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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 165 223
Rank change year-on-year -20 +58 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 716 516 457
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.74% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 4.59% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 385 344
10th Percentile £368 £400 £387
25th Percentile £437 £463 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +3.86% -8.09%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.19% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 17,839 11,244 14,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.88% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 7,595 9,937
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £631
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 280 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.94 £19.95
% change year-on-year +98.05% -5.09% -26.38%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -23 610 £525 - 270
London +7 414 £550 - 83
Work from Home -16 235 £500 -4.76% 252
UK excluding London -58 225 £475 -5.00% 256
Midlands -24 68 £469 -1.26% 27
West Midlands -20 63 £469 -1.26% 12
North of England -58 59 £488 -2.50% 60
Scotland -31 36 £450 -10.10% 25
North West -36 31 £525 +10.53% 25
South East -45 28 £585 +23.16% 56
South West -12 26 £456 -17.05% 29
North East -20 15 £425 -5.56% 12
Yorkshire -62 13 £500 -4.76% 23
East of England -33 8 £400 -27.27% 33
East Midlands -22 4 £425 -6.54% 15
Northern Ireland +4 2 £400 -20.00% 18
Wales - 2 £400 - 11

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 80 (11.17%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (9.36%) Confluence
3 65 (9.08%) Apache Spark
4 47 (6.56%) Apache
5 21 (2.93%) SAS
6 10 (1.40%) nginx
7 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 709 (99.02%) AWS
2 464 (64.80%) Serverless
3 459 (64.11%) AWS Lambda
4 257 (35.89%) Amazon EC2
5 208 (29.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 154 (21.51%) Amazon ECS
7 141 (19.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 136 (18.99%) Amazon EKS
9 135 (18.85%) GitHub
10 131 (18.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 109 (15.22%) Amazon SQS
12 105 (14.66%) Azure
13 97 (13.55%) GitHub Actions
14 83 (11.59%) Amazon EMR
15 82 (11.45%) AWS Step Functions
16 80 (11.17%) Snowflake
17 75 (10.47%) dbt
18 62 (8.66%) Power Platform
19 51 (7.12%) Route 53
20 50 (6.98%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.91%) DNS
2 24 (3.35%) Firewall
3 15 (2.09%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.82%) VPN
5 11 (1.54%) Network Security
5 11 (1.54%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.70%) HTTP
6 5 (0.70%) WAN
7 4 (0.56%) DHCP
7 4 (0.56%) Internet
7 4 (0.56%) NAS
7 4 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.56%) SAN
7 4 (0.56%) SSL
8 3 (0.42%) BGP
8 3 (0.42%) CTI
8 3 (0.42%) OSPF
9 2 (0.28%) Multicast
9 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (23.88%) Amazon RDS
2 150 (20.95%) Amazon Athena
3 127 (17.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 124 (17.32%) DynamoDB
5 98 (13.69%) PostgreSQL
6 74 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (8.66%) Power BI
8 59 (8.24%) Data Lake
9 55 (7.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (5.31%) NoSQL
11 36 (5.03%) Metadata
12 32 (4.47%) Relational Database
12 32 (4.47%) Tableau
13 29 (4.05%) Big Data
14 27 (3.77%) MongoDB
15 25 (3.49%) BigQuery
15 25 (3.49%) SQL Server
16 23 (3.21%) Apache Iceberg
17 21 (2.93%) Snowflake Schema
18 19 (2.65%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 147 (20.53%) GitLab
2 146 (20.39%) Git
3 139 (19.41%) Jenkins
4 81 (11.31%) JIRA
5 31 (4.33%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.05%) JUnit
7 27 (3.77%) Bitbucket
8 23 (3.21%) Maven
8 23 (3.21%) Mockito
9 15 (2.09%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.96%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.82%) jMock
12 11 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.40%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.12%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.12%) Postman
15 6 (0.84%) MLflow
16 4 (0.56%) Selenium
17 3 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 3 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 181 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 137 (19.13%) Public Sector
3 115 (16.06%) Finance
4 65 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.03%) Banking
6 22 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.40%) Front Office
9 8 (1.12%) Military
10 7 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.98%) Legal
11 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.84%) Law
12 4 (0.56%) Marketing
12 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.42%) Back Office
13 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 178 (24.86%) Data Engineer
2 141 (19.69%) Developer
3 133 (18.58%) AWS Engineer
4 96 (13.41%) Senior
5 83 (11.59%) Architect
6 80 (11.17%) Lead
7 55 (7.68%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.70%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.28%) AWS Data Engineer
10 40 (5.59%) AWS Architect
11 39 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
12 38 (5.31%) Senior Data Engineer
13 37 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
14 34 (4.75%) AWS Developer
15 30 (4.19%) Software Engineer
16 27 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.77%) Python Engineer
17 25 (3.49%) Data Architect
18 24 (3.35%) Lead Data Engineer
18 24 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (13.27%) Kafka
2 78 (10.89%) PySpark
3 75 (10.47%) REST
4 74 (10.34%) Spring
4 74 (10.34%) Spring Boot
5 62 (8.66%) React
6 61 (8.52%) RESTful
7 55 (7.68%) Node.js
8 51 (7.12%) AWS CDK
9 35 (4.89%) AngularJS
10 34 (4.75%) OAuth
11 31 (4.33%) FastAPI
12 29 (4.05%) SOAP
13 25 (3.49%) JPA
14 24 (3.35%) OpenID
14 24 (3.35%) PyTorch
15 23 (3.21%) Hibernate
15 23 (3.21%) Pandas
15 23 (3.21%) Web Services
16 21 (2.93%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 184 (25.70%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 47 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.23%) NHS
5 14 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.26%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.12%) Legacy Code
10 7 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (0.98%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.84%) Mainframe
11 6 (0.84%) PACS
11 6 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (11.31%) Linux
2 20 (2.79%) Unix
3 12 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.40%) Windows
5 5 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (59.22%) CI/CD
2 292 (40.78%) DevOps
3 264 (36.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 231 (32.26%) Agile
5 173 (24.16%) Data Engineering
6 171 (23.88%) Analytics
7 163 (22.77%) Data Pipeline
8 152 (21.23%) Containerisation
8 152 (21.23%) ETL
9 140 (19.55%) Data Modelling
10 138 (19.27%) AI
11 124 (17.32%) Microservices
12 106 (14.80%) Observability
13 100 (13.97%) Machine Learning
14 93 (12.99%) Test Automation
15 91 (12.71%) Migration
15 91 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
16 89 (12.43%) Event-Driven
17 87 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
18 86 (12.01%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 405 (56.56%) Python
2 273 (38.13%) SQL
3 134 (18.72%) Java
4 69 (9.64%) TypeScript
5 54 (7.54%) JavaScript
6 52 (7.26%) Bash
7 45 (6.28%) C#
8 31 (4.33%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.07%) Scala
9 22 (3.07%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.12%) Groovy
11 6 (0.84%) Bicep
11 6 (0.84%) Go
11 6 (0.84%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.56%) Perl
14 3 (0.42%) C
14 3 (0.42%) R
14 3 (0.42%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.28%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 229 (31.98%) Security Cleared
2 195 (27.23%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.68%) AWS Certification
4 31 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (2.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (2.23%) Degree
8 14 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.54%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.40%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.42%) SnowPro
16 2 (0.28%) CSPO
16 2 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (15.08%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.05%) QA
3 20 (2.79%) GDPR
4 14 (1.96%) SLA
5 9 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.98%) NIST
6 7 (0.98%) PMO
7 6 (0.84%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HL7
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 205 (28.63%) Docker
2 14 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.68%) Squid
4 11 (1.54%) Postfix
5 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 322 (44.97%) Terraform
2 141 (19.69%) Kubernetes
3 95 (13.27%) Grafana
4 65 (9.08%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.73%) Ansible
6 18 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.40%) Puppet
8 9 (1.26%) FortiGate
8 9 (1.26%) Kibana
9 8 (1.12%) Consul
10 6 (0.84%) Argo
10 6 (0.84%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.70%) Packer
11 5 (0.70%) Salt
12 4 (0.56%) Istio
13 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 66 (9.22%) Databricks
2 29 (4.05%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.63%) Informatica
4 25 (3.49%) Google
4 25 (3.49%) Splunk
5 23 (3.21%) Atlassian
6 21 (2.93%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.79%) Oracle
8 19 (2.65%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.37%) Jaspersoft
10 14 (1.96%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.54%) Denodo
11 11 (1.54%) Teradata
12 10 (1.40%) Confluent
12 10 (1.40%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.84%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.84%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.70%) Palantir
14 5 (0.70%) SAP