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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 157 229
Rank change year-on-year -57 +72 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 686 598 428
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.83% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.66% 4.92% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 443 283
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £447 £452 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% - -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £608
90th Percentile £738 £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 18,735 12,164 13,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.93% 37.18% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,407 8,112 9,037
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
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 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 320 227
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.13 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.72
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +1.01% -20.80%
75th Percentile £69.25 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year +72.23% -14.23% -18.52%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -48 566 £538 +2.38% 244
London -22 380 £575 - 163
Work from Home -29 248 £525 - 117
UK excluding London -81 219 £475 - 107
Midlands -38 63 £461 -3.00% 13
North of England -69 59 £500 - 37
West Midlands -50 53 £466 -1.95% 5
Scotland -30 39 £475 -4.43% 8
South West -32 27 £466 -14.65% 22
South East -72 25 £575 +35.29% 15
North West -57 22 £510 +7.37% 19
North East -25 20 £425 -2.86% 6
Yorkshire -44 17 £575 +9.52% 12
East Midlands -10 9 £419 -22.02% 8
East of England -39 7 £400 -27.27% 9
Wales - 3 £600 - 3
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 4

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 (12.68%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (11.08%) Confluence
3 58 (8.45%) Apache Spark
4 50 (7.29%) Apache
5 18 (2.62%) SAS
6 10 (1.46%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.31%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.17%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.73%) nginx
10 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.58%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
12 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.15%) Mule
12 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 670 (97.67%) AWS
2 437 (63.70%) Serverless
3 432 (62.97%) AWS Lambda
4 227 (33.09%) Amazon EC2
5 218 (31.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 154 (22.45%) GitHub
7 143 (20.85%) Amazon ECS
8 137 (19.97%) Amazon EKS
9 126 (18.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 124 (18.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 115 (16.76%) GitHub Actions
12 105 (15.31%) Azure
13 99 (14.43%) Amazon SQS
14 85 (12.39%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.66%) Snowflake
16 77 (11.22%) dbt
17 73 (10.64%) AWS Step Functions
18 63 (9.18%) Power Platform
19 51 (7.43%) AWS KMS
20 49 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.77%) Firewall
2 17 (2.48%) DNS
3 9 (1.31%) Network Security
4 7 (1.02%) HTTP
5 6 (0.87%) SSL
6 5 (0.73%) CTI
6 5 (0.73%) 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 (0.44%) DHCP
8 3 (0.44%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.44%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) FTP
9 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.29%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (25.66%) Amazon RDS
2 137 (19.97%) Amazon Athena
3 122 (17.78%) DynamoDB
4 118 (17.20%) Amazon Redshift
5 93 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
6 89 (12.97%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (9.18%) Power BI
8 62 (9.04%) Data Lake
9 44 (6.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 39 (5.69%) Metadata
10 39 (5.69%) MongoDB
11 31 (4.52%) Big Data
12 30 (4.37%) Relational Database
13 27 (3.94%) Tableau
14 25 (3.64%) BigQuery
14 25 (3.64%) NoSQL
15 24 (3.50%) Apache Iceberg
16 21 (3.06%) Data Vault
17 20 (2.92%) SQL Server
18 19 (2.77%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 141 (20.55%) GitLab
2 138 (20.12%) Jenkins
3 134 (19.53%) Git
4 79 (11.52%) JIRA
5 25 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.92%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.77%) SonarQube
8 14 (2.04%) JUnit
8 14 (2.04%) Mockito
9 12 (1.75%) Maven
10 8 (1.17%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.02%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.02%) Postman
11 7 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (0.87%) jMock
13 5 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.73%) Selenium
14 4 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 165 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 158 (23.03%) Public Sector
3 111 (16.18%) Finance
4 58 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.98%) Banking
6 12 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (1.75%) Front Office
7 11 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.31%) Military
9 8 (1.17%) Back Office
10 7 (1.02%) Law
10 7 (1.02%) Marketing
11 6 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.87%) Publishing
12 5 (0.73%) Billing
13 4 (0.58%) Legal
13 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.58%) Retail
14 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 162 (23.62%) Data Engineer
2 127 (18.51%) AWS Engineer
3 117 (17.06%) Developer
4 113 (16.47%) Senior
5 87 (12.68%) Architect
6 78 (11.37%) Lead
7 71 (10.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (6.56%) Senior Data Engineer
9 42 (6.12%) AWS Data Engineer
10 41 (5.98%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (5.10%) AWS Architect
11 35 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (4.81%) AWS Developer
13 30 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 30 (4.37%) Data Architect
13 30 (4.37%) Java Developer
14 25 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (3.50%) Software Engineer
16 23 (3.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 21 (3.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (47.08%) Terraform
2 76 (11.08%) Kafka
3 72 (10.50%) PySpark
3 72 (10.50%) REST
4 63 (9.18%) React
5 54 (7.87%) Node.js
6 52 (7.58%) RESTful
7 51 (7.43%) Spring Boot
8 50 (7.29%) Spring
9 49 (7.14%) AWS CDK
10 29 (4.23%) FastAPI
11 23 (3.35%) JSON
12 22 (3.21%) AngularJS
13 21 (3.06%) OAuth
13 21 (3.06%) SOAP
14 20 (2.92%) .NET
15 19 (2.77%) Pandas
16 17 (2.48%) GraphQL
16 17 (2.48%) Next.js
17 15 (2.19%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 171 (24.93%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 38 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.06%) NHS
5 19 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.90%) IVR
7 12 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 12 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.46%) Replication
9 9 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.31%) Legacy Code
9 9 (1.31%) Reference Data
9 9 (1.31%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.31%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.17%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.17%) Mainframe
11 7 (1.02%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 87 (12.68%) Linux
2 22 (3.21%) Unix
3 21 (3.06%) Windows
4 15 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.46%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.58%) AIX
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (62.54%) CI/CD
2 293 (42.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 287 (41.84%) DevOps
4 250 (36.44%) Agile
5 179 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
6 166 (24.20%) Data Engineering
7 153 (22.30%) Analytics
8 135 (19.68%) ETL
9 134 (19.53%) Data Modelling
10 132 (19.24%) AI
11 124 (18.08%) Containerisation
12 115 (16.76%) Observability
13 112 (16.33%) Microservices
14 105 (15.31%) Migration
15 98 (14.29%) Test Automation
16 95 (13.85%) Event-Driven
17 92 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
18 89 (12.97%) Machine Learning
19 87 (12.68%) Business Intelligence
20 82 (11.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 391 (57.00%) Python
2 238 (34.69%) SQL
3 117 (17.06%) Java
4 80 (11.66%) TypeScript
5 70 (10.20%) Bash
6 59 (8.60%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.66%) PowerShell
8 31 (4.52%) C#
9 25 (3.64%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.35%) Scala
11 18 (2.62%) Groovy
12 10 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.17%) Bicep
14 7 (1.02%) Perl
15 4 (0.58%) Cypher
15 4 (0.58%) Go
15 4 (0.58%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.58%) R
15 4 (0.58%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 227 (33.09%) Security Cleared
2 202 (29.45%) SC Cleared
3 77 (11.22%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (4.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.06%) Degree
7 20 (2.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 19 (2.77%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.04%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.60%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.73%) CISM
13 5 (0.73%) CISSP
13 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.44%) CSPO
15 3 (0.44%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (16.03%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.94%) QA
3 20 (2.92%) GDPR
4 13 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.46%) SLA
6 7 (1.02%) NIST
7 6 (0.87%) HL7
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 (0.44%) 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 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 212 (30.90%) Docker
2 17 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.02%) 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 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 123 (17.93%) Kubernetes
2 100 (14.58%) Grafana
3 53 (7.73%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.98%) Ansible
5 18 (2.62%) Argo
6 16 (2.33%) Kibana
7 10 (1.46%) Puppet
8 8 (1.17%) Karpenter
8 8 (1.17%) Packer
9 7 (1.02%) Istio
9 7 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.58%) Salt
12 3 (0.44%) Control-M
12 3 (0.44%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.29%) Nessus
13 2 (0.29%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.29%) Sysdig
13 2 (0.29%) systemd
13 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (8.31%) Databricks
2 42 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.39%) Oracle
4 35 (5.10%) Informatica
5 26 (3.79%) Splunk
6 21 (3.06%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.62%) Google
8 16 (2.33%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.60%) Denodo
10 11 (1.60%) Teradata
11 10 (1.46%) Jaspersoft
12 9 (1.31%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.31%) Confluent
13 8 (1.17%) Foundry
13 8 (1.17%) IBM
13 8 (1.17%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.17%) Palantir
14 6 (0.87%) Brio
14 6 (0.87%) VMware