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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 173 238
Rank change year-on-year -8 +65 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 653 477 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.63% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.04% 4.28% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 367 348
10th Percentile £350 £402 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £602
90th Percentile £675 £777 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £516
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.15% +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 16,163 11,156 14,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.29% 38.09% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,038 7,751 10,267
10th Percentile £313 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 206 359
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.87 £19.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +21.67% -16.88%
75th Percentile £60.63 £41.85 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.88 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.09 £17.80
% change year-on-year +77.19% +35.34% -20.13%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +1 539 £525 -4.55% 192
London +18 351 £525 -4.55% 80
UK excluding London -19 219 £475 -5.00% 135
Work from Home -8 194 £525 - 104
North of England -30 66 £500 +1.01% 49
Midlands -33 57 £475 +4.51% 11
West Midlands -23 50 £500 -2.44% 8
Scotland -28 34 £440 -12.00% 10
Yorkshire -33 31 £500 -2.44% 23
South East -35 30 £530 -11.67% 35
North West -20 26 £450 +5.88% 22
South West -8 18 £538 -10.54% 22
North East -3 9 £525 -15.90% 4
Northern Ireland +2 8 £400 -
East Midlands -36 7 £423 -5.48% 3
East of England -16 6 £475 -1.30% 7
Wales -8 2 £363 -9.38% 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 66 (10.11%) Apache Spark
2 47 (7.20%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (7.04%) Apache
4 31 (4.75%) Confluence
5 12 (1.84%) SAS
6 9 (1.38%) nginx
7 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 648 (99.23%) AWS
2 403 (61.72%) Serverless
3 392 (60.03%) AWS Lambda
4 271 (41.50%) Amazon EC2
5 180 (27.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 179 (27.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 162 (24.81%) Amazon ECS
8 141 (21.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 140 (21.44%) Amazon EKS
10 138 (21.13%) GitHub
11 107 (16.39%) Azure
12 102 (15.62%) GitHub Actions
13 82 (12.56%) AWS Step Functions
14 70 (10.72%) Amazon SQS
15 61 (9.34%) Snowflake
16 59 (9.04%) GCP
17 58 (8.88%) Route 53
18 46 (7.04%) Amazon EMR
18 46 (7.04%) Power Platform
19 40 (6.13%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.05%) DNS
2 24 (3.68%) Firewall
3 19 (2.91%) VPN
4 14 (2.14%) Network Security
4 14 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.53%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.61%) DHCP
6 4 (0.61%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.46%) BGP
7 3 (0.46%) SSL
8 2 (0.31%) HTTP
8 2 (0.31%) Multicast
8 2 (0.31%) NAS
8 2 (0.31%) OSPF
8 2 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.31%) SAN
8 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.31%) WAN
9 1 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (28.64%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
3 102 (15.62%) Amazon Athena
4 94 (14.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 92 (14.09%) DynamoDB
6 57 (8.73%) Data Lake
7 56 (8.58%) Data Warehouse
8 54 (8.27%) Relational Database
9 46 (7.04%) Power BI
10 43 (6.58%) Amazon Aurora
11 33 (5.05%) NoSQL
12 32 (4.90%) MongoDB
13 29 (4.44%) SQL Server
14 28 (4.29%) BigQuery
15 27 (4.13%) MySQL
16 25 (3.83%) Tableau
17 24 (3.68%) Metadata
18 23 (3.52%) OLTP
19 21 (3.22%) Amazon QuickSight
19 21 (3.22%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 147 (22.51%) Jenkins
2 136 (20.83%) GitLab
3 115 (17.61%) Git
4 39 (5.97%) JIRA
5 24 (3.68%) JUnit
6 22 (3.37%) Bitbucket
7 20 (3.06%) SonarQube
8 19 (2.91%) Maven
9 13 (1.99%) MLflow
9 13 (1.99%) Mockito
10 11 (1.68%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.68%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.68%) Postman
11 7 (1.07%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.07%) jMock
12 6 (0.92%) Gradle
13 5 (0.77%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (0.61%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 168 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 112 (17.15%) Finance
3 108 (16.54%) Public Sector
4 67 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.13%) Banking
6 25 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.14%) Front Office
8 13 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.92%) Legal
10 4 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.61%) Military
10 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.46%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.31%) Billing
12 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.31%) Retail
13 1 (0.15%) Games
13 1 (0.15%) Publishing
13 1 (0.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 131 (20.06%) Data Engineer
2 123 (18.84%) Developer
3 117 (17.92%) AWS Engineer
4 75 (11.49%) Senior
5 72 (11.03%) Architect
6 67 (10.26%) Lead
7 54 (8.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (7.35%) Java Developer
9 38 (5.82%) AWS Architect
10 36 (5.51%) AWS Data Engineer
11 35 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.90%) Analyst
12 32 (4.90%) Site Engineer
13 31 (4.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 29 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
15 27 (4.13%) Lead Data Engineer
16 26 (3.98%) Software Engineer
17 24 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
18 23 (3.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 23 (3.52%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (18.22%) Kafka
2 81 (12.40%) Spring Boot
3 80 (12.25%) Spring
4 63 (9.65%) Node.js
5 61 (9.34%) RESTful
6 56 (8.58%) REST
7 54 (8.27%) PySpark
8 52 (7.96%) React
9 40 (6.13%) OAuth
10 39 (5.97%) AWS CDK
11 34 (5.21%) AngularJS
12 23 (3.52%) JWT
13 22 (3.37%) CSS
14 21 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (3.22%) JSON
15 19 (2.91%) FastAPI
15 19 (2.91%) Great Expectations
15 19 (2.91%) Jest
15 19 (2.91%) OpenID
16 18 (2.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 170 (26.03%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.14%) NHS
4 14 (2.14%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.38%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.38%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.92%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.92%) Derivative
11 6 (0.92%) Replication
11 6 (0.92%) SCADA
12 5 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.77%) Equities
12 5 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (12.25%) Linux
2 15 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (1.68%) Unix
3 11 (1.68%) Windows
4 7 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.31%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.31%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (59.42%) CI/CD
2 262 (40.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 259 (39.66%) DevOps
4 169 (25.88%) Agile
5 167 (25.57%) Containerisation
6 159 (24.35%) ETL
7 148 (22.66%) Analytics
8 144 (22.05%) Data Engineering
9 136 (20.83%) Data Modelling
10 132 (20.21%) Data Pipeline
11 116 (17.76%) Observability
12 115 (17.61%) Microservices
13 113 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
14 93 (14.24%) AI
15 82 (12.56%) Migration
16 77 (11.79%) Data Governance
17 71 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
18 69 (10.57%) Software Engineering
18 69 (10.57%) Test Automation
19 68 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 359 (54.98%) Python
2 232 (35.53%) SQL
3 124 (18.99%) Java
4 68 (10.41%) Bash
5 53 (8.12%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.04%) JavaScript
7 41 (6.28%) C#
8 30 (4.59%) PowerShell
9 29 (4.44%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.91%) Go
11 13 (1.99%) Scala
12 6 (0.92%) JSX
13 5 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.77%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.46%) C
14 3 (0.46%) C++
14 3 (0.46%) Korn
15 2 (0.31%) Groovy
15 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 206 (31.55%) Security Cleared
2 163 (24.96%) SC Cleared
3 60 (9.19%) AWS Certification
4 25 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.91%) Degree
7 14 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.07%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.46%) OCP
11 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.46%) PhD
11 3 (0.46%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.31%) CISSP
12 2 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (12.56%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.58%) GDPR
3 34 (5.21%) QA
4 16 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.45%) NIST
5 14 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.68%) SLA
7 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.92%) PMO
8 4 (0.61%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.46%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.31%) GxP
10 2 (0.31%) MiFID
10 2 (0.31%) WCAG
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 220 (33.69%) Docker
2 9 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.23%) Squid
4 6 (0.92%) Postfix
5 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.31%) HDFS
7 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 315 (48.24%) Terraform
2 164 (25.11%) Kubernetes
3 94 (14.40%) Grafana
4 78 (11.94%) Prometheus
5 70 (10.72%) Ansible
6 16 (2.45%) Progress Chef
6 16 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.30%) Puppet
8 9 (1.38%) Argo
8 9 (1.38%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.07%) Consul
9 7 (1.07%) Kibana
9 7 (1.07%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (0.92%) Karpenter
11 5 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.46%) Istio
12 3 (0.46%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 76 (11.64%) Databricks
2 39 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.59%) Google
4 28 (4.29%) Splunk
5 18 (2.76%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.45%) Atlassian
7 14 (2.14%) Oracle
8 13 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.68%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.38%) Confluent
10 9 (1.38%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.23%) Dell
11 8 (1.23%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.07%) IBM
12 7 (1.07%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.07%) Sybase
13 6 (0.92%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.92%) Informatica
13 6 (0.92%) SAP
14 5 (0.77%) F5