AWS Software Engineer Contracts

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 June 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
7 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 643 572
Rank change year-on-year +124 -71 +51
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 71 45 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.081% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.085% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 38 238
10th Percentile £563 £493 £438
25th Percentile £663 £581 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £750
90th Percentile - - £888
UK excluding London median daily rate - £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,368 52,724 84,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.55% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 36,785 59,307
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,898 1,484 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

AWS Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Software Engineer.

Daily rate trend for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Software Engineer over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +120 70 £800 +18.52% 12
London +119 68 £800 +18.52% 10
Work from Home +147 53 £800 +18.52% 17
UK excluding London +50 3 - - 2
North of England +18 2 - -
North West +18 2 - -
Scotland +41 1 - - 2

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 June 2024, AWS Software 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 job ads featuring AWS Software Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 71 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (85.92%) TypeScript
2 61 (85.92%) Python
3 60 (84.51%) JavaScript
4 58 (81.69%) Finance
5 56 (78.87%) Agile
6 55 (77.46%) Asset Management
6 55 (77.46%) Front Office
6 55 (77.46%) Fixed Income
6 55 (77.46%) Apache
6 55 (77.46%) Protocol Buffers
6 55 (77.46%) SciPy
6 55 (77.46%) NumPy
6 55 (77.46%) Pandas
6 55 (77.46%) gRPC
6 55 (77.46%) Apache Airflow
6 55 (77.46%) Amazon Athena
6 55 (77.46%) Apache Ignite
6 55 (77.46%) Dremio
6 55 (77.46%) dbt
6 55 (77.46%) Apache Arrow
7 50 (70.42%) Investment Management
8 49 (69.01%) Java
9 45 (63.38%) Banking
9 45 (63.38%) Investment Banking
10 43 (60.56%) Snowflake
11 42 (59.15%) Data Lake
11 42 (59.15%) Hedge funds
11 42 (59.15%) Derivative

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 55 (77.46%) Apache
1 55 (77.46%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 71 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (77.46%) dbt
3 43 (60.56%) Snowflake
4 15 (21.13%) GCP
5 5 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.23%) Azure
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.82%) Serverless
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.41%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (77.46%) Amazon Athena
1 55 (77.46%) Apache Arrow
1 55 (77.46%) Apache Ignite
1 55 (77.46%) Dremio
2 42 (59.15%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
General
1 58 (81.69%) Finance
2 55 (77.46%) Front Office
3 45 (63.38%) Banking
3 45 (63.38%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (77.46%) gRPC
1 55 (77.46%) NumPy
1 55 (77.46%) Pandas
1 55 (77.46%) Protocol Buffers
1 55 (77.46%) SciPy
2 18 (25.35%) React
3 11 (15.49%) AngularJS
4 10 (14.08%) Node.js
4 10 (14.08%) Redux
4 10 (14.08%) Vue
5 9 (12.68%) .NET
5 9 (12.68%) .NET Core
5 9 (12.68%) CSS
6 4 (5.63%) Kafka
7 2 (2.82%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (2.82%) PySpark
7 2 (2.82%) Spring
8 1 (1.41%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.41%) HTML
8 1 (1.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 55 (77.46%) Fixed Income
2 42 (59.15%) Derivative
2 42 (59.15%) Equities
2 42 (59.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (59.15%) Hedge funds
3 16 (22.54%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 56 (78.87%) Agile
3 55 (77.46%) Asset Management
4 50 (70.42%) Investment Management
5 24 (33.80%) Greeks
6 12 (16.90%) Analytics
7 11 (15.49%) Fintech
8 10 (14.08%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 10 (14.08%) Performance Attribution
9 9 (12.68%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (12.68%) Machine Learning
10 8 (11.27%) Data Governance
10 8 (11.27%) LLM
11 3 (4.23%) Data Engineering
11 3 (4.23%) Technical Leadership
12 2 (2.82%) Dependency Management
12 2 (2.82%) DevOps
12 2 (2.82%) Line Management
12 2 (2.82%) Mentoring
12 2 (2.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 61 (85.92%) Python
1 61 (85.92%) TypeScript
2 60 (84.51%) JavaScript
3 49 (69.01%) Java
4 12 (16.90%) SQL
5 9 (12.68%) C#
6 8 (11.27%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.41%) PHP
7 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (33.80%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Terraform
2 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.41%) Ansible
3 1 (1.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (2.82%) Bloomberg
1 2 (2.82%) Reuters
2 1 (1.41%) Databricks
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