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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 181 228
Rank change year-on-year +3 +47 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 639 463 455
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.54% 1.51% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.08% 4.00% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 346 372
10th Percentile £359 £402 £400
25th Percentile £413 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +0.53% -7.16%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -1.83%
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 15,673 11,572 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.82% 37.71% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,752 7,834 10,364
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
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 £631 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 179 339
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.65 £14.10
25th Percentile £20.31 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.43 £27.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +43.38% +28.15% -14.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.04 £75.84 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.73
% change year-on-year +86.10% +29.13% -10.06%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -4 514 £525 -4.55% 137
London +17 334 £525 -8.70% 61
UK excluding London -20 221 £475 -5.00% 87
Work from Home -14 179 £525 +0.96% 77
North of England -21 68 £500 - 31
Midlands -21 57 £488 +8.33% 11
West Midlands -18 49 £500 -9.09% 9
Scotland -25 39 £449 -10.20% 4
Yorkshire -38 33 £500 -2.44% 9
North West -14 28 £450 -5.26% 20
South East -22 24 £530 -16.86% 18
South West -14 17 £531 -11.58% 18
East of England -11 9 £475 -1.30% 4
Northern Ireland +4 8 £400 -
East Midlands -29 8 £433 -2.59% 2
North East -12 7 £475 -22.13% 2
Wales -3 2 £363 -9.38% 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 61 (9.55%) Apache Spark
2 43 (6.73%) Apache
3 42 (6.57%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (4.85%) Confluence
5 12 (1.88%) nginx
6 9 (1.41%) SAS
7 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.47%) Traefik
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 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Actimize
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 635 (99.37%) AWS
2 400 (62.60%) Serverless
3 391 (61.19%) AWS Lambda
4 270 (42.25%) Amazon EC2
5 194 (30.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 181 (28.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 162 (25.35%) Amazon ECS
8 145 (22.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 137 (21.44%) Amazon EKS
10 126 (19.72%) GitHub
11 101 (15.81%) Azure
12 95 (14.87%) GitHub Actions
13 76 (11.89%) AWS Step Functions
14 64 (10.02%) Amazon SQS
15 60 (9.39%) Route 53
16 51 (7.98%) Snowflake
17 49 (7.67%) Amazon EMR
17 49 (7.67%) GCP
18 45 (7.04%) Amazon Kinesis
19 36 (5.63%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.04%) DNS
2 39 (6.10%) Firewall
3 31 (4.85%) VPN
4 24 (3.76%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.13%) Network Security
6 13 (2.03%) SSL
7 8 (1.25%) HTTP
7 8 (1.25%) OpenVPN
8 4 (0.63%) FTP
8 4 (0.63%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.63%) SMTP
8 4 (0.63%) SSH
9 3 (0.47%) BGP
9 3 (0.47%) IMAP
9 3 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.31%) Multicast
10 2 (0.31%) NAS
10 2 (0.31%) OSPF
10 2 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (30.05%) Amazon RDS
2 110 (17.21%) PostgreSQL
3 97 (15.18%) Amazon Athena
4 92 (14.40%) DynamoDB
5 90 (14.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 52 (8.14%) Relational Database
7 48 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (7.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 45 (7.04%) Data Lake
10 36 (5.63%) Power BI
11 30 (4.69%) MySQL
12 29 (4.54%) MongoDB
13 28 (4.38%) NoSQL
14 25 (3.91%) SQL Server
15 24 (3.76%) BigQuery
16 23 (3.60%) OLTP
17 21 (3.29%) Amazon QuickSight
17 21 (3.29%) Tableau
18 20 (3.13%) Metadata
18 20 (3.13%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 147 (23.00%) Jenkins
2 134 (20.97%) GitLab
3 119 (18.62%) Git
4 37 (5.79%) JIRA
5 23 (3.60%) JUnit
6 19 (2.97%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.97%) Maven
7 18 (2.82%) SonarQube
8 14 (2.19%) MLflow
9 12 (1.88%) Mockito
10 10 (1.56%) Postman
11 9 (1.41%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.41%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.10%) DbUnit
12 7 (1.10%) jMock
13 6 (0.94%) Gradle
14 5 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (0.63%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.63%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 168 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 104 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 101 (15.81%) Finance
4 62 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (5.48%) Banking
6 22 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.88%) Front Office
9 7 (1.10%) Military
10 6 (0.94%) Legal
11 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.47%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.31%) Publishing
13 2 (0.31%) Retail
14 1 (0.16%) Marketing
14 1 (0.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 117 (18.31%) AWS Engineer
2 115 (18.00%) Data Engineer
2 115 (18.00%) Developer
3 83 (12.99%) Senior
4 77 (12.05%) Architect
5 68 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 64 (10.02%) Lead
7 46 (7.20%) Java Developer
8 40 (6.26%) AWS Architect
9 36 (5.63%) AWS Data Engineer
10 34 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
11 32 (5.01%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (4.38%) Analyst
12 28 (4.38%) Python Engineer
13 27 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
14 26 (4.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 26 (4.07%) Site Engineer
14 26 (4.07%) Software Engineer
15 25 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.91%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (16.59%) Kafka
2 77 (12.05%) Spring
2 77 (12.05%) Spring Boot
3 60 (9.39%) Node.js
3 60 (9.39%) REST
4 59 (9.23%) RESTful
5 48 (7.51%) PySpark
5 48 (7.51%) React
6 45 (7.04%) AWS CDK
7 41 (6.42%) OAuth
8 34 (5.32%) AngularJS
9 25 (3.91%) FastAPI
9 25 (3.91%) JWT
10 22 (3.44%) CSS
11 21 (3.29%) boto
11 21 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (3.29%) JSON
12 20 (3.13%) PyTorch
13 19 (2.97%) Jest
13 19 (2.97%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 157 (24.57%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.19%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.03%) NHS
7 12 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.72%) Replication
9 9 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.25%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.94%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.78%) Derivative
13 5 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.78%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 82 (12.83%) Linux
2 14 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (1.88%) Windows
4 10 (1.56%) Unix
5 8 (1.25%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.10%) VMS
7 5 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.31%) zOS
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (59.47%) CI/CD
2 269 (42.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 265 (41.47%) DevOps
4 172 (26.92%) Agile
5 170 (26.60%) Containerisation
6 144 (22.54%) ETL
7 137 (21.44%) Analytics
8 128 (20.03%) Data Engineering
9 126 (19.72%) Data Modelling
9 126 (19.72%) Data Pipeline
10 115 (18.00%) Microservices
11 108 (16.90%) Observability
12 102 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
13 88 (13.77%) AI
14 79 (12.36%) Migration
15 74 (11.58%) Performance Tuning
16 70 (10.95%) Software Engineering
17 69 (10.80%) Event-Driven
18 68 (10.64%) Machine Learning
19 65 (10.17%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 373 (58.37%) Python
2 219 (34.27%) SQL
3 120 (18.78%) Java
4 77 (12.05%) Bash
5 50 (7.82%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.73%) JavaScript
7 36 (5.63%) C#
8 27 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 26 (4.07%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.44%) Go
11 7 (1.10%) Scala
12 6 (0.94%) Groovy
12 6 (0.94%) JSX
13 5 (0.78%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.47%) C++
15 3 (0.47%) Korn
16 2 (0.31%) C
16 2 (0.31%) Perl
16 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 207 (32.39%) Security Cleared
2 168 (26.29%) SC Cleared
3 64 (10.02%) AWS Certification
4 24 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (3.44%) Degree
6 20 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.25%) 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%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.31%) CISSP
14 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.42%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.57%) GDPR
3 34 (5.32%) QA
4 18 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.35%) NIST
6 14 (2.19%) 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
9 4 (0.63%) PMO
10 2 (0.31%) GxP
10 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.31%) MiFID
10 2 (0.31%) WCAG
11 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 222 (34.74%) Docker
2 11 (1.72%) Squid
3 9 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.41%) Postfix
4 4 (0.63%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.47%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.31%) HDFS
6 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.16%) etcd
7 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 314 (49.14%) Terraform
2 172 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 102 (15.96%) Grafana
4 83 (12.99%) Ansible
5 81 (12.68%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.82%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.66%) Puppet
8 16 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.72%) Argo
10 9 (1.41%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.10%) Consul
11 7 (1.10%) Kibana
11 7 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.94%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.78%) Istio
14 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.47%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.47%) Packer
14 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 66 (10.33%) Databricks
2 35 (5.48%) Microsoft
3 25 (3.91%) Google
4 23 (3.60%) Splunk
5 18 (2.82%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.50%) F5
6 16 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.35%) Atlassian
7 15 (2.35%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.19%) CheckPoint
9 13 (2.03%) Oracle
10 12 (1.88%) Jaspersoft
11 11 (1.72%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.41%) Confluent
13 8 (1.25%) Dell
13 8 (1.25%) PagerDuty
14 7 (1.10%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.10%) Sybase
15 6 (0.94%) AVEVA
15 6 (0.94%) SAP