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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 173 211
Rank change year-on-year -42 +38 +55
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 695 582 455
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.75% 1.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.68% 4.59% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 420 303
10th Percentile £400 £400 £395
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 £608
90th Percentile £738 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -1.95% -3.85% -1.25%
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 18,872 12,667 13,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.19% 34.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,527 8,448 8,687
10th Percentile £325 £310 £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 633 288 184
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.43 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.60 £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 £43.84 £65.04
90th Percentile £78.95 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +46.00%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -49 570 £530 +0.95% 561
London -24 379 £598 +4.00% 354
Work from Home -33 253 £537 +6.12% 242
UK excluding London -88 227 £466 -1.95% 237
North of England -48 72 £463 -7.50% 67
Midlands -43 57 £469 -1.26% 24
West Midlands -50 46 £475 - 8
Scotland -35 40 £433 -13.50% 25
South West -11 32 £470 -14.55% 47
North West -43 30 £450 -10.00% 39
North East -22 22 £419 -1.47% 8
Yorkshire -44 20 £500 - 20
South East -69 20 £600 +44.58% 29
East Midlands -14 10 £405 -17.97% 16
East of England -47 6 £350 -41.67% 28
Wales - 3 £600 - 8
Northern Ireland +4 2 £600 +50.00% 10

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 87 (12.52%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (11.08%) Confluence
3 76 (10.94%) Apache
4 71 (10.22%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.01%) SAS
6 12 (1.73%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (1.01%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.86%) nginx
9 6 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.86%) Traefik
9 6 (0.86%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.86%) 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%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 671 (96.55%) AWS
2 421 (60.58%) Serverless
3 418 (60.14%) AWS Lambda
4 226 (32.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 226 (32.52%) Amazon EC2
5 162 (23.31%) GitHub
6 160 (23.02%) Amazon ECS
7 152 (21.87%) Amazon EKS
8 129 (18.56%) GitHub Actions
9 128 (18.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 127 (18.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 115 (16.55%) Azure
12 95 (13.67%) Amazon SQS
13 93 (13.38%) Amazon EMR
14 77 (11.08%) dbt
15 72 (10.36%) Snowflake
16 69 (9.93%) AWS Step Functions
17 63 (9.06%) Power Platform
18 55 (7.91%) Amazon EventBridge
19 53 (7.63%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.30%) Firewall
2 14 (2.01%) DNS
3 11 (1.58%) Network Security
4 6 (0.86%) HTTP
4 6 (0.86%) 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%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.29%) IMAP
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) SMTP
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (27.77%) Amazon RDS
2 135 (19.42%) Amazon Athena
3 124 (17.84%) DynamoDB
4 113 (16.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 94 (13.53%) Data Warehouse
5 94 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
6 65 (9.35%) Data Lake
7 63 (9.06%) Power BI
8 50 (7.19%) MongoDB
9 46 (6.62%) Amazon Aurora
10 44 (6.33%) Metadata
11 32 (4.60%) Big Data
12 29 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
13 28 (4.03%) NoSQL
14 27 (3.88%) SQL Server
15 25 (3.60%) MySQL
16 24 (3.45%) Tableau
17 23 (3.31%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.31%) Delta Lake
18 22 (3.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 153 (22.01%) GitLab
2 143 (20.58%) Git
3 132 (18.99%) Jenkins
4 75 (10.79%) JIRA
5 25 (3.60%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.45%) Cypress.io
6 17 (2.45%) Maven
7 16 (2.30%) SonarQube
8 14 (2.01%) JUnit
8 14 (2.01%) Mockito
9 12 (1.73%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.01%) Postman
11 6 (0.86%) Selenium
11 6 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.72%) DbUnit
13 4 (0.58%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.58%) Flyway
13 4 (0.58%) Gradle
13 4 (0.58%) jMock
General
1 171 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 152 (21.87%) Public Sector
3 126 (18.13%) Finance
4 59 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.62%) Banking
6 20 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.01%) Front Office
8 13 (1.87%) Back Office
9 12 (1.73%) Legal
10 9 (1.29%) Marketing
11 8 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.15%) Military
12 7 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.01%) Publishing
13 6 (0.86%) 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
1 170 (24.46%) Data Engineer
2 127 (18.27%) Senior
3 118 (16.98%) AWS Engineer
4 112 (16.12%) Developer
5 87 (12.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 79 (11.37%) Architect
7 77 (11.08%) Lead
8 54 (7.77%) Senior Data Engineer
9 47 (6.76%) AWS Data Engineer
10 39 (5.61%) AWS DevOps
11 36 (5.18%) AWS Architect
12 35 (5.04%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 29 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
15 27 (3.88%) Data Architect
16 25 (3.60%) AWS Developer
17 23 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
17 23 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
17 23 (3.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 23 (3.31%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (47.91%) Terraform
2 95 (13.67%) REST
3 90 (12.95%) Kafka
4 77 (11.08%) PySpark
5 58 (8.35%) Spring Boot
6 56 (8.06%) Spring
7 52 (7.48%) RESTful
8 50 (7.19%) React
9 41 (5.90%) AWS CDK
10 38 (5.47%) Node.js
11 30 (4.32%) FastAPI
11 30 (4.32%) SOAP
12 25 (3.60%) AngularJS
13 23 (3.31%) .NET
13 23 (3.31%) GraphQL
13 23 (3.31%) JSON
14 22 (3.17%) OAuth
15 19 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
16 16 (2.30%) Keycloak
17 15 (2.16%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 193 (27.77%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.50%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.73%) NHS
6 15 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.01%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.01%) Replication
7 14 (2.01%) Security Posture
8 13 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.87%) IVR
9 10 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.29%) Legacy Code
10 9 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.15%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.15%) Mainframe
12 7 (1.01%) Clustering
12 7 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 95 (13.67%) Linux
2 24 (3.45%) Windows
3 22 (3.17%) Unix
4 17 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.86%) 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
1 455 (65.47%) CI/CD
2 316 (45.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 313 (45.04%) DevOps
4 274 (39.42%) Agile
5 190 (27.34%) Data Engineering
6 186 (26.76%) Data Pipeline
7 148 (21.29%) Analytics
8 139 (20.00%) AI
9 138 (19.86%) Data Modelling
10 137 (19.71%) Observability
11 134 (19.28%) ETL
12 130 (18.71%) Containerisation
13 118 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (16.69%) Test Automation
15 115 (16.55%) Microservices
16 110 (15.83%) Migration
17 109 (15.68%) Event-Driven
18 102 (14.68%) Technical Leadership
19 93 (13.38%) Machine Learning
20 90 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 390 (56.12%) Python
2 267 (38.42%) SQL
3 113 (16.26%) Java
4 72 (10.36%) TypeScript
5 70 (10.07%) Bash
6 53 (7.63%) JavaScript
7 30 (4.32%) PowerShell
8 23 (3.31%) Scala
9 21 (3.02%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.73%) C#
11 17 (2.45%) Groovy
12 15 (2.16%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.44%) 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 (34.53%) Security Cleared
2 216 (31.08%) SC Cleared
3 97 (13.96%) AWS Certification
4 47 (6.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (5.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (4.46%) Degree
7 24 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 14 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.29%) CISM
11 9 (1.29%) CISSP
12 8 (1.15%) 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
1 129 (18.56%) Data Quality
2 51 (7.34%) QA
3 17 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.45%) GDPR
4 10 (1.44%) NIST
5 6 (0.86%) 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 (31.94%) Docker
2 16 (2.30%) 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
1 150 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 105 (15.11%) Grafana
3 62 (8.92%) Prometheus
4 50 (7.19%) Ansible
5 17 (2.45%) Argo
6 16 (2.30%) Kibana
7 13 (1.87%) Karpenter
7 13 (1.87%) Puppet
8 11 (1.58%) Istio
9 8 (1.15%) Packer
10 6 (0.86%) 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%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.29%) Salt
14 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (8.35%) Databricks
2 56 (8.06%) Oracle
3 46 (6.62%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.17%) Informatica
5 22 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.17%) Splunk
6 20 (2.88%) Google
7 18 (2.59%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.87%) Confluent
8 13 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.73%) Denodo
9 12 (1.73%) Teradata
10 10 (1.44%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.44%) webMethods
11 8 (1.15%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.15%) Brio
11 8 (1.15%) Foundry
11 8 (1.15%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.15%) Palantir
12 7 (1.01%) IBM