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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 196 246
Rank change year-on-year +30 +50 -17
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 639 465 452
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.77% 1.27% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.62% 3.59% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 316 356
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £601
90th Percentile £688 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.19% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - -
Median hourly rate £46.25 - -
75th Percentile £50.94 - -
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 13,831 12,951 16,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.37% 35.51% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,367 8,522 11,553
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 190 300
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.72 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.73 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +13.82% +22.50%
75th Percentile £51.67 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +16.40%

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 26 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 16 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 26 November 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 +40 499 £525 -4.55% 196
London +30 300 £575 - 90
UK excluding London +23 237 £475 -5.00% 158
Work from Home +31 199 £525 +2.44% 134
Midlands +14 62 £475 +1.06% 18
North of England -28 62 £500 - 35
West Midlands +23 53 £475 -24.00% 14
Scotland -19 46 £500 +4.17% 17
Yorkshire -11 38 £500 -4.76% 17
South East +9 29 £419 -32.32% 45
North West -26 19 £475 -1.04% 15
South West +6 18 £575 -4.17% 32
East of England -2 16 £475 -5.00% 7
East Midlands -11 9 £434 -2.96% 4
Northern Ireland +2 8 £400 - 1
North East -5 6 £450 -26.23% 3

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 54 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (7.67%) Apache Spark
3 45 (7.04%) Confluence
4 33 (5.16%) Apache
5 14 (2.19%) nginx
6 5 (0.78%) CMS
6 5 (0.78%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.78%) SAS
7 3 (0.47%) Traefik
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.16%) CICS
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Actimize
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.16%) Finacle
1 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 627 (98.12%) AWS
2 364 (56.96%) Serverless
3 360 (56.34%) AWS Lambda
4 271 (42.41%) Amazon EC2
5 226 (35.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 164 (25.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 157 (24.57%) Amazon ECS
8 153 (23.94%) GitHub
9 147 (23.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 109 (17.06%) GitHub Actions
11 96 (15.02%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (13.77%) Azure
13 58 (9.08%) AWS Step Functions
14 51 (7.98%) Amazon SQS
15 49 (7.67%) Amazon ELB
16 47 (7.36%) Route 53
17 44 (6.89%) Amazon EMR
17 44 (6.89%) Snowflake
18 41 (6.42%) Amazon Kinesis
19 37 (5.79%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.23%) DNS
2 58 (9.08%) Firewall
3 38 (5.95%) VPN
4 27 (4.23%) SSH
5 26 (4.07%) SSL
5 26 (4.07%) TCP/IP
6 25 (3.91%) HTTP
7 24 (3.76%) SMTP
8 23 (3.60%) Network Security
9 22 (3.44%) FTP
10 17 (2.66%) OpenLDAP
11 12 (1.88%) IMAP
12 6 (0.94%) DHCP
12 6 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.47%) Kerberos
13 3 (0.47%) NAS
14 2 (0.31%) Calico
14 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (0.31%) VSAN
15 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (32.71%) Amazon RDS
2 136 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (14.71%) DynamoDB
4 82 (12.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 80 (12.52%) Amazon Athena
6 61 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
6 61 (9.55%) Relational Database
7 53 (8.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 34 (5.32%) Data Lake
9 31 (4.85%) MySQL
10 29 (4.54%) Amazon QuickSight
11 27 (4.23%) MongoDB
12 26 (4.07%) NoSQL
13 23 (3.60%) RDBMS
13 23 (3.60%) SQL Server
14 21 (3.29%) Big Data
15 19 (2.97%) Metadata
16 17 (2.66%) Power BI
17 14 (2.19%) Parquet
17 14 (2.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 154 (24.10%) Jenkins
2 141 (22.07%) Git
3 116 (18.15%) GitLab
4 56 (8.76%) JIRA
5 24 (3.76%) Vagrant
6 15 (2.35%) Cypress.io
7 14 (2.19%) JUnit
7 14 (2.19%) Maven
8 13 (2.03%) MLflow
9 11 (1.72%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.56%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.41%) Postman
11 9 (1.41%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.63%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (0.47%) DbUnit
13 3 (0.47%) Gradle
13 3 (0.47%) Mockito
13 3 (0.47%) NUnit
13 3 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 163 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 118 (18.47%) Public Sector
3 84 (13.15%) Finance
4 63 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (3.76%) Banking
6 21 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.97%) Front Office
8 16 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.56%) Military
10 7 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.78%) Legal
12 4 (0.63%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.63%) Publishing
13 3 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.47%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.47%) Marketing
14 2 (0.31%) Retail
15 1 (0.16%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 150 (23.47%) AWS Engineer
2 114 (17.84%) Senior
3 106 (16.59%) Developer
4 101 (15.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 96 (15.02%) Data Engineer
6 69 (10.80%) Architect
7 52 (8.14%) AWS DevOps
8 49 (7.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 48 (7.51%) Platform Engineer
10 42 (6.57%) Lead
11 39 (6.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 32 (5.01%) AWS Data Engineer
12 32 (5.01%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 32 (5.01%) Java Developer
13 28 (4.38%) AWS Developer
14 26 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
15 25 (3.91%) Python Engineer
16 24 (3.76%) Software Engineer
17 22 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
17 22 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (10.33%) Kafka
2 65 (10.17%) Node.js
3 60 (9.39%) React
4 59 (9.23%) REST
5 52 (8.14%) AWS CDK
6 43 (6.73%) RESTful
6 43 (6.73%) Spring
7 38 (5.95%) Spring Boot
8 32 (5.01%) OAuth
9 29 (4.54%) PySpark
10 25 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
11 22 (3.44%) AngularJS
11 22 (3.44%) GraphQL
11 22 (3.44%) Pandas
12 20 (3.13%) CSS
12 20 (3.13%) Jest
12 20 (3.13%) JWT
12 20 (3.13%) LDAP
13 19 (2.97%) FastAPI
13 19 (2.97%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 109 (17.06%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.16%) Replication
3 30 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
5 21 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.72%) CSOC
8 11 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 10 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.41%) NHS
11 7 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.78%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.78%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 107 (16.74%) Linux
2 35 (5.48%) Windows
3 29 (4.54%) Amazon Linux
4 28 (4.38%) VMS
5 15 (2.35%) Unix
6 13 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
9 1 (0.16%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (55.24%) CI/CD
2 271 (42.41%) DevOps
3 252 (39.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 181 (28.33%) Agile
5 163 (25.51%) Containerisation
6 115 (18.00%) Data Pipeline
7 114 (17.84%) ETL
8 104 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 102 (15.96%) Data Modelling
10 97 (15.18%) Microservices
11 93 (14.55%) Migration
12 90 (14.08%) Data Engineering
13 84 (13.15%) Analytics
14 78 (12.21%) Observability
15 74 (11.58%) Mentoring
16 71 (11.11%) AI
17 68 (10.64%) Infrastructure Automation
18 61 (9.55%) Software Engineering
19 59 (9.23%) Event-Driven
19 59 (9.23%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 377 (59.00%) Python
2 185 (28.95%) SQL
3 112 (17.53%) Java
4 85 (13.30%) Bash
5 72 (11.27%) TypeScript
6 53 (8.29%) JavaScript
7 49 (7.67%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.54%) Groovy
9 25 (3.91%) Go
10 20 (3.13%) Perl
11 18 (2.82%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.03%) C#
13 10 (1.56%) Scala
14 6 (0.94%) JSX
14 6 (0.94%) Korn
15 4 (0.63%) Bicep
15 4 (0.63%) C
15 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.31%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 191 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 160 (25.04%) SC Cleared
3 83 (12.99%) AWS Certification
4 38 (5.95%) Degree
5 35 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.47%) CISSP
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.16%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.16%) RHCE
13 1 (0.16%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.16%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.26%) QA
3 33 (5.16%) GDPR
4 20 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.56%) NIST
7 6 (0.94%) NCSC
8 5 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.47%) WCAG
10 2 (0.31%) GxP
10 2 (0.31%) MiFID
10 2 (0.31%) SLA
11 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.16%) HL7
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 231 (36.15%) Docker
2 27 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.44%) DFS Replication
4 15 (2.35%) Postfix
5 12 (1.88%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.88%) Squid
6 3 (0.47%) KVM
7 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.16%) etcd
8 1 (0.16%) HDFS
8 1 (0.16%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 312 (48.83%) Terraform
2 155 (24.26%) Kubernetes
3 105 (16.43%) Grafana
4 86 (13.46%) Prometheus
5 85 (13.30%) Ansible
6 20 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.82%) Puppet
8 15 (2.35%) Argo
9 12 (1.88%) Nessus
10 10 (1.56%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.25%) Istio
11 8 (1.25%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.94%) Packer
13 5 (0.78%) Kibana
14 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
15 3 (0.47%) Nagios
15 3 (0.47%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 38 (5.95%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.48%) Databricks
3 30 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 29 (4.54%) Splunk
5 24 (3.76%) Oracle
5 24 (3.76%) Palo Alto
6 23 (3.60%) CheckPoint
6 23 (3.60%) F5
7 15 (2.35%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (1.72%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.56%) IBM
9 10 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.41%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.41%) Google
11 8 (1.25%) Cloudera
12 7 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
13 6 (0.94%) Commvault
13 6 (0.94%) PagerDuty
13 6 (0.94%) StreamSets
14 5 (0.78%) Dell