Amazon S3 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Amazon S3 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon S3 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 188 211
Rank change year-on-year +39 +23 +1
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 167 163 305
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.69% 1.06% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.24% 2.93% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 131 235
10th Percentile £400 £405 £438
25th Percentile £463 £456 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £572 £638
90th Percentile £646 £656 £712
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Amazon S3 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon S3
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon S3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon S3 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 11 (6.59%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.59%) Apache
3 3 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.80%) Confluence
4 2 (1.20%) CMS
4 2 (1.20%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.20%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.60%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.60%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 164 (98.20%) AWS
2 115 (68.86%) AWS Lambda
3 114 (68.26%) Serverless
4 64 (38.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 55 (32.93%) Amazon EC2
6 31 (18.56%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (14.97%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (14.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (12.57%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (11.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (10.78%) GitHub
12 17 (10.18%) AWS CodePipeline
12 17 (10.18%) AWS Step Functions
13 15 (8.98%) Route 53
14 11 (6.59%) Amazon EMR
15 10 (5.99%) Amazon Cognito
15 10 (5.99%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (5.99%) AWS CodeBuild
16 8 (4.79%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (4.79%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.19%) Firewall
2 8 (4.79%) DNS
3 7 (4.19%) VPN
4 4 (2.40%) HTTP
5 2 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.60%) DHCP
6 1 (0.60%) FTP
6 1 (0.60%) NAS
6 1 (0.60%) SAN
6 1 (0.60%) SMS
6 1 (0.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (43.71%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (20.36%) Amazon Redshift
3 33 (19.76%) DynamoDB
4 28 (16.77%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (11.98%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (10.78%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (8.38%) MySQL
8 12 (7.19%) Oracle Database
9 9 (5.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (4.79%) NoSQL
11 7 (4.19%) Big Data
11 7 (4.19%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.59%) Data Lake
12 6 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (2.99%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.99%) MongoDB
13 5 (2.99%) Power BI
14 4 (2.40%) Parquet
15 3 (1.80%) Amazon QuickSight
15 3 (1.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (14.37%) Jenkins
2 21 (12.57%) GitLab
3 18 (10.78%) Git
4 8 (4.79%) JIRA
5 7 (4.19%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.40%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.80%) Mocha
7 3 (1.80%) Postman
7 3 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.80%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.20%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.20%) Toad
9 1 (0.60%) Ant
9 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.60%) JMeter
9 1 (0.60%) JProfiler
9 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.60%) Mockito
9 1 (0.60%) Storybook
General
1 42 (25.15%) Public Sector
2 35 (20.96%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.37%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.98%) Finance
5 15 (8.98%) Banking
6 10 (5.99%) Front Office
7 7 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Electronics
8 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.20%) Marketing
8 2 (1.20%) Military
8 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.60%) Aviation
9 1 (0.60%) Games
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 46 (27.54%) AWS Engineer
2 33 (19.76%) Architect
2 33 (19.76%) Developer
3 26 (15.57%) Data Engineer
4 24 (14.37%) AWS Architect
5 21 (12.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (12.57%) Senior
6 18 (10.78%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (10.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.98%) Python Engineer
9 12 (7.19%) AWS Developer
10 11 (6.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (5.99%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (5.39%) DevOps Manager
12 9 (5.39%) Finance Manager
13 8 (4.79%) Senior Developer
14 7 (4.19%) AWS Data Engineer
14 7 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
14 7 (4.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.36%) React
2 29 (17.37%) AWS CDK
3 26 (15.57%) Node.js
4 18 (10.78%) Kafka
5 11 (6.59%) GraphQL
6 10 (5.99%) REST
6 10 (5.99%) RESTful
7 9 (5.39%) PySpark
7 9 (5.39%) Spring Boot
8 8 (4.79%) Spring
9 7 (4.19%) CSS
9 7 (4.19%) Pandas
10 6 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.59%) HTML
10 6 (3.59%) HTML5
10 6 (3.59%) Next.js
10 6 (3.59%) Nunjucks
11 5 (2.99%) Jest
11 5 (2.99%) Swagger
12 4 (2.40%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.59%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.40%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.80%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.80%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.80%) Vector Graphics
5 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.60%) Clustering
6 1 (0.60%) FMCG
6 1 (0.60%) NHS
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Licensing
6 1 (0.60%) Replication
6 1 (0.60%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.38%) Linux
2 11 (6.59%) Windows
3 8 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.80%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.20%) CentOS
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Unix
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (53.29%) CI/CD
2 60 (35.93%) Agile
3 59 (35.33%) DevOps
4 44 (26.35%) Containerisation
5 40 (23.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (16.77%) Data Pipeline
7 28 (16.77%) Microservices
8 27 (16.17%) ETL
8 27 (16.17%) High Availability
9 26 (15.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (13.77%) Migration
11 21 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (12.57%) Test Automation
12 20 (11.98%) Analytics
12 20 (11.98%) Software Engineering
13 18 (10.78%) Open Source
14 16 (9.58%) Computer Science
14 16 (9.58%) Data Engineering
14 16 (9.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 97 (58.08%) Python
2 43 (25.75%) SQL
3 36 (21.56%) JavaScript
4 29 (17.37%) TypeScript
5 24 (14.37%) Java
6 23 (13.77%) Bash
7 8 (4.79%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.40%) Groovy
9 3 (1.80%) Scala
10 2 (1.20%) Go
10 2 (1.20%) Perl
10 2 (1.20%) PHP
10 2 (1.20%) R
11 1 (0.60%) C#
11 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.60%) Ruby
11 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (33.53%) Security Cleared
2 55 (32.93%) SC Cleared
3 38 (22.75%) AWS Certification
4 23 (13.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (11.98%) Degree
6 15 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.79%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.40%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.40%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.80%) GDPR
3 3 (1.80%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.20%) QA
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (26.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (32.34%) Terraform
2 38 (22.75%) Kubernetes
3 25 (14.97%) Ansible
4 17 (10.18%) Grafana
5 12 (7.19%) Prometheus
6 9 (5.39%) Puppet
7 8 (4.79%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.40%) Kibana
9 3 (1.80%) logstash
10 2 (1.20%) Argo
10 2 (1.20%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.20%) QRadar
10 2 (1.20%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.60%) Nagios
11 1 (0.60%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.60%) Packer
11 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (8.98%) Oracle
2 8 (4.79%) Databricks
3 3 (1.80%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.80%) Imperva
3 3 (1.80%) MuleSoft
3 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.80%) SAP
3 3 (1.80%) Splunk
4 2 (1.20%) Alteryx
4 2 (1.20%) Cisco
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.20%) New Relic
4 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.20%) Talend
4 2 (1.20%) Tenable
4 2 (1.20%) VMware
5 1 (0.60%) Black Duck
5 1 (0.60%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.60%) Zuora