Amazon S3 Contract Job Trends

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon S3 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 161 213
Rank change year-on-year -52 +52 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 706 589 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.79% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 4.75% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 432 293
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £437 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £606 £609
90th Percentile £738 £688 £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £497 £493
% change year-on-year -6.94% +0.91% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £32.80 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.86% - -
75th Percentile £72.83 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.93 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.58 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,878 12,389 13,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 37.60% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,523 8,260 8,900
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 293 195
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.50 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +63.47% -35.77% +15.38%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon S3 job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon S3.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. 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
England -44 581 £529 +0.76% 542
London -19 393 £575 - 337
Work from Home -29 249 £525 - 234
UK excluding London -92 227 £463 -6.94% 253
North of England -58 66 £463 -7.50% 77
Midlands -43 60 £459 -3.37% 25
West Midlands -45 49 £469 -1.26% 11
Scotland -29 42 £444 -13.41% 25
South West -20 30 £463 -15.33% 40
North West -53 26 £475 - 41
North East -28 21 £425 -2.86% 15
South East -64 21 £575 +35.29% 37
Yorkshire -46 19 £500 -4.76% 21
East Midlands -11 10 £405 -17.97% 14
East of England -46 8 £375 -31.82% 31
Wales - 3 £600 - 7
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 11

Amazon S3
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 92 (13.03%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (9.92%) Confluence
3 65 (9.21%) Apache
4 64 (9.07%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.27%) SAS
6 12 (1.70%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.27%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.85%) nginx
9 6 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.85%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.85%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.28%) CMS
13 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.14%) Mule
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 688 (97.45%) AWS
2 447 (63.31%) Serverless
3 444 (62.89%) AWS Lambda
4 232 (32.86%) Amazon EC2
5 228 (32.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 161 (22.80%) GitHub
7 149 (21.10%) Amazon ECS
8 138 (19.55%) Amazon EKS
9 129 (18.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 126 (17.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 123 (17.42%) GitHub Actions
12 110 (15.58%) Azure
13 97 (13.74%) Amazon SQS
14 94 (13.31%) Amazon EMR
15 81 (11.47%) dbt
16 78 (11.05%) AWS Step Functions
17 74 (10.48%) Snowflake
18 65 (9.21%) Power Platform
19 55 (7.79%) Amazon EventBridge
20 54 (7.65%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.69%) Firewall
2 17 (2.41%) DNS
3 9 (1.27%) Network Security
4 7 (0.99%) HTTP
4 7 (0.99%) SSL
5 6 (0.85%) CTI
6 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.71%) VPN
7 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.57%) SAN
7 4 (0.57%) SMS
7 4 (0.57%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) Internet
8 3 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.28%) IMAP
9 2 (0.28%) NAS
9 2 (0.28%) SMTP
9 2 (0.28%) SSH
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (26.63%) Amazon RDS
2 146 (20.68%) Amazon Athena
3 132 (18.70%) DynamoDB
4 114 (16.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 96 (13.60%) Data Warehouse
5 96 (13.60%) PostgreSQL
6 65 (9.21%) Power BI
7 63 (8.92%) Data Lake
8 46 (6.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (6.09%) Metadata
9 43 (6.09%) MongoDB
10 32 (4.53%) Big Data
10 32 (4.53%) Tableau
11 27 (3.82%) NoSQL
12 25 (3.54%) Relational Database
13 24 (3.40%) Apache Iceberg
14 23 (3.26%) BigQuery
14 23 (3.26%) Delta Lake
15 20 (2.83%) Data Vault
15 20 (2.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 145 (20.54%) GitLab
2 142 (20.11%) Git
3 126 (17.85%) Jenkins
4 71 (10.06%) JIRA
5 25 (3.54%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.83%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.69%) SonarQube
8 17 (2.41%) Maven
9 15 (2.12%) JUnit
9 15 (2.12%) Mockito
10 8 (1.13%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.99%) DbUnit
12 6 (0.85%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (0.85%) jMock
12 6 (0.85%) Postman
12 6 (0.85%) Selenium
12 6 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.57%) Flyway
General
1 168 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 151 (21.39%) Public Sector
3 129 (18.27%) Finance
4 65 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.66%) Banking
6 15 (2.12%) Front Office
6 15 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.70%) Back Office
7 12 (1.70%) Legal
8 10 (1.42%) Military
9 9 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (0.99%) Law
10 7 (0.99%) Marketing
10 7 (0.99%) Publishing
11 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.57%) Billing
12 4 (0.57%) Local Government
12 4 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.57%) Retail
13 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 173 (24.50%) Data Engineer
2 127 (17.99%) Senior
3 120 (17.00%) AWS Engineer
4 119 (16.86%) Developer
5 83 (11.76%) Architect
6 81 (11.47%) DevOps Engineer
7 80 (11.33%) Lead
8 55 (7.79%) Senior Data Engineer
9 47 (6.66%) AWS Data Engineer
10 37 (5.24%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (4.96%) AWS Architect
12 34 (4.82%) Java Developer
13 33 (4.67%) AWS Developer
14 32 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
15 30 (4.25%) Data Architect
16 29 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 23 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
17 23 (3.26%) Software Engineer
18 22 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
18 22 (3.12%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (45.89%) Terraform
2 84 (11.90%) REST
3 79 (11.19%) PySpark
4 75 (10.62%) Kafka
5 60 (8.50%) React
5 60 (8.50%) Spring Boot
6 59 (8.36%) Spring
7 57 (8.07%) RESTful
8 52 (7.37%) Node.js
9 45 (6.37%) AWS CDK
10 32 (4.53%) FastAPI
11 27 (3.82%) AngularJS
12 25 (3.54%) SOAP
13 24 (3.40%) JSON
14 22 (3.12%) .NET
15 21 (2.97%) GraphQL
16 20 (2.83%) Pandas
17 19 (2.69%) OAuth
18 18 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
19 17 (2.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 182 (25.78%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.36%) Product Ownership
3 37 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.97%) NHS
5 20 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.98%) IVR
7 14 (1.98%) Replication
8 13 (1.84%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.27%) Clustering
11 9 (1.27%) Legacy Code
12 8 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.13%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.13%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (13.03%) Linux
2 27 (3.82%) Unix
3 20 (2.83%) Windows
4 14 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.57%) AIX
7 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) Android
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (63.46%) CI/CD
2 310 (43.91%) DevOps
3 309 (43.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 269 (38.10%) Agile
5 189 (26.77%) Data Pipeline
6 180 (25.50%) Data Engineering
7 158 (22.38%) Analytics
8 139 (19.69%) Data Modelling
9 137 (19.41%) ETL
10 128 (18.13%) AI
10 128 (18.13%) Containerisation
11 125 (17.71%) Observability
12 114 (16.15%) Microservices
12 114 (16.15%) Migration
13 108 (15.30%) Event-Driven
14 106 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (14.02%) Technical Leadership
16 98 (13.88%) Test Automation
17 91 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
18 90 (12.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 395 (55.95%) Python
2 263 (37.25%) SQL
3 120 (17.00%) Java
4 80 (11.33%) TypeScript
5 66 (9.35%) Bash
6 57 (8.07%) JavaScript
7 25 (3.54%) C#
7 25 (3.54%) PowerShell
8 24 (3.40%) Shell Script
9 21 (2.97%) Scala
10 18 (2.55%) Groovy
11 15 (2.12%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.13%) Bicep
13 7 (0.99%) Perl
14 6 (0.85%) Go
15 5 (0.71%) R
16 4 (0.57%) Cypher
16 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 236 (33.43%) Security Cleared
2 216 (30.59%) SC Cleared
3 90 (12.75%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (5.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 23 (3.26%) Degree
7 17 (2.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.98%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.99%) CISM
12 7 (0.99%) CISSP
12 7 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.42%) CSPO
15 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (17.85%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.95%) QA
3 16 (2.27%) GDPR
4 15 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.13%) NIST
6 6 (0.85%) HL7
6 6 (0.85%) SLA
7 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 215 (30.45%) Docker
2 18 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.99%) Postfix
4 6 (0.85%) Squid
5 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.42%) HDFS
7 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.28%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.28%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.14%) Ceph
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 136 (19.26%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.59%) Grafana
3 57 (8.07%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.09%) Ansible
5 17 (2.41%) Argo
6 16 (2.27%) Kibana
7 12 (1.70%) Karpenter
8 10 (1.42%) Puppet
9 8 (1.13%) Packer
10 7 (0.99%) Istio
11 6 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.57%) Salt
13 3 (0.42%) Control-M
13 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.42%) systemd
14 2 (0.28%) Nessus
14 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (8.07%) Databricks
2 47 (6.66%) Oracle
3 41 (5.81%) Microsoft
4 33 (4.67%) Informatica
5 24 (3.40%) Splunk
6 21 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.41%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.27%) Google
9 14 (1.98%) Teradata
10 13 (1.84%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.56%) Confluent
11 11 (1.56%) Denodo
12 10 (1.42%) Jaspersoft
12 10 (1.42%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.27%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.13%) Foundry
14 8 (1.13%) Palantir
15 7 (0.99%) Brio
15 7 (0.99%) IBM
15 7 (0.99%) SnapLogic