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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 164 226
Rank change year-on-year -36 +62 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 681 498 447
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.39% 1.72% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.90% 4.54% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 369 344
10th Percentile £373 £400 £400
25th Percentile £440 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.60% +0.90%
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 17,474 10,963 13,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.58% 37.89% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,712 7,435 9,865
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £619 £634
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 262 347
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.40 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.41 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.38 £69.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £20.24 £17.80
% change year-on-year +83.44% +13.68% -35.27%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -18 581 £525 - 191
London +9 393 £550 - 93
UK excluding London -69 221 £475 -5.00% 117
Work from Home -16 211 £500 -4.76% 112
Midlands -16 69 £469 -1.26% 13
West Midlands -19 64 £469 -1.26% 11
North of England -67 58 £488 -2.50% 42
Scotland -31 35 £450 -10.00% 1
North West -34 31 £525 +10.53% 24
South East -50 31 £586 +30.28% 23
South West -20 19 £456 -17.05% 27
North East -15 14 £419 - 6
Yorkshire -55 13 £500 -4.76% 12
East of England -34 7 £425 -15.00% 3
East Midlands -26 4 £425 -6.54% 2
Northern Ireland +7 3 £400 -20.00% 7
Wales - 3 £475 - 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 75 (11.01%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (9.25%) Apache Spark
3 59 (8.66%) Confluence
4 45 (6.61%) Apache
5 21 (3.08%) SAS
6 10 (1.47%) nginx
7 6 (0.88%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.59%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.29%) CMS
9 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 674 (98.97%) AWS
2 434 (63.73%) Serverless
3 428 (62.85%) AWS Lambda
4 255 (37.44%) Amazon EC2
5 192 (28.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 142 (20.85%) Amazon ECS
7 136 (19.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 135 (19.82%) GitHub
9 132 (19.38%) Amazon EKS
9 132 (19.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 105 (15.42%) Amazon SQS
11 102 (14.98%) Azure
12 96 (14.10%) GitHub Actions
13 81 (11.89%) AWS Step Functions
14 73 (10.72%) Amazon EMR
14 73 (10.72%) Snowflake
15 66 (9.69%) dbt
16 55 (8.08%) Power Platform
17 52 (7.64%) Route 53
18 48 (7.05%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.70%) DNS
2 23 (3.38%) Firewall
3 15 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.06%) VPN
5 11 (1.62%) OpenVPN
6 10 (1.47%) Network Security
7 5 (0.73%) HTTP
8 4 (0.59%) DHCP
8 4 (0.59%) Internet
8 4 (0.59%) NAS
8 4 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.59%) SAN
8 4 (0.59%) SSL
8 4 (0.59%) WAN
9 3 (0.44%) BGP
9 3 (0.44%) CTI
9 3 (0.44%) OSPF
10 2 (0.29%) Multicast
10 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (24.38%) Amazon RDS
2 132 (19.38%) Amazon Athena
3 120 (17.62%) DynamoDB
4 102 (14.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 94 (13.80%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (8.08%) Power BI
8 52 (7.64%) Amazon Aurora
9 48 (7.05%) Data Lake
10 38 (5.58%) NoSQL
11 32 (4.70%) Metadata
11 32 (4.70%) Relational Database
12 30 (4.41%) Tableau
13 28 (4.11%) Big Data
14 26 (3.82%) MongoDB
15 25 (3.67%) SQL Server
16 23 (3.38%) Apache Iceberg
17 22 (3.23%) BigQuery
18 21 (3.08%) Snowflake Schema
19 19 (2.79%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 140 (20.56%) GitLab
2 138 (20.26%) Jenkins
3 135 (19.82%) Git
4 72 (10.57%) JIRA
5 31 (4.55%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.26%) JUnit
7 27 (3.96%) Bitbucket
8 23 (3.38%) Maven
8 23 (3.38%) Mockito
9 15 (2.20%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.06%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.91%) jMock
12 11 (1.62%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.47%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.17%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.17%) Postman
15 6 (0.88%) MLflow
16 4 (0.59%) Selenium
16 4 (0.59%) Terragrunt
17 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 176 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 122 (17.91%) Public Sector
3 109 (16.01%) Finance
4 64 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (4.85%) Banking
6 23 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.47%) Front Office
9 6 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Legal
10 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.73%) Military
11 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.44%) Back Office
12 3 (0.44%) Billing
12 3 (0.44%) Law
12 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 163 (23.94%) Data Engineer
2 138 (20.26%) Developer
3 118 (17.33%) AWS Engineer
4 86 (12.63%) Architect
5 84 (12.33%) Senior
6 76 (11.16%) Lead
7 49 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (6.90%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.61%) AWS Architect
10 43 (6.31%) AWS Data Engineer
11 37 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (4.85%) AWS Developer
13 32 (4.70%) Senior Data Engineer
14 30 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
15 28 (4.11%) Software Engineer
16 26 (3.82%) Data Architect
16 26 (3.82%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.52%) Lead Data Engineer
18 23 (3.38%) Python Developer
19 22 (3.23%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (13.80%) Kafka
2 73 (10.72%) Spring
2 73 (10.72%) Spring Boot
3 71 (10.43%) PySpark
4 68 (9.99%) REST
5 60 (8.81%) RESTful
6 58 (8.52%) React
7 53 (7.78%) Node.js
8 47 (6.90%) AWS CDK
9 35 (5.14%) AngularJS
10 32 (4.70%) OAuth
11 29 (4.26%) FastAPI
11 29 (4.26%) SOAP
12 25 (3.67%) JPA
13 24 (3.52%) OpenID
13 24 (3.52%) PyTorch
14 23 (3.38%) Hibernate
14 23 (3.38%) Pandas
14 23 (3.38%) Web Services
15 21 (3.08%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 182 (26.73%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 45 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.35%) NHS
5 12 (1.76%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.62%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.17%) Legacy Code
9 7 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.03%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.03%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 6 (0.88%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.88%) PACS
10 6 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.73%) IVR
11 5 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 83 (12.19%) Linux
2 20 (2.94%) Unix
3 14 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.32%) Windows
5 5 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.29%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (58.44%) CI/CD
2 280 (41.12%) DevOps
3 250 (36.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 219 (32.16%) Agile
5 154 (22.61%) Analytics
6 150 (22.03%) Data Engineering
6 150 (22.03%) ETL
7 148 (21.73%) Data Pipeline
8 144 (21.15%) Containerisation
9 136 (19.97%) Data Modelling
10 115 (16.89%) Microservices
11 108 (15.86%) AI
12 104 (15.27%) Observability
13 90 (13.22%) Migration
14 87 (12.78%) Test Automation
15 84 (12.33%) Scrum
16 83 (12.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 83 (12.19%) Event-Driven
17 81 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
18 73 (10.72%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 370 (54.33%) Python
2 256 (37.59%) SQL
3 134 (19.68%) Java
4 64 (9.40%) TypeScript
5 49 (7.20%) JavaScript
6 47 (6.90%) Bash
7 45 (6.61%) C#
8 31 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 25 (3.67%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.23%) Scala
11 8 (1.17%) Groovy
12 7 (1.03%) Go
13 6 (0.88%) Bicep
13 6 (0.88%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.59%) Perl
14 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.44%) C
15 3 (0.44%) R
16 2 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 220 (32.31%) Security Cleared
2 186 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.61%) AWS Certification
4 26 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (2.35%) Degree
6 14 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 14 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.62%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.44%) OCP
12 3 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (12.63%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.26%) QA
3 22 (3.23%) GDPR
4 14 (2.06%) SLA
5 8 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.03%) NIST
6 7 (1.03%) PMO
7 6 (0.88%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.44%) NCSC
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 199 (29.22%) Docker
2 14 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.76%) Squid
4 11 (1.62%) Postfix
5 6 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.44%) HDFS
7 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.15%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 297 (43.61%) Terraform
2 139 (20.41%) Kubernetes
3 92 (13.51%) Grafana
4 62 (9.10%) Prometheus
5 40 (5.87%) Ansible
6 18 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.76%) Kibana
8 10 (1.47%) Puppet
9 9 (1.32%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.17%) Consul
11 7 (1.03%) Argo
11 7 (1.03%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.73%) Salt
14 4 (0.59%) Istio
14 4 (0.59%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.59%) Packer
15 3 (0.44%) Data Guard
15 3 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 3 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 65 (9.54%) Databricks
2 29 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.96%) Splunk
4 24 (3.52%) Google
5 23 (3.38%) Atlassian
6 22 (3.23%) Oracle
7 20 (2.94%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.94%) Informatica
8 19 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
10 16 (2.35%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.62%) Denodo
11 11 (1.62%) Teradata
12 10 (1.47%) Confluent
13 8 (1.17%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.88%) AVEVA
15 5 (0.73%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.73%) SAP
15 5 (0.73%) Tenable
16 4 (0.59%) Thales