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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 196 280
Rank change year-on-year +32 +84 -53
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 603 473 434
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.79% 1.29% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.64% 3.69% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 320 332
10th Percentile £400 £399 £405
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £695 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £50.94 - £52.50
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 12,995 12,816 16,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.59% 35.02% 35.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,699 8,447 12,063
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £708 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 167 324
10th Percentile £15.07 £18.18 £14.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +12.90% +37.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £60.47
90th Percentile £69.25 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.75 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -40.71% +55.56% +16.79%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 16 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 October 2025. 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 +38 470 £525 -2.33% 338
London +16 279 £575 +4.55% 173
UK excluding London +18 231 £475 -3.85% 242
Work from Home +36 205 £525 +4.27% 166
Midlands +21 60 £475 +1.06% 12
North of England -27 57 £500 -1.38% 52
West Midlands +23 51 £475 -24.00% 6
Scotland -24 49 £500 +5.26% 10
Yorkshire -24 32 £500 -1.38% 23
South East +18 27 £414 -31.04% 120
East of England +9 26 £550 +10.00% 16
North West -24 21 £525 +8.25% 26
South West +17 13 £525 -12.50% 31
East Midlands -8 9 £451 +0.78% 5
Northern Ireland -5 6 £400 - 2
North East -5 5 £438 -26.78% 4

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 46 (7.63%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (7.46%) Confluence
3 36 (5.97%) Apache Spark
4 22 (3.65%) Apache
5 14 (2.32%) nginx
6 5 (0.83%) CMS
6 5 (0.83%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.83%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Traefik
8 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.17%) CICS
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.99%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) Finacle
2 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 587 (97.35%) AWS
2 334 (55.39%) Serverless
3 331 (54.89%) AWS Lambda
4 261 (43.28%) Amazon EC2
5 207 (34.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 133 (22.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 131 (21.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 129 (21.39%) GitHub
9 119 (19.73%) Amazon ECS
10 96 (15.92%) GitHub Actions
11 80 (13.27%) Amazon EKS
12 66 (10.95%) Amazon SQS
13 64 (10.61%) Azure
14 51 (8.46%) Amazon ELB
15 44 (7.30%) Snowflake
16 42 (6.97%) Amazon EMR
16 42 (6.97%) Amazon Kinesis
16 42 (6.97%) AWS Step Functions
17 39 (6.47%) Datadog
17 39 (6.47%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (9.12%) DNS
2 54 (8.96%) Firewall
3 35 (5.80%) VPN
4 27 (4.48%) SSH
5 26 (4.31%) SSL
5 26 (4.31%) TCP/IP
6 25 (4.15%) HTTP
7 24 (3.98%) SMTP
8 22 (3.65%) FTP
9 20 (3.32%) Network Security
10 17 (2.82%) OpenLDAP
11 12 (1.99%) IMAP
12 6 (1.00%) DHCP
12 6 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.50%) NAS
13 3 (0.50%) SMS
14 2 (0.33%) Calico
14 2 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (0.33%) VSAN
15 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (30.35%) Amazon RDS
2 122 (20.23%) PostgreSQL
3 95 (15.75%) DynamoDB
4 72 (11.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 67 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
6 65 (10.78%) Data Warehouse
7 59 (9.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 55 (9.12%) Relational Database
9 27 (4.48%) NoSQL
10 26 (4.31%) MySQL
11 24 (3.98%) Amazon QuickSight
11 24 (3.98%) Data Lake
12 23 (3.81%) MongoDB
13 22 (3.65%) Big Data
14 21 (3.48%) RDBMS
15 19 (3.15%) SQL Server
16 16 (2.65%) Metadata
17 15 (2.49%) Oracle Database
18 14 (2.32%) Power BI
18 14 (2.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 150 (24.88%) Jenkins
2 141 (23.38%) Git
3 88 (14.59%) GitLab
4 57 (9.45%) JIRA
5 24 (3.98%) Vagrant
6 18 (2.99%) JUnit
7 14 (2.32%) Cypress.io
7 14 (2.32%) Maven
8 11 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.82%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.49%) MLflow
10 7 (1.16%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.16%) Postman
11 6 (1.00%) Mockito
12 5 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.83%) Storybook
13 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (0.66%) DbUnit
13 4 (0.66%) jMock
14 3 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 156 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 120 (19.90%) Public Sector
3 67 (11.11%) Finance
4 62 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (2.82%) Banking
7 17 (2.82%) Front Office
8 12 (1.99%) Military
9 7 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.66%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.66%) Publishing
12 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.50%) Legal
12 3 (0.50%) Marketing
12 3 (0.50%) Retail
13 1 (0.17%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 107 (17.74%) Developer
3 101 (16.75%) Senior
4 92 (15.26%) Architect
5 88 (14.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 78 (12.94%) Data Engineer
7 47 (7.79%) Platform Engineer
8 45 (7.46%) AWS DevOps
9 43 (7.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 39 (6.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 36 (5.97%) Lead
12 35 (5.80%) Java Developer
13 31 (5.14%) AWS Architect
14 30 (4.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 24 (3.98%) AWS Data Engineer
15 24 (3.98%) AWS Developer
15 24 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
15 24 (3.98%) Python Engineer
16 23 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
17 22 (3.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (10.61%) React
2 62 (10.28%) Kafka
3 61 (10.12%) REST
4 52 (8.62%) AWS CDK
4 52 (8.62%) Node.js
5 39 (6.47%) Spring
6 34 (5.64%) RESTful
7 32 (5.31%) Spring Boot
8 31 (5.14%) GraphQL
9 24 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (3.48%) AngularJS
11 20 (3.32%) CSS
11 20 (3.32%) LDAP
11 20 (3.32%) Pandas
11 20 (3.32%) PyTorch
12 19 (3.15%) Jest
12 19 (3.15%) PySpark
13 18 (2.99%) ActiveMQ
13 18 (2.99%) NumPy
14 17 (2.82%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 89 (14.76%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.64%) Replication
3 31 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 28 (4.64%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (3.65%) CSOC
5 22 (3.65%) Security Operations Centre
6 16 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.49%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.33%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.16%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.16%) NHS
12 6 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.83%) Clustering
13 5 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.66%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 94 (15.59%) Linux
2 37 (6.14%) Windows
3 28 (4.64%) VMS
4 26 (4.31%) Amazon Linux
5 13 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.16%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.99%) Unix
7 6 (1.00%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (49.75%) CI/CD
2 248 (41.13%) DevOps
3 205 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (28.03%) Agile
5 140 (23.22%) Containerisation
6 107 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (15.75%) Data Pipeline
7 95 (15.75%) ETL
8 89 (14.76%) Migration
9 88 (14.59%) Data Modelling
10 85 (14.10%) Microservices
11 76 (12.60%) Mentoring
12 73 (12.11%) Data Engineering
13 65 (10.78%) Observability
14 64 (10.61%) AI
15 60 (9.95%) Analytics
16 57 (9.45%) Machine Learning
17 56 (9.29%) Infrastructure Automation
18 54 (8.96%) Cloud Security
19 53 (8.79%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 337 (55.89%) Python
2 159 (26.37%) SQL
3 103 (17.08%) Java
4 73 (12.11%) TypeScript
5 68 (11.28%) Bash
6 59 (9.78%) JavaScript
7 44 (7.30%) PowerShell
8 27 (4.48%) Groovy
9 22 (3.65%) Go
10 21 (3.48%) Perl
11 12 (1.99%) Scala
11 12 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.00%) C#
13 4 (0.66%) Korn
13 4 (0.66%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.50%) Bicep
14 3 (0.50%) CodeQL
14 3 (0.50%) JSX
15 2 (0.33%) R
15 2 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 167 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 147 (24.38%) SC Cleared
3 77 (12.77%) AWS Certification
4 40 (6.63%) Degree
5 34 (5.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.82%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.50%) CISSP
14 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.33%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.17%) CCNP
15 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.17%) RHCE
15 1 (0.17%) RHCSA
15 1 (0.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.96%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.47%) QA
3 26 (4.31%) GDPR
4 17 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.00%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.00%) NCSC
7 4 (0.66%) NIST
8 3 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.50%) WCAG
9 2 (0.33%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) GxP
10 1 (0.17%) HL7
10 1 (0.17%) MiFID
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 196 (32.50%) Docker
2 28 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.65%) DFS Replication
4 16 (2.65%) Postfix
5 12 (1.99%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.99%) Squid
6 3 (0.50%) KVM
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.17%) etcd
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 251 (41.63%) Terraform
2 135 (22.39%) Kubernetes
3 91 (15.09%) Grafana
4 79 (13.10%) Prometheus
5 63 (10.45%) Ansible
6 13 (2.16%) Argo
6 13 (2.16%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.99%) Nessus
8 11 (1.82%) Puppet
9 10 (1.66%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.00%) Istio
11 5 (0.83%) Kibana
11 5 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.50%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.50%) Nagios
13 3 (0.50%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.50%) Packer
14 2 (0.33%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 31 (5.14%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.98%) Oracle
2 30 (4.98%) ServiceNow
3 29 (4.81%) Splunk
4 24 (3.98%) Palo Alto
5 23 (3.81%) CheckPoint
5 23 (3.81%) F5
6 18 (2.99%) Databricks
7 16 (2.65%) Jaspersoft
8 12 (1.99%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.82%) IBM
10 10 (1.66%) StreamSets
11 9 (1.49%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.49%) Google
12 7 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
12 7 (1.16%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.00%) Commvault
14 5 (0.83%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.83%) Zscaler
15 4 (0.66%) AppDynamics