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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 176 233
Rank change year-on-year -9 +57 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 597 472 447
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 1.52% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 4.07% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 347 367
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £422 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
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% -0.63%
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 14,840 11,586 14,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.91% 37.20% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,196 7,703 10,613
10th Percentile £306 £313 £285
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 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 174 322
10th Percentile £14.43 £16.83 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.46 £16.26
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £24.83 £20.99
% change year-on-year +49.01% +18.32% +5.72%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +3 474 £525 -4.55% 161
London +11 315 £528 -6.64% 73
UK excluding London -17 200 £500 - 109
Work from Home -14 159 £550 +7.21% 80
North of England -28 63 £500 - 35
Midlands -31 46 £475 +5.56% 12
West Midlands -16 39 £500 -9.09% 8
Scotland -25 38 £485 -3.00% 4
Yorkshire -32 31 £500 -4.76% 16
North West -20 24 £450 -5.26% 17
South East -15 23 £528 -17.25% 26
South West -8 13 £700 +27.18% 19
East of England -15 10 £650 +30.00% 9
Northern Ireland +5 9 £400 - 2
North East -10 8 £450 -26.23% 2
East Midlands -23 7 £417 -6.02% 4
Wales +3 1 £475 +18.75% 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 51 (8.54%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (8.21%) Apache Spark
3 42 (7.04%) Apache
4 26 (4.36%) Confluence
5 12 (2.01%) nginx
6 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.50%) SAS
6 3 (0.50%) Traefik
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.01%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 592 (99.16%) AWS
2 368 (61.64%) Serverless
3 362 (60.64%) AWS Lambda
4 234 (39.20%) Amazon EC2
5 175 (29.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 172 (28.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 147 (24.62%) Amazon ECS
8 133 (22.28%) GitHub
9 127 (21.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 122 (20.44%) Amazon EKS
11 102 (17.09%) GitHub Actions
12 98 (16.42%) Azure
13 67 (11.22%) AWS Step Functions
14 52 (8.71%) Amazon Kinesis
15 50 (8.38%) Route 53
16 49 (8.21%) Amazon SQS
17 48 (8.04%) GCP
18 46 (7.71%) Snowflake
19 40 (6.70%) Amazon EMR
20 35 (5.86%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 47 (7.87%) DNS
2 43 (7.20%) Firewall
3 29 (4.86%) VPN
4 22 (3.69%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.52%) Network Security
6 14 (2.35%) HTTP
6 14 (2.35%) SSL
7 10 (1.68%) FTP
7 10 (1.68%) SMTP
7 10 (1.68%) SSH
8 7 (1.17%) IMAP
8 7 (1.17%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.84%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.67%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.50%) BGP
11 3 (0.50%) NAS
12 2 (0.34%) Multicast
12 2 (0.34%) OSPF
12 2 (0.34%) SAN
12 2 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (29.65%) Amazon RDS
2 105 (17.59%) PostgreSQL
3 95 (15.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 87 (14.57%) Amazon Athena
5 79 (13.23%) DynamoDB
6 47 (7.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 47 (7.87%) Data Lake
7 46 (7.71%) Relational Database
8 45 (7.54%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (5.03%) MySQL
10 29 (4.86%) Power BI
11 27 (4.52%) MongoDB
12 26 (4.36%) Amazon QuickSight
13 22 (3.69%) BigQuery
13 22 (3.69%) NoSQL
13 22 (3.69%) OLTP
14 21 (3.52%) SQL Server
15 19 (3.18%) OLAP
16 16 (2.68%) Star Schema
16 16 (2.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 136 (22.78%) Jenkins
2 125 (20.94%) GitLab
3 105 (17.59%) Git
4 33 (5.53%) JIRA
5 14 (2.35%) MLflow
6 13 (2.18%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.68%) JUnit
7 10 (1.68%) Vagrant
8 9 (1.51%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.51%) Maven
8 9 (1.51%) Postman
9 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.17%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.01%) Gradle
12 4 (0.67%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.67%) NUnit
12 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.50%) Vite
14 2 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 148 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 90 (15.08%) Public Sector
3 87 (14.57%) Finance
4 63 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.86%) Banking
6 18 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.84%) Front Office
9 8 (1.34%) Military
10 7 (1.17%) Legal
11 4 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.50%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.34%) Publishing
13 2 (0.34%) Retail
14 1 (0.17%) Marketing
14 1 (0.17%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.17%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 120 (20.10%) AWS Engineer
2 118 (19.77%) Data Engineer
3 93 (15.58%) Developer
4 88 (14.74%) Senior
5 75 (12.56%) Architect
6 72 (12.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 50 (8.38%) Lead
8 40 (6.70%) Platform Engineer
9 38 (6.37%) AWS Architect
10 32 (5.36%) AWS Data Engineer
11 31 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
12 30 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (5.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 29 (4.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 29 (4.86%) Python Engineer
14 28 (4.69%) Java Developer
14 28 (4.69%) Software Engineer
15 27 (4.52%) Data Architect
16 26 (4.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 24 (4.02%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (16.92%) Kafka
2 58 (9.72%) Spring
2 58 (9.72%) Spring Boot
3 50 (8.38%) React
4 49 (8.21%) Node.js
4 49 (8.21%) REST
5 47 (7.87%) RESTful
6 44 (7.37%) AWS CDK
7 37 (6.20%) PySpark
8 36 (6.03%) OAuth
9 26 (4.36%) AngularJS
10 25 (4.19%) FastAPI
11 24 (4.02%) JWT
12 23 (3.85%) CSS
13 21 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
13 21 (3.52%) JSON
14 20 (3.35%) boto
14 20 (3.35%) PyTorch
15 18 (3.02%) Pandas
16 16 (2.68%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 146 (24.46%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.85%) Replication
6 13 (2.18%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.18%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.18%) NHS
7 10 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.17%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.01%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.84%) Derivative
11 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (0.84%) SCADA
11 5 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.67%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 78 (13.07%) Linux
2 20 (3.35%) Windows
3 13 (2.18%) Amazon Linux
3 13 (2.18%) VMS
4 11 (1.84%) Unix
5 10 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.17%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.34%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (59.46%) CI/CD
2 263 (44.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 234 (39.20%) DevOps
4 154 (25.80%) Containerisation
5 142 (23.79%) Agile
6 132 (22.11%) ETL
7 122 (20.44%) Data Pipeline
8 121 (20.27%) Analytics
9 118 (19.77%) Data Engineering
10 114 (19.10%) Data Modelling
11 95 (15.91%) Microservices
12 92 (15.41%) Observability
12 92 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
13 85 (14.24%) AI
14 71 (11.89%) Software Engineering
15 70 (11.73%) Event-Driven
16 69 (11.56%) Migration
17 65 (10.89%) Machine Learning
17 65 (10.89%) Performance Tuning
18 61 (10.22%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 366 (61.31%) Python
2 205 (34.34%) SQL
3 107 (17.92%) Java
4 75 (12.56%) Bash
5 52 (8.71%) TypeScript
6 44 (7.37%) JavaScript
7 33 (5.53%) PowerShell
8 32 (5.36%) C#
9 25 (4.19%) Go
10 23 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 12 (2.01%) Groovy
12 9 (1.51%) Scala
13 6 (1.01%) JSX
13 6 (1.01%) Perl
13 6 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.84%) Korn
15 3 (0.50%) C++
16 2 (0.34%) Bicep
16 2 (0.34%) C
17 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 185 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 152 (25.46%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.05%) AWS Certification
4 26 (4.36%) Degree
5 23 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.50%) OCP
12 3 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.50%) PhD
13 2 (0.34%) CISSP
14 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.17%) MySQL Certification
14 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (12.06%) Data Quality
2 43 (7.20%) GDPR
3 34 (5.70%) QA
4 18 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.51%) NIST
6 14 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.67%) NCSC
8 4 (0.67%) SLA
9 2 (0.34%) GxP
9 2 (0.34%) MiFID
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 215 (36.01%) Docker
2 12 (2.01%) Squid
3 10 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.68%) DFS Replication
4 7 (1.17%) Dovecot
4 7 (1.17%) Postfix
5 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.34%) HDFS
6 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.17%) etcd
7 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 309 (51.76%) Terraform
2 168 (28.14%) Kubernetes
3 92 (15.41%) Grafana
4 80 (13.40%) Ansible
5 74 (12.40%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.18%) Progress Chef
7 18 (3.02%) Puppet
8 10 (1.68%) Argo
8 10 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.17%) Kibana
9 7 (1.17%) Nessus
9 7 (1.17%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.17%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 6 (1.01%) Karpenter
11 5 (0.84%) Consul
11 5 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (0.84%) Istio
12 3 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.50%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 55 (9.21%) Databricks
2 35 (5.86%) Microsoft
3 22 (3.69%) Google
3 22 (3.69%) Splunk
4 17 (2.85%) F5
5 16 (2.68%) Palo Alto
6 15 (2.51%) CheckPoint
6 15 (2.51%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.35%) Oracle
8 12 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.51%) Confluent
10 8 (1.34%) Dell
10 8 (1.34%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.34%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
12 6 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.01%) AVEVA
12 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.01%) SAP
13 5 (0.84%) Sybase