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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 168 225
Rank change year-on-year -18 +57 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 724 517 453
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.73% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 4.57% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 384 338
10th Percentile £375 £400 £381
25th Percentile £437 £463 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +5.00% -7.83%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.60% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 18,016 11,318 14,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.77% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,031 7,621 9,986
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 281 364
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.68 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £20.77
% change year-on-year +95.98% -7.87% -21.62%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -12 614 £525 -0.47% 96
London +6 414 £550 -1.79% 55
Work from Home 0 244 £500 -4.76% 58
UK excluding London -65 231 £475 -5.00% 62
Midlands -17 69 £469 -1.26% 11
West Midlands -23 64 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -65 61 £500 - 17
Scotland -36 37 £450 -10.00% 3
North West -39 31 £525 +10.53% 10
South East -48 29 £580 +28.89% 17
South West -17 26 £456 -17.05% 11
North East -23 15 £425 -5.56% 1
Yorkshire -57 15 £500 -4.76% 6
East of England -33 8 £400 -27.27%
East Midlands -19 4 £425 -6.54% 5
Wales - 4 £575 -
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 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 82 (11.33%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (10.22%) Confluence
3 64 (8.84%) Apache Spark
4 47 (6.49%) Apache
5 21 (2.90%) SAS
6 11 (1.52%) nginx
7 8 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.83%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 717 (99.03%) AWS
2 468 (64.64%) Serverless
3 463 (63.95%) AWS Lambda
4 265 (36.60%) Amazon EC2
5 209 (28.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 154 (21.27%) Amazon ECS
7 142 (19.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 141 (19.48%) Amazon EKS
9 139 (19.20%) GitHub
10 136 (18.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 108 (14.92%) Amazon SQS
12 104 (14.36%) Azure
13 99 (13.67%) GitHub Actions
14 87 (12.02%) Amazon EMR
15 83 (11.46%) Snowflake
16 80 (11.05%) AWS Step Functions
17 78 (10.77%) dbt
18 65 (8.98%) Power Platform
19 52 (7.18%) AWS KMS
20 51 (7.04%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.87%) DNS
2 25 (3.45%) Firewall
3 15 (2.07%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.80%) VPN
5 11 (1.52%) Network Security
5 11 (1.52%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.83%) WAN
7 5 (0.69%) HTTP
8 4 (0.55%) DHCP
8 4 (0.55%) Internet
8 4 (0.55%) NAS
8 4 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.55%) SAN
8 4 (0.55%) SSL
9 3 (0.41%) BGP
9 3 (0.41%) CTI
9 3 (0.41%) OSPF
10 2 (0.28%) Multicast
10 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (24.03%) Amazon RDS
2 151 (20.86%) Amazon Athena
3 128 (17.68%) Amazon Redshift
4 125 (17.27%) DynamoDB
5 96 (13.26%) PostgreSQL
6 78 (10.77%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (8.98%) Power BI
8 57 (7.87%) Data Lake
9 51 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 39 (5.39%) NoSQL
11 35 (4.83%) Metadata
11 35 (4.83%) Relational Database
12 32 (4.42%) Tableau
13 30 (4.14%) Big Data
14 29 (4.01%) MongoDB
15 24 (3.31%) BigQuery
15 24 (3.31%) SQL Server
16 21 (2.90%) Apache Iceberg
16 21 (2.90%) Snowflake Schema
17 17 (2.35%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 149 (20.58%) Git
1 149 (20.58%) GitLab
2 140 (19.34%) Jenkins
3 90 (12.43%) JIRA
4 31 (4.28%) SonarQube
5 30 (4.14%) JUnit
6 28 (3.87%) Bitbucket
7 24 (3.31%) Mockito
8 23 (3.18%) Maven
9 15 (2.07%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.93%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.80%) jMock
12 11 (1.52%) Artifactory
12 11 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.24%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.10%) Postman
15 6 (0.83%) MLflow
16 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.55%) Selenium
17 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 189 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 142 (19.61%) Public Sector
3 121 (16.71%) Finance
4 67 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (5.39%) Banking
6 22 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.52%) Front Office
9 8 (1.10%) Military
10 7 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.97%) Legal
11 6 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.83%) Law
12 5 (0.69%) Marketing
13 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Back Office
14 3 (0.41%) Billing
14 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 177 (24.45%) Data Engineer
2 138 (19.06%) Developer
3 130 (17.96%) AWS Engineer
4 97 (13.40%) Senior
5 89 (12.29%) Architect
6 80 (11.05%) Lead
7 57 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.63%) Java Developer
9 46 (6.35%) AWS Data Engineer
10 44 (6.08%) AWS Architect
11 40 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 38 (5.25%) Senior Data Engineer
13 37 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
14 32 (4.42%) AWS Developer
15 27 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 27 (3.73%) Software Engineer
16 25 (3.45%) Data Architect
16 25 (3.45%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.31%) Lead Data Engineer
17 24 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.71%) Kafka
2 80 (11.05%) PySpark
3 74 (10.22%) Spring
3 74 (10.22%) Spring Boot
4 71 (9.81%) REST
5 62 (8.56%) RESTful
6 61 (8.43%) React
7 55 (7.60%) Node.js
8 50 (6.91%) AWS CDK
9 32 (4.42%) AngularJS
9 32 (4.42%) OAuth
10 30 (4.14%) SOAP
11 29 (4.01%) FastAPI
12 25 (3.45%) JPA
13 24 (3.31%) OpenID
13 24 (3.31%) PyTorch
14 23 (3.18%) Hibernate
14 23 (3.18%) Web Services
15 22 (3.04%) Pandas
16 21 (2.90%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 185 (25.55%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.60%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (2.62%) NHS
5 16 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.38%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.24%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.10%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.10%) Legacy Code
10 7 (0.97%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (0.97%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.83%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.69%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 83 (11.46%) Linux
2 20 (2.76%) Unix
3 13 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.66%) Windows
5 5 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) AIX
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (59.39%) CI/CD
2 298 (41.16%) DevOps
3 264 (36.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 239 (33.01%) Agile
5 177 (24.45%) Data Engineering
6 172 (23.76%) Analytics
7 166 (22.93%) Data Pipeline
8 150 (20.72%) Containerisation
8 150 (20.72%) ETL
9 139 (19.20%) AI
10 136 (18.78%) Data Modelling
11 126 (17.40%) Microservices
12 103 (14.23%) Observability
13 100 (13.81%) Machine Learning
14 93 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
15 92 (12.71%) Migration
15 92 (12.71%) Test Automation
16 89 (12.29%) Business Intelligence
17 86 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 86 (11.88%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 405 (55.94%) Python
2 270 (37.29%) SQL
3 138 (19.06%) Java
4 71 (9.81%) TypeScript
5 53 (7.32%) Bash
5 53 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 44 (6.08%) C#
7 29 (4.01%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.04%) Shell Script
9 21 (2.90%) Scala
10 8 (1.10%) Groovy
11 6 (0.83%) Bicep
11 6 (0.83%) Go
11 6 (0.83%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.55%) Perl
13 4 (0.55%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.41%) C
14 3 (0.41%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 231 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 197 (27.21%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.73%) AWS Certification
4 31 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (2.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (2.35%) Degree
8 12 (1.66%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.52%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.83%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.41%) CSPO
13 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (15.19%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.87%) QA
3 20 (2.76%) GDPR
4 14 (1.93%) SLA
5 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.97%) PMO
7 6 (0.83%) NIST
7 6 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.55%) HL7
8 4 (0.55%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 204 (28.18%) Docker
2 15 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.66%) Squid
4 11 (1.52%) Postfix
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 323 (44.61%) Terraform
2 141 (19.48%) Kubernetes
3 96 (13.26%) Grafana
4 66 (9.12%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.94%) Ansible
6 17 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.66%) Puppet
8 9 (1.24%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.24%) Kibana
9 8 (1.10%) Consul
10 6 (0.83%) Argo
10 6 (0.83%) Packer
10 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.83%) Salt
11 5 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.55%) Istio
13 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.14%) Control-M
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 64 (8.84%) Databricks
2 30 (4.14%) Microsoft
3 28 (3.87%) Informatica
4 25 (3.45%) Splunk
5 23 (3.18%) Atlassian
5 23 (3.18%) Google
6 21 (2.90%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.76%) Oracle
8 19 (2.62%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.35%) Jaspersoft
10 15 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.52%) Denodo
11 11 (1.52%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.52%) Teradata
12 8 (1.10%) Confluent
12 8 (1.10%) IBM
13 7 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.83%) Ab Initio
14 6 (0.83%) AVEVA
14 6 (0.83%) Foundry