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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 184 227
Rank change year-on-year +4 +43 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 637 464 461
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.53% 1.51% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 4.01% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 347 373
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +0.48% -7.11%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 15,708 11,561 14,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.82% 37.74% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,775 7,839 10,422
10th Percentile £313 £313 £283
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 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% -1.30% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 177 341
10th Percentile £15.30 £16.87 £14.13
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £27.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +44.55% +28.15% -14.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.76 £76.18 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.50
% change year-on-year +86.10% +30.70% -11.90%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +17 514 £525 -4.55% 125
London +9 334 £525 -8.70% 56
UK excluding London -17 221 £475 -5.00% 72
Work from Home -6 177 £525 +2.39% 70
North of England -21 68 £500 - 27
Midlands -20 57 £488 +8.33% 11
West Midlands -14 49 £500 -9.09% 9
Scotland -25 39 £449 -9.20% 4
Yorkshire -40 33 £500 -2.44% 7
North West -11 28 £450 -5.26% 18
South East -20 24 £530 -16.86% 11
South West -12 17 £531 -11.58% 15
East of England -22 9 £475 -1.30% 3
Northern Ireland +1 8 £400 -
East Midlands -26 8 £433 -2.59% 2
North East -15 7 £475 -22.13% 2
Wales -2 2 £363 -9.38% 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 60 (9.42%) Apache Spark
2 42 (6.59%) Apache
2 42 (6.59%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (4.87%) Confluence
4 12 (1.88%) nginx
5 9 (1.41%) SAS
6 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.47%) Traefik
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Actimize
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 633 (99.37%) AWS
2 399 (62.64%) Serverless
3 389 (61.07%) AWS Lambda
4 269 (42.23%) Amazon EC2
5 191 (29.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 179 (28.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 162 (25.43%) Amazon ECS
8 144 (22.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 137 (21.51%) Amazon EKS
10 126 (19.78%) GitHub
11 101 (15.86%) Azure
12 95 (14.91%) GitHub Actions
13 76 (11.93%) AWS Step Functions
14 64 (10.05%) Amazon SQS
15 60 (9.42%) Route 53
16 52 (8.16%) Snowflake
17 49 (7.69%) GCP
18 48 (7.54%) Amazon EMR
19 44 (6.91%) Amazon Kinesis
20 36 (5.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.06%) DNS
2 39 (6.12%) Firewall
3 31 (4.87%) VPN
4 24 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.14%) Network Security
6 13 (2.04%) SSL
7 8 (1.26%) HTTP
7 8 (1.26%) OpenVPN
8 4 (0.63%) FTP
8 4 (0.63%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.63%) SMTP
8 4 (0.63%) SSH
9 3 (0.47%) BGP
9 3 (0.47%) IMAP
9 3 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.31%) Multicast
10 2 (0.31%) NAS
10 2 (0.31%) OSPF
10 2 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (29.98%) Amazon RDS
2 111 (17.43%) PostgreSQL
3 97 (15.23%) Amazon Athena
4 92 (14.44%) DynamoDB
5 89 (13.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 52 (8.16%) Relational Database
7 48 (7.54%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (7.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 46 (7.22%) Data Lake
9 36 (5.65%) Power BI
10 30 (4.71%) MongoDB
10 30 (4.71%) MySQL
11 29 (4.55%) NoSQL
12 26 (4.08%) SQL Server
13 24 (3.77%) BigQuery
14 23 (3.61%) OLTP
15 21 (3.30%) Amazon QuickSight
15 21 (3.30%) Tableau
16 20 (3.14%) Metadata
16 20 (3.14%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 146 (22.92%) Jenkins
2 134 (21.04%) GitLab
3 118 (18.52%) Git
4 37 (5.81%) JIRA
5 23 (3.61%) JUnit
6 19 (2.98%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.98%) Maven
7 18 (2.83%) SonarQube
8 14 (2.20%) MLflow
9 12 (1.88%) Mockito
10 10 (1.57%) Postman
11 9 (1.41%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.41%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.10%) DbUnit
12 7 (1.10%) jMock
13 6 (0.94%) Gradle
14 5 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (0.63%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.63%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 169 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 105 (16.48%) Public Sector
3 102 (16.01%) Finance
4 63 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (5.49%) Banking
6 22 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.88%) Front Office
9 7 (1.10%) Military
10 5 (0.78%) Legal
11 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.47%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.31%) Publishing
14 1 (0.16%) Games
14 1 (0.16%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 115 (18.05%) AWS Engineer
1 115 (18.05%) Data Engineer
1 115 (18.05%) Developer
2 83 (13.03%) Senior
3 75 (11.77%) Architect
4 67 (10.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (10.20%) Lead
6 46 (7.22%) Java Developer
7 39 (6.12%) AWS Architect
8 36 (5.65%) AWS Data Engineer
9 35 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 32 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (4.40%) Analyst
12 27 (4.24%) Python Engineer
13 26 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 26 (4.08%) Site Engineer
13 26 (4.08%) Software Engineer
14 25 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 24 (3.77%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (16.48%) Kafka
2 77 (12.09%) Spring
2 77 (12.09%) Spring Boot
3 61 (9.58%) Node.js
4 60 (9.42%) REST
5 59 (9.26%) RESTful
6 48 (7.54%) PySpark
6 48 (7.54%) React
7 45 (7.06%) AWS CDK
8 42 (6.59%) OAuth
9 34 (5.34%) AngularJS
10 25 (3.92%) FastAPI
10 25 (3.92%) JWT
11 22 (3.45%) CSS
12 21 (3.30%) boto
12 21 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
12 21 (3.30%) JSON
13 20 (3.14%) Jest
13 20 (3.14%) PyTorch
14 19 (2.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 157 (24.65%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.20%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.04%) NHS
7 11 (1.73%) Replication
8 10 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.94%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.78%) Derivative
13 5 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.78%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 82 (12.87%) Linux
2 14 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (1.88%) Windows
4 10 (1.57%) Unix
5 8 (1.26%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.10%) VMS
7 5 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.31%) zOS
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (59.34%) CI/CD
2 268 (42.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 265 (41.60%) DevOps
4 172 (27.00%) Agile
5 169 (26.53%) Containerisation
6 145 (22.76%) ETL
7 137 (21.51%) Analytics
8 128 (20.09%) Data Engineering
9 127 (19.94%) Data Modelling
10 124 (19.47%) Data Pipeline
11 115 (18.05%) Microservices
12 108 (16.95%) Observability
13 103 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
14 89 (13.97%) AI
15 79 (12.40%) Migration
16 74 (11.62%) Performance Tuning
17 70 (10.99%) Software Engineering
18 68 (10.68%) Event-Driven
18 68 (10.68%) Machine Learning
19 65 (10.20%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 372 (58.40%) Python
2 219 (34.38%) SQL
3 119 (18.68%) Java
4 76 (11.93%) Bash
5 51 (8.01%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.75%) JavaScript
7 36 (5.65%) C#
8 27 (4.24%) PowerShell
9 26 (4.08%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.45%) Go
11 7 (1.10%) Scala
12 6 (0.94%) Groovy
12 6 (0.94%) JSX
13 5 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.78%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.47%) C
14 3 (0.47%) C++
14 3 (0.47%) Korn
15 2 (0.31%) Perl
15 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 207 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 167 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 64 (10.05%) AWS Certification
4 24 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (3.45%) Degree
6 20 (3.14%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.47%) OCP
12 3 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.47%) PhD
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.31%) CISSP
14 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.62%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.44%) GDPR
3 34 (5.34%) QA
4 18 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.35%) NIST
6 14 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.10%) SLA
8 6 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.63%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.63%) NCSC
9 4 (0.63%) PMO
10 2 (0.31%) GxP
10 2 (0.31%) MiFID
10 2 (0.31%) WCAG
11 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 221 (34.69%) Docker
2 11 (1.73%) Squid
3 9 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.41%) Postfix
4 4 (0.63%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.47%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.31%) HDFS
6 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.16%) etcd
7 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 312 (48.98%) Terraform
2 171 (26.84%) Kubernetes
3 102 (16.01%) Grafana
4 83 (13.03%) Ansible
5 80 (12.56%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.83%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.67%) Puppet
7 17 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.73%) Argo
9 9 (1.41%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.10%) Consul
10 7 (1.10%) Kibana
10 7 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.94%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (0.78%) Istio
13 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.47%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.47%) Packer
13 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 66 (10.36%) Databricks
2 34 (5.34%) Microsoft
3 25 (3.92%) Google
4 23 (3.61%) Splunk
5 18 (2.83%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.51%) F5
6 16 (2.51%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.35%) Atlassian
7 15 (2.35%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.20%) CheckPoint
8 14 (2.20%) Oracle
9 12 (1.88%) Jaspersoft
10 11 (1.73%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.41%) Confluent
12 8 (1.26%) Dell
12 8 (1.26%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.10%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.10%) Sybase
14 6 (0.94%) AVEVA
14 6 (0.94%) SAP