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

6 months to
24 May 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 3,481 7,143
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.93% 14.25% 16.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.65% 36.25% 39.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,341 2,705 5,536
10th Percentile £405 £425 £423
25th Percentile £475 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £663
90th Percentile £825 £763 £745
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 30 33
10th Percentile - £33.96 £47.25
25th Percentile £67.50 £45.63 £51.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +8.71% +54.21%
75th Percentile £73.50 £75.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £88.30 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -26.67% +14.43% +37.98%

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 5,354 9,604 18,222
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.53% 39.31% 41.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,879 7,145 13,619
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 130 165
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +50.00% -8.14%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.31 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.19
% change year-on-year -41.45% +64.49% +0.86%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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
1 158 (9.04%) Apache Airflow
2 133 (7.61%) Apache
3 58 (3.32%) Confluence
4 29 (1.66%) nginx
5 21 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
7 10 (0.57%) CMS
8 9 (0.51%) WordPress
9 8 (0.46%) Drupal
9 8 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.40%) JBoss
11 6 (0.34%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.29%) IIS
12 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.29%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 11 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.40%) Trello
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.057%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.057%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.057%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.46%) Temenos T24
2 7 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.29%) Endur
4 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
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%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 563 (32.21%) Azure
2 318 (18.19%) GCP
3 173 (9.90%) Serverless
4 150 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
5 148 (8.47%) Snowflake
6 147 (8.41%) Amazon S3
6 147 (8.41%) dbt
7 105 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 97 (5.55%) GitHub
9 92 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
10 76 (4.35%) SaaS
11 73 (4.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 67 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
13 49 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 48 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
14 48 (2.75%) PaaS
15 46 (2.63%) OpenShift
16 44 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
17 43 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
18 41 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 77 (4.41%) Firewall
2 53 (3.03%) Network Security
3 45 (2.57%) DNS
4 38 (2.17%) SSL
5 32 (1.83%) VPN
6 28 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.14%) DHCP
7 20 (1.14%) HTTP
7 20 (1.14%) WAN
8 19 (1.09%) LAN
9 13 (0.74%) BGP
9 13 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.69%) Wireless
11 11 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (0.57%) VLAN
13 9 (0.51%) MPLS
13 9 (0.51%) OSPF
14 8 (0.46%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.46%) VoIP
15 7 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (8.64%) Amazon Athena
2 125 (7.15%) Dremio
3 124 (7.09%) Apache Arrow
3 124 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
4 120 (6.86%) Data Lake
5 107 (6.12%) Apache Ignite
6 95 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
7 64 (3.66%) SQL Server
8 60 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
9 58 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 58 (3.32%) MySQL
10 57 (3.26%) Relational Database
11 53 (3.03%) Big Data
12 48 (2.75%) NoSQL
13 41 (2.35%) MongoDB
14 40 (2.29%) DynamoDB
15 39 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
16 32 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
16 32 (1.83%) Oracle Database
17 27 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 147 (8.41%) Jenkins
2 131 (7.49%) Git
3 114 (6.52%) JIRA
4 84 (4.81%) GitLab
5 40 (2.29%) Selenium
6 34 (1.95%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.60%) SonarQube
8 27 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 17 (0.97%) JUnit
10 16 (0.92%) JMeter
10 16 (0.92%) Maven
11 14 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.74%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.69%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 10 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (0.51%) Artifactory
16 9 (0.51%) webpack
17 7 (0.40%) WebDriver
General
1 357 (20.42%) Finance
2 269 (15.39%) Social Skills
3 172 (9.84%) Banking
4 163 (9.32%) Front Office
5 147 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 101 (5.78%) Investment Banking
7 85 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
8 34 (1.95%) Retail
9 26 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 21 (1.20%) Marketing
11 19 (1.09%) Law
12 16 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 16 (0.92%) Retail Banking
13 15 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.57%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 488 (27.92%) Developer
2 284 (16.25%) Architect
3 225 (12.87%) Senior
4 218 (12.47%) AWS Engineer
5 186 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 182 (10.41%) Software Engineer
7 128 (7.32%) Lead
8 94 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
9 91 (5.21%) Java Developer
10 90 (5.15%) Full Stack Developer
11 80 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
11 80 (4.58%) Data Engineer
12 77 (4.41%) Python Developer
13 74 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 73 (4.18%) Python Engineer
15 69 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
16 63 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
17 62 (3.55%) Analyst
17 62 (3.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 61 (3.49%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (10.93%) React
2 137 (7.84%) gRPC
3 135 (7.72%) Node.js
4 134 (7.67%) Protocol Buffers
5 110 (6.29%) Pandas
6 106 (6.06%) Kafka
7 105 (6.01%) NumPy
8 102 (5.84%) SciPy
9 86 (4.92%) REST
10 82 (4.69%) AngularJS
11 80 (4.58%) Spring Boot
12 78 (4.46%) .NET
13 75 (4.29%) Spring
14 74 (4.23%) RESTful
15 72 (4.12%) Web Services
16 70 (4.00%) CSS
16 70 (4.00%) HTML
17 58 (3.32%) GraphQL
18 50 (2.86%) AWS CDK
19 42 (2.40%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 152 (8.70%) Fixed Income
1 152 (8.70%) Hedge funds
2 135 (7.72%) Derivative
3 127 (7.27%) Equities
4 116 (6.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 53 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 51 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 46 (2.63%) Cloud Native
8 45 (2.57%) Product Ownership
9 44 (2.52%) PKI
10 43 (2.46%) Data Centre
11 36 (2.06%) Clustering
11 36 (2.06%) Management Information System
12 34 (1.95%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
14 24 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.37%) Replication
15 22 (1.26%) Algorithms
15 22 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 179 (10.24%) Linux
2 96 (5.49%) Windows
3 52 (2.97%) Unix
4 34 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.74%) Android
8 12 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.51%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.46%) Solaris
11 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.23%) CentOS
13 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.11%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.11%) VMS
14 2 (0.11%) zOS
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (30.89%) Agile
2 484 (27.69%) DevOps
3 327 (18.71%) Software Engineering
4 323 (18.48%) CI/CD
5 178 (10.18%) Asset Management
5 178 (10.18%) Microservices
6 177 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 166 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (9.38%) Full Stack Development
9 162 (9.27%) Analytics
10 160 (9.15%) Test Automation
11 146 (8.35%) Containerisation
11 146 (8.35%) Investment Management
12 126 (7.21%) Migration
13 90 (5.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 81 (4.63%) TDD
15 80 (4.58%) Fintech
15 80 (4.58%) Scrum
16 78 (4.46%) Continuous Integration
16 78 (4.46%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 572 (32.72%) Python
2 394 (22.54%) Java
3 348 (19.91%) JavaScript
4 277 (15.85%) TypeScript
5 256 (14.65%) SQL
6 120 (6.86%) Go
7 101 (5.78%) Bash
8 70 (4.00%) C#
9 66 (3.78%) PHP
10 58 (3.32%) PowerShell
11 43 (2.46%) Ruby
11 43 (2.46%) Scala
12 32 (1.83%) C++
13 30 (1.72%) C
14 25 (1.43%) Perl
15 21 (1.20%) PL/SQL
16 19 (1.09%) R
17 18 (1.03%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.80%) Shell Script
19 7 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 369 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 314 (17.96%) SC Cleared
3 124 (7.09%) Degree
4 75 (4.29%) AWS Certification
5 57 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 30 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (1.20%) CISSP
10 16 (0.92%) CISM
10 16 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 10 (0.57%) CCNP
16 10 (0.57%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.51%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 56 (3.20%) QA
3 45 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.23%) NCSC
5 33 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.89%) NIST
6 21 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.09%) GDPR
8 14 (0.80%) SLA
9 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
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
13 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 293 (16.76%) Docker
2 108 (6.18%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
8 2 (0.11%) XenApp
8 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.057%) Firmware
9 1 (0.057%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.057%) IAG
9 1 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.057%) RACF
9 1 (0.057%) UAG
9 1 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 368 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 311 (17.79%) Terraform
3 133 (7.61%) Ansible
4 63 (3.60%) Grafana
5 62 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.89%) Progress Chef
7 31 (1.77%) Puppet
8 21 (1.20%) Kibana
9 16 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
10 15 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.57%) Packer
11 10 (0.57%) SCCM
12 9 (0.51%) Nagios
13 8 (0.46%) Podman
14 7 (0.40%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) Consul
15 6 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.34%) Netcool
15 6 (0.34%) Tivoli
15 6 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 121 (6.92%) Microsoft
2 117 (6.69%) Oracle
3 71 (4.06%) Google
4 55 (3.15%) Splunk
5 53 (3.03%) VMware
6 41 (2.35%) Cisco
7 36 (2.06%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.89%) CyberArk
9 29 (1.66%) IBM
9 29 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 22 (1.26%) Databricks
10 22 (1.26%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.26%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.20%) SAP
12 19 (1.09%) Dynatrace
13 16 (0.92%) BeyondTrust
13 16 (0.92%) F5
14 15 (0.86%) Genesys
15 13 (0.74%) Bloomberg
15 13 (0.74%) Qualys