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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 165 252
Rank change year-on-year -12 +87 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 597 483 431
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 1.53% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.16% 4.19% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 347 345
10th Percentile £394 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.83%
75th Percentile £618 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £788 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

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 14,341 11,539 14,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.06% 36.65% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,890 7,673 10,491
10th Percentile £306 £313 £290
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 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £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 323 170 288
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.27 £17.67
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.02
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +14.49% +6.14%
75th Percentile £57.75 £43.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £79.75 £68.75 £74.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +26.19% +9.60%

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 21 January 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
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 21 January 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 +4 473 £525 -2.78% 244
London +14 315 £525 -4.55% 67
UK excluding London -34 201 £500 - 200
Work from Home -30 158 £550 +5.77% 174
North of England -24 62 £500 -2.44% 45
Midlands -23 43 £488 +8.33% 19
Scotland -32 39 £500 - 6
West Midlands -15 36 £523 -5.00% 9
Yorkshire -25 35 £500 -4.76% 25
South East -15 23 £475 -23.23% 61
North West -33 21 £475 - 15
South West -1 18 £625 +13.55% 25
East of England -14 10 £750 +50.00% 33
Northern Ireland +5 9 £400 - 6
North East -12 7 £425 -30.33% 5
East Midlands -29 7 £417 -6.02% 9
Wales 0 1 £475 +18.75% 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 48 (8.04%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (7.71%) Apache Spark
3 38 (6.37%) Apache
4 24 (4.02%) Confluence
5 9 (1.51%) nginx
6 5 (0.84%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.50%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.01%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 594 (99.50%) AWS
2 363 (60.80%) Serverless
3 357 (59.80%) AWS Lambda
4 239 (40.03%) Amazon EC2
5 191 (31.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 167 (27.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 153 (25.63%) Amazon ECS
8 142 (23.79%) GitHub
9 134 (22.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 115 (19.26%) Amazon EKS
11 109 (18.26%) GitHub Actions
12 96 (16.08%) Azure
13 70 (11.73%) AWS Step Functions
14 52 (8.71%) Amazon Kinesis
15 46 (7.71%) Route 53
16 43 (7.20%) Amazon ELB
16 43 (7.20%) GCP
16 43 (7.20%) Snowflake
17 41 (6.87%) Amazon SQS
18 38 (6.37%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 54 (9.05%) DNS
2 51 (8.54%) Firewall
3 34 (5.70%) VPN
4 26 (4.36%) Network Security
5 24 (4.02%) TCP/IP
6 22 (3.69%) SSL
7 17 (2.85%) HTTP
8 14 (2.35%) FTP
8 14 (2.35%) SMTP
8 14 (2.35%) SSH
9 9 (1.51%) IMAP
9 9 (1.51%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (0.67%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.50%) BGP
11 3 (0.50%) NAS
12 2 (0.34%) Calico
12 2 (0.34%) OSPF
12 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (30.49%) Amazon RDS
2 105 (17.59%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (14.57%) Amazon Athena
4 85 (14.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 83 (13.90%) DynamoDB
6 50 (8.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 46 (7.71%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (7.54%) Relational Database
9 41 (6.87%) Data Lake
10 30 (5.03%) MongoDB
10 30 (5.03%) MySQL
11 28 (4.69%) Amazon QuickSight
12 25 (4.19%) Power BI
13 21 (3.52%) NoSQL
14 19 (3.18%) OLTP
14 19 (3.18%) SQL Server
15 17 (2.85%) Apache Iceberg
15 17 (2.85%) BigQuery
15 17 (2.85%) OLAP
15 17 (2.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 149 (24.96%) Jenkins
2 127 (21.27%) GitLab
3 117 (19.60%) Git
4 33 (5.53%) JIRA
5 14 (2.35%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.01%) MLflow
7 11 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.68%) Postman
9 8 (1.34%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.34%) JUnit
10 5 (0.84%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.84%) Maven
11 4 (0.67%) NUnit
11 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.50%) Gradle
12 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.34%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.34%) Storybook
13 2 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 150 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 99 (16.58%) Public Sector
3 87 (14.57%) Finance
4 56 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.69%) Banking
6 15 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.84%) Front Office
9 9 (1.51%) Military
10 6 (1.01%) Legal
11 4 (0.67%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Marketing
13 2 (0.34%) Publishing
13 2 (0.34%) Retail
14 1 (0.17%) Aviation
14 1 (0.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 131 (21.94%) AWS Engineer
2 109 (18.26%) Data Engineer
3 94 (15.75%) Senior
4 92 (15.41%) Developer
5 80 (13.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (11.39%) Architect
7 43 (7.20%) Lead
7 43 (7.20%) Platform Engineer
8 38 (6.37%) AWS DevOps
9 37 (6.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 33 (5.53%) AWS Architect
10 33 (5.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 31 (5.19%) AWS Data Engineer
12 30 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (5.03%) Java Developer
13 28 (4.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 28 (4.69%) Data Architect
13 28 (4.69%) Software Engineer
14 26 (4.36%) Site Engineer
15 25 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (15.75%) Kafka
2 57 (9.55%) Node.js
3 55 (9.21%) REST
4 52 (8.71%) React
4 52 (8.71%) Spring
4 52 (8.71%) Spring Boot
5 49 (8.21%) RESTful
6 47 (7.87%) AWS CDK
7 36 (6.03%) OAuth
8 33 (5.53%) PySpark
9 26 (4.36%) AngularJS
10 25 (4.19%) FastAPI
11 24 (4.02%) CSS
12 22 (3.69%) JWT
13 21 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
13 21 (3.52%) JSON
14 18 (3.02%) boto
14 18 (3.02%) Pandas
15 17 (2.85%) Jest
16 16 (2.68%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 142 (23.79%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (3.52%) Replication
4 18 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.84%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.84%) NHS
8 10 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.68%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.84%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.84%) Derivative
12 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.84%) SCADA
12 5 (0.84%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 82 (13.74%) Linux
2 23 (3.85%) Windows
3 18 (3.02%) VMS
4 17 (2.85%) Amazon Linux
5 15 (2.51%) Unix
6 14 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.68%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.17%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.17%) Android
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (61.14%) CI/CD
2 271 (45.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 246 (41.21%) DevOps
4 159 (26.63%) Containerisation
5 153 (25.63%) Agile
6 120 (20.10%) ETL
7 118 (19.77%) Data Pipeline
8 107 (17.92%) Data Modelling
9 106 (17.76%) Analytics
10 103 (17.25%) Data Engineering
11 99 (16.58%) Microservices
12 93 (15.58%) Observability
13 86 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (14.07%) AI
15 73 (12.23%) Software Engineering
16 71 (11.89%) Event-Driven
17 67 (11.22%) Migration
18 63 (10.55%) Machine Learning
19 57 (9.55%) Data Governance
20 56 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 369 (61.81%) Python
2 193 (32.33%) SQL
3 107 (17.92%) Java
4 84 (14.07%) Bash
5 58 (9.72%) TypeScript
6 47 (7.87%) JavaScript
7 38 (6.37%) PowerShell
8 28 (4.69%) C#
9 25 (4.19%) Shell Script
10 24 (4.02%) Go
11 16 (2.68%) Groovy
12 12 (2.01%) Perl
13 9 (1.51%) Scala
14 7 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.01%) JSX
15 6 (1.01%) Korn
16 4 (0.67%) Bicep
16 4 (0.67%) C
17 3 (0.50%) C++
18 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 186 (31.16%) Security Cleared
2 154 (25.80%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.05%) AWS Certification
4 29 (4.86%) Degree
5 24 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (4.02%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.50%) MCP
9 3 (0.50%) OCP
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.50%) PhD
10 2 (0.34%) CISSP
10 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.17%) CEH
11 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.70%) GDPR
3 35 (5.86%) QA
4 18 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.51%) NIST
6 6 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.67%) NCSC
8 3 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.34%) GxP
9 2 (0.34%) MiFID
9 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) HL7
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 233 (39.03%) Docker
2 14 (2.35%) DFS Replication
3 12 (2.01%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.51%) Dovecot
4 9 (1.51%) Postfix
4 9 (1.51%) Squid
5 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.50%) KVM
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 323 (54.10%) Terraform
2 165 (27.64%) Kubernetes
3 95 (15.91%) Grafana
4 91 (15.24%) Ansible
5 75 (12.56%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.52%) Puppet
7 20 (3.35%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.68%) Argo
8 10 (1.68%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (1.51%) Nessus
9 9 (1.51%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.17%) Kibana
11 6 (1.01%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (0.84%) Istio
12 5 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.67%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.50%) Nagios
14 3 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 47 (7.87%) Databricks
2 36 (6.03%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.02%) F5
3 24 (4.02%) Palo Alto
4 23 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 23 (3.85%) Splunk
5 19 (3.18%) Oracle
6 18 (3.02%) Google
7 16 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.18%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.51%) Confluent
9 9 (1.51%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.34%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.17%) Commvault
11 7 (1.17%) Dell
12 6 (1.01%) SAP
13 5 (0.84%) AVEVA
13 5 (0.84%) StreamSets
13 5 (0.84%) Sybase
13 5 (0.84%) Zscaler