Amazon S3 Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Amazon S3 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 51 81
Rank change year-on-year -16 +30 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 46 72 63
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.00% 4.27% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.97% 12.18% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 58 60
10th Percentile £402 £414 £413
25th Percentile £419 £439 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% +1.15% -1.84%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £526
90th Percentile £544 £551 £538
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 577 591 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.61% 35.07% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 369 496
10th Percentile £313 £268 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £575
90th Percentile £625 £607 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.84 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £20.47 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +35.97% +41.82% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.68 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £26.86 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% +11.00% +11.11%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon S3 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Amazon S3 job vacancy trend in Scotland

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Amazon S3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 December 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 19 December 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 -8 31 £520 +8.33% 4
Glasgow -2 15 £404 -18.76%
Amazon S3
UK

Amazon S3
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (23.91%) Apache
2 10 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (17.39%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (73.91%) AWS Lambda
2 34 (73.91%) Serverless
3 25 (54.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (28.26%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (28.26%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (28.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (23.91%) Amazon SQS
6 11 (23.91%) OpenShift
7 9 (19.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (17.39%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (15.22%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (8.70%) Textract
11 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (4.35%) AWS KMS
12 2 (4.35%) GitHub
12 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) HTTP
2 1 (2.17%) DHCP
2 1 (2.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) Amazon Aurora
1 12 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (21.74%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (10.87%) Delta Lake
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.35%) Data Mart
6 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.35%) InfluxDB
7 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) GitLab
2 10 (21.74%) MLflow
3 7 (15.22%) Git
3 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
4 6 (13.04%) Cypress.io
General
1 17 (36.96%) Public Sector
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Banking
4 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Senior
2 8 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Data Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Lead
4 6 (13.04%) Python Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Technical Leader
5 5 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Architect
6 4 (8.70%) AWS Architect
6 4 (8.70%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Site Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Data Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Informatica Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (45.65%) AWS CDK
2 14 (30.43%) PyTorch
3 9 (19.57%) Pandas
3 9 (19.57%) PySpark
3 9 (19.57%) SQLAlchemy
4 8 (17.39%) FastAPI
4 8 (17.39%) Hugging Face
4 8 (17.39%) NumPy
4 8 (17.39%) OpenCV
5 7 (15.22%) OAuth
5 7 (15.22%) REST
6 6 (13.04%) boto
6 6 (13.04%) React
7 5 (10.87%) CSS
7 5 (10.87%) HTML
7 5 (10.87%) JWT
8 4 (8.70%) SpaCy
8 4 (8.70%) Spring
9 3 (6.52%) scikit-learn
9 3 (6.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.87%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.52%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Derivative
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
1 7 (15.22%) Unix
2 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.17%) Windows
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (65.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 26 (56.52%) Agile
3 25 (54.35%) CI/CD
4 18 (39.13%) Machine Learning
5 15 (32.61%) AI
5 15 (32.61%) Containerisation
6 14 (30.43%) Scrum
7 13 (28.26%) Data Engineering
7 13 (28.26%) Kanban
8 12 (26.09%) DevOps
9 11 (23.91%) Migration
9 11 (23.91%) TDD
10 10 (21.74%) Mentoring
10 10 (21.74%) OCR
11 9 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (19.57%) ETL
11 9 (19.57%) LLM
11 9 (19.57%) OOP
11 9 (19.57%) Unit Testing
12 8 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (76.09%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) TypeScript
3 5 (10.87%) Bash
3 5 (10.87%) Perl
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 4 (8.70%) Java
5 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.52%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 5 (10.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) Accessibility
2 5 (10.87%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.52%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) KVM
3 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (39.13%) Grafana
2 15 (32.61%) Kubernetes
3 13 (28.26%) Terraform
4 5 (10.87%) Ansible
4 5 (10.87%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (4.35%) Fluentd
6 2 (4.35%) HAProxy
6 2 (4.35%) Nagios
7 1 (2.17%) Argo
7 1 (2.17%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Databricks
2 4 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.52%) Commvault
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Informatica
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) IBM
5 1 (2.17%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk