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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 164 229
Rank change year-on-year -18 +65 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 725 512 457
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.72% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.05% 4.54% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 382 343
10th Percentile £374 £400 £385
25th Percentile £437 £463 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +3.75% -8.00%
75th Percentile £618 £609 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.19% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 17,914 11,278 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.82% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,970 7,607 10,025
10th Percentile £326 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 278 365
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.14 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.13 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.77
% change year-on-year +98.73% -9.15% -23.07%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -8 616 £525 -2.28% 123
London +6 418 £550 -3.08% 65
Work from Home -6 240 £500 -4.76% 70
UK excluding London -72 229 £475 -5.00% 82
Midlands -25 68 £469 -1.26% 12
West Midlands -27 63 £469 -1.26% 7
North of England -59 61 £500 - 29
Scotland -30 36 £450 -10.10% 4
North West -34 31 £525 +10.53% 14
South East -53 28 £585 +23.16% 17
South West -8 26 £456 -17.05% 16
North East -23 15 £425 -5.56% 3
Yorkshire -64 15 £500 -4.76% 12
East of England -34 8 £400 -27.27%
East Midlands -19 4 £425 -6.54% 5
Wales - 4 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland +2 2 £400 -20.00% 3

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 81 (11.17%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (10.07%) Confluence
3 64 (8.83%) Apache Spark
4 46 (6.34%) Apache
5 21 (2.90%) SAS
6 11 (1.52%) nginx
7 7 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.83%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 718 (99.03%) AWS
2 469 (64.69%) Serverless
3 464 (64.00%) AWS Lambda
4 265 (36.55%) Amazon EC2
5 208 (28.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 155 (21.38%) Amazon ECS
7 142 (19.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 141 (19.45%) Amazon EKS
9 137 (18.90%) GitHub
10 133 (18.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 109 (15.03%) Amazon SQS
12 104 (14.34%) Azure
13 99 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
14 84 (11.59%) Amazon EMR
15 82 (11.31%) AWS Step Functions
16 81 (11.17%) Snowflake
17 76 (10.48%) dbt
18 62 (8.55%) Power Platform
19 51 (7.03%) AWS KMS
19 51 (7.03%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.86%) DNS
2 25 (3.45%) Firewall
3 15 (2.07%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.79%) VPN
5 11 (1.52%) Network Security
5 11 (1.52%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.83%) WAN
7 5 (0.69%) HTTP
8 4 (0.55%) DHCP
8 4 (0.55%) Internet
8 4 (0.55%) NAS
8 4 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.55%) SAN
8 4 (0.55%) SSL
9 3 (0.41%) BGP
9 3 (0.41%) CTI
9 3 (0.41%) OSPF
10 2 (0.28%) Multicast
10 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
2 149 (20.55%) Amazon Athena
3 128 (17.66%) Amazon Redshift
4 126 (17.38%) DynamoDB
5 99 (13.66%) PostgreSQL
6 75 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (8.55%) Power BI
8 58 (8.00%) Data Lake
9 53 (7.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 39 (5.38%) NoSQL
11 36 (4.97%) Metadata
12 35 (4.83%) Relational Database
13 31 (4.28%) Tableau
14 30 (4.14%) Big Data
15 28 (3.86%) MongoDB
16 25 (3.45%) BigQuery
16 25 (3.45%) SQL Server
17 22 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
18 21 (2.90%) Snowflake Schema
19 18 (2.48%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 148 (20.41%) GitLab
2 147 (20.28%) Git
3 140 (19.31%) Jenkins
4 88 (12.14%) JIRA
5 31 (4.28%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.00%) JUnit
7 28 (3.86%) Bitbucket
8 23 (3.17%) Maven
8 23 (3.17%) Mockito
9 15 (2.07%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.93%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.79%) jMock
12 11 (1.52%) Artifactory
12 11 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (1.10%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.10%) Postman
14 6 (0.83%) MLflow
15 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.55%) Selenium
16 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 187 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 145 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 117 (16.14%) Finance
4 66 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.10%) Banking
6 22 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.52%) Front Office
9 8 (1.10%) Military
10 7 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.97%) Legal
11 6 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.83%) Law
12 4 (0.55%) Marketing
12 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Back Office
13 3 (0.41%) Billing
13 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 180 (24.83%) Data Engineer
2 142 (19.59%) Developer
3 132 (18.21%) AWS Engineer
4 97 (13.38%) Senior
5 85 (11.72%) Architect
6 80 (11.03%) Lead
7 57 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.62%) Java Developer
9 46 (6.34%) AWS Data Engineer
10 43 (5.93%) AWS Architect
11 40 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 38 (5.24%) Senior Data Engineer
13 37 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
14 34 (4.69%) AWS Developer
15 30 (4.14%) Software Engineer
16 28 (3.86%) Python Engineer
17 27 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 24 (3.31%) Data Architect
18 24 (3.31%) Lead Data Engineer
18 24 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (12.97%) Kafka
2 79 (10.90%) PySpark
3 75 (10.34%) REST
4 74 (10.21%) Spring
4 74 (10.21%) Spring Boot
5 64 (8.83%) React
6 62 (8.55%) RESTful
7 55 (7.59%) Node.js
8 50 (6.90%) AWS CDK
9 35 (4.83%) AngularJS
10 33 (4.55%) OAuth
11 32 (4.41%) FastAPI
12 29 (4.00%) SOAP
13 25 (3.45%) JPA
13 25 (3.45%) PyTorch
14 24 (3.31%) OpenID
14 24 (3.31%) Pandas
15 23 (3.17%) Hibernate
15 23 (3.17%) Web Services
16 21 (2.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 186 (25.66%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.45%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (2.48%) NHS
5 16 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 11 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.38%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.10%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.10%) Legacy Code
10 7 (0.97%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (0.97%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.83%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 82 (11.31%) Linux
2 20 (2.76%) Unix
3 13 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (1.52%) Windows
5 5 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (58.90%) CI/CD
2 295 (40.69%) DevOps
3 267 (36.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 238 (32.83%) Agile
5 174 (24.00%) Data Engineering
6 171 (23.59%) Analytics
7 167 (23.03%) Data Pipeline
8 152 (20.97%) Containerisation
8 152 (20.97%) ETL
9 139 (19.17%) AI
10 138 (19.03%) Data Modelling
11 126 (17.38%) Microservices
12 104 (14.34%) Observability
13 100 (13.79%) Machine Learning
14 94 (12.97%) Test Automation
15 92 (12.69%) Migration
16 91 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
17 89 (12.28%) Event-Driven
18 88 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
19 86 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 411 (56.69%) Python
2 274 (37.79%) SQL
3 138 (19.03%) Java
4 71 (9.79%) TypeScript
5 55 (7.59%) JavaScript
6 53 (7.31%) Bash
7 44 (6.07%) C#
8 30 (4.14%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.03%) Scala
9 22 (3.03%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.10%) Groovy
11 6 (0.83%) Bicep
11 6 (0.83%) Go
11 6 (0.83%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.55%) Perl
14 3 (0.41%) C
14 3 (0.41%) R
14 3 (0.41%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.28%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 232 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 198 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.45%) AWS Certification
4 31 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (2.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (2.21%) Degree
8 14 (1.93%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.52%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.38%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.83%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
16 2 (0.28%) CSPO
16 2 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (14.90%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.86%) QA
3 19 (2.62%) GDPR
4 14 (1.93%) SLA
5 9 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.97%) PMO
7 6 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.83%) NIST
8 5 (0.69%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.41%) HL7
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 206 (28.41%) Docker
2 15 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.66%) Squid
4 11 (1.52%) Postfix
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 325 (44.83%) Terraform
2 142 (19.59%) Kubernetes
3 95 (13.10%) Grafana
4 66 (9.10%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.93%) Ansible
6 18 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.66%) Puppet
8 9 (1.24%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.24%) Kibana
9 8 (1.10%) Consul
10 6 (0.83%) Argo
10 6 (0.83%) Packer
10 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.83%) Salt
11 5 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.55%) Istio
13 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.14%) Control-M
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 65 (8.97%) Databricks
2 31 (4.28%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.72%) Informatica
4 25 (3.45%) Splunk
5 24 (3.31%) Google
6 23 (3.17%) Atlassian
7 21 (2.90%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.76%) Oracle
9 19 (2.62%) ServiceNow
10 17 (2.34%) Jaspersoft
11 15 (2.07%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.52%) Denodo
12 11 (1.52%) Teradata
13 10 (1.38%) OpenAI
14 9 (1.24%) Confluent
15 8 (1.10%) IBM
16 7 (0.97%) Salesforce
17 6 (0.83%) AVEVA
18 5 (0.69%) Foundry
18 5 (0.69%) Palantir