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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 190 264
Rank change year-on-year +29 +74 -27
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 636 473 443
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.84% 1.31% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.76% 3.70% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 319 346
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £427 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £625
90th Percentile £700 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £50.94 - £52.50
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,351 12,779 16,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.54% 35.26% 35.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,011 8,416 11,936
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 167 321
10th Percentile £15.10 £18.98 £14.61
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +43.56%
75th Percentile £44.01 £60.68 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.95 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.50 £33.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -37.88% +46.67% +15.38%

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 10 November 2025.

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 10 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 16 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 10 November 2025. 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 +47 501 £525 -2.42% 660
London +34 299 £575 +4.45% 350
UK excluding London +22 238 £475 -3.85% 478
Work from Home +29 210 £525 +3.55% 313
Midlands +19 61 £475 +1.06% 21
North of England -25 57 £500 -1.38% 73
West Midlands +17 54 £475 -24.00% 9
Scotland -31 45 £510 +7.14% 18
Yorkshire -19 33 £518 +0.78% 28
South East +20 30 £414 -33.13% 298
East of England +6 25 £550 +10.00% 20
North West -14 20 £500 +3.09% 43
South West +15 17 £575 -4.17% 36
Northern Ireland +1 8 £400 - 8
East Midlands -11 7 £435 -2.68% 10
North East -9 5 £438 -28.28% 2

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 52 (8.18%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (7.08%) Confluence
3 40 (6.29%) Apache Spark
4 26 (4.09%) Apache
5 14 (2.20%) nginx
6 5 (0.79%) CMS
6 5 (0.79%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.79%) SAS
7 3 (0.47%) Traefik
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Finacle
2 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 622 (97.80%) AWS
2 346 (54.40%) Serverless
3 343 (53.93%) AWS Lambda
4 277 (43.55%) Amazon EC2
5 224 (35.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 145 (22.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 145 (22.80%) GitHub
7 140 (22.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 132 (20.75%) Amazon ECS
9 104 (16.35%) GitHub Actions
10 85 (13.36%) Amazon EKS
11 76 (11.95%) Azure
12 65 (10.22%) Amazon SQS
13 50 (7.86%) Amazon ELB
14 48 (7.55%) Amazon EMR
15 47 (7.39%) Route 53
16 46 (7.23%) Snowflake
17 44 (6.92%) Amazon Kinesis
18 42 (6.60%) AWS Step Functions
19 38 (5.97%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.28%) DNS
2 58 (9.12%) Firewall
3 37 (5.82%) VPN
4 27 (4.25%) SSH
5 26 (4.09%) SSL
5 26 (4.09%) TCP/IP
6 25 (3.93%) HTTP
7 24 (3.77%) SMTP
8 22 (3.46%) FTP
9 20 (3.14%) Network Security
10 17 (2.67%) OpenLDAP
11 12 (1.89%) IMAP
12 6 (0.94%) DHCP
12 6 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.47%) NAS
14 2 (0.31%) Calico
14 2 (0.31%) Kerberos
14 2 (0.31%) SMS
14 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (30.66%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (21.70%) PostgreSQL
3 101 (15.88%) DynamoDB
4 80 (12.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 70 (11.01%) Amazon Athena
6 65 (10.22%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (8.81%) Relational Database
8 55 (8.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 31 (4.87%) Data Lake
10 29 (4.56%) Amazon QuickSight
11 28 (4.40%) MongoDB
11 28 (4.40%) MySQL
11 28 (4.40%) NoSQL
12 23 (3.62%) RDBMS
13 20 (3.14%) Big Data
13 20 (3.14%) SQL Server
14 17 (2.67%) Metadata
14 17 (2.67%) Power BI
15 15 (2.36%) Tableau
16 14 (2.20%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 154 (24.21%) Jenkins
2 143 (22.48%) Git
3 97 (15.25%) GitLab
4 58 (9.12%) JIRA
5 24 (3.77%) Vagrant
6 18 (2.83%) JUnit
7 15 (2.36%) Maven
8 13 (2.04%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.73%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.57%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.42%) MLflow
11 9 (1.42%) Postman
12 8 (1.26%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.94%) Mockito
14 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (0.63%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.63%) DbUnit
14 4 (0.63%) jMock
14 4 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 166 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 120 (18.87%) Public Sector
3 71 (11.16%) Finance
4 70 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (2.99%) Banking
7 18 (2.83%) Front Office
7 18 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.89%) Military
9 7 (1.10%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.63%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.63%) Publishing
12 3 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.47%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.47%) Legal
12 3 (0.47%) Marketing
12 3 (0.47%) Retail
13 1 (0.16%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 145 (22.80%) AWS Engineer
2 106 (16.67%) Developer
3 105 (16.51%) Senior
4 98 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 91 (14.31%) Data Engineer
6 89 (13.99%) Architect
7 51 (8.02%) Platform Engineer
8 48 (7.55%) AWS DevOps
9 46 (7.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 42 (6.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 37 (5.82%) Java Developer
11 37 (5.82%) Lead
12 33 (5.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 32 (5.03%) AWS Architect
14 29 (4.56%) AWS Data Engineer
15 27 (4.25%) Cloud Engineer
16 26 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
17 25 (3.93%) AWS Developer
17 25 (3.93%) Software Engineer
18 24 (3.77%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (10.38%) Kafka
2 63 (9.91%) REST
3 61 (9.59%) React
4 58 (9.12%) Node.js
5 54 (8.49%) AWS CDK
6 42 (6.60%) Spring
7 37 (5.82%) RESTful
8 36 (5.66%) Spring Boot
9 26 (4.09%) OAuth
10 25 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
11 24 (3.77%) GraphQL
12 20 (3.14%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.14%) LDAP
12 20 (3.14%) Pandas
12 20 (3.14%) PyTorch
13 19 (2.99%) CSS
14 18 (2.83%) Jest
14 18 (2.83%) NumPy
14 18 (2.83%) PySpark
15 17 (2.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 95 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.50%) Replication
3 31 (4.87%) Onboarding
4 28 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
5 24 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (3.46%) CSOC
6 22 (3.46%) Security Operations Centre
7 19 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 14 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.73%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.10%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.10%) NHS
13 6 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.79%) Clustering
14 5 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.79%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 104 (16.35%) Linux
2 37 (5.82%) Windows
3 29 (4.56%) Amazon Linux
4 28 (4.40%) VMS
5 16 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (2.36%) Unix
7 13 (2.04%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.94%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Android
10 1 (0.16%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
10 1 (0.16%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (51.10%) CI/CD
2 260 (40.88%) DevOps
3 232 (36.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 177 (27.83%) Agile
5 148 (23.27%) Containerisation
6 109 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (16.51%) ETL
8 103 (16.19%) Data Pipeline
9 97 (15.25%) Data Modelling
10 90 (14.15%) Microservices
10 90 (14.15%) Migration
11 76 (11.95%) Analytics
11 76 (11.95%) Data Engineering
12 74 (11.64%) Mentoring
13 69 (10.85%) Observability
14 64 (10.06%) AI
15 62 (9.75%) Infrastructure Automation
16 58 (9.12%) Cloud Security
17 56 (8.81%) Machine Learning
17 56 (8.81%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 360 (56.60%) Python
2 177 (27.83%) SQL
3 105 (16.51%) Java
4 76 (11.95%) Bash
5 68 (10.69%) TypeScript
6 61 (9.59%) JavaScript
7 47 (7.39%) PowerShell
8 27 (4.25%) Groovy
9 24 (3.77%) Go
10 21 (3.30%) Perl
11 16 (2.52%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.89%) Scala
13 7 (1.10%) C#
14 6 (0.94%) JSX
15 5 (0.79%) Korn
16 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.47%) Bicep
17 3 (0.47%) C
18 2 (0.31%) CodeQL
18 2 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 190 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 165 (25.94%) SC Cleared
3 78 (12.26%) AWS Certification
4 38 (5.97%) Degree
5 35 (5.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.73%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.47%) CISSP
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.16%) CCNP
14 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.16%) RHCE
14 1 (0.16%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.16%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.66%) QA
3 32 (5.03%) GDPR
4 17 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.42%) NIST
7 6 (0.94%) NCSC
7 6 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.47%) WCAG
10 2 (0.31%) GxP
10 2 (0.31%) SLA
11 1 (0.16%) HL7
11 1 (0.16%) MiFID
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 219 (34.43%) Docker
2 28 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.46%) DFS Replication
4 16 (2.52%) Postfix
5 12 (1.89%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.89%) Squid
6 3 (0.47%) KVM
7 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.16%) etcd
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 286 (44.97%) Terraform
2 147 (23.11%) Kubernetes
3 97 (15.25%) Grafana
4 84 (13.21%) Prometheus
5 73 (11.48%) Ansible
6 16 (2.52%) Argo
7 15 (2.36%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.89%) Nessus
8 12 (1.89%) Puppet
9 10 (1.57%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (1.10%) Istio
12 6 (0.94%) Packer
13 5 (0.79%) Kibana
14 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.47%) Nagios
15 3 (0.47%) NetBackup
16 2 (0.31%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 39 (6.13%) Splunk
2 32 (5.03%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.72%) Oracle
3 30 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 24 (3.77%) Databricks
4 24 (3.77%) Palo Alto
5 23 (3.62%) CheckPoint
5 23 (3.62%) F5
6 16 (2.52%) Jaspersoft
7 12 (1.89%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.73%) Google
8 11 (1.73%) IBM
9 10 (1.57%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.42%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.42%) StreamSets
11 7 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
11 7 (1.10%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.94%) Commvault
13 5 (0.79%) Dell
13 5 (0.79%) Zscaler