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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 175 226
Rank change year-on-year -16 +51 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 654 479 436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 1.64% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.83% 4.37% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 363 337
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £444 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +3.75% -8.00%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £600
90th Percentile £703 £700 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -3.20% -1.28% +1.30%
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 17,079 10,959 13,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 37.57% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,519 7,525 9,860
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £620 £634
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 249 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.46 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.37 £17.72
% change year-on-year +84.09% +14.95% -31.49%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -6 560 £525 -2.33% 185
London +19 386 £550 - 80
UK excluding London -47 208 £484 -3.20% 124
Work from Home -24 191 £500 -4.76% 107
Midlands -23 67 £470 -1.16% 9
West Midlands -10 62 £475 -2.56% 8
North of England -55 52 £500 +1.27% 48
Scotland -43 34 £475 -4.95% 7
North West -33 32 £505 +6.32% 25
South East -44 30 £585 +15.84% 27
South West -29 17 £450 -18.18% 28
Yorkshire -60 12 £500 -4.76% 15
North East -18 8 £444 - 8
East of England -27 7 £425 -15.00% 2
East Midlands -30 4 £413 -10.13% 1
Northern Ireland -1 2 £400 -20.00% 2
Wales - 2 £363 - 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 67 (10.24%) Apache Spark
2 66 (10.09%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (7.65%) Confluence
4 44 (6.73%) Apache
5 21 (3.21%) SAS
6 10 (1.53%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 648 (99.08%) AWS
2 411 (62.84%) Serverless
3 402 (61.47%) AWS Lambda
4 244 (37.31%) Amazon EC2
5 173 (26.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 145 (22.17%) Amazon ECS
7 139 (21.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 130 (19.88%) GitHub
9 126 (19.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 125 (19.11%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (15.90%) Amazon SQS
12 97 (14.83%) Azure
13 93 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
14 92 (14.07%) AWS Step Functions
15 69 (10.55%) Snowflake
16 57 (8.72%) Amazon EMR
17 56 (8.56%) dbt
18 52 (7.95%) Power Platform
19 50 (7.65%) Route 53
20 49 (7.49%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.89%) DNS
2 22 (3.36%) Firewall
3 15 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.14%) VPN
5 11 (1.68%) OpenVPN
6 10 (1.53%) Network Security
7 5 (0.76%) DHCP
7 5 (0.76%) HTTP
8 4 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.46%) BGP
9 3 (0.46%) Internet
9 3 (0.46%) NAS
9 3 (0.46%) OSPF
9 3 (0.46%) SAN
9 3 (0.46%) SSL
9 3 (0.46%) WAN
10 2 (0.31%) CTI
10 2 (0.31%) Multicast
10 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (24.62%) Amazon RDS
2 126 (19.27%) Amazon Athena
3 112 (17.13%) DynamoDB
4 96 (14.68%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (14.07%) Amazon Redshift
6 57 (8.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 54 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
8 52 (7.95%) Power BI
9 51 (7.80%) Data Lake
10 37 (5.66%) NoSQL
11 36 (5.50%) Relational Database
12 33 (5.05%) Metadata
13 30 (4.59%) Tableau
14 27 (4.13%) Big Data
14 27 (4.13%) SQL Server
15 24 (3.67%) BigQuery
15 24 (3.67%) MongoDB
16 23 (3.52%) Apache Iceberg
16 23 (3.52%) OLTP
17 21 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 141 (21.56%) Jenkins
2 128 (19.57%) GitLab
3 124 (18.96%) Git
4 65 (9.94%) JIRA
5 32 (4.89%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.43%) JUnit
7 27 (4.13%) Bitbucket
8 26 (3.98%) Maven
9 22 (3.36%) Mockito
10 14 (2.14%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.14%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.99%) jMock
12 11 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.53%) MLflow
14 9 (1.38%) Cucumber
15 8 (1.22%) Artifactory
16 7 (1.07%) Postman
17 6 (0.92%) Selenium
18 4 (0.61%) Gradle
18 4 (0.61%) NUnit
General
1 168 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 111 (16.97%) Finance
2 111 (16.97%) Public Sector
3 65 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (4.59%) Banking
5 21 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (1.99%) Front Office
6 13 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (0.92%) Legal
8 5 (0.76%) Military
9 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.46%) Billing
10 3 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.46%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.46%) Retail
10 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.31%) Games
11 2 (0.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 153 (23.39%) Data Engineer
2 141 (21.56%) Developer
3 101 (15.44%) AWS Engineer
4 84 (12.84%) Senior
5 80 (12.23%) Architect
6 72 (11.01%) Lead
7 49 (7.49%) Java Developer
8 42 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
9 39 (5.96%) AWS Architect
9 39 (5.96%) AWS Data Engineer
10 35 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (4.74%) AWS Developer
11 31 (4.74%) Senior Data Engineer
12 26 (3.98%) Data Architect
13 25 (3.82%) Python Engineer
13 25 (3.82%) Software Engineer
14 24 (3.67%) AWS DevOps
14 24 (3.67%) Lead Data Engineer
15 22 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
15 22 (3.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (15.90%) Kafka
2 81 (12.39%) Spring
2 81 (12.39%) Spring Boot
3 68 (10.40%) REST
4 66 (10.09%) RESTful
5 61 (9.33%) PySpark
6 59 (9.02%) Node.js
7 56 (8.56%) React
8 44 (6.73%) AWS CDK
9 41 (6.27%) AngularJS
10 34 (5.20%) OAuth
11 28 (4.28%) FastAPI
12 27 (4.13%) Pandas
12 27 (4.13%) SOAP
13 24 (3.67%) JPA
13 24 (3.67%) OpenID
13 24 (3.67%) PyTorch
14 23 (3.52%) Hibernate
14 23 (3.52%) Web Services
15 21 (3.21%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 166 (25.38%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.49%) Product Ownership
3 45 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.29%) NHS
5 14 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.38%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.22%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.07%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.07%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.92%) Clustering
10 6 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (0.92%) PACS
10 6 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.39%) Linux
2 21 (3.21%) Unix
3 12 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.53%) Windows
5 6 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (57.34%) CI/CD
2 271 (41.44%) DevOps
3 233 (35.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 205 (31.35%) Agile
5 153 (23.39%) Analytics
6 147 (22.48%) Data Engineering
7 146 (22.32%) ETL
8 144 (22.02%) Containerisation
9 133 (20.34%) Data Pipeline
10 132 (20.18%) Data Modelling
11 115 (17.58%) Microservices
12 105 (16.06%) AI
13 101 (15.44%) Observability
14 90 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (12.69%) Migration
16 81 (12.39%) Test Automation
17 80 (12.23%) Event-Driven
18 79 (12.08%) Scrum
19 74 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
20 71 (10.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 356 (54.43%) Python
2 246 (37.61%) SQL
3 138 (21.10%) Java
4 64 (9.79%) TypeScript
5 53 (8.10%) C#
6 48 (7.34%) JavaScript
7 46 (7.03%) Bash
8 30 (4.59%) PowerShell
9 27 (4.13%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.36%) Scala
11 10 (1.53%) Go
12 9 (1.38%) Groovy
13 6 (0.92%) Bicep
13 6 (0.92%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.61%) Perl
14 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.46%) C++
15 3 (0.46%) R
16 2 (0.31%) C
16 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 211 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 174 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.12%) AWS Certification
4 19 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.45%) Degree
6 13 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (1.99%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.53%) SAFe Agilist
8 8 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.46%) OCP
11 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.46%) PhD
11 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (12.69%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.98%) GDPR
2 26 (3.98%) QA
3 14 (2.14%) SLA
4 8 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.22%) NIST
5 7 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.07%) PMO
6 6 (0.92%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.31%) GRC
8 2 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.15%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 203 (31.04%) Docker
2 13 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.68%) Postfix
3 11 (1.68%) Squid
4 6 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.46%) HDFS
5 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 279 (42.66%) Terraform
2 141 (21.56%) Kubernetes
3 101 (15.44%) Grafana
4 63 (9.63%) Prometheus
5 38 (5.81%) Ansible
6 18 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.83%) Kibana
8 9 (1.38%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.38%) Puppet
9 8 (1.22%) Consul
9 8 (1.22%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.76%) Argo
11 4 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.61%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.61%) Salt
12 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.46%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.46%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.46%) Packer
12 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 66 (10.09%) Databricks
2 32 (4.89%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.59%) Splunk
4 27 (4.13%) Google
5 23 (3.52%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.60%) Jaspersoft
6 17 (2.60%) Oracle
7 16 (2.45%) Red Hat
8 15 (2.29%) Informatica
8 15 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.68%) Denodo
10 9 (1.38%) Confluent
11 8 (1.22%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.92%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.92%) IBM
12 6 (0.92%) SAP
12 6 (0.92%) Teradata
13 5 (0.76%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.76%) Tenable