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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 173 229
Rank change year-on-year -7 +56 +36
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 636 475 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 1.53% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.18% 4.10% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 355 379
10th Percentile £363 £404 £400
25th Percentile £418 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.08%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 15,209 11,581 14,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.02% 37.40% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,431 7,758 10,618
10th Percentile £309 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 172 324
10th Percentile £14.60 £16.78 £14.04
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.43 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.27% +21.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.94 £50.58
90th Percentile £78.75 £73.25 £72.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.22 £24.18 £20.77
% change year-on-year +58.04% +16.42% +3.85%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +2 508 £525 -4.55% 168
London +23 339 £525 -7.89% 77
UK excluding London -16 216 £490 -2.00% 114
Work from Home -15 171 £538 +3.47% 95
North of England -23 63 £500 - 41
Midlands -27 52 £475 +4.51% 15
West Midlands -20 45 £500 -9.09% 11
Scotland -23 43 £463 -7.50% 5
Yorkshire -38 31 £500 -4.76% 18
South East -24 25 £528 -17.25% 25
North West -25 24 £450 -5.26% 21
South West -6 16 £538 -4.51% 17
Northern Ireland +4 9 £400 - 1
East of England -17 9 £475 -5.00% 7
North East -11 8 £450 -26.23% 2
East Midlands -31 7 £417 -6.66% 4
Wales -3 2 £363 -9.38% 3

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 55 (8.65%) Apache Spark
2 52 (8.18%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (6.76%) Apache
4 34 (5.35%) Confluence
5 13 (2.04%) nginx
6 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.47%) Traefik
7 2 (0.31%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Actimize
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 632 (99.37%) AWS
2 389 (61.16%) Serverless
3 381 (59.91%) AWS Lambda
4 257 (40.41%) Amazon EC2
5 195 (30.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 180 (28.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 157 (24.69%) Amazon ECS
8 144 (22.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 138 (21.70%) GitHub
10 130 (20.44%) Amazon EKS
11 106 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
12 104 (16.35%) Azure
13 72 (11.32%) AWS Step Functions
14 57 (8.96%) Route 53
15 56 (8.81%) Amazon SQS
16 52 (8.18%) Amazon Kinesis
17 51 (8.02%) GCP
18 50 (7.86%) Snowflake
19 43 (6.76%) Amazon EMR
20 37 (5.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 48 (7.55%) DNS
2 42 (6.60%) Firewall
3 31 (4.87%) VPN
4 24 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.46%) Network Security
6 14 (2.20%) SSL
7 12 (1.89%) HTTP
8 8 (1.26%) FTP
8 8 (1.26%) SMTP
8 8 (1.26%) SSH
9 7 (1.10%) OpenVPN
10 6 (0.94%) IMAP
10 6 (0.94%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.63%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.47%) BGP
13 2 (0.31%) DHCP
13 2 (0.31%) Multicast
13 2 (0.31%) NAS
13 2 (0.31%) OSPF
13 2 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (30.03%) Amazon RDS
2 113 (17.77%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (14.62%) Amazon Redshift
4 90 (14.15%) Amazon Athena
5 89 (13.99%) DynamoDB
6 50 (7.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 50 (7.86%) Relational Database
7 48 (7.55%) Data Lake
8 45 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (5.35%) Power BI
10 30 (4.72%) MySQL
11 29 (4.56%) MongoDB
12 26 (4.09%) Amazon QuickSight
13 25 (3.93%) NoSQL
14 24 (3.77%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.62%) OLTP
15 23 (3.62%) SQL Server
16 20 (3.14%) OLAP
17 19 (2.99%) Tableau
18 18 (2.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 144 (22.64%) Jenkins
2 130 (20.44%) GitLab
3 118 (18.55%) Git
4 41 (6.45%) JIRA
5 16 (2.52%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.36%) JUnit
7 14 (2.20%) Maven
7 14 (2.20%) MLflow
8 12 (1.89%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.42%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.42%) Postman
10 8 (1.26%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.26%) Vagrant
11 6 (0.94%) Gradle
11 6 (0.94%) Mockito
12 4 (0.63%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.63%) NUnit
12 4 (0.63%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.63%) Vite
13 3 (0.47%) Jasmine
General
1 165 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 103 (16.19%) Public Sector
3 93 (14.62%) Finance
4 65 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.40%) Banking
6 21 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.89%) Front Office
9 8 (1.26%) Legal
9 8 (1.26%) Military
10 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.47%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.47%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.31%) Publishing
12 2 (0.31%) Retail
13 1 (0.16%) Games
13 1 (0.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (19.65%) AWS Engineer
2 124 (19.50%) Data Engineer
3 104 (16.35%) Developer
4 89 (13.99%) Senior
5 79 (12.42%) Architect
6 71 (11.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 55 (8.65%) Lead
8 40 (6.29%) AWS Architect
9 37 (5.82%) Java Developer
10 36 (5.66%) AWS Data Engineer
10 36 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
11 34 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.72%) Python Engineer
13 29 (4.56%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 28 (4.40%) Software Engineer
15 27 (4.25%) Analyst
15 27 (4.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 26 (4.09%) Data Architect
16 26 (4.09%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (16.67%) Kafka
2 67 (10.53%) Spring
2 67 (10.53%) Spring Boot
3 56 (8.81%) Node.js
4 54 (8.49%) REST
5 51 (8.02%) React
5 51 (8.02%) RESTful
6 48 (7.55%) AWS CDK
7 41 (6.45%) OAuth
8 40 (6.29%) PySpark
9 30 (4.72%) AngularJS
10 25 (3.93%) FastAPI
10 25 (3.93%) JWT
11 23 (3.62%) CSS
11 23 (3.62%) PyTorch
12 21 (3.30%) boto
12 21 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
12 21 (3.30%) JSON
13 19 (2.99%) Pandas
14 18 (2.83%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 151 (23.74%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.36%) Replication
6 14 (2.20%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.04%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.04%) NHS
8 8 (1.26%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.79%) Derivative
11 5 (0.79%) SCADA
12 4 (0.63%) Equities
12 4 (0.63%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.74%) Linux
2 17 (2.67%) Windows
3 12 (1.89%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (1.73%) VMS
5 10 (1.57%) Unix
6 7 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.31%) zOS
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (59.12%) CI/CD
2 274 (43.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 250 (39.31%) DevOps
4 162 (25.47%) Containerisation
5 160 (25.16%) Agile
6 140 (22.01%) ETL
7 133 (20.91%) Data Pipeline
8 128 (20.13%) Analytics
9 125 (19.65%) Data Engineering
9 125 (19.65%) Data Modelling
10 107 (16.82%) Microservices
11 104 (16.35%) Observability
12 97 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
13 88 (13.84%) AI
14 73 (11.48%) Migration
15 72 (11.32%) Software Engineering
16 70 (11.01%) Event-Driven
17 68 (10.69%) Performance Tuning
18 67 (10.53%) Machine Learning
19 63 (9.91%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 384 (60.38%) Python
2 219 (34.43%) SQL
3 114 (17.92%) Java
4 77 (12.11%) Bash
5 54 (8.49%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.23%) JavaScript
7 35 (5.50%) C#
8 31 (4.87%) PowerShell
9 26 (4.09%) Go
10 25 (3.93%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.57%) Groovy
12 9 (1.42%) Scala
13 6 (0.94%) JSX
14 5 (0.79%) Korn
15 4 (0.63%) Perl
15 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.47%) C++
17 2 (0.31%) Bicep
17 2 (0.31%) C
18 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 208 (32.70%) Security Cleared
2 174 (27.36%) SC Cleared
3 63 (9.91%) AWS Certification
4 25 (3.93%) Degree
5 23 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.47%) OCP
12 3 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.47%) PhD
13 2 (0.31%) CISSP
14 1 (0.16%) CEH
14 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (12.11%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.76%) GDPR
3 34 (5.35%) QA
4 18 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.36%) NIST
6 14 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.10%) SLA
8 6 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.63%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.63%) NCSC
10 3 (0.47%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.47%) PMO
11 2 (0.31%) GxP
11 2 (0.31%) MiFID
12 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 224 (35.22%) Docker
2 13 (2.04%) Squid
3 9 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.42%) Postfix
4 8 (1.26%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.94%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.31%) HDFS
7 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.16%) etcd
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 317 (49.84%) Terraform
2 175 (27.52%) Kubernetes
3 99 (15.57%) Grafana
4 81 (12.74%) Ansible
5 80 (12.58%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.99%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.67%) Puppet
8 14 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.73%) Argo
10 8 (1.26%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.10%) Kibana
11 7 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.94%) Consul
12 6 (0.94%) Karpenter
12 6 (0.94%) Nessus
12 6 (0.94%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.79%) Istio
14 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 62 (9.75%) Databricks
2 36 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 24 (3.77%) Google
4 21 (3.30%) Splunk
5 17 (2.67%) F5
5 17 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 17 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.52%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.36%) CheckPoint
8 12 (1.89%) Oracle
9 10 (1.57%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.57%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (1.42%) Confluent
10 9 (1.42%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.26%) Dell
11 8 (1.26%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.10%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.94%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.94%) SAP
14 5 (0.79%) Sybase