Amazon S3 Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 51 66 51
Rank change year-on-year +15 -15 +80
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 70 65 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.31% 2.93% 4.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.85% 8.81% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 59 113
10th Percentile £431 £415 £432
25th Percentile £461 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £550 £507 £508
90th Percentile £563 £534 £538
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
UK median hourly rate - - £60.55
% change year-on-year - - -28.76%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Amazon S3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon S3 in Scotland

Amazon S3
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3 in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Amazon S3 in Scotland

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in Scotland

Amazon S3
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +6 42 £494 +7.39% 6
Glasgow +10 19 £500 -0.35% 2
Lanarkshire +6 7 £525 +23.53%
Amazon S3
UK

Amazon S3
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.86%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 65 (92.86%) AWS
2 47 (67.14%) AWS Lambda
2 47 (67.14%) Serverless
3 23 (32.86%) OpenShift
4 20 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (22.86%) Azure
6 15 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 11 (15.71%) Amazon Cognito
8 11 (15.71%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (12.86%) Route 53
10 8 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (11.43%) GitHub
11 7 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 7 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
11 7 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (8.57%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 6 (8.57%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.71%) NAS
1 11 (15.71%) SAN
2 4 (5.71%) Firewall
3 1 (1.43%) DNS
3 1 (1.43%) FTP
3 1 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.14%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (25.71%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (18.57%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (17.14%) Oracle Database
5 10 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (14.29%) DynamoDB
6 6 (8.57%) Parquet
6 6 (8.57%) Relational Database
7 5 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (5.71%) GIS
8 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
9 3 (4.29%) MySQL
9 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.86%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.86%) InfluxDB
10 2 (2.86%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 23 (32.86%) Jenkins
2 15 (21.43%) Git
3 14 (20.00%) GitLab
4 7 (10.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (4.29%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.29%) Storybook
6 2 (2.86%) Ant
6 2 (2.86%) webpack
7 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.43%) JIRA
7 1 (1.43%) Mockito
7 1 (1.43%) Selenium
7 1 (1.43%) Toad
7 1 (1.43%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 13 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.29%) Finance
5 3 (4.29%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Developer
2 12 (17.14%) Data Engineer
3 10 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Architect
5 7 (10.00%) AWS Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Cloud Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.29%) DBA
9 3 (4.29%) NetBackup Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Python Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (44.29%) AWS CDK
2 14 (20.00%) React
3 9 (12.86%) JSON
4 8 (11.43%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.00%) Node.js
5 7 (10.00%) Spring
6 6 (8.57%) PostGIS
6 6 (8.57%) REST
6 6 (8.57%) RESTful
7 5 (7.14%) CSS
8 4 (5.71%) OAuth
9 3 (4.29%) Jest
9 3 (4.29%) JSON Schema
9 3 (4.29%) Next.js
9 3 (4.29%) Spring Batch
9 3 (4.29%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (4.29%) TypeORM
10 2 (2.86%) CSS3
10 2 (2.86%) GraphQL
10 2 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle Licensing
3 3 (4.29%) Replication
4 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.71%) Unix
1 11 (15.71%) Windows
1 11 (15.71%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.86%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (31.43%) Agile
3 21 (30.00%) DevOps
3 21 (30.00%) Migration
4 18 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (22.86%) Scrum
6 15 (21.43%) Kanban
7 14 (20.00%) Data Protection
8 13 (18.57%) Computer Science
8 13 (18.57%) Data Migration
8 13 (18.57%) ETL
9 12 (17.14%) Decision-Making
9 12 (17.14%) Test Automation
10 11 (15.71%) Data Deduplication
10 11 (15.71%) Human-Centred Design
10 11 (15.71%) Inclusive Design
10 11 (15.71%) Observability
10 11 (15.71%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (14.29%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (65.71%) Python
2 25 (35.71%) SQL
3 16 (22.86%) TypeScript
4 13 (18.57%) JavaScript
5 11 (15.71%) Java
6 8 (11.43%) Bash
7 4 (5.71%) Groovy
8 3 (4.29%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.43%) C#
9 1 (1.43%) Perl
9 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 13 (18.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (18.57%) Degree
3 5 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.43%) OCP
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.43%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (18.57%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (27.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 11 (15.71%) NetBackup
4 10 (14.29%) Grafana
5 5 (7.14%) Ansible
6 3 (4.29%) Kibana
7 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Oracle
2 11 (15.71%) Veritas
3 4 (5.71%) Informatica
4 3 (4.29%) Teradata
5 2 (2.86%) IBM
5 2 (2.86%) Imperva
5 2 (2.86%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.43%) Confluent
6 1 (1.43%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.43%) Okta
6 1 (1.43%) Talend
6 1 (1.43%) TSYS