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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 162 233
Rank change year-on-year -29 +71 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 732 528 453
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.72% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.03% 4.55% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 392 336
10th Percentile £380 £400 £391
25th Percentile £440 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -7.19%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 18,185 11,614 14,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.38% 37.76% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,100 7,779 9,953
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £622 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 295 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.26 £14.09
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.49 £72.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.87
% change year-on-year +102.70% -9.58% -18.87%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -13 614 £525 -0.94% 189
London +6 413 £550 -4.35% 103
Work from Home -10 253 £500 -4.76% 99
UK excluding London -61 236 £475 -5.00% 117
Midlands -25 70 £469 -1.26% 18
West Midlands -18 65 £469 -1.26% 10
North of England -64 62 £500 +1.27% 30
Scotland -24 41 £465 -6.95% 6
North West -35 32 £525 +10.53% 15
South East -52 29 £580 +28.89% 28
South West -16 25 £456 -17.05% 23
North East -20 15 £425 -5.56% 5
Yorkshire -55 15 £500 -4.76% 10
East of England -29 8 £400 -27.27% 2
East Midlands -14 4 £425 -6.54% 8
Wales - 4 £575 - 7
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 3

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 85 (11.61%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (10.11%) Confluence
3 65 (8.88%) Apache Spark
4 49 (6.69%) Apache
5 22 (3.01%) SAS
6 11 (1.50%) nginx
7 9 (1.23%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.96%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 722 (98.63%) AWS
2 464 (63.39%) Serverless
3 458 (62.57%) AWS Lambda
4 271 (37.02%) Amazon EC2
5 210 (28.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 158 (21.58%) Amazon ECS
7 144 (19.67%) GitHub
8 141 (19.26%) Amazon EKS
9 140 (19.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 139 (18.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 106 (14.48%) Amazon SQS
12 105 (14.34%) Azure
13 104 (14.21%) GitHub Actions
14 89 (12.16%) Amazon EMR
15 85 (11.61%) Snowflake
16 81 (11.07%) dbt
17 75 (10.25%) AWS Step Functions
18 65 (8.88%) Power Platform
19 54 (7.38%) AWS KMS
20 48 (6.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.42%) DNS
1 25 (3.42%) Firewall
2 15 (2.05%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.78%) VPN
4 11 (1.50%) Network Security
4 11 (1.50%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.82%) WAN
6 5 (0.68%) HTTP
7 4 (0.55%) DHCP
7 4 (0.55%) Internet
7 4 (0.55%) NAS
7 4 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.55%) SAN
7 4 (0.55%) SSL
8 3 (0.41%) BGP
8 3 (0.41%) CTI
8 3 (0.41%) OSPF
9 2 (0.27%) Multicast
9 2 (0.27%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (24.04%) Amazon RDS
2 149 (20.36%) Amazon Athena
3 128 (17.49%) Amazon Redshift
4 122 (16.67%) DynamoDB
5 97 (13.25%) PostgreSQL
6 80 (10.93%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (8.88%) Power BI
8 59 (8.06%) Data Lake
9 47 (6.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 37 (5.05%) Metadata
11 36 (4.92%) NoSQL
11 36 (4.92%) Relational Database
12 33 (4.51%) MongoDB
13 32 (4.37%) Big Data
14 31 (4.23%) Tableau
15 25 (3.42%) BigQuery
16 24 (3.28%) SQL Server
17 21 (2.87%) Apache Iceberg
17 21 (2.87%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (2.46%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 150 (20.49%) Git
2 146 (19.95%) GitLab
3 142 (19.40%) Jenkins
4 90 (12.30%) JIRA
5 31 (4.23%) SonarQube
6 30 (4.10%) JUnit
7 28 (3.83%) Bitbucket
8 24 (3.28%) Mockito
9 23 (3.14%) Maven
10 15 (2.05%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.91%) DbUnit
12 13 (1.78%) jMock
13 11 (1.50%) Artifactory
13 11 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (1.09%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.09%) Postman
15 6 (0.82%) MLflow
16 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.55%) Selenium
17 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 185 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 149 (20.36%) Public Sector
3 123 (16.80%) Finance
4 65 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.60%) Banking
6 22 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.50%) Front Office
9 7 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.82%) Law
10 6 (0.82%) Legal
10 6 (0.82%) Military
11 5 (0.68%) Marketing
12 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.55%) Retail
12 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Billing
13 3 (0.41%) Games
13 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 177 (24.18%) Data Engineer
2 137 (18.72%) Developer
3 136 (18.58%) AWS Engineer
4 103 (14.07%) Senior
5 87 (11.89%) Architect
6 83 (11.34%) Lead
7 62 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.56%) AWS Data Engineer
8 48 (6.56%) Java Developer
9 44 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 40 (5.46%) AWS Architect
11 39 (5.33%) Senior Data Engineer
12 37 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
13 32 (4.37%) AWS Developer
14 28 (3.83%) Software Engineer
15 27 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
16 25 (3.42%) Python Engineer
17 23 (3.14%) Data Architect
17 23 (3.14%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (12.30%) Kafka
2 81 (11.07%) PySpark
3 71 (9.70%) REST
3 71 (9.70%) Spring
3 71 (9.70%) Spring Boot
4 61 (8.33%) React
5 60 (8.20%) RESTful
6 56 (7.65%) Node.js
7 51 (6.97%) AWS CDK
8 32 (4.37%) SOAP
9 29 (3.96%) FastAPI
10 28 (3.83%) AngularJS
11 27 (3.69%) OAuth
12 24 (3.28%) PyTorch
13 23 (3.14%) Web Services
14 22 (3.01%) JPA
14 22 (3.01%) Pandas
15 21 (2.87%) JSON
15 21 (2.87%) OpenID
16 20 (2.73%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 187 (25.55%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 47 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.73%) NHS
5 17 (2.32%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.64%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.09%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
10 7 (0.96%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (0.96%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.96%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.82%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 89 (12.16%) Linux
2 20 (2.73%) Unix
3 17 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.05%) Windows
5 5 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 2 (0.27%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (60.25%) CI/CD
2 305 (41.67%) DevOps
3 269 (36.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 242 (33.06%) Agile
5 179 (24.45%) Data Engineering
6 175 (23.91%) Analytics
7 170 (23.22%) Data Pipeline
8 153 (20.90%) Containerisation
9 152 (20.77%) ETL
10 143 (19.54%) AI
11 139 (18.99%) Data Modelling
12 126 (17.21%) Microservices
13 103 (14.07%) Machine Learning
14 102 (13.93%) Observability
15 99 (13.52%) Migration
16 92 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
16 92 (12.57%) Test Automation
17 90 (12.30%) Business Intelligence
18 89 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
19 85 (11.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 408 (55.74%) Python
2 267 (36.48%) SQL
3 135 (18.44%) Java
4 72 (9.84%) TypeScript
5 57 (7.79%) Bash
6 53 (7.24%) JavaScript
7 45 (6.15%) C#
8 31 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.14%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.01%) Scala
11 8 (1.09%) Groovy
12 6 (0.82%) Bicep
12 6 (0.82%) Go
12 6 (0.82%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.68%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.55%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.55%) Perl
15 3 (0.41%) C
15 3 (0.41%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 234 (31.97%) Security Cleared
2 201 (27.46%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 33 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.60%) Degree
7 18 (2.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 13 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.50%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.37%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.41%) CSPO
13 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (15.57%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.55%) QA
3 22 (3.01%) GDPR
4 14 (1.91%) SLA
5 9 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.96%) PMO
7 4 (0.55%) HL7
7 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
8 3 (0.41%) NIST
8 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 209 (28.55%) Docker
2 15 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.64%) Squid
4 11 (1.50%) Postfix
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 326 (44.54%) Terraform
2 146 (19.95%) Kubernetes
3 96 (13.11%) Grafana
4 66 (9.02%) Prometheus
5 46 (6.28%) Ansible
6 16 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.64%) Puppet
8 9 (1.23%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.23%) Kibana
9 8 (1.09%) Consul
10 7 (0.96%) Packer
11 6 (0.82%) Argo
11 6 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.82%) Salt
12 5 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.55%) Istio
13 4 (0.55%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 67 (9.15%) Databricks
2 32 (4.37%) Microsoft
3 29 (3.96%) Informatica
4 25 (3.42%) Splunk
5 24 (3.28%) Google
6 23 (3.14%) Atlassian
7 21 (2.87%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.87%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.60%) Oracle
9 17 (2.32%) Jaspersoft
10 15 (2.05%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.64%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.64%) Teradata
12 11 (1.50%) Denodo
13 8 (1.09%) IBM
13 8 (1.09%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.96%) Foundry
14 7 (0.96%) Palantir
15 6 (0.82%) Ab Initio
15 6 (0.82%) AVEVA