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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 167 225
Rank change year-on-year -37 +58 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 728 549 436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.68% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.90% 4.49% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 405 306
10th Percentile £385 £400 £403
25th Percentile £445 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £633 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £749
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 18,669 12,237 13,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.32% 37.37% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,316 8,189 9,408
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 316 296
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.43 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.63 £50.48
90th Percentile £83.05 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +94.54% -10.14% -21.50%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -25 601 £525 - 124
London +6 399 £567 +1.23% 71
Work from Home -17 262 £513 -1.16% 62
UK excluding London -56 248 £475 - 66
Midlands -23 75 £469 -1.26% 13
West Midlands -24 68 £469 -1.26% 8
North of England -66 60 £500 - 23
Scotland -16 47 £450 -9.01% 3
South West -14 32 £463 -15.33% 10
North West -50 27 £518 +8.95% 5
South East -67 27 £563 +32.35% 14
Yorkshire -45 17 £550 +4.76% 5
North East -28 16 £444 -1.39% 13
East of England -34 7 £400 -20.00% 4
East Midlands -12 6 £450 -9.64% 5
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 85 (11.68%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (10.99%) Confluence
3 67 (9.20%) Apache Spark
4 55 (7.55%) Apache
5 23 (3.16%) SAS
6 9 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.96%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.82%) nginx
10 4 (0.55%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.51%) 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
1 715 (98.21%) AWS
2 452 (62.09%) Serverless
3 444 (60.99%) AWS Lambda
4 255 (35.03%) Amazon EC2
5 223 (30.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 155 (21.29%) Amazon ECS
7 148 (20.33%) GitHub
8 140 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
9 137 (18.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 137 (18.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 109 (14.97%) Amazon SQS
10 109 (14.97%) Azure
11 107 (14.70%) GitHub Actions
12 94 (12.91%) Amazon EMR
13 85 (11.68%) Snowflake
14 84 (11.54%) dbt
15 78 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
16 64 (8.79%) Power Platform
17 59 (8.10%) AWS KMS
18 45 (6.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.47%) Firewall
2 17 (2.34%) DNS
3 10 (1.37%) Network Security
4 8 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.82%) HTTP
5 6 (0.82%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.82%) VPN
6 5 (0.69%) CTI
7 4 (0.55%) DHCP
7 4 (0.55%) Internet
7 4 (0.55%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.55%) SSL
7 4 (0.55%) WAN
8 3 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) NAS
9 2 (0.27%) SAN
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
10 1 (0.14%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.14%) OSPF
10 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (24.45%) Amazon RDS
2 148 (20.33%) Amazon Athena
3 128 (17.58%) DynamoDB
4 125 (17.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 95 (13.05%) PostgreSQL
6 85 (11.68%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (8.79%) Power BI
8 61 (8.38%) Data Lake
9 49 (6.73%) Amazon Aurora
10 44 (6.04%) Metadata
11 36 (4.95%) Relational Database
12 33 (4.53%) Big Data
12 33 (4.53%) MongoDB
12 33 (4.53%) NoSQL
13 30 (4.12%) Tableau
14 25 (3.43%) SQL Server
15 24 (3.30%) BigQuery
16 21 (2.88%) Apache Iceberg
17 20 (2.75%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (2.47%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 142 (19.51%) Git
2 141 (19.37%) Jenkins
3 138 (18.96%) GitLab
4 85 (11.68%) JIRA
5 28 (3.85%) JUnit
5 28 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 27 (3.71%) Bitbucket
7 24 (3.30%) Mockito
8 21 (2.88%) Maven
9 19 (2.61%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.92%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.79%) jMock
12 11 (1.51%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.37%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.96%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.96%) Postman
15 6 (0.82%) MLflow
16 5 (0.69%) Selenium
16 5 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
17 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 187 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 161 (22.12%) Public Sector
3 126 (17.31%) Finance
4 66 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (6.18%) Banking
6 14 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (1.92%) Front Office
7 11 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.10%) Marketing
10 7 (0.96%) Back Office
10 7 (0.96%) Law
10 7 (0.96%) Military
11 6 (0.82%) Legal
12 5 (0.69%) Billing
12 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.55%) Retail
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 168 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 136 (18.68%) Developer
3 134 (18.41%) AWS Engineer
4 104 (14.29%) Senior
5 91 (12.50%) Lead
6 88 (12.09%) Architect
7 60 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (6.18%) AWS Data Engineer
8 45 (6.18%) Java Developer
9 42 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (5.63%) Senior Data Engineer
11 36 (4.95%) AWS Architect
11 36 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
12 32 (4.40%) AWS Developer
13 29 (3.98%) Data Architect
14 28 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 23 (3.16%) Python Engineer
17 22 (3.02%) Software Engineer
18 21 (2.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.40%) PySpark
2 80 (10.99%) Kafka
3 74 (10.16%) REST
4 64 (8.79%) Spring Boot
5 63 (8.65%) Node.js
5 63 (8.65%) Spring
6 62 (8.52%) React
7 58 (7.97%) RESTful
8 56 (7.69%) AWS CDK
9 32 (4.40%) SOAP
10 30 (4.12%) FastAPI
11 28 (3.85%) AngularJS
12 26 (3.57%) OAuth
13 25 (3.43%) Web Services
14 23 (3.16%) JSON
14 23 (3.16%) Pandas
14 23 (3.16%) PyTorch
15 21 (2.88%) ActiveMQ
15 21 (2.88%) JPA
16 19 (2.61%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 175 (24.04%) Cloud Native
2 61 (8.38%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.88%) NHS
5 18 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.79%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.24%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.10%) Legacy Code
10 7 (0.96%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.96%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 88 (12.09%) Linux
2 21 (2.88%) Unix
2 21 (2.88%) Windows
3 17 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.55%) AIX
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.27%) zOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 299 (41.07%) DevOps
3 288 (39.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 266 (36.54%) Agile
5 188 (25.82%) Data Pipeline
6 183 (25.14%) Data Engineering
7 178 (24.45%) Analytics
8 153 (21.02%) Data Modelling
9 150 (20.60%) ETL
10 145 (19.92%) AI
11 142 (19.51%) Containerisation
12 120 (16.48%) Microservices
13 115 (15.80%) Observability
14 106 (14.56%) Migration
15 99 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (13.60%) Machine Learning
16 96 (13.19%) Test Automation
17 94 (12.91%) Scrum
18 89 (12.23%) Event-Driven
19 88 (12.09%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 414 (56.87%) Python
2 267 (36.68%) SQL
3 130 (17.86%) Java
4 79 (10.85%) TypeScript
5 70 (9.62%) Bash
6 61 (8.38%) JavaScript
7 38 (5.22%) C#
8 31 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.16%) Scala
9 23 (3.16%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.79%) Groovy
11 7 (0.96%) Bicep
12 6 (0.82%) SAS Macro
12 6 (0.82%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.69%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.69%) Perl
13 5 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.55%) Cypher
15 3 (0.41%) Go
15 3 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 246 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 216 (29.67%) SC Cleared
3 69 (9.48%) AWS Certification
4 40 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.61%) Degree
7 18 (2.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 18 (2.47%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.51%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.41%) CSPO
13 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.27%) CISM
14 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (15.93%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.43%) QA
3 22 (3.02%) GDPR
4 14 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.92%) SLA
5 7 (0.96%) PMO
6 5 (0.69%) HL7
7 4 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.55%) NIST
8 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
9 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.27%) GRC
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.27%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 208 (28.57%) Docker
2 15 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.51%) Postfix
4 7 (0.96%) Squid
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 316 (43.41%) Terraform
2 128 (17.58%) Kubernetes
3 104 (14.29%) Grafana
4 56 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.63%) Ansible
6 18 (2.47%) Argo
7 11 (1.51%) Puppet
7 11 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.37%) Kibana
9 7 (0.96%) Packer
10 6 (0.82%) 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 (0.27%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 67 (9.20%) Databricks
2 35 (4.81%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.26%) Informatica
4 29 (3.98%) Oracle
5 25 (3.43%) Splunk
6 24 (3.30%) ServiceNow
7 22 (3.02%) Google
8 18 (2.47%) Atlassian
9 17 (2.34%) Dynatrace
9 17 (2.34%) Jaspersoft
10 12 (1.65%) Teradata
11 11 (1.51%) Denodo
12 10 (1.37%) IBM
12 10 (1.37%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.24%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.10%) Foundry
14 8 (1.10%) Palantir
14 8 (1.10%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.82%) Confluent
15 6 (0.82%) VMware