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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 171 239
Rank change year-on-year -14 +68 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 662 476 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.61% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.05% 4.24% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 366 351
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +0.96% -5.88%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 16,345 11,232 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.22% 38.04% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 7,820 10,248
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £488
% change year-on-year -0.63% -1.95% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 208 353
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.27 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.62% +26.19% -18.48%
75th Percentile £60.94 £42.23 £42.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.15 £62.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.09 £17.80
% change year-on-year +77.19% +35.34% -19.68%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -2 546 £525 -4.55% 193
London +15 358 £525 -4.55% 77
UK excluding London -15 219 £475 -5.00% 138
Work from Home -6 198 £525 - 107
North of England -37 65 £500 - 55
Midlands -22 57 £475 +5.56% 10
West Midlands -31 50 £500 -2.44% 7
Scotland -32 34 £440 -12.00% 11
Yorkshire -34 31 £500 -4.76% 28
South East -35 30 £530 -11.67% 32
North West -15 25 £450 +9.09% 23
South West -20 19 £542 -9.83% 20
North East -9 9 £525 -15.90% 4
Northern Ireland +4 8 £400 -
East Midlands -33 7 £423 +4.19% 3
East of England -18 6 £475 -1.30% 9
Wales -4 2 £363 -9.38% 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 66 (9.97%) Apache Spark
2 47 (7.10%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (6.80%) Apache
4 33 (4.98%) Confluence
5 12 (1.81%) SAS
6 10 (1.51%) nginx
7 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 657 (99.24%) AWS
2 410 (61.93%) Serverless
3 399 (60.27%) AWS Lambda
4 272 (41.09%) Amazon EC2
5 180 (27.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 180 (27.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 163 (24.62%) Amazon ECS
7 144 (21.75%) GitHub
8 143 (21.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 140 (21.15%) Amazon EKS
10 108 (16.31%) Azure
11 104 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
12 84 (12.69%) AWS Step Functions
13 73 (11.03%) Amazon SQS
14 61 (9.21%) Snowflake
15 60 (9.06%) GCP
15 60 (9.06%) Route 53
16 48 (7.25%) Amazon EMR
17 47 (7.10%) Power Platform
18 41 (6.19%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.29%) DNS
2 25 (3.78%) Firewall
3 20 (3.02%) VPN
4 16 (2.42%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.11%) Network Security
6 11 (1.66%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.60%) DHCP
7 4 (0.60%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.45%) BGP
8 3 (0.45%) SSL
9 2 (0.30%) HTTP
9 2 (0.30%) Multicast
9 2 (0.30%) NAS
9 2 (0.30%) OSPF
9 2 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.30%) SAN
9 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.30%) WAN
10 1 (0.15%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (28.40%) Amazon RDS
2 116 (17.52%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (15.71%) Amazon Athena
4 95 (14.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 94 (14.20%) DynamoDB
6 60 (9.06%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (8.61%) Data Lake
8 55 (8.31%) Relational Database
9 47 (7.10%) Power BI
10 42 (6.34%) Amazon Aurora
11 32 (4.83%) MongoDB
11 32 (4.83%) NoSQL
12 29 (4.38%) SQL Server
13 28 (4.23%) BigQuery
13 28 (4.23%) MySQL
14 26 (3.93%) Metadata
14 26 (3.93%) Tableau
15 23 (3.47%) OLTP
16 22 (3.32%) Amazon QuickSight
17 21 (3.17%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 147 (22.21%) Jenkins
2 140 (21.15%) GitLab
3 117 (17.67%) Git
4 42 (6.34%) JIRA
5 24 (3.63%) JUnit
6 22 (3.32%) Bitbucket
7 20 (3.02%) SonarQube
8 19 (2.87%) Maven
9 13 (1.96%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.96%) MLflow
9 13 (1.96%) Mockito
10 11 (1.66%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.66%) Postman
11 7 (1.06%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.06%) jMock
12 6 (0.91%) Gradle
13 5 (0.76%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.76%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (0.60%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.60%) Terragrunt
General
1 169 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 112 (16.92%) Finance
3 108 (16.31%) Public Sector
4 66 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.04%) Banking
6 26 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.11%) Front Office
8 13 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.91%) Legal
10 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.60%) Military
10 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.45%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.30%) Billing
12 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.30%) Retail
13 1 (0.15%) Games
13 1 (0.15%) Publishing
13 1 (0.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 136 (20.54%) Data Engineer
2 126 (19.03%) Developer
3 119 (17.98%) AWS Engineer
4 77 (11.63%) Senior
5 74 (11.18%) Architect
6 67 (10.12%) Lead
7 54 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (7.25%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.04%) AWS Architect
10 38 (5.74%) AWS Data Engineer
11 35 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.83%) Analyst
12 32 (4.83%) Site Engineer
13 31 (4.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 29 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
15 27 (4.08%) Lead Data Engineer
16 26 (3.93%) Software Engineer
17 24 (3.63%) AWS DevOps
18 23 (3.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 23 (3.47%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (18.13%) Kafka
2 81 (12.24%) Spring Boot
3 80 (12.08%) Spring
4 64 (9.67%) Node.js
5 61 (9.21%) RESTful
6 56 (8.46%) PySpark
6 56 (8.46%) REST
7 53 (8.01%) React
8 40 (6.04%) OAuth
9 39 (5.89%) AWS CDK
10 35 (5.29%) AngularJS
11 23 (3.47%) JWT
12 22 (3.32%) CSS
13 21 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
13 21 (3.17%) JSON
14 20 (3.02%) OpenID
15 19 (2.87%) FastAPI
15 19 (2.87%) Great Expectations
15 19 (2.87%) Jest
16 18 (2.72%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 171 (25.83%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.11%) NHS
4 14 (2.11%) Onboarding
5 13 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.66%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.36%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.91%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.91%) Derivative
12 6 (0.91%) Replication
12 6 (0.91%) SCADA
13 5 (0.76%) Clustering
13 5 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (0.76%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 80 (12.08%) Linux
2 15 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (1.66%) Unix
3 11 (1.66%) Windows
4 7 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.30%) Android
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.30%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (59.37%) CI/CD
2 264 (39.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 262 (39.58%) DevOps
4 172 (25.98%) Agile
5 167 (25.23%) Containerisation
6 162 (24.47%) ETL
7 148 (22.36%) Analytics
8 147 (22.21%) Data Engineering
9 140 (21.15%) Data Modelling
10 135 (20.39%) Data Pipeline
11 117 (17.67%) Observability
12 115 (17.37%) Microservices
13 114 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
14 93 (14.05%) AI
15 83 (12.54%) Migration
16 80 (12.08%) Data Governance
17 72 (10.88%) Performance Tuning
18 71 (10.73%) Test Automation
19 68 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
19 68 (10.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 364 (54.98%) Python
2 235 (35.50%) SQL
3 127 (19.18%) Java
4 68 (10.27%) Bash
5 56 (8.46%) TypeScript
6 48 (7.25%) JavaScript
7 41 (6.19%) C#
8 30 (4.53%) PowerShell
9 29 (4.38%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.87%) Go
11 14 (2.11%) Scala
12 6 (0.91%) JSX
13 5 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.76%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.45%) C
14 3 (0.45%) C++
14 3 (0.45%) Korn
15 2 (0.30%) Groovy
15 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 211 (31.87%) Security Cleared
2 168 (25.38%) SC Cleared
3 61 (9.21%) AWS Certification
4 25 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.87%) Degree
7 14 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.45%) OCP
11 3 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.45%) PhD
11 3 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
12 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (12.99%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.50%) GDPR
3 35 (5.29%) QA
4 16 (2.42%) NIST
5 15 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 14 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.66%) SLA
8 6 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.91%) PMO
9 4 (0.60%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.45%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.30%) GxP
11 2 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.30%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 220 (33.23%) Docker
2 9 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.36%) Squid
3 6 (0.91%) Postfix
4 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.30%) HDFS
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 319 (48.19%) Terraform
2 166 (25.08%) Kubernetes
3 95 (14.35%) Grafana
4 79 (11.93%) Prometheus
5 70 (10.57%) Ansible
6 17 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (2.42%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.27%) Puppet
9 10 (1.51%) FortiGate
10 9 (1.36%) Argo
11 7 (1.06%) Consul
11 7 (1.06%) Kibana
11 7 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.91%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.76%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.45%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.45%) Istio
14 3 (0.45%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 78 (11.78%) Databricks
2 40 (6.04%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.68%) Google
4 30 (4.53%) Splunk
5 19 (2.87%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.42%) Atlassian
7 14 (2.11%) Oracle
8 13 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.81%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.36%) Confluent
10 9 (1.36%) Informatica
10 9 (1.36%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.21%) Dell
11 8 (1.21%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.06%) IBM
12 7 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.06%) Sybase
13 6 (0.91%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.91%) SAP
14 5 (0.76%) F5