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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 162 204
Rank change year-on-year -58 +42 +64
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 699 578 451
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.74% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.70% 4.58% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 414 303
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £432 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £639 £625 £600
90th Percentile £738 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -2.63% -3.55% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £41.00 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £57.44 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £62.45 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.03% - -
75th Percentile £70.12 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.83 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.40 - -

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 18,910 12,619 13,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.61% 38.02% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,545 8,428 8,670
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £716 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 632 297 190
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.13 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.71% -25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £64.73
90th Percentile £78.98 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +42.00%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -46 574 £528 +0.57% 683
London -19 383 £586 +3.20% 359
Work from Home -28 254 £537 +6.07% 381
UK excluding London -87 227 £463 -2.63% 404
North of England -51 72 £463 -7.50% 101
Midlands -43 58 £466 -1.95% 51
West Midlands -50 47 £475 - 21
Scotland -36 40 £433 -13.50% 51
South West -12 33 £466 -15.23% 70
North West -37 30 £450 -10.00% 60
North East -21 22 £419 -1.47% 16
Yorkshire -50 20 £500 -4.76% 26
South East -70 18 £575 +38.55% 63
East Midlands -5 10 £405 -17.97% 30
East of England -39 6 £350 -41.67% 43
Wales - 3 £600 - 15
Northern Ireland +2 2 £600 +50.00% 12

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 86 (12.30%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (10.87%) Confluence
3 75 (10.73%) Apache
4 71 (10.16%) Apache Spark
5 15 (2.15%) SAS
6 12 (1.72%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (1.00%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.86%) nginx
9 6 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.86%) Traefik
9 6 (0.86%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.86%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.29%) CMS
13 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.14%) Mule
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.29%) 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
1 675 (96.57%) AWS
2 421 (60.23%) Serverless
3 418 (59.80%) AWS Lambda
4 230 (32.90%) Amazon EC2
5 225 (32.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 163 (23.32%) GitHub
7 153 (21.89%) Amazon ECS
8 152 (21.75%) Amazon EKS
9 131 (18.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 128 (18.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 127 (18.17%) GitHub Actions
12 116 (16.60%) Azure
13 93 (13.30%) Amazon SQS
14 91 (13.02%) Amazon EMR
15 77 (11.02%) dbt
16 72 (10.30%) Snowflake
17 68 (9.73%) AWS Step Functions
18 64 (9.16%) Power Platform
19 55 (7.87%) AWS KMS
20 53 (7.58%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.58%) Firewall
2 14 (2.00%) DNS
3 12 (1.72%) Network Security
4 6 (0.86%) HTTP
4 6 (0.86%) SSL
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.57%) SAN
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Internet
7 3 (0.43%) SMS
7 3 (0.43%) VPN
8 2 (0.29%) FTP
8 2 (0.29%) IMAP
8 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (26.90%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (19.74%) Amazon Athena
3 122 (17.45%) DynamoDB
4 115 (16.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 97 (13.88%) PostgreSQL
6 92 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (9.16%) Data Lake
7 64 (9.16%) Power BI
8 51 (7.30%) MongoDB
9 47 (6.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 44 (6.29%) Metadata
11 33 (4.72%) Big Data
12 28 (4.01%) Apache Iceberg
12 28 (4.01%) Tableau
13 27 (3.86%) SQL Server
14 26 (3.72%) NoSQL
15 25 (3.58%) MySQL
16 24 (3.43%) Delta Lake
17 23 (3.29%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 158 (22.60%) GitLab
2 144 (20.60%) Git
3 129 (18.45%) Jenkins
4 75 (10.73%) JIRA
5 26 (3.72%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.43%) Cypress.io
6 17 (2.43%) Maven
6 17 (2.43%) SonarQube
7 14 (2.00%) JUnit
7 14 (2.00%) Mockito
8 12 (1.72%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.00%) Postman
10 6 (0.86%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.86%) Selenium
10 6 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.72%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.57%) Flyway
12 4 (0.57%) jMock
General
1 173 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 153 (21.89%) Public Sector
3 126 (18.03%) Finance
4 59 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.72%) Banking
6 19 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.15%) Front Office
8 13 (1.86%) Back Office
9 12 (1.72%) Legal
10 10 (1.43%) Military
11 8 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.14%) Marketing
12 7 (1.00%) Law
12 7 (1.00%) Publishing
13 6 (0.86%) Billing
14 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.57%) Local Government
15 4 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 169 (24.18%) Data Engineer
2 128 (18.31%) Senior
3 118 (16.88%) AWS Engineer
4 115 (16.45%) Developer
5 88 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 78 (11.16%) Lead
7 76 (10.87%) Architect
8 54 (7.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 44 (6.29%) AWS Data Engineer
10 39 (5.58%) AWS DevOps
11 34 (4.86%) Java Developer
12 33 (4.72%) AWS Architect
13 31 (4.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 31 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
14 27 (3.86%) Data Architect
15 26 (3.72%) AWS Developer
15 26 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
16 24 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
16 24 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 22 (3.15%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (48.21%) Terraform
2 95 (13.59%) REST
3 88 (12.59%) Kafka
4 75 (10.73%) PySpark
5 56 (8.01%) Spring Boot
6 54 (7.73%) Spring
7 53 (7.58%) RESTful
8 52 (7.44%) React
9 43 (6.15%) AWS CDK
10 40 (5.72%) Node.js
11 30 (4.29%) FastAPI
12 28 (4.01%) SOAP
13 25 (3.58%) AngularJS
14 23 (3.29%) GraphQL
14 23 (3.29%) JSON
15 22 (3.15%) .NET
16 20 (2.86%) OAuth
17 19 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
18 18 (2.58%) Pandas
19 16 (2.29%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 190 (27.18%) Cloud Native
2 65 (9.30%) Product Ownership
3 39 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.29%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.72%) NHS
6 17 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.15%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.00%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.00%) Replication
9 13 (1.86%) IVR
10 12 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.29%) Legacy Code
12 9 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.29%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.14%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.14%) Mainframe
14 7 (1.00%) Clustering
14 7 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 96 (13.73%) Linux
2 23 (3.29%) Unix
2 23 (3.29%) Windows
3 17 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.57%) AIX
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (65.67%) CI/CD
2 319 (45.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 312 (44.64%) DevOps
4 274 (39.20%) Agile
5 188 (26.90%) Data Engineering
6 184 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
7 152 (21.75%) Analytics
8 138 (19.74%) AI
9 137 (19.60%) Data Modelling
10 135 (19.31%) Observability
11 130 (18.60%) Containerisation
12 129 (18.45%) ETL
13 117 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 113 (16.17%) Test Automation
15 112 (16.02%) Microservices
16 108 (15.45%) Migration
17 107 (15.31%) Event-Driven
18 102 (14.59%) Technical Leadership
19 96 (13.73%) Machine Learning
20 92 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 395 (56.51%) Python
2 266 (38.05%) SQL
3 109 (15.59%) Java
4 72 (10.30%) Bash
4 72 (10.30%) TypeScript
5 53 (7.58%) JavaScript
6 29 (4.15%) PowerShell
7 23 (3.29%) Scala
8 22 (3.15%) C#
8 22 (3.15%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.43%) Groovy
10 15 (2.15%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.29%) Bicep
11 9 (1.29%) Go
12 7 (1.00%) Perl
13 5 (0.72%) R
14 4 (0.57%) Cypher
14 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 243 (34.76%) Security Cleared
2 219 (31.33%) SC Cleared
3 96 (13.73%) AWS Certification
4 47 (6.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (5.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (4.43%) Degree
7 24 (3.43%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (2.00%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.29%) CISM
12 9 (1.29%) CISSP
13 8 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (1.00%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.43%) CSPO
17 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 2 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (18.17%) Data Quality
2 50 (7.15%) QA
3 17 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.43%) GDPR
4 11 (1.57%) NIST
5 6 (0.86%) HL7
6 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) SLA
8 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) GLBA
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 224 (32.05%) Docker
2 17 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.72%) Postfix
3 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) Squid
5 3 (0.43%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.29%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 152 (21.75%) Kubernetes
2 108 (15.45%) Grafana
3 65 (9.30%) Prometheus
4 51 (7.30%) Ansible
5 18 (2.58%) Argo
6 16 (2.29%) Kibana
7 14 (2.00%) Puppet
8 13 (1.86%) Karpenter
9 12 (1.72%) Istio
10 8 (1.14%) Packer
11 6 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (0.57%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.57%) Salt
14 3 (0.43%) Control-M
14 3 (0.43%) systemd
15 2 (0.29%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (8.58%) Databricks
2 56 (8.01%) Oracle
3 47 (6.72%) Microsoft
4 30 (4.29%) Informatica
5 23 (3.29%) Splunk
6 22 (3.15%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.72%) Google
8 18 (2.58%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.86%) Confluent
9 13 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.72%) Teradata
11 11 (1.57%) Denodo
12 10 (1.43%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.29%) webMethods
14 8 (1.14%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.14%) Brio
14 8 (1.14%) Foundry
14 8 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (1.14%) Palantir
15 7 (1.00%) Red Hat