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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 170 213
Rank change year-on-year -49 +43 +66
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 705 581 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.75% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.71% 4.61% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 418 301
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.34% -2.29%
75th Percentile £640 £625 £600
90th Percentile £738 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -2.63% -3.55% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £41.00 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £57.44 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £62.45 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.03% - -
75th Percentile £70.12 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.83 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.40 - -

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 19,011 12,605 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 38.03% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,612 8,423 8,683
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 295 189
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £49.13 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +42.00%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -53 580 £528 +0.48% 582
London -9 387 £586 +5.52% 353
Work from Home -23 255 £537 +7.40% 252
UK excluding London -97 229 £463 -2.63% 282
North of England -60 72 £463 -7.50% 74
Midlands -48 58 £466 -1.95% 34
West Midlands -43 47 £475 - 12
Scotland -37 40 £433 -13.50% 30
South West -17 33 £466 -15.23% 54
North West -45 30 £450 -10.00% 47
North East -27 22 £419 -1.47% 10
Yorkshire -47 20 £500 -3.61% 17
South East -69 20 £575 +38.55% 47
East Midlands -13 10 £405 -17.97% 22
East of England -43 6 £350 -41.67% 27
Wales - 3 £600 - 7
Northern Ireland +3 2 £600 +50.00% 10

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 86 (12.20%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (10.78%) Confluence
3 75 (10.64%) Apache
4 73 (10.35%) Apache Spark
5 15 (2.13%) SAS
6 12 (1.70%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.99%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.85%) nginx
9 6 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.85%) Traefik
9 6 (0.85%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.85%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.28%) CMS
13 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.14%) Appian
13 1 (0.14%) Mule
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 681 (96.60%) AWS
2 427 (60.57%) Serverless
3 424 (60.14%) AWS Lambda
4 230 (32.62%) Amazon EC2
5 227 (32.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 164 (23.26%) GitHub
7 155 (21.99%) Amazon ECS
8 152 (21.56%) Amazon EKS
9 131 (18.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 131 (18.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 128 (18.16%) GitHub Actions
11 119 (16.88%) Azure
12 93 (13.19%) Amazon SQS
13 92 (13.05%) Amazon EMR
14 77 (10.92%) dbt
15 75 (10.64%) Snowflake
16 69 (9.79%) AWS Step Functions
17 64 (9.08%) Power Platform
18 55 (7.80%) AWS KMS
19 53 (7.52%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.55%) Firewall
2 14 (1.99%) DNS
3 12 (1.70%) Network Security
4 6 (0.85%) HTTP
4 6 (0.85%) SSL
5 5 (0.71%) CTI
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.57%) SAN
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Internet
7 3 (0.43%) SMS
7 3 (0.43%) VPN
8 2 (0.28%) FTP
8 2 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.28%) SMTP
8 2 (0.28%) SSH
8 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (26.95%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (19.57%) Amazon Athena
3 125 (17.73%) DynamoDB
4 116 (16.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 99 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
6 94 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (9.22%) Data Lake
8 64 (9.08%) Power BI
9 51 (7.23%) MongoDB
10 47 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 45 (6.38%) Metadata
12 35 (4.96%) Big Data
13 28 (3.97%) Apache Iceberg
13 28 (3.97%) NoSQL
13 28 (3.97%) SQL Server
13 28 (3.97%) Tableau
14 25 (3.55%) MySQL
14 25 (3.55%) Relational Database
15 24 (3.40%) Delta Lake
16 23 (3.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 158 (22.41%) GitLab
2 144 (20.43%) Git
3 130 (18.44%) Jenkins
4 75 (10.64%) JIRA
5 26 (3.69%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.55%) Cypress.io
7 17 (2.41%) Maven
7 17 (2.41%) SonarQube
8 14 (1.99%) JUnit
8 14 (1.99%) Mockito
9 12 (1.70%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.99%) Postman
10 7 (0.99%) Selenium
11 6 (0.85%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.71%) DbUnit
13 4 (0.57%) Flyway
13 4 (0.57%) Gradle
13 4 (0.57%) jMock
General
1 175 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 155 (21.99%) Public Sector
3 129 (18.30%) Finance
4 59 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (6.81%) Banking
6 19 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.27%) Front Office
8 13 (1.84%) Back Office
9 12 (1.70%) Legal
10 10 (1.42%) Military
11 8 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.13%) Marketing
12 7 (0.99%) Law
12 7 (0.99%) Publishing
13 6 (0.85%) Billing
14 5 (0.71%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.57%) Local Government
15 4 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 170 (24.11%) Data Engineer
2 130 (18.44%) Senior
3 119 (16.88%) AWS Engineer
4 118 (16.74%) Developer
5 88 (12.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 79 (11.21%) Lead
7 77 (10.92%) Architect
8 55 (7.80%) Senior Data Engineer
9 44 (6.24%) AWS Data Engineer
10 39 (5.53%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (4.96%) Java Developer
12 33 (4.68%) AWS Architect
13 31 (4.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 31 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
14 28 (3.97%) Data Architect
15 27 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.69%) AWS Developer
17 24 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
17 24 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 22 (3.12%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (48.23%) Terraform
2 95 (13.48%) REST
3 90 (12.77%) Kafka
4 75 (10.64%) PySpark
5 59 (8.37%) Spring Boot
6 57 (8.09%) Spring
7 54 (7.66%) RESTful
8 53 (7.52%) React
9 43 (6.10%) AWS CDK
10 41 (5.82%) Node.js
11 30 (4.26%) FastAPI
12 28 (3.97%) SOAP
13 26 (3.69%) AngularJS
14 23 (3.26%) .NET
14 23 (3.26%) GraphQL
14 23 (3.26%) JSON
15 20 (2.84%) OAuth
16 19 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (2.55%) Pandas
18 16 (2.27%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 193 (27.38%) Cloud Native
2 65 (9.22%) Product Ownership
3 39 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.70%) NHS
6 17 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 14 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.99%) Replication
9 13 (1.84%) IVR
10 12 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.28%) Legacy Code
12 9 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.13%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.13%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.99%) Clustering
14 7 (0.99%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 96 (13.62%) Linux
2 25 (3.55%) Unix
3 23 (3.26%) Windows
4 17 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.85%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.57%) AIX
9 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.28%) Android
10 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (65.82%) CI/CD
2 321 (45.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 315 (44.68%) DevOps
4 275 (39.01%) Agile
5 189 (26.81%) Data Engineering
6 184 (26.10%) Data Pipeline
7 154 (21.84%) Analytics
8 139 (19.72%) AI
9 137 (19.43%) Data Modelling
10 135 (19.15%) Observability
11 134 (19.01%) Containerisation
12 131 (18.58%) ETL
13 118 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 113 (16.03%) Microservices
14 113 (16.03%) Test Automation
15 110 (15.60%) Migration
16 109 (15.46%) Event-Driven
17 103 (14.61%) Technical Leadership
18 97 (13.76%) Machine Learning
19 92 (13.05%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 399 (56.60%) Python
2 269 (38.16%) SQL
3 113 (16.03%) Java
4 72 (10.21%) Bash
4 72 (10.21%) TypeScript
5 54 (7.66%) JavaScript
6 29 (4.11%) PowerShell
7 23 (3.26%) C#
7 23 (3.26%) Scala
8 22 (3.12%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.41%) Groovy
10 15 (2.13%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.42%) Bicep
12 9 (1.28%) Go
13 7 (0.99%) Perl
14 5 (0.71%) R
15 4 (0.57%) Cypher
15 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 243 (34.47%) Security Cleared
2 219 (31.06%) SC Cleared
3 96 (13.62%) AWS Certification
4 48 (6.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (5.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (4.54%) Degree
7 24 (3.40%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.99%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.28%) CISM
12 9 (1.28%) CISSP
13 8 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.99%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.43%) CSPO
17 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (18.01%) Data Quality
2 50 (7.09%) QA
3 17 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.41%) GDPR
4 11 (1.56%) NIST
5 6 (0.85%) HL7
6 5 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) SLA
8 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) GLBA
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 227 (32.20%) Docker
2 17 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.71%) Postfix
3 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) Squid
5 3 (0.43%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.28%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.28%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 155 (21.99%) Kubernetes
2 108 (15.32%) Grafana
3 65 (9.22%) Prometheus
4 51 (7.23%) Ansible
5 18 (2.55%) Argo
6 16 (2.27%) Kibana
7 14 (1.99%) Puppet
8 13 (1.84%) Karpenter
9 12 (1.70%) Istio
10 8 (1.13%) Packer
11 6 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (0.57%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.57%) Salt
14 3 (0.43%) Control-M
14 3 (0.43%) systemd
15 2 (0.28%) Consul
15 2 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 61 (8.65%) Databricks
2 56 (7.94%) Oracle
3 47 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 30 (4.26%) Informatica
5 23 (3.26%) Splunk
6 22 (3.12%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.70%) Google
8 18 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.99%) Teradata
10 13 (1.84%) Confluent
10 13 (1.84%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.56%) Denodo
11 11 (1.56%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.28%) webMethods
13 8 (1.13%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.13%) Brio
13 8 (1.13%) Foundry
13 8 (1.13%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (1.13%) Palantir
14 7 (0.99%) SnapLogic