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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 159 228
Rank change year-on-year -25 +69 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 733 522 453
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.44% 1.73% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 4.57% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 388 338
10th Percentile £380 £400 £381
25th Percentile £440 £463 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.60% +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 18,062 11,423 14,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.49% 37.93% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,063 7,684 10,016
10th Percentile £329 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £733 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 286 365
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.20 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% +28.41% -37.14%
75th Percentile £69.60 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.35 £71.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.77
% change year-on-year +102.70% -9.15% -21.56%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -22 617 £525 - 105
London +8 416 £550 -0.90% 61
Work from Home -10 249 £500 -4.76% 59
UK excluding London -71 235 £475 -5.00% 63
Midlands -27 69 £469 -1.26% 13
West Midlands -24 64 £469 -1.26% 7
North of England -64 62 £500 - 18
Scotland -28 40 £465 -6.95% 3
North West -36 32 £525 +10.53% 11
South East -51 29 £580 +28.89% 16
South West -29 26 £456 -17.05% 13
North East -23 15 £425 -5.56% 1
Yorkshire -59 15 £500 -4.76% 6
East of England -35 8 £400 -20.00%
East Midlands -19 4 £425 -6.54% 6
Wales - 4 £575 -
Northern Ireland 0 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 82 (11.19%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (10.10%) Confluence
3 64 (8.73%) Apache Spark
4 47 (6.41%) Apache
5 21 (2.86%) SAS
6 11 (1.50%) nginx
7 9 (1.23%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 723 (98.64%) AWS
2 469 (63.98%) Serverless
3 464 (63.30%) AWS Lambda
4 268 (36.56%) Amazon EC2
5 213 (29.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (21.42%) Amazon ECS
7 146 (19.92%) GitHub
8 143 (19.51%) Amazon EKS
9 142 (19.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 139 (18.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 109 (14.87%) Amazon SQS
12 106 (14.46%) GitHub Actions
13 104 (14.19%) Azure
14 88 (12.01%) Amazon EMR
15 84 (11.46%) Snowflake
16 79 (10.78%) AWS Step Functions
16 79 (10.78%) dbt
17 65 (8.87%) Power Platform
18 54 (7.37%) AWS KMS
19 51 (6.96%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.82%) DNS
2 25 (3.41%) Firewall
3 15 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.77%) VPN
5 11 (1.50%) Network Security
5 11 (1.50%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.82%) WAN
7 5 (0.68%) HTTP
8 4 (0.55%) DHCP
8 4 (0.55%) Internet
8 4 (0.55%) NAS
8 4 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.55%) SAN
8 4 (0.55%) SSL
9 3 (0.41%) BGP
9 3 (0.41%) CTI
9 3 (0.41%) OSPF
10 2 (0.27%) Multicast
10 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (24.42%) Amazon RDS
2 151 (20.60%) Amazon Athena
3 129 (17.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 126 (17.19%) DynamoDB
5 101 (13.78%) PostgreSQL
6 79 (10.78%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (8.87%) Power BI
8 58 (7.91%) Data Lake
9 51 (6.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 39 (5.32%) NoSQL
11 36 (4.91%) Metadata
11 36 (4.91%) Relational Database
12 33 (4.50%) MongoDB
13 32 (4.37%) Tableau
14 31 (4.23%) Big Data
15 24 (3.27%) BigQuery
15 24 (3.27%) SQL Server
16 22 (3.00%) Apache Iceberg
17 21 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (2.46%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 150 (20.46%) Git
2 148 (20.19%) GitLab
3 142 (19.37%) Jenkins
4 90 (12.28%) JIRA
5 31 (4.23%) SonarQube
6 30 (4.09%) JUnit
7 28 (3.82%) Bitbucket
8 24 (3.27%) Mockito
9 23 (3.14%) Maven
10 15 (2.05%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.91%) DbUnit
12 13 (1.77%) jMock
13 11 (1.50%) Artifactory
13 11 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (1.23%) Cucumber
15 8 (1.09%) Postman
16 6 (0.82%) MLflow
17 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 4 (0.55%) Selenium
18 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 189 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 147 (20.05%) Public Sector
3 122 (16.64%) Finance
4 66 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (5.46%) Banking
6 22 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.50%) Front Office
9 8 (1.09%) Military
10 7 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.95%) Legal
11 6 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.82%) Law
12 5 (0.68%) Marketing
13 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Back Office
14 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 179 (24.42%) Data Engineer
2 138 (18.83%) Developer
3 134 (18.28%) AWS Engineer
4 101 (13.78%) Senior
5 88 (12.01%) Architect
6 82 (11.19%) Lead
7 61 (8.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.55%) AWS Data Engineer
8 48 (6.55%) Java Developer
9 43 (5.87%) AWS Architect
9 43 (5.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 39 (5.32%) Senior Data Engineer
11 37 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
12 32 (4.37%) AWS Developer
13 28 (3.82%) Software Engineer
14 27 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.41%) Python Engineer
16 24 (3.27%) Data Architect
16 24 (3.27%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.55%) Kafka
2 80 (10.91%) PySpark
3 74 (10.10%) REST
3 74 (10.10%) Spring
3 74 (10.10%) Spring Boot
4 62 (8.46%) React
4 62 (8.46%) RESTful
5 55 (7.50%) Node.js
6 51 (6.96%) AWS CDK
7 32 (4.37%) SOAP
8 31 (4.23%) AngularJS
8 31 (4.23%) OAuth
9 30 (4.09%) FastAPI
10 25 (3.41%) JPA
11 24 (3.27%) OpenID
11 24 (3.27%) PyTorch
12 23 (3.14%) Hibernate
12 23 (3.14%) Web Services
13 22 (3.00%) Pandas
14 21 (2.86%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 188 (25.65%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 49 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.73%) NHS
5 17 (2.32%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.50%) AI Agents
6 11 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.09%) Legacy Code
8 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
9 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 7 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (0.95%) Hedge funds
9 7 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.82%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.68%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 85 (11.60%) Linux
2 20 (2.73%) Unix
3 15 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.91%) Windows
5 5 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.27%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) AIX
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (59.75%) CI/CD
2 308 (42.02%) DevOps
3 268 (36.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 242 (33.02%) Agile
5 178 (24.28%) Data Engineering
6 173 (23.60%) Analytics
7 169 (23.06%) Data Pipeline
8 153 (20.87%) Containerisation
9 151 (20.60%) ETL
10 141 (19.24%) AI
11 138 (18.83%) Data Modelling
12 128 (17.46%) Microservices
13 105 (14.32%) Observability
14 101 (13.78%) Machine Learning
15 96 (13.10%) Migration
16 95 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
17 93 (12.69%) Test Automation
18 90 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
19 87 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
19 87 (11.87%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 407 (55.53%) Python
2 269 (36.70%) SQL
3 138 (18.83%) Java
4 72 (9.82%) TypeScript
5 53 (7.23%) Bash
5 53 (7.23%) JavaScript
6 45 (6.14%) C#
7 29 (3.96%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.00%) Shell Script
9 21 (2.86%) Scala
10 8 (1.09%) Groovy
11 6 (0.82%) Bicep
11 6 (0.82%) Go
11 6 (0.82%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.55%) Perl
13 4 (0.55%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.41%) C
14 3 (0.41%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 234 (31.92%) Security Cleared
2 200 (27.29%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.19%) AWS Certification
4 33 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (2.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 18 (2.46%) Degree
7 13 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.50%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.41%) CSPO
13 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (15.01%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.82%) QA
3 21 (2.86%) GDPR
4 14 (1.91%) SLA
5 8 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.95%) PMO
7 6 (0.82%) NIST
7 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.55%) HL7
8 4 (0.55%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 209 (28.51%) Docker
2 15 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.64%) Squid
4 11 (1.50%) Postfix
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 327 (44.61%) Terraform
2 146 (19.92%) Kubernetes
3 96 (13.10%) Grafana
4 66 (9.00%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.87%) Ansible
6 17 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.64%) Puppet
8 9 (1.23%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.23%) Kibana
9 8 (1.09%) Consul
10 6 (0.82%) Argo
10 6 (0.82%) Packer
10 6 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.82%) Salt
11 5 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.55%) Istio
12 4 (0.55%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 65 (8.87%) Databricks
2 32 (4.37%) Microsoft
3 28 (3.82%) Informatica
4 25 (3.41%) Splunk
5 23 (3.14%) Atlassian
5 23 (3.14%) Google
6 21 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 21 (2.86%) Oracle
7 19 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 17 (2.32%) Jaspersoft
9 15 (2.05%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.64%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.50%) Denodo
11 11 (1.50%) Teradata
12 8 (1.09%) Confluent
12 8 (1.09%) IBM
12 8 (1.09%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.95%) Foundry
13 7 (0.95%) Palantir
14 6 (0.82%) AVEVA