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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 160 217
Rank change year-on-year -45 +57 +47
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 712 589 432
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.79% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 4.73% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 429 287
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £435 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £611
90th Percentile £738 £688 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £491
% change year-on-year -7.50% +1.83% -1.80%
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 £72.83 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.93 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.58 - -

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 19,038 12,465 13,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.68% 37.81% 34.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,627 8,314 8,713
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 624 298 187
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.31
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.45 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.40% -16.82% -5.44%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £64.61
90th Percentile £80.88 £67.08 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.13 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +61.52% -41.61% +29.67%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -44 588 £525 - 552
London -15 395 £575 - 331
Work from Home -37 249 £525 +1.11% 238
UK excluding London -84 232 £463 -7.50% 263
North of England -57 69 £463 -7.50% 76
Midlands -41 62 £461 -3.00% 28
West Midlands -44 51 £469 -1.26% 13
Scotland -33 42 £444 -13.20% 23
South West -24 29 £450 -17.62% 48
North West -53 28 £475 - 45
North East -26 22 £419 -1.47% 13
South East -65 22 £575 +36.90% 42
Yorkshire -43 19 £500 -4.76% 18
East Midlands -14 10 £405 -17.97% 15
East of England -48 8 £375 -31.82% 31
Wales - 3 £600 - 7
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 10

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 94 (13.20%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (10.25%) Confluence
3 68 (9.55%) Apache
4 67 (9.41%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.25%) SAS
6 13 (1.83%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.98%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.84%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.84%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.70%) nginx
11 4 (0.56%) PowerExchange
11 4 (0.56%) Traefik
12 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.28%) CMS
14 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.14%) Mule
14 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 693 (97.33%) AWS
2 440 (61.80%) Serverless
3 437 (61.38%) AWS Lambda
4 230 (32.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 230 (32.30%) Amazon EC2
5 158 (22.19%) GitHub
6 151 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
7 144 (20.22%) Amazon EKS
8 133 (18.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 126 (17.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 124 (17.42%) GitHub Actions
11 112 (15.73%) Azure
12 99 (13.90%) Amazon SQS
13 94 (13.20%) Amazon EMR
14 82 (11.52%) dbt
15 79 (11.10%) Snowflake
16 75 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
17 63 (8.85%) Power Platform
18 56 (7.87%) AWS KMS
19 55 (7.72%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.67%) Firewall
2 15 (2.11%) DNS
3 8 (1.12%) Network Security
4 7 (0.98%) HTTP
4 7 (0.98%) SSL
5 5 (0.70%) CTI
6 4 (0.56%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.56%) SAN
6 4 (0.56%) SMS
6 4 (0.56%) WAN
7 3 (0.42%) Internet
7 3 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.42%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.42%) VPN
8 2 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.28%) NAS
8 2 (0.28%) SMTP
8 2 (0.28%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (25.98%) Amazon RDS
2 148 (20.79%) Amazon Athena
3 129 (18.12%) DynamoDB
4 115 (16.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 99 (13.90%) PostgreSQL
6 95 (13.34%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (8.99%) Data Lake
8 63 (8.85%) Power BI
9 47 (6.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 47 (6.60%) MongoDB
10 39 (5.48%) Metadata
11 32 (4.49%) Big Data
11 32 (4.49%) Tableau
12 30 (4.21%) NoSQL
13 25 (3.51%) Apache Iceberg
14 24 (3.37%) Relational Database
14 24 (3.37%) SQL Server
15 23 (3.23%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.23%) Delta Lake
16 21 (2.95%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 147 (20.65%) GitLab
2 143 (20.08%) Git
3 127 (17.84%) Jenkins
4 74 (10.39%) JIRA
5 26 (3.65%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.67%) SonarQube
7 18 (2.53%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.53%) Maven
8 16 (2.25%) JUnit
8 16 (2.25%) Mockito
9 9 (1.26%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.98%) DbUnit
10 7 (0.98%) Postman
11 6 (0.84%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (0.84%) jMock
11 6 (0.84%) Selenium
11 6 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.56%) Flyway
General
1 171 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 153 (21.49%) Public Sector
3 133 (18.68%) Finance
4 64 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (6.74%) Banking
6 19 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.25%) Front Office
8 12 (1.69%) Back Office
8 12 (1.69%) Legal
9 10 (1.40%) Military
10 8 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.12%) Marketing
11 7 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.98%) Law
11 7 (0.98%) Publishing
12 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Billing
13 4 (0.56%) Local Government
13 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 171 (24.02%) Data Engineer
2 132 (18.54%) Senior
3 121 (16.99%) AWS Engineer
3 121 (16.99%) Developer
4 82 (11.52%) Architect
4 82 (11.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 79 (11.10%) Lead
6 56 (7.87%) Senior Data Engineer
7 46 (6.46%) AWS Data Engineer
8 38 (5.34%) AWS DevOps
9 35 (4.92%) Java Developer
10 34 (4.78%) AWS Architect
11 32 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.35%) AWS Developer
13 30 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 30 (4.21%) Data Architect
14 24 (3.37%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 24 (3.37%) Snowflake Engineer
15 23 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
15 23 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (45.93%) Terraform
2 91 (12.78%) REST
3 84 (11.80%) Kafka
4 78 (10.96%) PySpark
5 62 (8.71%) Spring Boot
6 61 (8.57%) Spring
7 59 (8.29%) React
8 57 (8.01%) RESTful
9 50 (7.02%) Node.js
10 42 (5.90%) AWS CDK
11 31 (4.35%) FastAPI
12 28 (3.93%) SOAP
13 27 (3.79%) AngularJS
14 24 (3.37%) JSON
15 23 (3.23%) .NET
15 23 (3.23%) GraphQL
16 21 (2.95%) OAuth
17 20 (2.81%) Pandas
18 18 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
19 17 (2.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 188 (26.40%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.71%) Product Ownership
3 39 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.95%) NHS
4 21 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (1.97%) AI Agents
6 14 (1.97%) Replication
7 13 (1.83%) IVR
7 13 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.26%) Legacy Code
11 8 (1.12%) Clustering
11 8 (1.12%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.12%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.98%) Fixed Income
12 7 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 93 (13.06%) Linux
2 26 (3.65%) Unix
3 21 (2.95%) Windows
4 14 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.40%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.56%) AIX
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.28%) Android
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (63.34%) CI/CD
2 315 (44.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 310 (43.54%) DevOps
4 272 (38.20%) Agile
5 188 (26.40%) Data Pipeline
6 182 (25.56%) Data Engineering
7 158 (22.19%) Analytics
8 139 (19.52%) Data Modelling
9 137 (19.24%) ETL
10 134 (18.82%) Containerisation
11 131 (18.40%) AI
12 130 (18.26%) Observability
13 113 (15.87%) Microservices
14 112 (15.73%) Migration
15 110 (15.45%) Event-Driven
16 109 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
17 102 (14.33%) Technical Leadership
18 101 (14.19%) Test Automation
19 93 (13.06%) Machine Learning
20 91 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 394 (55.34%) Python
2 269 (37.78%) SQL
3 119 (16.71%) Java
4 78 (10.96%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.69%) Bash
6 56 (7.87%) JavaScript
7 26 (3.65%) PowerShell
8 24 (3.37%) C#
9 23 (3.23%) Scala
10 22 (3.09%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.53%) Groovy
12 15 (2.11%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.12%) Bicep
14 7 (0.98%) Go
14 7 (0.98%) Perl
15 5 (0.70%) R
16 4 (0.56%) Cypher
16 4 (0.56%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 236 (33.15%) Security Cleared
2 217 (30.48%) SC Cleared
3 92 (12.92%) AWS Certification
4 46 (6.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (5.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (3.79%) Degree
7 17 (2.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.26%) CISM
11 9 (1.26%) CISSP
12 8 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.98%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.42%) CSPO
16 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (17.98%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.60%) QA
3 17 (2.39%) GDPR
4 15 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.40%) NIST
6 7 (0.98%) SLA
7 6 (0.84%) HL7
8 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.56%) NCSC
9 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.28%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 223 (31.32%) Docker
2 17 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.98%) Postfix
4 5 (0.70%) Squid
4 5 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.42%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.28%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.28%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 143 (20.08%) Kubernetes
2 104 (14.61%) Grafana
3 58 (8.15%) Prometheus
4 42 (5.90%) Ansible
5 17 (2.39%) Argo
6 16 (2.25%) Kibana
7 12 (1.69%) Karpenter
8 11 (1.54%) Puppet
9 10 (1.40%) Istio
10 8 (1.12%) Packer
11 6 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (0.56%) Salt
14 3 (0.42%) Control-M
14 3 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.42%) systemd
15 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.28%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (8.01%) Databricks
2 52 (7.30%) Oracle
3 42 (5.90%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.07%) Informatica
5 23 (3.23%) Splunk
6 22 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.53%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.39%) Google
9 14 (1.97%) Teradata
10 13 (1.83%) Confluent
10 13 (1.83%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.69%) Denodo
12 11 (1.54%) OpenAI
13 10 (1.40%) Jaspersoft
14 9 (1.26%) Atlassian
15 8 (1.12%) Foundry
15 8 (1.12%) Palantir
16 7 (0.98%) Brio
16 7 (0.98%) IBM
16 7 (0.98%) webMethods