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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 166 237
Rank change year-on-year -16 +71 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 679 495 444
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.69% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.05% 4.44% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 387 354
10th Percentile £357 £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 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £718 £698
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 16,746 11,154 14,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.73% 38.12% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,422 7,820 10,103
10th Percentile £313 £313 £296
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 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.31% -2.76% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 227 346
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.47% +29.17% -26.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.97 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.63 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +97.65% +29.83% -21.27%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +10 384 £525 -8.70% 76
UK excluding London -46 212 £500 - 120
Work from Home -4 202 £513 -2.38% 97
Midlands -31 60 £475 +5.56% 12
North of England -43 60 £500 +5.26% 43
West Midlands -23 53 £500 -2.44% 8
Scotland -30 29 £440 -12.00% 9
South East -43 27 £540 -11.29% 34
North West -27 26 £450 +9.09% 21
Yorkshire -36 26 £518 +0.98% 17
South West -12 22 £538 -0.92% 13
North East -11 8 £538 -13.90% 5
East Midlands -31 7 £423 +4.19% 4
East of England -31 7 £475 -5.00% 7
Northern Ireland -1 6 £400 -20.00%
Wales -7 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 66 (9.72%) Apache Spark
2 57 (8.39%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (7.36%) Apache
4 31 (4.57%) Confluence
5 14 (2.06%) 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
1 675 (99.41%) AWS
2 428 (63.03%) Serverless
3 416 (61.27%) AWS Lambda
4 270 (39.76%) Amazon EC2
5 189 (27.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 182 (26.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 164 (24.15%) Amazon ECS
8 145 (21.35%) GitHub
9 137 (20.18%) Amazon EKS
10 136 (20.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 111 (16.35%) Azure
12 102 (15.02%) GitHub Actions
13 91 (13.40%) AWS Step Functions
14 81 (11.93%) Amazon SQS
15 65 (9.57%) Route 53
15 65 (9.57%) Snowflake
16 56 (8.25%) GCP
17 49 (7.22%) Power Platform
18 48 (7.07%) Amazon EMR
19 45 (6.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.01%) DNS
2 23 (3.39%) Firewall
3 18 (2.65%) VPN
4 14 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.62%) Network Security
5 11 (1.62%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.74%) DHCP
7 4 (0.59%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.44%) BGP
8 3 (0.44%) HTTP
8 3 (0.44%) OSPF
9 2 (0.29%) Multicast
9 2 (0.29%) NAS
9 2 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.29%) VLAN
9 2 (0.29%) WAN
10 1 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (27.54%) Amazon RDS
2 119 (17.53%) Amazon Athena
3 107 (15.76%) PostgreSQL
4 105 (15.46%) DynamoDB
5 92 (13.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 59 (8.69%) Data Lake
7 56 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
8 52 (7.66%) Relational Database
9 49 (7.22%) Power BI
10 36 (5.30%) Amazon Aurora
11 35 (5.15%) NoSQL
12 33 (4.86%) Tableau
13 31 (4.57%) Metadata
14 30 (4.42%) MongoDB
15 27 (3.98%) SQL Server
16 26 (3.83%) BigQuery
17 24 (3.53%) MySQL
18 23 (3.39%) OLTP
19 21 (3.09%) OLAP
20 19 (2.80%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 142 (20.91%) Jenkins
2 137 (20.18%) GitLab
3 122 (17.97%) Git
4 43 (6.33%) JIRA
5 25 (3.68%) JUnit
6 23 (3.39%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.24%) Bitbucket
8 21 (3.09%) Maven
9 15 (2.21%) Mockito
10 14 (2.06%) 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%) Bitbucket Server
16 6 (0.88%) Gradle
17 5 (0.74%) Artifactory
17 5 (0.74%) Selenium
18 4 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 165 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 119 (17.53%) Finance
3 111 (16.35%) Public Sector
4 69 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (5.74%) Banking
6 25 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.06%) Front Office
8 13 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Legal
10 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.44%) Games
11 3 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.44%) Military
11 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.29%) Billing
12 2 (0.29%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.15%) iGaming
13 1 (0.15%) Marketing
13 1 (0.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (21.80%) Data Engineer
2 133 (19.59%) Developer
3 115 (16.94%) AWS Engineer
4 86 (12.67%) Senior
5 71 (10.46%) Lead
6 70 (10.31%) Architect
7 53 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (6.92%) Java Developer
9 38 (5.60%) AWS Data Engineer
10 36 (5.30%) AWS Architect
11 34 (5.01%) Site Engineer
12 33 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
12 33 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 32 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
14 31 (4.57%) Analyst
15 29 (4.27%) AWS Developer
16 28 (4.12%) Lead Data Engineer
17 26 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
17 26 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
18 24 (3.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (17.82%) Kafka
2 84 (12.37%) Spring Boot
3 83 (12.22%) Spring
4 71 (10.46%) Node.js
5 66 (9.72%) RESTful
6 62 (9.13%) PySpark
7 56 (8.25%) REST
8 54 (7.95%) React
9 43 (6.33%) AWS CDK
10 42 (6.19%) OAuth
11 35 (5.15%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.53%) JWT
13 21 (3.09%) OpenID
14 20 (2.95%) FastAPI
15 19 (2.80%) Great Expectations
16 18 (2.65%) boto
16 18 (2.65%) CSS
16 18 (2.65%) Jest
16 18 (2.65%) JSON
16 18 (2.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 170 (25.04%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.36%) NHS
5 15 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.33%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
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%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.74%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.74%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (12.22%) 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
1 401 (59.06%) CI/CD
2 276 (40.65%) DevOps
3 267 (39.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 181 (26.66%) Agile
5 162 (23.86%) ETL
6 160 (23.56%) Analytics
7 158 (23.27%) Containerisation
8 152 (22.39%) Data Engineering
9 142 (20.91%) Data Pipeline
10 138 (20.32%) Data Modelling
11 118 (17.38%) Microservices
12 113 (16.64%) Observability
13 109 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
14 96 (14.14%) AI
15 87 (12.81%) Migration
16 76 (11.19%) Data Governance
17 71 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (10.46%) Performance Tuning
18 69 (10.16%) Event-Driven
19 68 (10.01%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 374 (55.08%) Python
2 244 (35.94%) SQL
3 136 (20.03%) Java
4 67 (9.87%) Bash
5 63 (9.28%) TypeScript
6 47 (6.92%) C#
7 46 (6.77%) JavaScript
8 32 (4.71%) Shell Script
9 30 (4.42%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.80%) Go
11 14 (2.06%) Scala
12 6 (0.88%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.74%) JSX
14 4 (0.59%) 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%) Korn
16 2 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 218 (32.11%) Security Cleared
2 176 (25.92%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.81%) AWS Certification
4 21 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.65%) Degree
7 13 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.44%) OCP
11 3 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.44%) PhD
11 3 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (13.25%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.74%) GDPR
3 34 (5.01%) QA
4 14 (2.06%) SLA
5 13 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.91%) NIST
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%) GxP
11 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 2 (0.29%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 219 (32.25%) Docker
2 10 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.47%) Squid
3 8 (1.18%) Postfix
4 4 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.44%) HDFS
5 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 321 (47.28%) Terraform
2 170 (25.04%) Kubernetes
3 97 (14.29%) Grafana
4 74 (10.90%) Prometheus
5 64 (9.43%) Ansible
6 17 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (2.36%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.06%) Puppet
9 9 (1.33%) Argo
9 9 (1.33%) FortiGate
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
14 3 (0.44%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.44%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 80 (11.78%) Databricks
2 36 (5.30%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.57%) Google
4 30 (4.42%) Splunk
5 19 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.50%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.91%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.77%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.77%) Oracle
9 11 (1.62%) Jaspersoft
10 10 (1.47%) Informatica
11 9 (1.33%) Confluent
11 9 (1.33%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.03%) Dell
12 7 (1.03%) IBM
12 7 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.03%) Sybase
13 6 (0.88%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.88%) SAP
14 5 (0.74%) Ab Initio