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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 168 206
Rank change year-on-year -55 +38 +66
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 696 584 454
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.77% 1.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.69% 4.63% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 417 303
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £640 £625 £608
90th Percentile £738 £690 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -2.63% -3.85% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £41.00 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £57.44 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £62.45 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.03% - -
75th Percentile £70.12 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.83 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.40 - -

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 18,886 12,619 13,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.18% 34.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,525 8,413 8,640
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 288 184
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.43 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +46.00%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -47 571 £530 +0.95% 553
London -23 381 £598 +4.00% 344
Work from Home -33 255 £538 +7.50% 240
UK excluding London -86 226 £463 -2.63% 261
North of England -43 72 £463 -7.50% 69
Midlands -50 57 £469 -1.26% 21
West Midlands -50 46 £475 - 8
Scotland -29 40 £433 -13.50% 29
South West -19 32 £470 -14.55% 48
North West -36 30 £450 -10.00% 43
North East -21 22 £419 -1.47% 7
Yorkshire -44 20 £500 - 19
South East -72 19 £600 +44.58% 50
East Midlands -8 10 £405 -17.97% 13
East of England -53 6 £350 -41.67% 27
Wales - 3 £600 - 8
Northern Ireland +7 2 £600 +50.00% 10

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 87 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (10.92%) Apache
2 76 (10.92%) Confluence
3 71 (10.20%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.01%) SAS
5 12 (1.72%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.86%) nginx
8 6 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.86%) Traefik
8 6 (0.86%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.86%) WebLogic Portal
9 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
10 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.29%) 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
1 672 (96.55%) AWS
2 421 (60.49%) Serverless
3 419 (60.20%) AWS Lambda
4 228 (32.76%) Amazon EC2
5 227 (32.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 162 (23.28%) GitHub
7 159 (22.84%) Amazon ECS
8 152 (21.84%) Amazon EKS
9 130 (18.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 128 (18.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 128 (18.39%) GitHub Actions
11 115 (16.52%) Azure
12 95 (13.65%) Amazon SQS
13 93 (13.36%) Amazon EMR
14 78 (11.21%) dbt
15 72 (10.34%) Snowflake
16 69 (9.91%) AWS Step Functions
17 63 (9.05%) Power Platform
18 55 (7.90%) Amazon EventBridge
19 54 (7.76%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.59%) Firewall
2 14 (2.01%) DNS
3 12 (1.72%) Network Security
4 6 (0.86%) HTTP
4 6 (0.86%) SSL
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.57%) SAN
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Internet
7 3 (0.43%) SMS
7 3 (0.43%) VPN
8 2 (0.29%) FTP
8 2 (0.29%) IMAP
8 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (27.73%) Amazon RDS
2 136 (19.54%) Amazon Athena
3 123 (17.67%) DynamoDB
4 116 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 94 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
6 93 (13.36%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (9.34%) Data Lake
8 63 (9.05%) Power BI
9 50 (7.18%) MongoDB
10 46 (6.61%) Amazon Aurora
11 44 (6.32%) Metadata
12 32 (4.60%) Big Data
13 29 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
14 27 (3.88%) NoSQL
15 26 (3.74%) SQL Server
16 24 (3.45%) MySQL
16 24 (3.45%) Tableau
17 23 (3.30%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.30%) Delta Lake
18 22 (3.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 156 (22.41%) GitLab
2 145 (20.83%) Git
3 131 (18.82%) Jenkins
4 75 (10.78%) JIRA
5 25 (3.59%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 17 (2.44%) Maven
7 16 (2.30%) SonarQube
8 14 (2.01%) JUnit
8 14 (2.01%) Mockito
9 12 (1.72%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.01%) Postman
11 6 (0.86%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.86%) Selenium
11 6 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.72%) DbUnit
13 4 (0.57%) Flyway
13 4 (0.57%) Gradle
13 4 (0.57%) jMock
General
1 172 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 153 (21.98%) Public Sector
3 125 (17.96%) Finance
4 59 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.61%) Banking
6 20 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.01%) Front Office
8 13 (1.87%) Back Office
9 12 (1.72%) Legal
10 10 (1.44%) Military
11 9 (1.29%) Marketing
12 8 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.01%) Law
13 7 (1.01%) Publishing
14 6 (0.86%) Billing
15 5 (0.72%) Police
15 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 170 (24.43%) Data Engineer
2 127 (18.25%) Senior
3 119 (17.10%) AWS Engineer
4 111 (15.95%) Developer
5 87 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 79 (11.35%) Architect
7 77 (11.06%) Lead
8 54 (7.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 46 (6.61%) AWS Data Engineer
10 39 (5.60%) AWS DevOps
11 36 (5.17%) AWS Architect
12 34 (4.89%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 31 (4.45%) Cloud Engineer
14 27 (3.88%) Data Architect
15 24 (3.45%) AWS Developer
15 24 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
16 23 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
16 23 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 23 (3.30%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (48.28%) Terraform
2 94 (13.51%) REST
3 90 (12.93%) Kafka
4 76 (10.92%) PySpark
5 58 (8.33%) Spring Boot
6 56 (8.05%) Spring
7 51 (7.33%) RESTful
8 50 (7.18%) React
9 41 (5.89%) AWS CDK
10 38 (5.46%) Node.js
11 30 (4.31%) FastAPI
12 28 (4.02%) SOAP
13 25 (3.59%) AngularJS
14 23 (3.30%) .NET
14 23 (3.30%) JSON
15 22 (3.16%) GraphQL
16 21 (3.02%) OAuth
17 19 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
18 16 (2.30%) Keycloak
19 15 (2.16%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 192 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 65 (9.34%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.73%) NHS
6 17 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.16%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.01%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.01%) Replication
9 13 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.87%) IVR
10 10 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.29%) Legacy Code
11 9 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.15%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.15%) Mainframe
13 7 (1.01%) Clustering
13 7 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 95 (13.65%) Linux
2 24 (3.45%) Windows
3 22 (3.16%) Unix
4 17 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.57%) AIX
9 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.29%) Android
10 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (65.80%) CI/CD
2 319 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 315 (45.26%) DevOps
4 273 (39.22%) Agile
5 189 (27.16%) Data Engineering
6 185 (26.58%) Data Pipeline
7 149 (21.41%) Analytics
8 138 (19.83%) AI
9 137 (19.68%) Data Modelling
10 136 (19.54%) Observability
11 133 (19.11%) ETL
12 131 (18.82%) Containerisation
13 118 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 115 (16.52%) Test Automation
15 114 (16.38%) Microservices
16 109 (15.66%) Migration
17 108 (15.52%) Event-Driven
18 102 (14.66%) Technical Leadership
19 93 (13.36%) Machine Learning
20 91 (13.07%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 391 (56.18%) Python
2 266 (38.22%) SQL
3 112 (16.09%) Java
4 72 (10.34%) Bash
4 72 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 53 (7.61%) JavaScript
6 30 (4.31%) PowerShell
7 23 (3.30%) Scala
8 21 (3.02%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.73%) C#
10 17 (2.44%) Groovy
11 15 (2.16%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.44%) Go
13 8 (1.15%) Bicep
14 7 (1.01%) Perl
15 4 (0.57%) Cypher
15 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.57%) R
15 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 241 (34.63%) Security Cleared
2 217 (31.18%) SC Cleared
3 96 (13.79%) AWS Certification
4 47 (6.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (5.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (4.45%) Degree
7 24 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 14 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.29%) CISM
11 9 (1.29%) CISSP
12 8 (1.15%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (1.01%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.43%) CSPO
15 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (18.53%) Data Quality
2 50 (7.18%) QA
3 17 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.44%) GDPR
4 11 (1.58%) NIST
5 6 (0.86%) HL7
6 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) SLA
8 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) GLBA
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 224 (32.18%) Docker
2 18 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.72%) Postfix
4 4 (0.57%) Squid
4 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.29%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.29%) HDFS
5 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 152 (21.84%) Kubernetes
2 107 (15.37%) Grafana
3 64 (9.20%) Prometheus
4 52 (7.47%) Ansible
5 17 (2.44%) Argo
6 16 (2.30%) Kibana
7 15 (2.16%) Puppet
8 13 (1.87%) Karpenter
9 11 (1.58%) Istio
10 8 (1.15%) Packer
11 6 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.72%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (0.57%) Salt
14 3 (0.43%) Control-M
14 3 (0.43%) systemd
15 2 (0.29%) Consul
15 2 (0.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 58 (8.33%) Databricks
2 55 (7.90%) Oracle
3 48 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.17%) Informatica
5 22 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.16%) Splunk
6 20 (2.87%) Google
7 18 (2.59%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.87%) Confluent
8 13 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.72%) Denodo
9 12 (1.72%) Teradata
10 10 (1.44%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.29%) webMethods
12 8 (1.15%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.15%) Brio
12 8 (1.15%) Foundry
12 8 (1.15%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (1.15%) Palantir
13 7 (1.01%) IBM