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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 161 229
Rank change year-on-year -35 +68 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 679 496 443
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.72% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 4.54% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 368 343
10th Percentile £364 £400 £400
25th Percentile £440 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +3.75% -8.00%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.38% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £46.90 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 17,533 10,917 13,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 37.81% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 7,438 9,909
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 253 349
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% +31.02% -42.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.13 £70.75 £68.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -35.21%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -10 580 £525 - 137
London +19 398 £550 - 68
UK excluding London -65 218 £475 -5.00% 91
Work from Home -29 205 £500 -4.76% 70
Midlands -27 65 £469 -1.26% 13
West Midlands -34 60 £469 -1.26% 10
North of England -67 57 £500 - 29
Scotland -32 37 £460 -8.00% 4
North West -41 32 £518 +8.95% 15
South East -49 31 £586 +30.28% 17
South West -26 18 £450 -18.18% 23
Yorkshire -68 13 £500 -4.76% 12
North East -15 12 £425 - 2
East of England -37 7 £425 -15.00% 2
East Midlands -25 4 £425 -6.54% 3
Northern Ireland +7 3 £400 -20.00% 3
Wales - 3 £475 -

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 75 (11.05%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (9.43%) Apache Spark
3 51 (7.51%) Confluence
4 46 (6.77%) Apache
5 20 (2.95%) SAS
6 10 (1.47%) nginx
7 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
10 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 672 (98.97%) AWS
2 428 (63.03%) Serverless
3 420 (61.86%) AWS Lambda
4 253 (37.26%) Amazon EC2
5 188 (27.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 143 (21.06%) Amazon ECS
7 140 (20.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 134 (19.73%) GitHub
9 131 (19.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 130 (19.15%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (15.32%) Amazon SQS
12 102 (15.02%) Azure
13 95 (13.99%) GitHub Actions
14 82 (12.08%) AWS Step Functions
15 72 (10.60%) Snowflake
16 66 (9.72%) Amazon EMR
17 63 (9.28%) dbt
18 52 (7.66%) Power Platform
18 52 (7.66%) Route 53
19 49 (7.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.86%) DNS
2 23 (3.39%) Firewall
3 15 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.06%) VPN
5 11 (1.62%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.33%) Network Security
7 5 (0.74%) DHCP
7 5 (0.74%) HTTP
8 4 (0.59%) Internet
8 4 (0.59%) NAS
8 4 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.59%) SAN
8 4 (0.59%) SSL
8 4 (0.59%) WAN
9 3 (0.44%) BGP
9 3 (0.44%) OSPF
10 2 (0.29%) CTI
10 2 (0.29%) Multicast
10 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (24.45%) Amazon RDS
2 128 (18.85%) Amazon Athena
3 120 (17.67%) DynamoDB
4 96 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
5 94 (13.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 53 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (7.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 52 (7.66%) Power BI
8 50 (7.36%) Data Lake
9 38 (5.60%) NoSQL
10 32 (4.71%) Metadata
10 32 (4.71%) Relational Database
11 30 (4.42%) Tableau
12 27 (3.98%) Big Data
12 27 (3.98%) SQL Server
13 26 (3.83%) MongoDB
14 24 (3.53%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.39%) Apache Iceberg
16 21 (3.09%) OLTP
16 21 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 136 (20.03%) Jenkins
2 134 (19.73%) GitLab
3 129 (19.00%) Git
4 67 (9.87%) JIRA
5 31 (4.57%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.27%) JUnit
7 27 (3.98%) Bitbucket
8 23 (3.39%) Maven
8 23 (3.39%) Mockito
9 15 (2.21%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.06%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.91%) jMock
12 11 (1.62%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.47%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.18%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.18%) Postman
15 6 (0.88%) MLflow
16 4 (0.59%) Selenium
16 4 (0.59%) Terragrunt
17 3 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 173 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 117 (17.23%) Public Sector
3 111 (16.35%) Finance
4 64 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (4.71%) Banking
6 22 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.62%) Front Office
9 6 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Legal
10 5 (0.74%) Military
11 4 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.44%) Back Office
12 3 (0.44%) Billing
12 3 (0.44%) Law
12 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 158 (23.27%) Data Engineer
2 137 (20.18%) Developer
3 115 (16.94%) AWS Engineer
4 85 (12.52%) Architect
5 80 (11.78%) Senior
6 77 (11.34%) Lead
7 49 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (6.92%) Java Developer
9 44 (6.48%) AWS Architect
10 43 (6.33%) AWS Data Engineer
11 38 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.71%) AWS Developer
13 30 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
14 29 (4.27%) Software Engineer
15 27 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
15 27 (3.98%) Data Architect
16 26 (3.83%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.53%) Lead Data Engineer
18 22 (3.24%) Analyst
18 22 (3.24%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (14.43%) Kafka
2 74 (10.90%) Spring
2 74 (10.90%) Spring Boot
3 66 (9.72%) REST
4 65 (9.57%) PySpark
5 62 (9.13%) RESTful
6 58 (8.54%) React
7 53 (7.81%) Node.js
8 46 (6.77%) AWS CDK
9 36 (5.30%) AngularJS
10 32 (4.71%) OAuth
11 29 (4.27%) FastAPI
11 29 (4.27%) SOAP
12 24 (3.53%) JPA
12 24 (3.53%) OpenID
12 24 (3.53%) Pandas
12 24 (3.53%) PyTorch
13 23 (3.39%) Hibernate
13 23 (3.39%) Web Services
14 21 (3.09%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 178 (26.22%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.66%) Product Ownership
3 44 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.36%) NHS
5 13 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.62%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.03%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.03%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.03%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 6 (0.88%) Legacy Code
10 6 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.88%) PACS
10 6 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.74%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 83 (12.22%) Linux
2 21 (3.09%) Unix
3 15 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (1.62%) Windows
5 5 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.29%) Android
6 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.29%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (57.88%) CI/CD
2 279 (41.09%) DevOps
3 251 (36.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 216 (31.81%) Agile
5 154 (22.68%) Analytics
6 148 (21.80%) Data Engineering
7 146 (21.50%) ETL
8 142 (20.91%) Data Pipeline
9 141 (20.77%) Containerisation
10 134 (19.73%) Data Modelling
11 116 (17.08%) Microservices
12 106 (15.61%) AI
13 105 (15.46%) Observability
14 88 (12.96%) Migration
15 84 (12.37%) Scrum
16 83 (12.22%) Test Automation
17 81 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
18 79 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
19 77 (11.34%) Event-Driven
20 75 (11.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 371 (54.64%) Python
2 251 (36.97%) SQL
3 135 (19.88%) Java
4 65 (9.57%) TypeScript
5 51 (7.51%) Bash
6 48 (7.07%) C#
6 48 (7.07%) JavaScript
7 33 (4.86%) PowerShell
8 26 (3.83%) Shell Script
9 22 (3.24%) Scala
10 8 (1.18%) Go
10 8 (1.18%) Groovy
11 6 (0.88%) Bicep
11 6 (0.88%) SAS Macro
12 4 (0.59%) Perl
12 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.44%) C
13 3 (0.44%) R
14 2 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 212 (31.22%) Security Cleared
2 178 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.19%) AWS Certification
4 22 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.65%) Degree
6 16 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.47%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.44%) OCP
14 3 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.44%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (12.37%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.12%) QA
3 24 (3.53%) GDPR
4 14 (2.06%) SLA
5 9 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.03%) NIST
6 7 (1.03%) PMO
7 6 (0.88%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.44%) NCSC
10 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.29%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HL7
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 200 (29.46%) Docker
2 15 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.77%) Squid
4 11 (1.62%) Postfix
5 6 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.44%) HDFS
7 2 (0.29%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 295 (43.45%) Terraform
2 140 (20.62%) Kubernetes
3 96 (14.14%) Grafana
4 63 (9.28%) Prometheus
5 40 (5.89%) Ansible
6 18 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.77%) Kibana
8 11 (1.62%) Puppet
9 9 (1.33%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.18%) Consul
11 7 (1.03%) Argo
11 7 (1.03%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.74%) Salt
13 4 (0.59%) Istio
13 4 (0.59%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.59%) Packer
14 3 (0.44%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 67 (9.87%) Databricks
2 30 (4.42%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.42%) Splunk
3 26 (3.83%) Google
4 23 (3.39%) Atlassian
5 19 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.65%) Oracle
7 17 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
7 17 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 15 (2.21%) Informatica
8 15 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.62%) Denodo
9 11 (1.62%) Teradata
10 9 (1.33%) Confluent
11 8 (1.18%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.88%) AVEVA
13 5 (0.74%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.74%) IBM
13 5 (0.74%) SAP
13 5 (0.74%) Tenable