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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 167 228
Rank change year-on-year -18 +61 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 684 485 451
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.65% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.08% 4.35% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 375 357
10th Percentile £357 £400 £405
25th Percentile £425 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -3.25% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 16,779 11,161 14,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.33% 37.93% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,434 7,775 10,031
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +0.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 248 340
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.31 £18.68 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.63 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +47.09% +31.67% -33.17%
75th Percentile £67.58 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £75.15 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -23.59%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +1 586 £525 -4.55% 154
London +17 403 £525 -8.70% 68
UK excluding London -52 209 £484 -3.25% 103
Work from Home 0 201 £500 -4.76% 83
Midlands -26 62 £475 +5.56% 13
West Midlands -19 57 £488 -4.88% 10
North of England -57 54 £500 +5.26% 40
South East -30 30 £563 +3.69% 18
Scotland -34 29 £440 -12.00% 12
North West -36 27 £450 +5.88% 26
South West -11 22 £525 -3.89% 12
Yorkshire -49 19 £500 -4.76% 9
North East -11 8 £538 -13.90% 5
East of England -27 7 £450 -10.00% 10
East Midlands -32 5 £423 +4.19% 3
Northern Ireland +5 4 £400 -20.00%
Wales -7 2 £363 -9.38%

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 81 (11.84%) Apache Spark
2 77 (11.26%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (7.89%) Apache
4 34 (4.97%) Confluence
5 15 (2.19%) SAS
6 10 (1.46%) nginx
7 4 (0.58%) 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 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.73%) 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
1 679 (99.27%) AWS
2 424 (61.99%) Serverless
3 415 (60.67%) AWS Lambda
4 254 (37.13%) Amazon EC2
5 178 (26.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 170 (24.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 167 (24.42%) Amazon ECS
8 139 (20.32%) GitHub
9 131 (19.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 128 (18.71%) Amazon EKS
11 113 (16.52%) Azure
12 97 (14.18%) AWS Step Functions
13 94 (13.74%) GitHub Actions
14 90 (13.16%) Amazon SQS
15 71 (10.38%) Snowflake
16 59 (8.63%) Amazon EMR
16 59 (8.63%) Route 53
17 56 (8.19%) dbt
18 55 (8.04%) GCP
19 53 (7.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.82%) DNS
2 22 (3.22%) Firewall
3 16 (2.34%) VPN
4 14 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.75%) Network Security
6 11 (1.61%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.73%) DHCP
8 4 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.44%) BGP
9 3 (0.44%) HTTP
9 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.44%) OSPF
10 2 (0.29%) Internet
10 2 (0.29%) Multicast
10 2 (0.29%) NAS
10 2 (0.29%) SAN
10 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.29%) VLAN
10 2 (0.29%) WAN
11 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (25.29%) Amazon RDS
2 133 (19.44%) Amazon Athena
3 116 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
4 111 (16.23%) DynamoDB
5 103 (15.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 57 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (8.19%) Data Lake
8 53 (7.75%) Power BI
9 52 (7.60%) Relational Database
10 49 (7.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 42 (6.14%) NoSQL
12 38 (5.56%) Tableau
13 36 (5.26%) MongoDB
14 33 (4.82%) Metadata
15 30 (4.39%) Big Data
16 29 (4.24%) SQL Server
17 26 (3.80%) BigQuery
18 25 (3.65%) MySQL
18 25 (3.65%) OLTP
19 21 (3.07%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 143 (20.91%) Jenkins
2 134 (19.59%) GitLab
3 121 (17.69%) Git
4 48 (7.02%) JIRA
5 28 (4.09%) JUnit
5 28 (4.09%) SonarQube
6 24 (3.51%) Maven
7 23 (3.36%) Bitbucket
8 18 (2.63%) Mockito
9 15 (2.19%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.61%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.61%) jMock
10 11 (1.61%) MLflow
11 9 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (1.17%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.17%) Postman
13 7 (1.02%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.88%) Gradle
14 6 (0.88%) Selenium
15 4 (0.58%) NUnit
General
1 165 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 123 (17.98%) Finance
3 109 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 76 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.41%) Banking
6 26 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.05%) Front Office
7 14 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (0.88%) Legal
9 5 (0.73%) Military
10 4 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.29%) Billing
12 2 (0.29%) Games
12 2 (0.29%) Law
12 2 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.29%) Police
12 2 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 160 (23.39%) Data Engineer
2 138 (20.18%) Developer
3 109 (15.94%) AWS Engineer
4 88 (12.87%) Senior
5 79 (11.55%) Architect
6 71 (10.38%) Lead
7 50 (7.31%) Java Developer
8 49 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 41 (5.99%) AWS Architect
10 40 (5.85%) AWS Data Engineer
11 35 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.68%) Site Engineer
13 31 (4.53%) AWS Developer
14 30 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (4.09%) Analyst
15 28 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
16 27 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
16 27 (3.95%) Lead Data Engineer
17 25 (3.65%) Data Architect
18 24 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (17.84%) Kafka
2 87 (12.72%) Spring Boot
3 86 (12.57%) Spring
4 71 (10.38%) Node.js
5 69 (10.09%) RESTful
6 63 (9.21%) PySpark
7 58 (8.48%) REST
8 54 (7.89%) React
9 44 (6.43%) OAuth
10 42 (6.14%) AWS CDK
11 38 (5.56%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.51%) JWT
13 23 (3.36%) CSS
13 23 (3.36%) OpenID
14 21 (3.07%) SOAP
15 20 (2.92%) JPA
16 19 (2.78%) Hibernate
16 19 (2.78%) Spring Cloud
16 19 (2.78%) Web Services
17 18 (2.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 168 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.90%) NHS
4 13 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.17%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.02%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.88%) Clustering
10 6 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.88%) PACS
10 6 (0.88%) SCADA
10 6 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.73%) Derivative
11 5 (0.73%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.73%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 86 (12.57%) Linux
2 20 (2.92%) Unix
3 14 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.17%) Windows
5 5 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.29%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 271 (39.62%) DevOps
3 266 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (28.51%) Agile
5 166 (24.27%) Analytics
6 163 (23.83%) ETL
7 158 (23.10%) Containerisation
8 156 (22.81%) Data Engineering
9 147 (21.49%) Data Pipeline
10 143 (20.91%) Data Modelling
11 119 (17.40%) Microservices
12 109 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
13 106 (15.50%) Observability
14 100 (14.62%) AI
15 87 (12.72%) Migration
16 80 (11.70%) Test Automation
17 78 (11.40%) Data Governance
18 71 (10.38%) Performance Tuning
18 71 (10.38%) Software Engineering
19 70 (10.23%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 384 (56.14%) Python
2 261 (38.16%) SQL
3 146 (21.35%) Java
4 62 (9.06%) TypeScript
5 58 (8.48%) Bash
6 54 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 49 (7.16%) C#
8 29 (4.24%) Shell Script
9 25 (3.65%) PowerShell
9 25 (3.65%) Scala
10 14 (2.05%) Go
11 6 (0.88%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.73%) Bicep
13 4 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.44%) C
14 3 (0.44%) C++
14 3 (0.44%) Groovy
14 3 (0.44%) JSX
14 3 (0.44%) R
15 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 224 (32.75%) Security Cleared
2 181 (26.46%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.60%) AWS Certification
4 19 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 19 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.63%) Degree
6 17 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
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%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (13.30%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.12%) GDPR
3 33 (4.82%) QA
4 14 (2.05%) SLA
5 13 (1.90%) NIST
6 12 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.02%) PMO
8 6 (0.88%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.29%) GRC
10 2 (0.29%) GxP
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 219 (32.02%) Docker
2 11 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.46%) Postfix
3 10 (1.46%) Squid
4 6 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.58%) HDFS
6 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 319 (46.64%) Terraform
2 161 (23.54%) Kubernetes
3 103 (15.06%) Grafana
4 71 (10.38%) Prometheus
5 60 (8.77%) Ansible
6 17 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.19%) Puppet
8 14 (2.05%) Kibana
9 13 (1.90%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.32%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.02%) Argo
11 7 (1.02%) Consul
12 6 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.73%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.58%) Dell DRAC
14 4 (0.58%) Istio
14 4 (0.58%) Salt
15 3 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
15 3 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 79 (11.55%) Databricks
2 41 (5.99%) Microsoft
3 39 (5.70%) Splunk
4 29 (4.24%) Google
5 20 (2.92%) Atlassian
6 18 (2.63%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.05%) Jaspersoft
8 13 (1.90%) Oracle
8 13 (1.90%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.61%) Confluent
9 11 (1.61%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.61%) Informatica
10 9 (1.32%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.17%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.02%) Denodo
12 7 (1.02%) IBM
12 7 (1.02%) Sybase
13 6 (0.88%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.88%) SAP
13 6 (0.88%) Teradata