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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 167 233
Rank change year-on-year -24 +66 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 655 474 431
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 1.65% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.82% 4.37% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 362 333
10th Percentile £358 £400 £401
25th Percentile £449 £459 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year - +3.55% -7.82%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £699 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.38% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £46.90 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
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 17,144 10,856 13,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.68% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,542 7,455 9,874
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £620 £633
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 240 347
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.21 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.60 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% +33.83% -38.94%
75th Percentile £66.25 £48.19 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.65 £21.28 £17.72
% change year-on-year +81.60% +20.09% -29.12%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -3 563 £525 -2.28% 164
London +19 392 £550 - 73
UK excluding London -71 202 £488 -2.50% 114
Work from Home -7 191 £500 -4.76% 98
Midlands -31 63 £469 +0.43% 11
West Midlands -17 60 £469 -1.26% 9
North of England -60 53 £500 +1.27% 44
North West -36 32 £505 +6.32% 23
Scotland -40 31 £498 -0.45% 6
South East -38 29 £585 +16.42% 24
South West -19 17 £450 -18.18% 23
Yorkshire -54 13 £500 -4.76% 14
North East -23 8 £444 - 8
East of England -27 7 £425 -15.00% 2
Northern Ireland +2 3 £400 -20.00% 4
East Midlands -27 2 £441 -3.87% 2
Wales - 2 £363 - 1

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 65 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (9.31%) Apache Spark
3 50 (7.63%) Confluence
4 40 (6.11%) Apache
5 21 (3.21%) SAS
6 10 (1.53%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 649 (99.08%) AWS
2 411 (62.75%) Serverless
3 402 (61.37%) AWS Lambda
4 244 (37.25%) Amazon EC2
5 178 (27.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 143 (21.83%) Amazon ECS
7 136 (20.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 133 (20.31%) GitHub
9 126 (19.24%) Amazon EKS
10 124 (18.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 104 (15.88%) Amazon SQS
12 96 (14.66%) Azure
13 93 (14.20%) GitHub Actions
14 89 (13.59%) AWS Step Functions
15 70 (10.69%) Snowflake
16 60 (9.16%) dbt
17 57 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
18 52 (7.94%) Power Platform
19 50 (7.63%) Route 53
20 48 (7.33%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.89%) DNS
2 22 (3.36%) Firewall
3 15 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.14%) VPN
5 11 (1.68%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.37%) Network Security
7 5 (0.76%) DHCP
7 5 (0.76%) HTTP
8 4 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.46%) BGP
9 3 (0.46%) Internet
9 3 (0.46%) NAS
9 3 (0.46%) OSPF
9 3 (0.46%) SAN
9 3 (0.46%) SSL
9 3 (0.46%) WAN
10 2 (0.31%) CTI
10 2 (0.31%) Multicast
10 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (24.43%) Amazon RDS
2 124 (18.93%) Amazon Athena
3 115 (17.56%) DynamoDB
4 96 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (14.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 56 (8.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 52 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (7.94%) Power BI
8 49 (7.48%) Data Lake
9 37 (5.65%) NoSQL
10 35 (5.34%) Relational Database
11 32 (4.89%) Metadata
12 30 (4.58%) Tableau
13 28 (4.27%) SQL Server
14 27 (4.12%) Big Data
15 25 (3.82%) MongoDB
16 24 (3.66%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.51%) Apache Iceberg
18 22 (3.36%) OLTP
19 21 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 138 (21.07%) Jenkins
2 128 (19.54%) Git
3 125 (19.08%) GitLab
4 66 (10.08%) JIRA
5 32 (4.89%) SonarQube
6 30 (4.58%) JUnit
7 26 (3.97%) Bitbucket
8 25 (3.82%) Maven
9 23 (3.51%) Mockito
10 14 (2.14%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.14%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.98%) jMock
12 11 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.53%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.22%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.22%) Postman
15 7 (1.07%) MLflow
16 6 (0.92%) Selenium
17 4 (0.61%) NUnit
17 4 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 166 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 113 (17.25%) Finance
3 110 (16.79%) Public Sector
4 64 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (4.89%) Banking
6 21 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.83%) Front Office
9 6 (0.92%) Legal
10 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.76%) Military
11 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.46%) Billing
12 3 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.46%) Retail
12 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.31%) Back Office
13 2 (0.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 151 (23.05%) Data Engineer
2 139 (21.22%) Developer
3 101 (15.42%) AWS Engineer
4 82 (12.52%) Senior
5 79 (12.06%) Architect
6 73 (11.15%) Lead
7 48 (7.33%) Java Developer
8 43 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 39 (5.95%) AWS Architect
10 37 (5.65%) AWS Data Engineer
11 35 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.73%) AWS Developer
12 31 (4.73%) Senior Data Engineer
13 27 (4.12%) Software Engineer
14 25 (3.82%) Data Architect
14 25 (3.82%) Python Engineer
15 24 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
15 24 (3.66%) Lead Data Engineer
16 22 (3.36%) Analyst
16 22 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (15.57%) Kafka
2 81 (12.37%) Spring
2 81 (12.37%) Spring Boot
3 69 (10.53%) REST
4 65 (9.92%) RESTful
5 57 (8.70%) Node.js
5 57 (8.70%) React
6 56 (8.55%) PySpark
7 44 (6.72%) AWS CDK
8 40 (6.11%) AngularJS
9 34 (5.19%) OAuth
10 28 (4.27%) FastAPI
10 28 (4.27%) SOAP
11 26 (3.97%) Pandas
12 24 (3.66%) JPA
12 24 (3.66%) OpenID
12 24 (3.66%) PyTorch
13 23 (3.51%) Hibernate
13 23 (3.51%) Web Services
14 21 (3.21%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 163 (24.89%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 43 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.44%) NHS
5 14 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.07%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.07%) Hedge funds
8 7 (1.07%) Mainframe
9 6 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (0.92%) PACS
9 6 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (0.76%) Legacy Code
10 5 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 80 (12.21%) Linux
2 21 (3.21%) Unix
3 13 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.53%) Windows
5 6 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.31%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (57.56%) CI/CD
2 270 (41.22%) DevOps
3 236 (36.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 207 (31.60%) Agile
5 152 (23.21%) Analytics
6 145 (22.14%) Data Engineering
7 144 (21.98%) ETL
8 142 (21.68%) Containerisation
9 134 (20.46%) Data Modelling
9 134 (20.46%) Data Pipeline
10 114 (17.40%) Microservices
11 104 (15.88%) AI
12 100 (15.27%) Observability
13 88 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (12.82%) Migration
15 80 (12.21%) Scrum
15 80 (12.21%) Test Automation
16 79 (12.06%) Event-Driven
17 74 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
18 71 (10.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 353 (53.89%) Python
2 241 (36.79%) SQL
3 139 (21.22%) Java
4 64 (9.77%) TypeScript
5 53 (8.09%) C#
6 48 (7.33%) JavaScript
7 46 (7.02%) Bash
8 30 (4.58%) PowerShell
9 26 (3.97%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.36%) Scala
11 9 (1.37%) Go
11 9 (1.37%) Groovy
12 6 (0.92%) Bicep
12 6 (0.92%) SAS Macro
13 4 (0.61%) Perl
13 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.46%) R
15 2 (0.31%) C++
15 2 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 207 (31.60%) Security Cleared
2 173 (26.41%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.80%) AWS Certification
4 19 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.60%) Degree
6 13 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.53%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.07%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.46%) OCP
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (12.52%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.58%) QA
3 25 (3.82%) GDPR
4 14 (2.14%) SLA
5 8 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.22%) NIST
6 7 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.07%) PMO
7 6 (0.92%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.31%) GRC
9 2 (0.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 201 (30.69%) Docker
2 13 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.68%) Postfix
3 11 (1.68%) Squid
4 6 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.46%) HDFS
5 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 281 (42.90%) Terraform
2 138 (21.07%) Kubernetes
3 99 (15.11%) Grafana
4 61 (9.31%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.50%) Ansible
6 18 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.83%) Kibana
8 10 (1.53%) Puppet
9 9 (1.37%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.22%) Consul
11 6 (0.92%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.76%) Argo
13 4 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.61%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.61%) Salt
14 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.46%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.46%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.46%) Packer
14 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 61 (9.31%) Databricks
2 33 (5.04%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.58%) Splunk
4 27 (4.12%) Google
5 23 (3.51%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.60%) Jaspersoft
6 17 (2.60%) Oracle
7 16 (2.44%) Red Hat
8 15 (2.29%) Informatica
8 15 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.68%) Denodo
10 10 (1.53%) Teradata
11 9 (1.37%) Confluent
12 8 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.92%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.92%) IBM
13 6 (0.92%) SAP
14 5 (0.76%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.76%) Tenable