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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 170 216
Rank change year-on-year -45 +46 +52
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 714 587 436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.78% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 4.67% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 425 294
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £639 £625 £601
90th Percentile £738 £688 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -1.95% -3.55% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £37.95 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £62.40 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.92% - -
75th Percentile £72.66 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.86 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.95 - -

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 19,068 12,578 12,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.73% 38.05% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,647 8,397 8,617
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £719 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 628 296 185
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.50 £16.12
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.25 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.14 £33.00
% change year-on-year +56.78% -42.02% +42.00%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -44 591 £525 - 588
London -3 395 £575 +1.32% 354
Work from Home -24 255 £535 +7.00% 252
UK excluding London -86 233 £466 -1.95% 282
North of England -60 72 £463 -7.50% 77
Midlands -45 61 £466 -1.95% 34
West Midlands -39 50 £475 - 12
Scotland -33 42 £444 -12.13% 24
South West -17 32 £466 -15.23% 55
North West -46 30 £500 +5.26% 51
North East -19 22 £419 -1.47% 10
South East -67 21 £575 +38.55% 44
Yorkshire -48 20 £500 -2.44% 16
East Midlands -11 10 £405 -17.97% 22
East of England -45 6 £350 -41.67% 26
Wales - 3 £600 - 13
Northern Ireland +5 1 - - 10

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 89 (12.46%) Apache Airflow
2 75 (10.50%) Confluence
3 74 (10.36%) Apache
4 73 (10.22%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.96%) SAS
6 13 (1.82%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.98%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.84%) Traefik
9 6 (0.84%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.84%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.70%) nginx
11 4 (0.56%) PowerExchange
12 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.28%) CMS
14 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.14%) Mule
14 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 692 (96.92%) AWS
2 435 (60.92%) Serverless
3 433 (60.64%) AWS Lambda
4 232 (32.49%) Amazon EC2
5 231 (32.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 159 (22.27%) GitHub
7 154 (21.57%) Amazon ECS
8 149 (20.87%) Amazon EKS
9 132 (18.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 129 (18.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 125 (17.51%) GitHub Actions
12 120 (16.81%) Azure
13 98 (13.73%) Amazon SQS
14 94 (13.17%) Amazon EMR
15 82 (11.48%) dbt
16 78 (10.92%) Snowflake
17 71 (9.94%) AWS Step Functions
18 63 (8.82%) Power Platform
19 56 (7.84%) AWS KMS
20 55 (7.70%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.38%) Firewall
2 13 (1.82%) DNS
3 11 (1.54%) Network Security
4 7 (0.98%) HTTP
5 6 (0.84%) SSL
6 5 (0.70%) CTI
7 4 (0.56%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.56%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.56%) SAN
7 4 (0.56%) SMS
7 4 (0.56%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) Internet
8 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.42%) VPN
9 2 (0.28%) IMAP
9 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.28%) NAS
9 2 (0.28%) SMTP
9 2 (0.28%) SSH
9 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (26.61%) Amazon RDS
2 143 (20.03%) Amazon Athena
3 129 (18.07%) DynamoDB
4 115 (16.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 98 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
6 95 (13.31%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (9.10%) Data Lake
8 63 (8.82%) Power BI
9 50 (7.00%) MongoDB
10 46 (6.44%) Amazon Aurora
11 45 (6.30%) Metadata
12 35 (4.90%) Big Data
13 31 (4.34%) Tableau
14 30 (4.20%) NoSQL
15 29 (4.06%) Apache Iceberg
16 27 (3.78%) SQL Server
17 25 (3.50%) MySQL
17 25 (3.50%) Relational Database
18 24 (3.36%) Delta Lake
19 23 (3.22%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 157 (21.99%) GitLab
2 145 (20.31%) Git
3 129 (18.07%) Jenkins
4 74 (10.36%) JIRA
5 26 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.52%) Cypress.io
6 18 (2.52%) SonarQube
7 17 (2.38%) Maven
8 15 (2.10%) JUnit
8 15 (2.10%) Mockito
9 11 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.98%) Postman
11 6 (0.84%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.84%) DbUnit
11 6 (0.84%) Selenium
11 6 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.70%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (0.70%) jMock
13 4 (0.56%) Flyway
General
1 175 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 155 (21.71%) Public Sector
3 132 (18.49%) Finance
4 63 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.58%) Banking
6 19 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.24%) Front Office
8 12 (1.68%) Back Office
8 12 (1.68%) Legal
9 10 (1.40%) Military
10 8 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.12%) Marketing
11 7 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.98%) Law
11 7 (0.98%) Publishing
12 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Billing
13 4 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.56%) Police
13 4 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 173 (24.23%) Data Engineer
2 129 (18.07%) Senior
3 120 (16.81%) AWS Engineer
3 120 (16.81%) Developer
4 86 (12.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (11.34%) Architect
6 80 (11.20%) Lead
7 55 (7.70%) Senior Data Engineer
8 46 (6.44%) AWS Data Engineer
9 38 (5.32%) AWS DevOps
10 35 (4.90%) Java Developer
11 34 (4.76%) AWS Architect
12 31 (4.34%) Cloud Engineer
13 30 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 30 (4.20%) Data Architect
14 29 (4.06%) AWS Developer
15 26 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
16 23 (3.22%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 23 (3.22%) Snowflake Engineer
17 22 (3.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (47.48%) Terraform
2 95 (13.31%) REST
3 91 (12.75%) Kafka
4 76 (10.64%) PySpark
5 62 (8.68%) Spring Boot
6 60 (8.40%) Spring
7 55 (7.70%) RESTful
8 54 (7.56%) React
9 45 (6.30%) Node.js
10 42 (5.88%) AWS CDK
11 31 (4.34%) FastAPI
12 29 (4.06%) SOAP
13 26 (3.64%) AngularJS
14 23 (3.22%) .NET
14 23 (3.22%) GraphQL
14 23 (3.22%) JSON
15 22 (3.08%) OAuth
16 19 (2.66%) Pandas
16 19 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (2.10%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 194 (27.17%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.24%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.80%) NHS
6 17 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.10%) Security Posture
8 14 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.96%) Replication
9 13 (1.82%) IVR
10 12 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.26%) Legacy Code
14 8 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 8 (1.12%) Clustering
14 8 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.12%) Mainframe
14 8 (1.12%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 95 (13.31%) Linux
2 25 (3.50%) Unix
3 22 (3.08%) Windows
4 17 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.40%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.84%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.56%) AIX
9 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.28%) Android
10 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (64.57%) CI/CD
2 323 (45.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 314 (43.98%) DevOps
4 278 (38.94%) Agile
5 188 (26.33%) Data Engineering
6 187 (26.19%) Data Pipeline
7 154 (21.57%) Analytics
8 142 (19.89%) Data Modelling
9 138 (19.33%) Containerisation
10 137 (19.19%) AI
11 136 (19.05%) Observability
12 133 (18.63%) ETL
13 117 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (16.25%) Microservices
15 111 (15.55%) Migration
15 111 (15.55%) Test Automation
16 110 (15.41%) Event-Driven
17 105 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
18 98 (13.73%) Machine Learning
19 92 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 402 (56.30%) Python
2 273 (38.24%) SQL
3 117 (16.39%) Java
4 71 (9.94%) Bash
4 71 (9.94%) TypeScript
5 54 (7.56%) JavaScript
6 28 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 23 (3.22%) Scala
8 22 (3.08%) C#
8 22 (3.08%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.38%) Groovy
10 15 (2.10%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.40%) Bicep
12 8 (1.12%) Go
13 7 (0.98%) Perl
14 4 (0.56%) Cypher
14 4 (0.56%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.56%) R
14 4 (0.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 246 (34.45%) Security Cleared
2 222 (31.09%) SC Cleared
3 93 (13.03%) AWS Certification
4 46 (6.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (5.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (4.34%) Degree
7 23 (3.22%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.96%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.26%) CISM
12 9 (1.26%) CISSP
13 8 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.98%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.42%) CSPO
17 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (18.21%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.72%) QA
3 17 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.38%) GDPR
4 10 (1.40%) NIST
5 7 (0.98%) SLA
6 6 (0.84%) HL7
7 4 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.56%) NCSC
7 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.28%) WCAG
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 226 (31.65%) Docker
2 16 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.84%) Postfix
4 5 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.56%) Squid
6 3 (0.42%) HDFS
7 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.28%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.28%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.14%) Ceph
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 156 (21.85%) Kubernetes
2 109 (15.27%) Grafana
3 63 (8.82%) Prometheus
4 49 (6.86%) Ansible
5 17 (2.38%) Argo
6 16 (2.24%) Kibana
7 14 (1.96%) Puppet
8 12 (1.68%) Istio
8 12 (1.68%) Karpenter
9 8 (1.12%) Packer
10 6 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.56%) Salt
13 3 (0.42%) Control-M
13 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.42%) systemd
14 2 (0.28%) Consul
14 2 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 61 (8.54%) Databricks
2 55 (7.70%) Oracle
3 45 (6.30%) Microsoft
4 30 (4.20%) Informatica
5 23 (3.22%) Splunk
6 22 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.52%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.52%) Google
8 14 (1.96%) Teradata
9 13 (1.82%) Confluent
9 13 (1.82%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.68%) Denodo
11 11 (1.54%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.26%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.26%) Jaspersoft
12 9 (1.26%) webMethods
13 8 (1.12%) Brio
13 8 (1.12%) Foundry
13 8 (1.12%) Palantir
14 7 (0.98%) IBM