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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 166 212
Rank change year-on-year -50 +46 +39
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 701 585 442
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.79% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.73% 4.74% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 429 296
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £437 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £611
90th Percentile £738 £688 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £491
% change year-on-year -7.50% +1.94% -1.90%
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 18,793 12,329 13,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.58% 37.75% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,470 8,218 8,841
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
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 617 291 194
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.64
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.81
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -11.81% -9.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.13 £63.44
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.14 £30.44
% change year-on-year +69.85% -37.13% +17.07%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -50 577 £525 - 628
London -15 390 £575 - 402
Work from Home -30 246 £525 - 333
UK excluding London -87 226 £463 -7.50% 281
North of England -60 66 £463 -7.50% 82
Midlands -43 60 £459 -3.37% 30
West Midlands -48 49 £469 -1.26% 14
Scotland -34 42 £444 -13.41% 30
South West -25 29 £456 -16.48% 47
North West -53 26 £475 - 49
North East -22 21 £425 -2.86% 15
South East -65 21 £575 +35.29% 40
Yorkshire -47 19 £500 -4.76% 18
East Midlands -10 10 £405 -17.97% 16
East of England -44 8 £375 -31.82% 30
Wales - 3 £600 - 8
Northern Ireland +3 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 (13.12%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (9.70%) Confluence
3 66 (9.42%) Apache
4 65 (9.27%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.28%) SAS
6 13 (1.85%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.14%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.86%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.86%) WebLogic Portal
9 5 (0.71%) nginx
10 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.29%) CMS
13 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.14%) Mule
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.86%) 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
1 683 (97.43%) AWS
2 440 (62.77%) Serverless
3 437 (62.34%) AWS Lambda
4 234 (33.38%) Amazon EC2
5 228 (32.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (22.40%) GitHub
7 147 (20.97%) Amazon ECS
8 139 (19.83%) Amazon EKS
9 132 (18.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 127 (18.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 123 (17.55%) GitHub Actions
12 111 (15.83%) Azure
13 94 (13.41%) Amazon SQS
14 93 (13.27%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.41%) dbt
16 76 (10.84%) AWS Step Functions
17 73 (10.41%) Snowflake
18 63 (8.99%) Power Platform
19 55 (7.85%) Amazon EventBridge
20 54 (7.70%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.57%) Firewall
2 15 (2.14%) DNS
3 9 (1.28%) Network Security
4 7 (1.00%) HTTP
4 7 (1.00%) SSL
5 6 (0.86%) CTI
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) SAN
6 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 4 (0.57%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Internet
7 3 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.29%) DHCP
8 2 (0.29%) FTP
8 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (26.68%) Amazon RDS
2 145 (20.68%) Amazon Athena
3 130 (18.54%) DynamoDB
4 113 (16.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 95 (13.55%) PostgreSQL
6 92 (13.12%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (8.99%) Data Lake
7 63 (8.99%) Power BI
8 46 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 44 (6.28%) MongoDB
10 41 (5.85%) Metadata
11 32 (4.56%) Big Data
12 31 (4.42%) Tableau
13 28 (3.99%) NoSQL
14 24 (3.42%) Apache Iceberg
14 24 (3.42%) Relational Database
15 23 (3.28%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.28%) Delta Lake
16 21 (3.00%) SQL Server
17 20 (2.85%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 143 (20.40%) GitLab
2 141 (20.11%) Git
3 127 (18.12%) Jenkins
4 68 (9.70%) JIRA
5 25 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.71%) SonarQube
7 18 (2.57%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.57%) Maven
8 16 (2.28%) JUnit
8 16 (2.28%) Mockito
9 9 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.00%) DbUnit
11 6 (0.86%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (0.86%) jMock
11 6 (0.86%) Postman
11 6 (0.86%) Selenium
11 6 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.57%) Flyway
General
1 171 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 151 (21.54%) Public Sector
3 131 (18.69%) Finance
4 65 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.70%) Banking
6 17 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.14%) Front Office
8 12 (1.71%) Back Office
8 12 (1.71%) Legal
9 10 (1.43%) Military
10 8 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.00%) Law
11 7 (1.00%) Marketing
11 7 (1.00%) Publishing
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%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 168 (23.97%) Data Engineer
2 125 (17.83%) Senior
3 118 (16.83%) AWS Engineer
3 118 (16.83%) Developer
4 81 (11.55%) Architect
4 81 (11.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 79 (11.27%) Lead
6 55 (7.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 45 (6.42%) AWS Data Engineer
8 37 (5.28%) AWS DevOps
9 35 (4.99%) Java Developer
10 33 (4.71%) AWS Architect
11 32 (4.56%) AWS Developer
11 32 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.28%) Data Architect
13 29 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
15 23 (3.28%) Software Engineer
16 22 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 22 (3.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (46.22%) Terraform
2 85 (12.13%) REST
3 78 (11.13%) PySpark
4 75 (10.70%) Kafka
5 61 (8.70%) Spring Boot
6 60 (8.56%) Spring
7 58 (8.27%) React
8 57 (8.13%) RESTful
9 50 (7.13%) Node.js
10 45 (6.42%) AWS CDK
11 32 (4.56%) FastAPI
12 26 (3.71%) AngularJS
13 25 (3.57%) SOAP
14 24 (3.42%) JSON
15 22 (3.14%) .NET
15 22 (3.14%) GraphQL
16 20 (2.85%) Pandas
17 19 (2.71%) OAuth
17 19 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
18 17 (2.43%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 182 (25.96%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 37 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.00%) NHS
5 20 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.00%) IVR
7 14 (2.00%) Replication
8 13 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.43%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.28%) Legacy Code
12 8 (1.14%) Clustering
12 8 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.14%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.14%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 93 (13.27%) Linux
2 27 (3.85%) Unix
3 21 (3.00%) Windows
4 14 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.57%) AIX
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
1 446 (63.62%) CI/CD
2 311 (44.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 308 (43.94%) DevOps
4 267 (38.09%) Agile
5 186 (26.53%) Data Pipeline
6 177 (25.25%) Data Engineering
7 157 (22.40%) Analytics
8 137 (19.54%) Data Modelling
9 133 (18.97%) ETL
10 130 (18.54%) Containerisation
11 129 (18.40%) AI
12 126 (17.97%) Observability
13 114 (16.26%) Microservices
14 113 (16.12%) Migration
15 109 (15.55%) Event-Driven
16 107 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 100 (14.27%) Technical Leadership
18 98 (13.98%) Test Automation
19 90 (12.84%) Business Intelligence
19 90 (12.84%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 391 (55.78%) Python
2 260 (37.09%) SQL
3 118 (16.83%) Java
4 77 (10.98%) TypeScript
5 67 (9.56%) Bash
6 55 (7.85%) JavaScript
7 26 (3.71%) PowerShell
8 25 (3.57%) C#
9 24 (3.42%) Shell Script
10 21 (3.00%) Scala
11 18 (2.57%) Groovy
12 15 (2.14%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.14%) Bicep
14 7 (1.00%) Go
14 7 (1.00%) Perl
15 5 (0.71%) R
16 4 (0.57%) Cypher
16 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 233 (33.24%) Security Cleared
2 213 (30.39%) SC Cleared
3 91 (12.98%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (5.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (3.71%) Degree
7 17 (2.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.28%) CISM
11 9 (1.28%) CISSP
12 8 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (1.00%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.43%) CSPO
15 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (17.40%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.99%) QA
3 16 (2.28%) GDPR
4 15 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.43%) NIST
6 6 (0.86%) HL7
6 6 (0.86%) SLA
7 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.57%) NCSC
8 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
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%) PMO
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 217 (30.96%) Docker
2 18 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.00%) Postfix
4 5 (0.71%) Squid
4 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.43%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.29%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 136 (19.40%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.69%) Grafana
3 57 (8.13%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.13%) Ansible
5 17 (2.43%) Argo
6 16 (2.28%) Kibana
7 12 (1.71%) Karpenter
8 11 (1.57%) Puppet
9 8 (1.14%) Packer
10 7 (1.00%) Istio
11 6 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
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%) Consul
15 2 (0.29%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 55 (7.85%) Databricks
2 48 (6.85%) Oracle
3 42 (5.99%) Microsoft
4 30 (4.28%) Informatica
5 22 (3.14%) Splunk
6 21 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.43%) Google
8 16 (2.28%) Dynatrace
9 14 (2.00%) Teradata
10 13 (1.85%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.57%) Confluent
11 11 (1.57%) Denodo
11 11 (1.57%) OpenAI
12 10 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (1.28%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.14%) Foundry
14 8 (1.14%) Palantir
15 7 (1.00%) Brio
15 7 (1.00%) IBM
15 7 (1.00%) SnapLogic