Amazon S3 Contracts

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon S3 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon S3 over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 231 251
Rank change year-on-year +65 +20 +1
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 522 452 585
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 1.05% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.53% 3.19% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 335 457
10th Percentile £400 £389 £425
25th Percentile £463 £427 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £733 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £496
% change year-on-year - +0.81% -5.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £38.13 - £48.81
25th Percentile £40.94 - £50.76
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £55.28
75th Percentile £50.94 - £58.54
90th Percentile £53.38 - £59.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.55

All Cloud 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 11,532 14,163 20,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.62% 32.81% 36.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,730 9,952 14,655
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 355 335
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.05 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.87 £26.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -19.73% +36.20%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon S3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3.

Daily rate trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 16 Contract 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 30 June 2025. 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 +80 409 £537 +3.27% 1,630
London +56 257 £575 +12.75% 988
UK excluding London +48 193 £500 - 730
Work from Home +56 191 £525 +3.75% 730
Scotland -2 62 £500 +8.40% 57
North of England +4 51 £494 +1.80% 174
Midlands +38 37 £475 -3.80% 95
West Midlands +30 31 £475 -3.80% 55
North West +12 28 £475 -2.06% 110
Yorkshire -4 20 £525 +5.85% 52
South East +41 17 £450 -21.74% 188
East of England +38 16 £550 -8.33% 83
South West +38 11 £550 -4.35% 98
East Midlands +7 6 £455 -22.60% 40
North East - 3 £450 - 12
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 23

Amazon S3
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 43 (8.24%) Apache Spark
2 33 (6.32%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (5.17%) Apache
4 18 (3.45%) Confluence
5 10 (1.92%) nginx
6 8 (1.53%) CMS
7 7 (1.34%) Headless CMS
8 6 (1.15%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.38%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.38%) IIS
9 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.19%) SAS
10 1 (0.19%) Strapi
10 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 509 (97.51%) AWS
2 283 (54.21%) Serverless
3 279 (53.45%) AWS Lambda
4 205 (39.27%) Amazon EC2
5 116 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 107 (20.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 84 (16.09%) Amazon SQS
8 67 (12.84%) Amazon EKS
9 64 (12.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 57 (10.92%) GitHub
11 55 (10.54%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (7.47%) Route 53
13 33 (6.32%) AWS KMS
14 29 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
14 29 (5.56%) Azure
15 28 (5.36%) SaaS
15 28 (5.36%) Snowflake
16 27 (5.17%) Amazon Cognito
16 27 (5.17%) GCP
17 26 (4.98%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.02%) Firewall
2 19 (3.64%) DNS
3 14 (2.68%) VPN
4 10 (1.92%) SAN
5 9 (1.72%) HTTP
6 7 (1.34%) NAS
6 7 (1.34%) SMTP
6 7 (1.34%) SSH
7 6 (1.15%) FTP
7 6 (1.15%) SSL
8 5 (0.96%) DHCP
9 4 (0.77%) Intranet
10 3 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.57%) iSCSI
10 3 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.57%) SMS
11 2 (0.38%) FCoE
11 2 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.38%) IMAP
12 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (30.46%) Amazon RDS
2 110 (21.07%) DynamoDB
3 101 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (12.45%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
6 52 (9.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 48 (9.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 43 (8.24%) NoSQL
9 40 (7.66%) Relational Database
10 31 (5.94%) MongoDB
10 31 (5.94%) MySQL
11 28 (5.36%) Oracle Database
12 25 (4.79%) Tableau
13 24 (4.60%) Big Data
13 24 (4.60%) Data Lake
14 19 (3.64%) SQL Server
15 16 (3.07%) RDBMS
16 15 (2.87%) Power BI
17 14 (2.68%) Hadoop
18 12 (2.30%) Flink
Development Applications
1 99 (18.97%) Jenkins
2 66 (12.64%) Git
3 49 (9.39%) GitLab
4 35 (6.70%) JIRA
5 21 (4.02%) JUnit
6 19 (3.64%) Maven
7 16 (3.07%) Cypress.io
7 16 (3.07%) SonarQube
8 13 (2.49%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.49%) Mockito
9 11 (2.11%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.72%) Artifactory
11 8 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (1.53%) DbUnit
11 8 (1.53%) jMock
12 7 (1.34%) Vagrant
13 5 (0.96%) git-flow
13 5 (0.96%) Storybook
14 4 (0.77%) Gradle
14 4 (0.77%) Postman
General
1 118 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 104 (19.92%) Public Sector
3 69 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.49%) Finance
5 20 (3.83%) Banking
6 19 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.11%) Front Office
9 8 (1.53%) Military
10 7 (1.34%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.96%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.77%) Publishing
14 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.57%) Back Office
14 3 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.57%) Retail
15 2 (0.38%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.19%) Aviation
16 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (24.71%) Developer
2 95 (18.20%) Architect
3 94 (18.01%) AWS Engineer
4 74 (14.18%) Data Engineer
5 63 (12.07%) Senior
6 55 (10.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (8.43%) AWS Architect
8 34 (6.51%) Lead
9 33 (6.32%) AWS Developer
9 33 (6.32%) AWS DevOps
10 32 (6.13%) Java Developer
11 31 (5.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 30 (5.75%) AWS Data Engineer
13 25 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
14 23 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
15 20 (3.83%) Security Architect
15 20 (3.83%) Software Engineer
16 19 (3.64%) Senior Developer
17 17 (3.26%) Senior Data Engineer
18 16 (3.07%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (13.41%) React
2 62 (11.88%) Kafka
3 52 (9.96%) Node.js
4 51 (9.77%) AWS CDK
5 44 (8.43%) Spring
6 43 (8.24%) GraphQL
7 41 (7.85%) RESTful
8 39 (7.47%) REST
9 33 (6.32%) Spring Boot
10 23 (4.41%) AngularJS
11 21 (4.02%) ActiveMQ
12 20 (3.83%) CSS
13 19 (3.64%) PySpark
14 18 (3.45%) Svelte
15 17 (3.26%) HTML
15 17 (3.26%) Jest
15 17 (3.26%) Web Services
16 16 (3.07%) SOAP
17 14 (2.68%) Hibernate
17 14 (2.68%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 50 (9.58%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.51%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.21%) CSOC
3 22 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 17 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.87%) Public Cloud
5 15 (2.87%) Replication
6 12 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.72%) Derivative
8 7 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.15%) Clustering
9 6 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.15%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.77%) NHS
10 4 (0.77%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 73 (13.98%) Linux
2 33 (6.32%) Windows
3 16 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.49%) Unix
5 10 (1.92%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.34%) CentOS
6 7 (1.34%) VMS
7 4 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.57%) Android
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.19%) SUSE
10 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (39.27%) CI/CD
2 185 (35.44%) DevOps
3 146 (27.97%) Agile
4 123 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
5 114 (21.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 102 (19.54%) Containerisation
7 84 (16.09%) Data Pipeline
7 84 (16.09%) Microservices
8 70 (13.41%) ETL
8 70 (13.41%) Migration
9 68 (13.03%) High Availability
10 54 (10.34%) Mentoring
11 53 (10.15%) Full-Stack Development
12 47 (9.00%) Analytics
12 47 (9.00%) Data Modelling
13 45 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (8.43%) Data Engineering
15 41 (7.85%) Computer Science
16 40 (7.66%) Scrum
17 37 (7.09%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 251 (48.08%) Python
2 127 (24.33%) SQL
3 93 (17.82%) Java
4 73 (13.98%) JavaScript
5 67 (12.84%) TypeScript
6 35 (6.70%) Bash
7 19 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.49%) Scala
9 10 (1.92%) Groovy
10 9 (1.72%) C#
10 9 (1.72%) Perl
10 9 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.96%) R
12 4 (0.77%) Go
12 4 (0.77%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.77%) Ruby
12 4 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.57%) CodeQL
13 3 (0.57%) Dart
14 2 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 151 (28.93%) Security Cleared
2 139 (26.63%) SC Cleared
3 89 (17.05%) AWS Certification
4 49 (9.39%) Degree
5 43 (8.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 34 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.38%) CISSP
10 2 (0.38%) OCP
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.19%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.30%) QA
3 10 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
5 7 (1.34%) GDPR
6 6 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.77%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.57%) NIST
9 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.38%) SLA
9 2 (0.38%) WCAG
10 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 124 (23.75%) Docker
2 12 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.11%) Postfix
4 5 (0.96%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.57%) Lustre
6 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.38%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.38%) Squid
7 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.19%) HDFS
8 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 144 (27.59%) Terraform
2 101 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 51 (9.77%) Ansible
4 48 (9.20%) Grafana
5 42 (8.05%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.49%) Puppet
7 12 (2.30%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.11%) Oracle RMAN
9 7 (1.34%) Argo
9 7 (1.34%) Kibana
9 7 (1.34%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.96%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.57%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.57%) logstash
11 3 (0.57%) Packer
11 3 (0.57%) Podman
11 3 (0.57%) QRadar
11 3 (0.57%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 2 (0.38%) SELinux
12 2 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (9.00%) Oracle
2 30 (5.75%) Splunk
3 18 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 15 (2.87%) Databricks
5 13 (2.49%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.30%) Google
7 11 (2.11%) IBM
8 10 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.72%) Informatica
9 9 (1.72%) Microsoft
10 8 (1.53%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.53%) StreamSets
11 7 (1.34%) Veritas
12 6 (1.15%) Virgin Media
13 5 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
13 5 (0.96%) Dell
13 5 (0.96%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.96%) Talend
13 5 (0.96%) Teradata
13 5 (0.96%) VMware