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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 194 250
Rank change year-on-year +22 +56 -16
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 621 472 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.31% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.48% 3.66% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 325 349
10th Percentile £400 £403 £405
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £523
% change year-on-year -3.94% -5.36% -0.48%

All Cloud 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 13,871 12,911 15,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.05% 35.88% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,439 8,540 11,385
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £417 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 184 295
10th Percentile £15.23 £17.66 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.15 £30.00 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +18.20% +12.80%
75th Percentile £51.67 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £27.24 £21.05
% change year-on-year -16.15% +29.39% +9.18%

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 6 December 2025.

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 16 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 6 December 2025. 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 +31 479 £525 -4.55% 159
London +18 291 £575 -2.13% 69
UK excluding London +4 228 £475 -3.94% 118
Work from Home +5 184 £525 +2.44% 103
North of England -31 59 £500 -1.96% 39
Midlands 0 55 £475 +1.06% 8
Scotland -13 48 £500 +4.28% 6
West Midlands +10 47 £475 -15.56% 7
Yorkshire -13 36 £500 -4.76% 17
South East +9 28 £425 -31.31% 39
South West +10 18 £575 +4.55% 19
North West -31 17 £450 -7.22% 19
East of England +1 16 £475 -5.00% 2
Northern Ireland +2 8 £400 - 6
East Midlands -15 8 £433 -3.24% 1
North East -1 7 £500 -18.03% 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 56 (9.02%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (7.89%) Apache Spark
3 40 (6.44%) Confluence
4 36 (5.80%) Apache
5 11 (1.77%) nginx
6 5 (0.81%) SAS
7 3 (0.48%) Traefik
8 2 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (0.97%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Actimize
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.16%) Finacle
1 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 611 (98.39%) AWS
2 360 (57.97%) Serverless
3 354 (57.00%) AWS Lambda
4 261 (42.03%) Amazon EC2
5 221 (35.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 172 (27.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 156 (25.12%) Amazon ECS
8 153 (24.64%) GitHub
9 150 (24.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 112 (18.04%) GitHub Actions
11 97 (15.62%) Amazon EKS
12 91 (14.65%) Azure
13 59 (9.50%) AWS Step Functions
14 46 (7.41%) Amazon ELB
15 45 (7.25%) Snowflake
16 43 (6.92%) Amazon EMR
17 41 (6.60%) Amazon SQS
17 41 (6.60%) Route 53
18 38 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
19 35 (5.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.34%) DNS
2 56 (9.02%) Firewall
3 38 (6.12%) VPN
4 26 (4.19%) SSL
4 26 (4.19%) TCP/IP
5 23 (3.70%) HTTP
5 23 (3.70%) Network Security
5 23 (3.70%) SSH
6 21 (3.38%) SMTP
7 20 (3.22%) FTP
8 16 (2.58%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (1.77%) IMAP
10 7 (1.13%) DHCP
11 6 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.48%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.48%) NAS
13 2 (0.32%) Calico
13 2 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.32%) VSAN
14 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (32.05%) Amazon RDS
2 124 (19.97%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (13.20%) Amazon Athena
4 81 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 81 (13.04%) DynamoDB
5 60 (9.66%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (9.18%) Relational Database
7 49 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 37 (5.96%) Data Lake
9 29 (4.67%) MySQL
10 28 (4.51%) Amazon QuickSight
11 27 (4.35%) MongoDB
12 24 (3.86%) SQL Server
13 22 (3.54%) NoSQL
14 21 (3.38%) RDBMS
15 20 (3.22%) Big Data
15 20 (3.22%) Power BI
16 19 (3.06%) Metadata
17 15 (2.42%) Delta Lake
18 14 (2.25%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 152 (24.48%) Jenkins
2 136 (21.90%) Git
3 123 (19.81%) GitLab
4 51 (8.21%) JIRA
5 21 (3.38%) Vagrant
6 15 (2.42%) Cypress.io
7 14 (2.25%) MLflow
8 11 (1.77%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.45%) Postman
10 8 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.29%) JUnit
11 7 (1.13%) Maven
12 5 (0.81%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.81%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.48%) Gradle
13 3 (0.48%) NUnit
13 3 (0.48%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.48%) Selenium
14 2 (0.32%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.32%) SoapUI
General
1 156 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 112 (18.04%) Public Sector
3 88 (14.17%) Finance
4 62 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.19%) Banking
6 19 (3.06%) Front Office
7 16 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.45%) Military
10 5 (0.81%) Legal
11 4 (0.64%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.64%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.48%) Marketing
13 2 (0.32%) Publishing
13 2 (0.32%) Retail
14 1 (0.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 149 (23.99%) AWS Engineer
2 111 (17.87%) Senior
3 101 (16.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 100 (16.10%) Data Engineer
5 95 (15.30%) Developer
6 61 (9.82%) Architect
7 52 (8.37%) AWS DevOps
8 49 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 48 (7.73%) Platform Engineer
10 41 (6.60%) Lead
11 38 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 32 (5.15%) AWS Data Engineer
13 31 (4.99%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 28 (4.51%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.19%) Senior Data Engineer
16 25 (4.03%) Python Engineer
16 25 (4.03%) Software Engineer
17 24 (3.86%) AWS Developer
18 23 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
19 22 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (11.43%) Kafka
2 64 (10.31%) Node.js
3 55 (8.86%) AWS CDK
4 54 (8.70%) React
5 53 (8.53%) REST
6 41 (6.60%) RESTful
7 39 (6.28%) Spring
8 38 (6.12%) Spring Boot
9 30 (4.83%) PySpark
10 27 (4.35%) OAuth
11 25 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
12 24 (3.86%) Pandas
13 21 (3.38%) CSS
13 21 (3.38%) NumPy
14 20 (3.22%) JSON
14 20 (3.22%) JWT
15 19 (3.06%) FastAPI
15 19 (3.06%) LDAP
15 19 (3.06%) PyTorch
16 18 (2.90%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 115 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.83%) Replication
3 26 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (3.86%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.77%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.45%) NHS
10 8 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.97%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.81%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.81%) Derivative
13 5 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (0.81%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.64%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 104 (16.75%) Linux
2 35 (5.64%) Windows
3 25 (4.03%) VMS
4 24 (3.86%) Amazon Linux
5 16 (2.58%) Unix
6 13 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.09%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.29%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
9 1 (0.16%) SUSE
9 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (58.45%) CI/CD
2 270 (43.48%) DevOps
3 266 (42.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (28.34%) Agile
5 160 (25.76%) Containerisation
6 116 (18.68%) ETL
7 113 (18.20%) Data Pipeline
8 102 (16.43%) Data Modelling
9 98 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
10 96 (15.46%) Microservices
11 95 (15.30%) Data Engineering
12 93 (14.98%) Analytics
13 90 (14.49%) Migration
14 81 (13.04%) Observability
15 77 (12.40%) AI
16 66 (10.63%) Infrastructure Automation
17 65 (10.47%) Machine Learning
17 65 (10.47%) Software Engineering
18 63 (10.14%) Mentoring
19 59 (9.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 379 (61.03%) Python
2 185 (29.79%) SQL
3 107 (17.23%) Java
4 92 (14.81%) Bash
5 68 (10.95%) TypeScript
6 52 (8.37%) JavaScript
7 46 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 28 (4.51%) Go
9 26 (4.19%) Groovy
10 20 (3.22%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.90%) C#
12 17 (2.74%) Perl
13 10 (1.61%) Scala
14 6 (0.97%) JSX
14 6 (0.97%) Korn
15 4 (0.64%) Bicep
15 4 (0.64%) C
15 4 (0.64%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.48%) C++
17 2 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 186 (29.95%) Security Cleared
2 152 (24.48%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.24%) AWS Certification
4 37 (5.96%) Degree
5 30 (4.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.77%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.48%) PhD
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.32%) CISSP
14 1 (0.16%) CCNP
14 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.16%) RHCE
14 1 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.28%) QA
3 36 (5.80%) GDPR
4 22 (3.54%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.61%) NIST
7 6 (0.97%) NCSC
8 5 (0.81%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.48%) WCAG
11 2 (0.32%) GxP
11 2 (0.32%) MiFID
11 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.32%) SLA
12 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.16%) HL7
12 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 231 (37.20%) Docker
2 26 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.22%) DFS Replication
4 11 (1.77%) Dovecot
4 11 (1.77%) Postfix
4 11 (1.77%) Squid
5 3 (0.48%) KVM
6 2 (0.32%) ISA Server
6 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.16%) etcd
7 1 (0.16%) HDFS
7 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 320 (51.53%) Terraform
2 161 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 107 (17.23%) Grafana
4 87 (14.01%) Ansible
5 84 (13.53%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.38%) Progress Chef
6 21 (3.38%) Puppet
7 14 (2.25%) Argo
8 11 (1.77%) Nessus
9 10 (1.61%) Proxmox
10 9 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
11 8 (1.29%) Istio
12 5 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.64%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.64%) Packer
14 3 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.48%) Kibana
14 3 (0.48%) Nagios
15 2 (0.32%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 41 (6.60%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.28%) Databricks
3 25 (4.03%) ServiceNow
3 25 (4.03%) Splunk
4 24 (3.86%) Palo Alto
5 23 (3.70%) CheckPoint
5 23 (3.70%) F5
6 22 (3.54%) Oracle
7 12 (1.93%) Google
8 11 (1.77%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (1.77%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.45%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.29%) IBM
10 8 (1.29%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.13%) Cloudera
11 7 (1.13%) Commvault
12 6 (0.97%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.97%) Dell
12 6 (0.97%) StreamSets
13 5 (0.81%) Zscaler