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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 183 234
Rank change year-on-year -12 +51 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 645 462 433
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 1.58% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.81% 4.21% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 356 332
10th Percentile £356 £400 £405
25th Percentile £440 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year - +3.55% -7.82%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £695 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% +2.31%
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 16,930 10,975 13,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.64% 37.59% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,442 7,586 9,909
10th Percentile £322 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 249 347
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.91 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +43.64% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.00 £35.50
90th Percentile £81.75 £73.75 £63.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £21.39 £17.71
% change year-on-year +110.38% +20.81% -29.18%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -4 558 £525 -2.33% 181
London +23 386 £550 - 81
UK excluding London -59 201 £488 -2.50% 118
Work from Home -22 184 £500 -4.76% 95
Midlands -12 64 £470 -3.59% 9
West Midlands -21 60 £475 -5.00% 7
North of England -56 53 £500 +3.90% 42
North West -30 30 £505 +9.19% 24
South East -36 30 £580 +14.85% 30
Scotland -37 30 £470 -6.00% 8
South West -25 16 £450 -18.18% 26
Yorkshire -55 14 £500 -4.76% 14
North East -12 9 £475 - 4
East of England -26 6 £450 -10.00% 3
East Midlands -34 4 £413 -10.13% 2
Northern Ireland +6 2 £400 -20.00%
Wales -10 2 £363 -9.38%

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 69 (10.70%) Apache Spark
2 66 (10.23%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (7.60%) Confluence
4 45 (6.98%) Apache
5 21 (3.26%) SAS
6 10 (1.55%) nginx
7 4 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Actimize
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 639 (99.07%) AWS
2 404 (62.64%) Serverless
3 395 (61.24%) AWS Lambda
4 239 (37.05%) Amazon EC2
5 172 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 148 (22.95%) Amazon ECS
7 140 (21.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 130 (20.16%) GitHub
9 129 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 126 (19.53%) Amazon EKS
11 101 (15.66%) Azure
12 96 (14.88%) Amazon SQS
13 91 (14.11%) GitHub Actions
14 89 (13.80%) AWS Step Functions
15 68 (10.54%) Snowflake
16 58 (8.99%) Amazon EMR
17 56 (8.68%) dbt
18 51 (7.91%) Power Platform
19 49 (7.60%) Route 53
20 48 (7.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.81%) DNS
2 21 (3.26%) Firewall
3 15 (2.33%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.33%) VPN
4 12 (1.86%) Network Security
5 11 (1.71%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.78%) DHCP
6 5 (0.78%) HTTP
7 4 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.47%) BGP
8 3 (0.47%) Internet
8 3 (0.47%) NAS
8 3 (0.47%) OSPF
8 3 (0.47%) SAN
9 2 (0.31%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.31%) Multicast
9 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.31%) SSL
9 2 (0.31%) VLAN
9 2 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (24.19%) Amazon RDS
2 126 (19.53%) Amazon Athena
3 103 (15.97%) DynamoDB
4 96 (14.88%) PostgreSQL
5 93 (14.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 54 (8.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 54 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (8.06%) Data Lake
8 51 (7.91%) Power BI
9 39 (6.05%) Relational Database
10 35 (5.43%) NoSQL
11 33 (5.12%) Metadata
12 30 (4.65%) Tableau
13 29 (4.50%) Big Data
14 28 (4.34%) SQL Server
15 25 (3.88%) MongoDB
16 24 (3.72%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
17 23 (3.57%) OLTP
18 20 (3.10%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 139 (21.55%) Jenkins
2 134 (20.78%) GitLab
3 117 (18.14%) Git
4 62 (9.61%) JIRA
5 28 (4.34%) SonarQube
6 27 (4.19%) Bitbucket
7 25 (3.88%) JUnit
8 23 (3.57%) Maven
9 18 (2.79%) Mockito
10 11 (1.71%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.71%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.71%) jMock
11 10 (1.55%) MLflow
12 9 (1.40%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.40%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.24%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.93%) Postman
14 6 (0.93%) Selenium
15 5 (0.78%) Gradle
16 4 (0.62%) Terragrunt
General
1 157 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 116 (17.98%) Finance
3 105 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 62 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.27%) Banking
6 21 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.17%) Front Office
8 12 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.93%) Legal
10 5 (0.78%) Military
11 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.47%) Retail
12 3 (0.47%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.31%) Billing
13 2 (0.31%) Games
13 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.31%) Local Government
13 2 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 149 (23.10%) Data Engineer
2 132 (20.47%) Developer
3 99 (15.35%) AWS Engineer
4 82 (12.71%) Senior
5 80 (12.40%) Architect
6 70 (10.85%) Lead
7 44 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 43 (6.67%) Java Developer
9 38 (5.89%) AWS Architect
10 37 (5.74%) AWS Data Engineer
11 35 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
13 28 (4.34%) AWS Developer
13 28 (4.34%) AWS DevOps
14 26 (4.03%) Data Architect
14 26 (4.03%) Site Engineer
14 26 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 25 (3.88%) Lead Data Engineer
16 23 (3.57%) Python Engineer
17 22 (3.41%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (16.43%) Kafka
2 79 (12.25%) Spring
2 79 (12.25%) Spring Boot
3 63 (9.77%) RESTful
4 61 (9.46%) PySpark
5 60 (9.30%) Node.js
6 59 (9.15%) REST
7 50 (7.75%) React
8 39 (6.05%) AWS CDK
9 35 (5.43%) AngularJS
10 34 (5.27%) OAuth
11 26 (4.03%) Pandas
12 25 (3.88%) FastAPI
13 24 (3.72%) OpenID
13 24 (3.72%) PyTorch
14 21 (3.26%) SOAP
15 20 (3.10%) JPA
16 19 (2.95%) boto
16 19 (2.95%) Spring Cloud
16 19 (2.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 163 (25.27%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.02%) NHS
4 13 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.40%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.24%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.09%) Hedge funds
8 7 (1.09%) Mainframe
9 6 (0.93%) Clustering
9 6 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (0.93%) PACS
9 6 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 83 (12.87%) Linux
2 21 (3.26%) Unix
3 11 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.40%) Windows
5 5 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.31%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.31%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (58.29%) CI/CD
2 270 (41.86%) DevOps
3 236 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 192 (29.77%) Agile
5 153 (23.72%) Analytics
6 149 (23.10%) Data Engineering
7 146 (22.64%) Containerisation
8 144 (22.33%) ETL
9 135 (20.93%) Data Pipeline
10 132 (20.47%) Data Modelling
11 113 (17.52%) Microservices
12 106 (16.43%) Observability
13 105 (16.28%) AI
14 94 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
15 82 (12.71%) Migration
16 81 (12.56%) Test Automation
17 76 (11.78%) Event-Driven
18 73 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
19 72 (11.16%) Machine Learning
20 69 (10.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 364 (56.43%) Python
2 241 (37.36%) SQL
3 136 (21.09%) Java
4 59 (9.15%) TypeScript
5 54 (8.37%) C#
6 50 (7.75%) Bash
7 44 (6.82%) JavaScript
8 29 (4.50%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.50%) Shell Script
9 22 (3.41%) Scala
10 12 (1.86%) Go
11 8 (1.24%) Groovy
12 7 (1.09%) Bicep
13 6 (0.93%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.62%) Perl
14 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.47%) C++
15 3 (0.47%) R
16 2 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 212 (32.87%) Security Cleared
2 173 (26.82%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.51%) AWS Certification
4 17 (2.64%) Degree
5 16 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.40%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.47%) OCP
13 3 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.47%) PhD
13 3 (0.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (12.40%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.19%) QA
3 26 (4.03%) GDPR
4 14 (2.17%) SLA
5 8 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.24%) NIST
6 7 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.09%) PMO
7 6 (0.93%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.31%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.16%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) MiFID
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 202 (31.32%) Docker
2 12 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.55%) Postfix
3 10 (1.55%) Squid
4 6 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.62%) HDFS
6 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 289 (44.81%) Terraform
2 146 (22.64%) Kubernetes
3 104 (16.12%) Grafana
4 67 (10.39%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.67%) Ansible
6 18 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.86%) Kibana
8 11 (1.71%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.71%) Puppet
9 9 (1.40%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.24%) Consul
11 5 (0.78%) Argo
11 5 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.62%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.62%) Salt
13 3 (0.47%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 69 (10.70%) Databricks
2 34 (5.27%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.65%) Splunk
4 27 (4.19%) Google
5 20 (3.10%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.64%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.64%) Oracle
7 15 (2.33%) Informatica
7 15 (2.33%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (1.71%) Denodo
10 9 (1.40%) Confluent
11 8 (1.24%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.93%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.93%) IBM
12 6 (0.93%) SAP
12 6 (0.93%) Teradata
13 5 (0.78%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.78%) PagerDuty