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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 248 272
Rank change year-on-year +7 +24 -81
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 444 649 917
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.09% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 2.94% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 483 667
10th Percentile £405 £438 £429
25th Percentile £438 £468 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.76% +151.85%
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 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +50 343 £525 -12.50% 139
London +17 224 £511 -14.79% 74
UK excluding London +24 177 £510 +2.00% 81
Work from Home +16 164 £510 -2.86% 91
Scotland -12 65 £475 -0.84% 12
North of England +41 49 £510 -11.30% 26
North West +34 35 £510 -11.30% 13
South East +30 35 £550 -4.35% 8
South West +25 14 £550 -8.33% 12
Yorkshire +24 14 £575 +27.78% 9
East of England +23 8 £600 +4.35% 3
West Midlands +30 4 £494 -5.95% 10
Midlands +23 4 £494 -5.95% 13
Wales +15 3 £645 +9.70% 6

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 26 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 22 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (4.28%) Apache
4 12 (2.70%) Confluence
5 11 (2.48%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.48%) Site Server
6 5 (1.13%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.68%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.45%) GemFire
8 2 (0.45%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.23%) CMS
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Trello
1 1 (0.23%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.58%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.23%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.23%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 428 (96.40%) AWS
2 255 (57.43%) Serverless
3 236 (53.15%) AWS Lambda
4 212 (47.75%) Amazon EC2
5 98 (22.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 84 (18.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 81 (18.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 64 (14.41%) Amazon SQS
9 57 (12.84%) Route 53
10 56 (12.61%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (11.26%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (11.04%) AWS Step Functions
13 45 (10.14%) Azure
14 37 (8.33%) OpenShift
15 36 (8.11%) Amazon EMR
16 26 (5.86%) Snowflake
17 24 (5.41%) CloudFront
18 22 (4.95%) Amazon Kinesis
19 21 (4.73%) Amazon MSK
19 21 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.18%) Network Security
2 18 (4.05%) Firewall
3 11 (2.48%) DNS
4 9 (2.03%) VPN
5 8 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.35%) DHCP
7 5 (1.13%) AMQP
7 5 (1.13%) FTP
7 5 (1.13%) LAN
7 5 (1.13%) WLAN
8 4 (0.90%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.68%) BGP
9 3 (0.68%) HTTP
9 3 (0.68%) iSCSI
9 3 (0.68%) Wireless
10 2 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.45%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.45%) WAN
11 1 (0.23%) SSL
11 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (27.93%) Amazon RDS
2 89 (20.05%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (17.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 53 (11.94%) DynamoDB
5 52 (11.71%) Amazon Athena
6 45 (10.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 37 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (6.98%) Relational Database
9 28 (6.31%) Big Data
9 28 (6.31%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (6.31%) MongoDB
10 24 (5.41%) NoSQL
11 22 (4.95%) Data Lake
12 15 (3.38%) GIS
12 15 (3.38%) MySQL
13 14 (3.15%) Parquet
13 14 (3.15%) Tableau
14 12 (2.70%) Hadoop
14 12 (2.70%) InfluxDB
14 12 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 85 (19.14%) Git
2 82 (18.47%) Jenkins
3 63 (14.19%) GitLab
4 24 (5.41%) JIRA
4 24 (5.41%) Maven
5 19 (4.28%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.93%) JUnit
7 12 (2.70%) webpack
8 9 (2.03%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.03%) Mockito
9 8 (1.80%) Protractor
10 7 (1.58%) Artifactory
10 7 (1.58%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.58%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.35%) TestNG
12 5 (1.13%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.13%) Selenium
13 4 (0.90%) Gradle
13 4 (0.90%) Liquibase
13 4 (0.90%) Sourcetree
General
1 85 (19.14%) Social Skills
2 75 (16.89%) Public Sector
3 38 (8.56%) Finance
4 28 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.38%) Retail
6 8 (1.80%) Banking
7 7 (1.58%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (0.90%) Health Technology
8 4 (0.90%) Legal
9 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.45%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.23%) Front Office
11 1 (0.23%) Law
11 1 (0.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 122 (27.48%) Developer
2 89 (20.05%) Data Engineer
3 86 (19.37%) AWS Engineer
4 75 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 43 (9.68%) Senior
6 39 (8.78%) AWS DevOps
6 39 (8.78%) Lead
7 34 (7.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 33 (7.43%) Architect
9 31 (6.98%) AWS Data Engineer
10 27 (6.08%) Java Developer
11 22 (4.95%) AWS Developer
12 20 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (4.05%) Python Developer
14 17 (3.83%) Senior Developer
14 17 (3.83%) Software Developer
15 15 (3.38%) AWS Architect
15 15 (3.38%) Data Architect
15 15 (3.38%) Technical Leader
16 14 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.51%) AWS CDK
2 58 (13.06%) React
3 55 (12.39%) Node.js
4 50 (11.26%) REST
5 40 (9.01%) Spring
6 37 (8.33%) Kafka
6 37 (8.33%) Spring Boot
7 27 (6.08%) CSS
7 27 (6.08%) HTML
8 21 (4.73%) JSON
9 18 (4.05%) RESTful
10 17 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (3.83%) PySpark
11 16 (3.60%) OAuth
11 16 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
12 14 (3.15%) Lambda Expressions
13 13 (2.93%) OAuth2
14 12 (2.70%) Apache Avro
14 12 (2.70%) Spring Security
15 10 (2.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (3.83%) Public Cloud
3 15 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (3.38%) Data Structures
4 12 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (2.25%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.03%) Replication
8 8 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.13%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.13%) Derivative
10 5 (1.13%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.13%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.90%) Credit Derivative
11 4 (0.90%) Life Science
11 4 (0.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 66 (14.86%) Linux
2 21 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (4.50%) Windows
4 11 (2.48%) Unix
5 10 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.03%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.58%) CentOS
8 3 (0.68%) Debian
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.45%) zOS
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (40.54%) CI/CD
2 174 (39.19%) DevOps
3 140 (31.53%) Agile
4 101 (22.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (19.59%) ETL
6 75 (16.89%) Containerisation
7 67 (15.09%) Microservices
8 60 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
8 60 (13.51%) Scrum
9 54 (12.16%) Test Automation
10 49 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (10.14%) Migration
12 41 (9.23%) Data Modelling
13 38 (8.56%) Kanban
14 37 (8.33%) Analytics
15 32 (7.21%) Data Engineering
15 32 (7.21%) Software Engineering
16 30 (6.76%) Full Stack Development
17 27 (6.08%) Code Quality
17 27 (6.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 245 (55.18%) Python
2 122 (27.48%) SQL
3 118 (26.58%) Java
4 68 (15.32%) TypeScript
5 54 (12.16%) JavaScript
6 41 (9.23%) Bash
7 26 (5.86%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.83%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.70%) Go
10 11 (2.48%) Korn
11 8 (1.80%) C#
12 7 (1.58%) C
12 7 (1.58%) Groovy
12 7 (1.58%) Scala
13 6 (1.35%) Perl
14 5 (1.13%) R
15 4 (0.90%) Ruby
16 2 (0.45%) PHP
16 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.45%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 119 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 102 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.08%) AWS Certification
4 23 (5.18%) Degree
5 17 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) OCP
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.76%) Accessibility
2 22 (4.95%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.95%) QA
3 7 (1.58%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.13%) GDPR
4 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.68%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.68%) NIST
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.45%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (26.58%) Docker
2 13 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.90%) NFS
3 4 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.45%) HDFS
5 2 (0.45%) Varnish
5 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.23%) Ceph
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 146 (32.88%) Kubernetes
2 125 (28.15%) Terraform
3 69 (15.54%) Grafana
4 60 (13.51%) Ansible
5 40 (9.01%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.93%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.70%) Kibana
7 12 (2.70%) Puppet
8 8 (1.80%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.13%) Graylog
9 5 (1.13%) Nagios
10 4 (0.90%) Argo
10 4 (0.90%) Packer
10 4 (0.90%) Rancher
11 3 (0.68%) Consul
11 3 (0.68%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.68%) logstash
11 3 (0.68%) vRealize
12 2 (0.45%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 43 (9.68%) Oracle
2 23 (5.18%) Splunk
3 17 (3.83%) Databricks
3 17 (3.83%) Informatica
4 15 (3.38%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.48%) ESRI
7 10 (2.25%) SAP
7 10 (2.25%) VMware
8 8 (1.80%) Talend
9 7 (1.58%) Guidewire
9 7 (1.58%) NEC
10 6 (1.35%) Google
10 6 (1.35%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.35%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.90%) Cisco
11 4 (0.90%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.90%) Commvault
11 4 (0.90%) Qualys
12 3 (0.68%) Aruba