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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 165 228
Rank change year-on-year -18 +63 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 680 485 454
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.65% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.05% 4.34% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 375 357
10th Percentile £357 £400 £405
25th Percentile £426 £463 £438
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 £688 £700 £694
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 16,796 11,169 14,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.29% 37.93% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,432 7,781 9,965
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +0.84% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 248 344
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £18.68 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.78 £27.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.59% +31.57% -37.31%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.15 £61.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.94% -26.25%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -3 585 £525 -4.55% 154
London +11 404 £525 -8.70% 66
UK excluding London -50 207 £484 -3.25% 108
Work from Home -7 197 £500 -4.76% 87
Midlands -26 61 £475 +5.56% 13
West Midlands -20 57 £488 -4.88% 9
North of England -45 53 £500 +5.26% 39
South East -37 30 £563 +3.69% 17
Scotland -36 29 £440 -12.00% 14
North West -40 27 £450 +5.88% 24
South West -14 22 £525 -3.89% 11
Yorkshire -57 19 £500 -4.76% 10
North East -11 7 £525 -15.90% 5
East of England -27 7 £450 -10.00% 11
Northern Ireland +5 4 £400 -20.00% 5
East Midlands -36 4 £413 +1.73% 4
Wales -7 2 £363 -9.38%

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 (11.91%) Apache Spark
2 77 (11.32%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (7.94%) Apache
4 37 (5.44%) Confluence
5 15 (2.21%) SAS
6 10 (1.47%) nginx
7 4 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.29%) Apache Superset
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 675 (99.26%) AWS
2 419 (61.62%) Serverless
3 410 (60.29%) AWS Lambda
4 255 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
5 177 (26.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 168 (24.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 165 (24.26%) Amazon ECS
8 138 (20.29%) GitHub
9 134 (19.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 126 (18.53%) Amazon EKS
11 115 (16.91%) Azure
12 95 (13.97%) AWS Step Functions
13 93 (13.68%) GitHub Actions
14 90 (13.24%) Amazon SQS
15 70 (10.29%) Snowflake
16 57 (8.38%) Amazon EMR
16 57 (8.38%) Route 53
17 55 (8.09%) GCP
18 54 (7.94%) dbt
19 53 (7.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.85%) DNS
2 24 (3.53%) Firewall
3 16 (2.35%) VPN
4 14 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.76%) Network Security
6 11 (1.62%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.74%) DHCP
8 4 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.44%) BGP
9 3 (0.44%) HTTP
9 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.44%) OSPF
10 2 (0.29%) Internet
10 2 (0.29%) Multicast
10 2 (0.29%) NAS
10 2 (0.29%) SAN
10 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.29%) VLAN
10 2 (0.29%) WAN
11 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (25.44%) Amazon RDS
2 130 (19.12%) Amazon Athena
3 118 (17.35%) PostgreSQL
4 111 (16.32%) DynamoDB
5 101 (14.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 56 (8.24%) Data Lake
7 54 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
8 53 (7.79%) Power BI
9 52 (7.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 50 (7.35%) Relational Database
11 41 (6.03%) NoSQL
12 36 (5.29%) Tableau
13 35 (5.15%) MongoDB
14 33 (4.85%) Metadata
15 30 (4.41%) Big Data
15 30 (4.41%) SQL Server
16 26 (3.82%) BigQuery
17 25 (3.68%) OLTP
18 24 (3.53%) MySQL
19 21 (3.09%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 143 (21.03%) Jenkins
2 132 (19.41%) GitLab
3 121 (17.79%) Git
4 51 (7.50%) JIRA
5 28 (4.12%) JUnit
5 28 (4.12%) SonarQube
6 24 (3.53%) Maven
7 23 (3.38%) Bitbucket
8 18 (2.65%) Mockito
9 15 (2.21%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.62%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.62%) jMock
10 11 (1.62%) MLflow
11 9 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (1.18%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.03%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.03%) Postman
14 6 (0.88%) Gradle
14 6 (0.88%) Selenium
15 4 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 163 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 124 (18.24%) Finance
3 108 (15.88%) Public Sector
4 75 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.29%) Banking
6 26 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.06%) Front Office
7 14 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (0.88%) Legal
9 5 (0.74%) Military
10 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.29%) Billing
12 2 (0.29%) Games
12 2 (0.29%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.29%) Law
12 2 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 159 (23.38%) Data Engineer
2 137 (20.15%) Developer
3 106 (15.59%) AWS Engineer
4 86 (12.65%) Senior
5 80 (11.76%) Architect
6 70 (10.29%) Lead
7 51 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (7.21%) Java Developer
9 41 (6.03%) AWS Architect
10 39 (5.74%) AWS Data Engineer
11 35 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.71%) Site Engineer
13 31 (4.56%) AWS Developer
14 30 (4.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
15 28 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
16 26 (3.82%) Lead Data Engineer
17 25 (3.68%) Analyst
17 25 (3.68%) Data Architect
18 24 (3.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (17.79%) Kafka
2 86 (12.65%) Spring Boot
3 85 (12.50%) Spring
4 71 (10.44%) Node.js
5 68 (10.00%) RESTful
6 63 (9.26%) PySpark
7 57 (8.38%) REST
8 54 (7.94%) React
9 44 (6.47%) OAuth
10 42 (6.18%) AWS CDK
11 38 (5.59%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.53%) JWT
13 23 (3.38%) CSS
13 23 (3.38%) OpenID
14 21 (3.09%) SOAP
15 20 (2.94%) JPA
16 19 (2.79%) Hibernate
16 19 (2.79%) Spring Cloud
16 19 (2.79%) Web Services
17 18 (2.65%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 167 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.91%) NHS
4 13 (1.91%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.18%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.03%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.88%) Clustering
10 6 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.88%) PACS
10 6 (0.88%) SCADA
10 6 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.74%) Derivative
11 5 (0.74%) Replication
11 5 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (13.09%) Linux
2 20 (2.94%) Unix
3 14 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.18%) Windows
5 7 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (58.24%) CI/CD
2 272 (40.00%) DevOps
3 262 (38.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (28.68%) Agile
5 165 (24.26%) Analytics
6 161 (23.68%) ETL
7 156 (22.94%) Containerisation
8 154 (22.65%) Data Engineering
9 145 (21.32%) Data Pipeline
10 142 (20.88%) Data Modelling
11 119 (17.50%) Microservices
12 107 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
13 104 (15.29%) Observability
14 101 (14.85%) AI
15 84 (12.35%) Migration
16 79 (11.62%) Test Automation
17 77 (11.32%) Data Governance
18 74 (10.88%) Performance Tuning
19 72 (10.59%) Software Engineering
20 70 (10.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 385 (56.62%) Python
2 259 (38.09%) SQL
3 147 (21.62%) Java
4 62 (9.12%) TypeScript
5 57 (8.38%) Bash
6 53 (7.79%) JavaScript
7 50 (7.35%) C#
8 29 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 28 (4.12%) PowerShell
10 25 (3.68%) Scala
11 13 (1.91%) Go
12 6 (0.88%) Groovy
12 6 (0.88%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.74%) Bicep
14 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.44%) C
15 3 (0.44%) C++
15 3 (0.44%) JSX
15 3 (0.44%) Perl
15 3 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 225 (33.09%) Security Cleared
2 182 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.09%) AWS Certification
4 20 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.65%) Degree
7 17 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.44%) OCP
12 3 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.44%) PhD
12 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (13.38%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.00%) GDPR
3 31 (4.56%) QA
4 14 (2.06%) SLA
5 13 (1.91%) NIST
6 12 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.62%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.03%) PMO
9 6 (0.88%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.29%) GRC
11 2 (0.29%) GxP
11 2 (0.29%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 220 (32.35%) Docker
2 11 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.47%) Postfix
3 10 (1.47%) Squid
4 6 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.59%) HDFS
6 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 317 (46.62%) Terraform
2 159 (23.38%) Kubernetes
3 105 (15.44%) Grafana
4 73 (10.74%) Prometheus
5 59 (8.68%) Ansible
6 17 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.21%) Puppet
8 13 (1.91%) Kibana
8 13 (1.91%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.32%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.03%) Argo
10 7 (1.03%) Consul
11 6 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.74%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.59%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.59%) Istio
13 4 (0.59%) Salt
14 3 (0.44%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 78 (11.47%) Databricks
2 39 (5.74%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.74%) Splunk
3 29 (4.26%) Google
4 20 (2.94%) Atlassian
5 18 (2.65%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.06%) Jaspersoft
8 13 (1.91%) Oracle
9 11 (1.62%) Confluent
9 11 (1.62%) Informatica
10 10 (1.47%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.32%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.18%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.03%) Denodo
13 7 (1.03%) IBM
13 7 (1.03%) Sybase
14 6 (0.88%) AVEVA
14 6 (0.88%) SAP
14 6 (0.88%) Teradata