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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 260 265
Rank change year-on-year +28 +5 -72
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 440 632 938
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.07% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.16% 2.90% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 475 676
10th Percentile £405 £437 £425
25th Percentile £450 £469 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £695 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +10.53%
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 13,935 21,778 34,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.82% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,726 24,913
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 £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 351 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.42
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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 4 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 4 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 +31 337 £525 -12.50% 142
London +23 221 £513 -15.29% 73
UK excluding London +17 175 £510 +2.00% 81
Work from Home +29 158 £510 -2.86% 88
Scotland -12 65 £472 -1.00% 7
North of England +35 50 £510 -11.30% 30
North West +37 34 £510 -11.30% 15
South East +24 34 £550 -4.35% 8
Yorkshire +27 16 £513 +13.89% 11
South West +25 13 £550 -8.33% 8
East of England +13 7 £625 +8.70% 5
Midlands +29 4 £494 -5.95% 15
West Midlands +25 4 £494 -5.95% 10
Wales +14 3 £645 +9.70% 4

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 (5.91%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.68%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.77%) Apache
4 12 (2.73%) Confluence
5 10 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.27%) Site Server
6 5 (1.14%) 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
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Trello
1 1 (0.23%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.59%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.23%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 425 (96.59%) AWS
2 246 (55.91%) Serverless
3 227 (51.59%) AWS Lambda
4 214 (48.64%) Amazon EC2
5 95 (21.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 84 (19.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 84 (19.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 65 (14.77%) Amazon SQS
8 59 (13.41%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (13.41%) Route 53
9 49 (11.14%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (10.91%) AWS Step Functions
11 45 (10.23%) Azure
12 35 (7.95%) OpenShift
13 34 (7.73%) Amazon EMR
14 31 (7.05%) Snowflake
15 24 (5.45%) CloudFront
16 23 (5.23%) Amazon ECR
16 23 (5.23%) Amazon Kinesis
17 21 (4.77%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.00%) Network Security
2 18 (4.09%) Firewall
3 11 (2.50%) DNS
4 8 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.82%) VPN
5 6 (1.36%) DHCP
6 5 (1.14%) AMQP
6 5 (1.14%) FTP
6 5 (1.14%) LAN
6 5 (1.14%) WLAN
7 4 (0.91%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.68%) BGP
8 3 (0.68%) HTTP
8 3 (0.68%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.68%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.68%) Wireless
9 2 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.45%) WAN
10 1 (0.23%) SAN
10 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (28.41%) Amazon RDS
2 86 (19.55%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (15.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 52 (11.82%) Amazon Athena
4 52 (11.82%) DynamoDB
5 43 (9.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 36 (8.18%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (7.27%) Relational Database
8 28 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (6.36%) MongoDB
9 27 (6.14%) Big Data
10 23 (5.23%) NoSQL
11 22 (5.00%) Data Lake
12 18 (4.09%) MySQL
13 14 (3.18%) GIS
13 14 (3.18%) Parquet
14 12 (2.73%) InfluxDB
14 12 (2.73%) Oracle Database
14 12 (2.73%) Tableau
15 11 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 88 (20.00%) Git
2 83 (18.86%) Jenkins
3 62 (14.09%) GitLab
4 25 (5.68%) JIRA
5 24 (5.45%) Maven
6 18 (4.09%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.18%) JUnit
8 12 (2.73%) webpack
9 9 (2.05%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.05%) Mockito
9 9 (2.05%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.82%) Protractor
11 7 (1.59%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.36%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.36%) TestNG
13 5 (1.14%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.14%) Selenium
14 4 (0.91%) Gradle
14 4 (0.91%) Liquibase
14 4 (0.91%) Sourcetree
General
1 82 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 73 (16.59%) Public Sector
3 37 (8.41%) Finance
4 26 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.64%) Retail
6 9 (2.05%) Banking
7 7 (1.59%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (0.91%) Legal
9 3 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (0.68%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.23%) Law
11 1 (0.23%) Local Government
11 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (27.50%) Developer
2 84 (19.09%) AWS Engineer
2 84 (19.09%) Data Engineer
3 77 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (9.77%) Senior
5 40 (9.09%) Lead
6 38 (8.64%) AWS DevOps
7 33 (7.50%) Architect
7 33 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 30 (6.82%) AWS Data Engineer
9 28 (6.36%) Java Developer
10 22 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (4.77%) AWS Developer
12 17 (3.86%) Python Developer
12 17 (3.86%) Software Developer
13 16 (3.64%) Senior Developer
14 15 (3.41%) AWS Architect
14 15 (3.41%) Data Architect
15 14 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
15 14 (3.18%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (13.41%) AWS CDK
2 57 (12.95%) React
3 55 (12.50%) Node.js
4 48 (10.91%) REST
5 41 (9.32%) Spring
6 38 (8.64%) Spring Boot
7 36 (8.18%) Kafka
8 25 (5.68%) CSS
8 25 (5.68%) HTML
9 20 (4.55%) JSON
9 20 (4.55%) RESTful
10 17 (3.86%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (3.64%) OAuth
11 16 (3.64%) PySpark
11 16 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (2.95%) Lambda Expressions
12 13 (2.95%) OAuth2
13 12 (2.73%) Apache Avro
13 12 (2.73%) Spring Security
14 11 (2.50%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.77%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (3.86%) Public Cloud
3 15 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (3.41%) Data Structures
4 12 (2.73%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (2.27%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.05%) Replication
8 8 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.59%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.14%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.14%) Derivative
10 5 (1.14%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.14%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.91%) Credit Derivative
11 4 (0.91%) Life Science
11 4 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 66 (15.00%) Linux
2 22 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (4.55%) Windows
4 13 (2.95%) Unix
5 10 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.05%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.59%) 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
1 182 (41.36%) CI/CD
2 174 (39.55%) DevOps
3 136 (30.91%) Agile
4 101 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (18.64%) ETL
6 74 (16.82%) Containerisation
7 64 (14.55%) Microservices
8 60 (13.64%) Scrum
9 57 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
10 54 (12.27%) Test Automation
11 49 (11.14%) Migration
12 44 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (8.41%) Data Modelling
13 37 (8.41%) Kanban
14 34 (7.73%) Analytics
15 31 (7.05%) Software Engineering
16 30 (6.82%) Full Stack Development
17 29 (6.59%) Data Engineering
18 27 (6.14%) Code Quality
18 27 (6.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 238 (54.09%) Python
2 122 (27.73%) SQL
3 118 (26.82%) Java
4 67 (15.23%) TypeScript
5 53 (12.05%) JavaScript
6 44 (10.00%) Bash
7 27 (6.14%) Shell Script
8 15 (3.41%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.73%) Go
10 10 (2.27%) Korn
11 8 (1.82%) C#
11 8 (1.82%) Scala
12 7 (1.59%) C
12 7 (1.59%) Groovy
13 6 (1.36%) Perl
14 4 (0.91%) Ruby
15 3 (0.68%) PHP
15 3 (0.68%) R
16 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.45%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (26.82%) Security Cleared
2 102 (23.18%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.68%) AWS Certification
4 24 (5.45%) Degree
5 16 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.23%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.59%) Accessibility
2 22 (5.00%) QA
3 20 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.91%) GDPR
7 3 (0.68%) 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 (0.23%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 116 (26.36%) Docker
2 15 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.91%) NFS
3 4 (0.91%) 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%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 145 (32.95%) Kubernetes
2 127 (28.86%) Terraform
3 68 (15.45%) Grafana
4 60 (13.64%) Ansible
5 42 (9.55%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.95%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.73%) Kibana
8 11 (2.50%) Puppet
9 8 (1.82%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (1.14%) Graylog
10 5 (1.14%) Nagios
10 5 (1.14%) Packer
11 4 (0.91%) Argo
11 4 (0.91%) Rancher
11 4 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.68%) Consul
12 3 (0.68%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.68%) logstash
12 3 (0.68%) vRealize
13 2 (0.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 42 (9.55%) Oracle
2 23 (5.23%) Splunk
3 18 (4.09%) Informatica
4 16 (3.64%) Databricks
5 15 (3.41%) Microsoft
5 15 (3.41%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.27%) ESRI
6 10 (2.27%) SAP
7 9 (2.05%) VMware
8 8 (1.82%) Google
8 8 (1.82%) Talend
9 7 (1.59%) Guidewire
9 7 (1.59%) NEC
9 7 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.36%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.14%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.91%) Cisco
12 4 (0.91%) Commvault
12 4 (0.91%) Confluent
12 4 (0.91%) Qualys