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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 176 243
Rank change year-on-year -4 +67 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 596 478 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.57% 1.52% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.14% 4.12% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 345 357
10th Percentile £394 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £614 £613
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

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 14,396 11,613 14,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.00% 36.82% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,943 7,714 10,676
10th Percentile £306 £313 £285
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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 167 305
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.86
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.64% +7.71%
75th Percentile £58.68 £43.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.75 £25.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +11.00% +19.05% +7.69%

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 25 January 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
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 25 January 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 +7 476 £525 -4.55% 288
London +12 323 £530 -3.64% 70
UK excluding London -33 191 £500 - 251
Work from Home -19 157 £550 +5.77% 191
North of England -31 59 £500 - 49
Midlands -24 40 £500 +11.11% 26
Scotland -27 37 £500 +1.01% 10
Yorkshire -22 33 £500 -4.76% 24
West Midlands -25 33 £525 -4.55% 12
South East -8 23 £528 -17.25% 76
North West -28 19 £463 -2.63% 18
South West -4 17 £625 +13.55% 32
Northern Ireland +4 9 £400 - 8
East of England -13 8 £650 +30.00% 43
North East -11 7 £425 -30.33% 7
East Midlands -26 7 £417 -6.02% 13
Wales -3 1 £475 +18.75% 14

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 47 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (7.72%) Apache Spark
3 37 (6.21%) Apache
4 27 (4.53%) Confluence
5 13 (2.18%) nginx
6 5 (0.84%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.50%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.01%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 593 (99.50%) AWS
2 365 (61.24%) Serverless
3 359 (60.23%) AWS Lambda
4 241 (40.44%) Amazon EC2
5 185 (31.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 168 (28.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 148 (24.83%) Amazon ECS
8 142 (23.83%) GitHub
9 136 (22.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 122 (20.47%) Amazon EKS
11 109 (18.29%) GitHub Actions
12 98 (16.44%) Azure
13 70 (11.74%) AWS Step Functions
14 53 (8.89%) Amazon Kinesis
15 50 (8.39%) Route 53
16 45 (7.55%) Snowflake
17 44 (7.38%) GCP
18 41 (6.88%) Amazon ELB
19 40 (6.71%) Amazon SQS
20 38 (6.38%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 57 (9.56%) DNS
2 54 (9.06%) Firewall
3 39 (6.54%) VPN
4 30 (5.03%) TCP/IP
5 26 (4.36%) Network Security
6 22 (3.69%) SSL
7 14 (2.35%) HTTP
8 12 (2.01%) FTP
8 12 (2.01%) SMTP
8 12 (2.01%) SSH
9 8 (1.34%) IMAP
9 8 (1.34%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (0.84%) OpenVPN
11 4 (0.67%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.67%) NAS
12 3 (0.50%) BGP
13 2 (0.34%) Calico
13 2 (0.34%) Multicast
13 2 (0.34%) OSPF
13 2 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (29.70%) Amazon RDS
2 104 (17.45%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (14.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 84 (14.09%) Amazon Athena
5 80 (13.42%) DynamoDB
6 47 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
6 47 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (7.21%) Relational Database
8 42 (7.05%) Data Lake
9 30 (5.03%) MySQL
10 29 (4.87%) MongoDB
11 28 (4.70%) Amazon QuickSight
12 25 (4.19%) Power BI
13 20 (3.36%) NoSQL
14 19 (3.19%) OLTP
14 19 (3.19%) SQL Server
15 17 (2.85%) Apache Iceberg
15 17 (2.85%) BigQuery
15 17 (2.85%) OLAP
15 17 (2.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 146 (24.50%) Jenkins
2 130 (21.81%) GitLab
3 116 (19.46%) Git
4 36 (6.04%) JIRA
5 13 (2.18%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.01%) MLflow
6 12 (2.01%) Vagrant
7 11 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.68%) Postman
9 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.34%) JUnit
10 7 (1.17%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.84%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.84%) Maven
12 4 (0.67%) NUnit
12 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.50%) Gradle
13 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.34%) Storybook
14 2 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 149 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 97 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 88 (14.77%) Finance
4 57 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.70%) Banking
6 18 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.85%) Front Office
9 9 (1.51%) Military
10 6 (1.01%) Legal
11 3 (0.50%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.34%) Marketing
12 2 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.34%) Publishing
12 2 (0.34%) Retail
13 1 (0.17%) Advertising
13 1 (0.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 127 (21.31%) AWS Engineer
2 112 (18.79%) Data Engineer
3 94 (15.77%) Senior
4 88 (14.77%) Developer
5 77 (12.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 72 (12.08%) Architect
7 44 (7.38%) Lead
8 42 (7.05%) Platform Engineer
9 36 (6.04%) AWS Architect
10 35 (5.87%) AWS DevOps
11 34 (5.70%) AWS Data Engineer
11 34 (5.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 31 (5.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 29 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 29 (4.87%) Software Engineer
14 28 (4.70%) Java Developer
15 27 (4.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 27 (4.53%) Data Architect
16 26 (4.36%) Site Engineer
17 25 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (16.28%) Kafka
2 54 (9.06%) Node.js
3 50 (8.39%) React
3 50 (8.39%) REST
3 50 (8.39%) Spring
3 50 (8.39%) Spring Boot
4 46 (7.72%) AWS CDK
4 46 (7.72%) RESTful
5 35 (5.87%) OAuth
5 35 (5.87%) PySpark
6 26 (4.36%) AngularJS
7 24 (4.03%) CSS
7 24 (4.03%) FastAPI
8 22 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (3.52%) JSON
9 21 (3.52%) JWT
10 18 (3.02%) boto
11 17 (2.85%) Jest
11 17 (2.85%) Pandas
12 16 (2.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (23.83%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.19%) Replication
4 18 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.68%) NHS
7 10 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.84%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.84%) Derivative
12 5 (0.84%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.84%) SCADA
12 5 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (13.93%) Linux
2 21 (3.52%) Windows
3 16 (2.68%) VMS
4 15 (2.52%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (2.52%) Unix
5 14 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.51%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.17%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (60.74%) CI/CD
2 264 (44.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 245 (41.11%) DevOps
4 154 (25.84%) Containerisation
5 148 (24.83%) Agile
6 121 (20.30%) ETL
7 119 (19.97%) Data Pipeline
8 107 (17.95%) Data Modelling
9 105 (17.62%) Analytics
10 103 (17.28%) Data Engineering
11 98 (16.44%) Microservices
12 91 (15.27%) Observability
13 90 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
14 80 (13.42%) AI
15 74 (12.42%) Software Engineering
16 72 (12.08%) Event-Driven
17 65 (10.91%) Migration
18 59 (9.90%) Data Governance
18 59 (9.90%) Performance Tuning
19 58 (9.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 367 (61.58%) Python
2 193 (32.38%) SQL
3 102 (17.11%) Java
4 85 (14.26%) Bash
5 55 (9.23%) TypeScript
6 45 (7.55%) JavaScript
7 37 (6.21%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.87%) C#
9 25 (4.19%) Shell Script
10 24 (4.03%) Go
11 14 (2.35%) Groovy
12 11 (1.85%) Perl
13 9 (1.51%) Scala
14 7 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.01%) JSX
16 5 (0.84%) Korn
17 4 (0.67%) Bicep
17 4 (0.67%) C
18 3 (0.50%) C++
19 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 194 (32.55%) Security Cleared
2 159 (26.68%) SC Cleared
3 59 (9.90%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.53%) Degree
5 24 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.01%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.50%) MCP
10 3 (0.50%) OCP
10 3 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.50%) PhD
11 2 (0.34%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.90%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.54%) GDPR
3 33 (5.54%) QA
4 17 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.52%) NIST
6 14 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.67%) NCSC
9 3 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.34%) GxP
10 2 (0.34%) MiFID
10 2 (0.34%) SLA
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 228 (38.26%) Docker
2 13 (2.18%) Squid
3 12 (2.01%) DFS Replication
4 11 (1.85%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.34%) Dovecot
5 8 (1.34%) Postfix
6 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.50%) KVM
8 2 (0.34%) HDFS
8 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.17%) etcd
9 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 321 (53.86%) Terraform
2 168 (28.19%) Kubernetes
3 96 (16.11%) Grafana
4 91 (15.27%) Ansible
5 78 (13.09%) Prometheus
6 20 (3.36%) Puppet
7 19 (3.19%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
9 10 (1.68%) Argo
9 10 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.34%) Nessus
10 8 (1.34%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.17%) Kibana
12 6 (1.01%) FortiGate
12 6 (1.01%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.84%) Consul
13 5 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.84%) Istio
14 4 (0.67%) NetBackup
15 3 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 48 (8.05%) Databricks
2 35 (5.87%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.19%) F5
4 24 (4.03%) Palo Alto
5 23 (3.86%) CheckPoint
5 23 (3.86%) Splunk
6 19 (3.19%) Red Hat
7 18 (3.02%) Google
7 18 (3.02%) Oracle
8 14 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.51%) Confluent
10 8 (1.34%) Dell
10 8 (1.34%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.34%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.34%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.17%) Commvault
12 6 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.01%) SAP
13 5 (0.84%) AVEVA
13 5 (0.84%) Sybase