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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 156 221
Rank change year-on-year -66 +65 +34
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 689 592 429
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.80% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.64% 4.85% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 435 286
10th Percentile £400 £400 £403
25th Percentile £447 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +0.29% -0.29%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £605
90th Percentile £738 £688 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £32.80 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.86% - -
75th Percentile £72.83 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.93 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.58 - -

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 18,903 12,206 13,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 37.20% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,514 8,148 9,060
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 320 244
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.24
Median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £18.87 £21.46
% change year-on-year +77.53% -12.07% -18.25%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -49 567 £538 +2.38% 92
London -18 381 £575 - 43
Work from Home -23 251 £525 - 56
UK excluding London -95 220 £475 -0.52% 72
Midlands -33 65 £461 -3.00% 7
North of England -64 58 £488 -2.50% 17
West Midlands -37 55 £466 -1.95% 3
Scotland -29 39 £475 -4.43% 2
South West -29 27 £466 -14.65% 18
South East -69 25 £575 +35.29% 25
North West -56 22 £510 +7.37% 4
North East -26 20 £425 -5.56% 5
Yorkshire -46 16 £550 +4.76% 8
East Midlands -12 9 £419 -22.02% 4
East of England -36 7 £400 -27.27% 6
Wales - 3 £600 - 1
Northern Ireland 0 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 87 (12.63%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (10.60%) Confluence
3 59 (8.56%) Apache Spark
4 50 (7.26%) Apache
5 20 (2.90%) SAS
6 10 (1.45%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.31%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.58%) nginx
9 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.58%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.15%) Mule
11 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 673 (97.68%) AWS
2 439 (63.72%) Serverless
3 434 (62.99%) AWS Lambda
4 228 (33.09%) Amazon EC2
5 216 (31.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 154 (22.35%) GitHub
7 144 (20.90%) Amazon ECS
8 135 (19.59%) Amazon EKS
9 124 (18.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 123 (17.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 114 (16.55%) GitHub Actions
12 104 (15.09%) Azure
13 99 (14.37%) Amazon SQS
14 87 (12.63%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.61%) Snowflake
16 77 (11.18%) dbt
17 73 (10.60%) AWS Step Functions
18 63 (9.14%) Power Platform
19 51 (7.40%) AWS KMS
20 49 (7.11%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.76%) Firewall
2 16 (2.32%) DNS
3 10 (1.45%) Network Security
4 6 (0.87%) SSL
4 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.73%) CTI
5 5 (0.73%) HTTP
5 5 (0.73%) VPN
6 4 (0.58%) Internet
6 4 (0.58%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.58%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.58%) SMS
6 4 (0.58%) WAN
7 3 (0.44%) DHCP
7 3 (0.44%) SAN
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (25.40%) Amazon RDS
2 142 (20.61%) Amazon Athena
3 124 (18.00%) DynamoDB
4 119 (17.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 93 (13.50%) Data Warehouse
6 88 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (9.14%) Power BI
8 62 (9.00%) Data Lake
9 44 (6.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 39 (5.66%) Metadata
11 38 (5.52%) MongoDB
12 32 (4.64%) Big Data
13 28 (4.06%) Relational Database
14 27 (3.92%) Tableau
15 25 (3.63%) BigQuery
15 25 (3.63%) NoSQL
16 24 (3.48%) Apache Iceberg
17 21 (3.05%) Data Vault
17 21 (3.05%) SQL Server
18 19 (2.76%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 143 (20.75%) GitLab
2 139 (20.17%) Jenkins
3 137 (19.88%) Git
4 77 (11.18%) JIRA
5 28 (4.06%) Bitbucket
6 22 (3.19%) SonarQube
7 20 (2.90%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.47%) JUnit
8 17 (2.47%) Mockito
9 14 (2.03%) Maven
10 9 (1.31%) Artifactory
11 8 (1.16%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.16%) DbUnit
11 8 (1.16%) Postman
12 7 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (1.02%) jMock
12 7 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.73%) Selenium
14 4 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 164 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 160 (23.22%) Public Sector
3 115 (16.69%) Finance
4 59 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (6.39%) Banking
6 14 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.89%) Front Office
8 11 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.16%) Back Office
9 8 (1.16%) Military
10 7 (1.02%) Law
10 7 (1.02%) Marketing
11 6 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.87%) Publishing
12 5 (0.73%) Billing
13 4 (0.58%) Legal
13 4 (0.58%) Retail
14 3 (0.44%) Games
14 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 161 (23.37%) Data Engineer
2 126 (18.29%) AWS Engineer
3 120 (17.42%) Developer
4 113 (16.40%) Senior
5 87 (12.63%) Architect
6 78 (11.32%) Lead
7 70 (10.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (6.53%) Senior Data Engineer
9 42 (6.10%) AWS Data Engineer
10 38 (5.52%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (5.08%) AWS Architect
13 33 (4.79%) AWS Developer
14 32 (4.64%) Java Developer
15 30 (4.35%) Data Architect
16 28 (4.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 24 (3.48%) Software Engineer
18 23 (3.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 23 (3.34%) Platform Engineer
19 21 (3.05%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (46.59%) Terraform
2 75 (10.89%) Kafka
3 74 (10.74%) PySpark
3 74 (10.74%) REST
4 62 (9.00%) React
5 54 (7.84%) Node.js
6 53 (7.69%) RESTful
6 53 (7.69%) Spring Boot
7 52 (7.55%) Spring
8 49 (7.11%) AWS CDK
9 27 (3.92%) FastAPI
10 24 (3.48%) AngularJS
10 24 (3.48%) SOAP
11 22 (3.19%) JSON
12 21 (3.05%) OAuth
13 20 (2.90%) .NET
14 19 (2.76%) Pandas
15 17 (2.47%) GraphQL
15 17 (2.47%) Next.js
16 15 (2.18%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 169 (24.53%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.56%) Product Ownership
3 39 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.05%) NHS
5 19 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.89%) IVR
7 12 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 12 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.31%) Legacy Code
9 9 (1.31%) Reference Data
9 9 (1.31%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.31%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.16%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.16%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.16%) Replication
11 7 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 85 (12.34%) Linux
2 22 (3.19%) Unix
3 19 (2.76%) Windows
4 14 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.58%) AIX
6 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (62.55%) CI/CD
2 290 (42.09%) DevOps
3 288 (41.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 249 (36.14%) Agile
5 180 (26.12%) Data Pipeline
6 168 (24.38%) Data Engineering
7 155 (22.50%) Analytics
8 136 (19.74%) ETL
9 134 (19.45%) AI
9 134 (19.45%) Data Modelling
10 126 (18.29%) Containerisation
11 115 (16.69%) Microservices
12 109 (15.82%) Observability
13 107 (15.53%) Migration
14 98 (14.22%) Test Automation
15 93 (13.50%) Event-Driven
16 90 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 89 (12.92%) Machine Learning
18 87 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
19 83 (12.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 392 (56.89%) Python
2 239 (34.69%) SQL
3 118 (17.13%) Java
4 78 (11.32%) TypeScript
5 71 (10.30%) Bash
6 60 (8.71%) JavaScript
7 33 (4.79%) C#
8 32 (4.64%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.48%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.34%) Scala
11 16 (2.32%) Groovy
12 10 (1.45%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.16%) Bicep
14 7 (1.02%) Perl
15 4 (0.58%) Cypher
15 4 (0.58%) Go
15 4 (0.58%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.58%) R
15 4 (0.58%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 230 (33.38%) Security Cleared
2 204 (29.61%) SC Cleared
3 76 (11.03%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (4.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (2.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 20 (2.90%) Degree
7 19 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.60%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.73%) CISM
12 5 (0.73%) CISSP
12 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.44%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (15.82%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.77%) QA
3 20 (2.90%) GDPR
4 13 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.45%) SLA
6 7 (1.02%) NIST
7 6 (0.87%) HL7
8 4 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.58%) NCSC
8 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.44%) PMO
10 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.29%) GRC
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 209 (30.33%) Docker
2 18 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.87%) Postfix
4 5 (0.73%) Squid
5 3 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 125 (18.14%) Kubernetes
2 101 (14.66%) Grafana
3 53 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.95%) Ansible
5 18 (2.61%) Argo
6 16 (2.32%) Kibana
7 11 (1.60%) Puppet
8 8 (1.16%) Karpenter
8 8 (1.16%) Packer
8 8 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.02%) Istio
10 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.73%) Salt
11 3 (0.44%) Consul
11 3 (0.44%) Control-M
11 3 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.29%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.29%) systemd
12 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (8.27%) Databricks
2 42 (6.10%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.37%) Oracle
4 35 (5.08%) Informatica
5 24 (3.48%) Splunk
6 19 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.61%) Google
8 17 (2.47%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.74%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.60%) Atlassian
10 11 (1.60%) Denodo
10 11 (1.60%) Teradata
11 10 (1.45%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (1.16%) Confluent
12 8 (1.16%) Foundry
12 8 (1.16%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.16%) Palantir
13 7 (1.02%) IBM
13 7 (1.02%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.87%) VMware