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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 172 231
Rank change year-on-year -7 +59 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 620 472 461
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.56% 1.52% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.10% 4.07% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 350 377
10th Percentile £363 £403 £400
25th Percentile £418 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -0.49%
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 15,125 11,592 14,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.98% 37.42% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,377 7,753 10,556
10th Percentile £309 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 172 321
10th Percentile £14.49 £16.78 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.43 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.27% +21.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.94 £51.58
90th Percentile £78.88 £73.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.22 £24.18 £20.77
% change year-on-year +58.04% +16.42% +3.85%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +5 493 £525 -4.55% 174
London +16 328 £530 -7.83% 79
UK excluding London -11 210 £500 - 115
Work from Home -20 166 £550 +5.77% 95
North of England -27 64 £500 - 40
Midlands -29 46 £475 +5.56% 14
Scotland -26 42 £463 -7.50% 4
West Midlands -26 39 £510 -7.27% 11
Yorkshire -34 31 £500 -4.76% 18
North West -15 25 £450 -5.26% 20
South East -16 25 £528 -17.25% 29
South West -10 16 £538 -10.54% 19
Northern Ireland +4 9 £400 - 1
East of England -19 9 £475 -5.00% 6
North East -12 8 £450 -26.23% 2
East Midlands -23 7 £417 -6.02% 3
Wales +1 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 55 (8.87%) Apache Spark
2 52 (8.39%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (6.94%) Apache
4 27 (4.35%) Confluence
5 13 (2.10%) nginx
6 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.48%) Traefik
7 2 (0.32%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Actimize
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.16%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 615 (99.19%) AWS
2 381 (61.45%) Serverless
3 374 (60.32%) AWS Lambda
4 242 (39.03%) Amazon EC2
5 180 (29.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 177 (28.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 153 (24.68%) Amazon ECS
8 136 (21.94%) GitHub
9 131 (21.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 128 (20.65%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (16.77%) GitHub Actions
12 103 (16.61%) Azure
13 71 (11.45%) AWS Step Functions
14 55 (8.87%) Route 53
15 54 (8.71%) Amazon SQS
16 52 (8.39%) Amazon Kinesis
17 51 (8.23%) GCP
18 50 (8.06%) Snowflake
19 42 (6.77%) Amazon EMR
20 37 (5.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 48 (7.74%) DNS
2 43 (6.94%) Firewall
3 31 (5.00%) VPN
4 25 (4.03%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.55%) Network Security
6 14 (2.26%) SSL
7 12 (1.94%) HTTP
8 8 (1.29%) FTP
8 8 (1.29%) SMTP
8 8 (1.29%) SSH
9 7 (1.13%) OpenVPN
10 6 (0.97%) IMAP
10 6 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.65%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.48%) BGP
13 2 (0.32%) Calico
13 2 (0.32%) Multicast
13 2 (0.32%) SAN
13 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (28.71%) Amazon RDS
2 111 (17.90%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 89 (14.35%) Amazon Athena
5 85 (13.71%) DynamoDB
6 50 (8.06%) Relational Database
7 48 (7.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 48 (7.74%) Data Lake
8 45 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (4.84%) MySQL
9 30 (4.84%) Power BI
10 29 (4.68%) MongoDB
11 26 (4.19%) Amazon QuickSight
12 25 (4.03%) NoSQL
13 24 (3.87%) BigQuery
14 23 (3.71%) OLTP
14 23 (3.71%) SQL Server
15 20 (3.23%) OLAP
16 17 (2.74%) Metadata
16 17 (2.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 141 (22.74%) Jenkins
2 128 (20.65%) GitLab
3 109 (17.58%) Git
4 34 (5.48%) JIRA
5 14 (2.26%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.26%) MLflow
6 13 (2.10%) JUnit
7 12 (1.94%) Maven
8 10 (1.61%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.45%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.45%) Postman
10 8 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.29%) Vagrant
11 6 (0.97%) Gradle
12 4 (0.65%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.65%) Mockito
12 4 (0.65%) NUnit
12 4 (0.65%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.65%) Vite
13 3 (0.48%) Jasmine
General
1 155 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 94 (15.16%) Public Sector
3 89 (14.35%) Finance
4 63 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.68%) Banking
6 21 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.94%) Front Office
7 12 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.29%) Legal
8 8 (1.29%) Military
9 4 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.48%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.32%) Publishing
11 2 (0.32%) Retail
12 1 (0.16%) Games
12 1 (0.16%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.16%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 123 (19.84%) Data Engineer
3 102 (16.45%) Developer
4 89 (14.35%) Senior
5 79 (12.74%) Architect
6 71 (11.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 53 (8.55%) Lead
8 40 (6.45%) AWS Architect
9 37 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
10 35 (5.65%) AWS Data Engineer
10 35 (5.65%) Java Developer
11 33 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.84%) Python Engineer
13 29 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (4.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 28 (4.52%) Software Engineer
15 27 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 26 (4.19%) Data Architect
16 26 (4.19%) Site Engineer
17 25 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (17.10%) Kafka
2 65 (10.48%) Spring
2 65 (10.48%) Spring Boot
3 54 (8.71%) Node.js
4 52 (8.39%) REST
5 51 (8.23%) React
5 51 (8.23%) RESTful
6 46 (7.42%) AWS CDK
7 39 (6.29%) OAuth
7 39 (6.29%) PySpark
8 28 (4.52%) AngularJS
9 25 (4.03%) FastAPI
9 25 (4.03%) JWT
10 23 (3.71%) CSS
10 23 (3.71%) PyTorch
11 21 (3.39%) boto
11 21 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (3.39%) JSON
12 19 (3.06%) Pandas
13 17 (2.74%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 150 (24.19%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.42%) Replication
6 14 (2.26%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.10%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.10%) NHS
8 9 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.97%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.81%) Derivative
12 5 (0.81%) SCADA
13 4 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 80 (12.90%) Linux
2 17 (2.74%) Windows
3 11 (1.77%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (1.77%) Unix
3 11 (1.77%) VMS
4 7 (1.13%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.32%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (59.84%) CI/CD
2 271 (43.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 245 (39.52%) DevOps
4 159 (25.65%) Containerisation
5 147 (23.71%) Agile
6 136 (21.94%) ETL
7 132 (21.29%) Data Pipeline
8 128 (20.65%) Analytics
9 124 (20.00%) Data Engineering
10 121 (19.52%) Data Modelling
11 105 (16.94%) Microservices
12 103 (16.61%) Observability
13 95 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (14.03%) AI
15 72 (11.61%) Software Engineering
16 70 (11.29%) Event-Driven
17 69 (11.13%) Migration
18 67 (10.81%) Machine Learning
18 67 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
19 63 (10.16%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 382 (61.61%) Python
2 214 (34.52%) SQL
3 112 (18.06%) Java
4 78 (12.58%) Bash
5 53 (8.55%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.42%) JavaScript
7 35 (5.65%) C#
8 31 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 26 (4.19%) Go
10 23 (3.71%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.61%) Groovy
12 9 (1.45%) Scala
13 6 (0.97%) JSX
14 5 (0.81%) Korn
14 5 (0.81%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.65%) Perl
16 3 (0.48%) C++
17 2 (0.32%) Bicep
17 2 (0.32%) C
18 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 194 (31.29%) Security Cleared
2 160 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.16%) AWS Certification
4 25 (4.03%) Degree
5 23 (3.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.39%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.48%) OCP
11 3 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.48%) PhD
12 2 (0.32%) CISSP
13 1 (0.16%) CEH
13 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.94%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.94%) GDPR
3 34 (5.48%) QA
4 18 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.42%) NIST
6 14 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.97%) SLA
8 4 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.65%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.65%) NCSC
9 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.32%) GxP
10 2 (0.32%) MiFID
11 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 219 (35.32%) Docker
2 13 (2.10%) Squid
3 9 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.29%) DFS Replication
4 8 (1.29%) Postfix
5 6 (0.97%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.48%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) HDFS
7 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.16%) etcd
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 315 (50.81%) Terraform
2 176 (28.39%) Kubernetes
3 96 (15.48%) Grafana
4 81 (13.06%) Ansible
5 79 (12.74%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.06%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.74%) Puppet
8 13 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.77%) Argo
10 8 (1.29%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.13%) Kibana
11 7 (1.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.97%) Consul
12 6 (0.97%) Karpenter
12 6 (0.97%) Nessus
12 6 (0.97%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.81%) Istio
14 3 (0.48%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.48%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 62 (10.00%) Databricks
2 36 (5.81%) Microsoft
3 24 (3.87%) Google
4 22 (3.55%) Splunk
5 17 (2.74%) F5
5 17 (2.74%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.58%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.42%) CheckPoint
8 13 (2.10%) Oracle
9 10 (1.61%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.45%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.45%) Confluent
11 8 (1.29%) Dell
11 8 (1.29%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.29%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.13%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.97%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.97%) SAP
14 5 (0.81%) Sybase