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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 163 228
Rank change year-on-year -16 +65 +14
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 670 496 448
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.71% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.05% 4.47% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 386 355
10th Percentile £356 £400 £402
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £719 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 16,559 11,085 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.91% 38.12% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,284 7,774 10,164
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £495
% change year-on-year -0.21% -3.84% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 219 343
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.49 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.44 £61.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -20.48%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -7 560 £525 -4.55% 173
London -4 373 £525 -8.70% 76
UK excluding London -46 212 £500 - 120
Work from Home -14 201 £519 -1.19% 97
North of England -35 61 £500 +5.26% 43
Midlands -27 60 £475 +5.56% 12
West Midlands -27 53 £500 -2.44% 8
Scotland -31 29 £440 -12.00% 9
Yorkshire -42 27 £509 -0.73% 17
North West -37 26 £450 +12.50% 21
South East -42 26 £550 -9.65% 34
South West -11 22 £538 -0.92% 13
North East -9 8 £538 -13.90% 5
East Midlands -29 7 £423 +4.19% 4
East of England -32 7 £475 -5.00% 7
Northern Ireland +1 6 £400 -20.00%
Wales -8 2 £363 -9.38% 2

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 65 (9.70%) Apache Spark
2 57 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (7.31%) Apache
4 31 (4.63%) Confluence
5 14 (2.09%) SAS
6 10 (1.49%) nginx
7 4 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Superset
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 666 (99.40%) AWS
2 421 (62.84%) Serverless
3 409 (61.04%) AWS Lambda
4 268 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
5 187 (27.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 181 (27.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 165 (24.63%) Amazon ECS
8 143 (21.34%) GitHub
9 135 (20.15%) Amazon EKS
10 134 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 110 (16.42%) Azure
12 102 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
13 90 (13.43%) AWS Step Functions
14 80 (11.94%) Amazon SQS
15 63 (9.40%) Route 53
15 63 (9.40%) Snowflake
16 57 (8.51%) GCP
17 48 (7.16%) Power Platform
18 47 (7.01%) Amazon EMR
19 44 (6.57%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.07%) DNS
2 23 (3.43%) Firewall
3 18 (2.69%) VPN
4 14 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.64%) Network Security
5 11 (1.64%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.75%) DHCP
7 4 (0.60%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.45%) BGP
8 3 (0.45%) HTTP
8 3 (0.45%) OSPF
9 2 (0.30%) Multicast
9 2 (0.30%) NAS
9 2 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.30%) SAN
9 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.30%) VLAN
9 2 (0.30%) WAN
10 1 (0.15%) SMS
10 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (27.76%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (17.01%) Amazon Athena
3 104 (15.52%) DynamoDB
3 104 (15.52%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (13.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 59 (8.81%) Data Lake
6 58 (8.66%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (7.61%) Relational Database
8 48 (7.16%) Power BI
9 35 (5.22%) Amazon Aurora
9 35 (5.22%) NoSQL
10 31 (4.63%) Metadata
11 30 (4.48%) Tableau
12 29 (4.33%) MongoDB
13 27 (4.03%) BigQuery
13 27 (4.03%) SQL Server
14 23 (3.43%) MySQL
14 23 (3.43%) OLTP
15 21 (3.13%) OLAP
16 19 (2.84%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 142 (21.19%) Jenkins
2 135 (20.15%) GitLab
3 121 (18.06%) Git
4 43 (6.42%) JIRA
5 25 (3.73%) JUnit
6 22 (3.28%) SonarQube
7 21 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 21 (3.13%) Maven
8 15 (2.24%) Mockito
9 14 (2.09%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.64%) MLflow
11 10 (1.49%) Postman
12 9 (1.34%) DbUnit
12 9 (1.34%) jMock
13 8 (1.19%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
15 6 (0.90%) Gradle
16 5 (0.75%) Artifactory
16 5 (0.75%) Selenium
17 4 (0.60%) NUnit
General
1 164 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 116 (17.31%) Finance
3 111 (16.57%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.67%) Banking
6 26 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.94%) Front Office
7 13 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (0.90%) Legal
9 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.45%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.45%) Military
11 2 (0.30%) Billing
11 2 (0.30%) Games
11 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.30%) Retail
11 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.15%) Marketing
12 1 (0.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 145 (21.64%) Data Engineer
2 130 (19.40%) Developer
3 115 (17.16%) AWS Engineer
4 83 (12.39%) Senior
5 71 (10.60%) Architect
6 69 (10.30%) Lead
7 51 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (7.01%) Java Developer
9 38 (5.67%) AWS Data Engineer
10 37 (5.52%) AWS Architect
11 34 (5.07%) Site Engineer
12 33 (4.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 32 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
14 31 (4.63%) Analyst
14 31 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
15 27 (4.03%) AWS Developer
15 27 (4.03%) Lead Data Engineer
16 25 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
17 24 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
17 24 (3.58%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (18.06%) Kafka
2 84 (12.54%) Spring Boot
3 83 (12.39%) Spring
4 70 (10.45%) Node.js
5 64 (9.55%) RESTful
6 60 (8.96%) PySpark
7 56 (8.36%) REST
8 53 (7.91%) React
9 42 (6.27%) OAuth
10 41 (6.12%) AWS CDK
11 35 (5.22%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.58%) JWT
13 21 (3.13%) OpenID
14 19 (2.84%) FastAPI
14 19 (2.84%) Great Expectations
15 18 (2.69%) boto
15 18 (2.69%) CSS
15 18 (2.69%) Jest
15 18 (2.69%) JSON
15 18 (2.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 171 (25.52%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.39%) NHS
5 15 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.34%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.90%) Clustering
10 6 (0.90%) SCADA
11 5 (0.75%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.75%) Derivative
11 5 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.75%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.09%) Linux
2 15 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (2.24%) Unix
3 10 (1.49%) Windows
4 6 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.30%) Android
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (59.10%) CI/CD
2 272 (40.60%) DevOps
3 262 (39.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 179 (26.72%) Agile
5 164 (24.48%) ETL
6 159 (23.73%) Containerisation
7 156 (23.28%) Analytics
8 150 (22.39%) Data Engineering
9 140 (20.90%) Data Pipeline
10 138 (20.60%) Data Modelling
11 115 (17.16%) Microservices
12 111 (16.57%) Observability
13 107 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
14 95 (14.18%) AI
15 85 (12.69%) Migration
16 77 (11.49%) Data Governance
17 71 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (10.60%) Performance Tuning
18 69 (10.30%) Event-Driven
18 69 (10.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 366 (54.63%) Python
2 243 (36.27%) SQL
3 137 (20.45%) Java
4 67 (10.00%) Bash
5 62 (9.25%) TypeScript
6 46 (6.87%) JavaScript
7 44 (6.57%) C#
8 31 (4.63%) Shell Script
9 30 (4.48%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.84%) Go
11 15 (2.24%) Scala
12 6 (0.90%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.75%) JSX
13 5 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.45%) Bicep
14 3 (0.45%) C
14 3 (0.45%) C++
14 3 (0.45%) Groovy
14 3 (0.45%) Korn
15 2 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 213 (31.79%) Security Cleared
2 171 (25.52%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.76%) AWS Certification
4 20 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 20 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.69%) Degree
6 13 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.45%) OCP
10 3 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.45%) PhD
10 3 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (13.28%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.82%) GDPR
3 34 (5.07%) QA
4 14 (2.09%) SLA
5 13 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.94%) NIST
6 12 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.04%) PMO
8 6 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.60%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.30%) GxP
11 2 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.30%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 219 (32.69%) Docker
2 10 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.49%) Squid
3 8 (1.19%) Postfix
4 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 315 (47.01%) Terraform
2 168 (25.07%) Kubernetes
3 97 (14.48%) Grafana
4 74 (11.04%) Prometheus
5 64 (9.55%) Ansible
6 17 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (2.39%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.09%) Puppet
9 9 (1.34%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.19%) Argo
11 7 (1.04%) Consul
11 7 (1.04%) Kibana
11 7 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.90%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.75%) Dell DRAC
14 4 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.45%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.45%) Istio
15 3 (0.45%) Opsgenie
15 3 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 79 (11.79%) Databricks
2 37 (5.52%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.63%) Google
4 29 (4.33%) Splunk
5 19 (2.84%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.54%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.79%) Oracle
9 11 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
10 10 (1.49%) Informatica
11 9 (1.34%) Confluent
11 9 (1.34%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.19%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.04%) Dell
13 7 (1.04%) IBM
13 7 (1.04%) Sybase
14 6 (0.90%) AVEVA
14 6 (0.90%) SAP
15 5 (0.75%) Ab Initio