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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 169 226
Rank change year-on-year -12 +57 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 679 489 452
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 1.67% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.07% 4.39% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 377 358
10th Percentile £357 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £611 £611 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -1.25% -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 16,690 11,128 14,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.40% 37.99% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,388 7,749 9,989
10th Percentile £315 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.13% -2.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 474 243 344
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.36 £19.61 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +47.78% +31.05% -30.91%
75th Percentile £67.75 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.40 £61.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -25.20%

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 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 15 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 15 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 +1 579 £525 -4.55% 128
London +15 396 £525 -8.70% 57
UK excluding London -34 210 £494 -1.25% 79
Work from Home -2 204 £513 -2.38% 78
Midlands -21 62 £475 +5.56% 6
West Midlands -19 56 £494 -3.66% 4
North of England -47 56 £500 +5.26% 34
Scotland -31 29 £440 -12.00%
South East -37 27 £540 -11.29% 20
North West -36 26 £450 +5.88% 24
South West -10 24 £525 -3.89% 8
Yorkshire -41 22 £500 -4.76% 8
North East -15 8 £538 -13.90% 2
East of England -26 6 £463 -7.50% 9
East Midlands -30 6 £433 +6.66% 2
Northern Ireland +2 5 £400 -20.00% 1
Wales -9 2 £363 -9.38% 1

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 78 (11.49%) Apache Spark
2 71 (10.46%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (7.51%) Apache
4 32 (4.71%) Confluence
5 15 (2.21%) SAS
6 10 (1.47%) nginx
7 4 (0.59%) 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 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.74%) 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
1 675 (99.41%) AWS
2 418 (61.56%) Serverless
3 409 (60.24%) AWS Lambda
4 258 (38.00%) Amazon EC2
5 182 (26.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 172 (25.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 164 (24.15%) Amazon ECS
8 138 (20.32%) GitHub
9 131 (19.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 129 (19.00%) Amazon EKS
11 110 (16.20%) Azure
12 93 (13.70%) GitHub Actions
13 90 (13.25%) AWS Step Functions
14 84 (12.37%) Amazon SQS
15 66 (9.72%) Snowflake
16 61 (8.98%) Route 53
17 57 (8.39%) Amazon EMR
18 56 (8.25%) GCP
19 52 (7.66%) Power Platform
20 49 (7.22%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.86%) DNS
2 24 (3.53%) Firewall
3 16 (2.36%) VPN
4 14 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.77%) Network Security
6 11 (1.62%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.74%) DHCP
8 4 (0.59%) 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%) 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%) 4G
11 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (26.22%) Amazon RDS
2 128 (18.85%) Amazon Athena
3 115 (16.94%) PostgreSQL
4 106 (15.61%) DynamoDB
5 101 (14.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 58 (8.54%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (8.25%) Data Lake
8 53 (7.81%) Relational Database
9 52 (7.66%) Power BI
10 47 (6.92%) Amazon Aurora
11 42 (6.19%) NoSQL
12 37 (5.45%) Tableau
13 36 (5.30%) MongoDB
14 32 (4.71%) Metadata
15 28 (4.12%) Big Data
15 28 (4.12%) SQL Server
16 26 (3.83%) BigQuery
17 25 (3.68%) MySQL
18 24 (3.53%) OLTP
19 21 (3.09%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 145 (21.35%) Jenkins
2 134 (19.73%) GitLab
3 120 (17.67%) Git
4 45 (6.63%) JIRA
5 27 (3.98%) JUnit
6 26 (3.83%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.39%) Maven
8 22 (3.24%) Bitbucket
9 17 (2.50%) Mockito
10 14 (2.06%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.62%) MLflow
12 10 (1.47%) DbUnit
12 10 (1.47%) jMock
13 9 (1.33%) Postman
14 8 (1.18%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (1.18%) Cucumber
15 7 (1.03%) Artifactory
16 6 (0.88%) Gradle
17 5 (0.74%) Selenium
18 4 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 161 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 120 (17.67%) Finance
3 107 (15.76%) Public Sector
4 76 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.60%) Banking
6 26 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.06%) Front Office
8 13 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Legal
10 5 (0.74%) Military
11 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.44%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.29%) Billing
13 2 (0.29%) Games
13 2 (0.29%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.29%) Law
13 2 (0.29%) Local Government
13 2 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 160 (23.56%) Data Engineer
2 133 (19.59%) Developer
3 110 (16.20%) AWS Engineer
4 86 (12.67%) Senior
5 72 (10.60%) Architect
6 70 (10.31%) Lead
7 49 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 49 (7.22%) Java Developer
8 39 (5.74%) AWS Data Engineer
9 38 (5.60%) AWS Architect
10 35 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
11 34 (5.01%) Site Engineer
12 33 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 29 (4.27%) Analyst
13 29 (4.27%) AWS Developer
14 28 (4.12%) Lead Data Engineer
15 27 (3.98%) Senior Data Engineer
16 26 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
17 25 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
18 22 (3.24%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (17.82%) Kafka
2 86 (12.67%) Spring Boot
3 85 (12.52%) Spring
4 70 (10.31%) Node.js
5 68 (10.01%) RESTful
6 63 (9.28%) PySpark
7 57 (8.39%) REST
8 51 (7.51%) React
9 43 (6.33%) OAuth
10 41 (6.04%) AWS CDK
11 37 (5.45%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.53%) JWT
13 23 (3.39%) CSS
14 22 (3.24%) OpenID
15 20 (2.95%) SOAP
16 19 (2.80%) JPA
17 18 (2.65%) boto
17 18 (2.65%) Hibernate
17 18 (2.65%) Spring Cloud
17 18 (2.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 168 (24.74%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.91%) NHS
5 12 (1.77%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.88%) Clustering
10 6 (0.88%) SCADA
11 5 (0.74%) Derivative
11 5 (0.74%) PACS
11 5 (0.74%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 87 (12.81%) Linux
2 22 (3.24%) Unix
3 15 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.33%) Windows
5 5 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.29%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (58.62%) CI/CD
2 271 (39.91%) DevOps
3 265 (39.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 189 (27.84%) Agile
5 163 (24.01%) Analytics
6 162 (23.86%) ETL
7 157 (23.12%) Containerisation
8 154 (22.68%) Data Engineering
9 145 (21.35%) Data Pipeline
10 141 (20.77%) Data Modelling
11 119 (17.53%) Microservices
12 110 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
13 109 (16.05%) Observability
14 96 (14.14%) AI
15 87 (12.81%) Migration
16 76 (11.19%) Data Governance
16 76 (11.19%) Test Automation
17 71 (10.46%) Performance Tuning
18 70 (10.31%) Software Engineering
19 69 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 382 (56.26%) Python
2 259 (38.14%) SQL
3 146 (21.50%) Java
4 64 (9.43%) Bash
5 60 (8.84%) TypeScript
6 53 (7.81%) JavaScript
7 48 (7.07%) C#
8 31 (4.57%) Shell Script
9 29 (4.27%) PowerShell
10 24 (3.53%) Scala
11 15 (2.21%) Go
12 6 (0.88%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.74%) Bicep
14 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.44%) C
15 3 (0.44%) C++
15 3 (0.44%) Groovy
15 3 (0.44%) JSX
15 3 (0.44%) Korn
15 3 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 225 (33.14%) Security Cleared
2 181 (26.66%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.66%) AWS Certification
4 20 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 20 (2.95%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.50%) Degree
6 12 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.44%) OCP
10 3 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.44%) PhD
10 3 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (13.55%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.30%) GDPR
3 33 (4.86%) QA
4 14 (2.06%) SLA
5 13 (1.91%) NIST
6 12 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.03%) PMO
8 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.74%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.29%) GRC
11 2 (0.29%) GxP
11 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 2 (0.29%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 222 (32.70%) Docker
2 11 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.47%) Squid
4 9 (1.33%) Postfix
5 5 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.59%) HDFS
7 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 321 (47.28%) Terraform
2 166 (24.45%) Kubernetes
3 104 (15.32%) Grafana
4 72 (10.60%) Prometheus
5 65 (9.57%) Ansible
6 17 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.21%) Kibana
7 15 (2.21%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.21%) Puppet
8 9 (1.33%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.18%) Argo
10 7 (1.03%) Consul
10 7 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.88%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.74%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.59%) Istio
13 4 (0.59%) Salt
14 3 (0.44%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 77 (11.34%) Databricks
2 40 (5.89%) Microsoft
3 38 (5.60%) Splunk
4 30 (4.42%) Google
5 19 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 18 (2.65%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.91%) Jaspersoft
7 13 (1.91%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.77%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.77%) Oracle
9 11 (1.62%) Informatica
10 10 (1.47%) Confluent
11 9 (1.33%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.03%) Dell
12 7 (1.03%) IBM
12 7 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.03%) Sybase
13 6 (0.88%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.88%) Denodo
13 6 (0.88%) SAP