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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 156 215
Rank change year-on-year -54 +59 +41
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 712 584 432
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.79% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 4.73% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 427 287
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £435 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £611
90th Percentile £738 £688 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £497 £491
% change year-on-year -6.94% +1.22% -1.80%
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 £72.83 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.93 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.58 - -

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 19,019 12,350 12,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.67% 37.77% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,616 8,238 8,668
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 291 186
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.28
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £33.27
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -15.84% -4.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £53.13 £64.67
90th Percentile £80.75 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.75 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +59.57% -41.61% +29.67%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -38 587 £526 +0.19% 475
London -11 397 £575 - 271
Work from Home -37 248 £525 +0.48% 211
UK excluding London -91 229 £463 -6.94% 243
North of England -69 68 £463 -7.50% 72
Midlands -45 60 £459 -3.37% 27
West Midlands -42 49 £469 -1.26% 13
Scotland -28 42 £444 -13.41% 23
South West -23 29 £456 -16.48% 42
North West -51 28 £475 - 40
South East -65 22 £575 +36.90% 37
North East -20 21 £425 -2.86% 14
Yorkshire -53 19 £500 -4.76% 18
East Midlands -15 10 £405 -17.97% 14
East of England -46 8 £375 -31.82% 27
Wales - 3 £600 - 7
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 9

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 94 (13.20%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (9.97%) Confluence
3 67 (9.41%) Apache
4 66 (9.27%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.25%) SAS
6 13 (1.83%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.12%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.84%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.84%) WebLogic Portal
9 5 (0.70%) nginx
10 4 (0.56%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.28%) CMS
12 2 (0.28%) Traefik
13 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.14%) Appian
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 694 (97.47%) AWS
2 444 (62.36%) Serverless
3 441 (61.94%) AWS Lambda
4 234 (32.87%) Amazon EC2
5 231 (32.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 159 (22.33%) GitHub
7 151 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
8 143 (20.08%) Amazon EKS
9 134 (18.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 128 (17.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 124 (17.42%) GitHub Actions
12 112 (15.73%) Azure
13 97 (13.62%) Amazon SQS
14 93 (13.06%) Amazon EMR
15 81 (11.38%) dbt
16 76 (10.67%) AWS Step Functions
16 76 (10.67%) Snowflake
17 64 (8.99%) Power Platform
18 55 (7.72%) Amazon EventBridge
18 55 (7.72%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.67%) Firewall
2 16 (2.25%) DNS
3 9 (1.26%) Network Security
4 7 (0.98%) HTTP
4 7 (0.98%) SSL
5 6 (0.84%) CTI
6 4 (0.56%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.56%) SAN
6 4 (0.56%) SMS
6 4 (0.56%) VPN
6 4 (0.56%) WAN
7 3 (0.42%) Internet
7 3 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.28%) IMAP
8 2 (0.28%) SMTP
8 2 (0.28%) SSH
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (26.40%) Amazon RDS
2 148 (20.79%) Amazon Athena
3 131 (18.40%) DynamoDB
4 115 (16.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 99 (13.90%) PostgreSQL
6 94 (13.20%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (8.99%) Power BI
8 63 (8.85%) Data Lake
9 48 (6.74%) Amazon Aurora
10 46 (6.46%) MongoDB
11 41 (5.76%) Metadata
12 32 (4.49%) Big Data
12 32 (4.49%) Tableau
13 29 (4.07%) NoSQL
14 25 (3.51%) Apache Iceberg
14 25 (3.51%) Relational Database
15 23 (3.23%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.23%) Delta Lake
16 22 (3.09%) SQL Server
17 20 (2.81%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 147 (20.65%) GitLab
2 142 (19.94%) Git
3 129 (18.12%) Jenkins
4 72 (10.11%) JIRA
5 26 (3.65%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.67%) SonarQube
7 18 (2.53%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.53%) Maven
8 16 (2.25%) JUnit
8 16 (2.25%) Mockito
9 9 (1.26%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.98%) DbUnit
10 7 (0.98%) Postman
11 6 (0.84%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (0.84%) jMock
11 6 (0.84%) Selenium
11 6 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.56%) Flyway
General
1 173 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 153 (21.49%) Public Sector
3 133 (18.68%) Finance
4 65 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (6.74%) Banking
6 18 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.25%) Front Office
8 12 (1.69%) Back Office
8 12 (1.69%) Legal
9 10 (1.40%) Military
10 8 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.98%) Law
11 7 (0.98%) Marketing
11 7 (0.98%) Publishing
12 4 (0.56%) Billing
12 4 (0.56%) Local Government
12 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 170 (23.88%) Data Engineer
2 128 (17.98%) Senior
3 121 (16.99%) Developer
4 120 (16.85%) AWS Engineer
5 83 (11.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 82 (11.52%) Architect
7 79 (11.10%) Lead
8 55 (7.72%) Senior Data Engineer
9 45 (6.32%) AWS Data Engineer
10 38 (5.34%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (4.92%) Java Developer
12 34 (4.78%) AWS Architect
13 33 (4.63%) AWS Developer
14 32 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
15 30 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 30 (4.21%) Data Architect
16 23 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
16 23 (3.23%) Software Engineer
17 22 (3.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 22 (3.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (45.79%) Terraform
2 89 (12.50%) REST
3 82 (11.52%) Kafka
4 79 (11.10%) PySpark
5 62 (8.71%) Spring Boot
6 61 (8.57%) Spring
7 59 (8.29%) React
8 57 (8.01%) RESTful
9 51 (7.16%) Node.js
10 43 (6.04%) AWS CDK
11 32 (4.49%) FastAPI
12 26 (3.65%) AngularJS
12 26 (3.65%) SOAP
13 24 (3.37%) JSON
14 23 (3.23%) GraphQL
15 22 (3.09%) .NET
16 21 (2.95%) Pandas
17 20 (2.81%) OAuth
18 19 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
19 17 (2.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 187 (26.26%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.43%) Product Ownership
3 38 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.95%) NHS
4 21 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (1.97%) AI Agents
6 14 (1.97%) IVR
6 14 (1.97%) Replication
7 13 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.26%) Legacy Code
11 8 (1.12%) Clustering
11 8 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.12%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.12%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.98%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 94 (13.20%) Linux
2 27 (3.79%) Unix
3 21 (2.95%) Windows
4 14 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.40%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.56%) AIX
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.28%) Android
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (63.62%) CI/CD
2 316 (44.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 310 (43.54%) DevOps
4 271 (38.06%) Agile
5 189 (26.54%) Data Pipeline
6 180 (25.28%) Data Engineering
7 160 (22.47%) Analytics
8 138 (19.38%) Data Modelling
9 137 (19.24%) ETL
10 132 (18.54%) Containerisation
11 131 (18.40%) Observability
12 128 (17.98%) AI
13 114 (16.01%) Microservices
14 113 (15.87%) Migration
15 112 (15.73%) Event-Driven
16 109 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
17 102 (14.33%) Technical Leadership
18 99 (13.90%) Test Automation
19 92 (12.92%) Business Intelligence
19 92 (12.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 396 (55.62%) Python
2 267 (37.50%) SQL
3 119 (16.71%) Java
4 77 (10.81%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.69%) Bash
6 56 (7.87%) JavaScript
7 27 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 25 (3.51%) C#
9 24 (3.37%) Shell Script
10 21 (2.95%) Scala
11 18 (2.53%) Groovy
12 15 (2.11%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.12%) Bicep
14 7 (0.98%) Go
14 7 (0.98%) Perl
15 5 (0.70%) R
16 4 (0.56%) Cypher
16 4 (0.56%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 236 (33.15%) Security Cleared
2 216 (30.34%) SC Cleared
3 93 (13.06%) AWS Certification
4 46 (6.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (3.65%) Degree
7 17 (2.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.26%) CISM
11 9 (1.26%) CISSP
12 8 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.98%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.42%) CSPO
15 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (17.70%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.18%) QA
3 17 (2.39%) GDPR
4 15 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.40%) NIST
6 7 (0.98%) SLA
7 6 (0.84%) HL7
8 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.56%) NCSC
9 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.28%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) PMO
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 222 (31.18%) Docker
2 18 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.98%) Postfix
4 5 (0.70%) Squid
4 5 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.42%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.28%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.28%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 141 (19.80%) Kubernetes
2 105 (14.75%) Grafana
3 59 (8.29%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.04%) Ansible
5 17 (2.39%) Argo
6 16 (2.25%) Kibana
7 12 (1.69%) Karpenter
8 11 (1.54%) Puppet
9 8 (1.12%) Istio
9 8 (1.12%) Packer
10 6 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
10 6 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (0.56%) Salt
12 3 (0.42%) Control-M
12 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.42%) systemd
13 2 (0.28%) Consul
13 2 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 56 (7.87%) Databricks
2 50 (7.02%) Oracle
3 42 (5.90%) Microsoft
4 30 (4.21%) Informatica
5 23 (3.23%) Splunk
6 22 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.39%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.39%) Google
8 14 (1.97%) Teradata
9 13 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.69%) Confluent
11 11 (1.54%) Denodo
11 11 (1.54%) OpenAI
12 10 (1.40%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (1.26%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.12%) Foundry
14 8 (1.12%) Palantir
15 7 (0.98%) Brio
15 7 (0.98%) IBM
15 7 (0.98%) SnapLogic