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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 156 222
Rank change year-on-year -61 +66 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 694 582 432
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.77% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.69% 4.78% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 428 290
10th Percentile £389 £400 £406
25th Percentile £448 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
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 18,789 12,188 13,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 37.14% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,436 8,138 9,107
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £714 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 316 250
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.50
Median hourly rate £34.38 £27.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.30% +11.52% -28.57%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £53.56
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -17.81%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -45 570 £535 +1.90% 247
London -10 379 £575 - 166
Work from Home -28 254 £525 +1.11% 114
UK excluding London -67 226 £475 - 112
Midlands -20 68 £463 -2.63% 16
North of England -74 60 £488 -2.50% 31
West Midlands -42 58 £469 -1.26% 6
Scotland -26 39 £475 -4.43% 8
South West -30 28 £463 -15.33% 18
South East -72 25 £575 +35.29% 28
North West -59 23 £525 +10.53% 18
North East -21 20 £425 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire -50 17 £525 - 7
East Midlands -10 9 £419 -22.02% 10
East of England -42 7 £400 -27.27% 7
Wales - 3 £600 - 2
Northern Ireland +6 1 - - 4

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 85 (12.25%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (10.09%) Confluence
3 62 (8.93%) Apache Spark
4 50 (7.20%) Apache
5 20 (2.88%) SAS
6 10 (1.44%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.30%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.58%) nginx
9 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.58%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.29%) 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 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) 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
1 678 (97.69%) AWS
2 442 (63.69%) Serverless
3 436 (62.82%) AWS Lambda
4 232 (33.43%) Amazon EC2
5 219 (31.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 158 (22.77%) GitHub
7 149 (21.47%) Amazon ECS
8 138 (19.88%) Amazon EKS
9 127 (18.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 123 (17.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 117 (16.86%) GitHub Actions
12 105 (15.13%) Azure
13 101 (14.55%) Amazon SQS
14 87 (12.54%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.53%) Snowflake
16 77 (11.10%) dbt
17 72 (10.37%) AWS Step Functions
18 63 (9.08%) Power Platform
19 51 (7.35%) AWS KMS
20 50 (7.20%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.59%) Firewall
2 16 (2.31%) DNS
3 10 (1.44%) Network Security
4 6 (0.86%) SSL
4 6 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
5 5 (0.72%) HTTP
5 5 (0.72%) VPN
6 4 (0.58%) Internet
6 4 (0.58%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.58%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.58%) SMS
6 4 (0.58%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
7 3 (0.43%) SAN
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) AMQP
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (25.36%) Amazon RDS
2 141 (20.32%) Amazon Athena
3 125 (18.01%) DynamoDB
4 117 (16.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 91 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
6 90 (12.97%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (9.08%) Power BI
8 61 (8.79%) Data Lake
9 45 (6.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 40 (5.76%) Metadata
11 38 (5.48%) MongoDB
12 31 (4.47%) Big Data
13 29 (4.18%) Relational Database
14 28 (4.03%) NoSQL
14 28 (4.03%) Tableau
15 26 (3.75%) BigQuery
16 24 (3.46%) Apache Iceberg
17 22 (3.17%) Data Vault
17 22 (3.17%) SQL Server
18 19 (2.74%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 143 (20.61%) GitLab
1 143 (20.61%) Jenkins
2 134 (19.31%) Git
3 74 (10.66%) JIRA
4 28 (4.03%) Bitbucket
5 24 (3.46%) SonarQube
6 21 (3.03%) JUnit
7 20 (2.88%) Cypress.io
8 19 (2.74%) Mockito
9 15 (2.16%) Maven
10 10 (1.44%) DbUnit
11 9 (1.30%) Artifactory
11 9 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (1.30%) jMock
12 8 (1.15%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.15%) Postman
13 7 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.72%) Selenium
15 4 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 166 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 157 (22.62%) Public Sector
3 119 (17.15%) Finance
4 60 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (6.48%) Banking
6 14 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.87%) Front Office
8 11 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.15%) Back Office
10 7 (1.01%) Law
10 7 (1.01%) Marketing
10 7 (1.01%) Military
11 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.72%) Billing
12 5 (0.72%) Publishing
13 4 (0.58%) Legal
13 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.58%) Retail
14 3 (0.43%) Local Government
14 3 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 161 (23.20%) Data Engineer
2 127 (18.30%) AWS Engineer
3 126 (18.16%) Developer
4 111 (15.99%) Senior
5 86 (12.39%) Architect
6 81 (11.67%) Lead
7 68 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 43 (6.20%) AWS Data Engineer
8 43 (6.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
9 38 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 36 (5.19%) Java Developer
11 35 (5.04%) AWS Architect
11 35 (5.04%) AWS Developer
12 30 (4.32%) Data Architect
13 28 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (3.46%) Software Engineer
15 22 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 20 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.38%) Kafka
2 77 (11.10%) REST
3 75 (10.81%) PySpark
4 62 (8.93%) React
5 57 (8.21%) Node.js
5 57 (8.21%) RESTful
5 57 (8.21%) Spring Boot
6 56 (8.07%) Spring
7 48 (6.92%) AWS CDK
8 27 (3.89%) FastAPI
9 26 (3.75%) AngularJS
10 25 (3.60%) SOAP
11 23 (3.31%) JSON
12 22 (3.17%) OAuth
13 20 (2.88%) .NET
14 19 (2.74%) Pandas
15 18 (2.59%) Web Services
16 17 (2.45%) GraphQL
16 17 (2.45%) Next.js
17 16 (2.31%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 174 (25.07%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.65%) Product Ownership
3 42 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.88%) NHS
5 18 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.87%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.87%) IVR
7 11 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.30%) Legacy Code
8 9 (1.30%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.15%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 8 (1.15%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 87 (12.54%) Linux
2 21 (3.03%) Unix
3 19 (2.74%) Windows
4 15 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.58%) AIX
6 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (62.97%) CI/CD
2 292 (42.07%) DevOps
3 287 (41.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 256 (36.89%) Agile
5 179 (25.79%) Data Pipeline
6 169 (24.35%) Data Engineering
7 162 (23.34%) Analytics
8 136 (19.60%) Data Modelling
8 136 (19.60%) ETL
9 134 (19.31%) AI
10 130 (18.73%) Containerisation
11 119 (17.15%) Microservices
12 111 (15.99%) Observability
13 107 (15.42%) Migration
14 98 (14.12%) Test Automation
15 92 (13.26%) Event-Driven
16 88 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 88 (12.68%) Machine Learning
17 87 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
17 87 (12.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 392 (56.48%) Python
2 244 (35.16%) SQL
3 121 (17.44%) Java
4 77 (11.10%) TypeScript
5 70 (10.09%) Bash
6 60 (8.65%) JavaScript
7 34 (4.90%) C#
8 31 (4.47%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.31%) Scala
10 22 (3.17%) Shell Script
11 15 (2.16%) Groovy
12 10 (1.44%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.15%) Bicep
14 6 (0.86%) Perl
15 4 (0.58%) Cypher
15 4 (0.58%) Go
15 4 (0.58%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.58%) R
15 4 (0.58%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 231 (33.29%) Security Cleared
2 203 (29.25%) SC Cleared
3 74 (10.66%) AWS Certification
4 43 (6.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (4.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.74%) Degree
6 19 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.59%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.58%) CISM
13 4 (0.58%) CISSP
14 3 (0.43%) CSPO
14 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.46%) QA
3 21 (3.03%) GDPR
4 13 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.44%) SLA
6 6 (0.86%) HL7
6 6 (0.86%) NIST
7 4 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.58%) NCSC
7 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.43%) PMO
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 212 (30.55%) Docker
2 17 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.15%) Postfix
4 5 (0.72%) Squid
5 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 318 (45.82%) Terraform
2 127 (18.30%) Kubernetes
3 105 (15.13%) Grafana
4 53 (7.64%) Prometheus
5 40 (5.76%) Ansible
6 18 (2.59%) Argo
7 16 (2.31%) Kibana
8 11 (1.59%) Puppet
9 9 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.15%) Karpenter
10 8 (1.15%) Packer
11 7 (1.01%) Istio
12 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.72%) Salt
13 3 (0.43%) Consul
13 3 (0.43%) Control-M
13 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.29%) systemd
14 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (8.93%) Databricks
2 42 (6.05%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.04%) Oracle
4 34 (4.90%) Informatica
5 26 (3.75%) Splunk
6 20 (2.88%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.74%) Google
8 17 (2.45%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.87%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.73%) Jaspersoft
10 12 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.59%) Denodo
11 11 (1.59%) Teradata
12 8 (1.15%) Confluent
12 8 (1.15%) Foundry
12 8 (1.15%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.15%) Palantir
13 7 (1.01%) IBM
13 7 (1.01%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.86%) VMware