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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 169 226
Rank change year-on-year -7 +57 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 683 486 454
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.66% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.08% 4.37% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 374 360
10th Percentile £357 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -4.50% -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 16,741 11,123 14,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.38% 37.89% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 7,742 10,076
10th Percentile £318 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -0.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +0.16% -2.86% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 244 347
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £19.79 £16.03
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.88 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.10% +32.76% -30.29%
75th Percentile £68.29 £50.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.35 £60.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -23.83%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +1 584 £525 -4.55% 134
London +14 402 £525 -8.70% 57
UK excluding London -36 210 £478 -4.50% 84
Work from Home -2 202 £500 -4.76% 82
Midlands -31 62 £475 +5.56% 9
West Midlands -17 56 £488 -4.88% 7
North of England -50 55 £500 +5.26% 35
Scotland -33 29 £440 -12.00% 3
South East -38 29 £556 +2.53% 18
North West -27 27 £450 +5.88% 25
South West -15 22 £525 -3.89% 8
Yorkshire -44 20 £500 -4.76% 8
North East -14 8 £538 -13.90% 2
East of England -24 7 £450 -10.00% 10
East Midlands -32 6 £433 +6.66% 2
Northern Ireland +5 5 £400 -20.00% 1
Wales -8 2 £363 -9.38%

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 (11.86%) Apache Spark
2 76 (11.13%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (7.76%) Apache
4 33 (4.83%) Confluence
5 15 (2.20%) SAS
6 10 (1.46%) nginx
7 4 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.29%) Apache Superset
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
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 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 678 (99.27%) AWS
2 424 (62.08%) Serverless
3 415 (60.76%) AWS Lambda
4 253 (37.04%) Amazon EC2
5 178 (26.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 169 (24.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 165 (24.16%) Amazon ECS
8 138 (20.20%) GitHub
9 129 (18.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 128 (18.74%) Amazon EKS
11 114 (16.69%) Azure
12 95 (13.91%) AWS Step Functions
13 93 (13.62%) GitHub Actions
14 89 (13.03%) Amazon SQS
15 70 (10.25%) Snowflake
16 60 (8.78%) Amazon EMR
17 59 (8.64%) Route 53
18 55 (8.05%) GCP
19 54 (7.91%) dbt
20 53 (7.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.83%) DNS
2 22 (3.22%) Firewall
3 16 (2.34%) VPN
4 14 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.76%) Network Security
6 11 (1.61%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.73%) DHCP
8 4 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.44%) BGP
9 3 (0.44%) HTTP
9 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.44%) OSPF
10 2 (0.29%) Internet
10 2 (0.29%) Multicast
10 2 (0.29%) NAS
10 2 (0.29%) SAN
10 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.29%) VLAN
10 2 (0.29%) WAN
11 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (25.33%) Amazon RDS
2 133 (19.47%) Amazon Athena
3 117 (17.13%) PostgreSQL
4 111 (16.25%) DynamoDB
5 104 (15.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 58 (8.49%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (8.20%) Data Lake
8 53 (7.76%) Power BI
8 53 (7.76%) Relational Database
9 49 (7.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 42 (6.15%) NoSQL
11 38 (5.56%) Tableau
12 36 (5.27%) MongoDB
13 33 (4.83%) Metadata
14 30 (4.39%) Big Data
15 28 (4.10%) SQL Server
16 26 (3.81%) BigQuery
17 25 (3.66%) MySQL
17 25 (3.66%) OLTP
18 22 (3.22%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 142 (20.79%) Jenkins
2 133 (19.47%) GitLab
3 121 (17.72%) Git
4 47 (6.88%) JIRA
5 28 (4.10%) JUnit
5 28 (4.10%) SonarQube
6 24 (3.51%) Maven
7 22 (3.22%) Bitbucket
8 18 (2.64%) Mockito
9 15 (2.20%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.61%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.61%) jMock
10 11 (1.61%) MLflow
11 9 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (1.32%) Postman
12 8 (1.17%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.02%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.88%) Gradle
14 6 (0.88%) Selenium
15 4 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 165 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 120 (17.57%) Finance
3 109 (15.96%) Public Sector
4 77 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.42%) Banking
6 26 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.05%) Front Office
7 14 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (0.88%) Legal
9 5 (0.73%) Military
10 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.29%) Billing
12 2 (0.29%) Games
12 2 (0.29%) Law
12 2 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.29%) Police
12 2 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 161 (23.57%) Data Engineer
2 138 (20.20%) Developer
3 109 (15.96%) AWS Engineer
4 86 (12.59%) Senior
5 78 (11.42%) Architect
6 70 (10.25%) Lead
7 50 (7.32%) Java Developer
8 48 (7.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 41 (6.00%) AWS Architect
10 40 (5.86%) AWS Data Engineer
11 35 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.69%) Site Engineer
13 31 (4.54%) AWS Developer
13 31 (4.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 29 (4.25%) Analyst
15 28 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
16 27 (3.95%) Lead Data Engineer
17 25 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
18 24 (3.51%) Data Architect
18 24 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (18.01%) Kafka
2 87 (12.74%) Spring Boot
3 86 (12.59%) Spring
4 71 (10.40%) Node.js
5 69 (10.10%) RESTful
6 63 (9.22%) PySpark
7 58 (8.49%) REST
8 54 (7.91%) React
9 44 (6.44%) OAuth
10 41 (6.00%) AWS CDK
11 38 (5.56%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.51%) JWT
13 23 (3.37%) CSS
13 23 (3.37%) OpenID
14 21 (3.07%) SOAP
15 20 (2.93%) JPA
16 19 (2.78%) Hibernate
16 19 (2.78%) Spring Cloud
16 19 (2.78%) Web Services
17 18 (2.64%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 168 (24.60%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.90%) NHS
4 13 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.17%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.02%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.88%) Clustering
10 6 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.88%) PACS
10 6 (0.88%) SCADA
10 6 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.73%) Derivative
11 5 (0.73%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.59%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 87 (12.74%) Linux
2 21 (3.07%) Unix
3 14 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.32%) Windows
5 5 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.29%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (58.13%) CI/CD
2 270 (39.53%) DevOps
3 264 (38.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 194 (28.40%) Agile
5 165 (24.16%) Analytics
5 165 (24.16%) ETL
6 157 (22.99%) Containerisation
6 157 (22.99%) Data Engineering
7 148 (21.67%) Data Pipeline
8 144 (21.08%) Data Modelling
9 119 (17.42%) Microservices
10 111 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
11 107 (15.67%) Observability
12 100 (14.64%) AI
13 86 (12.59%) Migration
14 79 (11.57%) Data Governance
14 79 (11.57%) Test Automation
15 71 (10.40%) Performance Tuning
16 70 (10.25%) Software Engineering
17 69 (10.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 385 (56.37%) Python
2 261 (38.21%) SQL
3 148 (21.67%) Java
4 63 (9.22%) TypeScript
5 59 (8.64%) Bash
6 54 (7.91%) JavaScript
7 48 (7.03%) C#
8 29 (4.25%) Shell Script
9 27 (3.95%) PowerShell
10 25 (3.66%) Scala
11 14 (2.05%) Go
12 6 (0.88%) Bicep
12 6 (0.88%) SAS Macro
13 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.44%) C
14 3 (0.44%) C++
14 3 (0.44%) Groovy
14 3 (0.44%) JSX
14 3 (0.44%) R
15 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 224 (32.80%) Security Cleared
2 181 (26.50%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.61%) AWS Certification
4 19 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 19 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.64%) Degree
6 17 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.44%) OCP
11 3 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.44%) PhD
11 3 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (13.32%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.12%) GDPR
3 33 (4.83%) QA
4 14 (2.05%) SLA
5 13 (1.90%) NIST
6 12 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.02%) PMO
8 6 (0.88%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.29%) GRC
10 2 (0.29%) GxP
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 219 (32.06%) Docker
2 11 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.46%) Postfix
3 10 (1.46%) Squid
4 6 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.59%) HDFS
6 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 318 (46.56%) Terraform
2 162 (23.72%) Kubernetes
3 103 (15.08%) Grafana
4 71 (10.40%) Prometheus
5 60 (8.78%) Ansible
6 17 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.20%) Puppet
8 14 (2.05%) Kibana
9 13 (1.90%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.32%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.02%) Argo
11 7 (1.02%) Consul
12 6 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.73%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.59%) Dell DRAC
14 4 (0.59%) Istio
14 4 (0.59%) Salt
15 3 (0.44%) Data Guard
15 3 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 79 (11.57%) Databricks
2 41 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 38 (5.56%) Splunk
4 29 (4.25%) Google
5 20 (2.93%) Atlassian
6 18 (2.64%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.05%) Jaspersoft
8 13 (1.90%) Oracle
8 13 (1.90%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.61%) Confluent
9 11 (1.61%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.61%) Informatica
10 9 (1.32%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.17%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.02%) Denodo
12 7 (1.02%) IBM
12 7 (1.02%) Sybase
13 6 (0.88%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.88%) Dell
13 6 (0.88%) SAP