Amazon S3 Contracts

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon S3 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 258 270
Rank change year-on-year +32 +12 -79
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 432 590 920
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.03% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 2.81% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 449 664
10th Percentile £405 £433 £425
25th Percentile £438 £474 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £499 £525
% change year-on-year +1.71% -5.05% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.76% +151.85%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.55 -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon S3 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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,823 20,974 33,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 36.73% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 15,173 24,585
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 334 420
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.31 £15.88
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.12% +25.00% -

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon S3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3.

Daily rate trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon S3 within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 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 +34 323 £525 -12.50% 140
London +30 207 £510 -15.00% 72
UK excluding London +14 176 £507 +1.71% 84
Work from Home +29 158 £507 -5.77% 91
Scotland +1 66 £466 -1.89% 10
North of England +40 56 £510 -11.30% 33
North West +38 33 £510 -18.40% 13
South East +24 32 £550 -4.35% 9
Yorkshire +32 23 £507 +12.67% 15
South West +17 11 £550 -8.33% 5
Midlands +33 5 £494 -5.95% 16
West Midlands +20 5 £494 -5.95% 12
East of England +12 4 £600 +4.35% 2
Wales +22 3 £645 +9.70% 5

Amazon S3
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 30 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.09%) Apache
4 10 (2.31%) Confluence
5 8 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.85%) Site Server
6 5 (1.16%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.69%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.46%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Trello
1 1 (0.23%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.62%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.23%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 417 (96.53%) AWS
2 248 (57.41%) Serverless
3 223 (51.62%) AWS Lambda
4 206 (47.69%) Amazon EC2
5 98 (22.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 88 (20.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 85 (19.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 62 (14.35%) Amazon SQS
9 59 (13.66%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (12.96%) Route 53
11 47 (10.88%) AWS Step Functions
12 44 (10.19%) Azure
13 41 (9.49%) Amazon ECS
14 39 (9.03%) Snowflake
15 37 (8.56%) Amazon EMR
16 32 (7.41%) OpenShift
17 21 (4.86%) Amazon ECR
17 21 (4.86%) Amazon MSK
18 19 (4.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 19 (4.40%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.09%) Network Security
2 12 (2.78%) Firewall
3 9 (2.08%) DNS
4 8 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.39%) DHCP
6 5 (1.16%) AMQP
6 5 (1.16%) FTP
6 5 (1.16%) VPN
7 4 (0.93%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.69%) HTTP
8 3 (0.69%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.69%) LAN
8 3 (0.69%) WLAN
9 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.23%) SAN
9 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (29.63%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (18.29%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (17.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 62 (14.35%) Amazon Athena
5 47 (10.88%) DynamoDB
6 43 (9.95%) Amazon Aurora
7 41 (9.49%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (7.41%) Relational Database
9 30 (6.94%) Big Data
10 28 (6.48%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (6.25%) Data Lake
11 27 (6.25%) MongoDB
12 22 (5.09%) NoSQL
13 19 (4.40%) MySQL
14 14 (3.24%) Hadoop
14 14 (3.24%) Parquet
15 12 (2.78%) GIS
15 12 (2.78%) InfluxDB
15 12 (2.78%) Oracle Database
15 12 (2.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 97 (22.45%) Git
2 85 (19.68%) Jenkins
3 59 (13.66%) GitLab
4 22 (5.09%) JIRA
5 16 (3.70%) Maven
6 14 (3.24%) JUnit
7 12 (2.78%) webpack
8 9 (2.08%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.08%) Mockito
8 9 (2.08%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.62%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.39%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.39%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.39%) TestNG
11 5 (1.16%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.16%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.16%) Selenium
12 4 (0.93%) Gradle
12 4 (0.93%) Liquibase
12 4 (0.93%) Sourcetree
General
1 74 (17.13%) Social Skills
2 68 (15.74%) Public Sector
3 35 (8.10%) Finance
4 16 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.01%) Retail
6 10 (2.31%) Banking
7 7 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.93%) Legal
10 3 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.69%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Law
12 1 (0.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 121 (28.01%) Developer
2 80 (18.52%) AWS Engineer
2 80 (18.52%) Data Engineer
3 76 (17.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (9.26%) Architect
4 40 (9.26%) Senior
5 37 (8.56%) AWS DevOps
5 37 (8.56%) Lead
6 32 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 29 (6.71%) AWS Data Engineer
8 28 (6.48%) Java Developer
9 20 (4.63%) AWS Developer
10 17 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (3.94%) Python Developer
10 17 (3.94%) Software Developer
11 15 (3.47%) AWS Architect
11 15 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.24%) Data Architect
13 13 (3.01%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (13.43%) AWS CDK
2 53 (12.27%) Node.js
3 50 (11.57%) React
4 44 (10.19%) Kafka
5 41 (9.49%) REST
6 37 (8.56%) Spring
7 32 (7.41%) Spring Boot
8 23 (5.32%) RESTful
9 21 (4.86%) PySpark
10 18 (4.17%) JSON
11 17 (3.94%) CSS
11 17 (3.94%) HTML
11 17 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (3.01%) OAuth
14 12 (2.78%) .NET
14 12 (2.78%) Apache Avro
15 11 (2.55%) Lambda Expressions
16 10 (2.31%) Express.js
16 10 (2.31%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (3.94%) Public Cloud
3 15 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (3.47%) Data Structures
4 12 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.31%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.08%) Replication
7 7 (1.62%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.39%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.16%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.16%) Market Risk
10 4 (0.93%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (0.93%) Derivative
10 4 (0.93%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 61 (14.12%) Linux
2 22 (5.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (3.24%) Windows
4 11 (2.55%) Unix
5 8 (1.85%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.16%) CentOS
7 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.69%) Debian
9 2 (0.46%) zOS
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (40.97%) CI/CD
2 170 (39.35%) DevOps
3 122 (28.24%) Agile
4 105 (24.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 94 (21.76%) ETL
6 81 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 60 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
7 60 (13.89%) Scrum
8 59 (13.66%) Microservices
9 47 (10.88%) Migration
10 46 (10.65%) Data Modelling
10 46 (10.65%) Test Automation
11 42 (9.72%) Kanban
12 41 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (8.80%) Analytics
14 35 (8.10%) Data Engineering
15 33 (7.64%) Software Engineering
16 31 (7.18%) Machine Learning
17 28 (6.48%) Full Stack Development
18 27 (6.25%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 244 (56.48%) Python
2 127 (29.40%) SQL
3 111 (25.69%) Java
4 66 (15.28%) TypeScript
5 48 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 43 (9.95%) Bash
7 26 (6.02%) Shell Script
8 14 (3.24%) Scala
9 13 (3.01%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.55%) Go
11 9 (2.08%) C#
12 8 (1.85%) Korn
13 7 (1.62%) C
13 7 (1.62%) Groovy
13 7 (1.62%) Perl
14 4 (0.93%) Ruby
15 3 (0.69%) PHP
15 3 (0.69%) R
16 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.46%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (26.16%) Security Cleared
2 96 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 27 (6.25%) Degree
4 18 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (2.31%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.23%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 20 (4.63%) QA
3 17 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.93%) GDPR
7 3 (0.69%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.46%) NIST
8 2 (0.46%) SLA
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 114 (26.39%) Docker
2 10 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.46%) Varnish
6 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.23%) Ceph
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) HDFS
6 1 (0.23%) NFS
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 149 (34.49%) Kubernetes
2 129 (29.86%) Terraform
3 68 (15.74%) Grafana
4 60 (13.89%) Ansible
5 41 (9.49%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.01%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.78%) Kibana
8 9 (2.08%) Puppet
9 8 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (1.16%) Argo
10 5 (1.16%) Graylog
10 5 (1.16%) Nagios
10 5 (1.16%) Packer
11 4 (0.93%) Rancher
11 4 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.69%) Consul
12 3 (0.69%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.69%) logstash
13 2 (0.46%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.46%) Salt
Vendors
1 39 (9.03%) Oracle
2 24 (5.56%) Splunk
3 23 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.70%) Databricks
5 15 (3.47%) Google
5 15 (3.47%) Red Hat
6 13 (3.01%) Informatica
7 10 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.31%) SAP
8 8 (1.85%) ESRI
9 7 (1.62%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.62%) Guidewire
9 7 (1.62%) NEC
9 7 (1.62%) VMware
10 6 (1.39%) Talend
11 5 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.93%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.93%) Commvault
12 4 (0.93%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.93%) Qualys