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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 176 230
Rank change year-on-year -19 +54 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 658 471 443
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.39% 1.61% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 4.28% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 366 343
10th Percentile £358 £400 £405
25th Percentile £432 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £689 £700 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -3.25% -1.96% +2.00%
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 16,967 11,008 14,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 37.62% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,527 7,641 9,994
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £632
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.32% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 250 346
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.02
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.58 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.72
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.11% -28.03%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -4 562 £525 -2.78% 146
London +19 382 £530 -3.64% 70
UK excluding London -43 212 £484 -3.25% 88
Work from Home -12 192 £500 -5.66% 70
Midlands -32 65 £475 -2.56% 9
West Midlands -17 61 £475 -5.00% 6
North of England -53 52 £500 +5.26% 30
Scotland -34 34 £447 -10.60% 3
South East -38 30 £563 +11.39% 23
North West -39 25 £475 +2.70% 20
South West -18 20 £450 -18.18% 14
Yorkshire -46 18 £500 -4.76% 7
North East -14 9 £475 -23.91% 3
East of England -23 7 £450 -10.00% 8
Northern Ireland +7 4 £400 -20.00%
East Midlands -31 4 £413 -10.13% 3
Wales -7 2 £363 -9.38% 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 76 (11.55%) Apache Spark
2 70 (10.64%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (7.60%) Apache
4 46 (6.99%) Confluence
5 21 (3.19%) SAS
6 10 (1.52%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 653 (99.24%) AWS
2 411 (62.46%) Serverless
3 402 (61.09%) AWS Lambda
4 246 (37.39%) Amazon EC2
5 177 (26.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 160 (24.32%) Amazon ECS
7 154 (23.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 135 (20.52%) GitHub
9 134 (20.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 130 (19.76%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (15.65%) Azure
12 95 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
13 92 (13.98%) AWS Step Functions
14 90 (13.68%) Amazon SQS
15 67 (10.18%) Snowflake
16 59 (8.97%) Amazon EMR
17 55 (8.36%) Route 53
18 53 (8.05%) Power Platform
19 52 (7.90%) dbt
20 51 (7.75%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.02%) DNS
2 23 (3.50%) Firewall
3 16 (2.43%) VPN
4 15 (2.28%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.82%) Network Security
6 11 (1.67%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.76%) DHCP
7 5 (0.76%) HTTP
8 4 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.46%) BGP
9 3 (0.46%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.46%) OSPF
10 2 (0.30%) Internet
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) NAS
10 2 (0.30%) SAN
10 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.30%) SSL
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
10 2 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (25.68%) Amazon RDS
2 126 (19.15%) Amazon Athena
3 112 (17.02%) PostgreSQL
4 109 (16.57%) DynamoDB
5 99 (15.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 57 (8.66%) Data Lake
7 55 (8.36%) Data Warehouse
8 54 (8.21%) Amazon Aurora
9 53 (8.05%) Power BI
10 41 (6.23%) Relational Database
11 39 (5.93%) NoSQL
12 33 (5.02%) Tableau
13 32 (4.86%) Metadata
14 30 (4.56%) Big Data
14 30 (4.56%) SQL Server
15 29 (4.41%) MongoDB
16 24 (3.65%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.50%) OLTP
18 21 (3.19%) Apache Iceberg
19 20 (3.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 143 (21.73%) Jenkins
2 135 (20.52%) GitLab
3 119 (18.09%) Git
4 59 (8.97%) JIRA
5 28 (4.26%) SonarQube
6 26 (3.95%) Bitbucket
7 25 (3.80%) JUnit
8 24 (3.65%) Maven
9 18 (2.74%) Mockito
10 15 (2.28%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.82%) MLflow
12 11 (1.67%) DbUnit
12 11 (1.67%) jMock
13 9 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.37%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.22%) Postman
15 7 (1.06%) Artifactory
16 6 (0.91%) Gradle
16 6 (0.91%) Selenium
17 4 (0.61%) NUnit
General
1 159 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 118 (17.93%) Finance
3 108 (16.41%) Public Sector
4 67 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.17%) Banking
6 22 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.98%) Front Office
9 7 (1.06%) Legal
10 5 (0.76%) Military
11 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.30%) Billing
13 2 (0.30%) Games
13 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Law
13 2 (0.30%) Local Government
13 2 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 151 (22.95%) Data Engineer
2 132 (20.06%) Developer
3 107 (16.26%) AWS Engineer
4 85 (12.92%) Senior
5 77 (11.70%) Architect
6 70 (10.64%) Lead
7 45 (6.84%) Java Developer
8 44 (6.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 41 (6.23%) AWS Data Engineer
10 38 (5.78%) AWS Architect
11 33 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.71%) Site Engineer
13 30 (4.56%) Senior Data Engineer
14 29 (4.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (4.26%) AWS Developer
16 27 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
17 25 (3.80%) Analyst
17 25 (3.80%) Data Architect
17 25 (3.80%) Lead Data Engineer
18 23 (3.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (16.72%) Kafka
2 82 (12.46%) Spring
2 82 (12.46%) Spring Boot
3 71 (10.79%) RESTful
4 65 (9.88%) Node.js
5 61 (9.27%) PySpark
6 58 (8.81%) REST
7 52 (7.90%) React
8 39 (5.93%) AWS CDK
9 38 (5.78%) AngularJS
10 37 (5.62%) OAuth
11 25 (3.80%) Pandas
12 24 (3.65%) FastAPI
12 24 (3.65%) OpenID
13 23 (3.50%) PyTorch
14 22 (3.34%) CSS
14 22 (3.34%) SOAP
15 21 (3.19%) JWT
16 20 (3.04%) JPA
17 19 (2.89%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 168 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.98%) NHS
4 13 (1.98%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.91%) Clustering
8 6 (0.91%) Hedge funds
8 6 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (0.91%) PACS
8 6 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.76%) Derivative
9 5 (0.76%) Mainframe
9 5 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 89 (13.53%) Linux
2 22 (3.34%) Unix
3 13 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.22%) Windows
5 7 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.30%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (59.27%) CI/CD
2 270 (41.03%) DevOps
3 245 (37.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 201 (30.55%) Agile
5 161 (24.47%) Analytics
6 155 (23.56%) ETL
7 153 (23.25%) Containerisation
8 147 (22.34%) Data Engineering
9 142 (21.58%) Data Pipeline
10 139 (21.12%) Data Modelling
11 114 (17.33%) Microservices
12 105 (15.96%) Observability
13 103 (15.65%) AI
14 98 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
15 85 (12.92%) Migration
15 85 (12.92%) Test Automation
16 78 (11.85%) Software Engineering
17 74 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
18 73 (11.09%) Machine Learning
19 71 (10.79%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 375 (56.99%) Python
2 249 (37.84%) SQL
3 140 (21.28%) Java
4 59 (8.97%) TypeScript
5 56 (8.51%) Bash
6 51 (7.75%) C#
6 51 (7.75%) JavaScript
7 30 (4.56%) Shell Script
8 28 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.50%) Scala
10 12 (1.82%) Go
11 7 (1.06%) Groovy
12 6 (0.91%) Bicep
12 6 (0.91%) SAS Macro
13 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.46%) C++
14 3 (0.46%) JSX
14 3 (0.46%) Perl
14 3 (0.46%) R
15 2 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 225 (34.19%) Security Cleared
2 182 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.45%) AWS Certification
4 18 (2.74%) Degree
5 17 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.46%) OCP
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.46%) PhD
13 3 (0.46%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (12.92%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.41%) GDPR
2 29 (4.41%) QA
3 14 (2.13%) SLA
4 10 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.22%) NIST
6 7 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.06%) PMO
7 6 (0.91%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.30%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 213 (32.37%) Docker
2 11 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.52%) Postfix
3 10 (1.52%) Squid
4 6 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.61%) HDFS
6 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 300 (45.59%) Terraform
2 151 (22.95%) Kubernetes
3 108 (16.41%) Grafana
4 67 (10.18%) Prometheus
5 51 (7.75%) Ansible
6 18 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.28%) Puppet
8 12 (1.82%) Kibana
8 12 (1.82%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.37%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.22%) Consul
11 5 (0.76%) Argo
11 5 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.76%) Karpenter
11 5 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.61%) Packer
12 4 (0.61%) Salt
13 3 (0.46%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.46%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.46%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 76 (11.55%) Databricks
2 37 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 36 (5.47%) Splunk
4 27 (4.10%) Google
5 20 (3.04%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.58%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.58%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.43%) Oracle
8 15 (2.28%) Informatica
9 14 (2.13%) Jaspersoft
9 14 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.67%) Denodo
11 9 (1.37%) Confluent
11 9 (1.37%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.91%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.91%) IBM
13 6 (0.91%) SAP
13 6 (0.91%) Teradata
14 5 (0.76%) Dell