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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 172 240
Rank change year-on-year -17 +68 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 655 472 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.61% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.84% 4.28% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 368 339
10th Percentile £358 £400 £405
25th Percentile £434 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -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 17,046 11,024 13,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.80% 37.60% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,541 7,640 9,911
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 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 253 342
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.92
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.78% +30.95% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.75 £48.00 £34.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.50 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.53 £17.69
% change year-on-year +120.67% +21.68% -28.15%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -4 559 £525 -2.33% 175
London +25 385 £550 - 83
UK excluding London -55 208 £475 -5.00% 106
Work from Home -18 186 £500 -4.76% 88
Midlands -25 66 £475 -2.56% 9
West Midlands -11 62 £475 -5.00% 5
North of England -52 49 £500 +2.56% 37
Scotland -33 35 £447 -10.60% 7
South East -33 30 £569 +12.62% 26
North West -40 25 £475 +2.70% 21
South West -25 17 £450 -18.18% 20
Yorkshire -56 15 £500 -4.76% 11
North East -14 9 £475 -23.91% 5
East of England -30 7 £450 -10.00% 7
Northern Ireland +4 4 £400 -20.00%
East Midlands -30 4 £413 -10.13% 4
Wales -14 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 75 (11.45%) Apache Spark
2 69 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (7.48%) Apache
4 47 (7.18%) Confluence
5 21 (3.21%) 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%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 650 (99.24%) AWS
2 406 (61.98%) Serverless
3 397 (60.61%) AWS Lambda
4 238 (36.34%) Amazon EC2
5 170 (25.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 156 (23.82%) Amazon ECS
7 150 (22.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 130 (19.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 129 (19.69%) Amazon EKS
10 127 (19.39%) GitHub
11 102 (15.57%) Azure
12 92 (14.05%) Amazon SQS
13 91 (13.89%) AWS Step Functions
14 88 (13.44%) GitHub Actions
15 69 (10.53%) Snowflake
16 59 (9.01%) Amazon EMR
17 56 (8.55%) dbt
18 52 (7.94%) Power Platform
19 50 (7.63%) Route 53
20 49 (7.48%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.73%) DNS
2 20 (3.05%) Firewall
3 15 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.14%) VPN
5 12 (1.83%) Network Security
6 11 (1.68%) 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%) OSPF
10 2 (0.31%) Internet
10 2 (0.31%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.31%) Multicast
10 2 (0.31%) NAS
10 2 (0.31%) SAN
10 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.31%) SSL
10 2 (0.31%) VLAN
10 2 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (24.73%) Amazon RDS
2 130 (19.85%) Amazon Athena
3 105 (16.03%) PostgreSQL
4 104 (15.88%) DynamoDB
5 100 (15.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 54 (8.24%) Data Lake
6 54 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (8.09%) Amazon Aurora
8 52 (7.94%) Power BI
9 39 (5.95%) Relational Database
10 38 (5.80%) NoSQL
11 34 (5.19%) Metadata
12 31 (4.73%) SQL Server
12 31 (4.73%) Tableau
13 29 (4.43%) Big Data
14 26 (3.97%) MongoDB
15 24 (3.66%) BigQuery
16 23 (3.51%) Apache Iceberg
16 23 (3.51%) OLTP
17 19 (2.90%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 137 (20.92%) Jenkins
2 135 (20.61%) GitLab
3 115 (17.56%) Git
4 60 (9.16%) JIRA
5 28 (4.27%) SonarQube
6 26 (3.97%) Bitbucket
7 25 (3.82%) JUnit
8 23 (3.51%) Maven
9 18 (2.75%) Mockito
10 12 (1.83%) MLflow
11 11 (1.68%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.68%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.68%) jMock
12 9 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.37%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.22%) Postman
14 7 (1.07%) Artifactory
15 6 (0.92%) Selenium
16 5 (0.76%) Gradle
17 4 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 158 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 120 (18.32%) Finance
3 106 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 66 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.19%) Banking
6 21 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.29%) Front Office
8 14 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.22%) 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%) Retail
12 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.31%) Billing
13 2 (0.31%) Games
13 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.31%) Law
13 2 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 154 (23.51%) Data Engineer
2 131 (20.00%) Developer
3 101 (15.42%) AWS Engineer
4 86 (13.13%) Senior
5 80 (12.21%) Architect
6 71 (10.84%) Lead
7 43 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 43 (6.56%) Java Developer
8 40 (6.11%) AWS Data Engineer
9 39 (5.95%) AWS Architect
10 33 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (4.73%) Senior Data Engineer
11 31 (4.73%) Site Engineer
12 29 (4.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 28 (4.27%) AWS Developer
14 27 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (4.12%) Data Architect
15 25 (3.82%) Analyst
15 25 (3.82%) Lead Data Engineer
16 23 (3.51%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (16.64%) Kafka
2 80 (12.21%) Spring
2 80 (12.21%) Spring Boot
3 65 (9.92%) RESTful
4 64 (9.77%) PySpark
5 60 (9.16%) Node.js
5 60 (9.16%) REST
6 51 (7.79%) React
7 38 (5.80%) AWS CDK
8 36 (5.50%) AngularJS
9 35 (5.34%) OAuth
10 25 (3.82%) FastAPI
10 25 (3.82%) Pandas
11 24 (3.66%) OpenID
12 23 (3.51%) PyTorch
13 21 (3.21%) SOAP
14 20 (3.05%) JPA
15 19 (2.90%) boto
15 19 (2.90%) JWT
15 19 (2.90%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 169 (25.80%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.98%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.83%) NHS
5 12 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.37%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.92%) Clustering
8 6 (0.92%) Hedge funds
8 6 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (0.92%) Mainframe
8 6 (0.92%) PACS
8 6 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.76%) Derivative
9 5 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 84 (12.82%) Linux
2 20 (3.05%) Unix
3 11 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.22%) Windows
5 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (58.17%) CI/CD
2 267 (40.76%) DevOps
3 238 (36.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 199 (30.38%) Agile
5 160 (24.43%) Analytics
6 154 (23.51%) ETL
7 152 (23.21%) Data Engineering
8 151 (23.05%) Containerisation
9 140 (21.37%) Data Pipeline
10 139 (21.22%) Data Modelling
11 112 (17.10%) Microservices
12 106 (16.18%) Observability
13 104 (15.88%) AI
14 97 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
15 85 (12.98%) Migration
16 84 (12.82%) Test Automation
17 75 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
18 74 (11.30%) Event-Driven
18 74 (11.30%) Machine Learning
19 73 (11.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 374 (57.10%) Python
2 247 (37.71%) SQL
3 138 (21.07%) Java
4 58 (8.85%) TypeScript
5 53 (8.09%) Bash
6 51 (7.79%) C#
7 46 (7.02%) JavaScript
8 29 (4.43%) PowerShell
9 28 (4.27%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.51%) Scala
11 12 (1.83%) Go
12 7 (1.07%) Bicep
12 7 (1.07%) Groovy
13 6 (0.92%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.46%) C++
15 3 (0.46%) Perl
15 3 (0.46%) R
16 2 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 215 (32.82%) Security Cleared
2 176 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.18%) AWS Certification
4 19 (2.90%) Degree
5 17 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.68%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.22%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.46%) OCP
14 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.46%) PhD
14 3 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (12.98%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.27%) QA
3 27 (4.12%) GDPR
4 14 (2.14%) SLA
5 10 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.22%) 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
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 204 (31.15%) Docker
2 11 (1.68%) 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
Systems Management
1 289 (44.12%) Terraform
2 147 (22.44%) Kubernetes
3 108 (16.49%) Grafana
4 67 (10.23%) Prometheus
5 47 (7.18%) Ansible
6 18 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.29%) Puppet
8 12 (1.83%) Kibana
8 12 (1.83%) 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
12 4 (0.61%) Salt
13 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.46%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 76 (11.60%) Databricks
2 38 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.73%) Splunk
4 27 (4.12%) Google
5 20 (3.05%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.60%) Oracle
7 15 (2.29%) Informatica
7 15 (2.29%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.14%) Jaspersoft
8 14 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.68%) Denodo
10 9 (1.37%) Confluent
10 9 (1.37%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.22%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.92%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.92%) IBM
12 6 (0.92%) SAP
12 6 (0.92%) Teradata
13 5 (0.76%) Ab Initio