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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 162 219
Rank change year-on-year -56 +57 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 696 583 423
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.79% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.71% 4.81% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 431 288
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +0.29% -0.29%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £610
90th Percentile £750 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £497
% change year-on-year - -4.43% -0.30%
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 18,752 12,112 13,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.97% 37.26% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,464 8,065 8,932
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 601 312 222
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.88 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.71% -3.75% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.81 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.43 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +71.05% -21.42% -10.44%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -43 577 £537 +2.29% 409
London -10 391 £575 - 283
Work from Home -20 254 £525 - 175
UK excluding London -86 220 £475 - 180
North of England -48 63 £488 -2.50% 58
Midlands -41 62 £463 -2.63% 19
West Midlands -45 52 £469 -1.26% 8
Scotland -34 38 £475 -5.00% 18
South West -26 28 £470 -13.96% 28
North West -48 25 £505 +6.32% 30
South East -67 22 £575 +35.29% 30
North East -25 20 £425 -2.86% 14
Yorkshire -45 18 £525 - 14
East Midlands -15 9 £419 -22.02% 11
East of England -36 7 £400 -27.27% 17
Wales - 3 £600 - 4
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 8

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 90 (12.93%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (11.21%) Confluence
3 57 (8.19%) Apache Spark
4 55 (7.90%) Apache
5 18 (2.59%) SAS
6 12 (1.72%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.29%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.72%) nginx
10 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
11 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.14%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 677 (97.27%) AWS
2 443 (63.65%) Serverless
3 441 (63.36%) AWS Lambda
4 227 (32.61%) Amazon EC2
5 224 (32.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 163 (23.42%) GitHub
7 142 (20.40%) Amazon ECS
8 134 (19.25%) Amazon EKS
9 125 (17.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 124 (17.82%) GitHub Actions
11 123 (17.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 108 (15.52%) Azure
13 95 (13.65%) Amazon SQS
14 88 (12.64%) Amazon EMR
15 78 (11.21%) dbt
16 77 (11.06%) AWS Step Functions
17 76 (10.92%) Snowflake
18 61 (8.76%) Power Platform
19 52 (7.47%) AWS KMS
20 50 (7.18%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.87%) Firewall
2 17 (2.44%) DNS
3 10 (1.44%) Network Security
4 7 (1.01%) HTTP
4 7 (1.01%) SSL
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
5 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.57%) Internet
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 4 (0.57%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
7 3 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.43%) SAN
8 2 (0.29%) FTP
8 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.29%) SMTP
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (26.01%) Amazon RDS
2 139 (19.97%) Amazon Athena
3 125 (17.96%) DynamoDB
4 115 (16.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 94 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
6 93 (13.36%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (8.76%) Power BI
8 58 (8.33%) Data Lake
9 45 (6.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 42 (6.03%) MongoDB
11 41 (5.89%) Metadata
12 31 (4.45%) Big Data
13 28 (4.02%) NoSQL
13 28 (4.02%) Relational Database
13 28 (4.02%) Tableau
14 24 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
14 24 (3.45%) BigQuery
15 21 (3.02%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.02%) Delta Lake
16 19 (2.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 141 (20.26%) GitLab
2 139 (19.97%) Git
3 131 (18.82%) Jenkins
4 81 (11.64%) JIRA
5 25 (3.59%) Bitbucket
6 21 (3.02%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.59%) SonarQube
8 15 (2.16%) JUnit
8 15 (2.16%) Mockito
9 14 (2.01%) Maven
10 7 (1.01%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.01%) DbUnit
10 7 (1.01%) Postman
10 7 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.86%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (0.86%) jMock
12 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.72%) Selenium
13 4 (0.57%) MLflow
General
1 165 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 157 (22.56%) Public Sector
3 116 (16.67%) Finance
4 59 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (6.47%) Banking
6 14 (2.01%) Front Office
7 12 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.29%) Back Office
9 9 (1.29%) Military
10 7 (1.01%) Law
10 7 (1.01%) Marketing
11 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.86%) Publishing
12 5 (0.72%) Legal
13 4 (0.57%) Billing
13 4 (0.57%) Local Government
13 4 (0.57%) Retail
14 3 (0.43%) Games
14 3 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 169 (24.28%) Data Engineer
2 124 (17.82%) AWS Engineer
3 119 (17.10%) Senior
4 115 (16.52%) Developer
5 87 (12.50%) Architect
6 80 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 78 (11.21%) Lead
8 50 (7.18%) Senior Data Engineer
9 44 (6.32%) AWS Data Engineer
10 39 (5.60%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (5.03%) AWS Architect
12 33 (4.74%) AWS Developer
12 33 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (4.45%) Data Architect
14 30 (4.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 29 (4.17%) Java Developer
16 25 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
16 25 (3.59%) Software Engineer
17 22 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 22 (3.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (46.41%) Terraform
2 76 (10.92%) REST
3 73 (10.49%) PySpark
4 72 (10.34%) Kafka
5 61 (8.76%) React
6 54 (7.76%) RESTful
7 52 (7.47%) Spring Boot
8 51 (7.33%) Node.js
8 51 (7.33%) Spring
9 48 (6.90%) AWS CDK
10 32 (4.60%) FastAPI
11 25 (3.59%) JSON
12 23 (3.30%) AngularJS
13 21 (3.02%) .NET
13 21 (3.02%) SOAP
14 20 (2.87%) OAuth
15 19 (2.73%) GraphQL
15 19 (2.73%) Pandas
16 18 (2.59%) Next.js
17 15 (2.16%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 179 (25.72%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.91%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.16%) NHS
5 20 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.87%) IVR
7 12 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 12 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.44%) Replication
8 10 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.29%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.29%) Legacy Code
9 9 (1.29%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.15%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.15%) Mainframe
10 8 (1.15%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.01%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 88 (12.64%) Linux
2 23 (3.30%) Unix
3 22 (3.16%) Windows
4 15 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.57%) AIX
9 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.29%) Android
10 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 301 (43.25%) DevOps
3 300 (43.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 262 (37.64%) Agile
5 186 (26.72%) Data Pipeline
6 170 (24.43%) Data Engineering
7 153 (21.98%) Analytics
8 138 (19.83%) ETL
9 137 (19.68%) Data Modelling
10 132 (18.97%) AI
11 128 (18.39%) Containerisation
12 113 (16.24%) Microservices
12 113 (16.24%) Observability
13 109 (15.66%) Migration
14 101 (14.51%) Test Automation
15 100 (14.37%) Event-Driven
16 95 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 89 (12.79%) Machine Learning
17 89 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
18 86 (12.36%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 399 (57.33%) Python
2 243 (34.91%) SQL
3 117 (16.81%) Java
4 80 (11.49%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.91%) Bash
6 57 (8.19%) JavaScript
7 30 (4.31%) PowerShell
8 28 (4.02%) C#
9 24 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 20 (2.87%) Scala
11 18 (2.59%) Groovy
12 10 (1.44%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.15%) Bicep
14 7 (1.01%) Perl
15 6 (0.86%) Go
16 5 (0.72%) R
17 4 (0.57%) Cypher
17 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
18 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 236 (33.91%) Security Cleared
2 214 (30.75%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.64%) AWS Certification
4 45 (6.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (4.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (3.16%) Degree
7 20 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 19 (2.73%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.58%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.01%) CISM
12 7 (1.01%) CISSP
13 6 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.57%) SnowPro
16 3 (0.43%) CSPO
16 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (16.38%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.74%) QA
3 18 (2.59%) GDPR
4 13 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.29%) NIST
6 6 (0.86%) HL7
7 5 (0.72%) SLA
8 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.57%) NCSC
8 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.43%) PMO
10 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.29%) GRC
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 212 (30.46%) Docker
2 19 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.01%) Postfix
4 6 (0.86%) Squid
5 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
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%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 130 (18.68%) Kubernetes
2 100 (14.37%) Grafana
3 53 (7.61%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.18%) Ansible
5 18 (2.59%) Argo
6 16 (2.30%) Kibana
7 12 (1.72%) Karpenter
8 10 (1.44%) Puppet
9 8 (1.15%) Packer
10 7 (1.01%) Istio
11 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.57%) Salt
14 3 (0.43%) Control-M
14 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.29%) Consul
15 2 (0.29%) Nessus
15 2 (0.29%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.29%) systemd
15 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (8.19%) Databricks
2 42 (6.03%) Microsoft
3 39 (5.60%) Oracle
4 34 (4.89%) Informatica
5 25 (3.59%) Splunk
6 22 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.87%) Google
8 16 (2.30%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.72%) Teradata
10 11 (1.58%) Denodo
11 10 (1.44%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.44%) Jaspersoft
12 9 (1.29%) Confluent
12 9 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.15%) Foundry
13 8 (1.15%) IBM
13 8 (1.15%) Palantir
14 7 (1.01%) SnapLogic
15 6 (0.86%) PagerDuty