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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 166 227
Rank change year-on-year -40 +61 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 719 551 436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.37% 1.68% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 4.50% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 407 303
10th Percentile £386 £400 £405
25th Percentile £447 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.20%
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 £77.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £79.40 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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 18,544 12,257 13,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.35% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,240 8,205 9,347
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £616 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.14% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 314 288
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £69.94 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £82.94 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.75%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -22 595 £528 +0.48% 125
London +7 397 £567 +1.23% 70
Work from Home -22 260 £513 -1.30% 62
UK excluding London -61 241 £475 - 67
Midlands -32 73 £470 -1.16% 12
West Midlands -33 66 £475 - 8
North of England -65 60 £500 - 23
Scotland -25 44 £445 -11.10% 3
South West -19 31 £466 -14.06% 10
North West -51 27 £518 +8.95% 4
South East -65 26 £563 +32.35% 14
Yorkshire -48 17 £550 +4.76% 6
North East -33 16 £444 -1.39% 13
East of England -32 7 £400 -20.00% 6
East Midlands -12 6 £450 -9.64% 4
Wales - 4 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland -1 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 81 (11.27%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (10.99%) Confluence
3 65 (9.04%) Apache Spark
4 53 (7.37%) Apache
5 23 (3.20%) SAS
6 9 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.97%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.83%) nginx
10 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.28%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 707 (98.33%) AWS
2 447 (62.17%) Serverless
3 439 (61.06%) AWS Lambda
4 254 (35.33%) Amazon EC2
5 223 (31.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 153 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
7 148 (20.58%) GitHub
8 138 (19.19%) Amazon EKS
8 138 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 137 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 108 (15.02%) Azure
11 107 (14.88%) Amazon SQS
11 107 (14.88%) GitHub Actions
12 94 (13.07%) Amazon EMR
13 84 (11.68%) Snowflake
14 81 (11.27%) dbt
15 78 (10.85%) AWS Step Functions
16 63 (8.76%) Power Platform
17 59 (8.21%) AWS KMS
18 45 (6.26%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.50%) Firewall
2 17 (2.36%) DNS
3 10 (1.39%) Network Security
4 8 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.83%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.83%) VPN
6 5 (0.70%) CTI
7 4 (0.56%) DHCP
7 4 (0.56%) HTTP
7 4 (0.56%) Internet
7 4 (0.56%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.56%) SSL
7 4 (0.56%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.28%) NAS
9 2 (0.28%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) SMS
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
10 1 (0.14%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (24.48%) Amazon RDS
2 147 (20.45%) Amazon Athena
3 128 (17.80%) DynamoDB
4 122 (16.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 93 (12.93%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (11.68%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (8.76%) Power BI
8 61 (8.48%) Data Lake
9 49 (6.82%) Amazon Aurora
10 43 (5.98%) Metadata
11 33 (4.59%) MongoDB
11 33 (4.59%) Relational Database
12 32 (4.45%) Big Data
13 31 (4.31%) NoSQL
14 29 (4.03%) Tableau
15 25 (3.48%) SQL Server
16 23 (3.20%) BigQuery
17 21 (2.92%) Apache Iceberg
18 20 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
19 18 (2.50%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 142 (19.75%) Git
2 141 (19.61%) Jenkins
3 137 (19.05%) GitLab
4 84 (11.68%) JIRA
5 28 (3.89%) SonarQube
6 27 (3.76%) Bitbucket
6 27 (3.76%) JUnit
7 24 (3.34%) Mockito
8 21 (2.92%) Maven
9 19 (2.64%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.95%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.81%) jMock
12 11 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.39%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.97%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.97%) Postman
15 5 (0.70%) Selenium
15 5 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 184 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 160 (22.25%) Public Sector
3 123 (17.11%) Finance
4 63 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (6.12%) Banking
6 14 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (1.95%) Front Office
7 11 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (0.97%) Back Office
9 7 (0.97%) Law
9 7 (0.97%) Marketing
9 7 (0.97%) Military
10 6 (0.83%) Legal
11 5 (0.70%) Billing
11 5 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Retail
12 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.42%) Games
Job Titles
1 166 (23.09%) Data Engineer
2 135 (18.78%) Developer
3 133 (18.50%) AWS Engineer
4 104 (14.46%) Senior
5 91 (12.66%) Lead
6 88 (12.24%) Architect
7 59 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (6.26%) AWS Data Engineer
9 43 (5.98%) Java Developer
10 41 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (5.70%) Senior Data Engineer
11 36 (5.01%) AWS Architect
12 35 (4.87%) AWS DevOps
13 32 (4.45%) AWS Developer
14 29 (4.03%) Data Architect
15 27 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
16 25 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 22 (3.06%) Software Engineer
18 21 (2.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 21 (2.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.54%) PySpark
2 78 (10.85%) Kafka
3 73 (10.15%) REST
4 64 (8.90%) Node.js
5 62 (8.62%) Spring Boot
6 61 (8.48%) React
6 61 (8.48%) Spring
7 57 (7.93%) RESTful
8 55 (7.65%) AWS CDK
9 32 (4.45%) SOAP
10 28 (3.89%) AngularJS
11 27 (3.76%) FastAPI
12 25 (3.48%) Web Services
13 24 (3.34%) OAuth
14 23 (3.20%) JSON
15 21 (2.92%) ActiveMQ
15 21 (2.92%) JPA
16 20 (2.78%) Pandas
16 20 (2.78%) PyTorch
17 19 (2.64%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 174 (24.20%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.34%) Product Ownership
3 47 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.92%) NHS
5 18 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.81%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.25%) IVR
7 9 (1.25%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.25%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (1.11%) Legacy Code
8 8 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.97%) Fixed Income
9 7 (0.97%) Hedge funds
9 7 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 87 (12.10%) Linux
2 21 (2.92%) Unix
2 21 (2.92%) Windows
3 17 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.56%) AIX
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.28%) zOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (61.89%) CI/CD
2 297 (41.31%) DevOps
3 287 (39.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 263 (36.58%) Agile
5 185 (25.73%) Data Pipeline
6 178 (24.76%) Data Engineering
7 173 (24.06%) Analytics
8 149 (20.72%) Data Modelling
9 144 (20.03%) ETL
10 141 (19.61%) AI
11 136 (18.92%) Containerisation
12 120 (16.69%) Microservices
13 115 (15.99%) Observability
14 102 (14.19%) Migration
15 99 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 96 (13.35%) Machine Learning
16 96 (13.35%) Test Automation
17 93 (12.93%) Scrum
18 89 (12.38%) Event-Driven
19 86 (11.96%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 409 (56.88%) Python
2 260 (36.16%) SQL
3 128 (17.80%) Java
4 79 (10.99%) TypeScript
5 70 (9.74%) Bash
6 61 (8.48%) JavaScript
7 38 (5.29%) C#
8 31 (4.31%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.20%) Scala
9 23 (3.20%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.81%) Groovy
11 7 (0.97%) Bicep
12 6 (0.83%) SAS Macro
12 6 (0.83%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.70%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.70%) Perl
13 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.56%) Cypher
15 3 (0.42%) Go
15 3 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 246 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 217 (30.18%) SC Cleared
3 70 (9.74%) AWS Certification
4 39 (5.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.64%) Degree
7 18 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 18 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.53%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.83%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.42%) CSPO
13 3 (0.42%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.28%) CISM
14 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (15.72%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.34%) QA
3 22 (3.06%) GDPR
4 14 (1.95%) SLA
5 12 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.97%) PMO
7 5 (0.70%) HL7
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.28%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 206 (28.65%) Docker
2 15 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.53%) Postfix
4 7 (0.97%) Squid
5 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 316 (43.95%) Terraform
2 122 (16.97%) Kubernetes
3 102 (14.19%) Grafana
4 55 (7.65%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.70%) Ansible
6 18 (2.50%) Argo
7 11 (1.53%) Puppet
7 11 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.39%) Kibana
9 7 (0.97%) Packer
10 6 (0.83%) Istio
11 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.70%) Salt
12 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.56%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.42%) Consul
13 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 66 (9.18%) Databricks
2 35 (4.87%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.31%) Informatica
4 29 (4.03%) Oracle
5 25 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.48%) Splunk
6 21 (2.92%) Google
7 18 (2.50%) Atlassian
8 17 (2.36%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.36%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (1.53%) Denodo
9 11 (1.53%) Teradata
10 10 (1.39%) IBM
10 10 (1.39%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.11%) Foundry
11 8 (1.11%) Palantir
11 8 (1.11%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.83%) Confluent
12 6 (0.83%) VMware