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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 165 223
Rank change year-on-year -45 +58 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 724 558 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 1.70% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 4.56% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 413 304
10th Percentile £386 £400 £405
25th Percentile £449 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.20%
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 £77.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £79.40 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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 18,718 12,228 13,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 37.28% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,357 8,194 9,320
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 312 284
10th Percentile £16.12 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +18.79% -33.86%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £52.18
90th Percentile £83.15 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.00%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -39 597 £530 +0.95% 136
London +5 399 £573 -0.43% 83
Work from Home -14 263 £513 -1.30% 68
UK excluding London -57 243 £475 - 72
Midlands -26 74 £470 -1.16% 11
West Midlands -36 67 £475 - 7
North of England -65 58 £500 - 24
Scotland -17 46 £450 -10.10% 6
South West -22 31 £466 -14.06% 10
South East -62 27 £575 +35.29% 18
North West -57 25 £518 +8.95% 6
Yorkshire -56 17 £550 +4.76% 7
North East -30 16 £444 -1.39% 11
East of England -33 7 £400 -20.00% 4
East Midlands -12 6 £450 -9.64% 4
Wales - 4 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland -1 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 81 (11.19%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (11.05%) Confluence
3 65 (8.98%) Apache Spark
4 54 (7.46%) Apache
5 23 (3.18%) SAS
6 9 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.97%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.97%) nginx
9 4 (0.55%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Mule
11 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 711 (98.20%) AWS
2 445 (61.46%) Serverless
3 437 (60.36%) AWS Lambda
4 255 (35.22%) Amazon EC2
5 227 (31.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 153 (21.13%) Amazon ECS
7 152 (20.99%) GitHub
8 141 (19.48%) Amazon EKS
9 139 (19.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 138 (19.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 111 (15.33%) Azure
11 111 (15.33%) GitHub Actions
12 105 (14.50%) Amazon SQS
13 93 (12.85%) Amazon EMR
14 84 (11.60%) Snowflake
15 80 (11.05%) dbt
16 77 (10.64%) AWS Step Functions
17 63 (8.70%) Power Platform
18 60 (8.29%) AWS KMS
19 45 (6.22%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.62%) DNS
1 19 (2.62%) Firewall
2 11 (1.52%) Network Security
3 8 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.97%) VPN
5 6 (0.83%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.69%) CTI
6 5 (0.69%) SSL
7 4 (0.55%) DHCP
7 4 (0.55%) HTTP
7 4 (0.55%) Internet
7 4 (0.55%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.55%) WAN
8 2 (0.28%) NAS
8 2 (0.28%) SAN
8 2 (0.28%) SMS
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (24.31%) Amazon RDS
2 148 (20.44%) Amazon Athena
3 127 (17.54%) DynamoDB
4 121 (16.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 95 (13.12%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (11.60%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (8.70%) Power BI
8 62 (8.56%) Data Lake
9 50 (6.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 43 (5.94%) Metadata
11 35 (4.83%) MongoDB
12 33 (4.56%) Relational Database
13 32 (4.42%) Big Data
13 32 (4.42%) NoSQL
14 29 (4.01%) Tableau
15 25 (3.45%) SQL Server
16 23 (3.18%) BigQuery
17 21 (2.90%) Apache Iceberg
18 20 (2.76%) Snowflake Schema
19 18 (2.49%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 146 (20.17%) Jenkins
2 145 (20.03%) Git
3 139 (19.20%) GitLab
4 84 (11.60%) JIRA
5 30 (4.14%) SonarQube
6 27 (3.73%) Bitbucket
6 27 (3.73%) JUnit
7 24 (3.31%) Mockito
8 22 (3.04%) Maven
9 19 (2.62%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.93%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.80%) jMock
12 11 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.38%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.97%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.97%) Postman
15 6 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
16 5 (0.69%) Selenium
17 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 4 (0.55%) MLflow
General
1 184 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 163 (22.51%) Public Sector
3 123 (16.99%) Finance
4 64 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (6.08%) Banking
6 14 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (1.93%) Front Office
7 11 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (0.97%) Back Office
9 7 (0.97%) Law
9 7 (0.97%) Marketing
9 7 (0.97%) Military
10 6 (0.83%) Billing
11 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.69%) Legal
12 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.55%) Retail
12 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 166 (22.93%) Data Engineer
2 136 (18.78%) Developer
3 134 (18.51%) AWS Engineer
4 104 (14.36%) Senior
5 89 (12.29%) Lead
6 87 (12.02%) Architect
7 60 (8.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (6.22%) AWS Data Engineer
9 44 (6.08%) Java Developer
10 42 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
10 42 (5.80%) Senior Data Engineer
11 37 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
12 35 (4.83%) AWS Architect
13 33 (4.56%) AWS Developer
14 29 (4.01%) Data Architect
15 27 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 22 (3.04%) Software Engineer
18 21 (2.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 21 (2.90%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.46%) PySpark
2 78 (10.77%) Kafka
3 76 (10.50%) REST
4 66 (9.12%) Spring Boot
5 65 (8.98%) Spring
6 63 (8.70%) Node.js
6 63 (8.70%) React
7 58 (8.01%) RESTful
8 54 (7.46%) AWS CDK
9 32 (4.42%) SOAP
10 28 (3.87%) AngularJS
11 27 (3.73%) FastAPI
12 26 (3.59%) OAuth
13 25 (3.45%) Web Services
14 23 (3.18%) JSON
15 21 (2.90%) ActiveMQ
15 21 (2.90%) JPA
16 20 (2.76%) Pandas
16 20 (2.76%) PyTorch
17 19 (2.62%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 176 (24.31%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.15%) Product Ownership
3 47 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.76%) NHS
5 18 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.80%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.24%) IVR
8 9 (1.24%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.10%) Legacy Code
10 7 (0.97%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.97%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 88 (12.15%) Linux
2 21 (2.90%) Unix
2 21 (2.90%) Windows
3 18 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.55%) AIX
7 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.28%) zOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (62.15%) CI/CD
2 302 (41.71%) DevOps
3 288 (39.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 267 (36.88%) Agile
5 187 (25.83%) Data Pipeline
6 178 (24.59%) Data Engineering
7 174 (24.03%) Analytics
8 148 (20.44%) Data Modelling
9 146 (20.17%) ETL
10 142 (19.61%) AI
11 137 (18.92%) Containerisation
12 125 (17.27%) Microservices
13 118 (16.30%) Observability
14 102 (14.09%) Migration
15 101 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (13.54%) Test Automation
17 96 (13.26%) Machine Learning
18 94 (12.98%) Scrum
19 91 (12.57%) Event-Driven
20 86 (11.88%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 412 (56.91%) Python
2 260 (35.91%) SQL
3 132 (18.23%) Java
4 79 (10.91%) TypeScript
5 72 (9.94%) Bash
6 63 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 38 (5.25%) C#
8 32 (4.42%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.31%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.18%) Scala
11 13 (1.80%) Groovy
12 8 (1.10%) Bicep
13 6 (0.83%) SAS Macro
13 6 (0.83%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.69%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.69%) Perl
14 5 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.55%) Cypher
15 4 (0.55%) R
16 3 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 250 (34.53%) Security Cleared
2 221 (30.52%) SC Cleared
3 71 (9.81%) AWS Certification
4 40 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.62%) Degree
7 18 (2.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 18 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.52%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.41%) CSPO
14 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.28%) CISSP
15 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (15.61%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.31%) QA
3 22 (3.04%) GDPR
4 14 (1.93%) SLA
5 12 (1.66%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.97%) PMO
7 5 (0.69%) HL7
8 4 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.55%) NCSC
8 4 (0.55%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 209 (28.87%) Docker
2 17 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.52%) Postfix
4 7 (0.97%) Squid
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 316 (43.65%) Terraform
2 123 (16.99%) Kubernetes
3 107 (14.78%) Grafana
4 57 (7.87%) Prometheus
5 42 (5.80%) Ansible
6 19 (2.62%) Argo
7 12 (1.66%) Kibana
8 11 (1.52%) Puppet
8 11 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.97%) Packer
10 6 (0.83%) Istio
11 5 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.69%) Salt
12 4 (0.55%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.55%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.41%) Consul
13 3 (0.41%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 66 (9.12%) Databricks
2 37 (5.11%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.28%) Informatica
4 30 (4.14%) Oracle
5 25 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.45%) Splunk
6 21 (2.90%) Google
7 18 (2.49%) Atlassian
8 17 (2.35%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.35%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (1.52%) Denodo
9 11 (1.52%) Teradata
10 10 (1.38%) IBM
10 10 (1.38%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.38%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.24%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.10%) Foundry
12 8 (1.10%) Palantir
13 6 (0.83%) Confluent
13 6 (0.83%) VMware