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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 167 232
Rank change year-on-year -24 +65 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 701 505 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.41% 1.73% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.97% 4.55% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 374 342
10th Percentile £374 £400 £400
25th Percentile £440 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.60% +0.60%
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 17,667 11,096 14,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.56% 37.90% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 7,514 9,919
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £711 £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 566 270 353
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% +30.23% -44.55%
75th Percentile £68.33 £47.41 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.00
% change year-on-year +94.60% +1.42% -31.73%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -21 597 £525 - 147
London +16 407 £550 - 69
UK excluding London -65 223 £475 -5.00% 94
Work from Home -18 220 £500 -4.76% 325
Midlands -25 69 £469 -1.26% 8
West Midlands -22 64 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -61 58 £488 -2.50% 38
Scotland -34 36 £450 -10.10% 2
North West -33 31 £525 +10.53% 19
South East -45 29 £580 +28.89% 19
South West -16 22 £463 -15.91% 23
North East -12 14 £419 - 5
Yorkshire -63 13 £500 -4.76% 14
East of England -37 7 £425 -15.00% 2
East Midlands -30 4 £425 -6.54% 2
Northern Ireland +5 3 £400 -20.00% 1
Wales - 3 £475 - 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 79 (11.27%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (9.27%) Apache Spark
3 61 (8.70%) Confluence
4 47 (6.70%) Apache
5 21 (3.00%) SAS
6 10 (1.43%) nginx
7 6 (0.86%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.71%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
10 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 694 (99.00%) AWS
2 452 (64.48%) Serverless
3 446 (63.62%) AWS Lambda
4 255 (36.38%) Amazon EC2
5 195 (27.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 146 (20.83%) Amazon ECS
7 141 (20.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 136 (19.40%) Amazon EKS
8 136 (19.40%) GitHub
9 133 (18.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 106 (15.12%) Amazon SQS
11 102 (14.55%) Azure
12 97 (13.84%) GitHub Actions
13 85 (12.13%) AWS Step Functions
14 77 (10.98%) Snowflake
15 76 (10.84%) Amazon EMR
16 69 (9.84%) dbt
17 57 (8.13%) Power Platform
18 52 (7.42%) Route 53
19 50 (7.13%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.56%) DNS
2 23 (3.28%) Firewall
3 15 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.00%) VPN
5 11 (1.57%) Network Security
5 11 (1.57%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.71%) HTTP
7 4 (0.57%) DHCP
7 4 (0.57%) Internet
7 4 (0.57%) NAS
7 4 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.57%) SAN
7 4 (0.57%) SSL
7 4 (0.57%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) BGP
8 3 (0.43%) CTI
8 3 (0.43%) OSPF
9 2 (0.29%) Multicast
9 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (24.25%) Amazon RDS
2 144 (20.54%) Amazon Athena
3 123 (17.55%) DynamoDB
4 116 (16.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 96 (13.69%) PostgreSQL
6 66 (9.42%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (8.27%) Data Lake
8 57 (8.13%) Power BI
9 53 (7.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (5.42%) NoSQL
11 33 (4.71%) Metadata
12 32 (4.56%) Relational Database
12 32 (4.56%) Tableau
13 29 (4.14%) Big Data
14 26 (3.71%) MongoDB
15 25 (3.57%) SQL Server
16 24 (3.42%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
18 21 (3.00%) Snowflake Schema
19 19 (2.71%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 142 (20.26%) GitLab
2 139 (19.83%) Jenkins
3 136 (19.40%) Git
4 74 (10.56%) JIRA
5 31 (4.42%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.14%) JUnit
7 27 (3.85%) Bitbucket
8 23 (3.28%) Maven
8 23 (3.28%) Mockito
9 15 (2.14%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.00%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.85%) jMock
12 11 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.43%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.14%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.14%) Postman
15 6 (0.86%) MLflow
16 4 (0.57%) Selenium
16 4 (0.57%) Terragrunt
17 3 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 178 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 130 (18.54%) Public Sector
3 115 (16.41%) Finance
4 64 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (4.99%) Banking
6 23 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.43%) Front Office
9 6 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.86%) Legal
9 6 (0.86%) Military
10 4 (0.57%) Law
10 4 (0.57%) Marketing
10 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.43%) Back Office
11 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 168 (23.97%) Data Engineer
2 140 (19.97%) Developer
3 126 (17.97%) AWS Engineer
4 87 (12.41%) Architect
5 85 (12.13%) Senior
6 78 (11.13%) Lead
7 51 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (6.70%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.42%) AWS Architect
10 44 (6.28%) AWS Data Engineer
11 37 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 34 (4.85%) AWS Developer
13 32 (4.56%) Senior Data Engineer
14 31 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
15 28 (3.99%) Software Engineer
16 27 (3.85%) Python Engineer
17 26 (3.71%) Data Architect
18 24 (3.42%) Lead Data Engineer
19 23 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 23 (3.28%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (13.41%) Kafka
2 73 (10.41%) Spring
2 73 (10.41%) Spring Boot
3 71 (10.13%) PySpark
4 69 (9.84%) REST
5 61 (8.70%) RESTful
6 59 (8.42%) React
7 53 (7.56%) Node.js
8 48 (6.85%) AWS CDK
9 35 (4.99%) AngularJS
10 32 (4.56%) OAuth
11 30 (4.28%) FastAPI
12 29 (4.14%) SOAP
13 25 (3.57%) JPA
14 24 (3.42%) OpenID
14 24 (3.42%) PyTorch
15 23 (3.28%) Hibernate
15 23 (3.28%) Pandas
15 23 (3.28%) Web Services
16 21 (3.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 184 (26.25%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.85%) Product Ownership
3 46 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.28%) NHS
5 12 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.57%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.14%) Legacy Code
9 7 (1.00%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.00%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.86%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.86%) PACS
10 6 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.71%) Clustering
11 5 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 82 (11.70%) Linux
2 20 (2.85%) Unix
3 12 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.28%) Windows
5 5 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.29%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (58.92%) CI/CD
2 283 (40.37%) DevOps
3 254 (36.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 223 (31.81%) Agile
5 167 (23.82%) Analytics
6 165 (23.54%) Data Engineering
7 160 (22.82%) Data Pipeline
8 152 (21.68%) ETL
9 147 (20.97%) Containerisation
10 137 (19.54%) Data Modelling
11 124 (17.69%) AI
12 119 (16.98%) Microservices
13 108 (15.41%) Observability
14 90 (12.84%) Migration
15 88 (12.55%) Machine Learning
15 88 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
15 88 (12.55%) Test Automation
16 86 (12.27%) Scrum
17 85 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 85 (12.13%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 388 (55.35%) Python
2 265 (37.80%) SQL
3 135 (19.26%) Java
4 66 (9.42%) TypeScript
5 51 (7.28%) JavaScript
6 48 (6.85%) Bash
7 45 (6.42%) C#
8 31 (4.42%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.14%) Scala
11 8 (1.14%) Groovy
12 7 (1.00%) Go
13 6 (0.86%) Bicep
13 6 (0.86%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.57%) Perl
16 3 (0.43%) C
16 3 (0.43%) R
17 2 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
17 2 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 221 (31.53%) Security Cleared
2 186 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.99%) AWS Certification
4 28 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (2.43%) Degree
6 14 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.57%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.43%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.29%) CSPO
14 2 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (13.84%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.14%) QA
3 22 (3.14%) GDPR
4 14 (2.00%) SLA
5 8 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.00%) NIST
6 7 (1.00%) PMO
7 6 (0.86%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.43%) NCSC
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 201 (28.67%) Docker
2 14 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.71%) Squid
4 11 (1.57%) Postfix
5 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.43%) HDFS
7 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.14%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 311 (44.37%) Terraform
2 140 (19.97%) Kubernetes
3 93 (13.27%) Grafana
4 64 (9.13%) Prometheus
5 42 (5.99%) Ansible
6 18 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.71%) Kibana
8 10 (1.43%) Puppet
9 9 (1.28%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.14%) Consul
11 7 (1.00%) Argo
11 7 (1.00%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.71%) Salt
14 4 (0.57%) Istio
14 4 (0.57%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.57%) Packer
15 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.29%) Sysdig
16 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 66 (9.42%) Databricks
2 30 (4.28%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.85%) Splunk
4 26 (3.71%) Google
5 23 (3.28%) Atlassian
6 21 (3.00%) Oracle
7 20 (2.85%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.85%) Informatica
8 19 (2.71%) ServiceNow
9 17 (2.43%) Jaspersoft
10 14 (2.00%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.57%) Denodo
11 11 (1.57%) Teradata
12 10 (1.43%) Confluent
13 9 (1.28%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.86%) AVEVA
15 5 (0.71%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.71%) Salesforce
15 5 (0.71%) SAP
15 5 (0.71%) Tenable