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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 158 219
Rank change year-on-year -51 +61 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 716 572 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.35% 1.74% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 4.67% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 422 303
10th Percentile £386 £400 £407
25th Percentile £446 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.20%
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 18,613 12,245 13,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.22% 37.21% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,280 8,214 9,247
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £617 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 311 273
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.56% +13.46% -31.00%
75th Percentile £69.79 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.05 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -19.36%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -49 593 £530 +0.95% 210
London +2 396 £571 -0.76% 133
Work from Home -18 262 £513 -1.44% 99
UK excluding London -66 240 £475 - 100
Midlands -25 74 £470 -1.16% 19
West Midlands -31 67 £475 - 12
North of England -54 58 £500 - 27
Scotland -21 44 £450 -10.10% 8
South West -27 31 £466 -15.23% 14
South East -65 27 £575 +35.29% 22
North West -55 25 £518 +8.95% 7
Yorkshire -48 17 £550 +4.76% 13
North East -27 16 £425 -5.56% 7
East Midlands -8 6 £450 -9.64% 7
East of England -32 6 £400 -20.00% 7
Wales - 4 £575 - 2
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 3

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 81 (11.31%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (11.17%) Confluence
3 64 (8.94%) Apache Spark
4 53 (7.40%) Apache
5 23 (3.21%) SAS
6 9 (1.26%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.98%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.98%) nginx
9 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.28%) 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 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) 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
1 704 (98.32%) AWS
2 445 (62.15%) Serverless
3 437 (61.03%) AWS Lambda
4 255 (35.61%) Amazon EC2
5 230 (32.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (21.93%) Amazon ECS
7 153 (21.37%) GitHub
8 145 (20.25%) Amazon EKS
9 137 (19.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 133 (18.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 112 (15.64%) GitHub Actions
12 108 (15.08%) Azure
13 104 (14.53%) Amazon SQS
14 91 (12.71%) Amazon EMR
15 83 (11.59%) Snowflake
16 78 (10.89%) dbt
17 77 (10.75%) AWS Step Functions
18 62 (8.66%) Power Platform
19 61 (8.52%) AWS KMS
20 46 (6.42%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.65%) Firewall
2 18 (2.51%) DNS
3 11 (1.54%) Network Security
4 8 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.98%) VPN
6 6 (0.84%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.70%) CTI
7 5 (0.70%) SSL
8 4 (0.56%) HTTP
8 4 (0.56%) Internet
8 4 (0.56%) NetScaler
8 4 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.56%) WAN
9 3 (0.42%) DHCP
10 2 (0.28%) NAS
10 2 (0.28%) SAN
10 2 (0.28%) SMS
10 2 (0.28%) VLAN
11 1 (0.14%) 4G
11 1 (0.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (25.28%) Amazon RDS
2 146 (20.39%) Amazon Athena
3 127 (17.74%) DynamoDB
4 115 (16.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 93 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (11.73%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (8.66%) Power BI
8 59 (8.24%) Data Lake
9 48 (6.70%) Amazon Aurora
10 42 (5.87%) Metadata
11 37 (5.17%) MongoDB
12 33 (4.61%) Relational Database
13 32 (4.47%) Big Data
13 32 (4.47%) NoSQL
14 29 (4.05%) Tableau
15 24 (3.35%) SQL Server
16 21 (2.93%) Apache Iceberg
16 21 (2.93%) BigQuery
17 19 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (2.51%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 148 (20.67%) Git
1 148 (20.67%) Jenkins
2 141 (19.69%) GitLab
3 84 (11.73%) JIRA
4 30 (4.19%) SonarQube
5 28 (3.91%) Bitbucket
6 27 (3.77%) JUnit
7 25 (3.49%) Mockito
8 21 (2.93%) Maven
9 20 (2.79%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.96%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.82%) jMock
12 11 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.40%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.98%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.98%) Postman
15 6 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
16 5 (0.70%) Selenium
17 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 4 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 181 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 162 (22.63%) Public Sector
3 125 (17.46%) Finance
4 62 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.42%) Banking
6 14 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (1.96%) Front Office
7 11 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.12%) Back Office
10 7 (0.98%) Law
10 7 (0.98%) Marketing
10 7 (0.98%) Military
11 6 (0.84%) Billing
11 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.70%) Legal
13 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Retail
13 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 163 (22.77%) Data Engineer
2 139 (19.41%) Developer
3 134 (18.72%) AWS Engineer
4 104 (14.53%) Senior
5 85 (11.87%) Architect
6 84 (11.73%) Lead
7 60 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (6.56%) Java Developer
9 46 (6.42%) AWS Data Engineer
10 42 (5.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 42 (5.87%) Senior Data Engineer
11 36 (5.03%) AWS DevOps
12 35 (4.89%) AWS Architect
12 35 (4.89%) AWS Developer
13 28 (3.91%) Data Architect
14 27 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 22 (3.07%) Software Engineer
17 21 (2.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 21 (2.93%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (11.17%) PySpark
2 78 (10.89%) REST
3 77 (10.75%) Kafka
4 67 (9.36%) Spring Boot
5 66 (9.22%) Spring
6 65 (9.08%) Node.js
7 63 (8.80%) React
8 60 (8.38%) RESTful
9 53 (7.40%) AWS CDK
10 31 (4.33%) AngularJS
10 31 (4.33%) SOAP
11 27 (3.77%) FastAPI
11 27 (3.77%) OAuth
12 24 (3.35%) Web Services
13 23 (3.21%) JSON
14 22 (3.07%) ActiveMQ
15 20 (2.79%) JPA
15 20 (2.79%) Pandas
16 19 (2.65%) .NET
16 19 (2.65%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 177 (24.72%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 47 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (2.65%) NHS
5 18 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.68%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.26%) IVR
9 9 (1.26%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.26%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.98%) Fixed Income
11 7 (0.98%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.98%) Legacy Code
11 7 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.84%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 88 (12.29%) Linux
2 21 (2.93%) Unix
3 19 (2.65%) Windows
4 18 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.56%) AIX
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (62.43%) CI/CD
2 300 (41.90%) DevOps
3 283 (39.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 268 (37.43%) Agile
5 185 (25.84%) Data Pipeline
6 171 (23.88%) Data Engineering
7 164 (22.91%) Analytics
8 146 (20.39%) Data Modelling
9 143 (19.97%) ETL
10 138 (19.27%) AI
11 136 (18.99%) Containerisation
12 126 (17.60%) Microservices
13 112 (15.64%) Observability
14 104 (14.53%) Migration
15 98 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 97 (13.55%) Test Automation
17 93 (12.99%) Scrum
18 92 (12.85%) Machine Learning
19 89 (12.43%) Event-Driven
20 85 (11.87%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 401 (56.01%) Python
2 254 (35.47%) SQL
3 132 (18.44%) Java
4 80 (11.17%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.64%) Bash
6 63 (8.80%) JavaScript
7 37 (5.17%) C#
8 31 (4.33%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.35%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.21%) Scala
11 13 (1.82%) Groovy
12 8 (1.12%) Bicep
13 6 (0.84%) SAS Macro
13 6 (0.84%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.70%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.70%) Perl
14 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.56%) Cypher
15 4 (0.56%) R
16 3 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 248 (34.64%) Security Cleared
2 218 (30.45%) SC Cleared
3 71 (9.92%) AWS Certification
4 40 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.65%) Degree
7 18 (2.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 18 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.54%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.84%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.42%) CSPO
14 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.42%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (14.94%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.49%) QA
3 20 (2.79%) GDPR
4 13 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.68%) SLA
6 7 (0.98%) PMO
7 5 (0.70%) HL7
8 4 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.56%) NCSC
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 3 (0.42%) WCAG
10 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 211 (29.47%) Docker
2 16 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.54%) Postfix
4 7 (0.98%) Squid
5 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 312 (43.58%) Terraform
2 124 (17.32%) Kubernetes
3 106 (14.80%) Grafana
4 56 (7.82%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.73%) Ansible
6 19 (2.65%) Argo
7 13 (1.82%) Kibana
8 11 (1.54%) Puppet
8 11 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.98%) Packer
10 6 (0.84%) Istio
11 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.70%) Salt
12 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.56%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.42%) Consul
13 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.14%) systemd
Vendors
1 62 (8.66%) Databricks
2 37 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.33%) Informatica
4 30 (4.19%) Oracle
5 25 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.49%) Splunk
6 19 (2.65%) Google
7 18 (2.51%) Atlassian
7 18 (2.51%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.37%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (1.54%) Denodo
9 11 (1.54%) Teradata
10 10 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.26%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.12%) Foundry
12 8 (1.12%) IBM
12 8 (1.12%) Palantir
13 7 (0.98%) Confluent
14 6 (0.84%) VMware