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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 153 213
Rank change year-on-year -56 +60 +44
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 701 577 425
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.31% 1.75% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 4.72% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 425 286
10th Percentile £388 £400 £409
25th Percentile £449 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £691 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.20%
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 18,751 12,228 13,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 37.15% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,380 8,158 9,133
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 320 262
10th Percentile £15.80 £15.24 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.35
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.92
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +12.36% -24.48%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £54.69
90th Percentile £82.27 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -14.52%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -43 578 £535 +1.90% 201
London -4 386 £575 - 124
Work from Home -22 257 £525 +2.44% 89
UK excluding London -71 228 £475 - 94
Midlands -25 69 £469 -1.26% 19
West Midlands -34 61 £469 -1.26% 9
North of England -58 61 £488 -2.50% 20
Scotland -20 39 £475 -4.43% 5
South West -33 28 £463 -15.33% 19
South East -71 25 £575 +35.29% 25
North West -48 24 £525 +10.53% 5
North East -27 19 £425 -5.56% 5
Yorkshire -44 18 £525 - 10
East Midlands -17 7 £438 -18.53% 10
East of England -34 7 £400 -27.27% 6
Wales - 3 £600 - 1
Northern Ireland +5 1 - - 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 82 (11.70%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (10.13%) Confluence
3 63 (8.99%) Apache Spark
4 51 (7.28%) Apache
5 23 (3.28%) SAS
6 9 (1.28%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.14%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.71%) nginx
9 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Mule
11 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 685 (97.72%) AWS
2 443 (63.20%) Serverless
3 437 (62.34%) AWS Lambda
4 235 (33.52%) Amazon EC2
5 219 (31.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 158 (22.54%) GitHub
7 151 (21.54%) Amazon ECS
8 141 (20.11%) Amazon EKS
9 128 (18.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 125 (17.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 117 (16.69%) GitHub Actions
12 105 (14.98%) Azure
13 102 (14.55%) Amazon SQS
14 91 (12.98%) Amazon EMR
15 82 (11.70%) Snowflake
16 77 (10.98%) dbt
17 76 (10.84%) AWS Step Functions
18 62 (8.84%) Power Platform
19 53 (7.56%) AWS KMS
20 49 (6.99%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.57%) Firewall
2 17 (2.43%) DNS
3 10 (1.43%) Network Security
4 6 (0.86%) SSL
4 6 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.71%) CTI
5 5 (0.71%) HTTP
5 5 (0.71%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) Internet
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
7 3 (0.43%) SAN
7 3 (0.43%) SMS
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) 4G
9 1 (0.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (25.39%) Amazon RDS
2 146 (20.83%) Amazon Athena
3 121 (17.26%) DynamoDB
4 117 (16.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 91 (12.98%) PostgreSQL
6 90 (12.84%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (8.84%) Power BI
8 61 (8.70%) Data Lake
9 46 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 42 (5.99%) Metadata
11 38 (5.42%) MongoDB
12 31 (4.42%) Big Data
13 29 (4.14%) NoSQL
13 29 (4.14%) Relational Database
14 27 (3.85%) Tableau
15 25 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
16 24 (3.42%) BigQuery
17 22 (3.14%) SQL Server
18 21 (3.00%) Data Vault
19 18 (2.57%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 146 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 142 (20.26%) GitLab
3 139 (19.83%) Git
4 75 (10.70%) JIRA
5 28 (3.99%) Bitbucket
6 25 (3.57%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.14%) JUnit
8 20 (2.85%) Mockito
9 19 (2.71%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.28%) Maven
11 11 (1.57%) DbUnit
12 10 (1.43%) Artifactory
12 10 (1.43%) Bitbucket Server
12 10 (1.43%) jMock
13 7 (1.00%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.00%) Postman
13 7 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.57%) MLflow
14 4 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 168 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 157 (22.40%) Public Sector
3 122 (17.40%) Finance
4 61 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.70%) Banking
6 13 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (1.85%) Front Office
7 10 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.14%) Back Office
9 7 (1.00%) Law
9 7 (1.00%) Marketing
9 7 (1.00%) Military
10 6 (0.86%) Billing
10 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.57%) Legal
12 4 (0.57%) Retail
12 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 164 (23.40%) Data Engineer
2 132 (18.83%) AWS Engineer
3 129 (18.40%) Developer
4 110 (15.69%) Senior
5 87 (12.41%) Architect
6 84 (11.98%) Lead
7 69 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 46 (6.56%) AWS Data Engineer
9 43 (6.13%) Senior Data Engineer
10 40 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
12 38 (5.42%) Java Developer
13 36 (5.14%) AWS Architect
14 35 (4.99%) AWS Developer
15 31 (4.42%) Data Architect
16 29 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
18 24 (3.42%) Software Engineer
19 22 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 20 (2.85%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.27%) Kafka
2 78 (11.13%) PySpark
3 76 (10.84%) REST
4 61 (8.70%) React
5 59 (8.42%) Spring Boot
6 58 (8.27%) Node.js
6 58 (8.27%) Spring
7 57 (8.13%) RESTful
8 50 (7.13%) AWS CDK
9 27 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 27 (3.85%) FastAPI
10 26 (3.71%) SOAP
11 23 (3.28%) JSON
12 22 (3.14%) OAuth
13 20 (2.85%) .NET
14 19 (2.71%) Pandas
14 19 (2.71%) Web Services
15 18 (2.57%) GraphQL
16 17 (2.43%) ActiveMQ
16 17 (2.43%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 174 (24.82%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 42 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.85%) NHS
5 18 (2.57%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.57%) IVR
8 10 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.28%) Legacy Code
9 9 (1.28%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.28%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.14%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.14%) Mainframe
11 7 (1.00%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 90 (12.84%) Linux
2 21 (3.00%) Unix
3 19 (2.71%) Windows
4 17 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.57%) AIX
6 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (62.77%) CI/CD
2 297 (42.37%) DevOps
3 285 (40.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 257 (36.66%) Agile
5 179 (25.53%) Data Pipeline
6 169 (24.11%) Data Engineering
7 160 (22.82%) Analytics
8 140 (19.97%) ETL
9 138 (19.69%) Data Modelling
10 136 (19.40%) AI
11 131 (18.69%) Containerisation
12 117 (16.69%) Microservices
13 110 (15.69%) Migration
13 110 (15.69%) Observability
14 97 (13.84%) Test Automation
15 90 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 90 (12.84%) Event-Driven
15 90 (12.84%) Machine Learning
16 89 (12.70%) Scrum
17 86 (12.27%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 392 (55.92%) Python
2 247 (35.24%) SQL
3 126 (17.97%) Java
4 77 (10.98%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.84%) Bash
6 61 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 34 (4.85%) C#
8 31 (4.42%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.28%) Scala
9 23 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 15 (2.14%) Groovy
11 10 (1.43%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.14%) Bicep
13 6 (0.86%) Perl
13 6 (0.86%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.71%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.71%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.57%) Cypher
15 4 (0.57%) R
16 3 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 235 (33.52%) Security Cleared
2 205 (29.24%) SC Cleared
3 73 (10.41%) AWS Certification
4 43 (6.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (4.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.71%) Degree
6 19 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.57%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.57%) CISM
13 4 (0.57%) CISSP
14 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (15.12%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.57%) QA
3 21 (3.00%) GDPR
4 12 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.43%) SLA
6 6 (0.86%) HL7
6 6 (0.86%) NIST
7 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) PMO
8 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 213 (30.39%) Docker
2 17 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.14%) Postfix
4 5 (0.71%) Squid
5 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 319 (45.51%) Terraform
2 128 (18.26%) Kubernetes
3 105 (14.98%) Grafana
4 53 (7.56%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.85%) Ansible
6 18 (2.57%) Argo
7 16 (2.28%) Kibana
8 11 (1.57%) Puppet
9 8 (1.14%) Karpenter
9 8 (1.14%) Packer
9 8 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.00%) Istio
11 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.71%) Salt
12 3 (0.43%) Consul
12 3 (0.43%) Control-M
12 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.29%) systemd
13 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (8.70%) Databricks
2 40 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.99%) Oracle
4 34 (4.85%) Informatica
5 26 (3.71%) Splunk
6 20 (2.85%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.57%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.57%) Google
8 14 (2.00%) Atlassian
9 13 (1.85%) Jaspersoft
10 11 (1.57%) Denodo
10 11 (1.57%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.43%) Teradata
12 8 (1.14%) Confluent
12 8 (1.14%) Foundry
12 8 (1.14%) IBM
12 8 (1.14%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.14%) Palantir
13 7 (1.00%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.86%) VMware