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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 160 236
Rank change year-on-year -52 +76 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 693 596 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.82% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.70% 4.89% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 443 290
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £447 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £608
90th Percentile £740 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +0.30%
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 18,749 12,200 13,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.94% 37.26% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,413 8,127 9,000
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 313 224
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £81.55 £70.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.13 £19.14 £24.18
% change year-on-year +62.66% -20.86% -10.44%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -48 575 £537 +2.33% 397
London -19 385 £575 - 271
Work from Home -19 252 £525 - 180
UK excluding London -73 225 £475 - 182
Midlands -42 64 £461 -3.00% 20
North of England -59 64 £488 -2.50% 57
West Midlands -42 54 £466 -1.95% 9
Scotland -31 38 £475 -5.00% 18
South West -24 29 £473 -13.50% 30
North West -59 25 £505 +6.32% 30
South East -62 24 £563 +32.35% 29
North East -29 20 £425 -2.86% 13
Yorkshire -40 19 £525 - 14
East Midlands -10 9 £419 -22.02% 11
East of England -37 7 £400 -27.27% 17
Wales - 3 £600 - 4
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 88 (12.70%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (10.97%) Confluence
3 59 (8.51%) Apache Spark
4 54 (7.79%) Apache
5 19 (2.74%) SAS
6 12 (1.73%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.30%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.72%) nginx
10 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.58%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 677 (97.69%) AWS
2 443 (63.92%) Serverless
3 439 (63.35%) AWS Lambda
4 226 (32.61%) Amazon EC2
5 221 (31.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 158 (22.80%) GitHub
7 145 (20.92%) Amazon ECS
8 136 (19.62%) Amazon EKS
9 126 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 125 (18.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 118 (17.03%) GitHub Actions
12 107 (15.44%) Azure
13 99 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
14 89 (12.84%) Amazon EMR
15 77 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
15 77 (11.11%) dbt
16 76 (10.97%) Snowflake
17 61 (8.80%) Power Platform
18 52 (7.50%) AWS KMS
19 49 (7.07%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.89%) Firewall
2 17 (2.45%) DNS
3 9 (1.30%) Network Security
4 7 (1.01%) HTTP
5 6 (0.87%) SSL
6 5 (0.72%) CTI
6 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.58%) Internet
7 4 (0.58%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.58%) SMS
7 4 (0.58%) VPN
7 4 (0.58%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) DHCP
8 3 (0.43%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) FTP
9 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.29%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (26.26%) Amazon RDS
2 140 (20.20%) Amazon Athena
3 126 (18.18%) DynamoDB
4 119 (17.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 96 (13.85%) Data Warehouse
6 90 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (9.09%) Data Lake
8 61 (8.80%) Power BI
9 45 (6.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 41 (5.92%) Metadata
11 37 (5.34%) MongoDB
12 32 (4.62%) Big Data
13 31 (4.47%) Relational Database
14 28 (4.04%) Tableau
15 27 (3.90%) NoSQL
16 24 (3.46%) Apache Iceberg
16 24 (3.46%) BigQuery
17 22 (3.17%) Data Vault
18 21 (3.03%) Delta Lake
19 20 (2.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 140 (20.20%) GitLab
2 138 (19.91%) Git
3 136 (19.62%) Jenkins
4 79 (11.40%) JIRA
5 25 (3.61%) Bitbucket
6 21 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.89%) SonarQube
8 14 (2.02%) JUnit
8 14 (2.02%) Mockito
9 12 (1.73%) Maven
10 8 (1.15%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.01%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.01%) Postman
11 7 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (0.87%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.87%) jMock
13 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.72%) Selenium
14 4 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 167 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 157 (22.66%) Public Sector
3 117 (16.88%) Finance
4 59 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (6.49%) Banking
6 13 (1.88%) Front Office
7 12 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.30%) Back Office
9 9 (1.30%) Military
10 7 (1.01%) Law
10 7 (1.01%) Marketing
11 6 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.87%) Publishing
12 5 (0.72%) Billing
13 4 (0.58%) Legal
13 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.58%) Retail
14 3 (0.43%) Games
14 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 171 (24.68%) Data Engineer
2 126 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 117 (16.88%) Senior
4 114 (16.45%) Developer
5 87 (12.55%) Architect
6 77 (11.11%) Lead
7 75 (10.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (7.07%) Senior Data Engineer
9 45 (6.49%) AWS Data Engineer
10 41 (5.92%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (5.05%) AWS Architect
12 34 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (4.76%) AWS Developer
14 31 (4.47%) Data Architect
15 30 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 29 (4.18%) Java Developer
17 25 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
17 25 (3.61%) Software Engineer
18 22 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 22 (3.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (47.04%) Terraform
2 76 (10.97%) Kafka
3 75 (10.82%) PySpark
4 74 (10.68%) REST
5 63 (9.09%) React
6 54 (7.79%) RESTful
7 52 (7.50%) Node.js
7 52 (7.50%) Spring Boot
8 51 (7.36%) Spring
9 48 (6.93%) AWS CDK
10 32 (4.62%) FastAPI
11 25 (3.61%) JSON
12 23 (3.32%) AngularJS
13 21 (3.03%) .NET
14 20 (2.89%) OAuth
14 20 (2.89%) SOAP
15 19 (2.74%) Pandas
16 18 (2.60%) Next.js
17 17 (2.45%) GraphQL
18 15 (2.16%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 173 (24.96%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.95%) Product Ownership
3 39 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.17%) NHS
5 17 (2.45%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.88%) IVR
6 13 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.44%) Replication
9 10 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.30%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.30%) Legacy Code
10 9 (1.30%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.15%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.15%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.15%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.01%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 89 (12.84%) Linux
2 22 (3.17%) Unix
3 21 (3.03%) Windows
4 15 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.58%) AIX
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (62.48%) CI/CD
2 302 (43.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 293 (42.28%) DevOps
4 260 (37.52%) Agile
5 186 (26.84%) Data Pipeline
6 172 (24.82%) Data Engineering
7 156 (22.51%) Analytics
8 140 (20.20%) ETL
9 138 (19.91%) Data Modelling
10 132 (19.05%) AI
11 125 (18.04%) Containerisation
12 113 (16.31%) Microservices
13 112 (16.16%) Observability
14 102 (14.72%) Migration
15 100 (14.43%) Test Automation
16 98 (14.14%) Event-Driven
17 93 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 89 (12.84%) Machine Learning
19 87 (12.55%) Business Intelligence
19 87 (12.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 399 (57.58%) Python
2 244 (35.21%) SQL
3 118 (17.03%) Java
4 79 (11.40%) TypeScript
5 70 (10.10%) Bash
6 59 (8.51%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.62%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.18%) C#
9 26 (3.75%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.32%) Scala
11 18 (2.60%) Groovy
12 9 (1.30%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.15%) Bicep
14 7 (1.01%) Perl
15 5 (0.72%) R
16 4 (0.58%) Cypher
16 4 (0.58%) Go
16 4 (0.58%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.58%) SPARQL
17 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 229 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 206 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.69%) AWS Certification
4 47 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.03%) Degree
7 20 (2.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 19 (2.74%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.59%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.87%) CISM
12 6 (0.87%) CISSP
12 6 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.58%) SnowPro
15 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.43%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (16.31%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.47%) QA
3 19 (2.74%) GDPR
4 13 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.15%) NIST
6 6 (0.87%) HL7
7 5 (0.72%) SLA
8 4 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.58%) NCSC
8 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.43%) PMO
10 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.29%) GRC
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 210 (30.30%) Docker
2 17 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.01%) Postfix
4 6 (0.87%) Squid
5 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.29%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.29%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 126 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 100 (14.43%) Grafana
3 53 (7.65%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.20%) Ansible
5 18 (2.60%) Argo
6 16 (2.31%) Kibana
7 10 (1.44%) Puppet
8 8 (1.15%) Karpenter
8 8 (1.15%) Packer
9 7 (1.01%) Istio
10 6 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.58%) Salt
13 3 (0.43%) Control-M
13 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.29%) Consul
14 2 (0.29%) Nessus
14 2 (0.29%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.29%) systemd
14 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (8.23%) Databricks
2 42 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.34%) Oracle
4 35 (5.05%) Informatica
5 25 (3.61%) Splunk
6 21 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.74%) Google
8 16 (2.31%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.73%) Teradata
10 11 (1.59%) Denodo
11 10 (1.44%) Jaspersoft
12 9 (1.30%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.30%) Confluent
13 8 (1.15%) Foundry
13 8 (1.15%) IBM
13 8 (1.15%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.15%) Palantir
14 7 (1.01%) SnapLogic
15 6 (0.87%) VMware