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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 215 250
Rank change year-on-year +55 +35 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 596 438 490
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.15% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.82% 3.34% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 292 376
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £460 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £609 £613
90th Percentile £688 £752 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £50.94 - £52.50
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 12,359 13,112 17,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.52% 34.29% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 8,846 12,789
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 197 342
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.50 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £52.25 £62.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -35.77% +11.11% +40.30%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 16 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 17 September 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 +82 478 £525 -1.87% 217
London +59 289 £575 +6.88% 131
UK excluding London +37 226 £500 +1.52% 137
Work from Home +35 208 £525 +5.00% 101
North of England -2 58 £500 +3.09% 32
Midlands +32 57 £475 -13.64% 5
West Midlands +30 52 £475 -29.63% 3
Scotland -27 50 £506 +7.26% 20
Yorkshire -3 28 £525 +3.55% 12
North West -11 28 £475 - 18
East of England +24 25 £550 -8.33% 8
South East +33 24 £425 -25.60% 48
South West +27 15 £546 -5.00% 23
East Midlands -3 5 £537 +26.35% 2
North East -3 3 £438 -26.78% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £500 - 1

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 48 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (7.05%) Confluence
3 37 (6.21%) Apache Spark
4 21 (3.52%) Apache
5 19 (3.19%) nginx
6 7 (1.17%) CMS
7 6 (1.01%) Headless CMS
7 6 (1.01%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.84%) SAS
9 3 (0.50%) Traefik
10 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.17%) CICS
Applications
1 12 (2.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Finacle
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 578 (96.98%) AWS
2 314 (52.68%) Serverless
3 310 (52.01%) AWS Lambda
4 236 (39.60%) Amazon EC2
5 179 (30.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 131 (21.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 116 (19.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 108 (18.12%) GitHub
9 102 (17.11%) Amazon ECS
10 83 (13.93%) Amazon SQS
11 80 (13.42%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (12.75%) GitHub Actions
13 51 (8.56%) Azure
14 48 (8.05%) Amazon ELB
15 44 (7.38%) AWS Step Functions
16 43 (7.21%) AWS KMS
17 34 (5.70%) Amazon EMR
18 33 (5.54%) dbt
18 33 (5.54%) Route 53
18 33 (5.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 53 (8.89%) DNS
1 53 (8.89%) Firewall
2 35 (5.87%) VPN
3 28 (4.70%) HTTP
4 27 (4.53%) SSH
5 26 (4.36%) SSL
6 24 (4.03%) SMTP
7 23 (3.86%) TCP/IP
8 22 (3.69%) FTP
9 17 (2.85%) OpenLDAP
10 16 (2.68%) Network Security
11 12 (2.01%) IMAP
12 6 (1.01%) DHCP
13 5 (0.84%) NAS
13 5 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (0.50%) SAN
14 3 (0.50%) SMS
15 2 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
15 2 (0.34%) Intranet
15 2 (0.34%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (30.37%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (19.13%) PostgreSQL
3 112 (18.79%) DynamoDB
4 62 (10.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 59 (9.90%) Amazon Athena
6 55 (9.23%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (8.39%) Amazon Aurora
8 42 (7.05%) Relational Database
9 28 (4.70%) NoSQL
10 24 (4.03%) Big Data
10 24 (4.03%) MySQL
11 22 (3.69%) MongoDB
12 19 (3.19%) Data Lake
12 19 (3.19%) RDBMS
13 18 (3.02%) Amazon QuickSight
13 18 (3.02%) SQL Server
14 16 (2.68%) Metadata
14 16 (2.68%) Oracle Database
15 14 (2.35%) Hadoop
16 11 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 133 (22.32%) Jenkins
2 126 (21.14%) Git
3 76 (12.75%) GitLab
4 60 (10.07%) JIRA
5 24 (4.03%) Vagrant
6 17 (2.85%) JUnit
7 16 (2.68%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.68%) Maven
8 14 (2.35%) SonarQube
9 12 (2.01%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.51%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.34%) Mockito
12 6 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (1.01%) DbUnit
12 6 (1.01%) jMock
12 6 (1.01%) MLflow
13 5 (0.84%) Postman
13 5 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.84%) Storybook
13 5 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 150 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 128 (21.48%) Public Sector
3 69 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.56%) Finance
5 23 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (2.52%) Front Office
8 11 (1.85%) Banking
8 11 (1.85%) Military
9 7 (1.17%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.67%) Publishing
11 4 (0.67%) Retail
12 3 (0.50%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.50%) Legal
12 3 (0.50%) Marketing
13 2 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.17%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 129 (21.64%) AWS Engineer
2 118 (19.80%) Developer
3 103 (17.28%) Architect
4 91 (15.27%) Senior
5 85 (14.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (11.41%) Data Engineer
7 52 (8.72%) AWS DevOps
8 50 (8.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 44 (7.38%) AWS Architect
10 33 (5.54%) Platform Engineer
11 31 (5.20%) AWS Developer
11 31 (5.20%) Java Developer
11 31 (5.20%) Lead
12 26 (4.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (4.36%) Python Engineer
13 23 (3.86%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (3.86%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (3.69%) Software Engineer
15 21 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
16 20 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (11.91%) React
2 61 (10.23%) AWS CDK
2 61 (10.23%) Node.js
3 56 (9.40%) REST
4 55 (9.23%) Kafka
5 43 (7.21%) GraphQL
6 33 (5.54%) RESTful
6 33 (5.54%) Spring
7 26 (4.36%) Spring Boot
8 22 (3.69%) AngularJS
9 20 (3.36%) LDAP
10 19 (3.19%) Pandas
10 19 (3.19%) PyTorch
11 18 (3.02%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (3.02%) Jest
11 18 (3.02%) NumPy
11 18 (3.02%) OAuth
11 18 (3.02%) Svelte
12 17 (2.85%) CSS
13 16 (2.68%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.58%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.20%) Replication
3 30 (5.03%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.86%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (3.69%) CSOC
5 22 (3.69%) Security Operations Centre
6 16 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.18%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.17%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.84%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.84%) Clustering
12 5 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.84%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 93 (15.60%) Linux
2 41 (6.88%) Windows
3 27 (4.53%) VMS
4 26 (4.36%) Amazon Linux
5 18 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.18%) Unix
7 12 (2.01%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.01%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) CentOS
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.17%) AIX
12 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.17%) Solaris
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (46.31%) CI/CD
2 234 (39.26%) DevOps
3 176 (29.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 170 (28.52%) Agile
5 128 (21.48%) Containerisation
6 111 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (13.42%) Microservices
7 80 (13.42%) Migration
8 79 (13.26%) Data Pipeline
9 75 (12.58%) Data Modelling
10 74 (12.42%) ETL
11 72 (12.08%) Mentoring
12 63 (10.57%) High Availability
13 58 (9.73%) Full-Stack Development
14 56 (9.40%) Artificial Intelligence
15 55 (9.23%) Data Engineering
16 51 (8.56%) Cloud Security
16 51 (8.56%) Machine Learning
17 50 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
18 46 (7.72%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 309 (51.85%) Python
2 133 (22.32%) SQL
3 88 (14.77%) Java
4 77 (12.92%) TypeScript
5 74 (12.42%) JavaScript
6 62 (10.40%) Bash
7 39 (6.54%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.87%) Groovy
9 21 (3.52%) Perl
10 16 (2.68%) Go
11 11 (1.85%) Scala
12 9 (1.51%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.67%) C#
14 3 (0.50%) CodeQL
14 3 (0.50%) Dart
14 3 (0.50%) Korn
14 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.50%) R
14 3 (0.50%) Ruby
14 3 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 183 (30.70%) Security Cleared
2 167 (28.02%) SC Cleared
3 92 (15.44%) AWS Certification
4 44 (7.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 42 (7.05%) Degree
6 22 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.34%) CISSP
11 2 (0.34%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.17%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.17%) OCP
12 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.17%) RHCE
12 1 (0.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.88%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.70%) QA
3 17 (2.85%) GDPR
4 11 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.67%) NCSC
8 3 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.50%) NIST
8 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.34%) WCAG
10 1 (0.17%) HL7
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 173 (29.03%) Docker
2 26 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.69%) DFS Replication
4 18 (3.02%) Postfix
5 12 (2.01%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.01%) Squid
6 3 (0.50%) KVM
7 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 221 (37.08%) Terraform
2 120 (20.13%) Kubernetes
3 79 (13.26%) Grafana
4 66 (11.07%) Prometheus
5 63 (10.57%) Ansible
6 13 (2.18%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.18%) Puppet
7 12 (2.01%) Argo
7 12 (2.01%) Nessus
8 10 (1.68%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.17%) Kibana
10 6 (1.01%) Istio
11 5 (0.84%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.50%) Packer
14 2 (0.34%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.34%) logstash
14 2 (0.34%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 31 (5.20%) Oracle
2 30 (5.03%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.36%) Splunk
4 23 (3.86%) Microsoft
5 21 (3.52%) F5
6 20 (3.36%) CheckPoint
6 20 (3.36%) Palo Alto
7 18 (3.02%) Jaspersoft
8 13 (2.18%) Atlassian
9 12 (2.01%) IBM
10 11 (1.85%) Google
10 11 (1.85%) StreamSets
11 10 (1.68%) Databricks
12 8 (1.34%) AppDynamics
12 8 (1.34%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.34%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.01%) Commvault
13 6 (1.01%) Informatica
14 5 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
14 5 (0.84%) Cloudera