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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 251 261
Rank change year-on-year +26 +10 -67
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 447 583 946
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.04% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.20% 2.86% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 442 682
10th Percentile £400 £433 £425
25th Percentile £438 £475 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £642
90th Percentile £715 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £499 £525
% change year-on-year +1.50% -5.05% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £48.81 £67.00
25th Percentile - £50.76 £73.75
Median hourly rate - £55.28 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -34.97% +119.35%
75th Percentile - £58.54 -
90th Percentile - £59.75 -
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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +36 336 £525 -12.50% 152
London +39 221 £510 -15.00% 85
UK excluding London +3 181 £506 +1.50% 89
Work from Home +28 159 £506 -5.86% 91
Scotland -8 70 £463 -3.04% 16
North of England +46 58 £510 -13.19% 34
North West +37 33 £510 -11.30% 21
South East +8 29 £550 -4.35% 7
Yorkshire +33 25 £507 +1.30% 10
South West +5 12 £550 -8.33% 6
Midlands +24 5 £494 -5.95% 17
West Midlands +15 5 £494 -5.95% 13
East of England +4 4 £600 +4.35% 3
Wales +17 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 36 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (6.94%) Apache Spark
3 25 (5.59%) Apache
4 10 (2.24%) Confluence
5 8 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.79%) Site Server
6 5 (1.12%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.67%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.57%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.22%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 432 (96.64%) AWS
2 248 (55.48%) Serverless
3 220 (49.22%) AWS Lambda
4 217 (48.55%) Amazon EC2
5 97 (21.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 88 (19.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 87 (19.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 67 (14.99%) Amazon SQS
9 61 (13.65%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (12.30%) Route 53
11 46 (10.29%) Azure
12 45 (10.07%) AWS Step Functions
13 41 (9.17%) Snowflake
14 40 (8.95%) Amazon ECS
15 38 (8.50%) Amazon EMR
16 35 (7.83%) OpenShift
17 21 (4.70%) Amazon ECR
17 21 (4.70%) GCP
18 20 (4.47%) Amazon MSK
19 19 (4.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.92%) Network Security
2 11 (2.46%) Firewall
3 8 (1.79%) DNS
4 7 (1.57%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.34%) AMQP
5 6 (1.34%) DHCP
5 6 (1.34%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.12%) FTP
7 4 (0.89%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.89%) SSL
7 4 (0.89%) VPN
8 3 (0.67%) HTTP
8 3 (0.67%) LAN
8 3 (0.67%) WLAN
9 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (31.54%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (17.90%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (17.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 68 (15.21%) Amazon Athena
5 49 (10.96%) DynamoDB
6 46 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
7 40 (8.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 34 (7.61%) Relational Database
9 33 (7.38%) Big Data
10 29 (6.49%) MongoDB
11 26 (5.82%) Data Lake
12 25 (5.59%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (5.37%) NoSQL
14 19 (4.25%) MySQL
15 16 (3.58%) Oracle Database
16 15 (3.36%) Hadoop
17 13 (2.91%) InfluxDB
17 13 (2.91%) Parquet
18 12 (2.68%) GIS
19 11 (2.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 98 (21.92%) Git
2 94 (21.03%) Jenkins
3 61 (13.65%) GitLab
4 21 (4.70%) JIRA
5 12 (2.68%) JUnit
5 12 (2.68%) webpack
6 9 (2.01%) Maven
6 9 (2.01%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.79%) Mockito
8 6 (1.34%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.34%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.34%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.34%) Selenium
9 5 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.89%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.89%) PHPUnit
10 4 (0.89%) Postman
10 4 (0.89%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.89%) Sourcetree
10 4 (0.89%) TestNG
General
1 71 (15.88%) Social Skills
2 69 (15.44%) Public Sector
3 43 (9.62%) Finance
4 16 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.36%) Retail
6 12 (2.68%) Banking
7 7 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.89%) Legal
9 4 (0.89%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.67%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.45%) Front Office
11 2 (0.45%) Marketing
11 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.22%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.22%) Law
12 1 (0.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 127 (28.41%) Developer
2 81 (18.12%) Data Engineer
3 79 (17.67%) AWS Engineer
4 75 (16.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 46 (10.29%) Architect
6 44 (9.84%) Senior
7 39 (8.72%) Lead
8 36 (8.05%) AWS DevOps
9 31 (6.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 28 (6.26%) AWS Data Engineer
11 27 (6.04%) Java Developer
12 20 (4.47%) AWS Developer
12 20 (4.47%) Python Developer
13 18 (4.03%) AWS Architect
14 17 (3.80%) Senior Developer
15 16 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
15 16 (3.58%) Software Developer
16 15 (3.36%) Data Architect
16 15 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
17 14 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (12.75%) AWS CDK
2 53 (11.86%) React
3 50 (11.19%) Node.js
4 49 (10.96%) Kafka
5 40 (8.95%) REST
6 37 (8.28%) Spring
7 28 (6.26%) Spring Boot
8 23 (5.15%) RESTful
9 21 (4.70%) PySpark
10 19 (4.25%) CSS
10 19 (4.25%) HTML
10 19 (4.25%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (3.80%) JSON
12 14 (3.13%) OAuth
13 12 (2.68%) .NET
13 12 (2.68%) Apache Avro
13 12 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (2.46%) Lambda Expressions
14 11 (2.46%) OAuth2
15 10 (2.24%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (3.58%) Public Cloud
3 15 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.46%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (2.24%) Algorithms
6 10 (2.24%) Replication
7 9 (2.01%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.34%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.12%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.12%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.89%) Derivative
11 4 (0.89%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.89%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 63 (14.09%) Linux
2 24 (5.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (4.03%) Unix
4 12 (2.68%) Windows
5 8 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.12%) CentOS
7 3 (0.67%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.45%) Debian
8 2 (0.45%) zOS
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (41.61%) CI/CD
2 175 (39.15%) DevOps
3 124 (27.74%) Agile
4 108 (24.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 98 (21.92%) ETL
6 80 (17.90%) Containerisation
7 64 (14.32%) Data Pipeline
8 62 (13.87%) Microservices
9 60 (13.42%) Scrum
10 55 (12.30%) Migration
11 48 (10.74%) Test Automation
12 47 (10.51%) Analytics
12 47 (10.51%) Data Modelling
13 42 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (9.40%) Software Engineering
14 38 (8.50%) Data Engineering
15 37 (8.28%) Kanban
16 32 (7.16%) Full Stack Development
17 27 (6.04%) Code Quality
17 27 (6.04%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 253 (56.60%) Python
2 147 (32.89%) SQL
3 112 (25.06%) Java
4 64 (14.32%) TypeScript
5 50 (11.19%) JavaScript
6 42 (9.40%) Bash
7 27 (6.04%) Shell Script
8 14 (3.13%) Scala
9 13 (2.91%) Go
9 13 (2.91%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.01%) C#
11 8 (1.79%) Korn
12 7 (1.57%) C
12 7 (1.57%) Groovy
12 7 (1.57%) Perl
13 6 (1.34%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.89%) PHP
14 4 (0.89%) Ruby
15 2 (0.45%) R
15 2 (0.45%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 92 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.26%) Degree
4 27 (6.04%) AWS Certification
5 19 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.22%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.37%) Accessibility
2 20 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.25%) QA
4 6 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.89%) GDPR
7 3 (0.67%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.45%) NIST
8 2 (0.45%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) IFRS
9 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (26.40%) Docker
2 13 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Ceph
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) HDFS
6 1 (0.22%) NFS
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.22%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 148 (33.11%) Kubernetes
2 138 (30.87%) Terraform
3 71 (15.88%) Grafana
4 66 (14.77%) Ansible
5 42 (9.40%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.91%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.68%) Kibana
8 9 (2.01%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (1.79%) Packer
9 8 (1.79%) Puppet
10 6 (1.34%) Argo
11 4 (0.89%) Graylog
11 4 (0.89%) Nagios
11 4 (0.89%) Podman
11 4 (0.89%) Rancher
11 4 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.67%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.67%) logstash
13 2 (0.45%) Oozie
13 2 (0.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 46 (10.29%) Oracle
2 24 (5.37%) Splunk
3 22 (4.92%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.47%) Databricks
5 16 (3.58%) Google
5 16 (3.58%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.91%) Informatica
7 12 (2.68%) SAP
8 11 (2.46%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.79%) Ab Initio
9 8 (1.79%) ESRI
10 7 (1.57%) Confluent
10 7 (1.57%) Guidewire
10 7 (1.57%) NEC
10 7 (1.57%) VMware
11 6 (1.34%) Talend
12 5 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.89%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.89%) Commvault
13 4 (0.89%) Palo Alto