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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 169 209
Rank change year-on-year -55 +40 +65
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 692 585 456
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.25% 1.76% 1.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.61% 4.59% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 427 305
10th Percentile £400 £400 £396
25th Percentile £430 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £640 £625 £610
90th Percentile £738 £690 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -1.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £37.95 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £62.40 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.92% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £68.60 £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 19,185 12,757 13,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.42% 34.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,732 8,532 8,661
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
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 644 291 182
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £16.41
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £34.47
% change year-on-year +52.79% -43.03% +53.11%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -55 569 £527 +0.38% 89
London -8 379 £600 +4.35% 40
Work from Home -33 250 £537 +3.27% 60
UK excluding London -86 227 £469 -1.26% 58
North of England -54 73 £463 -7.50% 21
Midlands -49 56 £469 -1.26% 3
West Midlands -49 45 £475 - 2
Scotland -31 40 £433 -13.50% 1
South West -18 31 £473 -10.85% 20
North West -41 30 £450 -12.20% 13
North East -18 22 £419 -1.47% 3
Yorkshire -50 21 £500 - 5
South East -75 21 £600 +44.58% 9
East Midlands -8 10 £405 -10.10% 1
East of England -47 6 £350 -36.36% 2
Wales - 3 £600 -
Northern Ireland 0 2 £600 +50.00% 2

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 81 (11.71%) Confluence
2 76 (10.98%) Apache
2 76 (10.98%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (9.10%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.17%) SAS
5 12 (1.73%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (1.16%) Traefik
7 7 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.87%) nginx
8 6 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.87%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.87%) WebLogic Portal
9 4 (0.58%) 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%) Gliffy
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.87%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 668 (96.53%) AWS
2 422 (60.98%) Serverless
3 415 (59.97%) AWS Lambda
4 229 (33.09%) Amazon EC2
5 228 (32.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 162 (23.41%) GitHub
7 157 (22.69%) Amazon ECS
8 156 (22.54%) Amazon EKS
9 130 (18.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 129 (18.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 129 (18.64%) GitHub Actions
11 118 (17.05%) Azure
12 94 (13.58%) Amazon SQS
13 87 (12.57%) Amazon EMR
14 74 (10.69%) dbt
14 74 (10.69%) Snowflake
15 68 (9.83%) AWS Step Functions
16 61 (8.82%) Power Platform
17 55 (7.95%) Amazon EventBridge
18 49 (7.08%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.31%) Firewall
2 14 (2.02%) DNS
3 11 (1.59%) Network Security
4 6 (0.87%) HTTP
4 6 (0.87%) SSL
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
6 4 (0.58%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.58%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.58%) SAN
6 4 (0.58%) 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%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) SMTP
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (27.75%) Amazon RDS
2 131 (18.93%) Amazon Athena
3 122 (17.63%) DynamoDB
4 110 (15.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 94 (13.58%) Data Warehouse
6 87 (12.57%) PostgreSQL
7 66 (9.54%) Data Lake
8 61 (8.82%) Power BI
9 45 (6.50%) Metadata
10 43 (6.21%) MongoDB
11 36 (5.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 28 (4.05%) Apache Iceberg
12 28 (4.05%) SQL Server
13 27 (3.90%) MySQL
14 25 (3.61%) Delta Lake
15 23 (3.32%) Big Data
15 23 (3.32%) BigQuery
16 22 (3.18%) NoSQL
16 22 (3.18%) Relational Database
17 21 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 152 (21.97%) GitLab
2 141 (20.38%) Git
3 123 (17.77%) Jenkins
4 79 (11.42%) JIRA
5 26 (3.76%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.46%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.17%) Maven
8 13 (1.88%) SonarQube
9 12 (1.73%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.73%) JUnit
9 12 (1.73%) Mockito
10 7 (1.01%) Postman
11 6 (0.87%) Selenium
11 6 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.58%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.58%) DbUnit
13 4 (0.58%) Flyway
13 4 (0.58%) Gradle
13 4 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 173 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 150 (21.68%) Public Sector
3 128 (18.50%) Finance
4 50 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (6.94%) Banking
6 20 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.02%) Front Office
8 13 (1.88%) Back Office
9 12 (1.73%) Legal
10 9 (1.30%) Marketing
11 8 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.16%) Military
12 7 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.01%) Publishing
13 6 (0.87%) Billing
14 5 (0.72%) Law
14 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 164 (23.70%) Data Engineer
2 125 (18.06%) Senior
3 117 (16.91%) AWS Engineer
4 111 (16.04%) Developer
5 86 (12.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 80 (11.56%) Architect
7 76 (10.98%) Lead
8 52 (7.51%) Senior Data Engineer
9 46 (6.65%) AWS Data Engineer
10 39 (5.64%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (5.35%) AWS Architect
12 33 (4.77%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 28 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
15 25 (3.61%) AWS Developer
15 25 (3.61%) Data Architect
16 23 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
16 23 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
16 23 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 23 (3.32%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (47.40%) Terraform
2 95 (13.73%) REST
3 90 (13.01%) Kafka
4 78 (11.27%) PySpark
5 57 (8.24%) Spring Boot
6 55 (7.95%) Spring
7 50 (7.23%) React
8 49 (7.08%) RESTful
9 41 (5.92%) AWS CDK
10 38 (5.49%) Node.js
11 30 (4.34%) FastAPI
11 30 (4.34%) SOAP
12 24 (3.47%) GraphQL
13 23 (3.32%) .NET
13 23 (3.32%) AngularJS
13 23 (3.32%) JSON
14 21 (3.03%) OAuth
15 20 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
16 17 (2.46%) Keycloak
17 15 (2.17%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 199 (28.76%) Cloud Native
2 63 (9.10%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.75%) NHS
6 16 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.02%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.02%) Replication
9 13 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.88%) IVR
10 10 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.30%) Legacy Code
11 9 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.16%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.16%) Mainframe
13 7 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 89 (12.86%) Linux
2 24 (3.47%) Windows
3 17 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (2.31%) Unix
5 10 (1.45%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.87%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.58%) 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
1 454 (65.61%) CI/CD
2 315 (45.52%) DevOps
2 315 (45.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 267 (38.58%) Agile
4 193 (27.89%) Data Engineering
5 187 (27.02%) Data Pipeline
6 146 (21.10%) Analytics
7 141 (20.38%) AI
7 141 (20.38%) Observability
8 138 (19.94%) Data Modelling
9 136 (19.65%) ETL
10 131 (18.93%) Containerisation
11 125 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (16.91%) Microservices
13 114 (16.47%) Migration
14 110 (15.90%) Event-Driven
14 110 (15.90%) Test Automation
15 104 (15.03%) Technical Leadership
16 95 (13.73%) Machine Learning
17 92 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 382 (55.20%) Python
2 256 (36.99%) SQL
3 104 (15.03%) Java
4 73 (10.55%) TypeScript
5 70 (10.12%) Bash
6 44 (6.36%) JavaScript
7 30 (4.34%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.18%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.60%) C#
10 17 (2.46%) Groovy
11 15 (2.17%) PL/SQL
12 14 (2.02%) Scala
13 10 (1.45%) Go
14 7 (1.01%) Bicep
14 7 (1.01%) Perl
15 4 (0.58%) Cypher
15 4 (0.58%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.58%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 237 (34.25%) Security Cleared
2 215 (31.07%) SC Cleared
3 100 (14.45%) AWS Certification
4 40 (5.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (5.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (4.62%) Degree
7 24 (3.47%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 14 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.30%) CISM
11 9 (1.30%) CISSP
12 8 (1.16%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (1.01%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.43%) CSPO
15 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (18.79%) Data Quality
2 54 (7.80%) QA
3 17 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.46%) GDPR
4 10 (1.45%) NIST
5 6 (0.87%) HL7
6 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.58%) NCSC
8 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.43%) SLA
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) GLBA
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 218 (31.50%) Docker
2 16 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Postfix
3 4 (0.58%) Squid
4 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.29%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 154 (22.25%) Kubernetes
2 95 (13.73%) Grafana
3 60 (8.67%) Prometheus
4 51 (7.37%) Ansible
5 17 (2.46%) Argo
6 13 (1.88%) Istio
6 13 (1.88%) Karpenter
6 13 (1.88%) Puppet
7 8 (1.16%) Kibana
7 8 (1.16%) Packer
8 6 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (0.72%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.43%) Control-M
11 3 (0.43%) systemd
12 2 (0.29%) Consul
12 2 (0.29%) Nessus
12 2 (0.29%) Salt
Vendors
1 61 (8.82%) Databricks
2 58 (8.38%) Oracle
3 45 (6.50%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.19%) Informatica
5 22 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 20 (2.89%) Google
7 18 (2.60%) Dynatrace
8 14 (2.02%) Splunk
9 13 (1.88%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.73%) Confluent
10 12 (1.73%) Teradata
10 12 (1.73%) webMethods
11 11 (1.59%) Denodo
12 10 (1.45%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.16%) Brio
13 8 (1.16%) Foundry
13 8 (1.16%) Palantir
14 7 (1.01%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.01%) IBM
14 7 (1.01%) Red Hat