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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 187 250
Rank change year-on-year +13 +63 +5
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 597 474 428
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.62% 1.39% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.25% 3.83% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 334 337
10th Percentile £400 £413 £406
25th Percentile £425 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.96% -2.86%

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 14,046 12,364 15,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.10% 36.28% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,589 8,222 11,017
10th Percentile £307 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £732 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 174 272
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.65 £14.37
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +6.55% +14.71%
75th Percentile £55.00 £44.90 £58.19
90th Percentile £76.73 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.39% +15.14% +7.69%

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 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 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 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 +9 456 £525 -4.55% 124
London +10 277 £550 -4.35% 57
UK excluding London +16 222 £480 -4.00% 98
Work from Home -6 176 £525 +1.65% 87
Midlands 0 55 £475 +5.56% 13
North of England -31 55 £500 -4.76% 30
West Midlands +8 47 £475 -15.56% 6
Scotland -14 46 £500 +2.99% 4
Yorkshire -27 33 £500 -5.57% 15
South East -6 29 £425 -29.17% 30
North West -27 18 £450 -5.26% 13
South West +8 17 £625 +25.00% 14
East of England -11 15 £463 -7.50% 5
Northern Ireland -1 8 £400 - 1
East Midlands -18 8 £433 -2.59% 7
North East -9 5 £550 -9.84% 2
Wales +3 1 £475 +18.75% 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 56 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (8.04%) Apache Spark
3 37 (6.20%) Apache
4 36 (6.03%) Confluence
5 11 (1.84%) nginx
6 5 (0.84%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.50%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) CICS
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
1 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 587 (98.32%) AWS
2 352 (58.96%) Serverless
3 345 (57.79%) AWS Lambda
4 255 (42.71%) Amazon EC2
5 215 (36.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 166 (27.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 154 (25.80%) GitHub
8 150 (25.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 149 (24.96%) Amazon ECS
10 116 (19.43%) GitHub Actions
11 105 (17.59%) Amazon EKS
12 99 (16.58%) Azure
13 65 (10.89%) AWS Step Functions
14 48 (8.04%) Amazon ELB
15 44 (7.37%) Snowflake
16 43 (7.20%) Route 53
17 42 (7.04%) Amazon EMR
17 42 (7.04%) GCP
18 40 (6.70%) Amazon Kinesis
19 35 (5.86%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.72%) DNS
2 52 (8.71%) Firewall
3 37 (6.20%) VPN
4 26 (4.36%) TCP/IP
5 24 (4.02%) Network Security
5 24 (4.02%) SSL
6 21 (3.52%) HTTP
6 21 (3.52%) SSH
7 19 (3.18%) SMTP
8 18 (3.02%) FTP
9 16 (2.68%) OpenLDAP
10 11 (1.84%) IMAP
11 6 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (0.84%) DHCP
13 4 (0.67%) Kerberos
14 3 (0.50%) NAS
15 2 (0.34%) Calico
15 2 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
15 2 (0.34%) VSAN
16 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (32.66%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (19.10%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (13.74%) Amazon Athena
4 81 (13.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 76 (12.73%) DynamoDB
6 56 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (9.21%) Relational Database
8 51 (8.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 40 (6.70%) Data Lake
10 28 (4.69%) MySQL
11 27 (4.52%) Amazon QuickSight
11 27 (4.52%) MongoDB
12 22 (3.69%) Power BI
12 22 (3.69%) SQL Server
13 21 (3.52%) Big Data
14 20 (3.35%) NoSQL
15 19 (3.18%) RDBMS
16 15 (2.51%) Delta Lake
17 14 (2.35%) Metadata
17 14 (2.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 152 (25.46%) Jenkins
2 130 (21.78%) Git
3 126 (21.11%) GitLab
4 47 (7.87%) JIRA
5 19 (3.18%) Vagrant
6 15 (2.51%) Cypress.io
7 14 (2.35%) MLflow
8 10 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.34%) Postman
10 5 (0.84%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.84%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.84%) JUnit
10 5 (0.84%) Maven
10 5 (0.84%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.67%) NUnit
11 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.50%) Gradle
12 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.34%) PyCharm
13 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 146 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 103 (17.25%) Public Sector
3 84 (14.07%) Finance
4 58 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.52%) Banking
6 15 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.18%) Front Office
8 7 (1.17%) Military
9 5 (0.84%) Legal
10 4 (0.67%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.67%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.50%) Marketing
12 2 (0.34%) Publishing
12 2 (0.34%) Retail
13 1 (0.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 141 (23.62%) AWS Engineer
2 104 (17.42%) Senior
3 99 (16.58%) Data Engineer
4 98 (16.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 79 (13.23%) Developer
6 63 (10.55%) Architect
7 50 (8.38%) AWS DevOps
8 47 (7.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 47 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
9 40 (6.70%) Lead
10 37 (6.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 30 (5.03%) AWS Data Engineer
11 30 (5.03%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 26 (4.36%) AWS Architect
13 25 (4.19%) Python Engineer
13 25 (4.19%) Senior Data Engineer
14 24 (4.02%) Software Engineer
15 23 (3.85%) Java Developer
15 23 (3.85%) Site Engineer
16 22 (3.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.73%) Kafka
2 58 (9.72%) Node.js
3 54 (9.05%) AWS CDK
4 52 (8.71%) REST
5 50 (8.38%) React
6 39 (6.53%) RESTful
7 37 (6.20%) Spring
7 37 (6.20%) Spring Boot
8 30 (5.03%) PySpark
9 29 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
10 28 (4.69%) OAuth
11 24 (4.02%) Pandas
12 22 (3.69%) CSS
13 21 (3.52%) JSON
13 21 (3.52%) JWT
13 21 (3.52%) NumPy
14 19 (3.18%) FastAPI
14 19 (3.18%) LDAP
14 19 (3.18%) PyTorch
15 18 (3.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 117 (19.60%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.69%) Replication
4 22 (3.69%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.84%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.51%) NHS
10 8 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.84%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.84%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.84%) Derivative
12 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.84%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 101 (16.92%) Linux
2 32 (5.36%) Windows
3 23 (3.85%) VMS
4 22 (3.69%) Amazon Linux
5 16 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.68%) Unix
6 13 (2.18%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.34%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) SUSE
9 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (59.46%) CI/CD
2 269 (45.06%) DevOps
3 268 (44.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 161 (26.97%) Containerisation
5 158 (26.47%) Agile
6 114 (19.10%) Data Pipeline
6 114 (19.10%) ETL
7 101 (16.92%) Data Modelling
8 100 (16.75%) Data Engineering
9 96 (16.08%) Analytics
10 92 (15.41%) Microservices
11 91 (15.24%) Observability
12 90 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
13 85 (14.24%) Migration
14 75 (12.56%) AI
15 68 (11.39%) Software Engineering
16 65 (10.89%) Infrastructure Automation
17 64 (10.72%) Machine Learning
18 62 (10.39%) Event-Driven
19 58 (9.72%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 363 (60.80%) Python
2 187 (31.32%) SQL
3 100 (16.75%) Java
4 91 (15.24%) Bash
5 61 (10.22%) TypeScript
6 48 (8.04%) JavaScript
7 45 (7.54%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.86%) Go
9 24 (4.02%) Groovy
9 24 (4.02%) Shell Script
10 21 (3.52%) C#
11 15 (2.51%) Perl
12 9 (1.51%) Scala
13 6 (1.01%) JSX
13 6 (1.01%) Korn
14 4 (0.67%) Bicep
14 4 (0.67%) C
14 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.50%) C++
16 2 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 181 (30.32%) Security Cleared
2 148 (24.79%) SC Cleared
3 71 (11.89%) AWS Certification
4 37 (6.20%) Degree
5 29 (4.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.51%) Azure Certification
9 13 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.50%) OCP
12 3 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.50%) PhD
13 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.34%) CISSP
14 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.17%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.72%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.87%) GDPR
3 37 (6.20%) QA
4 21 (3.52%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.84%) NIST
7 5 (0.84%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.84%) NCSC
8 3 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.34%) GxP
9 2 (0.34%) MiFID
9 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) HL7
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 230 (38.53%) Docker
2 23 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.02%) DFS Replication
4 11 (1.84%) Dovecot
4 11 (1.84%) Postfix
4 11 (1.84%) Squid
5 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.50%) KVM
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 319 (53.43%) Terraform
2 162 (27.14%) Kubernetes
3 108 (18.09%) Grafana
4 92 (15.41%) Ansible
5 82 (13.74%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.69%) Progress Chef
6 22 (3.69%) Puppet
7 15 (2.51%) Argo
8 11 (1.84%) Nessus
9 10 (1.68%) Proxmox
10 9 (1.51%) Red Hat Satellite
11 8 (1.34%) Istio
12 7 (1.17%) Kibana
13 6 (1.01%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
15 4 (0.67%) NetBackup
15 4 (0.67%) Packer
16 3 (0.50%) Data Guard
16 3 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
16 3 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 42 (7.04%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.87%) Databricks
3 24 (4.02%) Palo Alto
4 23 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 23 (3.85%) F5
4 23 (3.85%) Oracle
4 23 (3.85%) Splunk
5 21 (3.52%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.51%) Google
7 14 (2.35%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.84%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.51%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.34%) Cloudera
10 8 (1.34%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.17%) Commvault
11 7 (1.17%) IBM
12 6 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.01%) Dell
12 6 (1.01%) StreamSets
13 5 (0.84%) Zscaler