Amazon S3 Contracts

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon S3 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon S3 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 238 249
Rank change year-on-year +62 +11 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 470 444 646
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 1.02% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.27% 3.15% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 344 481
10th Percentile £400 £405 £438
25th Percentile £463 £438 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £694 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.55

All Cloud 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 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon S3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3.

Daily rate trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +59 346 £538 +2.38% 432
London +47 244 £550 +7.58% 297
Work from Home +47 167 £525 +2.94% 222
UK excluding London +33 150 £500 -1.96% 148
Scotland +13 68 £500 +5.26% 9
North of England +17 38 £475 -6.86% 49
North West -1 23 £463 -9.31% 33
Midlands +41 21 £488 -1.27% 26
West Midlands +28 16 £500 +1.27% 15
South East +20 12 £505 -8.18% 27
Yorkshire +12 11 £525 -8.70% 12
South West +39 8 £550 - 18
East Midlands - 5 £459 - 11
North East - 4 £624 - 6
East of England +28 3 £500 -16.67% 8
Wales +3 1 £400 -37.94% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 9

Amazon S3
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (8.94%) Apache Spark
2 27 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (5.53%) Apache
4 8 (1.70%) Confluence
4 8 (1.70%) nginx
5 6 (1.28%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.06%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.64%) CMS
7 3 (0.64%) IIS
8 2 (0.43%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) JBoss
9 1 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.21%) Strapi
9 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 457 (97.23%) AWS
2 276 (58.72%) AWS Lambda
2 276 (58.72%) Serverless
3 176 (37.45%) Amazon EC2
4 121 (25.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 86 (18.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 73 (15.53%) Amazon SQS
7 68 (14.47%) Amazon EKS
8 51 (10.85%) Amazon ECS
9 45 (9.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 44 (9.36%) Route 53
11 43 (9.15%) GitHub
12 40 (8.51%) OpenShift
13 36 (7.66%) Azure
14 32 (6.81%) Amazon EMR
15 29 (6.17%) AWS Step Functions
15 29 (6.17%) CloudFront
16 28 (5.96%) AWS CodePipeline
17 23 (4.89%) AWS KMS
18 21 (4.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.26%) Firewall
2 14 (2.98%) SAN
3 13 (2.77%) DNS
4 12 (2.55%) VPN
5 11 (2.34%) NAS
6 4 (0.85%) HTTP
6 4 (0.85%) Intranet
6 4 (0.85%) SSL
7 3 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.64%) SMS
8 2 (0.43%) DHCP
8 2 (0.43%) FCoE
8 2 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.43%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.21%) Broadband
9 1 (0.21%) FTP
9 1 (0.21%) Internet
9 1 (0.21%) IPv4
9 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (32.13%) Amazon RDS
2 91 (19.36%) DynamoDB
3 75 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (15.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 66 (14.04%) Amazon Athena
6 59 (12.55%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (10.00%) NoSQL
8 36 (7.66%) Tableau
9 33 (7.02%) Relational Database
10 32 (6.81%) Amazon Aurora
11 30 (6.38%) Data Lake
12 29 (6.17%) Oracle Database
13 24 (5.11%) Big Data
13 24 (5.11%) MongoDB
14 22 (4.68%) MySQL
15 18 (3.83%) Hadoop
15 18 (3.83%) Redis
16 15 (3.19%) Power BI
17 14 (2.98%) DocumentDB
17 14 (2.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 81 (17.23%) Jenkins
2 56 (11.91%) GitLab
3 49 (10.43%) Git
4 23 (4.89%) JIRA
5 18 (3.83%) Artifactory
6 11 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 11 (2.34%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.91%) JUnit
7 9 (1.91%) Mockito
8 7 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.28%) Mocha
10 5 (1.06%) Maven
11 4 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.85%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.85%) DbUnit
11 4 (0.85%) jMock
11 4 (0.85%) Postman
12 3 (0.64%) ESLint
12 3 (0.64%) git-flow
12 3 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 90 (19.15%) Public Sector
2 86 (18.30%) Social Skills
3 73 (15.53%) Finance
4 55 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.45%) Banking
6 15 (3.19%) Front Office
7 13 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.55%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.49%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.28%) Military
11 5 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.85%) Back Office
12 4 (0.85%) Marketing
12 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.43%) Electronics
13 2 (0.43%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.43%) Publishing
13 2 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 118 (25.11%) AWS Engineer
2 98 (20.85%) Developer
3 91 (19.36%) Data Engineer
4 74 (15.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 64 (13.62%) Architect
6 54 (11.49%) Senior
7 51 (10.85%) AWS DevOps
8 50 (10.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 35 (7.45%) AWS Architect
9 35 (7.45%) AWS Data Engineer
10 26 (5.53%) AWS Developer
11 25 (5.32%) Python Engineer
12 22 (4.68%) Lead
13 19 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (3.83%) Software Engineer
15 17 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.62%) Senior Developer
16 16 (3.40%) Java Developer
17 14 (2.98%) Senior DevOps
18 13 (2.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.91%) AWS CDK
2 55 (11.70%) Kafka
3 54 (11.49%) React
4 47 (10.00%) Node.js
5 35 (7.45%) RESTful
6 30 (6.38%) Spring
7 25 (5.32%) Spring Boot
8 24 (5.11%) GraphQL
8 24 (5.11%) PySpark
9 21 (4.47%) REST
10 19 (4.04%) Pandas
11 18 (3.83%) HTML
12 16 (3.40%) JSON
13 14 (2.98%) CSS
13 14 (2.98%) NumPy
14 12 (2.55%) ActiveMQ
14 12 (2.55%) Express.js
14 12 (2.55%) SciPy
15 11 (2.34%) Nunjucks
15 11 (2.34%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.60%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.04%) Public Cloud
3 17 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.19%) Derivative
5 12 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.34%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.28%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.06%) Replication
10 5 (1.06%) Tandem
11 4 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.85%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.85%) Wiki
12 3 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.64%) Oracle Licensing
12 3 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (0.64%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 50 (10.64%) Linux
2 28 (5.96%) Windows
3 17 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.40%) Unix
5 14 (2.98%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.49%) CentOS
7 3 (0.64%) Android
7 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (45.74%) CI/CD
2 182 (38.72%) DevOps
3 129 (27.45%) Agile
4 107 (22.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 90 (19.15%) Containerisation
6 82 (17.45%) Data Pipeline
6 82 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (15.53%) Microservices
8 70 (14.89%) ETL
9 61 (12.98%) Migration
10 56 (11.91%) Analytics
11 52 (11.06%) High Availability
12 50 (10.64%) Software Engineering
13 47 (10.00%) Data Modelling
14 45 (9.57%) Data Science
15 44 (9.36%) Full-Stack Development
16 43 (9.15%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (8.72%) Data Engineering
18 37 (7.87%) Computer Science
19 34 (7.23%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 261 (55.53%) Python
2 138 (29.36%) SQL
3 73 (15.53%) Java
4 64 (13.62%) JavaScript
5 44 (9.36%) Bash
6 42 (8.94%) TypeScript
7 16 (3.40%) C#
8 11 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.91%) Scala
10 7 (1.49%) Go
10 7 (1.49%) Groovy
11 6 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.06%) R
13 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.64%) Dart
15 2 (0.43%) Gremlin
15 2 (0.43%) Perl
15 2 (0.43%) PHP
15 2 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 143 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 133 (28.30%) SC Cleared
3 74 (15.74%) AWS Certification
4 44 (9.36%) Degree
5 35 (7.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 29 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.43%) OCP
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (1.49%) GDPR
4 6 (1.28%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.28%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.85%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.64%) NIST
7 3 (0.64%) QA
8 2 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 122 (25.96%) Docker
2 5 (1.06%) Postfix
3 4 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.64%) Lustre
4 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.43%) HDFS
5 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.21%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 151 (32.13%) Terraform
2 130 (27.66%) Kubernetes
3 52 (11.06%) Ansible
4 39 (8.30%) Grafana
5 31 (6.60%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.19%) Oracle RMAN
7 13 (2.77%) Progress Chef
7 13 (2.77%) Puppet
8 11 (2.34%) NetBackup
9 9 (1.91%) Kibana
10 5 (1.06%) Argo
11 4 (0.85%) logstash
12 3 (0.64%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.64%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.64%) Podman
12 3 (0.64%) QRadar
12 3 (0.64%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 2 (0.43%) Nagios
13 2 (0.43%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 48 (10.21%) Oracle
2 23 (4.89%) Databricks
3 14 (2.98%) Splunk
4 11 (2.34%) Informatica
4 11 (2.34%) Veritas
5 10 (2.13%) Google
6 9 (1.91%) Microsoft
7 8 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.49%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.28%) Talend
9 6 (1.28%) Virgin Media
10 5 (1.06%) Dell
10 5 (1.06%) IBM
10 5 (1.06%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.06%) VMware
11 4 (0.85%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.85%) Hitachi
11 4 (0.85%) SAP
11 4 (0.85%) Teradata