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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 157 222
Rank change year-on-year -55 +65 +49
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 711 594 434
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.80% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 4.74% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 432 290
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £432 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £638 £606 £610
90th Percentile £738 £688 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -2.63% -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 £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 19,022 12,530 13,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.67% 37.88% 34.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,616 8,370 8,741
10th Percentile £325 £312 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
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 £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 622 298 189
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.42 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.08 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +26.92%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -54 586 £525 - 554
London -15 392 £575 - 330
Work from Home -23 252 £527 +1.64% 239
UK excluding London -91 231 £463 -2.63% 267
North of England -60 71 £463 -7.50% 75
Midlands -42 61 £461 -3.00% 32
West Midlands -46 50 £469 -1.26% 13
Scotland -34 42 £444 -12.99% 18
North West -44 29 £500 +5.26% 48
South West -26 28 £456 -16.48% 56
North East -21 22 £419 -1.47% 12
South East -76 22 £575 +38.55% 41
Yorkshire -49 20 £500 -4.76% 15
East Midlands -11 10 £405 -17.97% 19
East of England -53 7 £350 -36.36% 27
Wales - 3 £600 - 7
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 13

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 90 (12.66%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (10.41%) Confluence
3 69 (9.70%) Apache
4 68 (9.56%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.25%) SAS
6 13 (1.83%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.98%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.84%) Traefik
9 6 (0.84%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.84%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.70%) nginx
11 4 (0.56%) PowerExchange
12 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.28%) CMS
14 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.14%) Mule
14 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) 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
1 692 (97.33%) AWS
2 439 (61.74%) Serverless
3 436 (61.32%) AWS Lambda
4 229 (32.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 226 (31.79%) Amazon EC2
6 160 (22.50%) GitHub
7 150 (21.10%) Amazon ECS
8 143 (20.11%) Amazon EKS
9 132 (18.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 125 (17.58%) GitHub Actions
11 124 (17.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 116 (16.32%) Azure
13 100 (14.06%) Amazon SQS
14 95 (13.36%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.25%) dbt
16 77 (10.83%) Snowflake
17 75 (10.55%) AWS Step Functions
18 63 (8.86%) Power Platform
19 56 (7.88%) Amazon EventBridge
19 56 (7.88%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.53%) Firewall
2 14 (1.97%) DNS
3 8 (1.13%) Network Security
4 7 (0.98%) HTTP
4 7 (0.98%) SSL
5 5 (0.70%) CTI
6 4 (0.56%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.56%) SAN
6 4 (0.56%) SMS
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%) VPN
8 2 (0.28%) FTP
8 2 (0.28%) IMAP
8 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.28%) NAS
8 2 (0.28%) SSH
8 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (25.60%) Amazon RDS
2 147 (20.68%) Amazon Athena
3 129 (18.14%) DynamoDB
4 115 (16.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 97 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
6 94 (13.22%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (9.00%) Data Lake
8 63 (8.86%) Power BI
9 47 (6.61%) MongoDB
10 46 (6.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 39 (5.49%) Metadata
12 32 (4.50%) Big Data
12 32 (4.50%) Tableau
13 30 (4.22%) NoSQL
14 28 (3.94%) Apache Iceberg
15 26 (3.66%) SQL Server
16 24 (3.38%) Delta Lake
16 24 (3.38%) Relational Database
17 23 (3.23%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 149 (20.96%) GitLab
2 143 (20.11%) Git
3 127 (17.86%) Jenkins
4 75 (10.55%) JIRA
5 26 (3.66%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.53%) Cypress.io
6 18 (2.53%) SonarQube
7 17 (2.39%) Maven
8 15 (2.11%) JUnit
8 15 (2.11%) Mockito
9 11 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.98%) Postman
11 6 (0.84%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.84%) DbUnit
11 6 (0.84%) Selenium
11 6 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.70%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (0.70%) jMock
13 4 (0.56%) Flyway
General
1 172 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 154 (21.66%) Public Sector
3 131 (18.42%) Finance
4 64 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (6.75%) Banking
6 19 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.25%) Front Office
8 12 (1.69%) Back Office
8 12 (1.69%) Legal
9 10 (1.41%) Military
10 8 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.13%) Marketing
11 7 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.98%) Law
11 7 (0.98%) Publishing
12 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Billing
13 4 (0.56%) Local Government
13 4 (0.56%) Police
13 4 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 169 (23.77%) Data Engineer
2 126 (17.72%) Senior
3 123 (17.30%) Developer
4 120 (16.88%) AWS Engineer
5 82 (11.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 81 (11.39%) Lead
7 80 (11.25%) Architect
8 52 (7.31%) Senior Data Engineer
9 46 (6.47%) AWS Data Engineer
10 37 (5.20%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (4.92%) Java Developer
12 33 (4.64%) AWS Architect
13 32 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
14 31 (4.36%) AWS Developer
15 30 (4.22%) Data Architect
16 29 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 25 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
18 23 (3.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 23 (3.23%) Snowflake Engineer
18 23 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (46.27%) Terraform
2 89 (12.52%) REST
3 85 (11.95%) Kafka
4 78 (10.97%) PySpark
5 62 (8.72%) Spring Boot
6 60 (8.44%) Spring
7 57 (8.02%) React
8 56 (7.88%) RESTful
9 49 (6.89%) Node.js
10 41 (5.77%) AWS CDK
11 31 (4.36%) FastAPI
12 29 (4.08%) SOAP
13 26 (3.66%) AngularJS
14 23 (3.23%) .NET
14 23 (3.23%) GraphQL
15 22 (3.09%) JSON
16 20 (2.81%) OAuth
16 20 (2.81%) Pandas
17 18 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
18 15 (2.11%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 191 (26.86%) Cloud Native
2 64 (9.00%) Product Ownership
3 39 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.95%) NHS
4 21 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 14 (1.97%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.97%) Replication
8 13 (1.83%) IVR
8 13 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.27%) Legacy Code
13 8 (1.13%) Clustering
13 8 (1.13%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.98%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.98%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.98%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 93 (13.08%) Linux
2 26 (3.66%) Unix
3 22 (3.09%) Windows
4 15 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.56%) AIX
9 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.28%) Android
10 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (63.57%) CI/CD
2 317 (44.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 307 (43.18%) DevOps
4 273 (38.40%) Agile
5 188 (26.44%) Data Pipeline
6 182 (25.60%) Data Engineering
7 158 (22.22%) Analytics
8 138 (19.41%) Data Modelling
9 133 (18.71%) ETL
10 132 (18.57%) Containerisation
10 132 (18.57%) Observability
11 131 (18.42%) AI
12 112 (15.75%) Microservices
12 112 (15.75%) Migration
13 111 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 109 (15.33%) Event-Driven
15 104 (14.63%) Technical Leadership
16 103 (14.49%) Test Automation
17 93 (13.08%) Machine Learning
18 91 (12.80%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 395 (55.56%) Python
2 269 (37.83%) SQL
3 117 (16.46%) Java
4 75 (10.55%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.70%) Bash
6 54 (7.59%) JavaScript
7 27 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 24 (3.38%) C#
9 23 (3.23%) Scala
10 22 (3.09%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.53%) Groovy
12 15 (2.11%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.13%) 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
1 239 (33.61%) Security Cleared
2 221 (31.08%) SC Cleared
3 93 (13.08%) AWS Certification
4 46 (6.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (5.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (3.80%) Degree
7 18 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.97%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.27%) CISM
12 9 (1.27%) CISSP
13 8 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.98%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.42%) CSPO
17 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (18.00%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.89%) QA
3 17 (2.39%) GDPR
4 16 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.41%) NIST
6 7 (0.98%) SLA
7 6 (0.84%) HL7
8 4 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.56%) NCSC
8 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 221 (31.08%) Docker
2 16 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.84%) 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
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 145 (20.39%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.49%) Grafana
3 57 (8.02%) Prometheus
4 42 (5.91%) Ansible
5 17 (2.39%) Argo
6 16 (2.25%) Kibana
7 12 (1.69%) Istio
7 12 (1.69%) Karpenter
7 12 (1.69%) Puppet
8 8 (1.13%) Packer
9 6 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (0.56%) Salt
12 3 (0.42%) Control-M
12 3 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.42%) systemd
13 2 (0.28%) Consul
13 2 (0.28%) Nessus
13 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 58 (8.16%) Databricks
2 54 (7.59%) Oracle
3 43 (6.05%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.08%) Informatica
5 23 (3.23%) Splunk
6 22 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.53%) Google
8 14 (1.97%) Teradata
9 13 (1.83%) Confluent
9 13 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.55%) Denodo
10 11 (1.55%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.27%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.27%) webMethods
12 8 (1.13%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.13%) Brio
12 8 (1.13%) Foundry
12 8 (1.13%) Palantir
13 7 (0.98%) IBM