 39.33% 41.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,864 7,110 13,729
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 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 134 155
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.12
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.26 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +34.19% +14.29%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.51
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

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 3 June 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 June 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
1 169 (9.67%) Apache Airflow
2 146 (8.35%) Apache
3 55 (3.15%) Confluence
4 24 (1.37%) nginx
5 23 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
6 10 (0.57%) CMS
6 10 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.51%) WordPress
8 8 (0.46%) Drupal
9 7 (0.40%) JBoss
9 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.34%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.29%) IIS
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.29%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 10 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.40%) Trello
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.057%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.057%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.46%) Temenos T24
2 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.23%) Endur
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%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.057%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.057%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 560 (32.04%) Azure
2 319 (18.25%) GCP
3 170 (9.73%) Serverless
4 159 (9.10%) dbt
4 159 (9.10%) Snowflake
5 149 (8.52%) Amazon S3
6 146 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
7 106 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 102 (5.84%) GitHub
9 94 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
10 76 (4.35%) SaaS
11 71 (4.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 68 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 48 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
15 46 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
15 46 (2.63%) PaaS
16 45 (2.57%) OpenShift
17 44 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
18 42 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 73 (4.18%) Firewall
2 52 (2.97%) Network Security
3 44 (2.52%) DNS
4 39 (2.23%) SSL
5 31 (1.77%) VPN
6 26 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.14%) HTTP
8 18 (1.03%) DHCP
8 18 (1.03%) WAN
9 17 (0.97%) LAN
10 14 (0.80%) Wireless
11 13 (0.74%) BGP
11 13 (0.74%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (0.51%) OSPF
13 9 (0.51%) VLAN
14 8 (0.46%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.46%) MPLS
14 8 (0.46%) VoIP
15 7 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (9.15%) Amazon Athena
2 137 (7.84%) Dremio
3 135 (7.72%) Apache Arrow
3 135 (7.72%) Data Lake
4 118 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
5 117 (6.69%) Apache Ignite
6 98 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
7 65 (3.72%) SQL Server
8 60 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
9 59 (3.38%) Relational Database
10 58 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 56 (3.20%) MySQL
12 54 (3.09%) Big Data
13 47 (2.69%) NoSQL
14 39 (2.23%) MongoDB
15 38 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
16 37 (2.12%) DynamoDB
17 32 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
18 30 (1.72%) Oracle Database
19 27 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 150 (8.58%) Jenkins
2 130 (7.44%) Git
3 109 (6.24%) JIRA
4 85 (4.86%) GitLab
5 38 (2.17%) Selenium
6 30 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.60%) SonarQube
8 24 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.97%) JUnit
10 16 (0.92%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.86%) JMeter
11 15 (0.86%) Maven
12 14 (0.80%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.74%) CircleCI
14 12 (0.69%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 11 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
16 10 (0.57%) Artifactory
17 9 (0.51%) webpack
18 7 (0.40%) Postman
General
1 377 (21.57%) Finance
2 271 (15.50%) Social Skills
3 183 (10.47%) Banking
4 176 (10.07%) Front Office
5 145 (8.30%) Public Sector
6 111 (6.35%) Investment Banking
7 84 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
8 34 (1.95%) Retail
9 26 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 20 (1.14%) Marketing
11 19 (1.09%) Law
12 18 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 16 (0.92%) Retail Banking
14 14 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.51%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 479 (27.40%) Developer
2 284 (16.25%) Architect
3 235 (13.44%) Senior
4 227 (12.99%) AWS Engineer
5 193 (11.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 186 (10.64%) Software Engineer
7 130 (7.44%) Lead
8 94 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
9 91 (5.21%) Java Developer
10 86 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
11 81 (4.63%) Full Stack Developer
12 80 (4.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 80 (4.58%) Python Developer
13 78 (4.46%) Data Engineer
13 78 (4.46%) Python Engineer
14 72 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
15 66 (3.78%) Java Engineer
15 66 (3.78%) Software Developer
16 65 (3.72%) Python Software Engineer
17 64 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (10.76%) React
2 147 (8.41%) gRPC
3 144 (8.24%) Protocol Buffers
4 132 (7.55%) Node.js
5 120 (6.86%) Pandas
6 115 (6.58%) NumPy
7 112 (6.41%) SciPy
8 106 (6.06%) Kafka
9 84 (4.81%) REST
10 82 (4.69%) Spring Boot
11 81 (4.63%) AngularJS
12 77 (4.41%) .NET
13 76 (4.35%) RESTful
14 74 (4.23%) Spring
15 70 (4.00%) Web Services
16 69 (3.95%) HTML
17 68 (3.89%) CSS
18 55 (3.15%) GraphQL
19 51 (2.92%) AWS CDK
20 38 (2.17%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 167 (9.55%) Fixed Income
1 167 (9.55%) Hedge funds
2 149 (8.52%) Derivative
3 141 (8.07%) Equities
4 131 (7.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 54 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
6 50 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 48 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 45 (2.57%) Cloud Native
9 44 (2.52%) PKI
10 41 (2.35%) Data Centre
11 36 (2.06%) Management Information System
12 35 (2.00%) Clustering
13 34 (1.95%) Onboarding
14 25 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
15 24 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
16 23 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (1.26%) Replication
18 20 (1.14%) Algorithms
19 17 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 173 (9.90%) Linux
2 92 (5.26%) Windows
3 49 (2.80%) Unix
4 30 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.69%) Android
9 9 (0.51%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.40%) Solaris
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.17%) CentOS
12 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.11%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.057%) VMS
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (31.24%) Agile
2 484 (27.69%) DevOps
3 334 (19.11%) Software Engineering
4 314 (17.96%) CI/CD
5 191 (10.93%) Asset Management
6 173 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 170 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (9.38%) Microservices
9 162 (9.27%) Analytics
10 158 (9.04%) Full Stack Development
11 156 (8.92%) Investment Management
12 152 (8.70%) Test Automation
13 149 (8.52%) Containerisation
14 125 (7.15%) Migration
15 86 (4.92%) Stakeholder Management
16 81 (4.63%) Fintech
17 80 (4.58%) Continuous Integration
18 79 (4.52%) Scrum
19 78 (4.46%) Mentoring
20 77 (4.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 575 (32.89%) Python
2 396 (22.65%) Java
3 352 (20.14%) JavaScript
4 284 (16.25%) TypeScript
5 250 (14.30%) SQL
6 121 (6.92%) Go
7 98 (5.61%) Bash
8 68 (3.89%) C#
9 61 (3.49%) PHP
10 58 (3.32%) PowerShell
11 44 (2.52%) Ruby
11 44 (2.52%) Scala
12 33 (1.89%) C++
13 31 (1.77%) C
14 25 (1.43%) Perl
15 20 (1.14%) PL/SQL
16 18 (1.03%) R
17 16 (0.92%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.92%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.46%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 363 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 312 (17.85%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.92%) Degree
4 80 (4.58%) AWS Certification
5 57 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 31 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.32%) CISSP
10 22 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.92%) CISM
13 15 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 11 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.57%) CCNP
18 9 (0.51%) CISA
18 9 (0.51%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 57 (3.26%) QA
3 40 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.17%) NCSC
5 33 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.89%) NIST
6 23 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.03%) GDPR
8 14 (0.80%) SLA
9 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
12 3 (0.17%) WCAG
13 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 296 (16.93%) Docker
2 108 (6.18%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.23%) vSphere
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) XenApp
9 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.057%) Firmware
10 1 (0.057%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.057%) IAG
10 1 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.057%) RACF
10 1 (0.057%) UAG
10 1 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 367 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 314 (17.96%) Terraform
3 128 (7.32%) Ansible
4 61 (3.49%) Prometheus
5 60 (3.43%) Grafana
6 33 (1.89%) Progress Chef
7 31 (1.77%) Puppet
8 19 (1.09%) Kibana
9 16 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
10 15 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.63%) Packer
12 10 (0.57%) SCCM
13 8 (0.46%) Nagios
13 8 (0.46%) Podman
14 7 (0.40%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) Consul
15 6 (0.34%) logstash
16 5 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
16 5 (0.29%) Tivoli
16 5 (0.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 123 (7.04%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.46%) Oracle
3 67 (3.83%) Google
4 53 (3.03%) Splunk
4 53 (3.03%) VMware
5 38 (2.17%) Cisco
6 37 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 33 (1.89%) CyberArk
8 30 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.49%) IBM
10 23 (1.32%) Databricks
11 22 (1.26%) Palo Alto
11 22 (1.26%) Red Hat
12 19 (1.09%) Dynatrace
12 19 (1.09%) SAP
13 16 (0.92%) BeyondTrust
13 16 (0.92%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.74%) F5
14 13 (0.74%) Genesys
14 13 (0.74%) Zscaler