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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 168 234
Rank change year-on-year -13 +66 +14
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 740 531 451
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.44% 1.70% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 4.49% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 395 334
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £444 £463 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year - +4.48% -6.73%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £726 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £499
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.25% +0.30%
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 18,222 11,826 14,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.37% 37.82% 32.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,117 7,916 10,043
10th Percentile £331 £313 £301
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £622 £638
90th Percentile £713 £726 £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 611 298 360
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £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 £82.37 £71.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.99
% change year-on-year +102.70% -10.08% -18.43%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -12 618 £525 -0.47% 179
London +15 415 £550 -3.08% 92
Work from Home -3 262 £513 -2.38% 84
UK excluding London -70 240 £475 -5.00% 113
Midlands -28 71 £469 -1.26% 19
West Midlands -28 66 £469 -1.26% 9
North of England -62 61 £500 +1.27% 31
Scotland -24 43 £463 -7.50% 7
North West -39 31 £525 +10.53% 16
South East -48 29 £580 +28.89% 24
South West -10 27 £469 -14.77% 25
North East -25 15 £425 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire -57 15 £500 -4.76% 9
East of England -30 8 £400 -27.27% 2
East Midlands -16 4 £425 -6.54% 10
Wales - 4 £575 - 2
Northern Ireland +2 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 85 (11.49%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (10.95%) Confluence
3 65 (8.78%) Apache Spark
4 49 (6.62%) Apache
5 22 (2.97%) SAS
6 11 (1.49%) nginx
7 9 (1.22%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.81%) 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 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) 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
1 730 (98.65%) AWS
2 464 (62.70%) Serverless
3 458 (61.89%) AWS Lambda
4 271 (36.62%) Amazon EC2
5 212 (28.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 158 (21.35%) Amazon ECS
7 150 (20.27%) GitHub
8 147 (19.86%) Amazon EKS
9 143 (19.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 140 (18.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 114 (15.41%) Azure
12 110 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
13 107 (14.46%) Amazon SQS
14 90 (12.16%) Amazon EMR
15 85 (11.49%) Snowflake
16 81 (10.95%) dbt
17 73 (9.86%) AWS Step Functions
18 65 (8.78%) Power Platform
19 54 (7.30%) AWS KMS
20 48 (6.49%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.38%) DNS
1 25 (3.38%) Firewall
2 15 (2.03%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.76%) VPN
4 11 (1.49%) Network Security
4 11 (1.49%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.81%) WAN
6 5 (0.68%) HTTP
7 4 (0.54%) DHCP
7 4 (0.54%) Internet
7 4 (0.54%) NAS
7 4 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.54%) SAN
7 4 (0.54%) SSL
8 3 (0.41%) BGP
8 3 (0.41%) CTI
8 3 (0.41%) OSPF
9 2 (0.27%) Multicast
9 2 (0.27%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (23.78%) Amazon RDS
2 148 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 127 (17.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 123 (16.62%) DynamoDB
5 97 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
6 80 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (8.78%) Power BI
8 59 (7.97%) Data Lake
9 47 (6.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (5.14%) Metadata
11 36 (4.86%) NoSQL
11 36 (4.86%) Relational Database
12 33 (4.46%) MongoDB
13 32 (4.32%) Big Data
14 31 (4.19%) Tableau
15 25 (3.38%) BigQuery
15 25 (3.38%) SQL Server
16 21 (2.84%) Snowflake Schema
17 20 (2.70%) Apache Iceberg
18 18 (2.43%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 149 (20.14%) Git
2 146 (19.73%) GitLab
3 144 (19.46%) Jenkins
4 92 (12.43%) JIRA
5 31 (4.19%) SonarQube
6 30 (4.05%) Bitbucket
6 30 (4.05%) JUnit
7 24 (3.24%) Mockito
8 23 (3.11%) Maven
9 16 (2.16%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.89%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.76%) jMock
12 11 (1.49%) Artifactory
12 11 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (1.08%) Postman
14 7 (0.95%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.95%) MLflow
15 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.54%) Selenium
16 3 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 188 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 156 (21.08%) Public Sector
3 123 (16.62%) Finance
4 63 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.54%) Banking
6 22 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.49%) Front Office
7 11 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.81%) Law
9 6 (0.81%) Legal
9 6 (0.81%) Military
10 5 (0.68%) Marketing
11 4 (0.54%) Billing
11 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.54%) Retail
11 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.41%) Back Office
12 3 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 177 (23.92%) Data Engineer
2 137 (18.51%) AWS Engineer
3 136 (18.38%) Developer
4 106 (14.32%) Senior
5 90 (12.16%) Lead
6 85 (11.49%) Architect
7 62 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.49%) AWS Data Engineer
9 47 (6.35%) Java Developer
10 45 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
12 38 (5.14%) AWS Architect
13 37 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
14 31 (4.19%) AWS Developer
15 28 (3.78%) Software Engineer
16 27 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
17 26 (3.51%) Python Engineer
18 23 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 22 (2.97%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (11.89%) Kafka
2 82 (11.08%) PySpark
3 70 (9.46%) REST
3 70 (9.46%) Spring
3 70 (9.46%) Spring Boot
4 61 (8.24%) React
5 60 (8.11%) Node.js
5 60 (8.11%) RESTful
6 55 (7.43%) AWS CDK
7 32 (4.32%) SOAP
8 28 (3.78%) FastAPI
9 27 (3.65%) OAuth
10 26 (3.51%) AngularJS
11 24 (3.24%) PyTorch
12 23 (3.11%) Web Services
13 22 (2.97%) JPA
13 22 (2.97%) Pandas
14 21 (2.84%) JSON
14 21 (2.84%) OpenID
15 20 (2.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 189 (25.54%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.70%) Product Ownership
3 47 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.84%) NHS
5 18 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.62%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.22%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.08%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.08%) Legacy Code
10 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (0.95%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.95%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.81%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 89 (12.03%) Linux
2 20 (2.70%) Unix
3 17 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.03%) Windows
5 5 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 2 (0.27%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (61.35%) CI/CD
2 309 (41.76%) DevOps
3 282 (38.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 246 (33.24%) Agile
5 180 (24.32%) Data Engineering
6 176 (23.78%) Analytics
7 172 (23.24%) Data Pipeline
8 154 (20.81%) Containerisation
9 153 (20.68%) ETL
10 145 (19.59%) AI
11 140 (18.92%) Data Modelling
12 128 (17.30%) Microservices
13 110 (14.86%) Observability
14 104 (14.05%) Machine Learning
15 98 (13.24%) Migration
16 94 (12.70%) Test Automation
17 91 (12.30%) Business Intelligence
17 91 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
18 90 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
19 86 (11.62%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 417 (56.35%) Python
2 266 (35.95%) SQL
3 134 (18.11%) Java
4 76 (10.27%) TypeScript
5 65 (8.78%) Bash
6 55 (7.43%) JavaScript
7 45 (6.08%) C#
8 31 (4.19%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.11%) Shell Script
10 22 (2.97%) Scala
11 8 (1.08%) Groovy
12 7 (0.95%) Bicep
13 6 (0.81%) Go
13 6 (0.81%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.68%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.54%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.54%) Perl
16 3 (0.41%) C
16 3 (0.41%) Cypher
16 3 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 240 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 207 (27.97%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.38%) AWS Certification
4 35 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (2.70%) Degree
7 18 (2.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.62%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.49%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.54%) 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
1 114 (15.41%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.51%) QA
3 22 (2.97%) GDPR
4 14 (1.89%) SLA
5 9 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.95%) PMO
7 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.54%) HL7
7 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
8 3 (0.41%) NIST
8 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 217 (29.32%) Docker
2 15 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.62%) Squid
4 11 (1.49%) Postfix
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 336 (45.41%) Terraform
2 145 (19.59%) Kubernetes
3 105 (14.19%) Grafana
4 66 (8.92%) Prometheus
5 48 (6.49%) Ansible
6 16 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.89%) Argo
8 12 (1.62%) Puppet
9 9 (1.22%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.22%) Kibana
10 8 (1.08%) Consul
11 7 (0.95%) Packer
12 6 (0.81%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.81%) Salt
13 5 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.54%) Istio
14 4 (0.54%) Karpenter
15 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
16 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 69 (9.32%) Databricks
2 37 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 29 (3.92%) Informatica
4 25 (3.38%) Splunk
5 24 (3.24%) Google
5 24 (3.24%) Oracle
6 23 (3.11%) Atlassian
7 21 (2.84%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.84%) ServiceNow
8 17 (2.30%) Jaspersoft
9 15 (2.03%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.62%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.62%) Teradata
11 11 (1.49%) Denodo
12 8 (1.08%) Foundry
12 8 (1.08%) IBM
12 8 (1.08%) Palantir
12 8 (1.08%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.81%) Ab Initio
13 6 (0.81%) AVEVA