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 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 247 290 281
Rank change year-on-year +43 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 95 181 402
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.65% 0.75% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.90% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 139 268
10th Percentile £390 £495 £438
25th Percentile £416 £513 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £650
90th Percentile £688 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £63.75
25th Percentile - £47.50 £66.88
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% -
75th Percentile - £52.50 £83.13
90th Percentile - - £85.00
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -33.33% -

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 5,341 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%

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 3 June 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 5 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.05%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 94 (98.95%) AWS
2 69 (72.63%) Amazon S3
3 50 (52.63%) Serverless
4 47 (49.47%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (34.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 28 (29.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (29.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 27 (28.42%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (28.42%) Route 53
8 22 (23.16%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (15.79%) AWS Fargate
11 9 (9.47%) Amazon ECR
11 9 (9.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (9.47%) OpenShift
12 8 (8.42%) AWS CloudTrail
13 7 (7.37%) AWS KMS
14 6 (6.32%) Azure
14 6 (6.32%) CloudFront
15 5 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.53%) Network Security
2 7 (7.37%) DNS
2 7 (7.37%) Firewall
3 3 (3.16%) DHCP
3 3 (3.16%) LAN
3 3 (3.16%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (3.16%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (3.16%) WLAN
4 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.05%) MQTT
4 1 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.05%) SSL
4 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.05%) VPN
4 1 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (49.47%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (8.42%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (8.42%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.37%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (6.32%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.26%) DynamoDB
7 5 (5.26%) InfluxDB
8 4 (4.21%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.21%) Informix
8 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database
8 4 (4.21%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.16%) MySQL
9 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.11%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.11%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
10 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 18 (18.95%) GitLab
3 17 (17.89%) Git
4 5 (5.26%) Artifactory
4 5 (5.26%) Selenium
5 4 (4.21%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.21%) JIRA
5 4 (4.21%) JMeter
5 4 (4.21%) JUnit
5 4 (4.21%) Maven
6 3 (3.16%) Gradle
6 3 (3.16%) REST Assured
6 3 (3.16%) webpack
7 2 (2.11%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.11%) Mocha
7 2 (2.11%) Snyk
7 2 (2.11%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.11%) TestNG
7 2 (2.11%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (16.84%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.58%) Finance
3 8 (8.42%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.16%) Banking
5 2 (2.11%) Retail
6 1 (1.05%) Front Office
6 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (27.37%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (14.74%) AWS DevOps
3 14 (14.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 14 (14.74%) Developer
3 14 (14.74%) Senior
4 12 (12.63%) Architect
5 7 (7.37%) AWS Architect
5 7 (7.37%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) AWS Consultant
7 5 (5.26%) Consultant
7 5 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Lead
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (4.21%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.74%) AWS CDK
2 10 (10.53%) Node.js
3 8 (8.42%) React
4 7 (7.37%) REST
5 6 (6.32%) Spring
6 5 (5.26%) Kafka
6 5 (5.26%) LDAP
6 5 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (4.21%) Express.js
7 4 (4.21%) Middleware
7 4 (4.21%) OAuth
7 4 (4.21%) Spring Boot
8 3 (3.16%) Redux
8 3 (3.16%) Web Services
9 2 (2.11%) CodeIgniter
9 2 (2.11%) Django
9 2 (2.11%) JAXB
9 2 (2.11%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (2.11%) RESTful
9 2 (2.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.32%) Replication
2 5 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.16%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.11%) IoT
5 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.11%) Video on Demand
6 1 (1.05%) Clustering
6 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (28.42%) Linux
2 12 (12.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (11.58%) Windows
4 6 (6.32%) Ubuntu
5 5 (5.26%) Unix
6 3 (3.16%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.11%) CentOS
8 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.05%) VMS
8 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.00%) DevOps
2 31 (32.63%) CI/CD
3 30 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (27.37%) Agile
5 17 (17.89%) Containerisation
6 16 (16.84%) Test Automation
7 15 (15.79%) Migration
8 12 (12.63%) High Availability
9 11 (11.58%) Kanban
9 11 (11.58%) Scrum
10 10 (10.53%) Microservices
11 7 (7.37%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (7.37%) Service Design
12 6 (6.32%) Data Protection
12 6 (6.32%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (6.32%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (6.32%) Technical Leadership
13 5 (5.26%) BDD
13 5 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
13 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.42%) Python
2 22 (23.16%) Java
3 16 (16.84%) TypeScript
4 14 (14.74%) SQL
5 13 (13.68%) JavaScript
6 12 (12.63%) Bash
7 7 (7.37%) Groovy
8 3 (3.16%) C
8 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.11%) Perl
9 2 (2.11%) PHP
9 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.05%) C++
10 1 (1.05%) Go
10 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.89%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.21%) Degree
6 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.05%) CCNA
8 1 (1.05%) CCNP
8 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.05%) MCSA
8 1 (1.05%) MCSE
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.05%) OCP
8 1 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.11%) SLA
4 1 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.05%) IFRS
4 1 (1.05%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 26 (27.37%) Docker
2 9 (9.47%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 39 (41.05%) Kubernetes
2 28 (29.47%) Terraform
3 22 (23.16%) Grafana
4 17 (17.89%) Ansible
5 10 (10.53%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.37%) Kibana
7 5 (5.26%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.16%) Puppet
9 2 (2.11%) Salt
9 2 (2.11%) SCCM
9 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.05%) AirWatch
10 1 (1.05%) Data Guard
10 1 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.05%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.05%) Packer
10 1 (1.05%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (13.68%) Oracle
2 6 (6.32%) VMware
3 5 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.21%) Splunk
5 3 (3.16%) Confluent
5 3 (3.16%) Databricks
5 3 (3.16%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.16%) Okta
5 3 (3.16%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.11%) Commvault
6 2 (2.11%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.11%) IBM
6 2 (2.11%) Informatica
6 2 (2.11%) Qualys
6 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.11%) SaltStack
6 2 (2.11%) SAP
6 2 (2.11%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.05%) Adobe
7 1 (1.05%) Apple