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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,772 3,520 7,187
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.00% 14.29% 16.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.84% 36.19% 39.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,355 2,733 5,588
10th Percentile £405 £425 £422
25th Percentile £475 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £663
90th Percentile £800 £763 £745
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 29 33
10th Percentile £58.50 £32.92 £47.25
25th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £51.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +10.62% +54.21%
75th Percentile £73.00 £76.00 £77.32
90th Percentile £74.95 £88.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -26.67% +14.43% +52.42%

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 5,396 9,727 18,246
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.48% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,218 13,626
10th Percentile £350 £371 £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 £743 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 129 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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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 18 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 18 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
1 145 (8.18%) Apache Airflow
2 122 (6.88%) Apache
3 63 (3.56%) Confluence
4 32 (1.81%) nginx
5 21 (1.19%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
7 10 (0.56%) CMS
8 9 (0.51%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.51%) WordPress
9 8 (0.45%) JBoss
9 8 (0.45%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.40%) Drupal
10 7 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.28%) IIS
11 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
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 14 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.40%) Trello
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.056%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.056%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.056%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Temenos T24
2 7 (0.40%) Endur
3 6 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.28%) 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 (0.056%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.056%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.056%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.056%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.056%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 573 (32.34%) Azure
2 315 (17.78%) GCP
3 184 (10.38%) Serverless
4 158 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
5 146 (8.24%) Amazon S3
6 133 (7.51%) Snowflake
7 131 (7.39%) dbt
8 105 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 95 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
10 92 (5.19%) GitHub
11 76 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 75 (4.23%) SaaS
13 74 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
14 54 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 52 (2.93%) PaaS
16 49 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
17 48 (2.71%) OpenShift
18 46 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
19 42 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
20 41 (2.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.29%) Firewall
2 52 (2.93%) Network Security
3 45 (2.54%) DNS
4 39 (2.20%) SSL
5 33 (1.86%) VPN
6 28 (1.58%) TCP/IP
7 21 (1.19%) HTTP
8 19 (1.07%) DHCP
9 18 (1.02%) WAN
10 17 (0.96%) LAN
11 13 (0.73%) BGP
12 11 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.62%) Wireless
13 10 (0.56%) VLAN
14 9 (0.51%) OSPF
15 8 (0.45%) MPLS
15 8 (0.45%) NAS
15 8 (0.45%) SAN
15 8 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.79%) Amazon Athena
2 129 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (6.26%) Apache Arrow
3 111 (6.26%) Dremio
4 110 (6.21%) Data Lake
5 97 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
5 97 (5.47%) Apache Ignite
6 60 (3.39%) MySQL
7 59 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 58 (3.27%) Relational Database
9 56 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 56 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
10 53 (2.99%) Big Data
11 50 (2.82%) NoSQL
12 46 (2.60%) MongoDB
13 41 (2.31%) DynamoDB
14 40 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
15 34 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
16 32 (1.81%) Oracle Database
17 28 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 151 (8.52%) Jenkins
2 135 (7.62%) Git
3 122 (6.88%) JIRA
4 85 (4.80%) GitLab
5 41 (2.31%) Selenium
6 34 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 29 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 29 (1.64%) SonarQube
8 18 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.02%) Maven
9 17 (0.96%) JUnit
10 16 (0.90%) JMeter
11 14 (0.79%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.73%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.68%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (0.51%) Artifactory
15 9 (0.51%) Postman
15 9 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 348 (19.64%) Finance
2 272 (15.35%) Social Skills
3 161 (9.09%) Banking
4 160 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 153 (8.63%) Front Office
6 91 (5.14%) Investment Banking
7 89 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
8 34 (1.92%) Retail
9 32 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 24 (1.35%) Marketing
11 19 (1.07%) Law
12 18 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 17 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (0.90%) Retail Banking
15 13 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.56%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 494 (27.88%) Developer
2 295 (16.65%) Architect
3 232 (13.09%) Senior
4 216 (12.19%) AWS Engineer
5 190 (10.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 180 (10.16%) Software Engineer
7 129 (7.28%) Lead
8 95 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (5.19%) Java Developer
10 90 (5.08%) Full Stack Developer
11 81 (4.57%) AWS DevOps
12 77 (4.35%) Data Engineer
12 77 (4.35%) Python Developer
13 75 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 69 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
15 68 (3.84%) Python Engineer
16 66 (3.72%) Analyst
16 66 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
17 60 (3.39%) Software Developer
18 59 (3.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (10.55%) React
2 140 (7.90%) Node.js
3 125 (7.05%) gRPC
4 122 (6.88%) Protocol Buffers
5 106 (5.98%) Kafka
6 100 (5.64%) Pandas
7 95 (5.36%) NumPy
8 92 (5.19%) SciPy
9 88 (4.97%) REST
10 81 (4.57%) RESTful
11 80 (4.51%) AngularJS
12 79 (4.46%) .NET
12 79 (4.46%) Spring Boot
13 76 (4.29%) Web Services
14 75 (4.23%) Spring
15 71 (4.01%) CSS
15 71 (4.01%) HTML
16 57 (3.22%) GraphQL
17 54 (3.05%) AWS CDK
18 42 (2.37%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 143 (8.07%) Fixed Income
2 140 (7.90%) Hedge funds
3 127 (7.17%) Derivative
4 118 (6.66%) Equities
5 106 (5.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 53 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 45 (2.54%) Cloud Native
8 45 (2.54%) PKI
8 45 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 43 (2.43%) Data Centre
10 36 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 36 (2.03%) Onboarding
11 35 (1.98%) Clustering
12 24 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.35%) Replication
13 23 (1.30%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 182 (10.27%) Linux
2 96 (5.42%) Windows
3 51 (2.88%) Unix
4 35 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.73%) Android
8 12 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.51%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.45%) Solaris
11 6 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.28%) CentOS
13 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.11%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.11%) zOS
15 1 (0.056%) tvOS
15 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (30.93%) Agile
2 492 (27.77%) DevOps
3 338 (19.07%) CI/CD
4 328 (18.51%) Software Engineering
5 189 (10.67%) Microservices
6 181 (10.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 169 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (9.42%) Asset Management
9 166 (9.37%) Analytics
10 162 (9.14%) Test Automation
11 161 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
12 146 (8.24%) Containerisation
13 138 (7.79%) Investment Management
14 121 (6.83%) Migration
15 93 (5.25%) Stakeholder Management
16 89 (5.02%) Scrum
17 84 (4.74%) ETL
17 84 (4.74%) TDD
18 79 (4.46%) Continuous Integration
18 79 (4.46%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 581 (32.79%) Python
2 385 (21.73%) Java
3 342 (19.30%) JavaScript
4 272 (15.35%) TypeScript
5 249 (14.05%) SQL
6 123 (6.94%) Go
7 103 (5.81%) Bash
8 72 (4.06%) C#
9 66 (3.72%) PHP
10 61 (3.44%) PowerShell
11 45 (2.54%) Ruby
12 44 (2.48%) Scala
13 31 (1.75%) C++
14 30 (1.69%) C
15 26 (1.47%) Perl
16 25 (1.41%) R
17 21 (1.19%) PL/SQL
18 18 (1.02%) Kotlin
19 16 (0.90%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 388 (21.90%) Security Cleared
2 330 (18.62%) SC Cleared
3 125 (7.05%) Degree
4 74 (4.18%) AWS Certification
5 56 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 28 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.24%) CISSP
10 21 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (0.90%) CISM
12 15 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 10 (0.56%) CREST Certified
18 9 (0.51%) CISA
19 8 (0.45%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.27%) QA
2 57 (3.22%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.20%) NCSC
5 34 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.86%) NIST
7 20 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.07%) GDPR
9 14 (0.79%) SLA
10 7 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
10 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.17%) GPG13
12 3 (0.17%) MiFID
13 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.11%) GxP
13 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 299 (16.87%) Docker
2 107 (6.04%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.056%) ACF2
9 1 (0.056%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.056%) HDFS
9 1 (0.056%) IAG
9 1 (0.056%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.056%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.056%) UAG
9 1 (0.056%) vCloud
9 1 (0.056%) XenApp
9 1 (0.056%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 372 (20.99%) Kubernetes
2 323 (18.23%) Terraform
3 138 (7.79%) Ansible
4 63 (3.56%) Grafana
5 59 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.09%) Progress Chef
7 33 (1.86%) Puppet
8 22 (1.24%) Kibana
9 16 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
10 15 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.68%) Packer
12 10 (0.56%) Nagios
12 10 (0.56%) SCCM
13 8 (0.45%) Consul
13 8 (0.45%) Podman
14 7 (0.40%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.34%) logstash
15 6 (0.34%) Tivoli
15 6 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 119 (6.72%) Oracle
2 118 (6.66%) Microsoft
3 73 (4.12%) Google
4 56 (3.16%) Splunk
5 55 (3.10%) VMware
6 38 (2.14%) Cisco
7 37 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.86%) CyberArk
9 29 (1.64%) IBM
10 24 (1.35%) Red Hat
10 24 (1.35%) Salesforce
10 24 (1.35%) SAP
11 23 (1.30%) Databricks
12 21 (1.19%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.13%) Dynatrace
14 16 (0.90%) BeyondTrust
14 16 (0.90%) Genesys
15 15 (0.85%) Bloomberg
16 14 (0.79%) F5
16 14 (0.79%) OpenAI