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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 172 250
Rank change year-on-year -12 +78 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 583 484 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.57% 1.52% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.13% 4.17% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 346 338
10th Percentile £400 £402 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £613
90th Percentile £688 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

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 14,116 11,615 14,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.01% 36.59% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,715 7,724 10,493
10th Percentile £305 £313 £297
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 176 271
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.11 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £66.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +26.19% +10.06%

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 18 January 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
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 18 January 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 +7 461 £525 -4.55% 344
London +19 308 £534 -2.95% 62
UK excluding London -34 196 £500 - 312
Work from Home -26 152 £550 +7.21% 257
North of England -29 59 £500 -2.44% 60
Midlands -22 42 £475 -3.06% 32
Scotland -32 39 £500 +0.50% 11
West Midlands -15 35 £520 -5.45% 15
Yorkshire -23 35 £500 -4.76% 31
South East -11 23 £475 -23.23% 91
South West +8 18 £625 +13.55% 43
North West -31 18 £450 -5.26% 20
Northern Ireland +3 9 £400 - 9
East of England -8 9 £750 +50.00% 58
North East -12 7 £425 -30.33% 9
East Midlands -20 7 £417 -6.66% 17
Wales +1 1 £475 +18.75% 17

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 47 (8.06%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (7.72%) Apache Spark
3 37 (6.35%) Apache
4 30 (5.15%) Confluence
5 9 (1.54%) nginx
6 5 (0.86%) SAS
7 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.51%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 580 (99.49%) AWS
2 355 (60.89%) Serverless
3 349 (59.86%) AWS Lambda
4 237 (40.65%) Amazon EC2
5 189 (32.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 159 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 146 (25.04%) Amazon ECS
8 141 (24.19%) GitHub
9 129 (22.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 109 (18.70%) GitHub Actions
11 107 (18.35%) Amazon EKS
12 94 (16.12%) Azure
13 68 (11.66%) AWS Step Functions
14 51 (8.75%) Amazon Kinesis
15 43 (7.38%) Amazon ELB
16 42 (7.20%) GCP
16 42 (7.20%) Snowflake
17 41 (7.03%) Route 53
18 37 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (6.17%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 52 (8.92%) DNS
2 49 (8.40%) Firewall
3 32 (5.49%) VPN
4 24 (4.12%) Network Security
4 24 (4.12%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.77%) SSL
6 17 (2.92%) HTTP
7 14 (2.40%) FTP
7 14 (2.40%) OpenLDAP
7 14 (2.40%) SMTP
7 14 (2.40%) SSH
8 9 (1.54%) IMAP
9 4 (0.69%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.51%) NAS
11 2 (0.34%) Calico
11 2 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
12 1 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.17%) VSAN
12 1 (0.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (30.02%) Amazon RDS
2 104 (17.84%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (14.41%) Amazon Athena
3 84 (14.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 82 (14.07%) DynamoDB
5 50 (8.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 45 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
6 45 (7.72%) Relational Database
7 38 (6.52%) Data Lake
8 30 (5.15%) MySQL
9 29 (4.97%) MongoDB
10 28 (4.80%) Amazon QuickSight
11 24 (4.12%) Power BI
12 21 (3.60%) NoSQL
13 19 (3.26%) SQL Server
14 18 (3.09%) OLTP
15 17 (2.92%) Apache Iceberg
15 17 (2.92%) Tableau
16 16 (2.74%) BigQuery
16 16 (2.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 142 (24.36%) Jenkins
2 127 (21.78%) GitLab
3 117 (20.07%) Git
4 38 (6.52%) JIRA
5 14 (2.40%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.06%) MLflow
7 11 (1.89%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.54%) Postman
9 8 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.20%) JUnit
11 5 (0.86%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.86%) Maven
12 4 (0.69%) NUnit
12 4 (0.69%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.51%) Gradle
13 3 (0.51%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.34%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.34%) Snyk
General
1 145 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 96 (16.47%) Public Sector
3 85 (14.58%) Finance
4 55 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.63%) Banking
6 15 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.89%) Front Office
9 9 (1.54%) Military
10 6 (1.03%) Legal
11 4 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Marketing
13 2 (0.34%) Publishing
13 2 (0.34%) Retail
14 1 (0.17%) Games
14 1 (0.17%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (21.96%) AWS Engineer
2 104 (17.84%) Data Engineer
3 93 (15.95%) Senior
4 89 (15.27%) Developer
5 82 (14.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 65 (11.15%) Architect
7 43 (7.38%) Platform Engineer
8 39 (6.69%) Lead
9 37 (6.35%) AWS DevOps
10 36 (6.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 33 (5.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 31 (5.32%) AWS Architect
13 30 (5.15%) AWS Data Engineer
14 29 (4.97%) Java Developer
15 28 (4.80%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 28 (4.80%) Data Architect
16 27 (4.63%) Python Engineer
16 27 (4.63%) Software Engineer
17 26 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
18 25 (4.29%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (15.44%) Kafka
2 58 (9.95%) REST
3 54 (9.26%) Node.js
4 51 (8.75%) React
5 49 (8.40%) Spring
5 49 (8.40%) Spring Boot
6 47 (8.06%) RESTful
7 45 (7.72%) AWS CDK
8 35 (6.00%) OAuth
9 33 (5.66%) PySpark
10 26 (4.46%) AngularJS
11 25 (4.29%) FastAPI
12 24 (4.12%) boto
12 24 (4.12%) CSS
13 21 (3.60%) JSON
13 21 (3.60%) JWT
14 20 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (3.09%) Pandas
15 18 (3.09%) pytest
16 17 (2.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 131 (22.47%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (3.60%) Replication
4 18 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.89%) NHS
7 11 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.86%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.86%) Derivative
12 5 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.86%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.69%) Life Science
13 4 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 80 (13.72%) Linux
2 23 (3.95%) Windows
3 18 (3.09%) VMS
4 17 (2.92%) Amazon Linux
5 15 (2.57%) Unix
6 14 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.72%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.20%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.17%) Android
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (60.89%) CI/CD
2 259 (44.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 242 (41.51%) DevOps
4 152 (26.07%) Containerisation
5 151 (25.90%) Agile
6 116 (19.90%) Data Pipeline
7 115 (19.73%) ETL
8 104 (17.84%) Data Modelling
9 103 (17.67%) Analytics
10 100 (17.15%) Microservices
11 99 (16.98%) Data Engineering
12 92 (15.78%) Observability
13 83 (14.24%) AI
13 83 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
14 71 (12.18%) Software Engineering
15 70 (12.01%) Event-Driven
16 68 (11.66%) Migration
17 60 (10.29%) Machine Learning
18 56 (9.61%) Data Governance
19 55 (9.43%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 364 (62.44%) Python
2 190 (32.59%) SQL
3 103 (17.67%) Java
4 84 (14.41%) Bash
5 56 (9.61%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 38 (6.52%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.97%) Go
9 25 (4.29%) C#
10 24 (4.12%) Shell Script
11 16 (2.74%) Groovy
12 12 (2.06%) Perl
13 8 (1.37%) Scala
14 7 (1.20%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.03%) JSX
15 6 (1.03%) Korn
16 4 (0.69%) Bicep
16 4 (0.69%) C
17 3 (0.51%) C++
18 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 185 (31.73%) Security Cleared
2 154 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.61%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.63%) Degree
5 24 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 13 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.51%) MCP
12 3 (0.51%) OCP
12 3 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.51%) PhD
13 2 (0.34%) CISSP
13 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.17%) CEH
14 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.78%) Data Quality
2 41 (7.03%) QA
3 39 (6.69%) GDPR
4 18 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.57%) NIST
6 6 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.69%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.69%) NCSC
8 3 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.34%) GxP
9 2 (0.34%) MiFID
9 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) HL7
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 223 (38.25%) Docker
2 17 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.40%) DFS Replication
4 9 (1.54%) Dovecot
4 9 (1.54%) Postfix
4 9 (1.54%) Squid
5 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.51%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.51%) KVM
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 308 (52.83%) Terraform
2 166 (28.47%) Kubernetes
3 93 (15.95%) Grafana
4 90 (15.44%) Ansible
5 71 (12.18%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.60%) Puppet
7 19 (3.26%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.72%) Argo
8 10 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (1.54%) Nessus
9 9 (1.54%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.20%) Kibana
11 6 (1.03%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.86%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (0.86%) Istio
12 5 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.69%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.51%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.51%) Packer
Vendors
1 43 (7.38%) Databricks
2 36 (6.17%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.12%) F5
3 24 (4.12%) Palo Alto
4 23 (3.95%) CheckPoint
4 23 (3.95%) Splunk
5 19 (3.26%) Oracle
6 17 (2.92%) Google
7 16 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.23%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.54%) Confluent
9 9 (1.54%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.37%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.20%) Commvault
11 7 (1.20%) Dell
12 6 (1.03%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.86%) Sybase
13 5 (0.86%) Zscaler
14 4 (0.69%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.69%) SnapLogic