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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 155 216
Rank change year-on-year -56 +61 +39
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 687 594 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.27% 1.82% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.66% 4.84% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 436 294
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £608
90th Percentile £751 £691 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -6.20% +1.21% -1.20%
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 18,762 12,268 13,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 37.53% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,441 8,169 8,927
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 300 201
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.16 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% -5.55% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.77 £52.81 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -35.77% +11.11%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -54 566 £535 +1.90% 569
London -19 387 £575 - 359
Work from Home -37 248 £525 - 263
UK excluding London -92 214 £469 -6.20% 264
North of England -71 62 £463 -7.50% 82
Midlands -43 60 £463 -2.63% 26
West Midlands -47 51 £466 -1.95% 12
Scotland -32 38 £450 -12.20% 33
South West -33 28 £470 -13.96% 40
North West -55 25 £500 +5.26% 46
North East -22 20 £419 -4.29% 16
South East -59 19 £575 +35.29% 37
Yorkshire -45 17 £500 -4.76% 20
East Midlands -13 8 £425 -20.86% 14
East of England -48 7 £400 -27.27% 31
Wales - 3 £600 - 6
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 11

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 90 (13.10%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (10.63%) Confluence
3 58 (8.44%) Apache Spark
4 57 (8.30%) Apache
5 17 (2.47%) SAS
6 12 (1.75%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.16%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.87%) nginx
9 5 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.73%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.73%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.58%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.29%) CMS
13 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.15%) Mule
13 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 669 (97.38%) AWS
2 440 (64.05%) Serverless
3 438 (63.76%) AWS Lambda
4 228 (33.19%) Amazon EC2
5 223 (32.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 160 (23.29%) GitHub
7 146 (21.25%) Amazon ECS
8 135 (19.65%) Amazon EKS
9 131 (19.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 125 (18.20%) GitHub Actions
11 123 (17.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 109 (15.87%) Azure
13 92 (13.39%) Amazon SQS
14 88 (12.81%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.64%) dbt
16 75 (10.92%) Snowflake
17 74 (10.77%) AWS Step Functions
18 61 (8.88%) Power Platform
19 54 (7.86%) AWS KMS
20 50 (7.28%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.77%) Firewall
2 17 (2.47%) DNS
3 9 (1.31%) Network Security
4 7 (1.02%) HTTP
4 7 (1.02%) SSL
5 5 (0.73%) CTI
5 5 (0.73%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.73%) VPN
6 4 (0.58%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.58%) SAN
6 4 (0.58%) SMS
6 4 (0.58%) WAN
7 3 (0.44%) Internet
7 3 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.29%) IMAP
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (26.20%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (20.09%) Amazon Athena
3 122 (17.76%) DynamoDB
4 109 (15.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 92 (13.39%) Data Warehouse
5 92 (13.39%) PostgreSQL
6 61 (8.88%) Power BI
7 57 (8.30%) Data Lake
8 45 (6.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (6.26%) MongoDB
10 42 (6.11%) Metadata
11 29 (4.22%) Big Data
12 28 (4.08%) Tableau
13 27 (3.93%) NoSQL
14 25 (3.64%) Apache Iceberg
14 25 (3.64%) Relational Database
15 24 (3.49%) BigQuery
16 23 (3.35%) Delta Lake
17 20 (2.91%) Data Vault
18 18 (2.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 139 (20.23%) GitLab
2 137 (19.94%) Git
3 127 (18.49%) Jenkins
4 73 (10.63%) JIRA
5 26 (3.78%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.91%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.62%) SonarQube
8 15 (2.18%) JUnit
8 15 (2.18%) Maven
8 15 (2.18%) Mockito
9 8 (1.16%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.02%) DbUnit
11 6 (0.87%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (0.87%) jMock
11 6 (0.87%) Postman
11 6 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.73%) Selenium
13 4 (0.58%) Flyway
General
1 161 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 153 (22.27%) Public Sector
3 118 (17.18%) Finance
4 57 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (5.82%) Banking
6 15 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.04%) Front Office
8 10 (1.46%) Back Office
8 10 (1.46%) Military
9 9 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.02%) Law
10 7 (1.02%) Marketing
10 7 (1.02%) Publishing
11 6 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.87%) Legal
12 4 (0.58%) Billing
12 4 (0.58%) Local Government
12 4 (0.58%) Retail
13 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 167 (24.31%) Data Engineer
2 125 (18.20%) Senior
3 118 (17.18%) AWS Engineer
4 115 (16.74%) Developer
5 80 (11.64%) Architect
6 78 (11.35%) Lead
7 77 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 54 (7.86%) Senior Data Engineer
9 45 (6.55%) AWS Data Engineer
10 37 (5.39%) AWS DevOps
11 34 (4.95%) AWS Architect
12 33 (4.80%) AWS Developer
13 31 (4.51%) Java Developer
14 30 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
14 30 (4.37%) Data Architect
15 28 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 24 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
16 24 (3.49%) Software Engineer
17 23 (3.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 22 (3.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (46.43%) Terraform
2 79 (11.50%) REST
3 76 (11.06%) PySpark
4 74 (10.77%) Kafka
5 58 (8.44%) React
6 56 (8.15%) RESTful
6 56 (8.15%) Spring Boot
7 55 (8.01%) Spring
8 51 (7.42%) Node.js
9 48 (6.99%) AWS CDK
10 33 (4.80%) FastAPI
11 25 (3.64%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.49%) JSON
13 21 (3.06%) .NET
14 20 (2.91%) GraphQL
14 20 (2.91%) Pandas
14 20 (2.91%) SOAP
15 19 (2.77%) OAuth
16 18 (2.62%) Next.js
17 16 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 177 (25.76%) Cloud Native
2 61 (8.88%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.06%) NHS
5 18 (2.62%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.89%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.89%) IVR
7 12 (1.75%) Replication
8 11 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.60%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.31%) Clustering
10 9 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.31%) Legacy Code
10 9 (1.31%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.16%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.16%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.02%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 92 (13.39%) Linux
2 26 (3.78%) Unix
3 21 (3.06%) Windows
4 14 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.46%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.58%) AIX
7 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (63.61%) CI/CD
2 306 (44.54%) DevOps
3 303 (44.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 264 (38.43%) Agile
5 185 (26.93%) Data Pipeline
6 170 (24.75%) Data Engineering
7 151 (21.98%) Analytics
8 136 (19.80%) Data Modelling
9 130 (18.92%) AI
9 130 (18.92%) ETL
10 128 (18.63%) Containerisation
11 119 (17.32%) Observability
12 110 (16.01%) Microservices
13 105 (15.28%) Migration
14 102 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 101 (14.70%) Event-Driven
16 99 (14.41%) Test Automation
17 93 (13.54%) Technical Leadership
18 90 (13.10%) Machine Learning
19 87 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 388 (56.48%) Python
2 247 (35.95%) SQL
3 118 (17.18%) Java
4 79 (11.50%) TypeScript
5 66 (9.61%) Bash
6 56 (8.15%) JavaScript
7 26 (3.78%) C#
7 26 (3.78%) PowerShell
8 24 (3.49%) Shell Script
9 20 (2.91%) Scala
10 18 (2.62%) Groovy
11 14 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.16%) Bicep
13 7 (1.02%) Perl
14 6 (0.87%) Go
15 5 (0.73%) R
16 4 (0.58%) Cypher
16 4 (0.58%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.58%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 236 (34.35%) Security Cleared
2 216 (31.44%) SC Cleared
3 82 (11.94%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (4.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.06%) Degree
7 20 (2.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 18 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.04%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.60%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.02%) CISM
13 7 (1.02%) CISSP
14 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.44%) CSPO
16 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
17 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (16.89%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.39%) QA
3 17 (2.47%) GDPR
4 15 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.16%) NIST
6 6 (0.87%) HL7
6 6 (0.87%) SLA
7 4 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.58%) NCSC
7 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) PMO
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 212 (30.86%) Docker
2 18 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.02%) Postfix
4 6 (0.87%) Squid
5 5 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
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%) Ceph
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 131 (19.07%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.99%) Grafana
3 57 (8.30%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.26%) Ansible
5 17 (2.47%) Argo
6 16 (2.33%) Kibana
7 12 (1.75%) Karpenter
8 10 (1.46%) Puppet
9 8 (1.16%) Packer
10 6 (0.87%) Istio
10 6 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.58%) Salt
13 3 (0.44%) Control-M
13 3 (0.44%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.44%) systemd
14 2 (0.29%) Nessus
14 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (8.30%) Databricks
2 44 (6.40%) Oracle
3 42 (6.11%) Microsoft
4 33 (4.80%) Informatica
5 23 (3.35%) Splunk
6 21 (3.06%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.62%) Google
8 17 (2.47%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.75%) Teradata
10 11 (1.60%) Confluent
10 11 (1.60%) Denodo
11 10 (1.46%) Jaspersoft
11 10 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.31%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.16%) Foundry
13 8 (1.16%) Palantir
14 7 (1.02%) IBM
14 7 (1.02%) SnapLogic
15 6 (0.87%) Red Hat