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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 160 214
Rank change year-on-year -58 +54 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 686 585 431
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.78% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.65% 4.80% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 429 289
10th Percentile £400 £400 £405
25th Percentile £449 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £29.28 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £34.56 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £46.75 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% - -
75th Percentile £61.56 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £68.43 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 - -

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 18,770 12,196 13,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 37.14% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,423 8,144 9,083
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 £715 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 601 317 249
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.50
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 £67.35 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.42
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.88% -17.63%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -61 564 £537 +2.33% 96
London -12 378 £575 - 48
Work from Home -32 248 £525 +0.96% 58
UK excluding London -95 221 £475 - 67
Midlands -37 67 £463 -2.63% 7
West Midlands -42 57 £469 -1.26% 3
North of England -55 57 £488 -2.50% 16
Scotland -27 39 £475 -4.43%
South West -26 27 £466 -14.65% 16
South East -58 25 £575 +35.29% 24
North West -45 21 £525 +10.53% 6
North East -21 20 £425 -5.56% 4
Yorkshire -48 16 £550 +4.76% 6
East Midlands -12 9 £419 -22.02% 4
East of England -34 7 £400 -27.27% 7
Wales - 3 £600 - 1
Northern Ireland +5 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 86 (12.54%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (10.20%) Confluence
3 60 (8.75%) Apache Spark
4 49 (7.14%) Apache
5 19 (2.77%) SAS
6 10 (1.46%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.31%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.17%) 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
1 670 (97.67%) AWS
2 435 (63.41%) Serverless
3 430 (62.68%) AWS Lambda
4 228 (33.24%) Amazon EC2
5 215 (31.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 155 (22.59%) GitHub
7 143 (20.85%) Amazon ECS
8 135 (19.68%) Amazon EKS
9 125 (18.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 121 (17.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 115 (16.76%) GitHub Actions
12 102 (14.87%) Azure
13 99 (14.43%) Amazon SQS
14 85 (12.39%) Amazon EMR
15 81 (11.81%) Snowflake
16 77 (11.22%) dbt
17 72 (10.50%) AWS Step Functions
18 61 (8.89%) Power Platform
19 50 (7.29%) AWS KMS
20 49 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.62%) Firewall
2 16 (2.33%) DNS
3 10 (1.46%) 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
1 173 (25.22%) Amazon RDS
2 140 (20.41%) Amazon Athena
3 123 (17.93%) DynamoDB
4 117 (17.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 91 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
6 89 (12.97%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (8.89%) Data Lake
7 61 (8.89%) Power BI
8 44 (6.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 39 (5.69%) Metadata
10 38 (5.54%) MongoDB
11 31 (4.52%) Big Data
12 28 (4.08%) Relational Database
13 27 (3.94%) Tableau
14 25 (3.64%) BigQuery
14 25 (3.64%) NoSQL
15 24 (3.50%) Apache Iceberg
16 22 (3.21%) Data Vault
16 22 (3.21%) SQL Server
17 19 (2.77%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 142 (20.70%) GitLab
2 140 (20.41%) Jenkins
3 135 (19.68%) Git
4 74 (10.79%) JIRA
5 28 (4.08%) Bitbucket
6 23 (3.35%) SonarQube
7 20 (2.92%) Cypress.io
8 18 (2.62%) JUnit
8 18 (2.62%) Mockito
9 14 (2.04%) Maven
10 9 (1.31%) Artifactory
10 9 (1.31%) DbUnit
11 8 (1.17%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (1.17%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.17%) jMock
11 8 (1.17%) Postman
12 7 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.73%) Selenium
14 4 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 166 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 156 (22.74%) Public Sector
3 117 (17.06%) Finance
4 60 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (6.56%) Banking
6 14 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.90%) Front Office
8 11 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.17%) Back Office
10 7 (1.02%) Law
10 7 (1.02%) Marketing
10 7 (1.02%) Military
11 6 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.73%) Billing
12 5 (0.73%) Publishing
13 4 (0.58%) Legal
13 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.58%) Retail
14 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 161 (23.47%) Data Engineer
2 127 (18.51%) AWS Engineer
3 120 (17.49%) Developer
4 110 (16.03%) Senior
5 87 (12.68%) Architect
6 79 (11.52%) Lead
7 68 (9.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 44 (6.41%) Senior Data Engineer
9 43 (6.27%) AWS Data Engineer
10 38 (5.54%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (5.10%) AWS Architect
13 33 (4.81%) AWS Developer
14 32 (4.66%) Java Developer
15 30 (4.37%) Data Architect
16 28 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 24 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
17 24 (3.50%) Software Engineer
18 22 (3.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 21 (3.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (46.21%) Terraform
2 76 (11.08%) Kafka
3 75 (10.93%) REST
4 73 (10.64%) PySpark
5 62 (9.04%) React
6 55 (8.02%) Node.js
7 53 (7.73%) RESTful
7 53 (7.73%) Spring Boot
8 52 (7.58%) Spring
9 48 (7.00%) AWS CDK
10 27 (3.94%) FastAPI
11 25 (3.64%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.50%) SOAP
13 22 (3.21%) JSON
14 21 (3.06%) OAuth
15 20 (2.92%) .NET
16 19 (2.77%) Pandas
17 17 (2.48%) GraphQL
17 17 (2.48%) Next.js
18 16 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 169 (24.64%) Cloud Native
2 58 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.92%) NHS
5 18 (2.62%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.90%) IVR
7 11 (1.60%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.31%) Legacy Code
8 9 (1.31%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.17%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.17%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.17%) Mainframe
9 8 (1.17%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.02%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 85 (12.39%) Linux
2 20 (2.92%) Unix
3 19 (2.77%) Windows
4 14 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.02%) 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
1 429 (62.54%) CI/CD
2 287 (41.84%) DevOps
3 285 (41.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 250 (36.44%) Agile
5 178 (25.95%) Data Pipeline
6 167 (24.34%) Data Engineering
7 158 (23.03%) Analytics
8 135 (19.68%) ETL
9 133 (19.39%) Data Modelling
10 130 (18.95%) AI
11 125 (18.22%) Containerisation
12 114 (16.62%) Microservices
13 108 (15.74%) Observability
14 105 (15.31%) Migration
15 97 (14.14%) Test Automation
16 91 (13.27%) Event-Driven
17 89 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
18 86 (12.54%) Machine Learning
19 85 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
19 85 (12.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 389 (56.71%) Python
2 237 (34.55%) SQL
3 117 (17.06%) Java
4 76 (11.08%) TypeScript
5 70 (10.20%) Bash
6 60 (8.75%) JavaScript
7 33 (4.81%) C#
8 31 (4.52%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.35%) Scala
10 22 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 15 (2.19%) Groovy
12 10 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.17%) Bicep
14 6 (0.87%) 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%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 228 (33.24%) Security Cleared
2 201 (29.30%) SC Cleared
3 74 (10.79%) AWS Certification
4 43 (6.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (4.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.77%) Degree
6 19 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.75%) 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%) CSPO
14 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (15.60%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.50%) QA
3 20 (2.92%) GDPR
4 13 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.46%) 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
1 207 (30.17%) Docker
2 17 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.02%) 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
1 124 (18.08%) Kubernetes
2 103 (15.01%) Grafana
3 52 (7.58%) Prometheus
4 40 (5.83%) Ansible
5 18 (2.62%) Argo
6 16 (2.33%) Kibana
7 11 (1.60%) Puppet
8 8 (1.17%) Karpenter
8 8 (1.17%) Packer
8 8 (1.17%) 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 58 (8.45%) Databricks
2 42 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.10%) Oracle
4 33 (4.81%) Informatica
5 25 (3.64%) Splunk
6 18 (2.62%) Google
6 18 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.48%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.60%) Denodo
9 11 (1.60%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (1.60%) Teradata
10 8 (1.17%) Confluent
10 8 (1.17%) Foundry
10 8 (1.17%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.17%) Palantir
11 7 (1.02%) IBM
11 7 (1.02%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.87%) VMware