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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 178 236
Rank change year-on-year -11 +58 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 652 461 429
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.37% 1.59% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.84% 4.22% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 354 331
10th Percentile £358 £400 £405
25th Percentile £446 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year - +3.55% -7.82%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £593
90th Percentile £704 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -3.20% -1.96% +2.31%
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 17,001 10,920 13,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 37.57% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,473 7,513 9,833
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -1.97% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 247 347
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +36.51% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £36.81
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.87 £21.39 £17.72
% change year-on-year +95.76% +20.71% -29.12%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -5 559 £525 -2.33% 193
London +22 389 £550 - 83
UK excluding London -51 203 £484 -3.20% 122
Work from Home -5 186 £500 -4.76% 95
Midlands -23 64 £470 -3.59% 10
West Midlands -17 60 £475 -5.00% 8
North of England -53 52 £500 +2.56% 46
Scotland -34 34 £475 -4.95% 6
North West -26 31 £500 +5.26% 24
South East -38 29 £580 +14.85% 31
South West -23 16 £450 -18.18% 27
Yorkshire -59 13 £500 -4.76% 18
North East -14 8 £444 - 4
East of England -31 6 £450 -10.00% 3
East Midlands -29 4 £413 -10.13% 2
Northern Ireland 0 2 £400 -20.00%
Wales -6 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 68 (10.43%) Apache Spark
2 66 (10.12%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (7.67%) Confluence
4 44 (6.75%) Apache
5 21 (3.22%) SAS
6 10 (1.53%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 646 (99.08%) AWS
2 412 (63.19%) Serverless
3 403 (61.81%) AWS Lambda
4 241 (36.96%) Amazon EC2
5 174 (26.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 151 (23.16%) Amazon ECS
7 144 (22.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 132 (20.25%) GitHub
9 129 (19.79%) Amazon EKS
9 129 (19.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 98 (15.03%) Amazon SQS
11 97 (14.88%) Azure
12 94 (14.42%) GitHub Actions
13 89 (13.65%) AWS Step Functions
14 67 (10.28%) Snowflake
15 57 (8.74%) Amazon EMR
16 55 (8.44%) dbt
17 51 (7.82%) Power Platform
18 49 (7.52%) Amazon Kinesis
19 48 (7.36%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.75%) DNS
2 21 (3.22%) Firewall
3 15 (2.30%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.30%) VPN
4 11 (1.69%) Network Security
4 11 (1.69%) OpenVPN
5 5 (0.77%) DHCP
5 5 (0.77%) HTTP
6 4 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.46%) BGP
7 3 (0.46%) Internet
7 3 (0.46%) NAS
7 3 (0.46%) OSPF
7 3 (0.46%) SAN
8 2 (0.31%) CTI
8 2 (0.31%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.31%) Multicast
8 2 (0.31%) SSL
8 2 (0.31%) VLAN
8 2 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (24.39%) Amazon RDS
2 126 (19.33%) Amazon Athena
3 105 (16.10%) DynamoDB
4 95 (14.57%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (14.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 54 (8.28%) Amazon Aurora
7 53 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
8 51 (7.82%) Data Lake
8 51 (7.82%) Power BI
9 38 (5.83%) Relational Database
10 35 (5.37%) NoSQL
11 33 (5.06%) Metadata
12 30 (4.60%) Tableau
13 29 (4.45%) Big Data
14 28 (4.29%) SQL Server
15 24 (3.68%) BigQuery
15 24 (3.68%) MongoDB
16 23 (3.53%) Apache Iceberg
16 23 (3.53%) OLTP
17 20 (3.07%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 141 (21.63%) Jenkins
2 133 (20.40%) GitLab
3 117 (17.94%) Git
4 64 (9.82%) JIRA
5 28 (4.29%) SonarQube
6 27 (4.14%) Bitbucket
7 25 (3.83%) JUnit
8 22 (3.37%) Maven
9 18 (2.76%) Mockito
10 14 (2.15%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.69%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.69%) jMock
12 10 (1.53%) MLflow
13 9 (1.38%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.38%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.23%) Artifactory
15 7 (1.07%) Postman
16 6 (0.92%) Selenium
17 4 (0.61%) Gradle
17 4 (0.61%) NUnit
General
1 165 (25.31%) Social Skills
2 116 (17.79%) Finance
3 107 (16.41%) Public Sector
4 62 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.75%) Banking
6 21 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.15%) Front Office
8 12 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.92%) Legal
10 5 (0.77%) Military
11 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.46%) Retail
12 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.31%) Billing
13 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.31%) Local Government
13 2 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 149 (22.85%) Data Engineer
2 136 (20.86%) Developer
3 97 (14.88%) AWS Engineer
4 81 (12.42%) Architect
4 81 (12.42%) Senior
5 71 (10.89%) Lead
6 44 (6.75%) Java Developer
7 43 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 39 (5.98%) AWS Architect
9 37 (5.67%) AWS Data Engineer
10 34 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (4.75%) Senior Data Engineer
12 29 (4.45%) AWS Developer
13 26 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (3.99%) Data Architect
14 24 (3.68%) Lead Data Engineer
14 24 (3.68%) Site Engineer
14 24 (3.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 23 (3.53%) Python Engineer
15 23 (3.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (15.95%) Kafka
2 78 (11.96%) Spring
2 78 (11.96%) Spring Boot
3 63 (9.66%) REST
3 63 (9.66%) RESTful
4 61 (9.36%) PySpark
5 59 (9.05%) Node.js
6 52 (7.98%) React
7 44 (6.75%) AWS CDK
8 34 (5.21%) AngularJS
8 34 (5.21%) OAuth
9 26 (3.99%) FastAPI
9 26 (3.99%) Pandas
10 24 (3.68%) OpenID
10 24 (3.68%) PyTorch
11 22 (3.37%) SOAP
12 20 (3.07%) JPA
13 19 (2.91%) boto
13 19 (2.91%) Hibernate
13 19 (2.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 167 (25.61%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (7.06%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.45%) NHS
5 13 (1.99%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.38%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.07%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.07%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.92%) Clustering
10 6 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.92%) PACS
10 6 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.77%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 82 (12.58%) Linux
2 21 (3.22%) Unix
3 11 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.38%) Windows
5 5 (0.77%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.31%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.31%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (57.82%) CI/CD
2 271 (41.56%) DevOps
3 239 (36.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 198 (30.37%) Agile
5 151 (23.16%) Analytics
6 147 (22.55%) Data Engineering
7 144 (22.09%) Containerisation
8 143 (21.93%) ETL
9 134 (20.55%) Data Pipeline
10 131 (20.09%) Data Modelling
11 114 (17.48%) Microservices
12 105 (16.10%) AI
12 105 (16.10%) Observability
13 93 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
14 82 (12.58%) Test Automation
15 81 (12.42%) Migration
16 80 (12.27%) Event-Driven
17 76 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
18 74 (11.35%) Scrum
19 71 (10.89%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 361 (55.37%) Python
2 236 (36.20%) SQL
3 136 (20.86%) Java
4 65 (9.97%) TypeScript
5 53 (8.13%) C#
6 49 (7.52%) Bash
7 47 (7.21%) JavaScript
8 29 (4.45%) PowerShell
9 28 (4.29%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.37%) Scala
11 11 (1.69%) Go
12 8 (1.23%) Groovy
13 6 (0.92%) Bicep
13 6 (0.92%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.61%) Perl
14 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.46%) C++
15 3 (0.46%) R
16 2 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 209 (32.06%) Security Cleared
2 170 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.44%) AWS Certification
4 18 (2.76%) Degree
5 17 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.84%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.53%) SAFe Agilist
9 8 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.46%) OCP
11 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.46%) PhD
11 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (12.42%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.14%) QA
3 26 (3.99%) GDPR
4 14 (2.15%) SLA
5 9 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.23%) NIST
7 7 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.07%) PMO
8 6 (0.92%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.31%) GRC
10 2 (0.31%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) HL7
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 202 (30.98%) Docker
2 12 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.53%) Postfix
3 10 (1.53%) Squid
4 6 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.61%) HDFS
6 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 286 (43.87%) Terraform
2 143 (21.93%) Kubernetes
3 100 (15.34%) Grafana
4 64 (9.82%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.98%) Ansible
6 18 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.84%) Kibana
8 10 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.53%) Puppet
9 9 (1.38%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.23%) Consul
11 5 (0.77%) Argo
11 5 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.61%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.61%) Salt
13 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 68 (10.43%) Databricks
2 33 (5.06%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.60%) Splunk
4 27 (4.14%) Google
5 20 (3.07%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.61%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.61%) Oracle
7 15 (2.30%) Informatica
7 15 (2.30%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.15%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (1.69%) Denodo
10 9 (1.38%) Confluent
11 8 (1.23%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.92%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.92%) IBM
12 6 (0.92%) SAP
12 6 (0.92%) Teradata
13 5 (0.77%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.77%) Tenable