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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 167 223
Rank change year-on-year -29 +56 +34
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 742 544 446
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.41% 1.67% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.99% 4.46% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 406 320
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +3.86% -3.71%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 18,608 12,192 13,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.28% 37.37% 33.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,309 8,153 9,694
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £417 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 312 318
10th Percentile £16.61 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.56 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.04% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.19
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -25.93%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -25 616 £525 - 134
London +4 402 £550 -4.35% 73
Work from Home -12 266 £500 -3.57% 67
UK excluding London -54 256 £475 - 77
Midlands -20 79 £469 -1.26% 15
West Midlands -23 72 £469 -1.26% 9
North of England -63 62 £500 - 22
Scotland -15 47 £450 -9.01% 6
South West -14 32 £463 -15.91% 15
North West -46 30 £510 +7.37% 6
South East -58 28 £575 +35.29% 16
Yorkshire -50 17 £550 +4.76% 6
North East -24 15 £425 -5.56% 10
East of England -31 8 £400 -20.00% 3
East Midlands -12 6 £450 -9.64% 6
Wales - 4 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland +3 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 87 (11.73%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (11.46%) Confluence
3 67 (9.03%) Apache Spark
4 55 (7.41%) Apache
5 23 (3.10%) SAS
6 11 (1.48%) nginx
7 9 (1.21%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.94%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) Mule
12 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 731 (98.52%) AWS
2 464 (62.53%) Serverless
3 456 (61.46%) AWS Lambda
4 265 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
5 220 (29.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 159 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
7 147 (19.81%) GitHub
8 145 (19.54%) Amazon EKS
9 141 (19.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 139 (18.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 114 (15.36%) Amazon SQS
12 109 (14.69%) Azure
13 106 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
14 95 (12.80%) Amazon EMR
15 87 (11.73%) Snowflake
16 85 (11.46%) dbt
17 78 (10.51%) AWS Step Functions
18 64 (8.63%) Power Platform
19 57 (7.68%) AWS KMS
20 45 (6.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.10%) Firewall
2 22 (2.96%) DNS
3 14 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.48%) OpenVPN
4 11 (1.48%) VPN
5 9 (1.21%) Network Security
6 6 (0.81%) HTTP
7 5 (0.67%) CTI
8 4 (0.54%) DHCP
8 4 (0.54%) Internet
8 4 (0.54%) NetScaler
8 4 (0.54%) SSL
8 4 (0.54%) WAN
9 3 (0.40%) NAS
9 3 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.40%) SAN
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
11 1 (0.13%) AMQP
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (24.12%) Amazon RDS
2 149 (20.08%) Amazon Athena
3 131 (17.65%) DynamoDB
4 128 (17.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 97 (13.07%) PostgreSQL
6 85 (11.46%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (8.63%) Power BI
8 62 (8.36%) Data Lake
9 49 (6.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 45 (6.06%) Metadata
11 36 (4.85%) Relational Database
12 33 (4.45%) MongoDB
13 32 (4.31%) Big Data
13 32 (4.31%) NoSQL
14 30 (4.04%) Tableau
15 26 (3.50%) BigQuery
15 26 (3.50%) SQL Server
16 21 (2.83%) Apache Iceberg
17 20 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (2.43%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 148 (19.95%) Git
2 142 (19.14%) GitLab
2 142 (19.14%) Jenkins
3 91 (12.26%) JIRA
4 33 (4.45%) SonarQube
5 32 (4.31%) Bitbucket
6 27 (3.64%) JUnit
7 24 (3.23%) Maven
8 23 (3.10%) Mockito
9 18 (2.43%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.89%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.75%) jMock
12 11 (1.48%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.35%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.94%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.94%) Postman
15 6 (0.81%) MLflow
16 5 (0.67%) Selenium
16 5 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
17 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 187 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 158 (21.29%) Public Sector
3 124 (16.71%) Finance
4 65 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (5.93%) Banking
6 20 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.75%) Front Office
8 11 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.94%) Marketing
11 6 (0.81%) Back Office
11 6 (0.81%) Law
11 6 (0.81%) Legal
11 6 (0.81%) Military
12 5 (0.67%) Billing
12 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.54%) Retail
13 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 171 (23.05%) Data Engineer
2 139 (18.73%) Developer
3 135 (18.19%) AWS Engineer
4 106 (14.29%) Senior
5 90 (12.13%) Lead
6 87 (11.73%) Architect
7 61 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (6.06%) AWS Data Engineer
8 45 (6.06%) Java Developer
9 41 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 41 (5.53%) Senior Data Engineer
10 36 (4.85%) AWS Architect
10 36 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
11 32 (4.31%) AWS Developer
12 27 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (3.64%) Software Engineer
13 26 (3.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 25 (3.37%) Data Architect
14 25 (3.37%) Python Engineer
15 22 (2.96%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (11.46%) PySpark
2 82 (11.05%) Kafka
3 74 (9.97%) REST
4 68 (9.16%) Spring Boot
5 67 (9.03%) Spring
6 65 (8.76%) React
7 64 (8.63%) Node.js
8 57 (7.68%) RESTful
9 56 (7.55%) AWS CDK
10 32 (4.31%) SOAP
11 30 (4.04%) FastAPI
12 28 (3.77%) AngularJS
13 26 (3.50%) OAuth
14 25 (3.37%) Web Services
15 24 (3.23%) PyTorch
16 23 (3.10%) JSON
16 23 (3.10%) Pandas
17 21 (2.83%) ActiveMQ
17 21 (2.83%) JPA
18 20 (2.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 180 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.09%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.83%) NHS
5 17 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 12 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.21%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.21%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.08%) Legacy Code
10 7 (0.94%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.94%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.94%) IVR
10 7 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 91 (12.26%) Linux
2 21 (2.83%) Unix
3 19 (2.56%) Windows
4 17 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.54%) AIX
8 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.27%) Android
9 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.27%) zOS
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (61.59%) CI/CD
2 310 (41.78%) DevOps
3 289 (38.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 262 (35.31%) Agile
5 185 (24.93%) Data Pipeline
6 184 (24.80%) Data Engineering
7 178 (23.99%) Analytics
8 155 (20.89%) ETL
9 152 (20.49%) Data Modelling
10 147 (19.81%) AI
11 143 (19.27%) Containerisation
12 119 (16.04%) Microservices
13 114 (15.36%) Observability
14 105 (14.15%) Machine Learning
15 103 (13.88%) Migration
16 98 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (13.21%) Test Automation
17 92 (12.40%) Scrum
18 89 (11.99%) Business Intelligence
19 88 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 422 (56.87%) Python
2 271 (36.52%) SQL
3 135 (18.19%) Java
4 79 (10.65%) TypeScript
5 70 (9.43%) Bash
6 62 (8.36%) JavaScript
7 40 (5.39%) C#
8 32 (4.31%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.10%) Scala
11 13 (1.75%) Groovy
12 7 (0.94%) Bicep
13 6 (0.81%) SAS Macro
13 6 (0.81%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.67%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.67%) Perl
14 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.54%) Cypher
15 4 (0.54%) Go
16 3 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 243 (32.75%) Security Cleared
2 211 (28.44%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.89%) AWS Certification
4 37 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (2.70%) Degree
7 18 (2.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.48%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.94%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.40%) CSPO
15 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
16 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (16.04%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.37%) QA
3 21 (2.83%) GDPR
4 14 (1.89%) SLA
5 13 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.94%) PMO
7 5 (0.67%) HL7
8 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.54%) NIST
9 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.27%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 216 (29.11%) Docker
2 15 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.62%) Squid
4 11 (1.48%) Postfix
5 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 326 (43.94%) Terraform
2 136 (18.33%) Kubernetes
3 107 (14.42%) Grafana
4 61 (8.22%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.80%) Ansible
6 16 (2.16%) Argo
6 16 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.48%) Puppet
8 9 (1.21%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.21%) Kibana
9 8 (1.08%) Consul
10 7 (0.94%) Packer
11 5 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.67%) Salt
12 4 (0.54%) Istio
12 4 (0.54%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 66 (8.89%) Databricks
2 38 (5.12%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.04%) Informatica
4 27 (3.64%) Oracle
5 25 (3.37%) Splunk
6 24 (3.23%) Google
6 24 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 23 (3.10%) Atlassian
8 22 (2.96%) Dynatrace
9 17 (2.29%) Jaspersoft
10 14 (1.89%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.62%) Teradata
12 11 (1.48%) Denodo
13 10 (1.35%) OpenAI
14 9 (1.21%) IBM
14 9 (1.21%) Salesforce
15 8 (1.08%) Foundry
15 8 (1.08%) Palantir
16 6 (0.81%) Confluent
16 6 (0.81%) VMware