AWS Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 136 142
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +3
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 233 427 836
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.58% 1.79% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 1.88% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 353 642
10th Percentile £438 £463 £438
25th Percentile £500 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £850 £713 £650
90th Percentile - £863 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

AWS Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer.

AWS Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

AWS Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer.

AWS Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, AWS 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 233 (100.00%) AWS
2 147 (63.09%) Python
3 130 (55.79%) DevOps
4 102 (43.78%) Terraform
5 89 (38.20%) JavaScript
5 89 (38.20%) Finance
6 87 (37.34%) Agile
7 80 (34.33%) Apache Airflow
7 80 (34.33%) dbt
8 78 (33.48%) Java
9 77 (33.05%) Amazon Athena
10 76 (32.62%) Snowflake
11 75 (32.19%) Asset Management
12 74 (31.76%) Protocol Buffers
12 74 (31.76%) Apache Arrow
12 74 (31.76%) Dremio
12 74 (31.76%) gRPC
13 72 (30.90%) Kubernetes
14 71 (30.47%) Investment Management
15 68 (29.18%) Data Lake
16 66 (28.33%) Hedge funds
17 64 (27.47%) TypeScript
18 61 (26.18%) Software Engineering
19 57 (24.46%) Apache
19 57 (24.46%) Front Office
19 57 (24.46%) NumPy
20 56 (24.03%) Pandas
20 56 (24.03%) Apache Ignite
20 56 (24.03%) SciPy
20 56 (24.03%) Fixed Income

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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 80 (34.33%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (24.46%) Apache
3 5 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.15%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 233 (100.00%) AWS
2 80 (34.33%) dbt
3 76 (32.62%) Snowflake
4 36 (15.45%) Serverless
5 35 (15.02%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (13.73%) Amazon S3
7 29 (12.45%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (11.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (9.87%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (8.58%) Azure
11 17 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (7.30%) GCP
12 16 (6.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (6.44%) GitHub
14 13 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (5.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (5.15%) Route 53
16 9 (3.86%) AWS Control Tower
17 8 (3.43%) SaaS
18 7 (3.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.86%) Firewall
2 5 (2.15%) DNS
2 5 (2.15%) Network Security
3 4 (1.72%) DHCP
4 3 (1.29%) LAN
4 3 (1.29%) WLAN
5 2 (0.86%) VPN
6 1 (0.43%) IPv4
6 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.43%) SSL
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (33.05%) Amazon Athena
2 74 (31.76%) Apache Arrow
2 74 (31.76%) Dremio
3 68 (29.18%) Data Lake
4 56 (24.03%) Apache Ignite
5 22 (9.44%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (9.44%) Big Data
6 17 (7.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.58%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.72%) MySQL
11 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.72%) Tableau
12 3 (1.29%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.86%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.86%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (9.44%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.30%) GitLab
3 15 (6.44%) Git
4 10 (4.29%) JIRA
5 5 (2.15%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.86%) JMeter
6 2 (0.86%) Snyk
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.43%) Gradle
7 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.43%) Maven
7 1 (0.43%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.43%) Selenium
7 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.43%) Storybook
7 1 (0.43%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.43%) VisualWorks
General
1 89 (38.20%) Finance
2 57 (24.46%) Front Office
3 50 (21.46%) Banking
4 46 (19.74%) Investment Banking
5 24 (10.30%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.58%) Social Skills
7 8 (3.43%) Law
8 5 (2.15%) Retail
9 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.43%) Czech Language
11 1 (0.43%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (31.76%) gRPC
1 74 (31.76%) Protocol Buffers
2 57 (24.46%) NumPy
3 56 (24.03%) Pandas
3 56 (24.03%) SciPy
4 14 (6.01%) React
5 13 (5.58%) Node.js
6 11 (4.72%) AWS CDK
6 11 (4.72%) PySpark
6 11 (4.72%) Redux
7 10 (4.29%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.29%) Vue
8 6 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.72%) AWS SAM
11 3 (1.29%) Kafka
12 2 (0.86%) J2EE
12 2 (0.86%) React Native
12 2 (0.86%) Spring Boot
13 1 (0.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 66 (28.33%) Hedge funds
2 56 (24.03%) Fixed Income
3 46 (19.74%) Derivative
3 46 (19.74%) Equities
3 46 (19.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (8.15%) Clustering
5 16 (6.87%) Pricing Data
6 12 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.86%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.86%) Life Science
10 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) NHS
10 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.02%) Linux
2 9 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.43%) Windows
4 5 (2.15%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.15%) Unix
5 3 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) Android
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (55.79%) DevOps
2 87 (37.34%) Agile
3 75 (32.19%) Asset Management
4 71 (30.47%) Investment Management
5 61 (26.18%) Software Engineering
6 52 (22.32%) CI/CD
7 30 (12.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (11.16%) Greeks
9 23 (9.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 20 (8.58%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (7.73%) Test Automation
12 17 (7.30%) Containerisation
12 17 (7.30%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (6.87%) Data Engineering
14 14 (6.01%) Analytics
14 14 (6.01%) Migration
14 14 (6.01%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (4.72%) ETL
15 11 (4.72%) Fintech
15 11 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 147 (63.09%) Python
2 89 (38.20%) JavaScript
3 78 (33.48%) Java
4 64 (27.47%) TypeScript
5 30 (12.88%) Go
6 22 (9.44%) Bash
7 20 (8.58%) SQL
8 8 (3.43%) Scala
9 5 (2.15%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.72%) C++
10 4 (1.72%) Groovy
10 4 (1.72%) Ruby
11 3 (1.29%) C
12 2 (0.86%) PHP
12 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.43%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 52 (22.32%) Security Cleared
2 46 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.01%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.86%) Degree
5 8 (3.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.86%) GDPR
3 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.86%) NCSC
4 1 (0.43%) NIST
4 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) SLA
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (19.31%) Docker
2 3 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (43.78%) Terraform
2 72 (30.90%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.45%) Ansible
4 26 (11.16%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.44%) Grafana
6 7 (3.00%) Kibana
7 5 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.86%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.86%) Nagios
8 2 (0.86%) Puppet
8 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.43%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.43%) Graylog
9 1 (0.43%) logstash
9 1 (0.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (5.58%) Databricks
2 11 (4.72%) Splunk
3 5 (2.15%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.72%) Bloomberg
4 4 (1.72%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.72%) Reuters
5 3 (1.29%) Informatica
5 3 (1.29%) Oracle
5 3 (1.29%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.43%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.43%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco
6 1 (0.43%) Confluent
6 1 (0.43%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.43%) Google
6 1 (0.43%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.43%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.43%) VMware