Amazon S3 Contracts

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 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) UK
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	457	487	568
Rank change year-on-year	+30	+81
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3	159	158	75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.34%	0.29%	0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category	2.51%	3.02%	2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted	115	120	47
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£415
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+14.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£386	£383
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£599	£575	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£450	£415
% change year-on-year	-5.55%	+8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	-	-

Amazon S3 is in the cloud computing skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract Cloud Computing Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	6338	5238	3405
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	13.52%	9.71%	6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted	4315	3678	2214
Median daily rate	£475	£463	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.70%	+12.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£315	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£450	£400
% change year-on-year	-	+12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	100	80	73
Median hourly rate	£27.16	£19.61	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+38.50%	-43.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£12.50	£13.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£65.00	£43.50	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£29.00	£17.00	£26.75
% change year-on-year	+70.58%	-36.44%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Amazon S3 as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Cloud Services category.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Amazon S3.

Contractor daily rate trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Amazon S3 over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 30 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 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+51	145	£500	+5.26%	32
London	+27	93	£538	+7.50%	13
South East	+20	17	£425	-5.55%	3
South West	+18	13	£450	+12.50%	3
North West	+15	11	£500	+4.71%	3
Scotland	+42	10	£425	-	1
Glasgow	+17	9	£425	-
Berkshire	-	9	£425	-
City of London	+4	8	£525	+10.52%	2
East of England	+2	8	£438	-4.10%	7
Croydon	-	8	-	-
Oxfordshire	-9	7	£425	-10.52%	1
Manchester	+13	5	£500	-4.76%	1
Wiltshire	+9	5	£500	+25.00%	1
Swindon	+10	4	£500	+25.00%	1
Gloucestershire	+9	4	£360	-10.00%
Bristol	-1	4	£450	+38.46%	2
Buckinghamshire	-15	4	£425	+54.54%
Cheshire	+19	3	£525	+7.69%
East Midlands	-8	3	£450	+9.75%	1
Merseyside	-9	3	£336	-28.07%	1
Cardiff	-12	3	£513	+13.88%
South Wales	-12	3	£513	+13.88%
Wales	-15	3	£513	+13.88%
Bracknell	-	3	£538	-
Hertfordshire	-	3	£425	-	2
Nottinghamshire	-	3	£450	-	1
Yorkshire	+19	2	£550	+10.00%
Cambridge	+10	2	£350	-28.20%
Norfolk	+4	2	£519	+22.05%	3

Amazon S3
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Amazon S3 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Amazon S3.

1	313 (98.74%)	Amazon AWS
2	224 (70.66%)	Amazon EC2
3	180 (56.78%)	DevOps
4	178 (56.15%)	Linux
5	133 (41.96%)	Agile Software Development
6	125 (39.43%)	Puppet
7	119 (37.54%)	Jenkins
8	113 (35.65%)	Python
9	111 (35.02%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	104 (32.81%)	Ansible
11	98 (30.91%)	Virtual Private Cloud
12	95 (29.97%)	Java
13	92 (29.02%)	Amazon RDS
13	92 (29.02%)	Git (software)
14	91 (28.71%)	Docker

15	81 (25.55%)	Terraform
16	75 (23.66%)	Continuous Integration
17	74 (23.34%)	Amazon ELB
18	73 (23.03%)	Web Services
19	69 (21.77%)	AWS Lambda
20	68 (21.45%)	Configuration Management
21	67 (21.14%)	Amazon CloudWatch
22	65 (20.50%)	Route 53
23	64 (20.19%)	Ruby
24	63 (19.87%)	Opscode Chef
25	61 (19.24%)	Microservices
26	58 (18.30%)	Amazon SQS
27	57 (17.98%)	Bash Shell
28	54 (17.03%)	Amazon DynamoDB
29	52 (16.40%)	Windows

Amazon S3
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	37 (11.67%)	Elasticsearch
2	34 (10.73%)	Confluence
2	34 (10.73%)	nginx
3	32 (10.09%)	Apache Spark
4	31 (9.78%)	Apache
5	16 (5.05%)	IIS
5	16 (5.05%)	Tomcat
6	10 (3.15%)	Apache Pig
7	7 (2.21%)	Apache Airflow
7	7 (2.21%)	SAS
8	6 (1.89%)	Apache Solr
9	5 (1.58%)	Cloud Foundry
9	5 (1.58%)	WebSphere
10	4 (1.26%)	Adobe Experience Manager
10	4 (1.26%)	Luigi
10	4 (1.26%)	OpenStack
11	3 (0.95%)	Jetty
11	3 (0.95%)	Mongrel
11	3 (0.95%)	WordPress
12	2 (0.63%)	CMS

Applications
1	2 (0.63%)	Adobe Illustrator
1	2 (0.63%)	Photoshop
2	1 (0.32%)	HipChat
2	1 (0.32%)	Microsoft Excel
2	1 (0.32%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	1 (0.32%)	Dynamics CRM
1	1 (0.32%)	SAP ERP
1	1 (0.32%)	SDL Web 8

Cloud Services
1	313 (98.74%)	Amazon AWS
2	224 (70.66%)	Amazon EC2
3	111 (35.02%)	AWS CloudFormation
4	98 (30.91%)	Virtual Private Cloud
5	74 (23.34%)	Amazon ELB
6	69 (21.77%)	AWS Lambda
7	67 (21.14%)	Amazon CloudWatch
8	65 (20.50%)	Route 53
9	58 (18.30%)	Amazon SQS
10	36 (11.36%)	CloudFront
11	35 (11.04%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12	33 (10.41%)	Microsoft Azure
13	31 (9.78%)	Amazon EMR
14	27 (8.52%)	GitHub
15	25 (7.89%)	Amazon ElastiCache
16	21 (6.62%)	PaaS
17	17 (5.36%)	Amazon Kinesis
18	16 (5.05%)	AWS CloudTrail
19	13 (4.10%)	Google Cloud Platform
20	10 (3.15%)	SaaS

Communications & Networking
1	31 (9.78%)	HTTP
2	23 (7.26%)	DNS
3	19 (5.99%)	VPN
4	13 (4.10%)	OpenLDAP
5	12 (3.79%)	SSL
5	12 (3.79%)	TCP/IP
6	11 (3.47%)	SSH
7	10 (3.15%)	OpenVPN
8	9 (2.84%)	DSL
9	6 (1.89%)	Network Security
9	6 (1.89%)	SMTP
10	5 (1.58%)	Firewall
10	5 (1.58%)	Intrusion Detection
10	5 (1.58%)	IPsec
11	4 (1.26%)	DHCP
11	4 (1.26%)	Internet
11	4 (1.26%)	WAN
12	3 (0.95%)	FTP
12	3 (0.95%)	LAN
13	1 (0.32%)	SNMP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	92 (29.02%)	Amazon RDS
2	54 (17.03%)	Amazon DynamoDB
3	49 (15.46%)	Big Data
4	46 (14.51%)	Hadoop
5	35 (11.04%)	NoSQL
6	33 (10.41%)	MySQL
7	32 (10.09%)	Amazon Redshift
8	29 (9.15%)	Apache Hive
9	24 (7.57%)	SQL Server
10	23 (7.26%)	Data Warehouse
10	23 (7.26%)	MongoDB
10	23 (7.26%)	PostgreSQL
11	20 (6.31%)	Apache Cassandra
12	19 (5.99%)	HBase
13	13 (4.10%)	Relational Database
14	12 (3.79%)	RDBMS
15	11 (3.47%)	Neo4j
16	9 (2.84%)	Impala
17	7 (2.21%)	Sqoop
18	6 (1.89%)	Redis

Development Applications
1	119 (37.54%)	Jenkins
2	92 (29.02%)	Git (software)
3	45 (14.20%)	JIRA
4	36 (11.36%)	Maven
5	20 (6.31%)	Sonatype Nexus
6	19 (5.99%)	JUnit
7	17 (5.36%)	Bitbucket
7	17 (5.36%)	TeamCity
8	16 (5.05%)	Atlassian Bamboo
9	15 (4.73%)	Ant
9	15 (4.73%)	Octopus Deploy
10	14 (4.42%)	SonarQube
10	14 (4.42%)	Vagrant
11	11 (3.47%)	Eclipse
12	10 (3.15%)	Liquibase
13	9 (2.84%)	git-flow
14	8 (2.52%)	Gradle
14	8 (2.52%)	IntelliJ
15	7 (2.21%)	Cucumber
15	7 (2.21%)	GitLab

General
1	18 (5.68%)	Finance
2	10 (3.15%)	Marketing
3	6 (1.89%)	Banking
4	5 (1.58%)	Games
5	3 (0.95%)	Retail
6	1 (0.32%)	Advertising
6	1 (0.32%)	Back Office
6	1 (0.32%)	Legal
6	1 (0.32%)	Multimedia
6	1 (0.32%)	Publishing
6	1 (0.32%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	114 (35.96%)	DevOps Engineer
2	76 (23.97%)	AWS Engineer
3	73 (23.03%)	Developer
4	60 (18.93%)	AWS DevOps
5	58 (18.30%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
6	30 (9.46%)	Architect
7	27 (8.52%)	Cloud Engineer
7	27 (8.52%)	Java Developer
8	26 (8.20%)	AWS Developer
9	18 (5.68%)	Data Engineer
10	15 (4.73%)	AWS Architect
11	13 (4.10%)	Solutions Architect
12	12 (3.79%)	Big Data Engineer
13	11 (3.47%)	Administrator
14	10 (3.15%)	Linux Engineer
14	10 (3.15%)	Node.js Developer
14	10 (3.15%)	WebOps Engineer
15	9 (2.84%)	Cloud Architect
15	9 (2.84%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
16	8 (2.52%)	Consultant

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	73 (23.03%)	Web Services
2	46 (14.51%)	Node.js
3	38 (11.99%)	REST
4	24 (7.57%)	Elastic Stack
5	23 (7.26%)	Kafka
6	20 (6.31%)	.NET
6	20 (6.31%)	AngularJS
6	20 (6.31%)	JSON
7	19 (5.99%)	HTML
8	18 (5.68%)	CSS
9	17 (5.36%)	Spring
10	12 (3.79%)	J2EE
11	10 (3.15%)	MCollective
12	8 (2.52%)	ASP.NET
12	8 (2.52%)	Hibernate
12	8 (2.52%)	LAMP
12	8 (2.52%)	RESTful
13	7 (2.21%)	.NET Framework
13	7 (2.21%)	React
13	7 (2.21%)	Spring MVC

Miscellaneous
1	21 (6.62%)	Linux Command Line
2	14 (4.42%)	Algorithms
3	13 (4.10%)	Public Cloud
4	11 (3.47%)	Greenfield Project
5	7 (2.21%)	Data Centre
5	7 (2.21%)	PKI
5	7 (2.21%)	User Experience
6	5 (1.58%)	Data Structures
7	4 (1.26%)	Computer Science
8	3 (0.95%)	Analytical Skills
8	3 (0.95%)	Management Information System
8	3 (0.95%)	Mobile App
9	2 (0.63%)	Clustering
9	2 (0.63%)	Embedded Systems
9	2 (0.63%)	iSeries
9	2 (0.63%)	Private Cloud
10	1 (0.32%)	Blog
10	1 (0.32%)	Reference Data
10	1 (0.32%)	Social Network
10	1 (0.32%)	Wiki

Operating Systems
1	178 (56.15%)	Linux
2	52 (16.40%)	Windows
3	32 (10.09%)	Unix
4	29 (9.15%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	28 (8.83%)	CentOS
6	26 (8.20%)	Ubuntu
7	6 (1.89%)	Windows Server
8	3 (0.95%)	Android
8	3 (0.95%)	Apple iOS
8	3 (0.95%)	CoreOS
9	2 (0.63%)	Amazon Linux
9	2 (0.63%)	Debian
9	2 (0.63%)	Embedded Linux
9	2 (0.63%)	Mac OS X
9	2 (0.63%)	Windows Server 2012
10	1 (0.32%)	AIX

Processes & Methodologies
1	180 (56.78%)	DevOps
2	133 (41.96%)	Agile Software Development
3	75 (23.66%)	Continuous Integration
4	68 (21.45%)	Configuration Management
5	61 (19.24%)	Microservices
6	51 (16.09%)	Continuous Delivery
7	48 (15.14%)	Scrum
8	37 (11.67%)	TDD
9	30 (9.46%)	Auto-Scaling
10	29 (9.15%)	BDD
11	28 (8.83%)	Migration
12	24 (7.57%)	Kanban
13	22 (6.94%)	Analytics
13	22 (6.94%)	E-Commerce
14	20 (6.31%)	ETL
14	20 (6.31%)	Software Engineering
15	19 (5.99%)	Load Balancing
15	19 (5.99%)	Performance Tuning
16	17 (5.36%)	Coaching
16	17 (5.36%)	Test Automation

Programming Languages
1	113 (35.65%)	Python
2	95 (29.97%)	Java
3	64 (20.19%)	Ruby
4	57 (17.98%)	Bash Shell
5	47 (14.83%)	JavaScript
6	34 (10.73%)	SQL
7	33 (10.41%)	Scala
8	19 (5.99%)	PHP
8	19 (5.99%)	PowerShell
8	19 (5.99%)	Shell Script
9	17 (5.36%)	Perl
10	16 (5.05%)	C#
11	14 (4.42%)	Groovy
12	11 (3.47%)	R
13	10 (3.15%)	Go
14	7 (2.21%)	C
15	6 (1.89%)	C++
16	5 (1.58%)	Clojure
16	5 (1.58%)	Korn
17	4 (1.26%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	24 (7.57%)	Security Cleared
2	20 (6.31%)	AWS Certification
3	18 (5.68%)	SC Cleared
4	9 (2.84%)	DV Cleared
5	8 (2.52%)	Degree
6	5 (1.58%)	BPSS Clearance
7	4 (1.26%)	Cisco Certification
8	2 (0.63%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
8	2 (0.63%)	CCNA
8	2 (0.63%)	CISA
8	2 (0.63%)	CISM
9	1 (0.32%)	CCNP
9	1 (0.32%)	CEH
9	1 (0.32%)	CISSP
9	1 (0.32%)	EMCIE
9	1 (0.32%)	GIAC
9	1 (0.32%)	ISEB
9	1 (0.32%)	ISTQB
9	1 (0.32%)	Microsoft Certification
9	1 (0.32%)	Network+ Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	13 (4.10%)	QA
2	3 (0.95%)	Disclosure Scotland
3	1 (0.32%)	GCP
3	1 (0.32%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	1 (0.32%)	PCI DSS
3	1 (0.32%)	SLA

System Software
1	91 (28.71%)	Docker
2	26 (8.20%)	HDFS
3	13 (4.10%)	Active Directory
3	13 (4.10%)	Squid
4	10 (3.15%)	Postfix
4	10 (3.15%)	vCloud
4	10 (3.15%)	Virtual Machines
4	10 (3.15%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	4 (1.26%)	Xen
6	3 (0.95%)	Apache Flume
6	3 (0.95%)	LXC
6	3 (0.95%)	VirtualBox
7	1 (0.32%)	Virtual Servers
7	1 (0.32%)	VMware ESXi

Systems Management
1	125 (39.43%)	Puppet
2	104 (32.81%)	Ansible
3	81 (25.55%)	Terraform
4	63 (19.87%)	Opscode Chef
5	36 (11.36%)	Kubernetes
6	28 (8.83%)	Kibana
7	27 (8.52%)	logstash
8	21 (6.62%)	Mesos
9	19 (5.99%)	Hadoop YARN
10	15 (4.73%)	Graphite
11	14 (4.42%)	Rsyslog
12	13 (4.10%)	Sysdig
12	13 (4.10%)	ZABBIX
13	11 (3.47%)	Rundeck
14	10 (3.15%)	Docker Swarm
14	10 (3.15%)	Nagios
14	10 (3.15%)	Rancher
15	9 (2.84%)	Prometheus
16	8 (2.52%)	Marathon
16	8 (2.52%)	Packer

Vendors
1	33 (10.41%)	Red Hat
2	32 (10.09%)	VMware
3	28 (8.83%)	Oracle
4	21 (6.62%)	Microsoft
5	13 (4.10%)	Google
6	12 (3.79%)	New Relic
7	11 (3.47%)	Cloudera
8	10 (3.15%)	Sonatype
9	9 (2.84%)	Atlassian
10	8 (2.52%)	ServiceNow
11	7 (2.21%)	Hortonworks
11	7 (2.21%)	Splunk
12	5 (1.58%)	AppDynamics
12	5 (1.58%)	Tableau
13	4 (1.26%)	Adobe
13	4 (1.26%)	SaltStack
14	3 (0.95%)	ForgeRock
14	3 (0.95%)	IBM
14	3 (0.95%)	Salesforce.com
14	3 (0.95%)	SAP