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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 166 231
Rank change year-on-year -24 +65 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 736 522 452
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.71% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.05% 4.52% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 388 335
10th Percentile £377 £400 £389
25th Percentile £440 £463 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £716 £700 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 18,181 11,543 14,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.43% 37.72% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,100 7,737 9,953
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 292 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.09
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.75 £72.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.87
% change year-on-year +102.70% -9.58% -19.73%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -14 618 £525 -2.23% 107
London +7 416 £550 -4.35% 59
Work from Home -14 250 £500 -4.76% 60
UK excluding London -63 237 £475 -5.00% 68
Midlands -29 70 £469 -1.26% 14
West Midlands -21 65 £469 -1.26% 8
North of England -64 63 £500 +1.27% 20
Scotland -31 41 £465 -6.95% 3
North West -41 33 £525 +10.53% 9
South East -54 29 £580 +28.89% 19
South West -15 25 £456 -17.05% 11
North East -22 15 £425 -5.56% 3
Yorkshire -57 15 £500 -4.76% 8
East of England -34 8 £400 -27.27%
East Midlands -18 4 £425 -6.54% 6
Wales - 4 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland +1 1 - -

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 84 (11.41%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (10.05%) Confluence
3 65 (8.83%) Apache Spark
4 49 (6.66%) Apache
5 22 (2.99%) SAS
6 11 (1.49%) nginx
7 9 (1.22%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 726 (98.64%) AWS
2 469 (63.72%) Serverless
3 463 (62.91%) AWS Lambda
4 269 (36.55%) Amazon EC2
5 212 (28.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 160 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
7 145 (19.70%) GitHub
8 143 (19.43%) Amazon EKS
9 142 (19.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 142 (19.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 110 (14.95%) Amazon SQS
11 105 (14.27%) Azure
11 105 (14.27%) GitHub Actions
12 89 (12.09%) Amazon EMR
13 84 (11.41%) Snowflake
14 81 (11.01%) dbt
15 78 (10.60%) AWS Step Functions
16 65 (8.83%) Power Platform
17 54 (7.34%) AWS KMS
18 51 (6.93%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.80%) DNS
2 25 (3.40%) Firewall
3 15 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.77%) VPN
5 11 (1.49%) Network Security
5 11 (1.49%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.82%) WAN
7 5 (0.68%) HTTP
8 4 (0.54%) DHCP
8 4 (0.54%) Internet
8 4 (0.54%) NAS
8 4 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.54%) SAN
8 4 (0.54%) SSL
9 3 (0.41%) BGP
9 3 (0.41%) CTI
9 3 (0.41%) OSPF
10 2 (0.27%) Multicast
10 2 (0.27%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (24.46%) Amazon RDS
2 151 (20.52%) Amazon Athena
3 129 (17.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 126 (17.12%) DynamoDB
5 101 (13.72%) PostgreSQL
6 79 (10.73%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (8.83%) Power BI
8 59 (8.02%) Data Lake
9 51 (6.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 39 (5.30%) NoSQL
11 37 (5.03%) Metadata
12 36 (4.89%) Relational Database
13 33 (4.48%) MongoDB
14 32 (4.35%) Big Data
14 32 (4.35%) Tableau
15 25 (3.40%) BigQuery
16 24 (3.26%) SQL Server
17 22 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
18 21 (2.85%) Snowflake Schema
19 19 (2.58%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 150 (20.38%) Git
2 148 (20.11%) GitLab
3 143 (19.43%) Jenkins
4 90 (12.23%) JIRA
5 31 (4.21%) SonarQube
6 30 (4.08%) JUnit
7 28 (3.80%) Bitbucket
8 24 (3.26%) Mockito
9 23 (3.13%) Maven
10 15 (2.04%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.90%) DbUnit
12 13 (1.77%) jMock
13 11 (1.49%) Artifactory
13 11 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (1.09%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.09%) Postman
15 6 (0.82%) MLflow
16 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.54%) Selenium
17 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 186 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 149 (20.24%) Public Sector
3 124 (16.85%) Finance
4 65 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (5.43%) Banking
6 22 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.49%) Front Office
9 7 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (0.95%) Legal
9 7 (0.95%) Military
10 6 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.82%) Law
11 5 (0.68%) Marketing
12 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Back Office
13 3 (0.41%) Games
13 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 177 (24.05%) Data Engineer
2 137 (18.61%) Developer
3 136 (18.48%) AWS Engineer
4 103 (13.99%) Senior
5 91 (12.36%) Architect
6 82 (11.14%) Lead
7 61 (8.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (6.66%) Java Developer
9 48 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
10 44 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (5.84%) AWS Architect
12 39 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
13 37 (5.03%) AWS DevOps
14 32 (4.35%) AWS Developer
15 28 (3.80%) Software Engineer
16 27 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 25 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
17 25 (3.40%) Python Engineer
18 24 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 24 (3.26%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.50%) Kafka
2 81 (11.01%) PySpark
3 75 (10.19%) REST
3 75 (10.19%) Spring
3 75 (10.19%) Spring Boot
4 63 (8.56%) RESTful
5 62 (8.42%) React
6 56 (7.61%) Node.js
7 51 (6.93%) AWS CDK
8 32 (4.35%) SOAP
9 31 (4.21%) OAuth
10 30 (4.08%) AngularJS
11 29 (3.94%) FastAPI
12 25 (3.40%) JPA
13 24 (3.26%) OpenID
13 24 (3.26%) PyTorch
14 23 (3.13%) Hibernate
14 23 (3.13%) Web Services
15 22 (2.99%) Pandas
16 21 (2.85%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 188 (25.54%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.61%) Product Ownership
3 50 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.72%) NHS
5 17 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.63%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.22%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.09%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
10 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (0.95%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.95%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.82%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 88 (11.96%) Linux
2 20 (2.72%) Unix
3 17 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.04%) Windows
5 5 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 2 (0.27%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (60.33%) CI/CD
2 308 (41.85%) DevOps
3 273 (37.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 242 (32.88%) Agile
5 179 (24.32%) Data Engineering
6 177 (24.05%) Analytics
7 170 (23.10%) Data Pipeline
8 153 (20.79%) Containerisation
9 152 (20.65%) ETL
10 145 (19.70%) AI
11 139 (18.89%) Data Modelling
12 129 (17.53%) Microservices
13 107 (14.54%) Observability
14 103 (13.99%) Machine Learning
15 98 (13.32%) Migration
16 92 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
16 92 (12.50%) Test Automation
17 90 (12.23%) Business Intelligence
18 89 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
19 88 (11.96%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 408 (55.43%) Python
2 269 (36.55%) SQL
3 139 (18.89%) Java
4 73 (9.92%) TypeScript
5 56 (7.61%) Bash
6 54 (7.34%) JavaScript
7 45 (6.11%) C#
8 30 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 22 (2.99%) Scala
11 8 (1.09%) Groovy
12 6 (0.82%) Bicep
12 6 (0.82%) Go
12 6 (0.82%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.68%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.54%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.54%) Perl
15 3 (0.41%) C
15 3 (0.41%) Cypher
15 3 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 235 (31.93%) Security Cleared
2 201 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.29%) AWS Certification
4 33 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (3.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.58%) Degree
7 18 (2.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 13 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.49%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.41%) CSPO
13 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (15.35%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.94%) QA
3 22 (2.99%) GDPR
4 14 (1.90%) SLA
5 9 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.95%) PMO
7 6 (0.82%) NIST
7 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.54%) HL7
8 4 (0.54%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 211 (28.67%) Docker
2 15 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.63%) Squid
4 11 (1.49%) Postfix
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 329 (44.70%) Terraform
2 148 (20.11%) Kubernetes
3 96 (13.04%) Grafana
4 66 (8.97%) Prometheus
5 45 (6.11%) Ansible
6 17 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.63%) Puppet
8 9 (1.22%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.22%) Kibana
9 8 (1.09%) Consul
10 6 (0.82%) Argo
10 6 (0.82%) Packer
10 6 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.82%) Salt
11 5 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.54%) Istio
12 4 (0.54%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 67 (9.10%) Databricks
2 32 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 29 (3.94%) Informatica
4 25 (3.40%) Splunk
5 24 (3.26%) Google
6 23 (3.13%) Atlassian
7 21 (2.85%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.85%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.58%) Oracle
9 17 (2.31%) Jaspersoft
10 15 (2.04%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.63%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.63%) Teradata
12 11 (1.49%) Denodo
13 8 (1.09%) IBM
13 8 (1.09%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.95%) Confluent
14 7 (0.95%) Foundry
14 7 (0.95%) Palantir
15 6 (0.82%) AVEVA