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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 166 232
Rank change year-on-year -35 +66 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 673 492 444
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.71% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.86% 4.53% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 366 343
10th Percentile £362 £400 £400
25th Percentile £441 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -8.18%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.28% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £46.90 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 17,432 10,854 13,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.64% 37.75% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,707 7,409 9,915
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 250 348
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.15 £71.38 £67.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -16 576 £525 - 138
London +10 397 £550 - 67
UK excluding London -69 214 £475 -5.00% 93
Work from Home -15 203 £500 -4.76% 73
Midlands -25 65 £469 -1.26% 13
West Midlands -26 60 £469 -1.26% 10
North of England -64 56 £500 - 34
Scotland -35 37 £460 -8.00% 5
North West -28 32 £518 +8.95% 18
South East -37 29 £586 +30.28% 15
South West -21 18 £450 -18.18% 21
Yorkshire -58 13 £500 -4.76% 12
North East -19 11 £425 - 4
East of England -34 7 £425 -15.00% 2
East Midlands -28 4 £425 -6.54% 3
Northern Ireland +5 3 £400 -20.00% 3
Wales - 2 £363 -

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 74 (11.00%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (9.36%) Apache Spark
3 51 (7.58%) Confluence
4 45 (6.69%) Apache
5 20 (2.97%) SAS
6 10 (1.49%) nginx
7 4 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 666 (98.96%) AWS
2 423 (62.85%) Serverless
3 415 (61.66%) AWS Lambda
4 248 (36.85%) Amazon EC2
5 183 (27.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 138 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
7 137 (20.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 134 (19.91%) GitHub
9 127 (18.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 125 (18.57%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (15.30%) Amazon SQS
12 100 (14.86%) Azure
13 95 (14.12%) GitHub Actions
14 82 (12.18%) AWS Step Functions
15 72 (10.70%) Snowflake
16 65 (9.66%) Amazon EMR
17 63 (9.36%) dbt
18 52 (7.73%) Power Platform
19 51 (7.58%) Route 53
20 48 (7.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.90%) DNS
2 23 (3.42%) Firewall
3 15 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.08%) VPN
5 11 (1.63%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.34%) Network Security
7 5 (0.74%) DHCP
7 5 (0.74%) HTTP
8 4 (0.59%) Internet
8 4 (0.59%) NAS
8 4 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.59%) SAN
8 4 (0.59%) SSL
8 4 (0.59%) WAN
9 3 (0.45%) BGP
9 3 (0.45%) OSPF
10 2 (0.30%) CTI
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (23.92%) Amazon RDS
2 127 (18.87%) Amazon Athena
3 120 (17.83%) DynamoDB
4 96 (14.26%) PostgreSQL
5 94 (13.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 53 (7.88%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (7.73%) Amazon Aurora
7 52 (7.73%) Power BI
8 50 (7.43%) Data Lake
9 38 (5.65%) NoSQL
10 32 (4.75%) Metadata
10 32 (4.75%) Relational Database
11 30 (4.46%) Tableau
12 27 (4.01%) Big Data
12 27 (4.01%) SQL Server
13 26 (3.86%) MongoDB
14 24 (3.57%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.42%) Apache Iceberg
16 21 (3.12%) OLTP
16 21 (3.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 135 (20.06%) Jenkins
2 132 (19.61%) GitLab
3 129 (19.17%) Git
4 67 (9.96%) JIRA
5 31 (4.61%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.31%) JUnit
7 27 (4.01%) Bitbucket
8 23 (3.42%) Maven
8 23 (3.42%) Mockito
9 15 (2.23%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.08%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.93%) jMock
12 11 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.49%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.19%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.19%) Postman
15 6 (0.89%) MLflow
16 4 (0.59%) Selenium
16 4 (0.59%) Terragrunt
17 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 171 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 115 (17.09%) Public Sector
3 110 (16.34%) Finance
4 63 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.61%) Banking
6 22 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.63%) Front Office
9 6 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.89%) Legal
10 5 (0.74%) Military
11 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.45%) Back Office
12 3 (0.45%) Billing
12 3 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.45%) Retail
13 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 157 (23.33%) Data Engineer
2 137 (20.36%) Developer
3 114 (16.94%) AWS Engineer
4 84 (12.48%) Architect
5 79 (11.74%) Senior
6 76 (11.29%) Lead
7 48 (7.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (6.98%) Java Developer
9 43 (6.39%) AWS Architect
9 43 (6.39%) AWS Data Engineer
10 38 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 32 (4.75%) AWS Developer
12 30 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
13 29 (4.31%) Software Engineer
14 27 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (4.01%) Data Architect
15 25 (3.71%) Python Engineer
16 24 (3.57%) Lead Data Engineer
17 22 (3.27%) Analyst
17 22 (3.27%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (14.56%) Kafka
2 74 (11.00%) Spring
2 74 (11.00%) Spring Boot
3 66 (9.81%) REST
4 64 (9.51%) PySpark
5 62 (9.21%) RESTful
6 58 (8.62%) React
7 53 (7.88%) Node.js
8 45 (6.69%) AWS CDK
9 36 (5.35%) AngularJS
10 32 (4.75%) OAuth
11 29 (4.31%) FastAPI
11 29 (4.31%) SOAP
12 24 (3.57%) JPA
12 24 (3.57%) OpenID
12 24 (3.57%) Pandas
12 24 (3.57%) PyTorch
13 23 (3.42%) Hibernate
13 23 (3.42%) Web Services
14 21 (3.12%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 174 (25.85%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 42 (6.24%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.38%) NHS
5 13 (1.93%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.04%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.04%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.89%) Legacy Code
10 6 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.89%) PACS
10 6 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.74%) Clustering
11 5 (0.74%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 83 (12.33%) Linux
2 21 (3.12%) Unix
3 15 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (1.63%) Windows
5 5 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.30%) Android
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.30%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (57.65%) CI/CD
2 276 (41.01%) DevOps
3 246 (36.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 215 (31.95%) Agile
5 153 (22.73%) Analytics
6 147 (21.84%) Data Engineering
7 146 (21.69%) ETL
8 140 (20.80%) Data Pipeline
9 136 (20.21%) Containerisation
10 133 (19.76%) Data Modelling
11 112 (16.64%) Microservices
12 103 (15.30%) AI
13 102 (15.16%) Observability
14 87 (12.93%) Migration
15 84 (12.48%) Scrum
16 82 (12.18%) Test Automation
17 80 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
18 78 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
19 76 (11.29%) Event-Driven
20 74 (11.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 368 (54.68%) Python
2 250 (37.15%) SQL
3 134 (19.91%) Java
4 64 (9.51%) TypeScript
5 50 (7.43%) Bash
6 48 (7.13%) C#
7 47 (6.98%) JavaScript
8 33 (4.90%) PowerShell
9 26 (3.86%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.27%) Scala
11 8 (1.19%) Go
11 8 (1.19%) Groovy
12 6 (0.89%) Bicep
12 6 (0.89%) SAS Macro
13 4 (0.59%) Perl
13 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.45%) C
14 3 (0.45%) R
15 2 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 211 (31.35%) Security Cleared
2 177 (26.30%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.09%) AWS Certification
4 21 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.53%) Degree
6 15 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.63%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.49%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.45%) OCP
14 3 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (12.33%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.16%) QA
3 24 (3.57%) GDPR
4 14 (2.08%) SLA
5 9 (1.34%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.04%) NIST
6 7 (1.04%) PMO
7 6 (0.89%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.30%) GRC
9 2 (0.30%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 197 (29.27%) Docker
2 15 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.78%) Squid
4 11 (1.63%) Postfix
5 6 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.45%) HDFS
7 2 (0.30%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 291 (43.24%) Terraform
2 138 (20.51%) Kubernetes
3 96 (14.26%) Grafana
4 62 (9.21%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.79%) Ansible
6 18 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.78%) Kibana
8 11 (1.63%) Puppet
9 9 (1.34%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.19%) Consul
11 7 (1.04%) Argo
11 7 (1.04%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.74%) Salt
13 4 (0.59%) Istio
13 4 (0.59%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.59%) Packer
14 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 67 (9.96%) Databricks
2 30 (4.46%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.46%) Splunk
3 26 (3.86%) Google
4 23 (3.42%) Atlassian
5 18 (2.67%) Oracle
6 17 (2.53%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.53%) Jaspersoft
6 17 (2.53%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.23%) Informatica
7 15 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.63%) Denodo
8 11 (1.63%) Teradata
9 9 (1.34%) Confluent
10 7 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.89%) AVEVA
12 5 (0.74%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.74%) IBM
12 5 (0.74%) SAP
12 5 (0.74%) Tenable