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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 152 221
Rank change year-on-year -67 +69 +34
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 690 597 426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.82% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.68% 4.91% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 442 285
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £447 £455 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% - -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £606
90th Percentile £743 £688 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +0.30%
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 18,730 12,170 13,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.88% 37.16% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,406 8,107 9,047
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
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 600 321 228
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.86
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +0.50% -20.40%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year +72.23% -14.23% -18.52%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -48 570 £538 +2.38% 89
London -14 383 £575 - 40
Work from Home -33 251 £525 - 52
UK excluding London -86 220 £475 - 64
Midlands -39 63 £461 -3.00% 8
North of England -66 60 £488 -2.50% 18
West Midlands -41 53 £466 -1.95% 4
Scotland -25 39 £475 -5.00% 3
South West -30 27 £466 -14.65% 19
South East -57 25 £575 +35.29% 11
North West -52 23 £505 +6.32% 5
North East -25 20 £425 -2.86% 5
Yorkshire -55 17 £575 +9.52% 8
East Midlands -10 9 £419 -22.02% 4
East of England -37 7 £400 -27.27% 8
Wales - 3 £600 - 1
Northern Ireland -1 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 88 (12.75%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (11.01%) Confluence
3 59 (8.55%) Apache Spark
4 51 (7.39%) Apache
5 19 (2.75%) SAS
6 10 (1.45%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.30%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.72%) nginx
10 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.58%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 674 (97.68%) AWS
2 439 (63.62%) Serverless
3 435 (63.04%) AWS Lambda
4 228 (33.04%) Amazon EC2
5 218 (31.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 156 (22.61%) GitHub
7 142 (20.58%) Amazon ECS
8 137 (19.86%) Amazon EKS
9 126 (18.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 125 (18.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 116 (16.81%) GitHub Actions
12 105 (15.22%) Azure
13 100 (14.49%) Amazon SQS
14 86 (12.46%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.59%) Snowflake
16 78 (11.30%) dbt
17 73 (10.58%) AWS Step Functions
18 63 (9.13%) Power Platform
19 51 (7.39%) AWS KMS
20 49 (7.10%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.75%) Firewall
2 17 (2.46%) DNS
3 9 (1.30%) Network Security
4 7 (1.01%) HTTP
5 6 (0.87%) SSL
6 5 (0.72%) CTI
6 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.58%) Internet
7 4 (0.58%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.58%) SMS
7 4 (0.58%) VPN
7 4 (0.58%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) FTP
9 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.29%) SMTP
9 2 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (25.65%) Amazon RDS
2 137 (19.86%) Amazon Athena
3 123 (17.83%) DynamoDB
4 119 (17.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 95 (13.77%) Data Warehouse
6 89 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (9.13%) Power BI
8 61 (8.84%) Data Lake
9 44 (6.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 40 (5.80%) Metadata
11 38 (5.51%) MongoDB
12 31 (4.49%) Big Data
12 31 (4.49%) Relational Database
13 27 (3.91%) Tableau
14 26 (3.77%) NoSQL
15 25 (3.62%) BigQuery
16 23 (3.33%) Apache Iceberg
17 22 (3.19%) Data Vault
18 20 (2.90%) Delta Lake
19 19 (2.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 142 (20.58%) GitLab
2 138 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 134 (19.42%) Git
4 79 (11.45%) JIRA
5 25 (3.62%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.90%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.75%) SonarQube
8 14 (2.03%) JUnit
8 14 (2.03%) Mockito
9 12 (1.74%) Maven
10 8 (1.16%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.01%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.01%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.01%) Postman
11 7 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (0.87%) jMock
13 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.72%) Selenium
14 4 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 166 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 157 (22.75%) Public Sector
3 112 (16.23%) Finance
4 58 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (6.09%) Banking
6 13 (1.88%) Front Office
7 12 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.30%) Military
10 8 (1.16%) Back Office
11 7 (1.01%) Law
11 7 (1.01%) Marketing
12 6 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.87%) Publishing
13 5 (0.72%) Billing
14 4 (0.58%) Legal
14 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.58%) Retail
15 3 (0.43%) Local Government
15 3 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 166 (24.06%) Data Engineer
2 127 (18.41%) AWS Engineer
3 118 (17.10%) Developer
4 114 (16.52%) Senior
5 87 (12.61%) Architect
6 77 (11.16%) Lead
7 71 (10.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 46 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
9 42 (6.09%) AWS Data Engineer
10 41 (5.94%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (5.07%) AWS Architect
12 34 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (4.78%) AWS Developer
14 30 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 30 (4.35%) Data Architect
14 30 (4.35%) Java Developer
15 25 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
16 24 (3.48%) Software Engineer
17 23 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 22 (3.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (47.25%) Terraform
2 77 (11.16%) Kafka
3 74 (10.72%) PySpark
4 73 (10.58%) REST
5 63 (9.13%) React
6 53 (7.68%) Node.js
7 52 (7.54%) RESTful
8 51 (7.39%) Spring Boot
9 50 (7.25%) Spring
10 49 (7.10%) AWS CDK
11 29 (4.20%) FastAPI
12 23 (3.33%) JSON
13 22 (3.19%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.04%) .NET
14 21 (3.04%) SOAP
15 20 (2.90%) OAuth
16 19 (2.75%) Pandas
17 18 (2.61%) GraphQL
18 17 (2.46%) Next.js
19 15 (2.17%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 172 (24.93%) Cloud Native
2 61 (8.84%) Product Ownership
3 38 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.04%) NHS
5 19 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.88%) IVR
7 12 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 12 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.45%) Replication
9 9 (1.30%) Legacy Code
9 9 (1.30%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.16%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.16%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.16%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.16%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.01%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 88 (12.75%) Linux
2 22 (3.19%) Unix
3 21 (3.04%) Windows
4 15 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.45%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.58%) AIX
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (62.32%) CI/CD
2 295 (42.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 288 (41.74%) DevOps
4 252 (36.52%) Agile
5 182 (26.38%) Data Pipeline
6 169 (24.49%) Data Engineering
7 155 (22.46%) Analytics
8 138 (20.00%) ETL
9 134 (19.42%) Data Modelling
10 132 (19.13%) AI
11 123 (17.83%) Containerisation
12 115 (16.67%) Observability
13 111 (16.09%) Microservices
14 107 (15.51%) Migration
15 97 (14.06%) Test Automation
16 95 (13.77%) Event-Driven
17 93 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 89 (12.90%) Machine Learning
19 88 (12.75%) Business Intelligence
20 84 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 393 (56.96%) Python
2 240 (34.78%) SQL
3 118 (17.10%) Java
4 79 (11.45%) TypeScript
5 70 (10.14%) Bash
6 59 (8.55%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.64%) PowerShell
8 31 (4.49%) C#
9 25 (3.62%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.33%) Scala
11 18 (2.61%) Groovy
12 9 (1.30%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.16%) Bicep
14 7 (1.01%) 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 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 226 (32.75%) Security Cleared
2 202 (29.28%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.45%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (4.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.04%) Degree
7 20 (2.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 19 (2.75%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.03%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.59%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.87%) CISM
12 6 (0.87%) CISSP
12 6 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.43%) CSPO
15 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (16.23%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.91%) QA
3 20 (2.90%) GDPR
4 13 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.45%) SLA
6 8 (1.16%) 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 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 211 (30.58%) Docker
2 17 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.01%) Postfix
4 6 (0.87%) Squid
5 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.29%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.29%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 123 (17.83%) Kubernetes
2 100 (14.49%) Grafana
3 53 (7.68%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.94%) Ansible
5 18 (2.61%) Argo
6 16 (2.32%) Kibana
7 10 (1.45%) Puppet
8 8 (1.16%) Karpenter
8 8 (1.16%) Packer
9 7 (1.01%) Istio
10 6 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.58%) Salt
13 3 (0.43%) Control-M
13 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.29%) Consul
14 2 (0.29%) Nessus
14 2 (0.29%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.29%) systemd
14 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (8.41%) Databricks
2 43 (6.23%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.36%) Oracle
4 35 (5.07%) Informatica
5 26 (3.77%) Splunk
6 21 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.61%) Google
8 16 (2.32%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.74%) Teradata
10 11 (1.59%) Denodo
11 10 (1.45%) Jaspersoft
12 9 (1.30%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.30%) Confluent
13 8 (1.16%) Foundry
13 8 (1.16%) IBM
13 8 (1.16%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.16%) Palantir
14 6 (0.87%) Brio
14 6 (0.87%) VMware