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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 167 230
Rank change year-on-year -20 +63 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 753 543 463
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.68% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 4.47% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 403 342
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £461 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year - +4.48% -6.51%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £730 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.21% -0.90%
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 18,565 12,152 14,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.37% 37.62% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,331 8,124 10,096
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 312 357
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +102.70% -10.14% -20.69%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -24 630 £525 - 179
London +10 421 £550 -4.35% 97
Work from Home -5 264 £513 -2.38% 67
UK excluding London -66 246 £475 -5.00% 116
Midlands -27 73 £469 -1.26% 15
West Midlands -30 68 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -67 63 £500 +1.27% 27
Scotland -24 43 £463 -7.50% 5
North West -37 32 £525 +10.53% 14
South East -48 30 £575 +33.72% 17
South West -16 29 £466 -15.23% 43
Yorkshire -54 16 £500 -4.76% 5
North East -20 15 £425 -5.56% 8
East of England -31 8 £400 -27.27% 5
East Midlands -15 4 £425 -6.54% 9
Wales - 4 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland +5 1 - - 4

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 85 (11.29%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (11.16%) Confluence
3 65 (8.63%) Apache Spark
4 51 (6.77%) Apache
5 23 (3.05%) SAS
6 11 (1.46%) nginx
7 9 (1.20%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.80%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) Mule
12 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 743 (98.67%) AWS
2 472 (62.68%) Serverless
3 465 (61.75%) AWS Lambda
4 276 (36.65%) Amazon EC2
5 217 (28.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 162 (21.51%) Amazon ECS
7 156 (20.72%) GitHub
8 153 (20.32%) Amazon EKS
9 144 (19.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 142 (18.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 116 (15.41%) Azure
11 116 (15.41%) GitHub Actions
12 110 (14.61%) Amazon SQS
13 92 (12.22%) Amazon EMR
14 87 (11.55%) Snowflake
15 81 (10.76%) dbt
16 75 (9.96%) AWS Step Functions
17 65 (8.63%) Power Platform
18 55 (7.30%) AWS KMS
19 48 (6.37%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.45%) Firewall
2 25 (3.32%) DNS
3 15 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.73%) VPN
5 11 (1.46%) Network Security
5 11 (1.46%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.80%) WAN
7 5 (0.66%) HTTP
8 4 (0.53%) DHCP
8 4 (0.53%) Internet
8 4 (0.53%) NAS
8 4 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.53%) SAN
8 4 (0.53%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) BGP
9 3 (0.40%) CTI
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
10 2 (0.27%) Multicast
10 2 (0.27%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (24.30%) Amazon RDS
2 149 (19.79%) Amazon Athena
3 127 (16.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 123 (16.33%) DynamoDB
5 101 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
6 80 (10.62%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (8.63%) Power BI
8 59 (7.84%) Data Lake
9 48 (6.37%) Amazon Aurora
10 40 (5.31%) Metadata
11 37 (4.91%) Relational Database
12 36 (4.78%) NoSQL
13 33 (4.38%) MongoDB
14 32 (4.25%) Big Data
15 31 (4.12%) Tableau
16 25 (3.32%) BigQuery
16 25 (3.32%) SQL Server
17 21 (2.79%) Snowflake Schema
18 20 (2.66%) Apache Iceberg
19 19 (2.52%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 152 (20.19%) Git
2 149 (19.79%) GitLab
3 148 (19.65%) Jenkins
4 93 (12.35%) JIRA
5 32 (4.25%) Bitbucket
6 31 (4.12%) SonarQube
7 30 (3.98%) JUnit
8 24 (3.19%) Mockito
9 23 (3.05%) Maven
10 16 (2.12%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.86%) DbUnit
12 13 (1.73%) jMock
13 11 (1.46%) Artifactory
13 11 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (1.06%) Postman
15 7 (0.93%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.93%) MLflow
16 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.53%) Selenium
17 3 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 192 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 159 (21.12%) Public Sector
3 128 (17.00%) Finance
4 63 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.44%) Banking
6 22 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.73%) Front Office
8 11 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.80%) Law
10 6 (0.80%) Legal
10 6 (0.80%) Military
11 5 (0.66%) Back Office
11 5 (0.66%) Billing
11 5 (0.66%) Marketing
12 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.53%) Retail
12 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 179 (23.77%) Data Engineer
2 140 (18.59%) AWS Engineer
3 139 (18.46%) Developer
4 108 (14.34%) Senior
5 91 (12.08%) Lead
6 85 (11.29%) Architect
7 65 (8.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (6.51%) AWS Data Engineer
9 48 (6.37%) Java Developer
10 46 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (5.44%) Senior Data Engineer
12 38 (5.05%) AWS Architect
12 38 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
13 31 (4.12%) AWS Developer
14 28 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 28 (3.72%) Software Engineer
15 26 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.45%) Python Engineer
16 23 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 22 (2.92%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (12.08%) Kafka
2 82 (10.89%) PySpark
3 72 (9.56%) REST
3 72 (9.56%) Spring
3 72 (9.56%) Spring Boot
4 62 (8.23%) React
5 61 (8.10%) Node.js
5 61 (8.10%) RESTful
6 55 (7.30%) AWS CDK
7 33 (4.38%) SOAP
8 28 (3.72%) FastAPI
9 27 (3.59%) OAuth
10 26 (3.45%) AngularJS
11 24 (3.19%) PyTorch
11 24 (3.19%) Web Services
12 22 (2.92%) JPA
12 22 (2.92%) Pandas
13 21 (2.79%) ActiveMQ
13 21 (2.79%) JSON
13 21 (2.79%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 195 (25.90%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.70%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (2.92%) NHS
5 18 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.59%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.06%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.06%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (0.93%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.93%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 93 (12.35%) Linux
2 20 (2.66%) Unix
3 18 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (1.99%) Windows
5 6 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) AIX
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (62.28%) CI/CD
2 317 (42.10%) DevOps
3 290 (38.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 256 (34.00%) Agile
5 184 (24.44%) Data Engineering
6 178 (23.64%) Data Pipeline
7 176 (23.37%) Analytics
8 156 (20.72%) ETL
9 155 (20.58%) Containerisation
10 147 (19.52%) Data Modelling
11 145 (19.26%) AI
12 129 (17.13%) Microservices
13 113 (15.01%) Observability
14 105 (13.94%) Machine Learning
15 98 (13.01%) Migration
16 97 (12.88%) Test Automation
17 95 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 92 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
19 91 (12.08%) Business Intelligence
19 91 (12.08%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 426 (56.57%) Python
2 272 (36.12%) SQL
3 139 (18.46%) Java
4 76 (10.09%) TypeScript
5 68 (9.03%) Bash
6 56 (7.44%) JavaScript
7 44 (5.84%) C#
8 32 (4.25%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.05%) Scala
9 23 (3.05%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.46%) Groovy
11 7 (0.93%) Bicep
12 6 (0.80%) Go
12 6 (0.80%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.66%) Perl
13 5 (0.66%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.53%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.40%) C
15 3 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 247 (32.80%) Security Cleared
2 214 (28.42%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.50%) AWS Certification
4 37 (4.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (2.79%) Degree
7 18 (2.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 14 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.59%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.46%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.40%) CSPO
14 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (15.27%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.59%) QA
3 22 (2.92%) GDPR
4 14 (1.86%) SLA
5 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.93%) PMO
7 5 (0.66%) HL7
8 4 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.40%) NCSC
9 3 (0.40%) NIST
9 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 222 (29.48%) Docker
2 16 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.59%) Squid
4 11 (1.46%) Postfix
5 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 343 (45.55%) Terraform
2 147 (19.52%) Kubernetes
3 108 (14.34%) Grafana
4 68 (9.03%) Prometheus
5 49 (6.51%) Ansible
6 16 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.99%) Argo
8 12 (1.59%) Puppet
9 9 (1.20%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.20%) Kibana
10 8 (1.06%) Consul
11 7 (0.93%) Packer
12 6 (0.80%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.80%) Salt
13 5 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.53%) Istio
14 4 (0.53%) Karpenter
15 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
16 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 70 (9.30%) Databricks
2 38 (5.05%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.98%) Informatica
4 26 (3.45%) Splunk
5 25 (3.32%) Oracle
6 24 (3.19%) Google
7 23 (3.05%) Atlassian
7 23 (3.05%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.79%) Dynatrace
9 17 (2.26%) Jaspersoft
10 15 (1.99%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.59%) Teradata
12 11 (1.46%) Denodo
12 11 (1.46%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.20%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.06%) Foundry
14 8 (1.06%) IBM
14 8 (1.06%) Palantir
15 6 (0.80%) Ab Initio
15 6 (0.80%) AVEVA