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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 163 225
Rank change year-on-year -24 +62 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 755 538 455
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.65% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 4.43% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 402 331
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £730 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 18,606 12,157 14,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.33% 37.38% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,329 8,147 9,841
10th Percentile £329 £313 £310
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -4.67% -3.67%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 611 312 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.41 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -25.23%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -22 628 £525 - 86
London +13 415 £550 -4.35% 38
Work from Home -12 272 £500 -3.57% 43
UK excluding London -46 255 £475 - 58
Midlands -25 77 £469 -1.26% 8
West Midlands -25 72 £469 -1.26% 5
North of England -60 64 £500 +2.56% 25
Scotland -11 47 £450 -9.01% 1
North West -43 33 £525 +10.53% 6
South West -20 31 £466 -15.23% 9
South East -60 28 £575 +35.29% 13
Yorkshire -45 17 £550 +4.76% 6
North East -26 14 £444 -1.39% 13
East of England -32 8 £400 -20.00% 2
East Midlands -17 4 £425 -7.41% 3
Wales - 4 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland 0 1 - -

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 86 (11.39%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (11.13%) Confluence
3 65 (8.61%) Apache Spark
4 54 (7.15%) Apache
5 23 (3.05%) SAS
6 11 (1.46%) nginx
7 9 (1.19%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.79%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.53%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) Mule
12 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 744 (98.54%) AWS
2 475 (62.91%) Serverless
3 467 (61.85%) AWS Lambda
4 271 (35.89%) Amazon EC2
5 226 (29.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 164 (21.72%) Amazon ECS
7 154 (20.40%) GitHub
8 153 (20.26%) Amazon EKS
9 146 (19.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 141 (18.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 115 (15.23%) Amazon SQS
12 112 (14.83%) Azure
12 112 (14.83%) GitHub Actions
13 96 (12.72%) Amazon EMR
14 85 (11.26%) Snowflake
15 83 (10.99%) dbt
16 79 (10.46%) AWS Step Functions
17 64 (8.48%) Power Platform
18 56 (7.42%) AWS KMS
19 46 (6.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.31%) Firewall
2 24 (3.18%) DNS
3 14 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.72%) VPN
5 11 (1.46%) Network Security
5 11 (1.46%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.79%) HTTP
6 6 (0.79%) WAN
7 5 (0.66%) CTI
8 4 (0.53%) DHCP
8 4 (0.53%) Internet
8 4 (0.53%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) BGP
9 3 (0.40%) NAS
9 3 (0.40%) NetScaler
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
9 3 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.40%) SAN
10 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (24.37%) Amazon RDS
2 149 (19.74%) Amazon Athena
3 129 (17.09%) DynamoDB
4 128 (16.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 98 (12.98%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (11.13%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (8.48%) Power BI
8 61 (8.08%) Data Lake
9 49 (6.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 43 (5.70%) Metadata
11 36 (4.77%) Relational Database
12 33 (4.37%) MongoDB
13 32 (4.24%) NoSQL
14 31 (4.11%) Big Data
15 30 (3.97%) Tableau
16 25 (3.31%) BigQuery
16 25 (3.31%) SQL Server
17 21 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
17 21 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (2.38%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 151 (20.00%) Git
2 149 (19.74%) Jenkins
3 145 (19.21%) GitLab
4 92 (12.19%) JIRA
5 33 (4.37%) SonarQube
6 32 (4.24%) Bitbucket
7 28 (3.71%) JUnit
8 24 (3.18%) Maven
8 24 (3.18%) Mockito
9 18 (2.38%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.85%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.72%) jMock
12 11 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.32%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.06%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.06%) Postman
15 6 (0.79%) MLflow
16 5 (0.66%) Selenium
17 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 3 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 189 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 158 (20.93%) Public Sector
3 125 (16.56%) Finance
4 66 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (5.56%) Banking
6 20 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.72%) Front Office
8 11 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.79%) Back Office
10 6 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.79%) Law
10 6 (0.79%) Legal
10 6 (0.79%) Marketing
10 6 (0.79%) Military
11 5 (0.66%) Billing
12 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.53%) Retail
12 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 177 (23.44%) Data Engineer
2 142 (18.81%) Developer
3 139 (18.41%) AWS Engineer
4 108 (14.30%) Senior
5 94 (12.45%) Lead
6 87 (11.52%) Architect
7 62 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.36%) AWS Data Engineer
9 46 (6.09%) Java Developer
10 45 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (5.43%) Senior Data Engineer
12 38 (5.03%) AWS Architect
13 37 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
14 32 (4.24%) AWS Developer
15 28 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
15 28 (3.71%) Software Engineer
16 27 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.44%) Python Engineer
18 24 (3.18%) Data Architect
19 23 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (11.26%) PySpark
2 84 (11.13%) Kafka
3 74 (9.80%) REST
4 71 (9.40%) Spring Boot
5 70 (9.27%) Spring
6 66 (8.74%) Node.js
7 65 (8.61%) React
8 59 (7.81%) RESTful
9 58 (7.68%) AWS CDK
10 33 (4.37%) SOAP
11 29 (3.84%) FastAPI
12 27 (3.58%) AngularJS
12 27 (3.58%) OAuth
13 25 (3.31%) Web Services
14 24 (3.18%) PyTorch
15 23 (3.05%) Pandas
16 22 (2.91%) JSON
17 21 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
17 21 (2.78%) JPA
18 20 (2.65%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 191 (25.30%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.81%) Product Ownership
3 49 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.78%) NHS
5 17 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.59%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.19%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.19%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.06%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.93%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.93%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.93%) IVR
10 7 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 91 (12.05%) Linux
2 19 (2.52%) Unix
3 18 (2.38%) Windows
4 17 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.40%) AIX
7 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.26%) Android
8 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.26%) zOS
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (61.85%) CI/CD
2 316 (41.85%) DevOps
3 295 (39.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 265 (35.10%) Agile
5 185 (24.50%) Data Engineering
6 183 (24.24%) Data Pipeline
7 178 (23.58%) Analytics
8 157 (20.79%) ETL
9 154 (20.40%) Data Modelling
10 148 (19.60%) AI
10 148 (19.60%) Containerisation
11 125 (16.56%) Microservices
12 114 (15.10%) Observability
13 108 (14.30%) Machine Learning
14 105 (13.91%) Migration
15 100 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 100 (13.25%) Test Automation
16 94 (12.45%) Scrum
17 90 (11.92%) Business Intelligence
17 90 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 429 (56.82%) Python
2 272 (36.03%) SQL
3 139 (18.41%) Java
4 79 (10.46%) TypeScript
5 67 (8.87%) Bash
6 62 (8.21%) JavaScript
7 44 (5.83%) C#
8 32 (4.24%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.18%) Scala
10 22 (2.91%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.72%) Groovy
12 7 (0.93%) Bicep
13 6 (0.79%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.66%) Go
14 5 (0.66%) Perl
14 5 (0.66%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.66%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.53%) Gremlin
16 3 (0.40%) C
16 3 (0.40%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 248 (32.85%) Security Cleared
2 215 (28.48%) SC Cleared
3 70 (9.27%) AWS Certification
4 38 (5.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (2.65%) Degree
7 18 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (2.12%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.59%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.46%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.40%) CSPO
14 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.18%) QA
3 21 (2.78%) GDPR
4 14 (1.85%) SLA
5 11 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.93%) PMO
7 5 (0.66%) HL7
8 4 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.40%) NIST
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 222 (29.40%) Docker
2 15 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.59%) Squid
4 11 (1.46%) Postfix
5 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.26%) HDFS
6 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 338 (44.77%) Terraform
2 138 (18.28%) Kubernetes
3 109 (14.44%) Grafana
4 65 (8.61%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.83%) Ansible
6 16 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.99%) Argo
8 11 (1.46%) Puppet
9 9 (1.19%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.19%) Kibana
10 8 (1.06%) Consul
11 7 (0.93%) Packer
12 5 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.66%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.66%) Salt
13 4 (0.53%) Istio
13 4 (0.53%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.26%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 69 (9.14%) Databricks
2 37 (4.90%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.97%) Informatica
4 26 (3.44%) Oracle
5 25 (3.31%) Google
5 25 (3.31%) Splunk
6 24 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 23 (3.05%) Atlassian
8 21 (2.78%) Dynatrace
9 17 (2.25%) Jaspersoft
10 14 (1.85%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.59%) Teradata
12 11 (1.46%) Denodo
12 11 (1.46%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.19%) IBM
14 8 (1.06%) Foundry
14 8 (1.06%) Palantir
14 8 (1.06%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.79%) AVEVA
16 5 (0.66%) Ab Initio