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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 169 225
Rank change year-on-year -15 +56 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 756 544 462
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.44% 1.68% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.07% 4.48% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 408 338
10th Percentile £381 £400 £394
25th Percentile £439 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £736 £700 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.90%
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 18,579 12,154 14,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.45% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,330 8,142 9,946
10th Percentile £328 £313 £308
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 310 353
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.24 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -21.50%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -23 627 £525 - 143
London +20 416 £550 -1.79% 50
Work from Home -16 270 £500 - 103
UK excluding London -65 253 £475 - 117
Midlands -25 75 £469 -1.26% 17
West Midlands -31 70 £469 -1.26% 9
North of England -59 64 £500 +2.56% 37
Scotland -19 47 £450 -10.10% 9
North West -39 33 £525 +10.53% 12
South West -11 31 £466 -15.23% 13
South East -60 28 £575 +35.29% 24
Yorkshire -57 16 £500 -4.76% 13
North East -27 15 £425 -5.56% 12
East of England -30 8 £400 -20.00% 10
East Midlands -15 4 £425 -7.41% 8
Wales - 4 £575 - 4
Northern Ireland +1 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 86 (11.38%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (11.11%) Confluence
3 65 (8.60%) Apache Spark
4 53 (7.01%) Apache
5 23 (3.04%) SAS
6 11 (1.46%) nginx
7 9 (1.19%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.79%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) Mule
12 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 746 (98.68%) AWS
2 475 (62.83%) Serverless
3 468 (61.90%) AWS Lambda
4 272 (35.98%) Amazon EC2
5 224 (29.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 163 (21.56%) Amazon ECS
7 154 (20.37%) GitHub
8 151 (19.97%) Amazon EKS
9 146 (19.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 140 (18.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 112 (14.81%) Amazon SQS
11 112 (14.81%) Azure
11 112 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
12 95 (12.57%) Amazon EMR
13 85 (11.24%) Snowflake
14 83 (10.98%) dbt
15 78 (10.32%) AWS Step Functions
16 64 (8.47%) Power Platform
17 56 (7.41%) AWS KMS
18 46 (6.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.31%) Firewall
2 24 (3.17%) DNS
3 15 (1.98%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.72%) VPN
5 11 (1.46%) Network Security
5 11 (1.46%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.79%) HTTP
6 6 (0.79%) WAN
7 5 (0.66%) CTI
8 4 (0.53%) DHCP
8 4 (0.53%) Internet
8 4 (0.53%) NAS
8 4 (0.53%) SAN
8 4 (0.53%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) BGP
9 3 (0.40%) NetScaler
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
9 3 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) Multicast
10 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (24.60%) Amazon RDS
2 149 (19.71%) Amazon Athena
3 128 (16.93%) DynamoDB
4 127 (16.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 98 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (8.47%) Power BI
8 61 (8.07%) Data Lake
9 49 (6.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 42 (5.56%) Metadata
11 36 (4.76%) Relational Database
12 33 (4.37%) MongoDB
13 32 (4.23%) NoSQL
14 31 (4.10%) Big Data
15 30 (3.97%) Tableau
16 25 (3.31%) BigQuery
16 25 (3.31%) SQL Server
17 21 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
17 21 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (2.38%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 150 (19.84%) Git
2 148 (19.58%) Jenkins
3 147 (19.44%) GitLab
4 93 (12.30%) JIRA
5 33 (4.37%) SonarQube
6 32 (4.23%) Bitbucket
7 28 (3.70%) JUnit
8 24 (3.17%) Maven
8 24 (3.17%) Mockito
9 18 (2.38%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.85%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.72%) jMock
12 11 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.32%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.06%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.06%) Postman
15 6 (0.79%) MLflow
16 5 (0.66%) Selenium
17 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 3 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 188 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 158 (20.90%) Public Sector
3 126 (16.67%) Finance
4 66 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (5.56%) Banking
6 20 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.85%) Front Office
8 11 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.79%) Back Office
10 6 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.79%) Law
10 6 (0.79%) Legal
10 6 (0.79%) Marketing
11 5 (0.66%) Billing
11 5 (0.66%) Military
12 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.53%) Retail
12 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 175 (23.15%) Data Engineer
2 144 (19.05%) Developer
3 139 (18.39%) AWS Engineer
4 108 (14.29%) Senior
5 94 (12.43%) Lead
6 88 (11.64%) Architect
7 63 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.35%) AWS Data Engineer
9 46 (6.08%) Java Developer
10 45 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (5.42%) Senior Data Engineer
12 39 (5.16%) AWS Architect
13 37 (4.89%) AWS DevOps
14 32 (4.23%) AWS Developer
15 28 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
15 28 (3.70%) Software Engineer
16 27 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.44%) Python Engineer
18 24 (3.17%) Data Architect
19 23 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (11.24%) PySpark
2 83 (10.98%) Kafka
3 75 (9.92%) REST
4 71 (9.39%) Spring Boot
5 70 (9.26%) Spring
6 65 (8.60%) Node.js
6 65 (8.60%) React
7 60 (7.94%) RESTful
8 58 (7.67%) AWS CDK
9 33 (4.37%) SOAP
10 29 (3.84%) FastAPI
11 27 (3.57%) AngularJS
11 27 (3.57%) OAuth
12 24 (3.17%) PyTorch
12 24 (3.17%) Web Services
13 23 (3.04%) Pandas
14 22 (2.91%) JSON
15 21 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
15 21 (2.78%) GraphQL
15 21 (2.78%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 191 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (2.91%) NHS
5 18 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.59%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.19%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.06%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 7 (0.93%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.93%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 91 (12.04%) Linux
2 19 (2.51%) Unix
3 17 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (2.25%) Windows
4 6 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.40%) AIX
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.26%) Android
7 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.26%) zOS
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (61.77%) CI/CD
2 318 (42.06%) DevOps
3 296 (39.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 262 (34.66%) Agile
5 186 (24.60%) Data Engineering
6 180 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
7 179 (23.68%) Analytics
8 157 (20.77%) ETL
9 153 (20.24%) Data Modelling
10 149 (19.71%) AI
10 149 (19.71%) Containerisation
11 128 (16.93%) Microservices
12 113 (14.95%) Observability
13 108 (14.29%) Machine Learning
14 105 (13.89%) Migration
15 99 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (13.10%) Test Automation
16 92 (12.17%) Scrum
17 90 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
17 90 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 430 (56.88%) Python
2 271 (35.85%) SQL
3 138 (18.25%) Java
4 80 (10.58%) TypeScript
5 66 (8.73%) Bash
6 61 (8.07%) JavaScript
7 44 (5.82%) C#
8 31 (4.10%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.17%) Scala
10 22 (2.91%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.59%) Groovy
12 7 (0.93%) Bicep
13 6 (0.79%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.66%) Go
14 5 (0.66%) Perl
14 5 (0.66%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.53%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.40%) Cypher
16 3 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 246 (32.54%) Security Cleared
2 213 (28.17%) SC Cleared
3 68 (8.99%) AWS Certification
4 38 (5.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (2.65%) Degree
7 18 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.59%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.46%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.40%) CSPO
14 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (15.61%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.31%) QA
3 22 (2.91%) GDPR
4 14 (1.85%) SLA
5 11 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.93%) PMO
7 5 (0.66%) HL7
8 4 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.40%) NCSC
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) NIST
10 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 219 (28.97%) Docker
2 15 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.59%) Squid
4 11 (1.46%) Postfix
5 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.26%) HDFS
6 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 339 (44.84%) Terraform
2 138 (18.25%) Kubernetes
3 108 (14.29%) Grafana
4 65 (8.60%) Prometheus
5 45 (5.95%) Ansible
6 16 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.98%) Argo
8 11 (1.46%) Puppet
9 9 (1.19%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.19%) Kibana
10 8 (1.06%) Consul
11 7 (0.93%) Packer
12 5 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.66%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.66%) Salt
13 4 (0.53%) Istio
13 4 (0.53%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.26%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 69 (9.13%) Databricks
2 37 (4.89%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.97%) Informatica
4 25 (3.31%) Google
4 25 (3.31%) Oracle
4 25 (3.31%) Splunk
5 23 (3.04%) Atlassian
5 23 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.25%) Jaspersoft
8 15 (1.98%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.59%) Teradata
10 11 (1.46%) Denodo
10 11 (1.46%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.19%) IBM
12 8 (1.06%) Foundry
12 8 (1.06%) Palantir
12 8 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.79%) AVEVA
14 5 (0.66%) Ab Initio