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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 175 226
Rank change year-on-year -15 +51 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 659 465 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.59% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.86% 4.24% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 359 336
10th Percentile £358 £400 £405
25th Percentile £439 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
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 17,065 10,955 13,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 37.56% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,557 7,575 9,899
10th Percentile £321 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +2.53% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 248 345
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +47.78% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £48.19 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £73.75 £62.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +118.08% +21.31% -29.24%

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 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 9 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 9 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 +9 564 £525 -2.33% 180
London +16 388 £550 - 83
UK excluding London -47 210 £475 -5.00% 114
Work from Home -8 187 £500 -4.76% 91
Midlands -14 66 £475 -2.56% 7
West Midlands -10 62 £475 -5.00% 5
North of England -49 54 £500 +3.90% 47
Scotland -32 34 £447 -10.60% 10
North West -28 30 £505 +9.19% 26
South East -48 29 £575 +13.86% 25
South West -26 17 £450 -18.18% 21
Yorkshire -52 15 £500 -4.76% 16
North East -12 9 £475 - 5
East of England -35 7 £450 -10.00% 5
East Midlands -33 4 £413 -10.13% 2
Northern Ireland +6 3 £400 -20.00%
Wales -10 2 £363 -9.38%

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 72 (10.93%) Apache Spark
2 68 (10.32%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (7.44%) Confluence
4 48 (7.28%) Apache
5 21 (3.19%) SAS
6 10 (1.52%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 654 (99.24%) AWS
2 412 (62.52%) Serverless
3 403 (61.15%) AWS Lambda
4 244 (37.03%) Amazon EC2
5 174 (26.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (23.82%) Amazon ECS
7 148 (22.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 133 (20.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 132 (20.03%) GitHub
10 130 (19.73%) Amazon EKS
11 101 (15.33%) Azure
12 95 (14.42%) Amazon SQS
13 92 (13.96%) AWS Step Functions
14 91 (13.81%) GitHub Actions
15 68 (10.32%) Snowflake
16 59 (8.95%) Amazon EMR
17 55 (8.35%) dbt
18 50 (7.59%) Power Platform
19 49 (7.44%) Route 53
20 47 (7.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.70%) DNS
2 21 (3.19%) Firewall
3 15 (2.28%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.28%) VPN
4 12 (1.82%) Network Security
5 11 (1.67%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.76%) DHCP
6 5 (0.76%) HTTP
7 4 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.46%) BGP
8 3 (0.46%) OSPF
9 2 (0.30%) Internet
9 2 (0.30%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.30%) Multicast
9 2 (0.30%) NAS
9 2 (0.30%) SAN
9 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.30%) SSL
9 2 (0.30%) VLAN
9 2 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (24.58%) Amazon RDS
2 130 (19.73%) Amazon Athena
3 106 (16.08%) DynamoDB
4 103 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
5 96 (14.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 55 (8.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 54 (8.19%) Data Warehouse
8 52 (7.89%) Data Lake
9 50 (7.59%) Power BI
10 40 (6.07%) Relational Database
11 37 (5.61%) NoSQL
12 33 (5.01%) Metadata
13 31 (4.70%) SQL Server
14 30 (4.55%) Tableau
15 29 (4.40%) Big Data
16 25 (3.79%) MongoDB
17 23 (3.49%) Apache Iceberg
17 23 (3.49%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.49%) OLTP
18 20 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 139 (21.09%) Jenkins
2 138 (20.94%) GitLab
3 118 (17.91%) Git
4 62 (9.41%) JIRA
5 28 (4.25%) SonarQube
6 27 (4.10%) Bitbucket
7 25 (3.79%) JUnit
8 23 (3.49%) Maven
9 18 (2.73%) Mockito
10 12 (1.82%) MLflow
11 11 (1.67%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.67%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.67%) jMock
12 9 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.37%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.21%) Artifactory
14 7 (1.06%) Postman
15 6 (0.91%) Selenium
16 5 (0.76%) Gradle
17 4 (0.61%) NUnit
General
1 158 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 121 (18.36%) Finance
3 109 (16.54%) Public Sector
4 64 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.01%) Banking
6 21 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.28%) Front Office
8 14 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.21%) Legal
10 5 (0.76%) Military
11 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.46%) Retail
12 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.30%) Billing
13 2 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.30%) Law
13 2 (0.30%) Marketing
13 2 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 152 (23.07%) Data Engineer
2 135 (20.49%) Developer
3 103 (15.63%) AWS Engineer
4 86 (13.05%) Senior
5 79 (11.99%) Architect
6 72 (10.93%) Lead
7 45 (6.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 43 (6.53%) Java Developer
9 39 (5.92%) AWS Data Engineer
10 38 (5.77%) AWS Architect
11 35 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
13 29 (4.40%) AWS Developer
13 29 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
13 29 (4.40%) Site Engineer
14 27 (4.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 26 (3.95%) Data Architect
16 25 (3.79%) Lead Data Engineer
17 24 (3.64%) Analyst
18 23 (3.49%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (16.39%) Kafka
2 79 (11.99%) Spring
2 79 (11.99%) Spring Boot
3 65 (9.86%) PySpark
3 65 (9.86%) RESTful
4 62 (9.41%) Node.js
5 61 (9.26%) REST
6 53 (8.04%) React
7 39 (5.92%) AWS CDK
8 36 (5.46%) AngularJS
9 35 (5.31%) OAuth
10 26 (3.95%) FastAPI
10 26 (3.95%) Pandas
11 24 (3.64%) OpenID
12 23 (3.49%) PyTorch
13 21 (3.19%) SOAP
14 20 (3.03%) JPA
15 19 (2.88%) boto
15 19 (2.88%) Spring Cloud
15 19 (2.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 167 (25.34%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.13%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (6.37%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.12%) NHS
5 13 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.21%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.21%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.06%) Hedge funds
10 6 (0.91%) Clustering
10 6 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.91%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.91%) PACS
10 6 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 85 (12.90%) Linux
2 21 (3.19%) Unix
3 11 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.21%) Windows
5 5 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.30%) Android
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (58.57%) CI/CD
2 272 (41.27%) DevOps
3 244 (37.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 198 (30.05%) Agile
5 156 (23.67%) Analytics
6 153 (23.22%) Data Engineering
7 151 (22.91%) Containerisation
7 151 (22.91%) ETL
8 141 (21.40%) Data Pipeline
9 134 (20.33%) Data Modelling
10 113 (17.15%) Microservices
11 106 (16.08%) AI
11 106 (16.08%) Observability
12 96 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
13 86 (13.05%) Migration
13 86 (13.05%) Test Automation
14 77 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 76 (11.53%) Event-Driven
16 72 (10.93%) Machine Learning
16 72 (10.93%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 377 (57.21%) Python
2 245 (37.18%) SQL
3 139 (21.09%) Java
4 61 (9.26%) TypeScript
5 53 (8.04%) C#
6 52 (7.89%) Bash
7 47 (7.13%) JavaScript
8 29 (4.40%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.40%) Shell Script
9 23 (3.49%) Scala
10 12 (1.82%) Go
11 8 (1.21%) Groovy
12 7 (1.06%) Bicep
13 6 (0.91%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.61%) Perl
14 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.46%) C++
15 3 (0.46%) R
16 2 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 214 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 175 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.13%) AWS Certification
4 19 (2.88%) Degree
5 17 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.37%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (1.21%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.46%) OCP
14 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.46%) PhD
14 3 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (12.59%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.10%) QA
3 26 (3.95%) GDPR
4 14 (2.12%) SLA
5 10 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.21%) NIST
7 7 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.06%) PMO
8 6 (0.91%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.30%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) HL7
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 207 (31.41%) Docker
2 12 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.52%) Postfix
3 10 (1.52%) Squid
4 6 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.61%) HDFS
6 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 293 (44.46%) Terraform
2 147 (22.31%) Kubernetes
3 107 (16.24%) Grafana
4 67 (10.17%) Prometheus
5 46 (6.98%) Ansible
6 18 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (2.12%) Puppet
8 12 (1.82%) Kibana
9 11 (1.67%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.37%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.21%) Consul
12 5 (0.76%) Argo
12 5 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.61%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.61%) Salt
14 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.46%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 72 (10.93%) Databricks
2 36 (5.46%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.55%) Splunk
4 26 (3.95%) Google
5 20 (3.03%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.58%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.58%) Oracle
7 15 (2.28%) Informatica
7 15 (2.28%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.28%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.12%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (1.67%) Denodo
10 9 (1.37%) Confluent
11 8 (1.21%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.21%) PagerDuty
12 6 (0.91%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.91%) IBM
12 6 (0.91%) SAP
12 6 (0.91%) Teradata
13 5 (0.76%) Ab Initio