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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 164 225
Rank change year-on-year -26 +61 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 673 502 447
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.73% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 4.58% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 373 344
10th Percentile £361 £400 £400
25th Percentile £440 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +3.75% -8.00%
75th Percentile £617 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.19% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £46.90 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 17,360 10,953 13,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.59% 37.85% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 7,460 9,928
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% -3.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £619 £634
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 260 348
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.88 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% +29.92% -43.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.22 £41.19
90th Percentile £81.20 £71.38 £69.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £19.97 £17.80
% change year-on-year +85.28% +12.19% -36.04%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -22 575 £525 -2.23% 197
London +14 396 £550 - 92
UK excluding London -70 214 £475 -5.00% 123
Work from Home -21 204 £500 -4.76% 114
Midlands -24 65 £469 -1.26% 11
West Midlands -27 60 £469 -1.26% 9
North of England -68 56 £500 - 38
Scotland -33 36 £460 -8.00% 3
North West -36 31 £525 +10.53% 20
South East -45 30 £588 +30.56% 25
South West -21 17 £450 -18.18% 36
Yorkshire -65 13 £500 -4.76% 13
North East -17 12 £425 - 5
East of England -40 7 £425 -15.00% 3
East Midlands -30 4 £425 -6.54% 2
Northern Ireland +6 3 £400 -20.00% 5
Wales - 3 £475 - 2

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 75 (11.14%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (9.36%) Apache Spark
3 52 (7.73%) Confluence
4 45 (6.69%) Apache
5 20 (2.97%) SAS
6 10 (1.49%) nginx
7 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.30%) CMS
10 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 666 (98.96%) AWS
2 428 (63.60%) Serverless
3 421 (62.56%) AWS Lambda
4 250 (37.15%) Amazon EC2
5 188 (27.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 142 (21.10%) Amazon ECS
7 138 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 134 (19.91%) GitHub
9 130 (19.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 129 (19.17%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (15.30%) Amazon SQS
12 101 (15.01%) Azure
13 95 (14.12%) GitHub Actions
14 81 (12.04%) AWS Step Functions
15 71 (10.55%) Snowflake
16 67 (9.96%) Amazon EMR
17 64 (9.51%) dbt
18 52 (7.73%) Power Platform
19 51 (7.58%) Route 53
20 47 (6.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.75%) DNS
2 23 (3.42%) Firewall
3 15 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.08%) VPN
5 11 (1.63%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.34%) Network Security
7 5 (0.74%) HTTP
8 4 (0.59%) DHCP
8 4 (0.59%) Internet
8 4 (0.59%) NAS
8 4 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.59%) SAN
8 4 (0.59%) SSL
8 4 (0.59%) WAN
9 3 (0.45%) BGP
9 3 (0.45%) OSPF
10 2 (0.30%) CTI
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (24.52%) Amazon RDS
2 128 (19.02%) Amazon Athena
3 119 (17.68%) DynamoDB
4 95 (14.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 95 (14.12%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
6 52 (7.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 52 (7.73%) Power BI
7 49 (7.28%) Data Lake
8 38 (5.65%) NoSQL
9 32 (4.75%) Metadata
9 32 (4.75%) Relational Database
10 30 (4.46%) Tableau
11 27 (4.01%) Big Data
12 26 (3.86%) SQL Server
13 24 (3.57%) MongoDB
14 23 (3.42%) Apache Iceberg
14 23 (3.42%) BigQuery
15 21 (3.12%) Snowflake Schema
16 20 (2.97%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 135 (20.06%) Jenkins
2 133 (19.76%) GitLab
3 129 (19.17%) Git
4 68 (10.10%) JIRA
5 31 (4.61%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.31%) JUnit
7 27 (4.01%) Bitbucket
8 23 (3.42%) Maven
8 23 (3.42%) Mockito
9 15 (2.23%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.08%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.93%) jMock
12 11 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.49%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.19%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.19%) Postman
15 6 (0.89%) MLflow
16 4 (0.59%) Selenium
16 4 (0.59%) Terragrunt
17 3 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 172 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 117 (17.38%) Public Sector
3 109 (16.20%) Finance
4 64 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (4.75%) Banking
6 22 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.63%) Front Office
9 6 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.89%) Legal
10 5 (0.74%) Military
11 4 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.45%) Back Office
12 3 (0.45%) Billing
12 3 (0.45%) Law
12 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 157 (23.33%) Data Engineer
2 137 (20.36%) Developer
3 114 (16.94%) AWS Engineer
4 85 (12.63%) Architect
5 81 (12.04%) Senior
6 77 (11.44%) Lead
7 49 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (6.98%) Java Developer
9 44 (6.54%) AWS Architect
10 42 (6.24%) AWS Data Engineer
11 38 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.75%) AWS Developer
13 31 (4.61%) Senior Data Engineer
14 28 (4.16%) Software Engineer
15 27 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
15 27 (4.01%) Data Architect
16 26 (3.86%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.57%) Lead Data Engineer
18 22 (3.27%) Analyst
18 22 (3.27%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (14.26%) Kafka
2 73 (10.85%) Spring
2 73 (10.85%) Spring Boot
3 66 (9.81%) PySpark
3 66 (9.81%) REST
4 61 (9.06%) RESTful
5 58 (8.62%) React
6 53 (7.88%) Node.js
7 46 (6.84%) AWS CDK
8 35 (5.20%) AngularJS
9 32 (4.75%) OAuth
10 29 (4.31%) FastAPI
10 29 (4.31%) SOAP
11 24 (3.57%) JPA
11 24 (3.57%) OpenID
11 24 (3.57%) Pandas
11 24 (3.57%) PyTorch
12 23 (3.42%) Hibernate
12 23 (3.42%) Web Services
13 21 (3.12%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 176 (26.15%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 44 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.38%) NHS
5 13 (1.93%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.04%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.04%) Legacy Code
9 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.04%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.89%) AI Agents
10 6 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.89%) PACS
10 6 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.74%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.04%) Linux
2 20 (2.97%) Unix
3 14 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.49%) Windows
5 5 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.30%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (58.10%) CI/CD
2 277 (41.16%) DevOps
3 247 (36.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 215 (31.95%) Agile
5 152 (22.59%) Analytics
6 147 (21.84%) Data Engineering
7 145 (21.55%) ETL
8 143 (21.25%) Data Pipeline
9 139 (20.65%) Containerisation
10 134 (19.91%) Data Modelling
11 116 (17.24%) Microservices
12 106 (15.75%) AI
13 104 (15.45%) Observability
14 89 (13.22%) Migration
15 84 (12.48%) Scrum
15 84 (12.48%) Test Automation
16 80 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
17 79 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 78 (11.59%) Event-Driven
19 73 (10.85%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 368 (54.68%) Python
2 251 (37.30%) SQL
3 134 (19.91%) Java
4 64 (9.51%) TypeScript
5 48 (7.13%) Bash
5 48 (7.13%) JavaScript
6 47 (6.98%) C#
7 32 (4.75%) PowerShell
8 25 (3.71%) Shell Script
9 22 (3.27%) Scala
10 8 (1.19%) Groovy
11 7 (1.04%) Go
12 6 (0.89%) Bicep
12 6 (0.89%) SAS Macro
13 4 (0.59%) Perl
13 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.45%) C
14 3 (0.45%) R
15 2 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 211 (31.35%) Security Cleared
2 178 (26.45%) SC Cleared
3 43 (6.39%) AWS Certification
4 23 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.53%) Degree
6 16 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.49%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (1.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.45%) OCP
12 3 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (12.48%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.16%) QA
3 23 (3.42%) GDPR
4 14 (2.08%) SLA
5 9 (1.34%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.04%) NIST
6 7 (1.04%) PMO
7 6 (0.89%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.45%) NCSC
10 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.30%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HL7
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 197 (29.27%) Docker
2 14 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.78%) Squid
4 11 (1.63%) Postfix
5 6 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.45%) HDFS
7 2 (0.30%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 291 (43.24%) Terraform
2 138 (20.51%) Kubernetes
3 95 (14.12%) Grafana
4 62 (9.21%) Prometheus
5 38 (5.65%) Ansible
6 18 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.78%) Kibana
8 10 (1.49%) Puppet
9 9 (1.34%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.19%) Consul
11 7 (1.04%) Argo
11 7 (1.04%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.74%) Salt
13 4 (0.59%) Istio
13 4 (0.59%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.59%) Packer
14 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.45%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 65 (9.66%) Databricks
2 29 (4.31%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.16%) Splunk
4 25 (3.71%) Google
5 23 (3.42%) Atlassian
6 19 (2.82%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.67%) Oracle
8 17 (2.53%) Jaspersoft
9 16 (2.38%) Informatica
9 16 (2.38%) Red Hat
10 15 (2.23%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.63%) Denodo
11 11 (1.63%) Teradata
12 9 (1.34%) Confluent
13 8 (1.19%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.89%) AVEVA
15 5 (0.74%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.74%) IBM
15 5 (0.74%) SAP
15 5 (0.74%) Tenable