Amazon S3 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
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 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 212 203
Rank change year-on-year +23 -9 -71
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 158 287 584
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.05% 1.14% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 2.89% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 225 425
10th Percentile £405 £438 £413
25th Percentile £446 £474 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £60.55 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -28.76% +151.85%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,447 9,934 18,168
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.13% 39.60% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,923 7,315 13,601
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 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +64.89% -17.09%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Amazon S3
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon S3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon S3 trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon S3
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 Amazon S3.

Amazon S3 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Amazon S3 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon S3
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 Amazon S3.

Amazon S3 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon S3
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 10 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.80%) Apache
2 6 (3.80%) Confluence
3 3 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.90%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.63%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Trello
1 1 (0.63%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.63%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 148 (93.67%) AWS
2 99 (62.66%) Serverless
3 94 (59.49%) AWS Lambda
4 67 (42.41%) Amazon EC2
5 43 (27.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 38 (24.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (17.09%) Route 53
7 27 (17.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 26 (16.46%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (16.46%) Amazon SQS
9 24 (15.19%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (10.76%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (10.13%) Amazon EMR
12 15 (9.49%) OpenShift
13 13 (8.23%) CloudFront
14 12 (7.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (7.59%) Azure
15 10 (6.33%) Snowflake
16 9 (5.70%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (5.70%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.33%) Network Security
2 9 (5.70%) Firewall
3 4 (2.53%) DNS
3 4 (2.53%) LAN
3 4 (2.53%) WLAN
4 3 (1.90%) DHCP
4 3 (1.90%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (1.90%) VPN
5 2 (1.27%) Wireless
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (29.11%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (20.89%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (16.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 20 (12.66%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (12.66%) DynamoDB
5 17 (10.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (10.76%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (8.86%) MongoDB
7 12 (7.59%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (6.33%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.80%) MySQL
9 6 (3.80%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.80%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.16%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (3.16%) InfluxDB
11 4 (2.53%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.53%) Informix
11 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.53%) Tableau
12 3 (1.90%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 27 (17.09%) Jenkins
2 21 (13.29%) Git
3 20 (12.66%) GitLab
4 10 (6.33%) Maven
5 8 (5.06%) Cypress.io
5 8 (5.06%) JIRA
6 6 (3.80%) Protractor
6 6 (3.80%) webpack
7 5 (3.16%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.53%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.90%) Gradle
9 3 (1.90%) JUnit
9 3 (1.90%) PHPUnit
9 3 (1.90%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.90%) Selenium
10 2 (1.27%) JMeter
10 2 (1.27%) Mocha
10 2 (1.27%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.27%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (20.89%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.72%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.96%) Finance
4 7 (4.43%) Retail
5 6 (3.80%) Banking
6 3 (1.90%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (1.90%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.90%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.63%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (27.22%) Developer
2 34 (21.52%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (17.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (13.29%) Senior
5 19 (12.03%) Lead
6 18 (11.39%) Data Engineer
7 17 (10.76%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (10.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.23%) Architect
9 10 (6.33%) AWS Developer
10 9 (5.70%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.06%) AWS Data Engineer
11 8 (5.06%) Consultant
11 8 (5.06%) Java Developer
11 8 (5.06%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.43%) Data Architect
12 7 (4.43%) Integration Developer
13 6 (3.80%) AWS Architect
13 6 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.80%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.89%) Node.js
2 30 (18.99%) AWS CDK
3 22 (13.92%) React
4 12 (7.59%) Kafka
5 11 (6.96%) REST
5 11 (6.96%) Spring
6 10 (6.33%) CSS
6 10 (6.33%) HTML
6 10 (6.33%) PySpark
6 10 (6.33%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.43%) AngularJS
7 7 (4.43%) Jest
7 7 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (4.43%) RESTful
8 6 (3.80%) OAuth
9 5 (3.16%) LDAP
10 4 (2.53%) Express.js
10 4 (2.53%) Redux
10 4 (2.53%) Spring Security
11 3 (1.90%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.59%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (4.43%) Replication
3 6 (3.80%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.80%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.80%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.90%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.27%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.27%) Life Science
7 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
7 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.19%) Linux
2 11 (6.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (5.06%) Windows
4 7 (4.43%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.53%) Unix
6 3 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.63%) CentOS
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (39.24%) Agile
2 60 (37.97%) CI/CD
3 48 (30.38%) DevOps
3 48 (30.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (18.99%) ETL
5 22 (13.92%) Scrum
6 21 (13.29%) Test Automation
7 19 (12.03%) Containerisation
8 17 (10.76%) Data Modelling
8 17 (10.76%) Kanban
9 16 (10.13%) Microservices
9 16 (10.13%) Migration
10 15 (9.49%) Data Engineering
10 15 (9.49%) Full Stack Development
11 14 (8.86%) Software Engineering
12 13 (8.23%) Analytics
12 13 (8.23%) Mentoring
13 12 (7.59%) Code Quality
13 12 (7.59%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (7.59%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 74 (46.84%) Python
2 38 (24.05%) Java
3 34 (21.52%) SQL
4 32 (20.25%) TypeScript
5 28 (17.72%) JavaScript
6 15 (9.49%) Bash
7 6 (3.80%) Groovy
7 6 (3.80%) Scala
8 5 (3.16%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.90%) Go
9 3 (1.90%) PHP
9 3 (1.90%) R
10 2 (1.27%) C
10 2 (1.27%) Perl
10 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 28 (17.72%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.59%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.16%) Degree
6 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) OCP
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.13%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.53%) QA
3 3 (1.90%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.27%) SLA
5 1 (0.63%) IFRS
5 1 (0.63%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 40 (25.32%) Docker
2 5 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 44 (27.85%) Kubernetes
2 34 (21.52%) Terraform
3 31 (19.62%) Grafana
4 20 (12.66%) Ansible
5 12 (7.59%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.06%) Kibana
7 5 (3.16%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.53%) Puppet
9 2 (1.27%) Salt
10 1 (0.63%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.63%) Graylog
10 1 (0.63%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.63%) logstash
10 1 (0.63%) Nagios
10 1 (0.63%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (6.33%) Oracle
2 7 (4.43%) Guidewire
2 7 (4.43%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.80%) Ab Initio
4 5 (3.16%) Databricks
4 5 (3.16%) VMware
5 4 (2.53%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.53%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.53%) Splunk
6 3 (1.90%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.27%) Commvault
7 2 (1.27%) Confluent
7 2 (1.27%) IBM
7 2 (1.27%) Informatica
7 2 (1.27%) Qualys
7 2 (1.27%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.27%) SAP
7 2 (1.27%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.63%) Zuora