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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 171 258
Rank change year-on-year -15 +87 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 582 467 411
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 1.47% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.20% 4.03% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 334 322
10th Percentile £394 £400 £405
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £611
90th Percentile £688 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

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 13,861 11,574 14,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.09% 36.41% 34.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,522 7,697 10,524
10th Percentile £306 £313 £298
25th Percentile £406 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 170 258
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.40 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year - +20.88% +1.11%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.75 £53.44
90th Percentile £80.50 £65.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £20.64
% change year-on-year +7.35% +17.18% +7.70%

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 11 January 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
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 11 January 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 +5 458 £525 -4.55% 276
London +15 300 £530 -4.29% 76
UK excluding London -12 197 £500 - 225
Work from Home -17 163 £550 +6.49% 207
North of England -17 58 £500 -4.76% 43
Midlands -14 43 £475 +1.06% 20
Scotland -27 39 £500 +1.21% 7
West Midlands -5 36 £500 -11.11% 10
Yorkshire -21 34 £500 -5.57% 21
South East 0 22 £425 -24.44% 77
North West -26 20 £450 -6.74% 16
South West -1 18 £625 +13.55% 28
East of England -11 11 £613 +22.50% 39
Northern Ireland +2 9 £400 - 6
East Midlands -21 7 £417 -6.66% 10
North East -9 5 £550 -9.84% 6
Wales +1 1 £475 +18.75% 11

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 48 (8.25%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (7.73%) Apache Spark
3 35 (6.01%) Apache
4 32 (5.50%) Confluence
5 9 (1.55%) nginx
6 5 (0.86%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.52%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) CICS
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
1 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 576 (98.97%) AWS
2 350 (60.14%) Serverless
3 344 (59.11%) AWS Lambda
4 237 (40.72%) Amazon EC2
5 197 (33.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (26.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 146 (25.09%) GitHub
8 144 (24.74%) Amazon ECS
9 131 (22.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 112 (19.24%) GitHub Actions
11 109 (18.73%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (15.98%) Azure
13 69 (11.86%) AWS Step Functions
14 49 (8.42%) Amazon Kinesis
15 44 (7.56%) Amazon ELB
15 44 (7.56%) Route 53
16 41 (7.04%) GCP
17 39 (6.70%) Snowflake
18 38 (6.53%) Amazon EMR
18 38 (6.53%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (9.28%) DNS
2 49 (8.42%) Firewall
3 32 (5.50%) VPN
4 24 (4.12%) Network Security
4 24 (4.12%) TCP/IP
5 23 (3.95%) SSL
6 18 (3.09%) HTTP
7 16 (2.75%) SSH
8 15 (2.58%) FTP
8 15 (2.58%) SMTP
9 14 (2.41%) OpenLDAP
10 9 (1.55%) IMAP
11 4 (0.69%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.52%) NAS
13 2 (0.34%) Calico
13 2 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
14 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
14 1 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
14 1 (0.17%) VSAN
14 1 (0.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (30.58%) Amazon RDS
2 103 (17.70%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (14.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 81 (13.92%) Amazon Athena
5 80 (13.75%) DynamoDB
6 51 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
6 51 (8.76%) Relational Database
7 49 (8.42%) Amazon Aurora
8 39 (6.70%) Data Lake
9 30 (5.15%) Amazon QuickSight
9 30 (5.15%) MySQL
10 27 (4.64%) MongoDB
11 23 (3.95%) Power BI
12 20 (3.44%) NoSQL
12 20 (3.44%) SQL Server
13 16 (2.75%) Apache Iceberg
13 16 (2.75%) OLTP
13 16 (2.75%) Tableau
14 15 (2.58%) BigQuery
14 15 (2.58%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 145 (24.91%) Jenkins
2 124 (21.31%) GitLab
3 123 (21.13%) Git
4 39 (6.70%) JIRA
5 15 (2.58%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.06%) MLflow
7 11 (1.89%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.72%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.55%) Postman
10 7 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.86%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.86%) JUnit
11 5 (0.86%) Maven
12 4 (0.69%) NUnit
12 4 (0.69%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.52%) Gradle
13 3 (0.52%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.52%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.34%) Selenium
14 2 (0.34%) Snyk
General
1 142 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 97 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 82 (14.09%) Finance
4 58 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.64%) Banking
6 15 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.89%) Front Office
9 9 (1.55%) Military
10 6 (1.03%) Legal
11 4 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.52%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.52%) Marketing
13 2 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Publishing
13 2 (0.34%) Retail
14 1 (0.17%) Aviation
14 1 (0.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 127 (21.82%) AWS Engineer
2 104 (17.87%) Data Engineer
3 96 (16.49%) Senior
4 86 (14.78%) Developer
5 84 (14.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (11.68%) Architect
7 44 (7.56%) Platform Engineer
8 39 (6.70%) AWS DevOps
9 38 (6.53%) Lead
10 37 (6.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 34 (5.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 31 (5.33%) AWS Architect
13 29 (4.98%) AWS Data Engineer
14 28 (4.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 27 (4.64%) Data Architect
15 27 (4.64%) Python Engineer
15 27 (4.64%) Software Engineer
16 25 (4.30%) Java Developer
17 23 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
17 23 (3.95%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.75%) Kafka
2 57 (9.79%) Node.js
2 57 (9.79%) REST
3 51 (8.76%) React
4 47 (8.08%) AWS CDK
5 42 (7.22%) RESTful
5 42 (7.22%) Spring
5 42 (7.22%) Spring Boot
6 35 (6.01%) OAuth
7 33 (5.67%) PySpark
8 26 (4.47%) AngularJS
9 25 (4.30%) FastAPI
10 24 (4.12%) boto
10 24 (4.12%) CSS
10 24 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (3.61%) JSON
11 21 (3.61%) JWT
12 19 (3.26%) Pandas
13 17 (2.92%) LDAP
13 17 (2.92%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 124 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (3.78%) Replication
4 18 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.72%) NHS
8 10 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.86%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.86%) Derivative
11 5 (0.86%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.69%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.69%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (14.26%) Linux
2 25 (4.30%) Windows
3 19 (3.26%) VMS
4 18 (3.09%) Amazon Linux
5 14 (2.41%) Unix
6 13 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.72%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.20%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) Android
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
10 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (59.28%) CI/CD
2 257 (44.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 240 (41.24%) DevOps
4 150 (25.77%) Containerisation
5 148 (25.43%) Agile
6 118 (20.27%) Data Pipeline
7 116 (19.93%) ETL
8 103 (17.70%) Data Modelling
9 99 (17.01%) Analytics
10 95 (16.32%) Data Engineering
10 95 (16.32%) Observability
11 93 (15.98%) Microservices
12 83 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
13 82 (14.09%) AI
14 75 (12.89%) Migration
15 69 (11.86%) Software Engineering
16 65 (11.17%) Event-Driven
17 60 (10.31%) Machine Learning
18 55 (9.45%) Data Governance
18 55 (9.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 362 (62.20%) Python
2 191 (32.82%) SQL
3 100 (17.18%) Java
4 85 (14.60%) Bash
5 58 (9.97%) TypeScript
6 49 (8.42%) JavaScript
7 39 (6.70%) PowerShell
8 28 (4.81%) Go
9 24 (4.12%) C#
9 24 (4.12%) Shell Script
10 18 (3.09%) Groovy
11 13 (2.23%) Perl
12 9 (1.55%) Scala
13 7 (1.20%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.03%) JSX
14 6 (1.03%) Korn
15 4 (0.69%) Bicep
15 4 (0.69%) C
16 3 (0.52%) C++
17 2 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 181 (31.10%) Security Cleared
2 150 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.48%) AWS Certification
4 28 (4.81%) Degree
5 24 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 23 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 13 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.52%) MCP
12 3 (0.52%) OCP
12 3 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.52%) PhD
13 2 (0.34%) CISSP
13 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.17%) CEH
14 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.48%) Data Quality
2 41 (7.04%) QA
3 37 (6.36%) GDPR
4 18 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.58%) NIST
7 5 (0.86%) NCSC
7 5 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.34%) GxP
10 2 (0.34%) MiFID
10 2 (0.34%) SLA
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
11 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 225 (38.66%) Docker
2 17 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.58%) DFS Replication
4 9 (1.55%) Dovecot
4 9 (1.55%) Postfix
4 9 (1.55%) Squid
5 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.52%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.52%) KVM
7 2 (0.34%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 305 (52.41%) Terraform
2 160 (27.49%) Kubernetes
3 99 (17.01%) Grafana
4 87 (14.95%) Ansible
5 73 (12.54%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.61%) Puppet
7 20 (3.44%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.06%) Argo
9 9 (1.55%) Nessus
9 9 (1.55%) Proxmox
9 9 (1.55%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (1.20%) Kibana
11 6 (1.03%) Istio
11 6 (1.03%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.86%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.69%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.69%) Packer
14 3 (0.52%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 42 (7.22%) Databricks
2 36 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.12%) Palo Alto
4 23 (3.95%) CheckPoint
4 23 (3.95%) F5
4 23 (3.95%) Splunk
5 20 (3.44%) Oracle
6 17 (2.92%) Google
6 17 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.23%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.55%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.37%) Confluent
9 8 (1.37%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.20%) Commvault
11 6 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.03%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.03%) Dell
11 6 (1.03%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.86%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.69%) OpenAI