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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 162 211
Rank change year-on-year -52 +49 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 707 585 444
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.78% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 4.71% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 429 298
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £435 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £608
90th Percentile £738 £688 £754
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £491
% change year-on-year -7.50% +1.83% -1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £32.80 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.86% - -
75th Percentile £72.83 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.93 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.58 - -

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 18,909 12,423 13,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.64% 37.76% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,539 8,291 8,880
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 293 195
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +66.06% -35.77% +14.29%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -44 581 £525 - 541
London -16 394 £575 - 339
Work from Home -37 248 £525 - 250
UK excluding London -93 226 £463 -7.50% 254
North of England -59 66 £463 -7.50% 76
Midlands -48 60 £459 -3.37% 25
West Midlands -50 49 £469 -1.26% 11
Scotland -29 42 £444 -13.41% 24
South West -21 29 £456 -16.48% 42
North West -51 26 £475 - 43
North East -24 21 £425 -2.86% 14
South East -63 21 £575 +35.29% 36
Yorkshire -53 19 £500 -4.76% 19
East Midlands -14 10 £405 -17.97% 14
East of England -44 8 £375 -31.82% 28
Wales - 3 £600 - 7
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 16

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 92 (13.01%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (9.90%) Confluence
3 66 (9.34%) Apache
4 65 (9.19%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.26%) SAS
6 13 (1.84%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.13%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.85%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.85%) WebLogic Portal
9 5 (0.71%) nginx
10 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.28%) CMS
13 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.14%) Mule
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 689 (97.45%) AWS
2 445 (62.94%) Serverless
3 442 (62.52%) AWS Lambda
4 235 (33.24%) Amazon EC2
5 228 (32.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 162 (22.91%) GitHub
7 149 (21.07%) Amazon ECS
8 139 (19.66%) Amazon EKS
9 132 (18.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 128 (18.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 125 (17.68%) GitHub Actions
12 111 (15.70%) Azure
13 96 (13.58%) Amazon SQS
14 95 (13.44%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.32%) dbt
16 78 (11.03%) AWS Step Functions
17 73 (10.33%) Snowflake
18 63 (8.91%) Power Platform
19 55 (7.78%) Amazon EventBridge
20 54 (7.64%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.55%) Firewall
2 16 (2.26%) DNS
3 9 (1.27%) Network Security
4 7 (0.99%) HTTP
4 7 (0.99%) SSL
5 6 (0.85%) CTI
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) SAN
6 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.57%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.42%) Internet
7 3 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.28%) IMAP
8 2 (0.28%) NAS
8 2 (0.28%) SMTP
8 2 (0.28%) SSH
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (26.45%) Amazon RDS
2 147 (20.79%) Amazon Athena
3 132 (18.67%) DynamoDB
4 114 (16.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 95 (13.44%) Data Warehouse
5 95 (13.44%) PostgreSQL
6 63 (8.91%) Data Lake
6 63 (8.91%) Power BI
7 46 (6.51%) Amazon Aurora
8 44 (6.22%) MongoDB
9 43 (6.08%) Metadata
10 32 (4.53%) Big Data
11 31 (4.38%) Tableau
12 28 (3.96%) NoSQL
13 25 (3.54%) Relational Database
14 24 (3.39%) Apache Iceberg
15 23 (3.25%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.25%) Delta Lake
16 21 (2.97%) SQL Server
17 20 (2.83%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 146 (20.65%) GitLab
2 143 (20.23%) Git
3 127 (17.96%) Jenkins
4 70 (9.90%) JIRA
5 25 (3.54%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.83%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.69%) SonarQube
8 18 (2.55%) Maven
9 16 (2.26%) JUnit
9 16 (2.26%) Mockito
10 9 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.99%) DbUnit
12 6 (0.85%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (0.85%) jMock
12 6 (0.85%) Postman
12 6 (0.85%) Selenium
12 6 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.57%) Flyway
General
1 172 (24.33%) Social Skills
2 151 (21.36%) Public Sector
3 131 (18.53%) Finance
4 65 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.65%) Banking
6 17 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.12%) Front Office
8 12 (1.70%) Back Office
8 12 (1.70%) Legal
9 10 (1.41%) Military
10 9 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.99%) Law
12 7 (0.99%) Marketing
12 7 (0.99%) Publishing
13 4 (0.57%) Billing
13 4 (0.57%) Local Government
13 4 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.57%) Retail
14 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (24.19%) Data Engineer
2 127 (17.96%) Senior
3 120 (16.97%) AWS Engineer
3 120 (16.97%) Developer
4 82 (11.60%) Architect
5 81 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 79 (11.17%) Lead
7 55 (7.78%) Senior Data Engineer
8 47 (6.65%) AWS Data Engineer
9 37 (5.23%) AWS DevOps
10 35 (4.95%) Java Developer
11 34 (4.81%) AWS Architect
12 33 (4.67%) AWS Developer
13 32 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
14 30 (4.24%) Data Architect
15 29 (4.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 24 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
17 23 (3.25%) Software Engineer
18 22 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 22 (3.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (46.11%) Terraform
2 85 (12.02%) REST
3 80 (11.32%) PySpark
4 75 (10.61%) Kafka
5 61 (8.63%) Spring Boot
6 60 (8.49%) React
6 60 (8.49%) Spring
7 57 (8.06%) RESTful
8 50 (7.07%) Node.js
9 45 (6.36%) AWS CDK
10 32 (4.53%) FastAPI
11 26 (3.68%) AngularJS
12 25 (3.54%) SOAP
13 24 (3.39%) JSON
14 22 (3.11%) .NET
14 22 (3.11%) GraphQL
15 20 (2.83%) Pandas
16 19 (2.69%) OAuth
16 19 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
17 17 (2.40%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 182 (25.74%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.35%) Product Ownership
3 37 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.97%) NHS
5 20 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.98%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.98%) IVR
7 14 (1.98%) Replication
8 13 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.41%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.27%) Legacy Code
12 8 (1.13%) Clustering
12 8 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.13%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.13%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.99%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 93 (13.15%) Linux
2 27 (3.82%) Unix
3 21 (2.97%) Windows
4 14 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.57%) AIX
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) Android
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (63.51%) CI/CD
2 313 (44.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 310 (43.85%) DevOps
4 271 (38.33%) Agile
5 188 (26.59%) Data Pipeline
6 180 (25.46%) Data Engineering
7 157 (22.21%) Analytics
8 140 (19.80%) Data Modelling
9 136 (19.24%) ETL
10 130 (18.39%) Containerisation
11 129 (18.25%) AI
12 126 (17.82%) Observability
13 114 (16.12%) Microservices
13 114 (16.12%) Migration
14 109 (15.42%) Event-Driven
15 107 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 100 (14.14%) Technical Leadership
16 100 (14.14%) Test Automation
17 90 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
17 90 (12.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 395 (55.87%) Python
2 263 (37.20%) SQL
3 119 (16.83%) Java
4 79 (11.17%) TypeScript
5 67 (9.48%) Bash
6 57 (8.06%) JavaScript
7 26 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 25 (3.54%) C#
9 24 (3.39%) Shell Script
10 21 (2.97%) Scala
11 18 (2.55%) Groovy
12 15 (2.12%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.13%) Bicep
14 7 (0.99%) Go
14 7 (0.99%) Perl
15 5 (0.71%) R
16 4 (0.57%) Cypher
16 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 237 (33.52%) Security Cleared
2 217 (30.69%) SC Cleared
3 92 (13.01%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (5.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (3.68%) Degree
7 17 (2.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.98%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.27%) CISM
11 9 (1.27%) CISSP
12 8 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.99%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.42%) CSPO
15 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (17.68%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.94%) QA
3 16 (2.26%) GDPR
4 15 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.41%) NIST
6 6 (0.85%) HL7
6 6 (0.85%) SLA
7 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.57%) NCSC
8 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) PMO
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 217 (30.69%) Docker
2 18 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.99%) Postfix
4 5 (0.71%) Squid
4 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.42%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.28%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.28%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 137 (19.38%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.57%) Grafana
3 57 (8.06%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.08%) Ansible
5 17 (2.40%) Argo
6 16 (2.26%) Kibana
7 12 (1.70%) Karpenter
8 11 (1.56%) Puppet
9 8 (1.13%) Packer
10 7 (0.99%) Istio
11 6 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (0.57%) Salt
14 3 (0.42%) Control-M
14 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.42%) systemd
15 2 (0.28%) Consul
15 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (8.06%) Databricks
2 48 (6.79%) Oracle
3 42 (5.94%) Microsoft
4 32 (4.53%) Informatica
5 24 (3.39%) Splunk
6 21 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.40%) Google
8 16 (2.26%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.98%) Teradata
10 13 (1.84%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.56%) Confluent
11 11 (1.56%) Denodo
11 11 (1.56%) OpenAI
12 10 (1.41%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (1.27%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.13%) Foundry
14 8 (1.13%) Palantir
15 7 (0.99%) Brio
15 7 (0.99%) IBM
15 7 (0.99%) SnapLogic