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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 1,756 3,436 7,107
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.99% 14.17% 16.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.71% 36.03% 39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 2,686 5,495
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £472 £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 £829 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 31 35
10th Percentile - £35.00 £45.50
25th Percentile £67.50 £42.30 £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +6.81% +10.15%
75th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £77.41
90th Percentile £75.00 £88.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £74.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -25.68% +12.91% +11.56%

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 5,369 9,537 18,208
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.66% 39.34% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,113 13,635
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 84 134 154
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.10
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.26 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +26.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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
1 166 (9.45%) Apache Airflow
2 143 (8.14%) Apache
3 55 (3.13%) Confluence
4 25 (1.42%) nginx
5 23 (1.31%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
6 10 (0.57%) CMS
6 10 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.51%) WordPress
8 8 (0.46%) Drupal
9 7 (0.40%) JBoss
9 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.34%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.28%) IIS
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 11 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.40%) Trello
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.057%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.057%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.46%) Temenos T24
2 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.28%) Endur
3 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.17%) Shopify
4 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Magento
5 2 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.057%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.057%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.057%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.057%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.057%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 564 (32.12%) Azure
2 318 (18.11%) GCP
3 174 (9.91%) Serverless
4 156 (8.88%) dbt
4 156 (8.88%) Snowflake
5 149 (8.49%) Amazon S3
6 148 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
7 107 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 103 (5.87%) GitHub
9 95 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
10 76 (4.33%) SaaS
11 72 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 68 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 49 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
15 46 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
15 46 (2.62%) PaaS
16 45 (2.56%) OpenShift
17 44 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
17 44 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 75 (4.27%) Firewall
2 54 (3.08%) Network Security
3 45 (2.56%) DNS
4 39 (2.22%) SSL
5 32 (1.82%) VPN
6 28 (1.59%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.14%) HTTP
8 19 (1.08%) DHCP
8 19 (1.08%) WAN
9 18 (1.03%) LAN
10 14 (0.80%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.80%) Wireless
11 13 (0.74%) BGP
12 11 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (0.57%) VLAN
14 9 (0.51%) MPLS
14 9 (0.51%) OSPF
15 8 (0.46%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.46%) VoIP
16 7 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (8.94%) Amazon Athena
2 134 (7.63%) Dremio
3 132 (7.52%) Apache Arrow
3 132 (7.52%) Data Lake
4 121 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
5 114 (6.49%) Apache Ignite
6 99 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
7 65 (3.70%) SQL Server
8 60 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
9 59 (3.36%) Relational Database
10 58 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 57 (3.25%) MySQL
12 54 (3.08%) Big Data
13 47 (2.68%) NoSQL
14 41 (2.33%) MongoDB
15 39 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
16 37 (2.11%) DynamoDB
17 32 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
18 31 (1.77%) Oracle Database
19 27 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 150 (8.54%) Jenkins
2 130 (7.40%) Git
3 109 (6.21%) JIRA
4 85 (4.84%) GitLab
5 39 (2.22%) Selenium
6 30 (1.71%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.59%) SonarQube
8 25 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 17 (0.97%) JUnit
10 15 (0.85%) JMeter
10 15 (0.85%) Maven
11 14 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.74%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.68%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.57%) Artifactory
16 9 (0.51%) webpack
17 7 (0.40%) Postman
General
1 373 (21.24%) Finance
2 271 (15.43%) Social Skills
3 182 (10.36%) Banking
4 172 (9.79%) Front Office
5 146 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 108 (6.15%) Investment Banking
7 85 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
8 35 (1.99%) Retail
9 26 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 20 (1.14%) Marketing
11 19 (1.08%) Law
12 18 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 16 (0.91%) Retail Banking
14 14 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.51%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 479 (27.28%) Developer
2 285 (16.23%) Architect
3 238 (13.55%) Senior
4 227 (12.93%) AWS Engineer
5 193 (10.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 185 (10.54%) Software Engineer
7 130 (7.40%) Lead
8 94 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
9 91 (5.18%) Java Developer
10 86 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
11 82 (4.67%) Full Stack Developer
12 80 (4.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 79 (4.50%) Python Developer
14 78 (4.44%) Data Engineer
15 77 (4.38%) Python Engineer
16 73 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
17 65 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
17 65 (3.70%) Java Engineer
18 64 (3.64%) Python Software Engineer
18 64 (3.64%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (10.71%) React
2 144 (8.20%) gRPC
3 141 (8.03%) Protocol Buffers
4 132 (7.52%) Node.js
5 117 (6.66%) Pandas
6 112 (6.38%) NumPy
7 109 (6.21%) SciPy
8 107 (6.09%) Kafka
9 86 (4.90%) REST
10 82 (4.67%) Spring Boot
11 81 (4.61%) AngularJS
12 77 (4.38%) .NET
13 76 (4.33%) RESTful
14 74 (4.21%) Spring
15 72 (4.10%) Web Services
16 70 (3.99%) HTML
17 69 (3.93%) CSS
18 55 (3.13%) GraphQL
19 52 (2.96%) AWS CDK
20 38 (2.16%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.28%) Fixed Income
1 163 (9.28%) Hedge funds
2 145 (8.26%) Derivative
3 137 (7.80%) Equities
4 127 (7.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 54 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
6 50 (2.85%) Public Cloud
7 48 (2.73%) Product Ownership
8 46 (2.62%) Cloud Native
9 44 (2.51%) PKI
10 42 (2.39%) Data Centre
11 36 (2.05%) Management Information System
12 35 (1.99%) Clustering
13 34 (1.94%) Onboarding
14 25 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
15 24 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
16 23 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (1.31%) Replication
17 20 (1.14%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 174 (9.91%) Linux
2 92 (5.24%) Windows
3 50 (2.85%) Unix
4 30 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.68%) Android
9 9 (0.51%) Windows 10
10 7 (0.40%) Solaris
11 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.17%) CentOS
12 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.11%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.057%) VMS
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (31.04%) Agile
2 484 (27.56%) DevOps
3 332 (18.91%) Software Engineering
4 315 (17.94%) CI/CD
5 187 (10.65%) Asset Management
6 175 (9.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 171 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
8 168 (9.57%) Microservices
9 162 (9.23%) Analytics
10 159 (9.05%) Full Stack Development
11 155 (8.83%) Investment Management
12 153 (8.71%) Test Automation
13 149 (8.49%) Containerisation
14 128 (7.29%) Migration
15 86 (4.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 82 (4.67%) Fintech
17 80 (4.56%) Continuous Integration
17 80 (4.56%) Scrum
18 78 (4.44%) Mentoring
18 78 (4.44%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 574 (32.69%) Python
2 394 (22.44%) Java
3 350 (19.93%) JavaScript
4 282 (16.06%) TypeScript
5 250 (14.24%) SQL
6 122 (6.95%) Go
7 98 (5.58%) Bash
8 68 (3.87%) C#
9 62 (3.53%) PHP
10 58 (3.30%) PowerShell
11 44 (2.51%) Ruby
11 44 (2.51%) Scala
12 33 (1.88%) C++
13 31 (1.77%) C
14 25 (1.42%) Perl
15 20 (1.14%) PL/SQL
16 18 (1.03%) R
17 16 (0.91%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.91%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.46%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 365 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 314 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.89%) Degree
4 81 (4.61%) AWS Certification
5 57 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (2.85%) DV Cleared
7 31 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (1.31%) CISSP
10 17 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.91%) CISM
12 15 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 10 (0.57%) CCNP
18 9 (0.51%) CISA
18 9 (0.51%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 57 (3.25%) QA
3 41 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.16%) NCSC
5 33 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.88%) NIST
6 23 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.03%) GDPR
8 14 (0.80%) SLA
9 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
12 3 (0.17%) WCAG
13 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 297 (16.91%) Docker
2 109 (6.21%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.23%) vSphere
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) XenApp
9 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.057%) Firmware
10 1 (0.057%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.057%) IAG
10 1 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.057%) RACF
10 1 (0.057%) UAG
10 1 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 369 (21.01%) Kubernetes
2 317 (18.05%) Terraform
3 131 (7.46%) Ansible
4 61 (3.47%) Grafana
4 61 (3.47%) Prometheus
5 33 (1.88%) Progress Chef
6 31 (1.77%) Puppet
7 19 (1.08%) Kibana
8 16 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
9 15 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.63%) Packer
11 10 (0.57%) SCCM
12 8 (0.46%) Nagios
12 8 (0.46%) Podman
13 7 (0.40%) Argo
14 6 (0.34%) Consul
14 6 (0.34%) logstash
15 5 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
15 5 (0.28%) Tivoli
15 5 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 124 (7.06%) Microsoft
2 116 (6.61%) Oracle
3 69 (3.93%) Google
4 55 (3.13%) Splunk
5 53 (3.02%) VMware
6 39 (2.22%) Cisco
7 37 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.88%) CyberArk
9 31 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 26 (1.48%) IBM
11 23 (1.31%) Databricks
12 22 (1.25%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.25%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.08%) Dynatrace
13 19 (1.08%) SAP
14 16 (0.91%) BeyondTrust
14 16 (0.91%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.80%) F5
15 14 (0.80%) Genesys
16 13 (0.74%) Qualys