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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 165 234
Rank change year-on-year -25 +69 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 712 503 456
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.71% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 4.52% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 372 345
10th Percentile £372 £400 £400
25th Percentile £437 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £499
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.25% -0.25%
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 17,731 11,129 14,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.81% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 7,522 9,999
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £635
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 270 355
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.86 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £28.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.02% +32.79% -39.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.17
% change year-on-year +94.60% +0.52% -29.26%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -11 607 £525 - 137
London +10 414 £550 - 71
Work from Home -13 229 £500 -4.76% 83
UK excluding London -43 225 £475 -5.00% 86
Midlands -31 67 £469 -1.26% 10
West Midlands -25 62 £469 -1.26% 8
North of England -59 59 £488 -2.50% 29
Scotland -27 36 £450 -10.10% 1
North West -29 31 £525 +10.53% 13
South East -61 28 £585 +30.00% 17
South West -9 25 £463 -15.91% 25
North East -20 15 £425 - 2
Yorkshire -56 13 £500 -4.76% 14
East of England -27 8 £400 -20.00% 2
East Midlands -24 4 £425 -6.54% 2
Northern Ireland +4 3 £400 -20.00% 2
Wales - 3 £475 -

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 79 (11.10%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (8.99%) Apache Spark
2 64 (8.99%) Confluence
3 46 (6.46%) Apache
4 21 (2.95%) SAS
5 10 (1.40%) nginx
6 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.84%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 705 (99.02%) AWS
2 459 (64.47%) Serverless
3 454 (63.76%) AWS Lambda
4 254 (35.67%) Amazon EC2
5 201 (28.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 151 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
7 143 (20.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 136 (19.10%) Amazon EKS
9 135 (18.96%) GitHub
10 131 (18.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 109 (15.31%) Amazon SQS
12 100 (14.04%) Azure
13 97 (13.62%) GitHub Actions
14 86 (12.08%) AWS Step Functions
15 80 (11.24%) Snowflake
16 79 (11.10%) Amazon EMR
17 71 (9.97%) dbt
18 59 (8.29%) Power Platform
19 52 (7.30%) Amazon Kinesis
20 51 (7.16%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.07%) DNS
2 24 (3.37%) Firewall
3 15 (2.11%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.83%) VPN
5 11 (1.54%) OpenVPN
6 10 (1.40%) Network Security
7 5 (0.70%) HTTP
7 5 (0.70%) WAN
8 4 (0.56%) DHCP
8 4 (0.56%) Internet
8 4 (0.56%) NAS
8 4 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.56%) SAN
8 4 (0.56%) SSL
9 3 (0.42%) BGP
9 3 (0.42%) CTI
9 3 (0.42%) OSPF
10 2 (0.28%) Multicast
10 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (23.60%) Amazon RDS
2 148 (20.79%) Amazon Athena
3 124 (17.42%) DynamoDB
4 122 (17.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 98 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
6 71 (9.97%) Data Warehouse
7 59 (8.29%) Data Lake
7 59 (8.29%) Power BI
8 55 (7.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 38 (5.34%) NoSQL
10 35 (4.92%) Metadata
11 32 (4.49%) Relational Database
11 32 (4.49%) Tableau
12 29 (4.07%) Big Data
13 26 (3.65%) MongoDB
14 25 (3.51%) SQL Server
15 24 (3.37%) BigQuery
16 23 (3.23%) Apache Iceberg
17 21 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
18 19 (2.67%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 144 (20.22%) GitLab
2 141 (19.80%) Git
3 137 (19.24%) Jenkins
4 78 (10.96%) JIRA
5 31 (4.35%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.07%) JUnit
7 27 (3.79%) Bitbucket
8 23 (3.23%) Maven
8 23 (3.23%) Mockito
9 15 (2.11%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.97%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.83%) jMock
12 11 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.40%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.12%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.12%) Postman
15 6 (0.84%) MLflow
16 4 (0.56%) Selenium
17 3 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 3 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 183 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 135 (18.96%) Public Sector
3 116 (16.29%) Finance
4 66 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.06%) Banking
6 22 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.40%) Front Office
9 8 (1.12%) Military
10 7 (0.98%) Legal
11 6 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.84%) Law
12 4 (0.56%) Marketing
12 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.42%) Back Office
13 3 (0.42%) Billing
13 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 176 (24.72%) Data Engineer
2 140 (19.66%) Developer
3 132 (18.54%) AWS Engineer
4 92 (12.92%) Senior
5 84 (11.80%) Architect
6 79 (11.10%) Lead
7 55 (7.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.74%) Java Developer
9 46 (6.46%) AWS Data Engineer
10 42 (5.90%) AWS Architect
11 39 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (4.92%) Senior Data Engineer
13 34 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
14 33 (4.63%) AWS Developer
15 30 (4.21%) Software Engineer
16 26 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.65%) Data Architect
16 26 (3.65%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.37%) Lead Data Engineer
17 24 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (13.20%) Kafka
2 75 (10.53%) PySpark
3 74 (10.39%) REST
4 73 (10.25%) Spring
4 73 (10.25%) Spring Boot
5 60 (8.43%) React
5 60 (8.43%) RESTful
6 54 (7.58%) Node.js
7 50 (7.02%) AWS CDK
8 35 (4.92%) AngularJS
9 34 (4.78%) OAuth
10 30 (4.21%) FastAPI
11 29 (4.07%) SOAP
12 25 (3.51%) JPA
13 24 (3.37%) OpenID
13 24 (3.37%) PyTorch
14 23 (3.23%) Hibernate
14 23 (3.23%) Pandas
14 23 (3.23%) Web Services
15 21 (2.95%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 186 (26.12%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.25%) NHS
5 13 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.12%) Legacy Code
9 7 (0.98%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.98%) Algorithms
9 7 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (0.98%) Hedge funds
9 7 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.84%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.84%) PACS
10 6 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (11.38%) Linux
2 20 (2.81%) Unix
3 12 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.40%) Windows
5 5 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (58.85%) CI/CD
2 288 (40.45%) DevOps
3 261 (36.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 227 (31.88%) Agile
5 172 (24.16%) Analytics
6 171 (24.02%) Data Engineering
7 164 (23.03%) Data Pipeline
8 152 (21.35%) ETL
9 151 (21.21%) Containerisation
10 138 (19.38%) Data Modelling
11 134 (18.82%) AI
12 123 (17.28%) Microservices
13 107 (15.03%) Observability
14 98 (13.76%) Machine Learning
15 92 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
16 91 (12.78%) Migration
16 91 (12.78%) Test Automation
17 88 (12.36%) Event-Driven
18 86 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
19 85 (11.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 399 (56.04%) Python
2 270 (37.92%) SQL
3 134 (18.82%) Java
4 66 (9.27%) TypeScript
5 52 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 49 (6.88%) Bash
7 45 (6.32%) C#
8 31 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.09%) Scala
10 21 (2.95%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.12%) Groovy
12 6 (0.84%) Bicep
12 6 (0.84%) Go
12 6 (0.84%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.56%) Perl
15 3 (0.42%) C
15 3 (0.42%) R
16 2 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 227 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 192 (26.97%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.72%) AWS Certification
4 30 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (2.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 17 (2.39%) Degree
7 14 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.54%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.42%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.28%) CSPO
13 2 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (14.61%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.21%) QA
3 20 (2.81%) GDPR
4 14 (1.97%) SLA
5 8 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.98%) NIST
6 7 (0.98%) PMO
7 6 (0.84%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.42%) NCSC
9 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 201 (28.23%) Docker
2 14 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.69%) Squid
4 11 (1.54%) Postfix
5 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 321 (45.08%) Terraform
2 140 (19.66%) Kubernetes
3 94 (13.20%) Grafana
4 63 (8.85%) Prometheus
5 40 (5.62%) Ansible
6 18 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.40%) Kibana
7 10 (1.40%) Puppet
8 9 (1.26%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.12%) Consul
10 7 (0.98%) Argo
11 6 (0.84%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.70%) Packer
12 5 (0.70%) Salt
13 4 (0.56%) Istio
14 2 (0.28%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 67 (9.41%) Databricks
2 29 (4.07%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.65%) Google
3 26 (3.65%) Splunk
4 23 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 23 (3.23%) Informatica
5 20 (2.81%) Dynatrace
5 20 (2.81%) Oracle
6 19 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.39%) Jaspersoft
8 14 (1.97%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.54%) Denodo
9 11 (1.54%) Teradata
10 10 (1.40%) Confluent
11 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.84%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.84%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.70%) Palantir
13 5 (0.70%) SAP