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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 165 216
Rank change year-on-year -51 +51 +42
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 717 594 435
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.31% 1.80% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.77% 4.76% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 433 289
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £434 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £613
90th Percentile £738 £688 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £488 £494
% change year-on-year -5.13% -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 19,034 12,488 13,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.69% 37.84% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,629 8,337 8,771
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.42%
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 622 299 187
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.31
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -19.70% -5.44%
75th Percentile £67.65 £52.33 £64.61
90th Percentile £81.13 £67.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +29.67%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -50 591 £525 - 543
London -17 395 £575 - 327
Work from Home -22 252 £525 +1.84% 241
UK excluding London -96 233 £463 -5.13% 262
North of England -48 71 £463 -7.50% 74
Midlands -42 61 £461 -3.00% 26
West Midlands -40 50 £469 -1.26% 12
Scotland -38 42 £444 -12.99% 22
South West -23 29 £450 -17.62% 51
North West -54 29 £500 +5.26% 45
North East -25 22 £419 -1.47% 11
South East -76 22 £575 +38.55% 41
Yorkshire -45 20 £500 -4.76% 18
East Midlands -7 10 £405 -17.97% 14
East of England -51 8 £375 -31.82% 30
Wales - 3 £600 - 7
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 13

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 94 (13.11%) Apache Airflow
2 75 (10.46%) Confluence
3 70 (9.76%) Apache
4 68 (9.48%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.23%) SAS
6 13 (1.81%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.98%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.84%) Traefik
9 6 (0.84%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.84%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (0.70%) nginx
11 4 (0.56%) PowerExchange
12 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.28%) CMS
14 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.14%) Mule
14 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 698 (97.35%) AWS
2 442 (61.65%) Serverless
3 439 (61.23%) AWS Lambda
4 229 (31.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 228 (31.80%) Amazon EC2
6 160 (22.32%) GitHub
7 152 (21.20%) Amazon ECS
8 143 (19.94%) Amazon EKS
9 132 (18.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 125 (17.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 124 (17.29%) GitHub Actions
12 114 (15.90%) Azure
13 99 (13.81%) Amazon SQS
14 95 (13.25%) Amazon EMR
15 82 (11.44%) dbt
16 79 (11.02%) Snowflake
17 75 (10.46%) AWS Step Functions
18 63 (8.79%) Power Platform
19 56 (7.81%) AWS KMS
20 55 (7.67%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.51%) Firewall
2 14 (1.95%) DNS
3 8 (1.12%) Network Security
4 7 (0.98%) HTTP
4 7 (0.98%) SSL
5 5 (0.70%) CTI
6 4 (0.56%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.56%) SAN
6 4 (0.56%) SMS
6 4 (0.56%) WAN
7 3 (0.42%) Internet
7 3 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.42%) VPN
8 2 (0.28%) FTP
8 2 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.28%) NAS
8 2 (0.28%) SMTP
8 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (25.66%) Amazon RDS
2 149 (20.78%) Amazon Athena
3 129 (17.99%) DynamoDB
4 116 (16.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 98 (13.67%) PostgreSQL
6 95 (13.25%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (8.93%) Data Lake
8 63 (8.79%) Power BI
9 48 (6.69%) MongoDB
10 46 (6.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 40 (5.58%) Metadata
12 32 (4.46%) Big Data
12 32 (4.46%) Tableau
13 30 (4.18%) NoSQL
14 27 (3.77%) Apache Iceberg
15 26 (3.63%) SQL Server
16 24 (3.35%) Delta Lake
16 24 (3.35%) Relational Database
17 23 (3.21%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.21%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 149 (20.78%) GitLab
2 143 (19.94%) Git
3 127 (17.71%) Jenkins
4 76 (10.60%) JIRA
5 26 (3.63%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.51%) Cypress.io
6 18 (2.51%) SonarQube
7 17 (2.37%) Maven
8 15 (2.09%) JUnit
8 15 (2.09%) Mockito
9 10 (1.39%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.98%) Postman
11 6 (0.84%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.84%) DbUnit
11 6 (0.84%) Selenium
11 6 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.70%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (0.70%) jMock
13 4 (0.56%) Gatling
General
1 172 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 154 (21.48%) Public Sector
3 133 (18.55%) Finance
4 64 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (6.69%) Banking
6 19 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.23%) Front Office
8 12 (1.67%) Back Office
8 12 (1.67%) Legal
9 10 (1.39%) Military
10 8 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.12%) Marketing
11 7 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.98%) Law
11 7 (0.98%) Publishing
12 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Billing
13 4 (0.56%) Local Government
13 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 173 (24.13%) Data Engineer
2 130 (18.13%) Senior
3 124 (17.29%) Developer
4 121 (16.88%) AWS Engineer
5 82 (11.44%) Architect
5 82 (11.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 80 (11.16%) Lead
7 56 (7.81%) Senior Data Engineer
8 46 (6.42%) AWS Data Engineer
9 38 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
10 35 (4.88%) Java Developer
11 34 (4.74%) AWS Architect
12 32 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (4.32%) AWS Developer
14 30 (4.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 30 (4.18%) Data Architect
15 24 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (3.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 24 (3.35%) Snowflake Engineer
16 23 (3.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (45.89%) Terraform
2 90 (12.55%) REST
3 85 (11.85%) Kafka
4 79 (11.02%) PySpark
5 62 (8.65%) Spring Boot
6 60 (8.37%) Spring
7 59 (8.23%) React
8 56 (7.81%) RESTful
9 50 (6.97%) Node.js
10 41 (5.72%) AWS CDK
11 31 (4.32%) FastAPI
12 29 (4.04%) SOAP
13 26 (3.63%) AngularJS
14 24 (3.35%) JSON
15 23 (3.21%) .NET
15 23 (3.21%) GraphQL
16 21 (2.93%) OAuth
17 20 (2.79%) Pandas
18 18 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
19 17 (2.37%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 190 (26.50%) Cloud Native
2 64 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 38 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.93%) NHS
6 17 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.09%) Security Posture
8 14 (1.95%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.95%) Replication
9 13 (1.81%) IVR
9 13 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.39%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.26%) Legacy Code
13 8 (1.12%) Clustering
13 8 (1.12%) Mainframe
13 8 (1.12%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.98%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.83%) Linux
2 26 (3.63%) Unix
3 21 (2.93%) Windows
4 14 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.56%) AIX
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.28%) Android
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (63.32%) CI/CD
2 316 (44.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 309 (43.10%) DevOps
4 273 (38.08%) Agile
5 190 (26.50%) Data Pipeline
6 183 (25.52%) Data Engineering
7 159 (22.18%) Analytics
8 140 (19.53%) Data Modelling
9 137 (19.11%) ETL
10 134 (18.69%) Containerisation
11 132 (18.41%) AI
12 131 (18.27%) Observability
13 112 (15.62%) Microservices
13 112 (15.62%) Migration
14 111 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 109 (15.20%) Event-Driven
16 104 (14.50%) Technical Leadership
17 103 (14.37%) Test Automation
18 94 (13.11%) Machine Learning
19 91 (12.69%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 398 (55.51%) Python
2 270 (37.66%) SQL
3 119 (16.60%) Java
4 78 (10.88%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.62%) Bash
6 56 (7.81%) JavaScript
7 26 (3.63%) PowerShell
8 24 (3.35%) C#
9 23 (3.21%) Scala
10 22 (3.07%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.51%) Groovy
12 15 (2.09%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.12%) Bicep
14 7 (0.98%) Go
14 7 (0.98%) Perl
15 5 (0.70%) R
16 4 (0.56%) Cypher
16 4 (0.56%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 240 (33.47%) Security Cleared
2 221 (30.82%) SC Cleared
3 92 (12.83%) AWS Certification
4 46 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (5.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (3.77%) Degree
7 17 (2.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.95%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.26%) CISM
11 9 (1.26%) CISSP
12 8 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.98%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.42%) CSPO
16 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (17.99%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.97%) QA
3 17 (2.37%) GDPR
4 15 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.39%) NIST
6 7 (0.98%) SLA
7 6 (0.84%) HL7
8 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.56%) NCSC
9 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.28%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 224 (31.24%) Docker
2 17 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.84%) Postfix
4 5 (0.70%) Squid
4 5 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.42%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.28%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.28%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 145 (20.22%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.37%) Grafana
3 57 (7.95%) Prometheus
4 41 (5.72%) Ansible
5 17 (2.37%) Argo
6 16 (2.23%) Kibana
7 12 (1.67%) Istio
7 12 (1.67%) Karpenter
8 11 (1.53%) Puppet
9 8 (1.12%) Packer
10 6 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.56%) Salt
13 3 (0.42%) Control-M
13 3 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.42%) systemd
14 2 (0.28%) Consul
14 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 58 (8.09%) Databricks
2 54 (7.53%) Oracle
3 42 (5.86%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.04%) Informatica
5 23 (3.21%) Splunk
6 22 (3.07%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.51%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.37%) Google
9 14 (1.95%) Teradata
10 13 (1.81%) Confluent
10 13 (1.81%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.67%) Denodo
12 11 (1.53%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.26%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (1.26%) webMethods
14 8 (1.12%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.12%) Brio
14 8 (1.12%) Foundry
14 8 (1.12%) Palantir
15 7 (0.98%) IBM