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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 155 221
Rank change year-on-year -63 +66 +41
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 694 597 425
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.83% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.70% 4.91% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 442 286
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £449 £455 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% - -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £608
90th Percentile £750 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +0.30%
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 18,758 12,160 13,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 37.17% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,425 8,096 9,068
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 315 229
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.63 £18.69 £18.16
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.26% +1.79% -20.28%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.75 £67.40 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £22.25
% change year-on-year +72.23% -15.19% -17.59%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -55 575 £543 +3.33% 394
London -26 386 £575 - 264
Work from Home -28 251 £525 - 163
UK excluding London -79 220 £475 - 175
Midlands -35 63 £461 -3.00% 25
North of England -59 62 £488 -2.50% 54
West Midlands -47 53 £466 -1.95% 10
Scotland -23 37 £475 -5.00% 17
South West -18 27 £466 -14.65% 25
North West -50 25 £505 +6.32% 27
South East -59 25 £575 +35.29% 28
North East -23 20 £425 -2.86% 14
Yorkshire -50 17 £575 +9.52% 13
East Midlands -12 9 £419 -22.02% 15
East of England -34 7 £400 -27.27% 20
Wales - 3 £600 - 4
Northern Ireland +2 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 89 (12.82%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (10.95%) Confluence
3 59 (8.50%) Apache Spark
4 52 (7.49%) Apache
5 19 (2.74%) SAS
6 10 (1.44%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.30%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.72%) nginx
10 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.58%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 678 (97.69%) AWS
2 443 (63.83%) Serverless
3 439 (63.26%) AWS Lambda
4 225 (32.42%) Amazon EC2
5 219 (31.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 156 (22.48%) GitHub
7 145 (20.89%) Amazon ECS
8 137 (19.74%) Amazon EKS
9 125 (18.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 125 (18.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 116 (16.71%) GitHub Actions
11 107 (15.42%) Azure
12 99 (14.27%) Amazon SQS
13 87 (12.54%) Amazon EMR
14 80 (11.53%) dbt
15 79 (11.38%) Snowflake
16 74 (10.66%) AWS Step Functions
17 63 (9.08%) Power Platform
18 51 (7.35%) AWS KMS
19 49 (7.06%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.88%) Firewall
2 17 (2.45%) DNS
3 9 (1.30%) Network Security
4 7 (1.01%) HTTP
5 6 (0.86%) SSL
6 5 (0.72%) CTI
6 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.58%) Internet
7 4 (0.58%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.58%) SMS
7 4 (0.58%) VPN
7 4 (0.58%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) FTP
9 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.29%) SMTP
9 2 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (25.94%) Amazon RDS
2 140 (20.17%) Amazon Athena
3 125 (18.01%) DynamoDB
4 119 (17.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 95 (13.69%) Data Warehouse
6 89 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (9.08%) Data Lake
7 63 (9.08%) Power BI
8 44 (6.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 42 (6.05%) Metadata
10 38 (5.48%) MongoDB
11 31 (4.47%) Big Data
11 31 (4.47%) Relational Database
12 27 (3.89%) Tableau
13 26 (3.75%) NoSQL
14 25 (3.60%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.31%) Apache Iceberg
15 23 (3.31%) Data Vault
16 21 (3.03%) Delta Lake
17 19 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 141 (20.32%) GitLab
2 138 (19.88%) Jenkins
3 137 (19.74%) Git
4 79 (11.38%) JIRA
5 25 (3.60%) Bitbucket
6 21 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.74%) SonarQube
8 14 (2.02%) JUnit
8 14 (2.02%) Mockito
9 12 (1.73%) Maven
10 8 (1.15%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.01%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.01%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.01%) Postman
11 7 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (0.86%) jMock
13 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.72%) Selenium
14 4 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 168 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 156 (22.48%) Public Sector
3 115 (16.57%) Finance
4 59 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.20%) Banking
6 14 (2.02%) Front Office
7 12 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.30%) Back Office
9 9 (1.30%) Military
10 7 (1.01%) Law
10 7 (1.01%) Marketing
11 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.86%) Publishing
12 5 (0.72%) Billing
13 4 (0.58%) Legal
13 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.58%) Retail
14 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 170 (24.50%) Data Engineer
2 128 (18.44%) AWS Engineer
3 116 (16.71%) Developer
3 116 (16.71%) Senior
4 88 (12.68%) Architect
5 78 (11.24%) Lead
6 71 (10.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 48 (6.92%) Senior Data Engineer
8 44 (6.34%) AWS Data Engineer
9 41 (5.91%) AWS DevOps
10 35 (5.04%) AWS Architect
11 34 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (4.76%) AWS Developer
13 31 (4.47%) Data Architect
14 30 (4.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 29 (4.18%) Java Developer
16 25 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
17 24 (3.46%) Software Engineer
18 23 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 22 (3.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (46.97%) Terraform
2 77 (11.10%) Kafka
3 76 (10.95%) PySpark
4 74 (10.66%) REST
5 63 (9.08%) React
6 53 (7.64%) Node.js
7 52 (7.49%) RESTful
7 52 (7.49%) Spring Boot
8 51 (7.35%) Spring
9 47 (6.77%) AWS CDK
10 30 (4.32%) FastAPI
11 23 (3.31%) AngularJS
11 23 (3.31%) JSON
12 21 (3.03%) .NET
12 21 (3.03%) SOAP
13 20 (2.88%) OAuth
14 19 (2.74%) Pandas
15 18 (2.59%) GraphQL
16 17 (2.45%) Next.js
17 15 (2.16%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 173 (24.93%) Cloud Native
2 61 (8.79%) Product Ownership
3 38 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.03%) NHS
5 19 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.87%) IVR
7 12 (1.73%) AI Agents
7 12 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.44%) Replication
8 10 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.30%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.30%) Legacy Code
9 9 (1.30%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.15%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.15%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.15%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.01%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 88 (12.68%) Linux
2 22 (3.17%) Unix
3 21 (3.03%) Windows
4 15 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.58%) 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%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (62.10%) CI/CD
2 298 (42.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 290 (41.79%) DevOps
4 253 (36.46%) Agile
5 185 (26.66%) Data Pipeline
6 173 (24.93%) Data Engineering
7 155 (22.33%) Analytics
8 140 (20.17%) ETL
9 137 (19.74%) Data Modelling
10 135 (19.45%) AI
11 123 (17.72%) Containerisation
12 114 (16.43%) Observability
13 111 (15.99%) Microservices
14 106 (15.27%) Migration
15 97 (13.98%) Event-Driven
16 96 (13.83%) Test Automation
17 92 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 90 (12.97%) Machine Learning
19 88 (12.68%) Business Intelligence
20 86 (12.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 397 (57.20%) Python
2 243 (35.01%) SQL
3 118 (17.00%) Java
4 80 (11.53%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.94%) Bash
6 60 (8.65%) JavaScript
7 33 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 31 (4.47%) C#
9 25 (3.60%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.31%) Scala
11 18 (2.59%) Groovy
12 9 (1.30%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.15%) Bicep
14 7 (1.01%) Perl
15 4 (0.58%) Cypher
15 4 (0.58%) Go
15 4 (0.58%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.58%) R
15 4 (0.58%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 225 (32.42%) Security Cleared
2 201 (28.96%) SC Cleared
3 80 (11.53%) AWS Certification
4 45 (6.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.03%) Degree
7 20 (2.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 19 (2.74%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.59%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.86%) CISM
12 6 (0.86%) CISSP
12 6 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.43%) CSPO
15 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (16.43%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.03%) QA
3 20 (2.88%) GDPR
4 13 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.15%) NIST
5 8 (1.15%) SLA
6 6 (0.86%) HL7
7 4 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.58%) NCSC
7 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.43%) PMO
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 212 (30.55%) Docker
2 17 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.01%) Postfix
4 6 (0.86%) Squid
5 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
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%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 124 (17.87%) Kubernetes
2 101 (14.55%) Grafana
3 54 (7.78%) Prometheus
4 42 (6.05%) Ansible
5 18 (2.59%) Argo
6 16 (2.31%) Kibana
7 10 (1.44%) Puppet
8 8 (1.15%) Karpenter
8 8 (1.15%) Packer
9 7 (1.01%) Istio
10 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.58%) Salt
13 3 (0.43%) Control-M
13 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.29%) Consul
14 2 (0.29%) Nessus
14 2 (0.29%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.29%) systemd
14 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (8.21%) Databricks
2 44 (6.34%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.33%) Oracle
4 35 (5.04%) Informatica
5 26 (3.75%) Splunk
6 21 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.88%) Google
8 16 (2.31%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.73%) Teradata
10 11 (1.59%) Denodo
11 10 (1.44%) Jaspersoft
12 9 (1.30%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.30%) Confluent
13 8 (1.15%) Foundry
13 8 (1.15%) IBM
13 8 (1.15%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.15%) Palantir
14 7 (1.01%) SnapLogic
15 6 (0.86%) VMware