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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 173 241
Rank change year-on-year -16 +68 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 666 471 444
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.60% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.93% 4.26% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 367 344
10th Percentile £357 £400 £405
25th Percentile £430 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 16,931 11,063 13,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.04% 37.69% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,508 7,699 9,928
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 251 346
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.02
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -40.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.71
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.08% -28.09%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +1 568 £525 -3.23% 180
London +18 384 £525 -6.25% 95
UK excluding London -40 216 £488 -2.50% 105
Work from Home +1 194 £500 -4.76% 108
Midlands -18 67 £475 +1.71% 11
West Midlands -15 63 £475 -5.00% 6
North of England -59 53 £500 +5.26% 37
Scotland -36 34 £447 -10.60% 4
South East -44 30 £563 +11.39% 26
North West -28 26 £450 +2.86% 24
South West -23 21 £488 -11.36% 16
Yorkshire -54 19 £500 -4.76% 11
North East -15 8 £500 -19.91% 2
East of England -27 7 £450 -10.00% 7
Northern Ireland +8 4 £400 -20.00% 4
East Midlands -35 4 £413 +12.40% 4
Wales -10 2 £363 -9.38% 1

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 77 (11.56%) Apache Spark
2 71 (10.66%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (7.51%) Apache
4 43 (6.46%) Confluence
5 19 (2.85%) SAS
6 10 (1.50%) nginx
7 4 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 661 (99.25%) AWS
2 419 (62.91%) Serverless
3 410 (61.56%) AWS Lambda
4 247 (37.09%) Amazon EC2
5 182 (27.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 165 (24.77%) Amazon ECS
7 160 (24.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 138 (20.72%) GitHub
9 133 (19.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 129 (19.37%) Amazon EKS
11 109 (16.37%) Azure
12 94 (14.11%) GitHub Actions
13 93 (13.96%) AWS Step Functions
14 90 (13.51%) Amazon SQS
15 67 (10.06%) Snowflake
16 60 (9.01%) Amazon EMR
17 55 (8.26%) Route 53
18 51 (7.66%) dbt
18 51 (7.66%) Power Platform
19 50 (7.51%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.11%) DNS
2 24 (3.60%) Firewall
3 16 (2.40%) VPN
4 15 (2.25%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.80%) Network Security
6 11 (1.65%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.75%) DHCP
7 5 (0.75%) HTTP
8 4 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.45%) BGP
9 3 (0.45%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.45%) OSPF
10 2 (0.30%) Internet
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) NAS
10 2 (0.30%) SAN
10 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.30%) SSL
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
10 2 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (25.53%) Amazon RDS
2 127 (19.07%) Amazon Athena
3 114 (17.12%) PostgreSQL
4 113 (16.97%) DynamoDB
5 100 (15.02%) Amazon Redshift
6 56 (8.41%) Data Lake
7 53 (7.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 53 (7.96%) Data Warehouse
8 51 (7.66%) Power BI
9 42 (6.31%) Relational Database
10 41 (6.16%) NoSQL
11 33 (4.95%) Tableau
12 32 (4.80%) Metadata
13 30 (4.50%) Big Data
13 30 (4.50%) MongoDB
14 29 (4.35%) SQL Server
15 24 (3.60%) BigQuery
16 23 (3.45%) OLTP
17 21 (3.15%) MySQL
18 19 (2.85%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 142 (21.32%) Jenkins
2 133 (19.97%) GitLab
3 120 (18.02%) Git
4 56 (8.41%) JIRA
5 28 (4.20%) SonarQube
6 25 (3.75%) Bitbucket
6 25 (3.75%) JUnit
7 24 (3.60%) Maven
8 18 (2.70%) Mockito
9 15 (2.25%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.80%) MLflow
11 11 (1.65%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.65%) jMock
12 9 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.35%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.05%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.05%) Postman
14 6 (0.90%) Gradle
14 6 (0.90%) Selenium
15 4 (0.60%) NUnit
General
1 159 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 118 (17.72%) Finance
3 107 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 70 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.11%) Banking
6 25 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.95%) Front Office
9 7 (1.05%) Legal
10 5 (0.75%) Military
11 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.30%) Billing
13 2 (0.30%) Games
13 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Law
13 2 (0.30%) Local Government
13 2 (0.30%) Police
13 2 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 150 (22.52%) Data Engineer
2 133 (19.97%) Developer
3 108 (16.22%) AWS Engineer
4 84 (12.61%) Senior
5 80 (12.01%) Architect
6 70 (10.51%) Lead
7 49 (7.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 46 (6.91%) Java Developer
9 41 (6.16%) AWS Architect
10 40 (6.01%) AWS Data Engineer
11 35 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.80%) Site Engineer
13 30 (4.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 29 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
15 28 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
16 27 (4.05%) AWS Developer
17 26 (3.90%) Lead Data Engineer
18 25 (3.75%) Data Architect
19 24 (3.60%) Analyst
20 23 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (16.67%) Kafka
2 84 (12.61%) Spring Boot
3 83 (12.46%) Spring
4 71 (10.66%) Node.js
4 71 (10.66%) RESTful
5 62 (9.31%) PySpark
6 58 (8.71%) REST
7 52 (7.81%) React
8 44 (6.61%) AWS CDK
9 43 (6.46%) OAuth
10 38 (5.71%) AngularJS
11 27 (4.05%) JWT
12 24 (3.60%) OpenID
12 24 (3.60%) Pandas
13 23 (3.45%) FastAPI
13 23 (3.45%) PyTorch
14 22 (3.30%) CSS
14 22 (3.30%) SOAP
15 20 (3.00%) JPA
16 19 (2.85%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 169 (25.38%) Cloud Native
2 54 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.95%) NHS
4 13 (1.95%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.20%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.90%) Clustering
9 6 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (0.90%) PACS
9 6 (0.90%) SCADA
9 6 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (0.75%) Mainframe
10 5 (0.75%) Replication
10 5 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (13.36%) Linux
2 21 (3.15%) Unix
3 13 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.20%) Windows
5 7 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.30%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (59.76%) CI/CD
2 273 (40.99%) DevOps
3 255 (38.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 200 (30.03%) Agile
5 164 (24.62%) Analytics
6 156 (23.42%) ETL
7 155 (23.27%) Containerisation
8 148 (22.22%) Data Engineering
9 143 (21.47%) Data Pipeline
10 139 (20.87%) Data Modelling
11 117 (17.57%) Microservices
12 105 (15.77%) Observability
13 103 (15.47%) AI
14 102 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
15 82 (12.31%) Migration
15 82 (12.31%) Test Automation
16 77 (11.56%) Software Engineering
17 75 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 74 (11.11%) Data Governance
19 73 (10.96%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 380 (57.06%) Python
2 248 (37.24%) SQL
3 139 (20.87%) Java
4 59 (8.86%) TypeScript
5 54 (8.11%) Bash
6 52 (7.81%) JavaScript
7 50 (7.51%) C#
8 30 (4.50%) Shell Script
9 28 (4.20%) PowerShell
10 24 (3.60%) Scala
11 12 (1.80%) Go
12 7 (1.05%) Groovy
13 6 (0.90%) Bicep
13 6 (0.90%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.45%) C
15 3 (0.45%) C++
15 3 (0.45%) JSX
15 3 (0.45%) Perl
15 3 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 226 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 184 (27.63%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.81%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (2.70%) Degree
6 17 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.90%) SAFe Agilist
12 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.45%) OCP
13 3 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.45%) PhD
13 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (12.76%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.80%) GDPR
3 30 (4.50%) QA
4 14 (2.10%) SLA
5 12 (1.80%) NIST
6 11 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.05%) PMO
9 6 (0.90%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.30%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 219 (32.88%) Docker
2 11 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.50%) Postfix
3 10 (1.50%) Squid
4 6 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.60%) HDFS
6 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 311 (46.70%) Terraform
2 153 (22.97%) Kubernetes
3 109 (16.37%) Grafana
4 70 (10.51%) Prometheus
5 58 (8.71%) Ansible
6 18 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.25%) Puppet
8 13 (1.95%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.80%) Kibana
10 9 (1.35%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.20%) Consul
12 6 (0.90%) Argo
13 5 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.75%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.60%) Packer
14 4 (0.60%) Salt
15 3 (0.45%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.45%) Istio
15 3 (0.45%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 75 (11.26%) Databricks
2 37 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.56%) Splunk
3 27 (4.05%) Google
4 20 (3.00%) Atlassian
5 17 (2.55%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 14 (2.10%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (2.10%) Oracle
7 14 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.95%) Informatica
9 10 (1.50%) Confluent
10 9 (1.35%) Denodo
10 9 (1.35%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.20%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.90%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.90%) IBM
12 6 (0.90%) SAP
12 6 (0.90%) Teradata
13 5 (0.75%) Dell