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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 181 250
Rank change year-on-year +21 +69 -19
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 629 470 466
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.76% 1.27% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.59% 3.60% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 319 366
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £464 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -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 13,699 13,052 16,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.34% 35.33% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,272 8,593 11,692
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 189 305
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.88 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +12.27% +25.00%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £21.82
% change year-on-year -18.18% +26.03% +14.36%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +36 491 £525 -4.55% 154
London +30 295 £575 - 75
UK excluding London +20 233 £475 -5.00% 113
Work from Home +31 199 £525 +2.44% 99
Midlands +13 62 £475 +1.06% 16
North of England -21 58 £500 - 26
West Midlands +24 53 £475 -24.00% 10
Scotland -24 45 £500 +4.17% 10
Yorkshire -9 36 £500 -4.76% 9
South East +14 29 £425 -31.31% 32
South West +7 18 £575 -4.17% 27
East of England -1 17 £475 -5.00%
North West -29 17 £500 +4.17% 16
East Midlands -9 9 £434 -2.96% 6
Northern Ireland +1 8 £400 - 1
North East -3 6 £450 -26.23% 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 54 (8.59%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (7.79%) Apache Spark
3 45 (7.15%) Confluence
4 33 (5.25%) Apache
5 14 (2.23%) nginx
6 5 (0.79%) CMS
6 5 (0.79%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.79%) SAS
7 3 (0.48%) Traefik
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.16%) CICS
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.16%) Finacle
1 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 617 (98.09%) AWS
2 356 (56.60%) Serverless
3 354 (56.28%) AWS Lambda
4 269 (42.77%) Amazon EC2
5 223 (35.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 161 (25.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 151 (24.01%) Amazon ECS
8 148 (23.53%) GitHub
9 147 (23.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 105 (16.69%) GitHub Actions
11 93 (14.79%) Amazon EKS
12 86 (13.67%) Azure
13 49 (7.79%) Amazon ELB
13 49 (7.79%) AWS Step Functions
14 48 (7.63%) Amazon SQS
15 47 (7.47%) Route 53
16 45 (7.15%) Amazon EMR
17 44 (7.00%) Snowflake
18 42 (6.68%) Amazon Kinesis
19 37 (5.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.38%) DNS
2 58 (9.22%) Firewall
3 38 (6.04%) VPN
4 27 (4.29%) SSH
5 26 (4.13%) SSL
5 26 (4.13%) TCP/IP
6 25 (3.97%) HTTP
7 24 (3.82%) SMTP
8 23 (3.66%) Network Security
9 22 (3.50%) FTP
10 17 (2.70%) OpenLDAP
11 12 (1.91%) IMAP
12 6 (0.95%) DHCP
12 6 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.48%) Kerberos
13 3 (0.48%) NAS
14 2 (0.32%) Calico
14 2 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (0.32%) VSAN
15 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (32.75%) Amazon RDS
2 136 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (14.63%) DynamoDB
4 81 (12.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 78 (12.40%) Amazon Athena
6 62 (9.86%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (9.22%) Relational Database
8 51 (8.11%) Amazon Aurora
9 34 (5.41%) Data Lake
10 29 (4.61%) Amazon QuickSight
10 29 (4.61%) MySQL
11 27 (4.29%) MongoDB
11 27 (4.29%) NoSQL
12 23 (3.66%) RDBMS
12 23 (3.66%) SQL Server
13 21 (3.34%) Big Data
14 18 (2.86%) Metadata
15 17 (2.70%) Power BI
16 14 (2.23%) Parquet
16 14 (2.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 150 (23.85%) Jenkins
2 139 (22.10%) Git
3 113 (17.97%) GitLab
4 56 (8.90%) JIRA
5 24 (3.82%) Vagrant
6 14 (2.23%) JUnit
7 13 (2.07%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.07%) MLflow
8 12 (1.91%) Maven
9 10 (1.59%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.43%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.43%) Postman
11 7 (1.11%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.64%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (0.48%) DbUnit
13 3 (0.48%) Gradle
13 3 (0.48%) jMock
13 3 (0.48%) Mockito
13 3 (0.48%) REST Assured
General
1 162 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 116 (18.44%) Public Sector
3 81 (12.88%) Finance
4 63 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (3.66%) Banking
6 21 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (3.02%) Front Office
8 17 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.59%) Military
10 7 (1.11%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.79%) Legal
12 4 (0.64%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.64%) Publishing
13 3 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.48%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.48%) Marketing
14 2 (0.32%) Retail
15 1 (0.16%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 149 (23.69%) AWS Engineer
2 109 (17.33%) Senior
3 101 (16.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 100 (15.90%) Developer
5 95 (15.10%) Data Engineer
6 71 (11.29%) Architect
7 52 (8.27%) AWS DevOps
8 49 (7.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 48 (7.63%) Platform Engineer
10 41 (6.52%) Lead
11 39 (6.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 32 (5.09%) AWS Data Engineer
12 32 (5.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 31 (4.93%) Java Developer
14 26 (4.13%) AWS Developer
15 25 (3.97%) Python Engineer
15 25 (3.97%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (3.82%) Software Engineer
17 22 (3.50%) AWS Architect
17 22 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (10.49%) Kafka
2 62 (9.86%) Node.js
3 60 (9.54%) React
4 56 (8.90%) REST
5 49 (7.79%) AWS CDK
6 40 (6.36%) RESTful
7 38 (6.04%) Spring
8 33 (5.25%) Spring Boot
9 29 (4.61%) OAuth
10 27 (4.29%) PySpark
11 25 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
12 22 (3.50%) GraphQL
13 21 (3.34%) Pandas
14 20 (3.18%) LDAP
15 19 (3.02%) FastAPI
15 19 (3.02%) NumPy
15 19 (3.02%) PyTorch
16 18 (2.86%) AngularJS
16 18 (2.86%) CSS
16 18 (2.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 106 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.41%) Replication
3 27 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.75%) CSOC
8 11 (1.75%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
9 10 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.43%) NHS
11 7 (1.11%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.79%) Clustering
13 5 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.79%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 108 (17.17%) Linux
2 35 (5.56%) Windows
3 29 (4.61%) Amazon Linux
4 28 (4.45%) VMS
5 15 (2.38%) Unix
6 13 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.07%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Solaris
9 1 (0.16%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (55.01%) CI/CD
2 266 (42.29%) DevOps
3 246 (39.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 178 (28.30%) Agile
5 159 (25.28%) Containerisation
6 114 (18.12%) Data Pipeline
7 112 (17.81%) ETL
8 99 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
9 98 (15.58%) Data Modelling
10 93 (14.79%) Migration
11 91 (14.47%) Microservices
12 88 (13.99%) Data Engineering
13 83 (13.20%) Analytics
14 76 (12.08%) Observability
15 74 (11.76%) Mentoring
16 68 (10.81%) AI
16 68 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
17 60 (9.54%) Software Engineering
18 59 (9.38%) Cloud Security
18 59 (9.38%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 375 (59.62%) Python
2 184 (29.25%) SQL
3 108 (17.17%) Java
4 84 (13.35%) Bash
5 68 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 54 (8.59%) JavaScript
7 48 (7.63%) PowerShell
8 27 (4.29%) Groovy
9 25 (3.97%) Go
10 20 (3.18%) Perl
11 18 (2.86%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.75%) Scala
13 9 (1.43%) C#
14 6 (0.95%) JSX
14 6 (0.95%) Korn
15 4 (0.64%) Bicep
15 4 (0.64%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.48%) C
17 2 (0.32%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 188 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 159 (25.28%) SC Cleared
3 84 (13.35%) AWS Certification
4 38 (6.04%) Degree
5 37 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.18%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.75%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.48%) CISSP
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.16%) RHCE
14 1 (0.16%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.16%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.72%) QA
3 33 (5.25%) GDPR
4 20 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.43%) NIST
7 6 (0.95%) NCSC
8 5 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.48%) WCAG
11 2 (0.32%) GxP
11 2 (0.32%) SLA
12 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.16%) HL7
12 1 (0.16%) MiFID
12 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 225 (35.77%) Docker
2 27 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.50%) DFS Replication
4 15 (2.38%) Postfix
5 12 (1.91%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.91%) Squid
6 3 (0.48%) KVM
7 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.16%) etcd
8 1 (0.16%) HDFS
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 306 (48.65%) Terraform
2 153 (24.32%) Kubernetes
3 102 (16.22%) Grafana
4 86 (13.67%) Prometheus
5 84 (13.35%) Ansible
6 20 (3.18%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.86%) Puppet
8 15 (2.38%) Argo
9 12 (1.91%) Nessus
10 10 (1.59%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.27%) Istio
11 8 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.95%) Packer
13 5 (0.79%) Kibana
14 4 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.64%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.48%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
15 3 (0.48%) Nagios
15 3 (0.48%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 36 (5.72%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.56%) Databricks
3 30 (4.77%) ServiceNow
4 28 (4.45%) Splunk
5 25 (3.97%) Oracle
6 24 (3.82%) Palo Alto
7 23 (3.66%) CheckPoint
7 23 (3.66%) F5
8 15 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (1.75%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.59%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.43%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.43%) Google
11 9 (1.43%) IBM
12 8 (1.27%) Cloudera
13 7 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
14 6 (0.95%) Commvault
14 6 (0.95%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.95%) StreamSets
15 5 (0.79%) Dell