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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 165 223
Rank change year-on-year -32 +58 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 743 541 447
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.41% 1.66% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.00% 4.44% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 404 321
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -3.81%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 18,592 12,186 13,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.27% 37.39% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,293 8,155 9,692
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.13% -1.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 314 319
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.49% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.13
90th Percentile £83.35 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -25.93%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -21 618 £525 - 132
London +6 406 £550 -4.35% 68
Work from Home -22 265 £506 -1.79% 69
UK excluding London -53 254 £475 - 76
Midlands -13 78 £469 -1.26% 14
West Midlands -20 72 £469 -1.26% 8
North of England -62 62 £500 +2.56% 25
Scotland -13 47 £450 -9.01% 5
South West -14 32 £463 -15.91% 15
North West -46 30 £510 +7.37% 7
South East -66 28 £575 +35.29% 14
Yorkshire -55 17 £550 +4.76% 7
North East -30 15 £425 -5.56% 11
East of England -34 7 £400 -20.00% 3
East Midlands -13 5 £448 -10.14% 6
Wales - 4 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland +1 1 - -

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 (11.57%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (11.44%) Confluence
3 65 (8.75%) Apache Spark
4 54 (7.27%) Apache
5 23 (3.10%) SAS
6 11 (1.48%) nginx
7 9 (1.21%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.81%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) Mule
12 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 732 (98.52%) AWS
2 466 (62.72%) Serverless
3 458 (61.64%) AWS Lambda
4 266 (35.80%) Amazon EC2
5 219 (29.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 159 (21.40%) Amazon ECS
7 149 (20.05%) GitHub
8 147 (19.78%) Amazon EKS
9 141 (18.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 139 (18.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 113 (15.21%) Amazon SQS
12 112 (15.07%) Azure
13 108 (14.54%) GitHub Actions
14 94 (12.65%) Amazon EMR
15 85 (11.44%) Snowflake
16 84 (11.31%) dbt
17 78 (10.50%) AWS Step Functions
18 63 (8.48%) Power Platform
19 57 (7.67%) AWS KMS
20 44 (5.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.10%) Firewall
2 22 (2.96%) DNS
3 14 (1.88%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.48%) OpenVPN
4 11 (1.48%) VPN
5 9 (1.21%) Network Security
6 6 (0.81%) HTTP
7 5 (0.67%) CTI
8 4 (0.54%) DHCP
8 4 (0.54%) Internet
8 4 (0.54%) NetScaler
8 4 (0.54%) SSL
8 4 (0.54%) WAN
9 3 (0.40%) NAS
9 3 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.40%) SAN
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
11 1 (0.13%) AMQP
11 1 (0.13%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (24.36%) Amazon RDS
2 147 (19.78%) Amazon Athena
3 130 (17.50%) DynamoDB
4 128 (17.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 97 (13.06%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (11.31%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (8.48%) Power BI
8 59 (7.94%) Data Lake
9 49 (6.59%) Amazon Aurora
10 44 (5.92%) Metadata
11 36 (4.85%) Relational Database
12 33 (4.44%) MongoDB
13 32 (4.31%) NoSQL
14 31 (4.17%) Big Data
15 30 (4.04%) Tableau
16 25 (3.36%) BigQuery
16 25 (3.36%) SQL Server
17 21 (2.83%) Apache Iceberg
17 21 (2.83%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (2.42%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 147 (19.78%) Git
2 142 (19.11%) Jenkins
3 141 (18.98%) GitLab
4 91 (12.25%) JIRA
5 33 (4.44%) SonarQube
6 32 (4.31%) Bitbucket
7 27 (3.63%) JUnit
8 24 (3.23%) Maven
9 23 (3.10%) Mockito
10 18 (2.42%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.88%) DbUnit
12 13 (1.75%) jMock
13 11 (1.48%) Bitbucket Server
14 10 (1.35%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.94%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.94%) Postman
16 6 (0.81%) MLflow
17 5 (0.67%) Selenium
18 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 4 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 187 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 157 (21.13%) Public Sector
3 124 (16.69%) Finance
4 66 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (5.65%) Banking
6 20 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.75%) Front Office
8 11 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.81%) Back Office
10 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.81%) Law
10 6 (0.81%) Legal
10 6 (0.81%) Marketing
10 6 (0.81%) Military
11 5 (0.67%) Billing
12 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Retail
12 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 172 (23.15%) Data Engineer
2 140 (18.84%) Developer
3 137 (18.44%) AWS Engineer
4 107 (14.40%) Senior
5 92 (12.38%) Lead
6 86 (11.57%) Architect
7 61 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (6.33%) AWS Data Engineer
9 45 (6.06%) Java Developer
10 41 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (5.52%) Senior Data Engineer
11 36 (4.85%) AWS Architect
11 36 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
12 32 (4.31%) AWS Developer
13 28 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.63%) Software Engineer
15 26 (3.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.36%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.23%) Data Architect
18 23 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (11.44%) PySpark
2 82 (11.04%) Kafka
3 74 (9.96%) REST
4 68 (9.15%) Spring Boot
5 67 (9.02%) Spring
6 65 (8.75%) React
7 64 (8.61%) Node.js
8 57 (7.67%) RESTful
9 56 (7.54%) AWS CDK
10 32 (4.31%) SOAP
11 30 (4.04%) FastAPI
12 28 (3.77%) AngularJS
13 26 (3.50%) OAuth
14 25 (3.36%) Web Services
15 24 (3.23%) PyTorch
16 23 (3.10%) JSON
16 23 (3.10%) Pandas
17 21 (2.83%) ActiveMQ
17 21 (2.83%) JPA
18 20 (2.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 181 (24.36%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.08%) Product Ownership
3 49 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.83%) NHS
5 17 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 12 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.21%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.21%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.08%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.94%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.94%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.94%) IVR
10 7 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 91 (12.25%) Linux
2 20 (2.69%) Unix
3 19 (2.56%) Windows
4 17 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.54%) AIX
8 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.27%) Android
9 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.27%) zOS
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (61.51%) CI/CD
2 311 (41.86%) DevOps
3 290 (39.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 264 (35.53%) Agile
5 183 (24.63%) Data Engineering
5 183 (24.63%) Data Pipeline
6 177 (23.82%) Analytics
7 154 (20.73%) ETL
8 152 (20.46%) Data Modelling
9 148 (19.92%) AI
10 143 (19.25%) Containerisation
11 121 (16.29%) Microservices
12 114 (15.34%) Observability
13 105 (14.13%) Machine Learning
14 103 (13.86%) Migration
15 99 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (13.19%) Test Automation
17 93 (12.52%) Scrum
18 89 (11.98%) Business Intelligence
19 88 (11.84%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 423 (56.93%) Python
2 271 (36.47%) SQL
3 135 (18.17%) Java
4 79 (10.63%) TypeScript
5 70 (9.42%) Bash
6 62 (8.34%) JavaScript
7 41 (5.52%) C#
8 32 (4.31%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.10%) Scala
9 23 (3.10%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.75%) Groovy
11 7 (0.94%) Bicep
12 6 (0.81%) SAS Macro
12 6 (0.81%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.67%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.67%) Perl
13 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.54%) Cypher
14 4 (0.54%) Go
15 3 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 244 (32.84%) Security Cleared
2 212 (28.53%) SC Cleared
3 68 (9.15%) AWS Certification
4 37 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.56%) Degree
7 18 (2.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (2.15%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.48%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.40%) CSPO
14 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (15.88%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.36%) QA
3 20 (2.69%) GDPR
4 14 (1.88%) SLA
5 13 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.94%) PMO
7 5 (0.67%) HL7
8 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.54%) NIST
9 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.27%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 216 (29.07%) Docker
2 15 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.62%) Squid
4 11 (1.48%) Postfix
5 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 329 (44.28%) Terraform
2 136 (18.30%) Kubernetes
3 108 (14.54%) Grafana
4 61 (8.21%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.79%) Ansible
6 16 (2.15%) Argo
6 16 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.48%) Puppet
8 9 (1.21%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.21%) Kibana
9 8 (1.08%) Consul
10 7 (0.94%) Packer
11 5 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.67%) Salt
12 4 (0.54%) Istio
12 4 (0.54%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 65 (8.75%) Databricks
2 38 (5.11%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.04%) Informatica
4 27 (3.63%) Oracle
5 25 (3.36%) Splunk
6 24 (3.23%) Google
6 24 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 23 (3.10%) Atlassian
8 22 (2.96%) Dynatrace
9 17 (2.29%) Jaspersoft
10 14 (1.88%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.62%) Teradata
12 11 (1.48%) Denodo
12 11 (1.48%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.21%) IBM
14 8 (1.08%) Foundry
14 8 (1.08%) Palantir
14 8 (1.08%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.81%) VMware
16 5 (0.67%) Brio