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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 194 251
Rank change year-on-year +30 +57 -13
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 620 464 437
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.71% 1.30% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.49% 3.63% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 319 347
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £425 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £788 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 13,815 12,799 15,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.14% 35.73% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,383 8,453 11,352
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 185 294
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.73 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +14.29% +19.32%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £27.35 £21.36
% change year-on-year -16.49% +28.07% +13.14%

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 3 December 2025.

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 16 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 3 December 2025. 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 +35 480 £525 -4.55% 192
London +17 286 £575 - 92
UK excluding London +27 232 £475 -5.00% 157
Work from Home +22 187 £525 +2.44% 147
North of England -29 60 £500 -1.96% 46
Midlands +14 58 £475 -3.06% 12
West Midlands +13 50 £475 -17.39% 8
Scotland -10 47 £500 +1.52% 8
Yorkshire -9 36 £500 -4.76% 19
South East +12 28 £425 -31.31% 62
South West +15 19 £625 +13.64% 23
North West -32 18 £450 -7.22% 23
East of England -4 16 £475 -5.00% 4
Northern Ireland +2 8 £400 - 1
East Midlands -16 8 £433 -3.24% 4
North East -3 7 £500 -18.03% 4

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 55 (8.87%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (7.90%) Apache Spark
3 42 (6.77%) Confluence
4 35 (5.65%) Apache
5 12 (1.94%) nginx
6 6 (0.97%) SAS
7 3 (0.48%) Traefik
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.16%) CICS
8 1 (0.16%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (0.97%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Actimize
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.16%) Finacle
1 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 610 (98.39%) AWS
2 354 (57.10%) Serverless
3 349 (56.29%) AWS Lambda
4 263 (42.42%) Amazon EC2
5 219 (35.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 167 (26.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 156 (25.16%) Amazon ECS
8 154 (24.84%) GitHub
9 150 (24.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 111 (17.90%) GitHub Actions
11 97 (15.65%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (14.52%) Azure
13 57 (9.19%) AWS Step Functions
14 48 (7.74%) Amazon ELB
15 45 (7.26%) Snowflake
16 43 (6.94%) Amazon EMR
16 43 (6.94%) Route 53
17 42 (6.77%) Amazon SQS
18 38 (6.13%) Amazon Kinesis
19 35 (5.65%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.52%) DNS
2 57 (9.19%) Firewall
3 38 (6.13%) VPN
4 26 (4.19%) SSL
4 26 (4.19%) TCP/IP
5 24 (3.87%) HTTP
5 24 (3.87%) SSH
6 23 (3.71%) Network Security
6 23 (3.71%) SMTP
7 21 (3.39%) FTP
8 17 (2.74%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (1.94%) IMAP
10 7 (1.13%) DHCP
11 6 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.48%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.48%) NAS
13 2 (0.32%) Calico
13 2 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.32%) VSAN
14 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (32.74%) Amazon RDS
2 126 (20.32%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (13.23%) Amazon Athena
4 81 (13.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 81 (13.06%) DynamoDB
5 61 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (9.19%) Relational Database
7 50 (8.06%) Amazon Aurora
8 37 (5.97%) Data Lake
9 29 (4.68%) Amazon QuickSight
9 29 (4.68%) MySQL
10 27 (4.35%) MongoDB
11 23 (3.71%) NoSQL
11 23 (3.71%) SQL Server
12 21 (3.39%) Big Data
12 21 (3.39%) RDBMS
13 19 (3.06%) Metadata
13 19 (3.06%) Power BI
14 15 (2.42%) Delta Lake
15 14 (2.26%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 152 (24.52%) Jenkins
2 137 (22.10%) Git
3 120 (19.35%) GitLab
4 53 (8.55%) JIRA
5 23 (3.71%) Vagrant
6 15 (2.42%) Cypress.io
7 14 (2.26%) MLflow
8 9 (1.45%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.45%) JUnit
8 9 (1.45%) Postman
9 8 (1.29%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.29%) Maven
10 6 (0.97%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.81%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.48%) Gradle
12 3 (0.48%) NUnit
12 3 (0.48%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.48%) Selenium
13 2 (0.32%) PyCharm
13 2 (0.32%) SoapUI
General
1 160 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 113 (18.23%) Public Sector
3 85 (13.71%) Finance
4 61 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (4.03%) Banking
6 18 (2.90%) Front Office
7 16 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (1.45%) Military
9 6 (0.97%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.81%) Legal
11 4 (0.65%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.48%) Marketing
13 2 (0.32%) Publishing
13 2 (0.32%) Retail
14 1 (0.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 149 (24.03%) AWS Engineer
2 110 (17.74%) Senior
3 100 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 98 (15.81%) Data Engineer
5 94 (15.16%) Developer
6 61 (9.84%) Architect
7 52 (8.39%) AWS DevOps
8 49 (7.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 49 (7.90%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (6.77%) Lead
10 39 (6.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 32 (5.16%) AWS Data Engineer
11 32 (5.16%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 29 (4.68%) Java Developer
13 25 (4.03%) Senior Data Engineer
13 25 (4.03%) Software Engineer
14 24 (3.87%) AWS Developer
14 24 (3.87%) Python Engineer
15 22 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (10.97%) Kafka
2 63 (10.16%) Node.js
3 54 (8.71%) AWS CDK
3 54 (8.71%) React
4 53 (8.55%) REST
5 41 (6.61%) RESTful
6 39 (6.29%) Spring
7 38 (6.13%) Spring Boot
8 30 (4.84%) PySpark
9 28 (4.52%) OAuth
10 25 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
11 23 (3.71%) Pandas
12 20 (3.23%) CSS
12 20 (3.23%) JSON
12 20 (3.23%) JWT
12 20 (3.23%) LDAP
12 20 (3.23%) NumPy
13 19 (3.06%) FastAPI
13 19 (3.06%) PyTorch
14 18 (2.90%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 113 (18.23%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.00%) Replication
3 27 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.77%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.45%) NHS
10 8 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.97%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.81%) CSOC
12 5 (0.81%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 106 (17.10%) Linux
2 35 (5.65%) Windows
3 27 (4.35%) VMS
4 26 (4.19%) Amazon Linux
5 16 (2.58%) Unix
6 14 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (2.10%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.29%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Android
10 1 (0.16%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
10 1 (0.16%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (57.42%) CI/CD
2 266 (42.90%) DevOps
3 260 (41.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (28.39%) Agile
5 163 (26.29%) Containerisation
6 115 (18.55%) ETL
7 112 (18.06%) Data Pipeline
8 101 (16.29%) Data Modelling
9 99 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
10 95 (15.32%) Microservices
11 92 (14.84%) Data Engineering
12 91 (14.68%) Migration
13 90 (14.52%) Analytics
14 80 (12.90%) Observability
15 75 (12.10%) AI
16 66 (10.65%) Infrastructure Automation
16 66 (10.65%) Mentoring
17 64 (10.32%) Machine Learning
17 64 (10.32%) Software Engineering
18 61 (9.84%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 372 (60.00%) Python
2 185 (29.84%) SQL
3 108 (17.42%) Java
4 89 (14.35%) Bash
5 67 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 52 (8.39%) JavaScript
7 47 (7.58%) PowerShell
8 28 (4.52%) Go
8 28 (4.52%) Groovy
9 20 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.90%) Perl
11 16 (2.58%) C#
12 10 (1.61%) Scala
13 6 (0.97%) JSX
13 6 (0.97%) Korn
14 4 (0.65%) Bicep
14 4 (0.65%) C
14 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.32%) C++
15 2 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 186 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 153 (24.68%) SC Cleared
3 77 (12.42%) AWS Certification
4 38 (6.13%) Degree
5 32 (5.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 20 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.77%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.32%) CISSP
12 2 (0.32%) PhD
13 1 (0.16%) CCNP
13 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.16%) RHCE
13 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.35%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.29%) QA
3 35 (5.65%) GDPR
4 20 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.61%) NIST
7 6 (0.97%) NCSC
8 5 (0.81%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.48%) WCAG
10 2 (0.32%) GxP
10 2 (0.32%) MiFID
10 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.32%) SLA
11 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.16%) HL7
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 230 (37.10%) Docker
2 27 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 21 (3.39%) DFS Replication
4 13 (2.10%) Postfix
5 12 (1.94%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.94%) Squid
6 3 (0.48%) KVM
7 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.16%) etcd
8 1 (0.16%) HDFS
8 1 (0.16%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 318 (51.29%) Terraform
2 159 (25.65%) Kubernetes
3 107 (17.26%) Grafana
4 87 (14.03%) Ansible
5 86 (13.87%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.39%) Progress Chef
6 21 (3.39%) Puppet
7 15 (2.42%) Argo
8 12 (1.94%) Nessus
9 10 (1.61%) Proxmox
10 9 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
11 8 (1.29%) Istio
12 5 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.65%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.65%) Packer
14 3 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.48%) Kibana
14 3 (0.48%) Nagios
15 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.13%) Databricks
3 27 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 25 (4.03%) Splunk
5 24 (3.87%) Palo Alto
6 23 (3.71%) CheckPoint
6 23 (3.71%) F5
6 23 (3.71%) Oracle
7 13 (2.10%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (1.77%) Google
8 11 (1.77%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.45%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.45%) IBM
10 8 (1.29%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.13%) Cloudera
11 7 (1.13%) Commvault
12 6 (0.97%) Dell
12 6 (0.97%) StreamSets
13 5 (0.81%) Zscaler