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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 164 223
Rank change year-on-year -49 +59 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 715 574 433
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.34% 1.75% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.80% 4.69% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 424 296
10th Percentile £388 £400 £408
25th Percentile £450 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £29.28 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £34.56 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £46.75 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% - -
75th Percentile £61.56 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £68.43 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 - -

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 18,803 12,233 13,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.20% 37.23% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,416 8,198 9,163
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 312 273
10th Percentile £15.86 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +14.41% -31.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £53.00
90th Percentile £82.32 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -18.59%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -40 592 £528 +0.57% 195
London -4 393 £573 -0.43% 120
Work from Home -16 263 £525 +1.25% 85
UK excluding London -73 240 £475 - 95
Midlands -32 73 £470 -1.16% 20
West Midlands -38 66 £475 - 11
North of England -68 61 £488 -2.50% 20
Scotland -20 43 £450 -10.00% 9
South West -19 30 £470 -13.36% 20
South East -67 27 £575 +35.29% 19
North West -46 24 £525 +10.53% 6
North East -26 19 £425 -5.56% 5
Yorkshire -45 18 £525 - 9
East of England -36 7 £400 -27.27% 5
East Midlands -13 6 £450 -9.64% 9
Wales - 3 £600 - 2
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 2

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 82 (11.47%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (10.91%) Confluence
3 64 (8.95%) Apache Spark
4 53 (7.41%) Apache
5 23 (3.22%) SAS
6 9 (1.26%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.12%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.84%) nginx
9 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Mule
11 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 703 (98.32%) AWS
2 448 (62.66%) Serverless
3 441 (61.68%) AWS Lambda
4 251 (35.10%) Amazon EC2
5 234 (32.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 159 (22.24%) Amazon ECS
7 154 (21.54%) GitHub
8 145 (20.28%) Amazon EKS
9 136 (19.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 133 (18.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 115 (16.08%) GitHub Actions
12 104 (14.55%) Amazon SQS
13 103 (14.41%) Azure
14 90 (12.59%) Amazon EMR
15 82 (11.47%) Snowflake
16 77 (10.77%) dbt
17 76 (10.63%) AWS Step Functions
18 62 (8.67%) Power Platform
19 59 (8.25%) AWS KMS
20 49 (6.85%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.52%) Firewall
2 17 (2.38%) DNS
3 11 (1.54%) Network Security
4 7 (0.98%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.84%) SSL
5 6 (0.84%) VPN
6 5 (0.70%) CTI
6 5 (0.70%) HTTP
6 5 (0.70%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.56%) Internet
7 4 (0.56%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.56%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) DHCP
8 3 (0.42%) SMS
9 2 (0.28%) NAS
9 2 (0.28%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
10 1 (0.14%) AMQP
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (25.59%) Amazon RDS
2 146 (20.42%) Amazon Athena
3 127 (17.76%) DynamoDB
4 116 (16.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 91 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
6 85 (11.89%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (8.67%) Data Lake
7 62 (8.67%) Power BI
8 46 (6.43%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (6.01%) Metadata
10 36 (5.03%) MongoDB
11 32 (4.48%) Big Data
11 32 (4.48%) Relational Database
12 31 (4.34%) NoSQL
13 29 (4.06%) Tableau
14 23 (3.22%) SQL Server
15 22 (3.08%) BigQuery
16 21 (2.94%) Apache Iceberg
17 19 (2.66%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (2.52%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 147 (20.56%) Jenkins
2 146 (20.42%) Git
3 141 (19.72%) GitLab
4 82 (11.47%) JIRA
5 28 (3.92%) Bitbucket
5 28 (3.92%) SonarQube
6 25 (3.50%) JUnit
7 23 (3.22%) Mockito
8 20 (2.80%) Cypress.io
9 19 (2.66%) Maven
10 12 (1.68%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (1.54%) jMock
12 10 (1.40%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.98%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.98%) Postman
13 7 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.56%) MLflow
14 4 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 180 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 164 (22.94%) Public Sector
3 125 (17.48%) Finance
4 63 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.57%) Banking
6 14 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.82%) Front Office
8 11 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.12%) Back Office
11 7 (0.98%) Law
11 7 (0.98%) Marketing
11 7 (0.98%) Military
12 6 (0.84%) Billing
12 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.70%) Legal
14 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.56%) Retail
14 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 162 (22.66%) Data Engineer
2 136 (19.02%) Developer
3 133 (18.60%) AWS Engineer
4 104 (14.55%) Senior
5 88 (12.31%) Architect
6 85 (11.89%) Lead
7 60 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 46 (6.43%) AWS Data Engineer
9 44 (6.15%) Java Developer
10 41 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (5.73%) Senior Data Engineer
11 37 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
12 36 (5.03%) AWS Architect
13 34 (4.76%) AWS Developer
14 29 (4.06%) Data Architect
15 27 (3.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 27 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
16 23 (3.22%) Software Engineer
17 21 (2.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 21 (2.94%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.05%) Kafka
1 79 (11.05%) PySpark
2 78 (10.91%) REST
3 65 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 64 (8.95%) Spring
5 63 (8.81%) React
6 62 (8.67%) Node.js
7 61 (8.53%) RESTful
8 54 (7.55%) AWS CDK
9 29 (4.06%) AngularJS
9 29 (4.06%) SOAP
10 27 (3.78%) FastAPI
11 26 (3.64%) OAuth
12 23 (3.22%) JSON
13 22 (3.08%) Web Services
14 20 (2.80%) ActiveMQ
15 19 (2.66%) .NET
15 19 (2.66%) Pandas
16 18 (2.52%) GraphQL
16 18 (2.52%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 180 (25.17%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.39%) Product Ownership
3 45 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.80%) NHS
5 18 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.68%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.54%) IVR
9 10 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.26%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.12%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.98%) Fixed Income
12 7 (0.98%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.98%) Legacy Code
12 7 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 86 (12.03%) Linux
2 22 (3.08%) Unix
3 19 (2.66%) Windows
4 17 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.56%) AIX
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (62.38%) CI/CD
2 297 (41.54%) DevOps
3 288 (40.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 269 (37.62%) Agile
5 185 (25.87%) Data Pipeline
6 171 (23.92%) Data Engineering
7 165 (23.08%) Analytics
8 145 (20.28%) Data Modelling
9 143 (20.00%) ETL
10 137 (19.16%) AI
11 135 (18.88%) Containerisation
12 125 (17.48%) Microservices
13 115 (16.08%) Observability
14 105 (14.69%) Migration
15 99 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (13.71%) Test Automation
17 93 (13.01%) Machine Learning
17 93 (13.01%) Scrum
18 91 (12.73%) Event-Driven
19 85 (11.89%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 402 (56.22%) Python
2 251 (35.10%) SQL
3 130 (18.18%) Java
4 79 (11.05%) TypeScript
5 70 (9.79%) Bash
6 63 (8.81%) JavaScript
7 36 (5.03%) C#
8 30 (4.20%) PowerShell
9 25 (3.50%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.22%) Scala
11 14 (1.96%) Groovy
12 8 (1.12%) Bicep
13 6 (0.84%) SAS Macro
13 6 (0.84%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.70%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.70%) Perl
14 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.56%) Cypher
15 4 (0.56%) Go
15 4 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 247 (34.55%) Security Cleared
2 217 (30.35%) SC Cleared
3 70 (9.79%) AWS Certification
4 41 (5.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (4.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.66%) Degree
6 19 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.54%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.84%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.42%) CSPO
13 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.42%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.64%) QA
3 21 (2.94%) GDPR
4 13 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.54%) SLA
6 7 (0.98%) PMO
7 6 (0.84%) HL7
8 4 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.56%) NCSC
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.42%) WCAG
10 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 212 (29.65%) Docker
2 16 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.26%) Postfix
4 6 (0.84%) Squid
5 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 315 (44.06%) Terraform
2 123 (17.20%) Kubernetes
3 105 (14.69%) Grafana
4 55 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.73%) Ansible
6 19 (2.66%) Argo
7 13 (1.82%) Kibana
8 11 (1.54%) Puppet
9 10 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.12%) Packer
11 7 (0.98%) Istio
12 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.70%) Salt
13 4 (0.56%) Consul
13 4 (0.56%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.42%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
15 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 61 (8.53%) Databricks
2 37 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.20%) Informatica
3 30 (4.20%) Oracle
4 26 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 26 (3.64%) Splunk
5 20 (2.80%) Google
6 19 (2.66%) Dynatrace
7 16 (2.24%) Atlassian
8 15 (2.10%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (1.54%) Denodo
9 11 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.54%) Teradata
10 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.12%) Foundry
11 8 (1.12%) IBM
11 8 (1.12%) Palantir
11 8 (1.12%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.98%) Confluent
13 6 (0.84%) VMware