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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 167 237
Rank change year-on-year -22 +70 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 658 491 449
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.69% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.99% 4.44% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 380 357
10th Percentile £356 £400 £403
25th Percentile £416 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £615 £600
90th Percentile £675 £753 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -4.50% -1.96% +2.00%
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 16,478 11,063 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.88% 38.10% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,241 7,764 10,218
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 217 352
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.50 £39.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -20.04%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -17 547 £525 -4.55% 173
London -8 363 £528 -8.26% 76
UK excluding London -38 208 £478 -4.50% 120
Work from Home -16 199 £525 - 97
North of England -36 61 £500 +5.26% 43
Midlands -34 59 £475 +5.56% 12
West Midlands -22 52 £500 -2.44% 8
Yorkshire -33 28 £509 -0.73% 17
Scotland -32 27 £440 -12.00% 9
North West -33 25 £450 +9.09% 21
South East -43 25 £556 -8.62% 34
South West -8 22 £538 -0.92% 13
North East -8 8 £538 -13.90% 5
Northern Ireland +6 7 £400 -20.00%
East of England -24 7 £475 -5.00% 7
East Midlands -31 7 £423 +4.19% 4
Wales -9 2 £363 -9.38% 2

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 64 (9.73%) Apache Spark
2 54 (8.21%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (7.29%) Apache
4 31 (4.71%) Confluence
5 14 (2.13%) SAS
6 10 (1.52%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Superset
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Actimize
1 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 654 (99.39%) AWS
2 408 (62.01%) Serverless
3 396 (60.18%) AWS Lambda
4 270 (41.03%) Amazon EC2
5 181 (27.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 177 (26.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 162 (24.62%) Amazon ECS
8 145 (22.04%) GitHub
9 137 (20.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 134 (20.36%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (15.81%) Azure
11 104 (15.81%) GitHub Actions
12 88 (13.37%) AWS Step Functions
13 75 (11.40%) Amazon SQS
14 62 (9.42%) Route 53
15 59 (8.97%) Snowflake
16 55 (8.36%) GCP
17 48 (7.29%) Power Platform
18 46 (6.99%) Amazon EMR
19 42 (6.38%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.32%) DNS
2 24 (3.65%) Firewall
3 19 (2.89%) VPN
4 15 (2.28%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.82%) Network Security
6 11 (1.67%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.76%) DHCP
8 4 (0.61%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.46%) BGP
9 3 (0.46%) OSPF
10 2 (0.30%) HTTP
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) NAS
10 2 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.30%) SAN
10 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.30%) SSL
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
10 2 (0.30%) WAN
11 1 (0.15%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (27.96%) Amazon RDS
2 110 (16.72%) Amazon Athena
3 105 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
4 98 (14.89%) DynamoDB
5 90 (13.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 57 (8.66%) Data Lake
7 56 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
8 53 (8.05%) Relational Database
9 48 (7.29%) Power BI
10 35 (5.32%) Amazon Aurora
11 32 (4.86%) NoSQL
12 30 (4.56%) MongoDB
13 29 (4.41%) Metadata
14 27 (4.10%) BigQuery
14 27 (4.10%) Tableau
15 26 (3.95%) SQL Server
16 23 (3.50%) MySQL
16 23 (3.50%) OLTP
17 21 (3.19%) OLAP
18 20 (3.04%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 143 (21.73%) Jenkins
2 137 (20.82%) GitLab
3 120 (18.24%) Git
4 43 (6.53%) JIRA
5 24 (3.65%) JUnit
6 21 (3.19%) Bitbucket
6 21 (3.19%) SonarQube
7 20 (3.04%) Maven
8 14 (2.13%) Mockito
9 13 (1.98%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.67%) Postman
11 10 (1.52%) MLflow
12 8 (1.22%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.22%) DbUnit
12 8 (1.22%) jMock
13 6 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (0.91%) Gradle
14 5 (0.76%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.61%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 160 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 113 (17.17%) Finance
3 108 (16.41%) Public Sector
4 65 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.62%) Banking
6 26 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.82%) Front Office
9 6 (0.91%) Legal
10 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.46%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.46%) Military
12 2 (0.30%) Billing
12 2 (0.30%) Games
12 2 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.30%) Retail
12 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.15%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 142 (21.58%) Data Engineer
2 126 (19.15%) Developer
3 114 (17.33%) AWS Engineer
4 83 (12.61%) Senior
5 68 (10.33%) Lead
6 67 (10.18%) Architect
7 53 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 46 (6.99%) Java Developer
9 38 (5.78%) AWS Data Engineer
10 37 (5.62%) AWS Architect
11 34 (5.17%) Site Engineer
12 33 (5.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 32 (4.86%) Analyst
13 32 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
14 30 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
15 27 (4.10%) Lead Data Engineer
16 25 (3.80%) AWS Developer
16 25 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
17 24 (3.65%) Software Engineer
18 22 (3.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (18.24%) Kafka
2 79 (12.01%) Spring Boot
3 78 (11.85%) Spring
4 66 (10.03%) Node.js
5 62 (9.42%) RESTful
6 60 (9.12%) PySpark
7 56 (8.51%) REST
8 52 (7.90%) React
9 41 (6.23%) OAuth
10 40 (6.08%) AWS CDK
11 33 (5.02%) AngularJS
12 23 (3.50%) JWT
13 21 (3.19%) OpenID
14 20 (3.04%) JSON
15 19 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (2.89%) FastAPI
15 19 (2.89%) Great Expectations
16 18 (2.74%) CSS
16 18 (2.74%) OAuth2
17 17 (2.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 166 (25.23%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.28%) NHS
4 15 (2.28%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.37%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.06%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (0.91%) SCADA
10 5 (0.76%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.76%) Clustering
10 5 (0.76%) Derivative
10 5 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.76%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 83 (12.61%) Linux
2 15 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (1.98%) Unix
4 10 (1.52%) Windows
5 6 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.30%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (59.42%) CI/CD
2 266 (40.43%) DevOps
3 259 (39.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 174 (26.44%) Agile
5 162 (24.62%) ETL
6 154 (23.40%) Analytics
6 154 (23.40%) Containerisation
7 148 (22.49%) Data Engineering
8 140 (21.28%) Data Pipeline
9 135 (20.52%) Data Modelling
10 112 (17.02%) Observability
11 111 (16.87%) Microservices
12 109 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
13 94 (14.29%) AI
14 82 (12.46%) Migration
15 75 (11.40%) Data Governance
16 72 (10.94%) Performance Tuning
17 70 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
18 69 (10.49%) Test Automation
19 68 (10.33%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 360 (54.71%) Python
2 240 (36.47%) SQL
3 128 (19.45%) Java
4 68 (10.33%) Bash
5 62 (9.42%) TypeScript
6 45 (6.84%) JavaScript
7 43 (6.53%) C#
8 32 (4.86%) Shell Script
9 31 (4.71%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.89%) Go
11 15 (2.28%) Scala
12 6 (0.91%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.76%) JSX
13 5 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.46%) C
14 3 (0.46%) C++
14 3 (0.46%) Groovy
14 3 (0.46%) Korn
15 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 211 (32.07%) Security Cleared
2 169 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.90%) AWS Certification
4 21 (3.19%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (2.58%) Degree
7 12 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.46%) OCP
10 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.46%) PhD
10 3 (0.46%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (0.46%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (13.37%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.08%) GDPR
3 35 (5.32%) QA
4 14 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.13%) NIST
4 14 (2.13%) SLA
5 12 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.06%) PMO
7 6 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.30%) GxP
9 2 (0.30%) MiFID
9 2 (0.30%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 218 (33.13%) Docker
2 10 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.52%) Squid
3 7 (1.06%) Postfix
4 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 312 (47.42%) Terraform
2 162 (24.62%) Kubernetes
3 98 (14.89%) Grafana
4 76 (11.55%) Prometheus
5 65 (9.88%) Ansible
6 17 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (2.43%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.13%) Puppet
9 9 (1.37%) Argo
9 9 (1.37%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.06%) Consul
10 7 (1.06%) Kibana
10 7 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.91%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.76%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.46%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.46%) Istio
14 3 (0.46%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 79 (12.01%) Databricks
2 37 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.71%) Google
4 29 (4.41%) Splunk
5 19 (2.89%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.43%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.82%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.82%) Oracle
9 10 (1.52%) Informatica
9 10 (1.52%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (1.37%) Confluent
10 9 (1.37%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.06%) Dell
11 7 (1.06%) IBM
11 7 (1.06%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.06%) Sybase
12 6 (0.91%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.91%) SAP
13 4 (0.61%) Cloudera