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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 167 229
Rank change year-on-year -27 +62 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 665 490 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 1.71% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.84% 4.55% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 368 339
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +3.75% -8.00%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £597
90th Percentile £711 £700 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -4.45% -1.19% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £46.90 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
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 17,337 10,775 13,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.57% 37.71% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 7,387 9,882
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.37% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 238 344
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +31.02% -39.80%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.10 £72.50 £66.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -23 570 £525 -2.23% 153
London +11 394 £550 - 69
UK excluding London -79 210 £478 -4.45% 102
Work from Home -20 198 £500 -4.76% 75
Midlands -37 64 £469 -1.26% 13
West Midlands -27 60 £469 -1.26% 11
North of England -60 56 £500 - 38
Scotland -35 35 £475 -4.95% 5
North West -34 32 £518 +8.95% 17
South East -44 29 £586 +30.28% 16
South West -22 17 £450 -18.18% 25
Yorkshire -56 13 £500 -4.76% 15
North East -16 11 £425 - 6
East of England -35 7 £425 -15.00% 2
Northern Ireland +4 3 £400 -20.00% 3
East Midlands -33 3 £441 -3.87% 2
Wales - 2 £363 -

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 73 (10.98%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (9.62%) Apache Spark
3 50 (7.52%) Confluence
4 46 (6.92%) Apache
5 21 (3.16%) SAS
6 10 (1.50%) nginx
7 4 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 658 (98.95%) AWS
2 414 (62.26%) Serverless
3 406 (61.05%) AWS Lambda
4 244 (36.69%) Amazon EC2
5 178 (26.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 136 (20.45%) Amazon ECS
7 134 (20.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 132 (19.85%) GitHub
9 124 (18.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 123 (18.50%) Amazon EKS
11 101 (15.19%) Amazon SQS
12 99 (14.89%) Azure
13 93 (13.98%) GitHub Actions
14 81 (12.18%) AWS Step Functions
15 71 (10.68%) Snowflake
16 65 (9.77%) Amazon EMR
17 62 (9.32%) dbt
18 52 (7.82%) Power Platform
19 50 (7.52%) Route 53
20 47 (7.07%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.96%) DNS
2 23 (3.46%) Firewall
3 15 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.11%) VPN
5 11 (1.65%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.35%) Network Security
7 5 (0.75%) DHCP
7 5 (0.75%) HTTP
8 4 (0.60%) Internet
8 4 (0.60%) NAS
8 4 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.60%) SAN
8 4 (0.60%) SSL
8 4 (0.60%) WAN
9 3 (0.45%) BGP
9 3 (0.45%) OSPF
10 2 (0.30%) CTI
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (23.31%) Amazon RDS
2 126 (18.95%) Amazon Athena
3 116 (17.44%) DynamoDB
4 96 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (13.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 54 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (7.97%) Amazon Aurora
8 52 (7.82%) Power BI
9 51 (7.67%) Data Lake
10 38 (5.71%) NoSQL
11 32 (4.81%) Metadata
11 32 (4.81%) Relational Database
12 30 (4.51%) Tableau
13 27 (4.06%) Big Data
14 26 (3.91%) MongoDB
14 26 (3.91%) SQL Server
15 23 (3.46%) Apache Iceberg
15 23 (3.46%) BigQuery
16 21 (3.16%) OLTP
16 21 (3.16%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 135 (20.30%) Jenkins
2 131 (19.70%) GitLab
3 128 (19.25%) Git
4 66 (9.92%) JIRA
5 30 (4.51%) JUnit
5 30 (4.51%) SonarQube
6 26 (3.91%) Bitbucket
7 23 (3.46%) Maven
7 23 (3.46%) Mockito
8 15 (2.26%) Cypress.io
9 14 (2.11%) DbUnit
10 13 (1.95%) jMock
11 11 (1.65%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (1.20%) Artifactory
12 8 (1.20%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.20%) Postman
13 7 (1.05%) MLflow
14 4 (0.60%) Selenium
14 4 (0.60%) Terragrunt
15 3 (0.45%) Gradle
General
1 171 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 113 (16.99%) Public Sector
3 110 (16.54%) Finance
4 64 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (4.81%) Banking
6 21 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.80%) Front Office
9 6 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.90%) Legal
10 5 (0.75%) Military
11 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.45%) Billing
12 3 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.45%) Retail
13 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 156 (23.46%) Data Engineer
2 138 (20.75%) Developer
3 109 (16.39%) AWS Engineer
4 82 (12.33%) Architect
5 79 (11.88%) Senior
6 75 (11.28%) Lead
7 48 (7.22%) Java Developer
8 45 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
9 42 (6.32%) AWS Data Engineer
10 41 (6.17%) AWS Architect
11 35 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.66%) AWS Developer
13 30 (4.51%) Senior Data Engineer
14 27 (4.06%) Data Architect
14 27 (4.06%) Software Engineer
15 25 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
15 25 (3.76%) Python Engineer
16 24 (3.61%) Lead Data Engineer
17 22 (3.31%) Analyst
17 22 (3.31%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (15.04%) Kafka
2 76 (11.43%) Spring
2 76 (11.43%) Spring Boot
3 66 (9.92%) REST
4 65 (9.77%) PySpark
5 63 (9.47%) RESTful
6 58 (8.72%) React
7 52 (7.82%) Node.js
8 42 (6.32%) AWS CDK
9 36 (5.41%) AngularJS
10 32 (4.81%) OAuth
11 29 (4.36%) SOAP
12 28 (4.21%) FastAPI
13 25 (3.76%) Pandas
14 24 (3.61%) JPA
14 24 (3.61%) OpenID
14 24 (3.61%) PyTorch
15 23 (3.46%) Hibernate
15 23 (3.46%) Web Services
16 21 (3.16%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 172 (25.86%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.67%) Product Ownership
3 41 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.41%) NHS
5 13 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.05%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.05%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.05%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.90%) Legacy Code
10 6 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.90%) PACS
10 6 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 82 (12.33%) Linux
2 21 (3.16%) Unix
3 14 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.80%) Windows
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.30%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (57.29%) CI/CD
2 271 (40.75%) DevOps
3 240 (36.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 210 (31.58%) Agile
5 153 (23.01%) Analytics
6 148 (22.26%) Data Engineering
7 146 (21.95%) ETL
8 140 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
9 138 (20.75%) Containerisation
10 132 (19.85%) Data Modelling
11 112 (16.84%) Microservices
12 101 (15.19%) AI
13 99 (14.89%) Observability
14 88 (13.23%) Migration
15 83 (12.48%) Scrum
16 80 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
16 80 (12.03%) Test Automation
17 76 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
17 76 (11.43%) Event-Driven
18 72 (10.83%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 361 (54.29%) Python
2 250 (37.59%) SQL
3 133 (20.00%) Java
4 62 (9.32%) TypeScript
5 49 (7.37%) C#
6 48 (7.22%) JavaScript
7 47 (7.07%) Bash
8 32 (4.81%) PowerShell
9 26 (3.91%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.31%) Scala
11 8 (1.20%) Groovy
12 7 (1.05%) Go
13 6 (0.90%) Bicep
13 6 (0.90%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.60%) Perl
14 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.45%) C
15 3 (0.45%) R
16 2 (0.30%) C++
16 2 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 207 (31.13%) Security Cleared
2 174 (26.17%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.86%) AWS Certification
4 21 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.56%) Degree
6 14 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.50%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.45%) OCP
13 3 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (12.33%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.21%) QA
3 24 (3.61%) GDPR
4 14 (2.11%) SLA
5 9 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.05%) NIST
6 7 (1.05%) PMO
7 6 (0.90%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.30%) GRC
9 2 (0.30%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 197 (29.62%) Docker
2 14 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.80%) Squid
4 11 (1.65%) Postfix
5 6 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.45%) HDFS
7 2 (0.30%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 285 (42.86%) Terraform
2 138 (20.75%) Kubernetes
3 94 (14.14%) Grafana
4 60 (9.02%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.41%) Ansible
6 18 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.80%) Kibana
8 10 (1.50%) Puppet
9 9 (1.35%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.20%) Consul
11 6 (0.90%) Argo
11 6 (0.90%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.60%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.60%) Packer
12 4 (0.60%) Salt
13 3 (0.45%) Istio
13 3 (0.45%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 68 (10.23%) Databricks
2 30 (4.51%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.51%) Splunk
3 26 (3.91%) Google
4 23 (3.46%) Atlassian
5 18 (2.71%) Oracle
6 17 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
6 17 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.26%) Informatica
7 15 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.65%) Denodo
8 11 (1.65%) Teradata
9 9 (1.35%) Confluent
10 7 (1.05%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.90%) AVEVA
12 5 (0.75%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.75%) IBM
12 5 (0.75%) SAP
12 5 (0.75%) Tenable