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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 164 222
Rank change year-on-year -15 +58 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 733 516 453
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.44% 1.72% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 4.54% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 384 338
10th Percentile £377 £400 £381
25th Percentile £440 £463 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.60% +1.62%
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 18,044 11,362 14,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 37.83% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,061 7,650 9,974
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £621 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 285 364
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.19 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.68 £72.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.77
% change year-on-year +98.73% -9.15% -21.56%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -19 618 £525 - 89
London +8 417 £550 -1.79% 49
Work from Home -15 247 £500 -4.76% 57
UK excluding London -60 235 £475 -5.00% 63
Midlands -21 69 £469 -1.26% 12
West Midlands -23 64 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -68 62 £500 - 15
Scotland -30 40 £465 -6.95% 4
North West -45 32 £525 +10.53% 8
South East -48 29 £580 +28.89% 17
South West -15 26 £456 -17.05% 12
North East -23 15 £425 -5.56% 1
Yorkshire -57 15 £500 -4.76% 6
East of England -34 8 £400 -20.00%
East Midlands -19 4 £425 -6.54% 6
Wales - 4 £575 -
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 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 82 (11.19%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (10.10%) Confluence
3 64 (8.73%) Apache Spark
4 47 (6.41%) Apache
5 21 (2.86%) SAS
6 11 (1.50%) nginx
7 8 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 725 (98.91%) AWS
2 469 (63.98%) Serverless
3 464 (63.30%) AWS Lambda
4 268 (36.56%) Amazon EC2
5 213 (29.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 156 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
7 144 (19.65%) GitHub
8 142 (19.37%) Amazon EKS
8 142 (19.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 139 (18.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 108 (14.73%) Amazon SQS
11 104 (14.19%) Azure
11 104 (14.19%) GitHub Actions
12 88 (12.01%) Amazon EMR
13 83 (11.32%) Snowflake
14 79 (10.78%) AWS Step Functions
14 79 (10.78%) dbt
15 65 (8.87%) Power Platform
16 54 (7.37%) AWS KMS
17 51 (6.96%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.82%) DNS
2 25 (3.41%) Firewall
3 15 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.77%) VPN
5 11 (1.50%) Network Security
5 11 (1.50%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.82%) WAN
7 5 (0.68%) HTTP
8 4 (0.55%) DHCP
8 4 (0.55%) Internet
8 4 (0.55%) NAS
8 4 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.55%) SAN
8 4 (0.55%) SSL
9 3 (0.41%) BGP
9 3 (0.41%) CTI
9 3 (0.41%) OSPF
10 2 (0.27%) Multicast
10 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (24.28%) Amazon RDS
2 152 (20.74%) Amazon Athena
3 130 (17.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 126 (17.19%) DynamoDB
5 98 (13.37%) PostgreSQL
6 79 (10.78%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (8.87%) Power BI
8 58 (7.91%) Data Lake
9 51 (6.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 39 (5.32%) NoSQL
11 36 (4.91%) Metadata
11 36 (4.91%) Relational Database
12 32 (4.37%) Tableau
13 31 (4.23%) MongoDB
14 30 (4.09%) Big Data
15 24 (3.27%) BigQuery
15 24 (3.27%) SQL Server
16 22 (3.00%) Apache Iceberg
17 21 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (2.46%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 150 (20.46%) Git
2 148 (20.19%) GitLab
3 142 (19.37%) Jenkins
4 90 (12.28%) JIRA
5 31 (4.23%) SonarQube
6 30 (4.09%) JUnit
7 28 (3.82%) Bitbucket
8 24 (3.27%) Mockito
9 23 (3.14%) Maven
10 15 (2.05%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.91%) DbUnit
12 13 (1.77%) jMock
13 11 (1.50%) Artifactory
13 11 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (1.23%) Cucumber
15 8 (1.09%) Postman
16 6 (0.82%) MLflow
17 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 4 (0.55%) Selenium
18 3 (0.41%) Gradle
General
1 190 (25.92%) Social Skills
2 147 (20.05%) Public Sector
3 121 (16.51%) Finance
4 67 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (5.32%) Banking
6 22 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.50%) Front Office
9 8 (1.09%) Military
10 7 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.95%) Legal
11 6 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.82%) Law
12 5 (0.68%) Marketing
13 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Back Office
14 3 (0.41%) Billing
14 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 179 (24.42%) Data Engineer
2 138 (18.83%) Developer
3 134 (18.28%) AWS Engineer
4 101 (13.78%) Senior
5 89 (12.14%) Architect
6 82 (11.19%) Lead
7 59 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.55%) AWS Data Engineer
8 48 (6.55%) Java Developer
9 44 (6.00%) AWS Architect
10 42 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (5.32%) Senior Data Engineer
12 37 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
13 32 (4.37%) AWS Developer
14 28 (3.82%) Software Engineer
15 27 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.41%) Data Architect
16 25 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
16 25 (3.41%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.27%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.55%) Kafka
2 81 (11.05%) PySpark
3 74 (10.10%) Spring
3 74 (10.10%) Spring Boot
4 73 (9.96%) REST
5 62 (8.46%) React
5 62 (8.46%) RESTful
6 55 (7.50%) Node.js
7 51 (6.96%) AWS CDK
8 32 (4.37%) SOAP
9 31 (4.23%) AngularJS
9 31 (4.23%) OAuth
10 30 (4.09%) FastAPI
11 25 (3.41%) JPA
12 24 (3.27%) OpenID
12 24 (3.27%) PyTorch
13 23 (3.14%) Hibernate
13 23 (3.14%) Web Services
14 22 (3.00%) Pandas
15 21 (2.86%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 187 (25.51%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.73%) NHS
5 17 (2.32%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.50%) AI Agents
6 11 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.09%) Legacy Code
9 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 7 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (0.95%) Hedge funds
9 7 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.82%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.68%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 85 (11.60%) Linux
2 20 (2.73%) Unix
3 15 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.91%) Windows
5 5 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.27%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) AIX
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (59.48%) CI/CD
2 306 (41.75%) DevOps
3 268 (36.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 242 (33.02%) Agile
5 178 (24.28%) Data Engineering
6 172 (23.47%) Analytics
7 168 (22.92%) Data Pipeline
8 152 (20.74%) Containerisation
8 152 (20.74%) ETL
9 140 (19.10%) AI
10 139 (18.96%) Data Modelling
11 127 (17.33%) Microservices
12 104 (14.19%) Observability
13 101 (13.78%) Machine Learning
14 96 (13.10%) Migration
15 95 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
16 93 (12.69%) Test Automation
17 90 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
18 87 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 87 (11.87%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 407 (55.53%) Python
2 271 (36.97%) SQL
3 138 (18.83%) Java
4 72 (9.82%) TypeScript
5 53 (7.23%) Bash
5 53 (7.23%) JavaScript
6 45 (6.14%) C#
7 29 (3.96%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.00%) Shell Script
9 21 (2.86%) Scala
10 8 (1.09%) Groovy
11 6 (0.82%) Bicep
11 6 (0.82%) Go
11 6 (0.82%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.55%) Perl
13 4 (0.55%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.41%) C
14 3 (0.41%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 234 (31.92%) Security Cleared
2 200 (27.29%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.19%) AWS Certification
4 33 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (2.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 18 (2.46%) Degree
7 13 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.50%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.41%) CSPO
13 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (15.28%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.82%) QA
3 21 (2.86%) GDPR
4 14 (1.91%) SLA
5 8 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.95%) PMO
7 6 (0.82%) NIST
7 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.55%) HL7
8 4 (0.55%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 207 (28.24%) Docker
2 15 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.64%) Squid
4 11 (1.50%) Postfix
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 327 (44.61%) Terraform
2 144 (19.65%) Kubernetes
3 96 (13.10%) Grafana
4 66 (9.00%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.87%) Ansible
6 17 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.64%) Puppet
8 9 (1.23%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.23%) Kibana
9 8 (1.09%) Consul
10 6 (0.82%) Argo
10 6 (0.82%) Packer
10 6 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.82%) Salt
11 5 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.55%) Istio
13 2 (0.27%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 65 (8.87%) Databricks
2 31 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 28 (3.82%) Informatica
4 25 (3.41%) Splunk
5 23 (3.14%) Atlassian
5 23 (3.14%) Google
6 21 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 21 (2.86%) Oracle
7 19 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 17 (2.32%) Jaspersoft
9 15 (2.05%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.64%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.50%) Denodo
11 11 (1.50%) Teradata
12 8 (1.09%) Confluent
12 8 (1.09%) IBM
13 7 (0.95%) Foundry
13 7 (0.95%) Palantir
13 7 (0.95%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.82%) AVEVA