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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 194 248
Rank change year-on-year +38 +54 -16
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 627 466 467
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.79% 1.28% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.65% 3.64% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 316 363
10th Percentile £400 £400 £401
25th Percentile £425 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £688 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £501
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.30% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £50.94 - £52.50
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 13,491 12,811 16,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.42% 35.30% 35.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,138 8,444 11,870
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £640
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 168 309
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £14.59
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.32 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% +3.97% +46.19%
75th Percentile £46.94 £59.66 £62.00
90th Percentile £72.20 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £30.94 £22.50
% change year-on-year -32.12% +37.50% +18.73%

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 17 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

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 17 November 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 +26 490 £525 -4.55% 332
London +23 286 £575 +2.45% 209
UK excluding London +21 239 £475 -3.85% 148
Work from Home +32 205 £525 +5.00% 187
Midlands +14 60 £475 +1.06% 22
North of England -23 58 £500 - 50
West Midlands +16 53 £475 -24.00% 14
Scotland -22 44 £500 +4.82% 15
Yorkshire -14 35 £500 -4.76% 20
South East +14 31 £414 -33.13% 23
East of England +5 24 £600 +20.00% 7
South West +15 18 £575 -4.17% 27
North West -30 18 £500 +4.17% 29
Northern Ireland -1 8 £400 - 5
East Midlands -15 7 £435 -2.68% 8
North East -5 6 £450 -26.23% 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 52 (8.29%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (7.18%) Confluence
3 42 (6.70%) Apache Spark
4 29 (4.63%) Apache
5 14 (2.23%) nginx
6 5 (0.80%) CMS
6 5 (0.80%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.80%) SAS
7 3 (0.48%) Traefik
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.16%) CICS
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Finacle
2 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 615 (98.09%) AWS
2 350 (55.82%) Serverless
3 348 (55.50%) AWS Lambda
4 270 (43.06%) Amazon EC2
5 228 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 154 (24.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 148 (23.60%) GitHub
8 144 (22.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 142 (22.65%) Amazon ECS
10 104 (16.59%) GitHub Actions
11 88 (14.04%) Amazon EKS
12 81 (12.92%) Azure
13 52 (8.29%) Amazon SQS
14 50 (7.97%) Amazon ELB
15 48 (7.66%) Route 53
16 47 (7.50%) Amazon EMR
17 46 (7.34%) AWS Step Functions
18 44 (7.02%) Snowflake
19 43 (6.86%) Amazon Kinesis
20 40 (6.38%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.41%) DNS
2 58 (9.25%) Firewall
3 37 (5.90%) VPN
4 27 (4.31%) SSH
5 26 (4.15%) SSL
5 26 (4.15%) TCP/IP
6 25 (3.99%) HTTP
7 24 (3.83%) SMTP
8 22 (3.51%) FTP
9 21 (3.35%) Network Security
10 17 (2.71%) OpenLDAP
11 12 (1.91%) IMAP
12 6 (0.96%) DHCP
12 6 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.48%) NAS
14 2 (0.32%) Calico
14 2 (0.32%) Kerberos
14 2 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (0.32%) VSAN
15 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (31.90%) Amazon RDS
2 136 (21.69%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (15.95%) DynamoDB
4 83 (13.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 74 (11.80%) Amazon Athena
6 62 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
7 54 (8.61%) Relational Database
8 51 (8.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 31 (4.94%) Data Lake
10 29 (4.63%) Amazon QuickSight
10 29 (4.63%) MySQL
10 29 (4.63%) NoSQL
11 27 (4.31%) MongoDB
12 22 (3.51%) RDBMS
12 22 (3.51%) SQL Server
13 19 (3.03%) Big Data
14 17 (2.71%) Metadata
14 17 (2.71%) Power BI
15 14 (2.23%) Parquet
15 14 (2.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 148 (23.60%) Jenkins
2 140 (22.33%) Git
3 105 (16.75%) GitLab
4 56 (8.93%) JIRA
5 24 (3.83%) Vagrant
6 16 (2.55%) JUnit
7 13 (2.07%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.07%) Maven
8 10 (1.59%) MLflow
9 9 (1.44%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.44%) Postman
9 9 (1.44%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.64%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.64%) DbUnit
10 4 (0.64%) jMock
10 4 (0.64%) Mockito
10 4 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.48%) REST Assured
General
1 167 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 116 (18.50%) Public Sector
3 72 (11.48%) Finance
4 67 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (3.35%) Banking
7 19 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (2.87%) Front Office
9 10 (1.59%) Military
10 7 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.80%) Legal
11 5 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.64%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.64%) Publishing
13 3 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.48%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.48%) Marketing
14 2 (0.32%) Retail
15 1 (0.16%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 149 (23.76%) AWS Engineer
2 108 (17.22%) Senior
3 101 (16.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 100 (15.95%) Developer
5 95 (15.15%) Data Engineer
6 80 (12.76%) Architect
7 51 (8.13%) AWS DevOps
7 51 (8.13%) Platform Engineer
8 49 (7.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 42 (6.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 39 (6.22%) Lead
11 33 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 32 (5.10%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.94%) AWS Architect
13 31 (4.94%) AWS Data Engineer
14 26 (4.15%) AWS Developer
14 26 (4.15%) Senior Data Engineer
15 25 (3.99%) Software Engineer
16 24 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
16 24 (3.83%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (10.37%) Kafka
2 61 (9.73%) React
3 59 (9.41%) Node.js
3 59 (9.41%) REST
4 49 (7.81%) AWS CDK
5 40 (6.38%) RESTful
6 37 (5.90%) Spring
7 32 (5.10%) Spring Boot
8 28 (4.47%) OAuth
9 25 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
10 23 (3.67%) GraphQL
11 22 (3.51%) PySpark
12 20 (3.19%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.19%) LDAP
12 20 (3.19%) Pandas
13 19 (3.03%) CSS
13 19 (3.03%) PyTorch
14 18 (2.87%) FastAPI
14 18 (2.87%) Jest
14 18 (2.87%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 101 (16.11%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.26%) Replication
3 24 (3.83%) Data Protection Act
4 22 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.07%) CSOC
7 13 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
8 11 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.28%) NHS
10 7 (1.12%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.64%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 106 (16.91%) Linux
2 37 (5.90%) Windows
3 29 (4.63%) Amazon Linux
4 28 (4.47%) VMS
5 15 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.39%) Unix
6 13 (2.07%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.96%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (53.43%) CI/CD
2 264 (42.11%) DevOps
3 240 (38.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 178 (28.39%) Agile
5 154 (24.56%) Containerisation
6 112 (17.86%) ETL
7 110 (17.54%) Data Pipeline
8 105 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
9 99 (15.79%) Data Modelling
10 89 (14.19%) Migration
11 87 (13.88%) Microservices
12 83 (13.24%) Data Engineering
13 82 (13.08%) Analytics
14 77 (12.28%) Mentoring
15 70 (11.16%) Observability
16 67 (10.69%) Infrastructure Automation
17 65 (10.37%) AI
18 58 (9.25%) Cloud Security
18 58 (9.25%) Software Engineering
19 56 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 368 (58.69%) Python
2 182 (29.03%) SQL
3 104 (16.59%) Java
4 81 (12.92%) Bash
5 68 (10.85%) TypeScript
6 59 (9.41%) JavaScript
7 48 (7.66%) PowerShell
8 27 (4.31%) Groovy
9 23 (3.67%) Go
10 20 (3.19%) Perl
11 17 (2.71%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.07%) Scala
13 8 (1.28%) C#
14 6 (0.96%) JSX
14 6 (0.96%) Korn
15 4 (0.64%) Bicep
15 4 (0.64%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.48%) C
17 2 (0.32%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 184 (29.35%) Security Cleared
2 159 (25.36%) SC Cleared
3 84 (13.40%) AWS Certification
4 37 (5.90%) Degree
5 36 (5.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.71%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.75%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.48%) CISSP
14 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.16%) CCNP
15 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.16%) RHCE
15 1 (0.16%) RHCSA
15 1 (0.16%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.74%) QA
3 32 (5.10%) GDPR
4 19 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.44%) NIST
7 6 (0.96%) NCSC
8 5 (0.80%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.48%) WCAG
11 2 (0.32%) GxP
11 2 (0.32%) SLA
12 1 (0.16%) HL7
12 1 (0.16%) MiFID
12 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 221 (35.25%) Docker
2 28 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.51%) DFS Replication
4 16 (2.55%) Postfix
5 12 (1.91%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.91%) Squid
6 3 (0.48%) KVM
7 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.16%) etcd
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 296 (47.21%) Terraform
2 147 (23.44%) Kubernetes
3 100 (15.95%) Grafana
4 85 (13.56%) Prometheus
5 79 (12.60%) Ansible
6 16 (2.55%) Progress Chef
6 16 (2.55%) Puppet
7 15 (2.39%) Argo
8 12 (1.91%) Nessus
9 10 (1.59%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.28%) Istio
10 8 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.96%) Packer
12 5 (0.80%) Kibana
13 4 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.64%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.48%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.48%) Nagios
14 3 (0.48%) NetBackup
15 2 (0.32%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 34 (5.42%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.78%) ServiceNow
2 30 (4.78%) Splunk
3 28 (4.47%) Databricks
3 28 (4.47%) Oracle
4 24 (3.83%) Palo Alto
5 23 (3.67%) CheckPoint
5 23 (3.67%) F5
6 16 (2.55%) Jaspersoft
7 12 (1.91%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.44%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.44%) Google
9 9 (1.44%) IBM
10 7 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
10 7 (1.12%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.96%) Commvault
11 6 (0.96%) StreamSets
12 5 (0.80%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.80%) Zscaler