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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 156 223
Rank change year-on-year -56 +67 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 698 600 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.82% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.68% 4.86% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 438 291
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £609
90th Percentile £743 £696 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -6.20% +1.21% -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 18,989 12,346 13,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.81% 37.40% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,599 8,215 8,949
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
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 609 308 205
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.20
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.70 £54.06 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.62 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +46.34% -28.07% +5.56%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -61 576 £535 +1.90% 317
London -17 392 £575 -2.13% 204
Work from Home -31 252 £525 - 871
UK excluding London -93 219 £469 -6.20% 160
North of England -66 64 £463 -7.50% 48
Midlands -46 62 £463 -2.63% 12
West Midlands -48 53 £469 -1.26% 5
Scotland -37 38 £450 -10.00% 25
South West -29 28 £470 -13.96% 22
North West -48 26 £475 - 21
North East -27 21 £425 -2.86% 11
South East -62 20 £550 +29.41% 26
Yorkshire -55 17 £500 -4.76% 16
East Midlands -14 8 £425 -20.86% 7
East of England -39 7 £400 -27.27% 21
Wales - 3 £600 - 3
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 5

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 91 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (10.60%) Confluence
3 58 (8.31%) Apache Spark
4 57 (8.17%) Apache
5 17 (2.44%) SAS
6 12 (1.72%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.15%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.86%) nginx
9 5 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.72%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.72%) 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%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.14%) Mule
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 679 (97.28%) AWS
2 447 (64.04%) Serverless
3 445 (63.75%) AWS Lambda
4 233 (33.38%) Amazon EC2
5 227 (32.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 167 (23.93%) GitHub
7 150 (21.49%) Amazon ECS
8 138 (19.77%) Amazon EKS
9 132 (18.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 128 (18.34%) GitHub Actions
11 125 (17.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 111 (15.90%) Azure
13 93 (13.32%) Amazon SQS
14 88 (12.61%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.46%) dbt
16 75 (10.74%) AWS Step Functions
16 75 (10.74%) Snowflake
17 61 (8.74%) Power Platform
18 54 (7.74%) AWS KMS
19 50 (7.16%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.72%) Firewall
2 17 (2.44%) DNS
3 10 (1.43%) Network Security
4 7 (1.00%) HTTP
4 7 (1.00%) SSL
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
5 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.72%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) Internet
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) SAN
6 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) IMAP
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) SMTP
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (26.50%) Amazon RDS
2 140 (20.06%) Amazon Athena
3 126 (18.05%) DynamoDB
4 112 (16.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 94 (13.47%) Data Warehouse
5 94 (13.47%) PostgreSQL
6 61 (8.74%) Power BI
7 58 (8.31%) Data Lake
8 45 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 45 (6.45%) MongoDB
9 42 (6.02%) Metadata
10 30 (4.30%) Big Data
11 28 (4.01%) NoSQL
11 28 (4.01%) Tableau
12 27 (3.87%) Relational Database
13 25 (3.58%) Apache Iceberg
14 24 (3.44%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.30%) Delta Lake
16 20 (2.87%) Data Vault
17 18 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 144 (20.63%) GitLab
2 142 (20.34%) Git
3 132 (18.91%) Jenkins
4 76 (10.89%) JIRA
5 26 (3.72%) Bitbucket
6 21 (3.01%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.58%) SonarQube
8 16 (2.29%) JUnit
8 16 (2.29%) Mockito
9 15 (2.15%) Maven
10 9 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.00%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.00%) Postman
12 6 (0.86%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (0.86%) jMock
12 6 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.72%) Selenium
14 4 (0.57%) Flyway
General
1 162 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 155 (22.21%) Public Sector
3 119 (17.05%) Finance
4 58 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (6.02%) Banking
6 15 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.01%) Front Office
8 10 (1.43%) Back Office
8 10 (1.43%) Military
9 9 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.00%) Law
10 7 (1.00%) Marketing
10 7 (1.00%) Publishing
11 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.86%) Legal
12 4 (0.57%) Billing
12 4 (0.57%) Local Government
12 4 (0.57%) Retail
13 3 (0.43%) Games
13 3 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 169 (24.21%) Data Engineer
2 126 (18.05%) Senior
3 119 (17.05%) AWS Engineer
4 117 (16.76%) Developer
5 82 (11.75%) Architect
6 78 (11.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 78 (11.17%) Lead
7 54 (7.74%) Senior Data Engineer
8 45 (6.45%) AWS Data Engineer
9 37 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
10 34 (4.87%) AWS Architect
11 33 (4.73%) AWS Developer
12 31 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.44%) Java Developer
13 30 (4.30%) Data Architect
14 28 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (3.44%) Software Engineer
16 23 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 22 (3.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (46.42%) Terraform
2 80 (11.46%) REST
3 77 (11.03%) PySpark
4 76 (10.89%) Kafka
5 59 (8.45%) React
6 58 (8.31%) Spring Boot
7 57 (8.17%) Spring
8 56 (8.02%) RESTful
9 51 (7.31%) Node.js
10 48 (6.88%) AWS CDK
11 33 (4.73%) FastAPI
12 25 (3.58%) AngularJS
13 24 (3.44%) JSON
14 21 (3.01%) .NET
14 21 (3.01%) SOAP
15 20 (2.87%) GraphQL
15 20 (2.87%) OAuth
15 20 (2.87%) Pandas
16 18 (2.58%) Next.js
17 16 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 179 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.88%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.01%) NHS
5 18 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.86%) AI Agents
7 13 (1.86%) IVR
8 12 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.72%) Replication
9 11 (1.58%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.29%) Clustering
11 9 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.29%) Legacy Code
11 9 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.29%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.15%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.15%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 93 (13.32%) Linux
2 26 (3.72%) Unix
3 21 (3.01%) Windows
4 14 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.57%) AIX
7 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
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%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (63.47%) CI/CD
2 310 (44.41%) DevOps
3 306 (43.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 267 (38.25%) Agile
5 187 (26.79%) Data Pipeline
6 171 (24.50%) Data Engineering
7 152 (21.78%) Analytics
8 137 (19.63%) Data Modelling
9 133 (19.05%) AI
10 132 (18.91%) ETL
11 129 (18.48%) Containerisation
12 120 (17.19%) Observability
13 113 (16.19%) Microservices
14 106 (15.19%) Migration
15 103 (14.76%) Test Automation
16 102 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 102 (14.61%) Event-Driven
17 93 (13.32%) Technical Leadership
18 91 (13.04%) Machine Learning
19 87 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 393 (56.30%) Python
2 250 (35.82%) SQL
3 123 (17.62%) Java
4 80 (11.46%) TypeScript
5 67 (9.60%) Bash
6 57 (8.17%) JavaScript
7 27 (3.87%) C#
7 27 (3.87%) PowerShell
8 24 (3.44%) Shell Script
9 22 (3.15%) Scala
10 18 (2.58%) Groovy
11 14 (2.01%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.15%) Bicep
13 7 (1.00%) Perl
14 6 (0.86%) Go
15 5 (0.72%) R
16 4 (0.57%) Cypher
16 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 241 (34.53%) Security Cleared
2 218 (31.23%) SC Cleared
3 84 (12.03%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (4.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.01%) Degree
7 20 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 19 (2.72%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.58%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.00%) CISM
13 7 (1.00%) CISSP
14 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.43%) CSPO
16 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (16.91%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.44%) QA
3 17 (2.44%) GDPR
4 15 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.29%) NIST
6 6 (0.86%) HL7
6 6 (0.86%) SLA
7 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.29%) PMO
8 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.29%) WCAG
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 217 (31.09%) Docker
2 18 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.00%) Postfix
4 6 (0.86%) Squid
5 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.29%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.29%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 135 (19.34%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.76%) Grafana
3 57 (8.17%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.16%) Ansible
5 18 (2.58%) Argo
6 16 (2.29%) Kibana
7 12 (1.72%) Karpenter
8 10 (1.43%) Puppet
9 8 (1.15%) Packer
10 7 (1.00%) Istio
11 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (0.57%) Salt
14 3 (0.43%) Control-M
14 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.43%) systemd
15 2 (0.29%) Consul
15 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (8.31%) Databricks
2 45 (6.45%) Oracle
3 43 (6.16%) Microsoft
4 33 (4.73%) Informatica
5 24 (3.44%) Splunk
6 21 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.58%) Google
8 17 (2.44%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.72%) Teradata
10 11 (1.58%) Confluent
10 11 (1.58%) Denodo
11 10 (1.43%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
11 10 (1.43%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.15%) Foundry
12 8 (1.15%) IBM
12 8 (1.15%) Palantir
13 7 (1.00%) SnapLogic
14 6 (0.86%) PagerDuty