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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,780 3,370 7,057
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.13% 14.12% 16.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.13% 35.81% 38.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 2,635 5,460
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £474 £484 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £669
90th Percentile £850 £770 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 33 35
10th Percentile - £35.05 £45.50
25th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £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 £87.64 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -24.14% +10.62% +10.15%

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 5,372 9,412 18,112
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.43% 41.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,879 7,012 13,586
10th Percentile £350 £363 £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 86 129 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £51.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.02% +27.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £52.31 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%

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 9 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 9 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
1 181 (10.17%) Apache Airflow
2 160 (8.99%) Apache
3 55 (3.09%) Confluence
4 25 (1.40%) Apache Spark
5 24 (1.35%) nginx
6 12 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
7 10 (0.56%) CMS
7 10 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.45%) Drupal
8 8 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.45%) WordPress
9 7 (0.39%) JBoss
9 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.34%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.28%) IIS
11 5 (0.28%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.28%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 9 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.39%) Trello
3 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.056%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.056%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (0.45%) Temenos T24
2 7 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.22%) 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 ERP
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.056%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.056%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.056%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.056%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 571 (32.08%) Azure
2 329 (18.48%) GCP
3 172 (9.66%) dbt
4 170 (9.55%) Serverless
5 169 (9.49%) Snowflake
6 150 (8.43%) Amazon S3
7 145 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (6.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 100 (5.62%) GitHub
10 99 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
11 80 (4.49%) SaaS
12 72 (4.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 71 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
14 51 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
15 49 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 47 (2.64%) OpenShift
17 46 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
17 46 (2.58%) PaaS
18 44 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
19 42 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 73 (4.10%) Firewall
2 51 (2.87%) Network Security
3 44 (2.47%) DNS
4 39 (2.19%) SSL
5 31 (1.74%) VPN
6 26 (1.46%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.12%) HTTP
8 18 (1.01%) DHCP
8 18 (1.01%) WAN
9 17 (0.96%) LAN
10 14 (0.79%) Wireless
11 13 (0.73%) BGP
11 13 (0.73%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (0.51%) Internet
13 9 (0.51%) OSPF
13 9 (0.51%) VLAN
14 8 (0.45%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.45%) VoIP
15 7 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (9.61%) Amazon Athena
2 150 (8.43%) Dremio
3 148 (8.31%) Data Lake
4 147 (8.26%) Apache Arrow
5 128 (7.19%) Apache Ignite
6 119 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
7 100 (5.62%) Amazon RDS
8 65 (3.65%) SQL Server
9 60 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
9 60 (3.37%) Relational Database
10 58 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 57 (3.20%) Big Data
12 55 (3.09%) MySQL
13 46 (2.58%) NoSQL
14 41 (2.30%) MongoDB
15 38 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
16 36 (2.02%) DynamoDB
17 33 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
18 29 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
18 29 (1.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 148 (8.31%) Jenkins
2 129 (7.25%) Git
3 109 (6.12%) JIRA
4 82 (4.61%) GitLab
5 38 (2.13%) Selenium
6 29 (1.63%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.57%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.29%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 16 (0.90%) JUnit
10 14 (0.79%) JMeter
10 14 (0.79%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.73%) CircleCI
11 13 (0.73%) Maven
12 11 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (0.62%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.56%) Artifactory
14 9 (0.51%) webpack
15 7 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 398 (22.36%) Finance
2 271 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 200 (11.24%) Banking
4 189 (10.62%) Front Office
5 144 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 123 (6.91%) Investment Banking
7 92 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (2.08%) Retail
9 26 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 20 (1.12%) Law
10 20 (1.12%) Marketing
11 19 (1.07%) Manufacturing
12 17 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (0.90%) Retail Banking
14 14 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.51%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 483 (27.13%) Developer
2 284 (15.96%) Architect
3 243 (13.65%) Senior
4 231 (12.98%) AWS Engineer
5 197 (11.07%) Software Engineer
6 194 (10.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 133 (7.47%) Lead
8 97 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (5.28%) Java Developer
10 88 (4.94%) AWS DevOps
11 83 (4.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 83 (4.66%) Python Engineer
12 81 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
12 81 (4.55%) Python Developer
13 78 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
14 75 (4.21%) Data Engineer
15 71 (3.99%) Java Engineer
16 70 (3.93%) Python Software Engineer
17 68 (3.82%) Software Developer
18 67 (3.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (10.84%) React
2 159 (8.93%) gRPC
3 155 (8.71%) Protocol Buffers
4 132 (7.42%) Node.js
5 131 (7.36%) Pandas
6 126 (7.08%) NumPy
7 123 (6.91%) SciPy
8 108 (6.07%) Kafka
9 84 (4.72%) AngularJS
9 84 (4.72%) REST
10 80 (4.49%) Spring Boot
11 79 (4.44%) .NET
12 75 (4.21%) RESTful
13 72 (4.04%) Spring
14 69 (3.88%) Web Services
15 68 (3.82%) HTML
16 67 (3.76%) CSS
17 55 (3.09%) AWS CDK
17 55 (3.09%) GraphQL
18 39 (2.19%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 179 (10.06%) Fixed Income
2 177 (9.94%) Hedge funds
3 160 (8.99%) Derivative
4 152 (8.54%) Equities
5 143 (8.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 55 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 54 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
8 50 (2.81%) Product Ownership
9 48 (2.70%) Cloud Native
10 43 (2.42%) PKI
11 42 (2.36%) Data Centre
12 37 (2.08%) Management Information System
13 35 (1.97%) Clustering
14 34 (1.91%) Onboarding
15 26 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
16 25 (1.40%) Replication
17 24 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
17 24 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
18 21 (1.18%) Algorithms
19 18 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 171 (9.61%) Linux
2 92 (5.17%) Windows
3 49 (2.75%) Unix
4 31 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.67%) Android
9 9 (0.51%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.39%) Solaris
11 5 (0.28%) 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 (0.056%) VMS
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (31.63%) Agile
2 484 (27.19%) DevOps
3 352 (19.78%) Software Engineering
4 305 (17.13%) CI/CD
5 204 (11.46%) Asset Management
6 175 (9.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 172 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (9.38%) Analytics
9 165 (9.27%) Investment Management
10 161 (9.04%) Microservices
11 160 (8.99%) Full Stack Development
12 159 (8.93%) Test Automation
13 146 (8.20%) Containerisation
14 131 (7.36%) Migration
15 84 (4.72%) Scrum
15 84 (4.72%) Stakeholder Management
16 82 (4.61%) Fintech
17 81 (4.55%) Computer Science
18 80 (4.49%) Continuous Integration
19 79 (4.44%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 583 (32.75%) Python
2 409 (22.98%) Java
3 362 (20.34%) JavaScript
4 301 (16.91%) TypeScript
5 261 (14.66%) SQL
6 118 (6.63%) Go
7 96 (5.39%) Bash
8 71 (3.99%) C#
9 62 (3.48%) PHP
10 59 (3.31%) PowerShell
11 46 (2.58%) Scala
12 43 (2.42%) Ruby
13 35 (1.97%) C++
14 30 (1.69%) C
15 22 (1.24%) Perl
16 19 (1.07%) PL/SQL
17 18 (1.01%) R
18 16 (0.90%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.84%) Kotlin
20 8 (0.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 357 (20.06%) Security Cleared
2 305 (17.13%) SC Cleared
3 128 (7.19%) Degree
4 81 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 58 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 33 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 22 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.24%) CISSP
9 16 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (0.90%) CISM
9 16 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.51%) CCNP
13 9 (0.51%) CISA
13 9 (0.51%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.93%) Data Quality
2 57 (3.20%) QA
3 40 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 37 (2.08%) NCSC
5 35 (1.97%) NIST
6 32 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.01%) GDPR
9 14 (0.79%) SLA
10 7 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
11 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.22%) WCAG
13 3 (0.17%) GPG13
13 3 (0.17%) GxP
13 3 (0.17%) MiFID
14 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 294 (16.52%) Docker
2 106 (5.96%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.22%) vSphere
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) XenApp
9 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.056%) Firmware
10 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.056%) PowerDNS
10 1 (0.056%) RACF
10 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.056%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 365 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 315 (17.70%) Terraform
3 130 (7.30%) Ansible
4 62 (3.48%) Grafana
5 61 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.91%) Progress Chef
7 32 (1.80%) Puppet
8 19 (1.07%) Kibana
9 16 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
10 15 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.62%) Packer
12 10 (0.56%) SCCM
13 8 (0.45%) Nagios
13 8 (0.45%) Podman
14 7 (0.39%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) Consul
15 6 (0.34%) logstash
16 5 (0.28%) Salt
16 5 (0.28%) Tivoli
16 5 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 131 (7.36%) Microsoft
2 115 (6.46%) Oracle
3 70 (3.93%) Google
4 54 (3.03%) Splunk
5 53 (2.98%) VMware
6 42 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.08%) Cisco
8 33 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 31 (1.74%) CyberArk
10 26 (1.46%) IBM
11 25 (1.40%) Databricks
12 23 (1.29%) Red Hat
13 22 (1.24%) Palo Alto
14 19 (1.07%) Dynatrace
14 19 (1.07%) SAP
15 17 (0.96%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.90%) BeyondTrust
17 15 (0.84%) Bloomberg
17 15 (0.84%) Zscaler
18 13 (0.73%) Qualys