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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 165 208
Rank change year-on-year -50 +43 +64
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 692 587 456
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.27% 1.77% 1.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.66% 4.64% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 424 303
10th Percentile £400 £400 £384
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £640 £625 £609
90th Percentile £738 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -1.95% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £41.00 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £57.44 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £62.45 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.03% - -
75th Percentile £70.12 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.83 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.40 - -

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 18,899 12,656 13,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.62% 38.21% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,531 8,445 8,675
10th Percentile £325 £309 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 287 184
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.40 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.71 £18.87 £22.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +47.55%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -60 566 £530 +0.95% 566
London -23 376 £599 +4.17% 359
Work from Home -19 255 £538 +4.27% 250
UK excluding London -80 226 £466 -1.95% 238
North of England -59 72 £463 -7.50% 72
Midlands -44 56 £469 -1.26% 23
West Midlands -52 45 £475 - 7
Scotland -30 40 £433 -13.50% 23
South West -9 32 £470 -14.55% 48
North West -43 30 £450 -10.00% 43
North East -24 22 £419 -1.47% 10
Yorkshire -40 20 £500 -2.44% 19
South East -77 20 £600 +44.58% 28
East Midlands -9 10 £405 -17.97% 16
East of England -53 6 £350 -41.67% 26
Wales - 3 £600 - 7
Northern Ireland +4 2 £600 +50.00% 12

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 84 (12.14%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (11.27%) Confluence
3 76 (10.98%) Apache
4 71 (10.26%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.02%) SAS
6 12 (1.73%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (1.01%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.87%) nginx
9 6 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.87%) Traefik
9 6 (0.87%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.87%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.58%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.29%) CMS
13 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.14%) Mule
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Gliffy
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.87%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 668 (96.53%) AWS
2 420 (60.69%) Serverless
3 417 (60.26%) AWS Lambda
4 226 (32.66%) Amazon EC2
5 224 (32.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 164 (23.70%) GitHub
7 160 (23.12%) Amazon ECS
8 153 (22.11%) Amazon EKS
9 130 (18.79%) GitHub Actions
10 128 (18.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 127 (18.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 115 (16.62%) Azure
13 94 (13.58%) Amazon SQS
14 93 (13.44%) Amazon EMR
15 74 (10.69%) dbt
16 71 (10.26%) Snowflake
17 69 (9.97%) AWS Step Functions
18 62 (8.96%) Power Platform
19 55 (7.95%) Amazon EventBridge
20 51 (7.37%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.31%) Firewall
2 14 (2.02%) DNS
3 11 (1.59%) Network Security
4 6 (0.87%) HTTP
4 6 (0.87%) SSL
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
6 4 (0.58%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.58%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.58%) SAN
6 4 (0.58%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Internet
7 3 (0.43%) SMS
7 3 (0.43%) VPN
8 2 (0.29%) FTP
8 2 (0.29%) IMAP
8 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) SMTP
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (27.75%) Amazon RDS
2 134 (19.36%) Amazon Athena
3 123 (17.77%) DynamoDB
4 111 (16.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 94 (13.58%) Data Warehouse
5 94 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
6 65 (9.39%) Data Lake
7 62 (8.96%) Power BI
8 50 (7.23%) MongoDB
9 46 (6.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 43 (6.21%) Metadata
11 32 (4.62%) Big Data
12 29 (4.19%) Apache Iceberg
13 28 (4.05%) NoSQL
14 27 (3.90%) SQL Server
15 25 (3.61%) MySQL
16 23 (3.32%) BigQuery
16 23 (3.32%) Delta Lake
16 23 (3.32%) Tableau
17 22 (3.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 153 (22.11%) GitLab
2 142 (20.52%) Git
3 131 (18.93%) Jenkins
4 76 (10.98%) JIRA
5 26 (3.76%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.46%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.31%) Maven
8 15 (2.17%) SonarQube
9 13 (1.88%) JUnit
9 13 (1.88%) Mockito
10 12 (1.73%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.01%) Postman
12 6 (0.87%) Selenium
12 6 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.72%) DbUnit
14 4 (0.58%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (0.58%) Claude Code
14 4 (0.58%) Flyway
14 4 (0.58%) jMock
General
1 170 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 150 (21.68%) Public Sector
3 125 (18.06%) Finance
4 59 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.65%) Banking
6 20 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.02%) Front Office
8 13 (1.88%) Back Office
9 12 (1.73%) Legal
10 9 (1.30%) Marketing
11 8 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.16%) Military
12 7 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.01%) Publishing
13 6 (0.87%) Billing
14 5 (0.72%) Law
14 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.58%) Local Government
15 4 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 168 (24.28%) Data Engineer
2 126 (18.21%) Senior
3 118 (17.05%) AWS Engineer
4 111 (16.04%) Developer
5 87 (12.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 79 (11.42%) Architect
7 77 (11.13%) Lead
8 53 (7.66%) Senior Data Engineer
9 47 (6.79%) AWS Data Engineer
10 39 (5.64%) AWS DevOps
11 36 (5.20%) AWS Architect
12 34 (4.91%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 29 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
15 26 (3.76%) Data Architect
16 25 (3.61%) AWS Developer
17 23 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
17 23 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
17 23 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 23 (3.32%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (48.12%) Terraform
2 95 (13.73%) REST
3 90 (13.01%) Kafka
4 76 (10.98%) PySpark
5 57 (8.24%) Spring Boot
6 55 (7.95%) Spring
7 52 (7.51%) RESTful
8 50 (7.23%) React
9 41 (5.92%) AWS CDK
10 37 (5.35%) Node.js
11 30 (4.34%) FastAPI
12 29 (4.19%) SOAP
13 24 (3.47%) AngularJS
14 23 (3.32%) .NET
14 23 (3.32%) GraphQL
14 23 (3.32%) JSON
15 21 (3.03%) OAuth
16 19 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
17 17 (2.46%) Keycloak
18 15 (2.17%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 193 (27.89%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.54%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.75%) NHS
6 15 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.02%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.02%) Replication
7 14 (2.02%) Security Posture
8 13 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.88%) IVR
9 10 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.30%) Legacy Code
10 9 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.16%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.16%) Mainframe
12 7 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 95 (13.73%) Linux
2 24 (3.47%) Windows
3 22 (3.18%) Unix
4 17 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.45%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.87%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.58%) AIX
9 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.29%) Android
10 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (65.61%) CI/CD
2 318 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 313 (45.23%) DevOps
4 272 (39.31%) Agile
5 190 (27.46%) Data Engineering
6 186 (26.88%) Data Pipeline
7 145 (20.95%) Analytics
8 138 (19.94%) AI
9 137 (19.80%) Data Modelling
9 137 (19.80%) Observability
10 133 (19.22%) ETL
11 129 (18.64%) Containerisation
12 118 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (16.91%) Test Automation
14 114 (16.47%) Microservices
15 110 (15.90%) Migration
16 109 (15.75%) Event-Driven
17 102 (14.74%) Technical Leadership
18 92 (13.29%) Machine Learning
19 90 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 388 (56.07%) Python
2 263 (38.01%) SQL
3 111 (16.04%) Java
4 72 (10.40%) TypeScript
5 70 (10.12%) Bash
6 53 (7.66%) JavaScript
7 30 (4.34%) PowerShell
8 23 (3.32%) Scala
9 21 (3.03%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.75%) C#
11 17 (2.46%) Groovy
12 15 (2.17%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.45%) Go
14 7 (1.01%) Bicep
14 7 (1.01%) Perl
15 4 (0.58%) Cypher
15 4 (0.58%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.58%) R
15 4 (0.58%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 240 (34.68%) Security Cleared
2 216 (31.21%) SC Cleared
3 98 (14.16%) AWS Certification
4 47 (6.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (5.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (4.48%) Degree
7 24 (3.47%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 14 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.30%) CISM
11 9 (1.30%) CISSP
12 8 (1.16%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (1.01%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.43%) CSPO
15 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (18.50%) Data Quality
2 51 (7.37%) QA
3 17 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.46%) GDPR
4 10 (1.45%) NIST
5 6 (0.87%) HL7
6 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.58%) NCSC
8 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.43%) SLA
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) GLBA
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 222 (32.08%) Docker
2 16 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.72%) Postfix
4 4 (0.58%) Squid
4 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.29%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.29%) HDFS
5 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 151 (21.82%) Kubernetes
2 104 (15.03%) Grafana
3 62 (8.96%) Prometheus
4 50 (7.23%) Ansible
5 17 (2.46%) Argo
6 16 (2.31%) Kibana
7 13 (1.88%) Karpenter
7 13 (1.88%) Puppet
8 11 (1.59%) Istio
9 8 (1.16%) Packer
10 6 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.72%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.43%) Control-M
13 3 (0.43%) systemd
14 2 (0.29%) Consul
14 2 (0.29%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.29%) Salt
Vendors
1 58 (8.38%) Databricks
2 56 (8.09%) Oracle
3 45 (6.50%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.19%) Informatica
5 22 (3.18%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.18%) Splunk
6 20 (2.89%) Google
7 18 (2.60%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.88%) Confluent
8 13 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.73%) Teradata
10 11 (1.59%) Denodo
11 10 (1.45%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.45%) webMethods
12 8 (1.16%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.16%) Brio
12 8 (1.16%) Foundry
12 8 (1.16%) Palantir
13 7 (1.01%) IBM
13 7 (1.01%) Jaspersoft