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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 223 199
Rank change year-on-year +28 -24 -64
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 159 265 596
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.09% 1.10% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.96% 2.80% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 215 440
10th Percentile £405 £438 £413
25th Percentile £430 £475 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -0.46% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £720 £700
UK median daily rate £506 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - £47.50 £73.75
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.18% +209.09%
75th Percentile - £52.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £55.28 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -34.97% +119.35%

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 5,368 9,475 18,176
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.67% 39.32% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 7,071 13,595
10th Percentile £350 £371 £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 £649
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 133 157
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.23 £15.02
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.35 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.27% +33.38% +4.22%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.34
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
% change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%

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 1 June 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 9 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.40%) Apache
3 6 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.77%) Confluence
4 3 (1.89%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.63%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.63%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 149 (93.71%) AWS
2 100 (62.89%) Serverless
3 91 (57.23%) AWS Lambda
4 69 (43.40%) Amazon EC2
5 50 (31.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 39 (24.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (18.24%) Amazon SQS
8 28 (17.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 27 (16.98%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (15.72%) Route 53
11 21 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (10.69%) OpenShift
13 15 (9.43%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (8.18%) Amazon EMR
15 12 (7.55%) AWS Fargate
15 12 (7.55%) Azure
16 11 (6.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 10 (6.29%) Snowflake
18 9 (5.66%) Amazon ECR
18 9 (5.66%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.29%) Network Security
2 6 (3.77%) Firewall
3 4 (2.52%) DNS
4 3 (1.89%) DHCP
4 3 (1.89%) LAN
4 3 (1.89%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (1.89%) WLAN
5 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (23.27%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (18.24%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (15.09%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (12.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 16 (10.06%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (8.81%) DynamoDB
7 14 (8.81%) MongoDB
8 12 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (5.66%) Relational Database
10 8 (5.03%) Big Data
11 7 (4.40%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (3.77%) Data Lake
12 6 (3.77%) Hadoop
12 6 (3.77%) MySQL
12 6 (3.77%) NoSQL
13 5 (3.14%) InfluxDB
13 5 (3.14%) RDBMS
14 4 (2.52%) Informix
14 4 (2.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (20.75%) Jenkins
2 26 (16.35%) Git
3 21 (13.21%) GitLab
4 7 (4.40%) JIRA
5 6 (3.77%) webpack
6 5 (3.14%) Artifactory
6 5 (3.14%) CircleCI
6 5 (3.14%) Maven
7 4 (2.52%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.52%) PHPUnit
8 3 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.89%) Gradle
8 3 (1.89%) JUnit
8 3 (1.89%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.89%) Selenium
9 2 (1.26%) JMeter
9 2 (1.26%) Mocha
9 2 (1.26%) TestNG
9 2 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.26%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (17.61%) Public Sector
1 28 (17.61%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.81%) Finance
3 8 (5.03%) Retail
4 7 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.40%) Banking
5 4 (2.52%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (2.52%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.52%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.26%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.63%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.63%) Front Office
7 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (27.67%) Developer
2 31 (19.50%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (17.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (13.21%) Architect
5 20 (12.58%) Senior
6 18 (11.32%) Lead
7 17 (10.69%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (10.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 16 (10.06%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.66%) AWS Architect
9 9 (5.66%) AWS Developer
10 8 (5.03%) Data Architect
10 8 (5.03%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.40%) Integration Developer
12 6 (3.77%) AWS Data Engineer
12 6 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.77%) Consultant
12 6 (3.77%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.77%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.75%) AWS CDK
2 28 (17.61%) Node.js
3 25 (15.72%) React
4 14 (8.81%) Kafka
5 12 (7.55%) CSS
5 12 (7.55%) HTML
5 12 (7.55%) REST
6 11 (6.92%) Spring
7 10 (6.29%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.03%) RESTful
9 7 (4.40%) OAuth
9 7 (4.40%) PySpark
9 7 (4.40%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.14%) LDAP
11 4 (2.52%) Express.js
11 4 (2.52%) Laravel
11 4 (2.52%) Redux
11 4 (2.52%) Spring Security
11 4 (2.52%) Symfony
11 4 (2.52%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.18%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (4.40%) Replication
3 6 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.14%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.14%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.89%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.26%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.26%) Life Science
7 2 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.26%) NHS
7 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.47%) Linux
2 12 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.77%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.14%) Unix
5 4 (2.52%) Windows
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (37.11%) CI/CD
2 55 (34.59%) Agile
2 55 (34.59%) DevOps
3 52 (32.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (18.87%) ETL
5 24 (15.09%) Test Automation
6 23 (14.47%) Containerisation
7 21 (13.21%) Scrum
8 18 (11.32%) Analytics
8 18 (11.32%) Full Stack Development
8 18 (11.32%) Kanban
9 17 (10.69%) Data Modelling
9 17 (10.69%) Microservices
10 16 (10.06%) Migration
11 14 (8.81%) Code Quality
11 14 (8.81%) High Availability
12 13 (8.18%) Data Engineering
12 13 (8.18%) Mentoring
12 13 (8.18%) Pair Programming
12 13 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 76 (47.80%) Python
2 40 (25.16%) SQL
3 35 (22.01%) TypeScript
4 34 (21.38%) Java
5 31 (19.50%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.81%) Bash
7 6 (3.77%) Groovy
7 6 (3.77%) Scala
7 6 (3.77%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.52%) PHP
9 3 (1.89%) Go
10 2 (1.26%) C
10 2 (1.26%) Perl
10 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.63%) R
11 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.06%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.77%) Degree
5 5 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.26%) Master's Degree
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 18 (11.32%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.89%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.89%) QA
3 2 (1.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.26%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) IFRS
4 1 (0.63%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 44 (27.67%) Docker
2 5 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 45 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 40 (25.16%) Terraform
3 33 (20.75%) Grafana
4 19 (11.95%) Ansible
5 11 (6.92%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.03%) Kibana
7 5 (3.14%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.89%) Puppet
9 2 (1.26%) Salt
10 1 (0.63%) Argo
10 1 (0.63%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.63%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.63%) logstash
10 1 (0.63%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (6.92%) Oracle
2 8 (5.03%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.40%) Guidewire
4 6 (3.77%) Ab Initio
4 6 (3.77%) Databricks
5 5 (3.14%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.14%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.14%) VMware
6 4 (2.52%) Google
7 3 (1.89%) Confluent
7 3 (1.89%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.89%) SAP
7 3 (1.89%) Splunk
8 2 (1.26%) Commvault
8 2 (1.26%) IBM
8 2 (1.26%) Informatica
8 2 (1.26%) Qualys
8 2 (1.26%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.26%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.63%) Unisys