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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 193 249
Rank change year-on-year +34 +56 -14
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 639 468 458
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.78% 1.28% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.64% 3.63% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 316 359
10th Percentile £400 £403 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £50.94 - £52.50
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,781 12,889 16,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.42% 35.33% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,331 8,489 11,658
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 179 303
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.44 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £17.88
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +5.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £50.88 £56.88 £60.94
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +36.36% +15.30%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 16 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 21 November 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
England +45 502 £525 -4.55% 352
London +18 296 £575 +1.77% 212
UK excluding London +22 241 £475 -3.94% 179
Work from Home +21 204 £525 +2.44% 183
Midlands +17 63 £475 +1.06% 20
North of England -28 58 £500 - 63
West Midlands +23 56 £475 -24.00% 12
Scotland -28 44 £500 +4.17% 17
Yorkshire -18 36 £500 -4.76% 23
South East +17 31 £414 -33.13% 41
East of England +8 23 £550 +10.00% 6
South West +10 18 £575 -4.17% 29
North West -23 17 £500 +4.17% 36
Northern Ireland -1 8 £400 - 3
East Midlands -14 7 £435 -2.68% 8
North East -6 6 £450 -26.23% 4

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 54 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (7.04%) Apache Spark
2 45 (7.04%) Confluence
3 31 (4.85%) Apache
4 14 (2.19%) nginx
5 5 (0.78%) CMS
5 5 (0.78%) Headless CMS
5 5 (0.78%) SAS
6 3 (0.47%) Traefik
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.16%) CICS
7 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Finacle
2 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 627 (98.12%) AWS
2 365 (57.12%) Serverless
3 363 (56.81%) AWS Lambda
4 273 (42.72%) Amazon EC2
5 232 (36.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 162 (25.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 153 (23.94%) Amazon ECS
8 149 (23.32%) GitHub
9 148 (23.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 104 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
11 94 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
12 86 (13.46%) Azure
13 51 (7.98%) Amazon ELB
13 51 (7.98%) Amazon SQS
14 49 (7.67%) AWS Step Functions
14 49 (7.67%) Route 53
15 47 (7.36%) Amazon EMR
16 44 (6.89%) Snowflake
17 43 (6.73%) Amazon Kinesis
18 40 (6.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.23%) DNS
2 58 (9.08%) Firewall
3 38 (5.95%) VPN
4 27 (4.23%) SSH
5 26 (4.07%) SSL
5 26 (4.07%) TCP/IP
6 25 (3.91%) HTTP
7 24 (3.76%) SMTP
8 23 (3.60%) Network Security
9 22 (3.44%) FTP
10 17 (2.66%) OpenLDAP
11 12 (1.88%) IMAP
12 6 (0.94%) DHCP
12 6 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.47%) Kerberos
13 3 (0.47%) NAS
14 2 (0.31%) Calico
14 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (0.31%) VSAN
15 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (32.39%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (21.60%) PostgreSQL
3 101 (15.81%) DynamoDB
4 83 (12.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 77 (12.05%) Amazon Athena
6 64 (10.02%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (9.08%) Relational Database
8 52 (8.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 34 (5.32%) Data Lake
10 29 (4.54%) Amazon QuickSight
10 29 (4.54%) MySQL
10 29 (4.54%) NoSQL
11 27 (4.23%) MongoDB
12 23 (3.60%) RDBMS
12 23 (3.60%) SQL Server
13 21 (3.29%) Big Data
14 17 (2.66%) Metadata
14 17 (2.66%) Power BI
15 14 (2.19%) Parquet
15 14 (2.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 154 (24.10%) Jenkins
2 141 (22.07%) Git
3 112 (17.53%) GitLab
4 56 (8.76%) JIRA
5 24 (3.76%) Vagrant
6 16 (2.50%) JUnit
7 13 (2.03%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.03%) Maven
8 12 (1.88%) MLflow
9 9 (1.41%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.41%) Postman
9 9 (1.41%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.63%) DbUnit
10 4 (0.63%) jMock
10 4 (0.63%) Mockito
10 4 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 168 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 117 (18.31%) Public Sector
3 77 (12.05%) Finance
4 67 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.44%) Banking
6 21 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (2.82%) Front Office
9 10 (1.56%) Military
10 7 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.78%) Legal
12 4 (0.63%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.63%) Publishing
13 3 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.47%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.47%) Marketing
14 2 (0.31%) Retail
15 1 (0.16%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 149 (23.32%) AWS Engineer
2 111 (17.37%) Senior
3 102 (15.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 101 (15.81%) Developer
5 96 (15.02%) Data Engineer
6 77 (12.05%) Architect
7 53 (8.29%) AWS DevOps
8 50 (7.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 50 (7.82%) Platform Engineer
9 43 (6.73%) Lead
10 41 (6.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 32 (5.01%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 32 (5.01%) Java Developer
12 31 (4.85%) AWS Data Engineer
13 29 (4.54%) AWS Architect
14 27 (4.23%) AWS Developer
14 27 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
15 25 (3.91%) Python Engineer
15 25 (3.91%) Software Engineer
16 24 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (10.17%) Kafka
2 61 (9.55%) React
3 60 (9.39%) Node.js
4 58 (9.08%) REST
5 49 (7.67%) AWS CDK
6 41 (6.42%) RESTful
7 39 (6.10%) Spring
8 34 (5.32%) Spring Boot
9 29 (4.54%) OAuth
10 25 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
11 24 (3.76%) PySpark
12 23 (3.60%) GraphQL
13 20 (3.13%) AngularJS
13 20 (3.13%) LDAP
13 20 (3.13%) Pandas
14 19 (2.97%) CSS
14 19 (2.97%) FastAPI
14 19 (2.97%) PyTorch
15 18 (2.82%) Jest
15 18 (2.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 105 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.16%) Replication
3 26 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.97%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.72%) CSOC
8 11 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 10 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.41%) NHS
11 7 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.78%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.63%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 111 (17.37%) Linux
2 35 (5.48%) Windows
3 29 (4.54%) Amazon Linux
4 28 (4.38%) VMS
5 15 (2.35%) Unix
6 13 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
9 1 (0.16%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (54.15%) CI/CD
2 271 (42.41%) DevOps
3 246 (38.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 180 (28.17%) Agile
5 161 (25.20%) Containerisation
6 115 (18.00%) Data Pipeline
7 112 (17.53%) ETL
8 105 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
9 99 (15.49%) Data Modelling
10 92 (14.40%) Microservices
11 91 (14.24%) Migration
12 87 (13.62%) Data Engineering
13 83 (12.99%) Analytics
14 78 (12.21%) Observability
15 77 (12.05%) Mentoring
16 68 (10.64%) AI
17 67 (10.49%) Infrastructure Automation
18 61 (9.55%) Software Engineering
19 59 (9.23%) Cloud Security
19 59 (9.23%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 383 (59.94%) Python
2 188 (29.42%) SQL
3 111 (17.37%) Java
4 85 (13.30%) Bash
5 69 (10.80%) TypeScript
6 61 (9.55%) JavaScript
7 48 (7.51%) PowerShell
8 27 (4.23%) Groovy
9 25 (3.91%) Go
10 20 (3.13%) Perl
10 20 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.03%) Scala
12 8 (1.25%) C#
13 6 (0.94%) JSX
13 6 (0.94%) Korn
14 4 (0.63%) Bicep
14 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.47%) C
16 2 (0.31%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 189 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 160 (25.04%) SC Cleared
3 86 (13.46%) AWS Certification
4 39 (6.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 39 (6.10%) Degree
5 23 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.47%) CISSP
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.16%) CCNP
14 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.16%) RHCE
14 1 (0.16%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.16%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.95%) QA
3 32 (5.01%) GDPR
4 20 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.41%) NIST
7 6 (0.94%) NCSC
8 5 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.47%) WCAG
11 2 (0.31%) GxP
11 2 (0.31%) SLA
12 1 (0.16%) HL7
12 1 (0.16%) MiFID
12 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 229 (35.84%) Docker
2 27 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.44%) DFS Replication
4 16 (2.50%) Postfix
5 12 (1.88%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.88%) Squid
6 3 (0.47%) KVM
7 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.16%) etcd
8 1 (0.16%) HDFS
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 307 (48.04%) Terraform
2 155 (24.26%) Kubernetes
3 104 (16.28%) Grafana
4 88 (13.77%) Prometheus
5 83 (12.99%) Ansible
6 20 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.82%) Puppet
8 15 (2.35%) Argo
9 12 (1.88%) Nessus
10 10 (1.56%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.25%) Istio
11 8 (1.25%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.94%) Packer
13 5 (0.78%) Kibana
14 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
15 3 (0.47%) Nagios
15 3 (0.47%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 36 (5.63%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.01%) Databricks
3 30 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 28 (4.38%) Splunk
5 26 (4.07%) Oracle
6 24 (3.76%) Palo Alto
7 23 (3.60%) CheckPoint
7 23 (3.60%) F5
8 16 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
9 12 (1.88%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.56%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.41%) Google
11 9 (1.41%) IBM
12 8 (1.25%) Cloudera
13 7 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
14 6 (0.94%) Commvault
14 6 (0.94%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.94%) StreamSets
15 5 (0.78%) Dell