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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 157 220
Rank change year-on-year -56 +63 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 699 602 431
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.82% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.68% 4.87% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 441 294
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £608
90th Percentile £738 £694 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £488 £494
% change year-on-year -3.79% -1.32% -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 18,997 12,357 13,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.79% 37.43% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,598 8,222 8,954
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
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 614 307 208
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.22
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.80 £54.38 £60.72
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.67 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.25 £29.25
% change year-on-year +48.15% -30.77% +8.33%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -50 579 £529 +0.76% 324
London -20 391 £575 -1.08% 204
Work from Home -35 253 £525 - 751
UK excluding London -83 220 £469 -3.79% 163
North of England -60 65 £463 -7.50% 46
Midlands -41 64 £463 -2.63% 13
West Midlands -45 54 £469 -1.26% 5
Scotland -29 36 £475 -5.00% 22
South West -34 28 £470 -13.96% 22
North West -40 27 £500 +5.26% 19
North East -28 21 £425 -2.86% 12
South East -62 20 £550 +29.41% 28
Yorkshire -48 17 £500 -4.76% 15
East Midlands -9 9 £419 -22.02% 8
East of England -50 7 £400 -27.27% 26
Wales - 3 £600 - 4
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 5

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 88 (12.59%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (10.87%) Confluence
3 56 (8.01%) Apache Spark
4 54 (7.73%) Apache
5 17 (2.43%) SAS
6 12 (1.72%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.14%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.86%) nginx
9 5 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.72%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.72%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.29%) CMS
13 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.14%) Mule
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 680 (97.28%) AWS
2 449 (64.23%) Serverless
3 447 (63.95%) AWS Lambda
4 235 (33.62%) Amazon EC2
5 229 (32.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 168 (24.03%) GitHub
7 148 (21.17%) Amazon ECS
8 139 (19.89%) Amazon EKS
9 130 (18.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 129 (18.45%) GitHub Actions
11 124 (17.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 111 (15.88%) Azure
13 94 (13.45%) Amazon SQS
14 89 (12.73%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.44%) dbt
16 76 (10.87%) Snowflake
17 74 (10.59%) AWS Step Functions
18 61 (8.73%) Power Platform
19 53 (7.58%) AWS KMS
20 51 (7.30%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.72%) Firewall
2 18 (2.58%) DNS
3 10 (1.43%) Network Security
4 7 (1.00%) HTTP
4 7 (1.00%) SSL
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
5 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.72%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) Internet
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) SAN
6 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
7 3 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) FTP
8 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (26.61%) Amazon RDS
2 139 (19.89%) Amazon Athena
3 127 (18.17%) DynamoDB
4 113 (16.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 92 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
5 92 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
6 61 (8.73%) Power BI
7 55 (7.87%) Data Lake
8 45 (6.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 45 (6.44%) MongoDB
9 40 (5.72%) Metadata
10 30 (4.29%) Big Data
11 29 (4.15%) Tableau
12 28 (4.01%) NoSQL
13 27 (3.86%) Relational Database
14 25 (3.58%) Apache Iceberg
15 23 (3.29%) BigQuery
16 21 (3.00%) Data Vault
17 20 (2.86%) Delta Lake
18 19 (2.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 142 (20.31%) Git
1 142 (20.31%) GitLab
2 132 (18.88%) Jenkins
3 78 (11.16%) JIRA
4 26 (3.72%) Bitbucket
5 21 (3.00%) Cypress.io
6 18 (2.58%) SonarQube
7 16 (2.29%) JUnit
7 16 (2.29%) Mockito
8 15 (2.15%) Maven
9 9 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.00%) DbUnit
10 7 (1.00%) Postman
11 6 (0.86%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (0.86%) jMock
11 6 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.72%) Selenium
13 4 (0.57%) Flyway
General
1 163 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 156 (22.32%) Public Sector
3 117 (16.74%) Finance
4 59 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.15%) Banking
6 15 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (1.86%) Front Office
8 10 (1.43%) Back Office
8 10 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.43%) Military
9 7 (1.00%) Law
9 7 (1.00%) Marketing
10 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.86%) Legal
10 6 (0.86%) Publishing
11 5 (0.72%) Retail
12 4 (0.57%) Billing
12 4 (0.57%) Local Government
13 3 (0.43%) Games
13 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 168 (24.03%) Data Engineer
2 125 (17.88%) Senior
3 121 (17.31%) AWS Engineer
4 116 (16.60%) Developer
5 83 (11.87%) Architect
6 79 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 78 (11.16%) Lead
8 54 (7.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 45 (6.44%) AWS Data Engineer
10 38 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
11 34 (4.86%) AWS Architect
12 33 (4.72%) AWS Developer
13 31 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (4.43%) Java Developer
14 30 (4.29%) Data Architect
15 29 (4.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
17 24 (3.43%) Software Engineer
18 23 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 22 (3.15%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (46.49%) Terraform
2 79 (11.30%) REST
3 75 (10.73%) Kafka
3 75 (10.73%) PySpark
4 58 (8.30%) React
4 58 (8.30%) Spring Boot
5 57 (8.15%) Spring
6 56 (8.01%) RESTful
7 52 (7.44%) Node.js
8 48 (6.87%) AWS CDK
9 33 (4.72%) FastAPI
10 25 (3.58%) AngularJS
10 25 (3.58%) JSON
11 21 (3.00%) .NET
11 21 (3.00%) SOAP
12 20 (2.86%) OAuth
12 20 (2.86%) Pandas
13 19 (2.72%) GraphQL
14 18 (2.58%) Next.js
15 16 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 178 (25.46%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.87%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.00%) NHS
5 18 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.86%) AI Agents
7 13 (1.86%) IVR
8 12 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.72%) Replication
9 11 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.29%) Clustering
10 9 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.29%) Legacy Code
10 9 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.29%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.14%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.14%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 94 (13.45%) Linux
2 26 (3.72%) Unix
3 22 (3.15%) Windows
4 15 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.57%) AIX
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (62.95%) CI/CD
2 309 (44.21%) DevOps
3 305 (43.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 269 (38.48%) Agile
5 185 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
6 169 (24.18%) Data Engineering
7 149 (21.32%) Analytics
8 138 (19.74%) Data Modelling
9 132 (18.88%) ETL
10 131 (18.74%) Containerisation
11 130 (18.60%) AI
12 120 (17.17%) Observability
13 113 (16.17%) Microservices
14 105 (15.02%) Migration
15 103 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 103 (14.74%) Event-Driven
15 103 (14.74%) Test Automation
16 93 (13.30%) Technical Leadership
17 89 (12.73%) Machine Learning
18 87 (12.45%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 389 (55.65%) Python
2 248 (35.48%) SQL
3 123 (17.60%) Java
4 80 (11.44%) TypeScript
5 68 (9.73%) Bash
6 58 (8.30%) JavaScript
7 28 (4.01%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.86%) C#
9 24 (3.43%) Shell Script
10 21 (3.00%) Scala
11 18 (2.58%) Groovy
12 14 (2.00%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.14%) Bicep
14 7 (1.00%) Perl
15 6 (0.86%) Go
16 5 (0.72%) R
17 4 (0.57%) Cypher
17 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 243 (34.76%) Security Cleared
2 220 (31.47%) SC Cleared
3 84 (12.02%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.00%) Degree
7 20 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 19 (2.72%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.00%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.57%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.00%) CISM
13 7 (1.00%) CISSP
14 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.43%) CSPO
16 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (16.45%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.44%) QA
3 17 (2.43%) GDPR
4 13 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.29%) NIST
6 6 (0.86%) HL7
6 6 (0.86%) SLA
7 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.43%) PMO
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 218 (31.19%) Docker
2 19 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.00%) Postfix
4 6 (0.86%) Squid
5 5 (0.72%) 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 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 135 (19.31%) Kubernetes
2 104 (14.88%) Grafana
3 57 (8.15%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.15%) Ansible
5 18 (2.58%) Argo
6 16 (2.29%) Kibana
7 12 (1.72%) Karpenter
8 10 (1.43%) Puppet
9 8 (1.14%) Packer
10 7 (1.00%) Istio
11 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (0.57%) Salt
14 3 (0.43%) Control-M
14 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.43%) systemd
15 2 (0.29%) Nessus
15 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (8.01%) Databricks
2 45 (6.44%) Oracle
3 43 (6.15%) Microsoft
4 33 (4.72%) Informatica
5 24 (3.43%) Splunk
6 21 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.43%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.43%) Google
8 12 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.72%) Teradata
9 11 (1.57%) Confluent
9 11 (1.57%) Denodo
10 10 (1.43%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
10 10 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.14%) Foundry
11 8 (1.14%) IBM
11 8 (1.14%) Palantir
12 7 (1.00%) SnapLogic
13 6 (0.86%) PagerDuty