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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 164 227
Rank change year-on-year -27 +63 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 702 504 452
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.72% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.00% 4.53% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 373 345
10th Percentile £373 £400 £400
25th Percentile £440 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.60% +0.60%
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 17,544 11,129 14,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.89% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 7,531 9,982
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.79% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 270 357
10th Percentile £15.91 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.06 £19.14 £19.09
% change year-on-year +93.68% +0.26% -30.60%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -16 598 £525 - 143
London -1 410 £550 - 67
Work from Home -7 223 £500 -4.76% 91
UK excluding London -54 221 £475 -5.00% 92
Midlands -31 67 £469 -1.26% 8
West Midlands -20 62 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -64 57 £488 -2.50% 36
Scotland -31 36 £450 -10.10% 2
North West -37 30 £525 +10.53% 18
South East -58 28 £585 +30.00% 20
South West -9 24 £463 -15.91% 22
North East -10 14 £419 - 5
Yorkshire -59 13 £500 -4.76% 13
East of England -30 7 £425 -15.00% 2
East Midlands -29 4 £425 -6.54% 2
Northern Ireland +5 3 £400 -20.00% 1
Wales - 3 £475 - 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 79 (11.25%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (9.26%) Apache Spark
3 61 (8.69%) Confluence
4 47 (6.70%) Apache
5 21 (2.99%) SAS
6 10 (1.42%) nginx
7 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 695 (99.00%) AWS
2 453 (64.53%) Serverless
3 448 (63.82%) AWS Lambda
4 251 (35.75%) Amazon EC2
5 195 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 149 (21.23%) Amazon ECS
7 140 (19.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 136 (19.37%) Amazon EKS
9 133 (18.95%) GitHub
10 130 (18.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 109 (15.53%) Amazon SQS
12 98 (13.96%) Azure
13 95 (13.53%) GitHub Actions
14 84 (11.97%) AWS Step Functions
15 79 (11.25%) Snowflake
16 76 (10.83%) Amazon EMR
17 69 (9.83%) dbt
18 57 (8.12%) Power Platform
19 51 (7.26%) Route 53
20 50 (7.12%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.13%) DNS
2 23 (3.28%) Firewall
3 15 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.85%) VPN
5 11 (1.57%) OpenVPN
6 10 (1.42%) Network Security
7 5 (0.71%) HTTP
8 4 (0.57%) DHCP
8 4 (0.57%) Internet
8 4 (0.57%) NAS
8 4 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.57%) SAN
8 4 (0.57%) SSL
8 4 (0.57%) WAN
9 3 (0.43%) BGP
9 3 (0.43%) CTI
9 3 (0.43%) OSPF
10 2 (0.28%) Multicast
10 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (23.93%) Amazon RDS
2 146 (20.80%) Amazon Athena
3 122 (17.38%) DynamoDB
4 118 (16.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 96 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
6 68 (9.69%) Data Warehouse
7 59 (8.40%) Data Lake
8 57 (8.12%) Power BI
9 53 (7.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (5.41%) NoSQL
11 33 (4.70%) Metadata
12 32 (4.56%) Tableau
13 31 (4.42%) Relational Database
14 29 (4.13%) Big Data
15 26 (3.70%) MongoDB
16 25 (3.56%) SQL Server
17 24 (3.42%) BigQuery
18 23 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
19 21 (2.99%) Snowflake Schema
20 19 (2.71%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 140 (19.94%) GitLab
2 137 (19.52%) Git
3 136 (19.37%) Jenkins
4 74 (10.54%) JIRA
5 31 (4.42%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.13%) JUnit
7 27 (3.85%) Bitbucket
8 23 (3.28%) Maven
8 23 (3.28%) Mockito
9 15 (2.14%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.99%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.85%) jMock
12 11 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.42%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.14%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.14%) Postman
15 6 (0.85%) MLflow
16 4 (0.57%) Selenium
17 3 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 3 (0.43%) Gradle
General
1 180 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 134 (19.09%) Public Sector
3 115 (16.38%) Finance
4 65 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.13%) Banking
6 23 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.42%) Front Office
9 8 (1.14%) Military
10 6 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.85%) Law
10 6 (0.85%) Legal
11 4 (0.57%) Marketing
11 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.43%) Back Office
12 3 (0.43%) Billing
12 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 172 (24.50%) Data Engineer
2 139 (19.80%) Developer
3 130 (18.52%) AWS Engineer
4 88 (12.54%) Senior
5 84 (11.97%) Architect
6 78 (11.11%) Lead
7 54 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (6.70%) Java Developer
9 46 (6.55%) AWS Data Engineer
10 42 (5.98%) AWS Architect
11 39 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (4.70%) AWS Developer
12 33 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
13 32 (4.56%) Senior Data Engineer
14 28 (3.99%) Software Engineer
15 27 (3.85%) Python Engineer
16 26 (3.70%) Data Architect
17 25 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 24 (3.42%) Lead Data Engineer
19 23 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (13.39%) Kafka
2 72 (10.26%) REST
2 72 (10.26%) Spring
2 72 (10.26%) Spring Boot
3 71 (10.11%) PySpark
4 60 (8.55%) RESTful
5 59 (8.40%) React
6 52 (7.41%) Node.js
7 50 (7.12%) AWS CDK
8 34 (4.84%) AngularJS
9 32 (4.56%) OAuth
10 30 (4.27%) FastAPI
11 29 (4.13%) SOAP
12 25 (3.56%) JPA
13 24 (3.42%) OpenID
13 24 (3.42%) PyTorch
14 23 (3.28%) Hibernate
14 23 (3.28%) Pandas
14 23 (3.28%) Web Services
15 21 (2.99%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 186 (26.50%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 47 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.28%) NHS
5 11 (1.57%) Data Structures
5 11 (1.57%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.14%) Legacy Code
8 7 (1.00%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.00%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (1.00%) Hedge funds
8 7 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.85%) Mainframe
9 6 (0.85%) PACS
9 6 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 6 (0.85%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 80 (11.40%) Linux
2 20 (2.85%) Unix
3 11 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.28%) Windows
5 5 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (58.83%) CI/CD
2 284 (40.46%) DevOps
3 253 (36.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 223 (31.77%) Agile
5 170 (24.22%) Analytics
6 167 (23.79%) Data Engineering
7 163 (23.22%) Data Pipeline
8 152 (21.65%) ETL
9 150 (21.37%) Containerisation
10 138 (19.66%) Data Modelling
11 129 (18.38%) AI
12 121 (17.24%) Microservices
13 106 (15.10%) Observability
14 92 (13.11%) Machine Learning
15 90 (12.82%) Migration
16 89 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
17 87 (12.39%) Test Automation
18 86 (12.25%) Scrum
19 85 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
20 84 (11.97%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 392 (55.84%) Python
2 266 (37.89%) SQL
3 133 (18.95%) Java
4 65 (9.26%) TypeScript
5 51 (7.26%) JavaScript
6 49 (6.98%) Bash
7 45 (6.41%) C#
8 31 (4.42%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.13%) Scala
10 21 (2.99%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.14%) Groovy
12 6 (0.85%) Bicep
12 6 (0.85%) Go
12 6 (0.85%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.57%) Perl
15 3 (0.43%) C
15 3 (0.43%) R
16 2 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 224 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 189 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 28 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (2.42%) Degree
7 14 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.57%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.43%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.28%) CSPO
14 2 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (14.25%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.27%) QA
3 21 (2.99%) GDPR
4 14 (1.99%) SLA
5 8 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.00%) NIST
6 7 (1.00%) PMO
7 6 (0.85%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.43%) NCSC
9 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 200 (28.49%) Docker
2 14 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.71%) Squid
4 11 (1.57%) Postfix
5 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 313 (44.59%) Terraform
2 140 (19.94%) Kubernetes
3 92 (13.11%) Grafana
4 63 (8.97%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.56%) Ansible
6 18 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.28%) FortiGate
7 9 (1.28%) Kibana
7 9 (1.28%) Puppet
8 8 (1.14%) Consul
9 7 (1.00%) Argo
10 6 (0.85%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.71%) Salt
12 4 (0.57%) Istio
12 4 (0.57%) Packer
13 2 (0.28%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 66 (9.40%) Databricks
2 29 (4.13%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.70%) Google
3 26 (3.70%) Splunk
4 23 (3.28%) Atlassian
5 20 (2.85%) Dynatrace
5 20 (2.85%) Informatica
5 20 (2.85%) Oracle
6 19 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.42%) Jaspersoft
8 13 (1.85%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.57%) Denodo
9 11 (1.57%) Teradata
10 10 (1.42%) Confluent
11 9 (1.28%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.85%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.85%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.71%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.71%) SAP
13 5 (0.71%) Tenable