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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 171 232
Rank change year-on-year -16 +61 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 596 475 453
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 1.51% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.08% 4.08% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 347 373
10th Percentile £375 £402 £400
25th Percentile £419 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £614 £622 £600
90th Percentile £688 £788 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.00 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 - -

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 14,620 11,635 15,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.94% 37.04% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,061 7,723 10,764
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 173 318
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.36
Median hourly rate £32.75 £27.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.09% +20.88% -5.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £43.75 £50.19
90th Percentile £79.63 £72.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £24.66 £21.00
% change year-on-year +33.82% +17.43% +5.00%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +10 477 £525 -4.55% 161
London +17 315 £530 -6.19% 81
UK excluding London -16 200 £500 - 98
Work from Home -14 159 £550 +7.32% 73
North of England -28 65 £500 - 29
Midlands -28 46 £475 +5.56% 12
West Midlands -15 39 £500 -9.09% 8
Scotland -31 35 £500 - 3
Yorkshire -26 33 £500 -4.76% 14
North West -22 25 £463 -2.63% 12
South East -5 23 £528 -17.25% 24
South West -13 15 £625 +13.55% 18
Northern Ireland +7 9 £400 - 1
East of England -14 9 £650 +30.00% 9
North East -14 7 £425 -30.33% 3
East Midlands -23 7 £417 -6.02% 4
Wales -2 1 £475 +18.75% 2

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 52 (8.72%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (8.05%) Apache Spark
3 41 (6.88%) Apache
4 26 (4.36%) Confluence
5 12 (2.01%) nginx
6 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.50%) SAS
6 3 (0.50%) Traefik
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.01%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 592 (99.33%) AWS
2 374 (62.75%) Serverless
3 368 (61.74%) AWS Lambda
4 232 (38.93%) Amazon EC2
5 175 (29.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 170 (28.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 155 (26.01%) Amazon ECS
8 138 (23.15%) GitHub
9 125 (20.97%) Amazon EKS
10 124 (20.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 106 (17.79%) GitHub Actions
12 96 (16.11%) Azure
13 68 (11.41%) AWS Step Functions
14 53 (8.89%) Amazon Kinesis
15 51 (8.56%) Route 53
16 48 (8.05%) GCP
17 47 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
18 45 (7.55%) Snowflake
19 38 (6.38%) Amazon EMR
20 35 (5.87%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 46 (7.72%) DNS
2 43 (7.21%) Firewall
3 29 (4.87%) VPN
4 22 (3.69%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.52%) Network Security
6 14 (2.35%) HTTP
6 14 (2.35%) SSL
7 10 (1.68%) FTP
7 10 (1.68%) SMTP
7 10 (1.68%) SSH
8 7 (1.17%) IMAP
8 7 (1.17%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.84%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.67%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.67%) NAS
11 3 (0.50%) BGP
12 2 (0.34%) Multicast
12 2 (0.34%) OSPF
12 2 (0.34%) SAN
12 2 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (30.37%) Amazon RDS
2 105 (17.62%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (15.10%) Amazon Redshift
4 84 (14.09%) Amazon Athena
5 83 (13.93%) DynamoDB
6 46 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
6 46 (7.72%) Relational Database
7 45 (7.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 43 (7.21%) Data Lake
9 30 (5.03%) MySQL
10 28 (4.70%) Amazon QuickSight
10 28 (4.70%) Power BI
11 27 (4.53%) MongoDB
12 22 (3.69%) NoSQL
13 21 (3.52%) BigQuery
14 20 (3.36%) OLTP
14 20 (3.36%) SQL Server
15 18 (3.02%) OLAP
15 18 (3.02%) Tableau
16 16 (2.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 138 (23.15%) Jenkins
2 126 (21.14%) GitLab
3 106 (17.79%) Git
4 35 (5.87%) JIRA
5 14 (2.35%) MLflow
6 13 (2.18%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.68%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.68%) Vagrant
8 9 (1.51%) JUnit
8 9 (1.51%) Postman
9 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.34%) Maven
10 7 (1.17%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.01%) Gradle
12 5 (0.84%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.67%) NUnit
13 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
14 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.50%) Vite
15 2 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 147 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 90 (15.10%) Public Sector
3 89 (14.93%) Finance
4 62 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.87%) Banking
6 18 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.85%) Front Office
9 8 (1.34%) Military
10 7 (1.17%) Legal
11 4 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.50%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.50%) Marketing
13 2 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.34%) Publishing
13 2 (0.34%) Retail
14 1 (0.17%) Advertising
14 1 (0.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 122 (20.47%) AWS Engineer
2 115 (19.30%) Data Engineer
3 93 (15.60%) Developer
4 89 (14.93%) Senior
5 74 (12.42%) Architect
6 73 (12.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 46 (7.72%) Lead
8 40 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
9 38 (6.38%) AWS Architect
10 33 (5.54%) AWS Data Engineer
11 31 (5.20%) AWS DevOps
11 31 (5.20%) Software Engineer
12 30 (5.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 30 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (5.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 29 (4.87%) Python Engineer
14 28 (4.70%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 26 (4.36%) Data Architect
16 23 (3.86%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (16.61%) Kafka
2 56 (9.40%) Spring
2 56 (9.40%) Spring Boot
3 55 (9.23%) Node.js
4 52 (8.72%) React
5 50 (8.39%) REST
6 48 (8.05%) RESTful
7 44 (7.38%) AWS CDK
8 37 (6.21%) OAuth
9 34 (5.70%) PySpark
10 26 (4.36%) AngularJS
10 26 (4.36%) FastAPI
11 25 (4.19%) JWT
12 23 (3.86%) CSS
13 22 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (3.52%) JSON
15 20 (3.36%) boto
16 19 (3.19%) Pandas
17 18 (3.02%) PyTorch
18 17 (2.85%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 146 (24.50%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.85%) Replication
6 13 (2.18%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.01%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.01%) NHS
8 10 (1.68%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.84%) Derivative
12 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.84%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.84%) SCADA
13 4 (0.67%) Equities
13 4 (0.67%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 78 (13.09%) Linux
2 18 (3.02%) Windows
3 13 (2.18%) Amazon Linux
3 13 (2.18%) VMS
4 11 (1.85%) Unix
5 10 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.01%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.17%) Android
8 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (59.73%) CI/CD
2 260 (43.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 236 (39.60%) DevOps
4 158 (26.51%) Containerisation
5 143 (23.99%) Agile
6 129 (21.64%) ETL
7 119 (19.97%) Data Pipeline
8 112 (18.79%) Analytics
8 112 (18.79%) Data Modelling
9 110 (18.46%) Data Engineering
10 96 (16.11%) Microservices
11 93 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
12 87 (14.60%) Observability
13 84 (14.09%) AI
14 76 (12.75%) Software Engineering
15 70 (11.74%) Event-Driven
16 69 (11.58%) Migration
17 63 (10.57%) Machine Learning
17 63 (10.57%) Performance Tuning
18 59 (9.90%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 361 (60.57%) Python
2 203 (34.06%) SQL
3 106 (17.79%) Java
4 73 (12.25%) Bash
5 54 (9.06%) TypeScript
6 45 (7.55%) JavaScript
7 32 (5.37%) PowerShell
8 31 (5.20%) C#
9 25 (4.19%) Go
10 23 (3.86%) Shell Script
11 12 (2.01%) Groovy
12 9 (1.51%) Scala
13 6 (1.01%) JSX
13 6 (1.01%) Perl
13 6 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.84%) Korn
15 4 (0.67%) C
16 3 (0.50%) C++
17 2 (0.34%) Bicep
18 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 186 (31.21%) Security Cleared
2 150 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 59 (9.90%) AWS Certification
4 26 (4.36%) Degree
5 24 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 23 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.50%) OCP
12 3 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.50%) PhD
13 2 (0.34%) CISSP
14 1 (0.17%) CEH
14 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.24%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.88%) GDPR
3 34 (5.70%) QA
4 18 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.52%) NIST
6 14 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.67%) NCSC
9 2 (0.34%) GxP
9 2 (0.34%) MiFID
9 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 221 (37.08%) Docker
2 12 (2.01%) Squid
3 10 (1.68%) DFS Replication
4 9 (1.51%) Active Directory
5 7 (1.17%) Dovecot
5 7 (1.17%) Postfix
6 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 308 (51.68%) Terraform
2 169 (28.36%) Kubernetes
3 92 (15.44%) Grafana
4 79 (13.26%) Ansible
5 74 (12.42%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.19%) Progress Chef
7 18 (3.02%) Puppet
8 10 (1.68%) Argo
8 10 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.17%) Kibana
9 7 (1.17%) Nessus
9 7 (1.17%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.17%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 6 (1.01%) Karpenter
11 5 (0.84%) Consul
11 5 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (0.84%) Istio
12 3 (0.50%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 51 (8.56%) Databricks
2 35 (5.87%) Microsoft
3 23 (3.86%) Splunk
4 21 (3.52%) Google
5 17 (2.85%) F5
6 16 (2.68%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.52%) CheckPoint
7 15 (2.52%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.35%) Oracle
9 12 (2.01%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.51%) Confluent
11 8 (1.34%) Dell
11 8 (1.34%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.34%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
13 6 (1.01%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.01%) AVEVA
13 6 (1.01%) SAP
14 5 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.84%) Sybase