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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 170 240
Rank change year-on-year -18 +70 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 599 484 428
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 1.53% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.17% 4.16% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 348 344
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.98%
75th Percentile £620 £613 £616
90th Percentile £688 £788 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

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 14,381 11,627 14,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 36.67% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,922 7,739 10,418
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £726 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 173 287
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.58 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.27 £17.61
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +4.33%
75th Percentile £58.33 £43.75 £51.79
90th Percentile £79.25 £68.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% +26.19% +10.06%

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 22 January 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
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 22 January 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 +17 475 £525 -2.60% 358
London +6 320 £528 -4.09% 65
UK excluding London -41 198 £500 - 329
Work from Home -18 158 £550 +5.77% 196
North of England -37 61 £500 - 66
Midlands -25 43 £488 +8.33% 38
Scotland -32 39 £500 - 13
West Midlands -20 36 £523 -5.00% 14
Yorkshire -25 35 £500 -4.76% 34
South East -23 22 £525 -15.15% 91
North West -31 20 £463 -2.63% 23
South West -1 17 £625 +13.55% 47
East of England -12 10 £750 +50.00% 55
Northern Ireland +2 9 £400 - 10
North East -11 7 £425 -30.33% 9
East Midlands -22 7 £417 -6.02% 23
Wales -4 1 £475 +18.75% 18

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 48 (8.01%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (7.68%) Apache Spark
3 38 (6.34%) Apache
4 24 (4.01%) Confluence
5 9 (1.50%) nginx
6 5 (0.83%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.50%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 596 (99.50%) AWS
2 364 (60.77%) Serverless
3 358 (59.77%) AWS Lambda
4 238 (39.73%) Amazon EC2
5 191 (31.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 168 (28.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 153 (25.54%) Amazon ECS
8 143 (23.87%) GitHub
9 134 (22.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 117 (19.53%) Amazon EKS
11 110 (18.36%) GitHub Actions
12 99 (16.53%) Azure
13 71 (11.85%) AWS Step Functions
14 53 (8.85%) Amazon Kinesis
15 46 (7.68%) Route 53
16 43 (7.18%) Amazon ELB
16 43 (7.18%) GCP
16 43 (7.18%) Snowflake
17 42 (7.01%) Amazon SQS
18 38 (6.34%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 54 (9.02%) DNS
2 51 (8.51%) Firewall
3 34 (5.68%) VPN
4 26 (4.34%) Network Security
5 24 (4.01%) TCP/IP
6 22 (3.67%) SSL
7 17 (2.84%) HTTP
8 14 (2.34%) FTP
8 14 (2.34%) SMTP
8 14 (2.34%) SSH
9 9 (1.50%) IMAP
9 9 (1.50%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (0.67%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.50%) BGP
11 3 (0.50%) NAS
12 2 (0.33%) Calico
12 2 (0.33%) OSPF
12 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (30.55%) Amazon RDS
2 105 (17.53%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (14.52%) Amazon Athena
4 86 (14.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 83 (13.86%) DynamoDB
6 50 (8.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 46 (7.68%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (7.51%) Relational Database
9 42 (7.01%) Data Lake
10 30 (5.01%) MongoDB
10 30 (5.01%) MySQL
11 28 (4.67%) Amazon QuickSight
12 25 (4.17%) Power BI
13 21 (3.51%) NoSQL
14 19 (3.17%) OLTP
14 19 (3.17%) SQL Server
15 17 (2.84%) Apache Iceberg
15 17 (2.84%) BigQuery
15 17 (2.84%) OLAP
15 17 (2.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 148 (24.71%) Jenkins
2 127 (21.20%) GitLab
3 115 (19.20%) Git
4 33 (5.51%) JIRA
5 14 (2.34%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.00%) MLflow
7 11 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.67%) Postman
9 8 (1.34%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.34%) JUnit
10 5 (0.83%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.83%) Maven
11 4 (0.67%) NUnit
11 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.50%) Gradle
12 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.33%) Snyk
13 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 150 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 99 (16.53%) Public Sector
3 87 (14.52%) Finance
4 57 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.51%) Banking
6 15 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.84%) Front Office
9 9 (1.50%) Military
10 6 (1.00%) Legal
11 4 (0.67%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Marketing
13 2 (0.33%) Publishing
13 2 (0.33%) Retail
14 1 (0.17%) Aviation
14 1 (0.17%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 133 (22.20%) AWS Engineer
2 112 (18.70%) Data Engineer
3 95 (15.86%) Senior
4 90 (15.03%) Developer
5 80 (13.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (11.35%) Architect
7 45 (7.51%) Lead
8 44 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
9 38 (6.34%) AWS DevOps
10 37 (6.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 33 (5.51%) AWS Architect
11 33 (5.51%) AWS Data Engineer
11 33 (5.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 29 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
13 28 (4.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 28 (4.67%) Data Architect
13 28 (4.67%) Java Developer
13 28 (4.67%) Software Engineer
14 26 (4.34%) Site Engineer
15 25 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (15.86%) Kafka
2 56 (9.35%) Node.js
3 53 (8.85%) REST
4 52 (8.68%) React
5 50 (8.35%) Spring
5 50 (8.35%) Spring Boot
6 49 (8.18%) RESTful
7 47 (7.85%) AWS CDK
8 36 (6.01%) OAuth
9 34 (5.68%) PySpark
10 26 (4.34%) AngularJS
11 25 (4.17%) FastAPI
12 24 (4.01%) CSS
13 22 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
13 22 (3.67%) JWT
14 21 (3.51%) JSON
15 19 (3.17%) boto
16 18 (3.01%) Pandas
17 17 (2.84%) Jest
18 16 (2.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 141 (23.54%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (3.51%) Replication
4 18 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.84%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.84%) NHS
8 10 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.83%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.83%) Derivative
12 5 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.83%) SCADA
12 5 (0.83%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 83 (13.86%) Linux
2 23 (3.84%) Windows
3 18 (3.01%) VMS
4 17 (2.84%) Amazon Linux
5 15 (2.50%) Unix
6 14 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.67%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.17%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.17%) Android
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (60.77%) CI/CD
2 272 (45.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 246 (41.07%) DevOps
4 156 (26.04%) Containerisation
5 153 (25.54%) Agile
6 121 (20.20%) ETL
7 120 (20.03%) Data Pipeline
8 108 (18.03%) Analytics
8 108 (18.03%) Data Modelling
9 105 (17.53%) Data Engineering
10 99 (16.53%) Microservices
11 93 (15.53%) Observability
12 86 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
13 84 (14.02%) AI
14 73 (12.19%) Event-Driven
14 73 (12.19%) Software Engineering
15 68 (11.35%) Migration
16 63 (10.52%) Machine Learning
17 59 (9.85%) Data Governance
18 57 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 371 (61.94%) Python
2 195 (32.55%) SQL
3 104 (17.36%) Java
4 84 (14.02%) Bash
5 58 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.68%) JavaScript
7 38 (6.34%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.84%) C#
9 25 (4.17%) Shell Script
10 24 (4.01%) Go
11 16 (2.67%) Groovy
12 12 (2.00%) Perl
13 9 (1.50%) Scala
14 7 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.00%) JSX
16 5 (0.83%) Korn
17 4 (0.67%) Bicep
17 4 (0.67%) C
18 3 (0.50%) C++
19 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 189 (31.55%) Security Cleared
2 157 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.35%) AWS Certification
4 29 (4.84%) Degree
5 24 (4.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (4.01%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.34%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.50%) MCP
9 3 (0.50%) OCP
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.50%) PhD
10 2 (0.33%) CISSP
10 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.02%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.68%) GDPR
3 33 (5.51%) QA
4 18 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.50%) NIST
6 6 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.67%) NCSC
8 3 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) GxP
9 2 (0.33%) MiFID
9 2 (0.33%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) HL7
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 233 (38.90%) Docker
2 14 (2.34%) DFS Replication
3 12 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.50%) Dovecot
4 9 (1.50%) Postfix
4 9 (1.50%) Squid
5 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.50%) KVM
7 2 (0.33%) HDFS
7 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 325 (54.26%) Terraform
2 162 (27.05%) Kubernetes
3 96 (16.03%) Grafana
4 91 (15.19%) Ansible
5 75 (12.52%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.51%) Puppet
7 20 (3.34%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.67%) Argo
8 10 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (1.50%) Nessus
9 9 (1.50%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.17%) Kibana
11 6 (1.00%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.83%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (0.83%) Istio
12 5 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.67%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.50%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 48 (8.01%) Databricks
2 34 (5.68%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.01%) F5
3 24 (4.01%) Palo Alto
4 23 (3.84%) CheckPoint
4 23 (3.84%) Splunk
5 19 (3.17%) Oracle
6 18 (3.01%) Google
7 16 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.17%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.50%) Confluent
9 9 (1.50%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.34%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.17%) Commvault
11 7 (1.17%) Dell
12 6 (1.00%) SAP
13 5 (0.83%) AVEVA
13 5 (0.83%) StreamSets
13 5 (0.83%) Sybase
13 5 (0.83%) Zscaler