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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 170 225
Rank change year-on-year -26 +55 +33
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 656 485 439
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.35% 1.68% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.82% 4.47% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 368 339
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £449 £459 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +3.75% -8.00%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £597
90th Percentile £713 £693 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.19% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £46.90 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 17,157 10,856 13,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 37.70% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,543 7,447 9,883
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 536 240 345
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.41 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £27.88 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +28.96% +30.46% -40.64%
75th Percentile £64.00 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -9 564 £525 - 129
London +18 392 £550 - 55
UK excluding London -77 205 £488 -2.50% 94
Work from Home -14 191 £500 -4.76% 64
Midlands -27 63 £469 -1.26% 11
West Midlands -26 60 £469 -1.26% 9
North of England -69 54 £500 +1.27% 36
Scotland -34 33 £475 -4.95% 6
North West -36 31 £510 +7.37% 15
South East -44 29 £586 +30.28% 17
South West -22 17 £450 -18.18% 23
Yorkshire -62 14 £500 -4.76% 13
North East -19 9 £425 - 8
East of England -38 7 £425 -15.00%
Northern Ireland +4 3 £400 -20.00% 1
East Midlands -27 2 £441 -3.87% 2
Wales - 2 £363 -

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 70 (10.67%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (9.45%) Apache Spark
3 50 (7.62%) Confluence
4 44 (6.71%) Apache
5 21 (3.20%) SAS
6 10 (1.52%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 650 (99.09%) AWS
2 409 (62.35%) Serverless
3 401 (61.13%) AWS Lambda
4 246 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
5 175 (26.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 139 (21.19%) Amazon ECS
7 134 (20.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 132 (20.12%) GitHub
9 125 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
9 125 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 101 (15.40%) Amazon SQS
11 98 (14.94%) Azure
12 92 (14.02%) GitHub Actions
13 82 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
14 71 (10.82%) Snowflake
15 61 (9.30%) Amazon EMR
15 61 (9.30%) dbt
16 52 (7.93%) Power Platform
17 50 (7.62%) Route 53
18 48 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.88%) DNS
2 22 (3.35%) Firewall
3 15 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.13%) VPN
5 11 (1.68%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.37%) Network Security
7 5 (0.76%) DHCP
7 5 (0.76%) HTTP
8 4 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.46%) BGP
9 3 (0.46%) Internet
9 3 (0.46%) NAS
9 3 (0.46%) OSPF
9 3 (0.46%) SAN
9 3 (0.46%) SSL
9 3 (0.46%) WAN
10 2 (0.30%) CTI
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (24.24%) Amazon RDS
2 126 (19.21%) Amazon Athena
3 114 (17.38%) DynamoDB
4 96 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
5 90 (13.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 53 (8.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 52 (7.93%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (7.93%) Power BI
8 49 (7.47%) Data Lake
9 38 (5.79%) NoSQL
10 32 (4.88%) Metadata
10 32 (4.88%) Relational Database
11 30 (4.57%) Tableau
12 27 (4.12%) Big Data
12 27 (4.12%) SQL Server
13 26 (3.96%) MongoDB
14 24 (3.66%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.51%) Apache Iceberg
16 22 (3.35%) OLTP
17 21 (3.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 138 (21.04%) Jenkins
2 129 (19.66%) GitLab
3 126 (19.21%) Git
4 66 (10.06%) JIRA
5 31 (4.73%) SonarQube
6 30 (4.57%) JUnit
7 26 (3.96%) Bitbucket
8 24 (3.66%) Maven
9 23 (3.51%) Mockito
10 14 (2.13%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.98%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.98%) jMock
12 11 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.37%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.22%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.22%) Postman
15 7 (1.07%) MLflow
16 5 (0.76%) Selenium
17 4 (0.61%) Terragrunt
18 3 (0.46%) Vite
General
1 163 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 112 (17.07%) Finance
3 110 (16.77%) Public Sector
4 62 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.03%) Banking
6 21 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.83%) Front Office
9 6 (0.91%) Legal
10 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.76%) Military
11 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.46%) Billing
12 3 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.46%) Retail
13 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 157 (23.93%) Data Engineer
2 136 (20.73%) Developer
3 106 (16.16%) AWS Engineer
4 82 (12.50%) Senior
5 80 (12.20%) Architect
6 73 (11.13%) Lead
7 48 (7.32%) Java Developer
8 44 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
9 42 (6.40%) AWS Data Engineer
10 40 (6.10%) AWS Architect
11 35 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.73%) Senior Data Engineer
13 30 (4.57%) AWS Developer
14 27 (4.12%) Software Engineer
15 25 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
15 25 (3.81%) Data Architect
15 25 (3.81%) Python Engineer
16 24 (3.66%) Lead Data Engineer
17 22 (3.35%) Analyst
18 21 (3.20%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (15.55%) Kafka
2 78 (11.89%) Spring
2 78 (11.89%) Spring Boot
3 66 (10.06%) REST
4 64 (9.76%) RESTful
5 60 (9.15%) PySpark
6 57 (8.69%) React
7 55 (8.38%) Node.js
8 41 (6.25%) AWS CDK
9 38 (5.79%) AngularJS
10 32 (4.88%) OAuth
11 29 (4.42%) SOAP
12 28 (4.27%) FastAPI
13 26 (3.96%) Pandas
14 24 (3.66%) JPA
14 24 (3.66%) OpenID
14 24 (3.66%) PyTorch
15 23 (3.51%) Hibernate
15 23 (3.51%) Web Services
16 21 (3.20%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 166 (25.30%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.47%) Product Ownership
3 40 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.44%) NHS
5 13 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.07%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.07%) Hedge funds
8 7 (1.07%) Mainframe
9 6 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (0.91%) PACS
9 6 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.76%) Legacy Code
10 5 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 80 (12.20%) Linux
2 21 (3.20%) Unix
3 13 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.52%) Windows
5 6 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.30%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (57.47%) CI/CD
2 271 (41.31%) DevOps
3 236 (35.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 207 (31.55%) Agile
5 151 (23.02%) Analytics
6 149 (22.71%) Data Engineering
7 145 (22.10%) ETL
8 139 (21.19%) Containerisation
9 138 (21.04%) Data Pipeline
10 130 (19.82%) Data Modelling
11 111 (16.92%) Microservices
12 104 (15.85%) AI
13 100 (15.24%) Observability
14 86 (13.11%) Migration
15 81 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
16 80 (12.20%) Scrum
16 80 (12.20%) Test Automation
17 76 (11.59%) Event-Driven
18 75 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
19 71 (10.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 358 (54.57%) Python
2 246 (37.50%) SQL
3 137 (20.88%) Java
4 62 (9.45%) TypeScript
5 50 (7.62%) C#
6 47 (7.16%) JavaScript
7 45 (6.86%) Bash
8 30 (4.57%) PowerShell
9 26 (3.96%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.35%) Scala
11 9 (1.37%) Go
12 8 (1.22%) Groovy
13 6 (0.91%) Bicep
13 6 (0.91%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.61%) Perl
14 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.46%) R
16 2 (0.30%) C++
16 2 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 207 (31.55%) Security Cleared
2 174 (26.52%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.79%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.59%) Degree
6 14 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.52%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.46%) OCP
14 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (12.80%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.12%) QA
3 25 (3.81%) GDPR
4 14 (2.13%) SLA
5 8 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.07%) NIST
6 7 (1.07%) PMO
7 6 (0.91%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.30%) GRC
9 2 (0.30%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 199 (30.34%) Docker
2 13 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.68%) Postfix
3 11 (1.68%) Squid
4 6 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.46%) HDFS
6 2 (0.30%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 282 (42.99%) Terraform
2 139 (21.19%) Kubernetes
3 97 (14.79%) Grafana
4 62 (9.45%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.49%) Ansible
6 18 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.83%) Kibana
8 10 (1.52%) Puppet
9 9 (1.37%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.22%) Consul
11 6 (0.91%) Argo
11 6 (0.91%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.61%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.61%) Salt
13 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.46%) Istio
13 3 (0.46%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.46%) Packer
13 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 63 (9.60%) Databricks
2 32 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.57%) Splunk
4 27 (4.12%) Google
5 23 (3.51%) Atlassian
6 18 (2.74%) Oracle
7 17 (2.59%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.59%) Jaspersoft
8 16 (2.44%) Red Hat
9 15 (2.29%) Informatica
9 15 (2.29%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.68%) Denodo
11 10 (1.52%) Teradata
12 9 (1.37%) Confluent
13 8 (1.22%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.91%) AVEVA
14 6 (0.91%) IBM
14 6 (0.91%) SAP
15 5 (0.76%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.76%) Tenable