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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 225 205
Rank change year-on-year +30 -20 -66
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 157 270 584
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.06% 1.10% 1.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.91% 2.77% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 216 425
10th Percentile £405 £438 £413
25th Percentile £446 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £577 £638 £625
90th Percentile £651 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £506 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +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 5,395 9,743 18,197
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 39.53% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 7,220 13,607
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
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 88 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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 16 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 9 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.82%) Apache
3 5 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.18%) Confluence
4 3 (1.91%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.64%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Trello
1 1 (0.64%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.64%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 147 (93.63%) AWS
2 103 (65.61%) Serverless
3 95 (60.51%) AWS Lambda
4 64 (40.76%) Amazon EC2
5 49 (31.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 40 (25.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (16.56%) Amazon SQS
8 25 (15.92%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (15.92%) Route 53
8 25 (15.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 22 (14.01%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (10.83%) AWS Step Functions
10 17 (10.83%) OpenShift
11 14 (8.92%) Amazon EMR
12 12 (7.64%) Azure
13 11 (7.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 10 (6.37%) AWS Fargate
14 10 (6.37%) CloudFront
14 10 (6.37%) Snowflake
15 9 (5.73%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.37%) Network Security
2 6 (3.82%) Firewall
3 4 (2.55%) DNS
4 3 (1.91%) DHCP
4 3 (1.91%) LAN
4 3 (1.91%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (1.91%) WLAN
5 1 (0.64%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (29.94%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (23.57%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (17.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 23 (14.65%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (13.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 17 (10.83%) DynamoDB
7 16 (10.19%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (8.92%) MongoDB
9 12 (7.64%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (5.73%) Relational Database
11 7 (4.46%) Big Data
12 6 (3.82%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (3.82%) Data Lake
12 6 (3.82%) Hadoop
12 6 (3.82%) NoSQL
13 5 (3.18%) InfluxDB
13 5 (3.18%) MySQL
13 5 (3.18%) RDBMS
14 4 (2.55%) Informix
14 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (19.11%) Jenkins
2 26 (16.56%) Git
3 19 (12.10%) GitLab
4 7 (4.46%) JIRA
4 7 (4.46%) Maven
5 6 (3.82%) webpack
6 5 (3.18%) Artifactory
6 5 (3.18%) CircleCI
6 5 (3.18%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.91%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.91%) Gradle
7 3 (1.91%) JUnit
7 3 (1.91%) PHPUnit
7 3 (1.91%) Protractor
7 3 (1.91%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.91%) Selenium
8 2 (1.27%) Mocha
8 2 (1.27%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.27%) TestNG
8 2 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (19.11%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.20%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.01%) Finance
4 8 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.82%) Banking
5 6 (3.82%) Retail
6 3 (1.91%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (1.91%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.91%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.64%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.64%) Front Office
8 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (28.66%) Developer
2 30 (19.11%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (17.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (13.38%) Senior
5 18 (11.46%) Lead
6 17 (10.83%) Architect
7 16 (10.19%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (10.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 16 (10.19%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) AWS Developer
9 8 (5.10%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.10%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) AWS Architect
10 7 (4.46%) Consultant
10 7 (4.46%) Integration Developer
10 7 (4.46%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.82%) Automation Developer
11 6 (3.82%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (21.66%) AWS CDK
2 31 (19.75%) Node.js
3 23 (14.65%) React
4 13 (8.28%) Kafka
5 10 (6.37%) CSS
5 10 (6.37%) HTML
5 10 (6.37%) REST
5 10 (6.37%) Spring
6 9 (5.73%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.10%) PySpark
7 8 (5.10%) RESTful
8 7 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.82%) OAuth
10 5 (3.18%) LDAP
11 4 (2.55%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.55%) Express.js
11 4 (2.55%) Jest
11 4 (2.55%) Redux
11 4 (2.55%) SpaCy
12 3 (1.91%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.28%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (4.46%) Replication
3 6 (3.82%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.82%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.18%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.18%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.91%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.27%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.27%) NHS
6 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.01%) Linux
2 11 (7.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.82%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.55%) Unix
4 4 (2.55%) Windows
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.94%) Agile
2 57 (36.31%) CI/CD
3 52 (33.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (32.48%) DevOps
5 34 (21.66%) ETL
6 24 (15.29%) Scrum
7 22 (14.01%) Containerisation
8 21 (13.38%) Kanban
8 21 (13.38%) Test Automation
9 19 (12.10%) Data Modelling
10 17 (10.83%) Machine Learning
11 16 (10.19%) Full Stack Development
12 15 (9.55%) Analytics
12 15 (9.55%) Microservices
13 14 (8.92%) Code Quality
13 14 (8.92%) High Availability
13 14 (8.92%) Mentoring
13 14 (8.92%) Migration
13 14 (8.92%) Service Design
14 13 (8.28%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 79 (50.32%) Python
2 37 (23.57%) SQL
3 36 (22.93%) Java
3 36 (22.93%) TypeScript
4 29 (18.47%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.92%) Bash
6 7 (4.46%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.82%) Groovy
7 6 (3.82%) Scala
8 3 (1.91%) PHP
8 3 (1.91%) R
9 2 (1.27%) C
9 2 (1.27%) Go
9 2 (1.27%) Perl
9 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (17.20%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.92%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (3.82%) Degree
5 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.64%) OCP
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.46%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.55%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.91%) QA
4 2 (1.27%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) IFRS
5 1 (0.64%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 42 (26.75%) Docker
2 3 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 46 (29.30%) Kubernetes
2 35 (22.29%) Terraform
3 33 (21.02%) Grafana
4 17 (10.83%) Ansible
5 10 (6.37%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.10%) Kibana
7 5 (3.18%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.91%) Puppet
9 2 (1.27%) Salt
10 1 (0.64%) Argo
10 1 (0.64%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.64%) logstash
10 1 (0.64%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (6.37%) Oracle
2 8 (5.10%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.46%) Guidewire
4 6 (3.82%) Ab Initio
5 5 (3.18%) Databricks
5 5 (3.18%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.18%) VMware
6 4 (2.55%) Google
6 4 (2.55%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.91%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.91%) Splunk
8 2 (1.27%) Commvault
8 2 (1.27%) Confluent
8 2 (1.27%) IBM
8 2 (1.27%) Informatica
8 2 (1.27%) Qualys
8 2 (1.27%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.27%) SAP
8 2 (1.27%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.64%) NEC