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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 174 234
Rank change year-on-year -9 +60 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 631 459 466
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 1.50% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.12% 3.99% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 344 383
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% -8.77%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
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 15,331 11,497 14,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.71% 37.67% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,520 7,753 10,544
10th Percentile £311 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 179 332
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.65 £14.14
25th Percentile £20.29 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.51% +27.91% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.18 £75.84 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £19.31
% change year-on-year +76.53% +25.22% -8.05%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +4 508 £525 -4.55% 158
London +9 328 £525 -8.70% 69
UK excluding London -5 220 £475 -5.00% 106
Work from Home -2 174 £525 +0.96% 88
North of England -8 69 £500 - 41
Midlands -22 55 £488 +8.33% 15
West Midlands -24 47 £500 -9.09% 13
Scotland -19 39 £449 -9.75% 3
Yorkshire -30 33 £500 -4.76% 16
North West -15 28 £450 -5.26% 22
South East -16 24 £530 -16.86% 25
South West -7 17 £531 -11.58% 16
East of England -21 9 £475 -1.30% 5
Northern Ireland +5 8 £400 -
North East -14 8 £450 -26.23% 3
East Midlands -27 8 £433 -2.59% 2
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 60 (9.51%) Apache Spark
2 43 (6.81%) Apache
3 42 (6.66%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (4.91%) Confluence
5 11 (1.74%) nginx
6 7 (1.11%) SAS
7 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.48%) Traefik
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.95%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Actimize
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 627 (99.37%) AWS
2 397 (62.92%) Serverless
3 388 (61.49%) AWS Lambda
4 264 (41.84%) Amazon EC2
5 193 (30.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 178 (28.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 158 (25.04%) Amazon ECS
8 142 (22.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 136 (21.55%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (19.49%) GitHub
11 100 (15.85%) Azure
12 94 (14.90%) GitHub Actions
13 75 (11.89%) AWS Step Functions
14 62 (9.83%) Amazon SQS
15 57 (9.03%) Route 53
16 51 (8.08%) Snowflake
17 49 (7.77%) GCP
18 48 (7.61%) Amazon Kinesis
19 47 (7.45%) Amazon EMR
20 36 (5.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (6.97%) DNS
2 37 (5.86%) Firewall
3 30 (4.75%) VPN
4 23 (3.65%) TCP/IP
5 19 (3.01%) Network Security
6 13 (2.06%) SSL
7 8 (1.27%) HTTP
8 7 (1.11%) OpenVPN
9 4 (0.63%) FTP
9 4 (0.63%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.63%) SMTP
9 4 (0.63%) SSH
10 3 (0.48%) BGP
10 3 (0.48%) IMAP
10 3 (0.48%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (0.32%) Multicast
11 2 (0.32%) NAS
11 2 (0.32%) OSPF
11 2 (0.32%) SAN
11 2 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (30.11%) Amazon RDS
2 108 (17.12%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (14.58%) Amazon Athena
4 89 (14.10%) DynamoDB
5 88 (13.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 52 (8.24%) Relational Database
7 48 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (7.13%) Data Lake
9 44 (6.97%) Amazon Aurora
10 36 (5.71%) Power BI
11 30 (4.75%) MySQL
12 29 (4.60%) MongoDB
13 28 (4.44%) NoSQL
14 24 (3.80%) BigQuery
14 24 (3.80%) SQL Server
15 23 (3.65%) OLTP
16 21 (3.33%) Tableau
17 20 (3.17%) Amazon QuickSight
17 20 (3.17%) Metadata
17 20 (3.17%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 146 (23.14%) Jenkins
2 132 (20.92%) GitLab
3 112 (17.75%) Git
4 37 (5.86%) JIRA
5 20 (3.17%) JUnit
6 17 (2.69%) Maven
7 16 (2.54%) Bitbucket
8 15 (2.38%) SonarQube
9 14 (2.22%) MLflow
10 9 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.43%) Mockito
10 9 (1.43%) Postman
11 8 (1.27%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.95%) DbUnit
12 6 (0.95%) Gradle
12 6 (0.95%) jMock
13 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (0.63%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.63%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 165 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 100 (15.85%) Public Sector
3 97 (15.37%) Finance
4 61 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.07%) Banking
6 20 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.74%) Front Office
9 7 (1.11%) Military
10 6 (0.95%) Legal
11 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.48%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.32%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.32%) Publishing
13 2 (0.32%) Retail
14 1 (0.16%) Aviation
14 1 (0.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 115 (18.23%) Data Engineer
2 114 (18.07%) AWS Engineer
3 111 (17.59%) Developer
4 82 (13.00%) Senior
5 79 (12.52%) Architect
6 66 (10.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 63 (9.98%) Lead
8 44 (6.97%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.34%) AWS Architect
10 36 (5.71%) AWS Data Engineer
11 32 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 32 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (4.44%) Analyst
12 28 (4.44%) Python Engineer
13 26 (4.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 26 (4.12%) Site Engineer
13 26 (4.12%) Software Engineer
14 25 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
14 25 (3.96%) Data Architect
14 25 (3.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (17.12%) Kafka
2 74 (11.73%) Spring
2 74 (11.73%) Spring Boot
3 59 (9.35%) Node.js
3 59 (9.35%) RESTful
4 58 (9.19%) REST
5 48 (7.61%) React
6 46 (7.29%) PySpark
7 45 (7.13%) AWS CDK
8 41 (6.50%) OAuth
9 32 (5.07%) AngularJS
10 25 (3.96%) FastAPI
10 25 (3.96%) JWT
11 22 (3.49%) CSS
12 21 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
12 21 (3.33%) JSON
13 20 (3.17%) boto
13 20 (3.17%) PyTorch
14 19 (3.01%) Jest
14 19 (3.01%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 155 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.13%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.06%) NHS
7 12 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.74%) Replication
9 9 (1.43%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.27%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.95%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.95%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.79%) Derivative
13 5 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.79%) SCADA
14 4 (0.63%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.84%) Linux
2 14 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (1.90%) Windows
4 10 (1.58%) Unix
5 8 (1.27%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.11%) VMS
7 5 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.79%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.32%) zOS
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (59.11%) CI/CD
2 266 (42.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 257 (40.73%) DevOps
4 170 (26.94%) Agile
5 167 (26.47%) Containerisation
6 143 (22.66%) ETL
7 135 (21.39%) Analytics
8 127 (20.13%) Data Pipeline
9 126 (19.97%) Data Engineering
10 125 (19.81%) Data Modelling
11 114 (18.07%) Microservices
12 107 (16.96%) Observability
13 100 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
14 86 (13.63%) AI
15 77 (12.20%) Migration
16 72 (11.41%) Event-Driven
16 72 (11.41%) Performance Tuning
17 69 (10.94%) Software Engineering
18 68 (10.78%) Machine Learning
19 65 (10.30%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 369 (58.48%) Python
2 215 (34.07%) SQL
3 119 (18.86%) Java
4 76 (12.04%) Bash
5 50 (7.92%) TypeScript
6 42 (6.66%) JavaScript
7 34 (5.39%) C#
8 26 (4.12%) PowerShell
8 26 (4.12%) Shell Script
9 23 (3.65%) Go
10 7 (1.11%) Scala
11 6 (0.95%) Groovy
11 6 (0.95%) JSX
12 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.63%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.48%) C++
13 3 (0.48%) Korn
14 2 (0.32%) C
14 2 (0.32%) Perl
14 2 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 202 (32.01%) Security Cleared
2 164 (25.99%) SC Cleared
3 62 (9.83%) AWS Certification
4 24 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (3.49%) Degree
6 20 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.58%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.48%) OCP
11 3 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.48%) PhD
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.32%) CISSP
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.57%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.66%) GDPR
3 35 (5.55%) QA
4 18 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.38%) NIST
6 14 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.11%) SLA
8 6 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.63%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.63%) NCSC
9 4 (0.63%) PMO
10 2 (0.32%) GxP
10 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.32%) MiFID
10 2 (0.32%) WCAG
11 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 220 (34.87%) Docker
2 10 (1.58%) Squid
3 8 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.27%) Postfix
4 4 (0.63%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.48%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.48%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.32%) HDFS
6 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.16%) etcd
7 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 310 (49.13%) Terraform
2 170 (26.94%) Kubernetes
3 98 (15.53%) Grafana
4 81 (12.84%) Ansible
5 78 (12.36%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.85%) Progress Chef
7 16 (2.54%) Puppet
8 15 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.74%) Argo
10 8 (1.27%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.11%) Kibana
11 7 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.95%) Consul
12 6 (0.95%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.79%) Istio
14 3 (0.48%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.48%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.48%) Packer
14 3 (0.48%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 66 (10.46%) Databricks
2 35 (5.55%) Microsoft
3 25 (3.96%) Google
4 23 (3.65%) Splunk
5 17 (2.69%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.54%) F5
6 16 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.22%) CheckPoint
9 13 (2.06%) Atlassian
9 13 (2.06%) Oracle
10 10 (1.58%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.58%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.43%) Confluent
12 8 (1.27%) Dell
12 8 (1.27%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.11%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.11%) Sybase
14 6 (0.95%) AVEVA
14 6 (0.95%) SAP