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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 168 232
Rank change year-on-year -17 +64 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 678 490 447
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.68% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.04% 4.41% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 380 357
10th Percentile £356 £400 £405
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £611 £600
90th Percentile £688 £714 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
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 16,801 11,109 14,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.70% 38.01% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 7,775 10,124
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £703 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.13% -2.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 234 347
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £20.06 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.85% +30.60% -26.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £60.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -21.24%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -7 571 £525 -4.55% 173
London +17 384 £525 -8.70% 76
UK excluding London -37 214 £500 - 120
Work from Home -9 204 £513 -2.38% 97
Midlands -22 61 £475 +5.56% 12
North of England -41 60 £500 +5.26% 43
West Midlands -19 54 £494 -3.66% 8
Scotland -27 29 £440 -12.00% 9
South East -39 27 £540 -11.29% 34
North West -24 26 £450 +9.09% 21
Yorkshire -36 26 £518 +0.98% 17
South West -8 23 £531 -2.07% 13
North East -12 8 £538 -13.90% 5
East of England -31 7 £475 -5.00% 7
East Midlands -32 7 £423 +4.19% 4
Northern Ireland +3 6 £400 -20.00%
Wales -11 2 £363 -9.38% 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 67 (9.88%) Apache Spark
2 59 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (7.37%) Apache
4 31 (4.57%) Confluence
5 15 (2.21%) SAS
6 10 (1.47%) nginx
7 4 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.29%) Apache Superset
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 674 (99.41%) AWS
2 425 (62.68%) Serverless
3 412 (60.77%) AWS Lambda
4 269 (39.68%) Amazon EC2
5 186 (27.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 181 (26.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 162 (23.89%) Amazon ECS
8 141 (20.80%) GitHub
9 135 (19.91%) Amazon EKS
9 135 (19.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 111 (16.37%) Azure
11 97 (14.31%) GitHub Actions
12 91 (13.42%) AWS Step Functions
13 81 (11.95%) Amazon SQS
14 65 (9.59%) Snowflake
15 64 (9.44%) Route 53
16 57 (8.41%) GCP
17 50 (7.37%) Power Platform
18 48 (7.08%) Amazon EMR
19 46 (6.78%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.01%) DNS
2 25 (3.69%) Firewall
3 17 (2.51%) VPN
4 14 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.77%) Network Security
6 11 (1.62%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.74%) DHCP
8 4 (0.59%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.44%) BGP
9 3 (0.44%) HTTP
9 3 (0.44%) OSPF
10 2 (0.29%) Multicast
10 2 (0.29%) NAS
10 2 (0.29%) SAN
10 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.29%) VLAN
10 2 (0.29%) WAN
11 1 (0.15%) 5G
11 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (26.70%) Amazon RDS
2 122 (17.99%) Amazon Athena
3 105 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
4 104 (15.34%) DynamoDB
5 96 (14.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 60 (8.85%) Data Lake
7 57 (8.41%) Data Warehouse
8 52 (7.67%) Relational Database
9 50 (7.37%) Power BI
10 36 (5.31%) Amazon Aurora
11 35 (5.16%) NoSQL
12 34 (5.01%) Tableau
13 31 (4.57%) Metadata
14 29 (4.28%) MongoDB
15 27 (3.98%) SQL Server
16 26 (3.83%) BigQuery
17 24 (3.54%) MySQL
18 23 (3.39%) OLTP
19 21 (3.10%) Amazon QuickSight
19 21 (3.10%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 139 (20.50%) Jenkins
2 137 (20.21%) GitLab
3 120 (17.70%) Git
4 44 (6.49%) JIRA
5 25 (3.69%) JUnit
6 23 (3.39%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.24%) Bitbucket
8 21 (3.10%) Maven
9 15 (2.21%) Mockito
10 13 (1.92%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.62%) MLflow
12 10 (1.47%) Postman
13 9 (1.33%) DbUnit
13 9 (1.33%) jMock
14 8 (1.18%) Cucumber
15 7 (1.03%) Artifactory
15 7 (1.03%) Bitbucket Server
16 6 (0.88%) Gradle
17 5 (0.74%) Selenium
18 4 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 164 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 118 (17.40%) Finance
3 110 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 69 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.60%) Banking
6 26 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.06%) Front Office
8 13 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Legal
10 5 (0.74%) Military
11 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.44%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.29%) Billing
13 2 (0.29%) Games
13 2 (0.29%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.29%) Law
13 2 (0.29%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 150 (22.12%) Data Engineer
2 132 (19.47%) Developer
3 116 (17.11%) AWS Engineer
4 86 (12.68%) Senior
5 70 (10.32%) Architect
5 70 (10.32%) Lead
6 50 (7.37%) DevOps Engineer
7 47 (6.93%) Java Developer
8 38 (5.60%) AWS Data Engineer
9 36 (5.31%) AWS Architect
10 34 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 34 (5.01%) Platform Engineer
10 34 (5.01%) Site Engineer
11 33 (4.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 31 (4.57%) Analyst
13 29 (4.28%) AWS Developer
14 28 (4.13%) Lead Data Engineer
15 26 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
16 25 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
16 25 (3.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (17.70%) Kafka
2 84 (12.39%) Spring Boot
3 83 (12.24%) Spring
4 69 (10.18%) Node.js
5 64 (9.44%) RESTful
6 62 (9.14%) PySpark
7 56 (8.26%) REST
8 51 (7.52%) React
9 43 (6.34%) AWS CDK
10 42 (6.19%) OAuth
11 35 (5.16%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.54%) JWT
13 21 (3.10%) OpenID
14 20 (2.95%) FastAPI
15 19 (2.80%) Great Expectations
16 18 (2.65%) boto
16 18 (2.65%) JSON
16 18 (2.65%) Pandas
16 18 (2.65%) SOAP
17 17 (2.51%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 169 (24.93%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.36%) NHS
4 16 (2.36%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.88%) Clustering
10 6 (0.88%) SCADA
11 5 (0.74%) Derivative
11 5 (0.74%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.74%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (11.95%) Linux
2 16 (2.36%) Unix
3 15 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.47%) Windows
5 6 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.29%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (59.00%) CI/CD
2 275 (40.56%) DevOps
3 266 (39.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 178 (26.25%) Agile
5 162 (23.89%) Analytics
5 162 (23.89%) ETL
6 159 (23.45%) Containerisation
7 154 (22.71%) Data Engineering
8 143 (21.09%) Data Pipeline
9 139 (20.50%) Data Modelling
10 117 (17.26%) Microservices
11 111 (16.37%) Observability
12 110 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
13 97 (14.31%) AI
14 87 (12.83%) Migration
15 76 (11.21%) Data Governance
16 71 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 70 (10.32%) Performance Tuning
18 68 (10.03%) Event-Driven
18 68 (10.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 376 (55.46%) Python
2 246 (36.28%) SQL
3 135 (19.91%) Java
4 67 (9.88%) Bash
5 60 (8.85%) TypeScript
6 47 (6.93%) C#
7 44 (6.49%) JavaScript
8 32 (4.72%) Shell Script
9 30 (4.42%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.65%) Go
11 14 (2.06%) Scala
12 6 (0.88%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.74%) Bicep
14 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.44%) C
15 3 (0.44%) C++
15 3 (0.44%) Groovy
15 3 (0.44%) JSX
15 3 (0.44%) Korn
16 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 218 (32.15%) Security Cleared
2 176 (25.96%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.82%) AWS Certification
4 21 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.65%) Degree
7 13 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.03%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.44%) OCP
12 3 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.44%) PhD
12 3 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (13.27%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.75%) GDPR
3 34 (5.01%) QA
4 14 (2.06%) NIST
4 14 (2.06%) SLA
5 13 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.03%) PMO
8 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.29%) GRC
11 2 (0.29%) GxP
11 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 2 (0.29%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 219 (32.30%) Docker
2 12 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.47%) Squid
4 8 (1.18%) Postfix
5 4 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.44%) HDFS
6 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 321 (47.35%) Terraform
2 170 (25.07%) Kubernetes
3 96 (14.16%) Grafana
4 73 (10.77%) Prometheus
5 66 (9.73%) Ansible
6 17 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (2.36%) Progress Chef
7 16 (2.36%) Puppet
8 9 (1.33%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.18%) Argo
10 7 (1.03%) Consul
10 7 (1.03%) Kibana
10 7 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.88%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.74%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.59%) Istio
13 4 (0.59%) Salt
14 3 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.44%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 81 (11.95%) Databricks
2 39 (5.75%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.57%) Google
4 30 (4.42%) Splunk
5 19 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.51%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.77%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.77%) Oracle
9 11 (1.62%) Informatica
9 11 (1.62%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (1.33%) Confluent
10 9 (1.33%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.03%) Dell
11 7 (1.03%) IBM
11 7 (1.03%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.03%) Sybase
12 6 (0.88%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.88%) SAP
13 5 (0.74%) Teradata