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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 254 266
Rank change year-on-year +26 +12 -70
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 435 592 939
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.03% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 2.81% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 452 680
10th Percentile £400 £433 £425
25th Percentile £438 £475 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £711 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.40% -4.76% +10.53%
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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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 20 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 20 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 +49 331 £525 -12.50% 167
London +34 217 £505 -15.83% 100
UK excluding London +9 171 £507 +1.40% 105
Work from Home +22 155 £506 -7.16% 115
Scotland -7 62 £466 -1.89% 13
North of England +47 56 £510 -11.30% 28
North West +31 32 £510 -18.40% 10
South East +22 31 £550 -4.35% 25
Yorkshire +32 24 £507 +12.67% 14
South West +8 11 £550 -8.33% 9
West Midlands +22 5 £494 -5.95% 11
Midlands +19 5 £494 -5.95% 14
East of England +11 4 £600 +4.35% 3
Wales +19 3 £645 +9.70% 7

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 33 (7.59%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (6.44%) Apache Spark
3 22 (5.06%) Apache
4 9 (2.07%) Confluence
4 9 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.07%) Site Server
5 5 (1.15%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.69%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.61%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.23%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 420 (96.55%) AWS
2 246 (56.55%) Serverless
3 221 (50.80%) AWS Lambda
4 213 (48.97%) Amazon EC2
5 95 (21.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 90 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 86 (19.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 64 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
9 59 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (12.87%) Route 53
11 47 (10.80%) AWS Step Functions
12 45 (10.34%) Azure
13 42 (9.66%) Amazon ECS
14 40 (9.20%) Snowflake
15 37 (8.51%) Amazon EMR
16 31 (7.13%) OpenShift
17 21 (4.83%) Amazon ECR
17 21 (4.83%) Amazon MSK
18 20 (4.60%) GCP
19 19 (4.37%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.06%) Network Security
2 11 (2.53%) Firewall
3 9 (2.07%) DNS
4 7 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.38%) DHCP
6 5 (1.15%) AMQP
6 5 (1.15%) FTP
7 4 (0.92%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.92%) VPN
8 3 (0.69%) HTTP
8 3 (0.69%) LAN
8 3 (0.69%) WLAN
9 2 (0.46%) SSL
10 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (30.11%) Amazon RDS
2 77 (17.70%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (17.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 63 (14.48%) Amazon Athena
5 50 (11.49%) DynamoDB
6 41 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (8.97%) Amazon Aurora
8 33 (7.59%) Relational Database
9 30 (6.90%) Big Data
10 28 (6.44%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (6.21%) MongoDB
12 26 (5.98%) Data Lake
13 22 (5.06%) NoSQL
14 18 (4.14%) MySQL
15 14 (3.22%) Hadoop
15 14 (3.22%) Parquet
16 13 (2.99%) GIS
17 12 (2.76%) InfluxDB
17 12 (2.76%) Oracle Database
18 11 (2.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 98 (22.53%) Git
2 89 (20.46%) Jenkins
3 59 (13.56%) GitLab
4 21 (4.83%) JIRA
5 16 (3.68%) Maven
6 14 (3.22%) JUnit
7 12 (2.76%) webpack
8 9 (2.07%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.07%) Mockito
8 9 (2.07%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.61%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.38%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.38%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.38%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.38%) TestNG
11 5 (1.15%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.15%) Selenium
12 4 (0.92%) Gradle
12 4 (0.92%) Liquibase
12 4 (0.92%) Sourcetree
General
1 74 (17.01%) Social Skills
2 67 (15.40%) Public Sector
3 38 (8.74%) Finance
4 16 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (2.99%) Retail
6 10 (2.30%) Banking
7 7 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.92%) 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%) Front Office
11 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Law
12 1 (0.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 121 (27.82%) Developer
2 82 (18.85%) AWS Engineer
3 79 (18.16%) Data Engineer
4 78 (17.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 43 (9.89%) Senior
6 41 (9.43%) Architect
7 38 (8.74%) AWS DevOps
7 38 (8.74%) Lead
8 33 (7.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 28 (6.44%) AWS Data Engineer
10 27 (6.21%) Java Developer
11 20 (4.60%) AWS Developer
11 20 (4.60%) Python Developer
12 17 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (3.68%) AWS Architect
13 16 (3.68%) Software Developer
14 15 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (3.45%) Data Architect
14 15 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (12.41%) AWS CDK
1 54 (12.41%) Node.js
2 50 (11.49%) React
3 45 (10.34%) Kafka
4 41 (9.43%) REST
5 37 (8.51%) Spring
6 30 (6.90%) Spring Boot
7 23 (5.29%) RESTful
8 20 (4.60%) PySpark
9 19 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
10 18 (4.14%) JSON
11 17 (3.91%) CSS
11 17 (3.91%) HTML
12 15 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (2.99%) OAuth
14 12 (2.76%) .NET
14 12 (2.76%) Apache Avro
15 11 (2.53%) Lambda Expressions
16 10 (2.30%) OAuth2
16 10 (2.30%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (3.68%) Public Cloud
3 15 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.22%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.76%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.07%) Replication
8 7 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.38%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.15%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.15%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.15%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.92%) Credit Derivative
11 4 (0.92%) Derivative
11 4 (0.92%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 63 (14.48%) Linux
2 23 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (2.99%) Windows
4 12 (2.76%) Unix
5 8 (1.84%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.15%) CentOS
7 4 (0.92%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.69%) Debian
9 2 (0.46%) zOS
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (42.30%) CI/CD
2 172 (39.54%) DevOps
3 123 (28.28%) Agile
4 108 (24.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 98 (22.53%) ETL
6 80 (18.39%) Containerisation
7 62 (14.25%) Data Pipeline
8 61 (14.02%) Microservices
9 58 (13.33%) Scrum
10 48 (11.03%) Migration
11 46 (10.57%) Test Automation
12 45 (10.34%) Data Modelling
13 41 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (9.20%) Analytics
15 39 (8.97%) Kanban
16 37 (8.51%) Software Engineering
17 35 (8.05%) Data Engineering
18 29 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
18 29 (6.67%) Machine Learning
19 27 (6.21%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 248 (57.01%) Python
2 132 (30.34%) SQL
3 111 (25.52%) Java
4 62 (14.25%) TypeScript
5 49 (11.26%) JavaScript
6 43 (9.89%) Bash
7 28 (6.44%) Shell Script
8 14 (3.22%) PowerShell
8 14 (3.22%) Scala
9 11 (2.53%) Go
10 9 (2.07%) C#
10 9 (2.07%) Korn
11 7 (1.61%) C
11 7 (1.61%) Groovy
11 7 (1.61%) Perl
12 4 (0.92%) Ruby
13 3 (0.69%) PHP
13 3 (0.69%) R
14 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.46%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (25.98%) Security Cleared
2 95 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.44%) Degree
4 26 (5.98%) AWS Certification
5 19 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.23%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.29%) Accessibility
2 19 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.37%) QA
3 5 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.92%) GDPR
5 3 (0.69%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.46%) NIST
6 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 115 (26.44%) Docker
2 11 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.92%) 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
1 150 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 134 (30.80%) Terraform
3 65 (14.94%) Grafana
4 62 (14.25%) Ansible
5 41 (9.43%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.99%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.76%) Kibana
8 9 (2.07%) Puppet
9 8 (1.84%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.38%) Packer
11 5 (1.15%) Argo
12 4 (0.92%) Graylog
12 4 (0.92%) Nagios
12 4 (0.92%) Rancher
12 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.69%) Consul
13 3 (0.69%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.69%) logstash
13 3 (0.69%) Podman
14 2 (0.46%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 40 (9.20%) Oracle
2 25 (5.75%) Splunk
3 22 (5.06%) Microsoft
4 17 (3.91%) Databricks
5 16 (3.68%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.45%) Google
7 13 (2.99%) Informatica
8 11 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.53%) SAP
9 9 (2.07%) ESRI
10 7 (1.61%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.61%) Guidewire
10 7 (1.61%) NEC
10 7 (1.61%) VMware
11 6 (1.38%) Talend
12 5 (1.15%) Confluent
12 5 (1.15%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.92%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.92%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.92%) Qualys