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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 176 228
Rank change year-on-year -4 +52 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 633 460 456
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.53% 1.52% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 4.03% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 346 363
10th Percentile £358 £402 £400
25th Percentile £413 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £788 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.20% +0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 15,579 11,410 14,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.64% 37.80% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,687 7,755 10,431
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
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 £631 £634
90th Percentile £700 £734 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £495
% change year-on-year -4.04% - -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 181 346
10th Percentile £15.30 £16.00 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.46 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.13 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.62% +26.93% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.14 £75.50 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year +86.10% +34.33% -14.29%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +9 511 £525 -4.55% 260
London +8 332 £525 -8.70% 77
UK excluding London -12 220 £475 -5.00% 201
Work from Home -13 177 £519 -0.24% 179
North of England -17 68 £500 - 53
Midlands -28 54 £500 +11.11% 26
West Midlands -20 47 £500 -9.09% 17
Scotland -23 41 £448 -9.95% 9
Yorkshire -36 33 £500 -2.44% 21
North West -17 28 £450 -5.26% 27
South East -23 24 £530 -14.34% 48
South West -8 17 £531 -11.58% 34
East of England -20 9 £475 -1.30% 26
Northern Ireland +4 8 £400 - 1
North East -10 7 £475 -22.13% 5
East Midlands -34 7 £434 -2.31% 9
Wales -3 2 £363 -9.38% 8

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 60 (9.48%) Apache Spark
2 42 (6.64%) Apache
2 42 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (4.58%) Confluence
4 10 (1.58%) nginx
5 9 (1.42%) SAS
6 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.47%) Traefik
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.95%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Actimize
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 629 (99.37%) AWS
2 396 (62.56%) Serverless
3 386 (60.98%) AWS Lambda
4 268 (42.34%) Amazon EC2
5 189 (29.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 178 (28.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 157 (24.80%) Amazon ECS
8 143 (22.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 135 (21.33%) Amazon EKS
10 124 (19.59%) GitHub
11 99 (15.64%) Azure
12 94 (14.85%) GitHub Actions
13 75 (11.85%) AWS Step Functions
14 64 (10.11%) Amazon SQS
15 58 (9.16%) Route 53
16 54 (8.53%) Snowflake
17 50 (7.90%) GCP
18 48 (7.58%) Amazon EMR
19 43 (6.79%) Amazon Kinesis
20 37 (5.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 43 (6.79%) DNS
2 37 (5.85%) Firewall
3 31 (4.90%) VPN
4 24 (3.79%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.16%) Network Security
6 13 (2.05%) SSL
7 8 (1.26%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.95%) HTTP
9 4 (0.63%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.47%) BGP
11 2 (0.32%) DHCP
11 2 (0.32%) Multicast
11 2 (0.32%) NAS
11 2 (0.32%) OSPF
11 2 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.32%) SAN
11 2 (0.32%) SMTP
11 2 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.32%) SSH
11 2 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (29.23%) Amazon RDS
2 109 (17.22%) PostgreSQL
3 96 (15.17%) Amazon Athena
4 90 (14.22%) DynamoDB
5 89 (14.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 52 (8.21%) Relational Database
7 49 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
8 47 (7.42%) Data Lake
9 44 (6.95%) Amazon Aurora
10 37 (5.85%) Power BI
11 30 (4.74%) MongoDB
11 30 (4.74%) MySQL
12 29 (4.58%) NoSQL
13 25 (3.95%) BigQuery
13 25 (3.95%) SQL Server
14 22 (3.48%) OLTP
15 21 (3.32%) Amazon QuickSight
15 21 (3.32%) Tableau
16 20 (3.16%) Metadata
16 20 (3.16%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 143 (22.59%) Jenkins
2 134 (21.17%) GitLab
3 115 (18.17%) Git
4 34 (5.37%) JIRA
5 23 (3.63%) JUnit
6 19 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 19 (3.00%) Maven
7 18 (2.84%) SonarQube
8 14 (2.21%) MLflow
9 12 (1.90%) Mockito
10 10 (1.58%) Postman
11 9 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.42%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.11%) DbUnit
12 7 (1.11%) jMock
13 6 (0.95%) Gradle
14 5 (0.79%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (0.63%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.63%) NUnit
15 4 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 167 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 104 (16.43%) Public Sector
3 101 (15.96%) Finance
4 61 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (5.53%) Banking
6 22 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.90%) Front Office
9 7 (1.11%) Military
10 5 (0.79%) Legal
11 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.47%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.32%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.32%) Publishing
14 1 (0.16%) Marketing
14 1 (0.16%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 115 (18.17%) AWS Engineer
1 115 (18.17%) Data Engineer
1 115 (18.17%) Developer
2 83 (13.11%) Senior
3 74 (11.69%) Architect
4 65 (10.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 65 (10.27%) Lead
5 47 (7.42%) Java Developer
6 39 (6.16%) AWS Architect
7 36 (5.69%) AWS Data Engineer
8 35 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
10 28 (4.42%) Analyst
10 28 (4.42%) Site Engineer
11 27 (4.27%) Python Engineer
11 27 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 26 (4.11%) Software Engineer
13 25 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
14 24 (3.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 24 (3.79%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (16.59%) Kafka
2 77 (12.16%) Spring
2 77 (12.16%) Spring Boot
3 61 (9.64%) Node.js
4 59 (9.32%) RESTful
5 58 (9.16%) REST
6 47 (7.42%) PySpark
6 47 (7.42%) React
7 46 (7.27%) AWS CDK
8 41 (6.48%) OAuth
9 34 (5.37%) AngularJS
10 25 (3.95%) JWT
11 24 (3.79%) FastAPI
12 22 (3.48%) CSS
13 21 (3.32%) boto
13 21 (3.32%) JSON
14 20 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
14 20 (3.16%) Jest
14 20 (3.16%) PyTorch
15 19 (3.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 159 (25.12%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.21%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.05%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.05%) NHS
7 10 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.42%) Replication
9 8 (1.26%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.95%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.79%) Derivative
12 5 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.79%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 79 (12.48%) Linux
2 14 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (1.58%) Unix
3 10 (1.58%) Windows
4 6 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.79%) VMS
5 5 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.32%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (59.24%) CI/CD
2 268 (42.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 261 (41.23%) DevOps
4 169 (26.70%) Agile
5 168 (26.54%) Containerisation
6 145 (22.91%) ETL
7 138 (21.80%) Analytics
8 129 (20.38%) Data Engineering
9 126 (19.91%) Data Modelling
10 124 (19.59%) Data Pipeline
11 114 (18.01%) Microservices
12 110 (17.38%) Observability
13 102 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (13.74%) AI
15 80 (12.64%) Migration
16 72 (11.37%) Performance Tuning
17 70 (11.06%) Software Engineering
18 67 (10.58%) Event-Driven
18 67 (10.58%) Machine Learning
19 65 (10.27%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 367 (57.98%) Python
2 217 (34.28%) SQL
3 120 (18.96%) Java
4 77 (12.16%) Bash
5 49 (7.74%) TypeScript
6 42 (6.64%) JavaScript
7 35 (5.53%) C#
8 26 (4.11%) Shell Script
9 25 (3.95%) PowerShell
10 22 (3.48%) Go
11 7 (1.11%) Scala
12 6 (0.95%) JSX
13 5 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.79%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.63%) Groovy
15 3 (0.47%) C
15 3 (0.47%) C++
15 3 (0.47%) Korn
16 2 (0.32%) Perl
16 2 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 206 (32.54%) Security Cleared
2 166 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 61 (9.64%) AWS Certification
4 24 (3.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (3.16%) Degree
5 20 (3.16%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.26%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.47%) OCP
10 3 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.47%) PhD
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.32%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.69%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.32%) GDPR
3 34 (5.37%) QA
4 18 (2.84%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.37%) NIST
6 14 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.42%) SLA
8 6 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.63%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.63%) NCSC
9 4 (0.63%) PMO
10 2 (0.32%) GxP
10 2 (0.32%) MiFID
10 2 (0.32%) WCAG
11 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 217 (34.28%) Docker
2 9 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.42%) Squid
3 7 (1.11%) Postfix
4 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.32%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.32%) HDFS
5 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.16%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.16%) etcd
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 309 (48.82%) Terraform
2 169 (26.70%) Kubernetes
3 99 (15.64%) Grafana
4 83 (13.11%) Ansible
5 77 (12.16%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.84%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.69%) Puppet
7 17 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.74%) Argo
9 9 (1.42%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.11%) Consul
10 7 (1.11%) Kibana
10 7 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.95%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (0.79%) Istio
13 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.47%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 68 (10.74%) Databricks
2 34 (5.37%) Microsoft
3 24 (3.79%) Google
4 23 (3.63%) Splunk
5 18 (2.84%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.53%) F5
7 15 (2.37%) Atlassian
7 15 (2.37%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.21%) CheckPoint
8 14 (2.21%) Oracle
8 14 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.74%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.58%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.42%) Confluent
12 8 (1.26%) Dell
12 8 (1.26%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.11%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.11%) Sybase
14 6 (0.95%) IBM
14 6 (0.95%) SAP