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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 158 214
Rank change year-on-year -63 +56 +41
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 698 591 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.82% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.70% 4.85% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 433 292
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £607
90th Percentile £741 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -6.85% +1.21% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £32.80 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.86% - -
75th Percentile £72.83 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.93 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.58 - -

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 18,877 12,179 13,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.69% 37.52% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,526 8,111 8,851
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 297 201
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.65 £52.50 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -34.55% +11.11%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -60 576 £535 +1.90% 627
London -16 393 £575 -1.08% 394
Work from Home -35 250 £525 - 280
UK excluding London -97 219 £466 -6.85% 289
North of England -64 64 £463 -7.50% 91
Midlands -41 61 £463 -2.63% 31
West Midlands -51 52 £469 -1.26% 15
Scotland -27 39 £450 -12.20% 31
South West -35 29 £466 -14.65% 44
North West -47 26 £475 - 54
North East -21 20 £419 -4.29% 16
South East -69 19 £575 +35.29% 38
Yorkshire -42 18 £500 -4.76% 21
East Midlands -8 8 £425 -20.86% 16
East of England -47 7 £400 -27.27% 36
Wales - 3 £600 - 6
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 14

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 92 (13.18%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (10.60%) Confluence
3 60 (8.60%) Apache
3 60 (8.60%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.44%) SAS
5 12 (1.72%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.86%) nginx
8 5 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.72%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.72%) WebLogic Portal
9 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
10 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 680 (97.42%) AWS
2 446 (63.90%) Serverless
3 443 (63.47%) AWS Lambda
4 231 (33.09%) Amazon EC2
5 227 (32.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 162 (23.21%) GitHub
7 148 (21.20%) Amazon ECS
8 137 (19.63%) Amazon EKS
9 131 (18.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 126 (18.05%) GitHub Actions
11 125 (17.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 110 (15.76%) Azure
13 93 (13.32%) Amazon SQS
14 89 (12.75%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.46%) dbt
16 76 (10.89%) Snowflake
17 75 (10.74%) AWS Step Functions
18 64 (9.17%) Power Platform
19 54 (7.74%) AWS KMS
20 51 (7.31%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.72%) Firewall
2 17 (2.44%) DNS
3 9 (1.29%) Network Security
4 7 (1.00%) HTTP
4 7 (1.00%) SSL
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
5 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.72%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) SAN
6 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Internet
7 3 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.29%) IMAP
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (26.22%) Amazon RDS
2 142 (20.34%) Amazon Athena
3 127 (18.19%) DynamoDB
4 109 (15.62%) Amazon Redshift
5 94 (13.47%) PostgreSQL
6 93 (13.32%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (9.17%) Power BI
8 57 (8.17%) Data Lake
9 45 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 43 (6.16%) Metadata
10 43 (6.16%) MongoDB
11 31 (4.44%) Big Data
11 31 (4.44%) Tableau
12 27 (3.87%) NoSQL
13 25 (3.58%) Apache Iceberg
13 25 (3.58%) Relational Database
14 24 (3.44%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.30%) Delta Lake
16 20 (2.87%) Data Vault
17 19 (2.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 141 (20.20%) GitLab
2 140 (20.06%) Git
3 128 (18.34%) Jenkins
4 75 (10.74%) JIRA
5 27 (3.87%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.87%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.72%) SonarQube
8 16 (2.29%) Maven
9 15 (2.15%) JUnit
9 15 (2.15%) Mockito
10 8 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.00%) DbUnit
12 6 (0.86%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (0.86%) jMock
12 6 (0.86%) Postman
12 6 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.72%) Selenium
14 4 (0.57%) Flyway
General
1 164 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 153 (21.92%) Public Sector
3 124 (17.77%) Finance
4 63 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.16%) Banking
6 15 (2.15%) Front Office
6 15 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.58%) Back Office
8 10 (1.43%) Military
9 9 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.29%) Legal
10 7 (1.00%) Law
10 7 (1.00%) Marketing
10 7 (1.00%) Publishing
11 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.57%) Billing
12 4 (0.57%) Local Government
12 4 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.57%) Retail
13 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (24.50%) Data Engineer
2 126 (18.05%) Senior
3 118 (16.91%) AWS Engineer
3 118 (16.91%) Developer
4 80 (11.46%) Architect
4 80 (11.46%) Lead
5 77 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 55 (7.88%) Senior Data Engineer
7 45 (6.45%) AWS Data Engineer
8 37 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
9 34 (4.87%) AWS Architect
10 33 (4.73%) AWS Developer
11 32 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
11 32 (4.58%) Java Developer
12 30 (4.30%) Data Architect
13 28 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (3.44%) Software Engineer
15 23 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 23 (3.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (45.99%) Terraform
2 80 (11.46%) REST
3 77 (11.03%) PySpark
4 75 (10.74%) Kafka
5 59 (8.45%) React
6 57 (8.17%) RESTful
6 57 (8.17%) Spring Boot
7 56 (8.02%) Spring
8 51 (7.31%) Node.js
9 48 (6.88%) AWS CDK
10 34 (4.87%) FastAPI
11 26 (3.72%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.44%) JSON
13 22 (3.15%) SOAP
14 21 (3.01%) .NET
15 20 (2.87%) GraphQL
15 20 (2.87%) Pandas
16 19 (2.72%) OAuth
17 18 (2.58%) Next.js
18 17 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 182 (26.07%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.88%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.01%) NHS
5 18 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.86%) AI Agents
7 13 (1.86%) IVR
8 12 (1.72%) Replication
9 11 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.58%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.43%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.29%) Clustering
11 9 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.29%) Legacy Code
12 8 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.15%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.15%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 92 (13.18%) Linux
2 26 (3.72%) Unix
3 21 (3.01%) Windows
4 14 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.57%) AIX
7 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) Android
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (63.47%) CI/CD
2 309 (44.27%) DevOps
3 306 (43.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 267 (38.25%) Agile
5 189 (27.08%) Data Pipeline
6 174 (24.93%) Data Engineering
7 154 (22.06%) Analytics
8 138 (19.77%) Data Modelling
9 134 (19.20%) ETL
10 131 (18.77%) AI
11 130 (18.62%) Containerisation
12 120 (17.19%) Observability
13 111 (15.90%) Microservices
14 106 (15.19%) Migration
15 105 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 104 (14.90%) Event-Driven
17 100 (14.33%) Test Automation
18 94 (13.47%) Technical Leadership
19 90 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
19 90 (12.89%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 394 (56.45%) Python
2 256 (36.68%) SQL
3 119 (17.05%) Java
4 80 (11.46%) TypeScript
5 66 (9.46%) Bash
6 57 (8.17%) JavaScript
7 26 (3.72%) C#
7 26 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 24 (3.44%) Shell Script
9 21 (3.01%) Scala
10 18 (2.58%) Groovy
11 14 (2.01%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.15%) Bicep
13 7 (1.00%) Perl
14 6 (0.86%) Go
15 5 (0.72%) R
16 4 (0.57%) Cypher
16 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 237 (33.95%) Security Cleared
2 217 (31.09%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.89%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (4.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (3.15%) Degree
7 20 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 18 (2.58%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.58%) SAFe Agilist
12 10 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.00%) CISM
13 7 (1.00%) CISSP
14 6 (0.86%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.43%) CSPO
17 3 (0.43%) SnowPro
18 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (17.48%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.59%) QA
3 17 (2.44%) GDPR
4 15 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.15%) NIST
6 6 (0.86%) HL7
6 6 (0.86%) SLA
7 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) PMO
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 216 (30.95%) Docker
2 18 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.00%) Postfix
4 6 (0.86%) Squid
5 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.29%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.29%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 134 (19.20%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.76%) Grafana
3 57 (8.17%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.16%) Ansible
5 17 (2.44%) Argo
6 16 (2.29%) Kibana
7 12 (1.72%) Karpenter
8 10 (1.43%) Puppet
9 8 (1.15%) Packer
10 7 (1.00%) Istio
11 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (0.57%) Salt
14 3 (0.43%) Control-M
14 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.43%) systemd
15 2 (0.29%) Nessus
15 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (8.17%) Databricks
2 46 (6.59%) Oracle
3 42 (6.02%) Microsoft
4 33 (4.73%) Informatica
5 23 (3.30%) Splunk
6 21 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.58%) Google
8 17 (2.44%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.72%) Teradata
10 11 (1.58%) Confluent
10 11 (1.58%) Denodo
11 10 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
11 10 (1.43%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.29%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.15%) Foundry
13 8 (1.15%) Palantir
14 7 (1.00%) Brio
14 7 (1.00%) IBM
14 7 (1.00%) SnapLogic