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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 174 240
Rank change year-on-year -13 +66 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 599 471 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.53% 1.52% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.05% 4.09% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 346 368
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.89%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 14,804 11,512 14,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.90% 37.21% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,180 7,657 10,686
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 173 323
10th Percentile £14.36 £16.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.90 £21.46 £16.28
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £49.54
90th Percentile £80.40 £68.75 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £24.83 £20.99
% change year-on-year +47.00% +18.32% +5.72%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -2 478 £525 -4.55% 168
London +1 316 £530 -7.02% 78
UK excluding London -9 202 £500 - 109
Work from Home -26 159 £550 +7.21% 77
North of England -26 64 £500 - 39
Midlands -28 46 £475 +5.56% 11
West Midlands -18 39 £500 -9.09% 6
Scotland -25 37 £485 -3.00% 6
Yorkshire -26 32 £500 -4.76% 20
North West -21 24 £450 -5.26% 16
South East -13 23 £528 -17.25% 25
South West -7 15 £625 +13.55% 16
East of England -20 10 £650 +30.00% 9
Northern Ireland +6 9 £400 - 1
North East -11 8 £450 -26.23% 3
East Midlands -27 7 £417 -6.02% 5
Wales +3 1 £475 +18.75% 2

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 51 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (8.18%) Apache Spark
3 42 (7.01%) Apache
4 26 (4.34%) Confluence
5 12 (2.00%) nginx
6 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.50%) SAS
6 3 (0.50%) Traefik
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 594 (99.17%) AWS
2 373 (62.27%) Serverless
3 367 (61.27%) AWS Lambda
4 234 (39.07%) Amazon EC2
5 177 (29.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 173 (28.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 151 (25.21%) Amazon ECS
8 136 (22.70%) GitHub
9 127 (21.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 125 (20.87%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (17.36%) GitHub Actions
12 98 (16.36%) Azure
13 67 (11.19%) AWS Step Functions
14 53 (8.85%) Amazon Kinesis
15 51 (8.51%) Route 53
16 49 (8.18%) GCP
17 48 (8.01%) Amazon SQS
18 46 (7.68%) Snowflake
19 39 (6.51%) Amazon EMR
20 35 (5.84%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 46 (7.68%) DNS
2 43 (7.18%) Firewall
3 29 (4.84%) VPN
4 22 (3.67%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.51%) Network Security
6 14 (2.34%) HTTP
6 14 (2.34%) SSL
7 10 (1.67%) FTP
7 10 (1.67%) SMTP
7 10 (1.67%) SSH
8 7 (1.17%) IMAP
8 7 (1.17%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (0.83%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.67%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.67%) NAS
11 3 (0.50%) BGP
12 2 (0.33%) Calico
12 2 (0.33%) Multicast
12 2 (0.33%) OSPF
12 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (30.22%) Amazon RDS
2 104 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (15.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 86 (14.36%) Amazon Athena
5 80 (13.36%) DynamoDB
6 46 (7.68%) Amazon Aurora
6 46 (7.68%) Data Lake
6 46 (7.68%) Relational Database
7 45 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (5.01%) MySQL
9 29 (4.84%) Power BI
10 27 (4.51%) MongoDB
11 26 (4.34%) Amazon QuickSight
12 22 (3.67%) BigQuery
12 22 (3.67%) NoSQL
12 22 (3.67%) OLTP
13 20 (3.34%) SQL Server
14 19 (3.17%) OLAP
15 17 (2.84%) Tableau
16 16 (2.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 139 (23.21%) Jenkins
2 128 (21.37%) GitLab
3 105 (17.53%) Git
4 33 (5.51%) JIRA
5 14 (2.34%) MLflow
6 13 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.67%) JUnit
7 10 (1.67%) Vagrant
8 9 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.50%) Maven
8 9 (1.50%) Postman
9 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.17%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.00%) Gradle
12 5 (0.83%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.67%) NUnit
13 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
14 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.50%) Vite
15 2 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 148 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 90 (15.03%) Public Sector
3 87 (14.52%) Finance
4 62 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.84%) Banking
6 18 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.84%) Front Office
9 8 (1.34%) Military
10 7 (1.17%) Legal
11 4 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.50%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Marketing
13 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.33%) Publishing
13 2 (0.33%) Retail
14 1 (0.17%) Games
14 1 (0.17%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 122 (20.37%) AWS Engineer
2 117 (19.53%) Data Engineer
3 93 (15.53%) Developer
4 87 (14.52%) Senior
5 75 (12.52%) Architect
6 73 (12.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 49 (8.18%) Lead
8 40 (6.68%) Platform Engineer
9 38 (6.34%) AWS Architect
10 33 (5.51%) AWS Data Engineer
11 32 (5.34%) AWS DevOps
12 30 (5.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 30 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (5.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 30 (5.01%) Software Engineer
13 28 (4.67%) Java Developer
13 28 (4.67%) Python Engineer
14 27 (4.51%) Data Architect
15 26 (4.34%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 24 (4.01%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (16.86%) Kafka
2 57 (9.52%) Spring
2 57 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 53 (8.85%) Node.js
4 50 (8.35%) React
5 49 (8.18%) REST
6 48 (8.01%) RESTful
7 44 (7.35%) AWS CDK
8 36 (6.01%) OAuth
9 35 (5.84%) PySpark
10 26 (4.34%) AngularJS
11 25 (4.17%) FastAPI
12 24 (4.01%) JWT
13 23 (3.84%) CSS
14 22 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
15 21 (3.51%) JSON
16 20 (3.34%) boto
17 19 (3.17%) PyTorch
18 18 (3.01%) Pandas
19 16 (2.67%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 147 (24.54%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.84%) Replication
6 13 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.17%) NHS
7 10 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.83%) Derivative
12 5 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.83%) SCADA
13 4 (0.67%) Equities
13 4 (0.67%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 78 (13.02%) Linux
2 19 (3.17%) Windows
3 13 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
3 13 (2.17%) VMS
4 11 (1.84%) Unix
5 10 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.00%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.33%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (59.77%) CI/CD
2 263 (43.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 237 (39.57%) DevOps
4 158 (26.38%) Containerisation
5 143 (23.87%) Agile
6 131 (21.87%) ETL
7 121 (20.20%) Data Pipeline
8 119 (19.87%) Analytics
9 115 (19.20%) Data Engineering
10 113 (18.86%) Data Modelling
11 97 (16.19%) Microservices
12 92 (15.36%) Observability
13 91 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (14.02%) AI
15 74 (12.35%) Software Engineering
16 72 (12.02%) Event-Driven
17 70 (11.69%) Migration
18 64 (10.68%) Machine Learning
18 64 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
19 61 (10.18%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 365 (60.93%) Python
2 204 (34.06%) SQL
3 108 (18.03%) Java
4 76 (12.69%) Bash
5 52 (8.68%) TypeScript
6 44 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 32 (5.34%) C#
7 32 (5.34%) PowerShell
8 25 (4.17%) Go
9 23 (3.84%) Shell Script
10 12 (2.00%) Groovy
11 9 (1.50%) Scala
12 6 (1.00%) JSX
12 6 (1.00%) Perl
12 6 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.83%) Korn
14 4 (0.67%) C
15 3 (0.50%) C++
16 2 (0.33%) Bicep
17 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 186 (31.05%) Security Cleared
2 151 (25.21%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.02%) AWS Certification
4 26 (4.34%) Degree
5 23 (3.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 23 (3.84%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.50%) OCP
11 3 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.50%) PhD
12 2 (0.33%) CISSP
13 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.17%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.69%) Data Quality
2 43 (7.18%) GDPR
3 34 (5.68%) QA
4 18 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.50%) NIST
6 14 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.67%) NCSC
8 4 (0.67%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) GxP
9 2 (0.33%) MiFID
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 219 (36.56%) Docker
2 12 (2.00%) Squid
3 10 (1.67%) DFS Replication
4 9 (1.50%) Active Directory
5 7 (1.17%) Dovecot
5 7 (1.17%) Postfix
6 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) HDFS
7 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 311 (51.92%) Terraform
2 170 (28.38%) Kubernetes
3 94 (15.69%) Grafana
4 80 (13.36%) Ansible
5 75 (12.52%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.17%) Progress Chef
7 18 (3.01%) Puppet
8 10 (1.67%) Argo
8 10 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.17%) Kibana
9 7 (1.17%) Nessus
9 7 (1.17%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.17%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (1.00%) FortiGate
10 6 (1.00%) Karpenter
11 5 (0.83%) Consul
11 5 (0.83%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (0.83%) Istio
12 3 (0.50%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 54 (9.02%) Databricks
2 35 (5.84%) Microsoft
3 23 (3.84%) Splunk
4 22 (3.67%) Google
5 17 (2.84%) F5
6 16 (2.67%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.50%) CheckPoint
7 15 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.34%) Oracle
9 12 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.50%) Confluent
11 8 (1.34%) Dell
11 8 (1.34%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.34%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
13 6 (1.00%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.00%) AVEVA
13 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.00%) SAP
14 5 (0.83%) Sybase