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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 168 225
Rank change year-on-year -22 +57 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 747 551 462
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.69% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 4.49% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 411 338
10th Percentile £380 £400 £394
25th Percentile £443 £453 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £494
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 18,631 12,266 14,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 37.53% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,358 8,213 9,943
10th Percentile £328 £313 £309
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 313 353
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.78 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £27.76 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +33.50% +24.48% -36.29%
75th Percentile £69.27 £48.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.56 £70.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.94 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.05% -9.83% -20.75%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -21 623 £525 - 152
London +16 412 £550 -4.35% 92
Work from Home -11 263 £513 -1.91% 69
UK excluding London -67 250 £475 -3.85% 92
Midlands -22 73 £469 -1.26% 12
West Midlands -35 68 £469 -1.26% 4
North of England -63 64 £500 +1.27% 25
Scotland -31 44 £450 -10.00% 4
North West -47 33 £525 +10.53% 9
South West -12 31 £466 -15.23% 33
South East -67 30 £575 +33.72% 14
Yorkshire -56 16 £500 -4.76% 7
North East -22 15 £425 -5.56% 9
East of England -30 8 £400 -20.00% 1
East Midlands -17 4 £425 -7.41% 8
Wales - 4 £575 -
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 4

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 (11.51%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (11.24%) Confluence
3 64 (8.57%) Apache Spark
4 51 (6.83%) Apache
5 23 (3.08%) SAS
6 11 (1.47%) nginx
7 9 (1.20%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.80%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) Mule
12 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 737 (98.66%) AWS
2 470 (62.92%) Serverless
3 463 (61.98%) AWS Lambda
4 272 (36.41%) Amazon EC2
5 218 (29.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 160 (21.42%) Amazon ECS
7 152 (20.35%) GitHub
8 150 (20.08%) Amazon EKS
9 141 (18.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 141 (18.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 113 (15.13%) Azure
11 112 (14.99%) GitHub Actions
12 107 (14.32%) Amazon SQS
13 93 (12.45%) Amazon EMR
14 85 (11.38%) Snowflake
15 82 (10.98%) dbt
16 75 (10.04%) AWS Step Functions
17 64 (8.57%) Power Platform
18 55 (7.36%) AWS KMS
19 47 (6.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.48%) Firewall
2 24 (3.21%) DNS
3 15 (2.01%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.74%) VPN
5 11 (1.47%) Network Security
5 11 (1.47%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.80%) WAN
7 5 (0.67%) CTI
7 5 (0.67%) HTTP
8 4 (0.54%) DHCP
8 4 (0.54%) Internet
8 4 (0.54%) NAS
8 4 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.54%) SAN
8 4 (0.54%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) BGP
9 3 (0.40%) OSPF
10 2 (0.27%) Multicast
10 2 (0.27%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (24.36%) Amazon RDS
2 148 (19.81%) Amazon Athena
3 126 (16.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 124 (16.60%) DynamoDB
5 97 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
6 82 (10.98%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (8.57%) Power BI
8 59 (7.90%) Data Lake
9 46 (6.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 41 (5.49%) Metadata
11 37 (4.95%) Relational Database
12 32 (4.28%) Big Data
12 32 (4.28%) MongoDB
12 32 (4.28%) NoSQL
13 30 (4.02%) Tableau
14 25 (3.35%) SQL Server
15 24 (3.21%) BigQuery
16 21 (2.81%) Apache Iceberg
16 21 (2.81%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (2.41%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 151 (20.21%) Git
2 146 (19.54%) GitLab
3 145 (19.41%) Jenkins
4 93 (12.45%) JIRA
5 32 (4.28%) Bitbucket
5 32 (4.28%) SonarQube
6 28 (3.75%) JUnit
7 24 (3.21%) Mockito
8 23 (3.08%) Maven
9 16 (2.14%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.87%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.74%) jMock
12 11 (1.47%) Artifactory
12 11 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (1.07%) Postman
14 7 (0.94%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.80%) MLflow
16 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.54%) Selenium
17 3 (0.40%) Gradle
General
1 194 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 158 (21.15%) Public Sector
3 128 (17.14%) Finance
4 65 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (5.62%) Banking
6 21 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.87%) Front Office
8 11 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.80%) Back Office
10 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.80%) Law
10 6 (0.80%) Legal
10 6 (0.80%) Marketing
10 6 (0.80%) Military
11 5 (0.67%) Billing
12 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Retail
12 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 177 (23.69%) Data Engineer
2 140 (18.74%) AWS Engineer
3 139 (18.61%) Developer
4 106 (14.19%) Senior
5 93 (12.45%) Lead
6 84 (11.24%) Architect
7 63 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.43%) AWS Data Engineer
9 46 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 46 (6.16%) Java Developer
10 41 (5.49%) Senior Data Engineer
11 37 (4.95%) AWS Architect
11 37 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
12 30 (4.02%) AWS Developer
13 28 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 27 (3.61%) Software Engineer
15 26 (3.48%) Python Engineer
16 23 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 22 (2.95%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.11%) Kafka
2 82 (10.98%) PySpark
3 73 (9.77%) REST
4 69 (9.24%) Spring
4 69 (9.24%) Spring Boot
5 64 (8.57%) React
6 63 (8.43%) Node.js
7 59 (7.90%) RESTful
8 55 (7.36%) AWS CDK
9 33 (4.42%) SOAP
10 29 (3.88%) FastAPI
11 26 (3.48%) AngularJS
11 26 (3.48%) OAuth
12 24 (3.21%) Web Services
13 23 (3.08%) PyTorch
14 22 (2.95%) Pandas
15 21 (2.81%) ActiveMQ
15 21 (2.81%) JPA
15 21 (2.81%) JSON
16 20 (2.68%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 190 (25.44%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.90%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (2.95%) NHS
5 18 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.61%) AI Agents
6 12 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (1.07%) Legacy Code
8 8 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.07%) Security Posture
9 7 (0.94%) Algorithms
9 7 (0.94%) Data Centre
9 7 (0.94%) Fixed Income
9 7 (0.94%) Hedge funds
9 7 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 90 (12.05%) Linux
2 20 (2.68%) Unix
3 17 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.01%) Windows
5 6 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) AIX
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (61.98%) CI/CD
2 316 (42.30%) DevOps
3 292 (39.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 258 (34.54%) Agile
5 184 (24.63%) Data Engineering
6 180 (24.10%) Data Pipeline
7 175 (23.43%) Analytics
8 156 (20.88%) ETL
9 152 (20.35%) Containerisation
10 149 (19.95%) Data Modelling
11 147 (19.68%) AI
12 126 (16.87%) Microservices
13 111 (14.86%) Observability
14 106 (14.19%) Machine Learning
15 99 (13.25%) Migration
16 98 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 97 (12.99%) Test Automation
18 91 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
19 90 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
20 89 (11.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 427 (57.16%) Python
2 269 (36.01%) SQL
3 135 (18.07%) Java
4 77 (10.31%) TypeScript
5 67 (8.97%) Bash
6 58 (7.76%) JavaScript
7 43 (5.76%) C#
8 31 (4.15%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.08%) Scala
10 22 (2.95%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.47%) Groovy
12 7 (0.94%) Bicep
13 6 (0.80%) Go
13 6 (0.80%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.67%) Perl
14 5 (0.67%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.54%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.40%) C
16 3 (0.40%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 246 (32.93%) Security Cleared
2 213 (28.51%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.84%) AWS Certification
4 38 (5.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (2.81%) Degree
7 18 (2.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (2.01%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.47%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.40%) CSPO
14 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (15.66%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.48%) QA
3 22 (2.95%) GDPR
4 14 (1.87%) SLA
5 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.94%) PMO
7 5 (0.67%) HL7
8 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.40%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.27%) NIST
10 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 216 (28.92%) Docker
2 16 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.61%) Squid
4 11 (1.47%) Postfix
5 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 338 (45.25%) Terraform
2 140 (18.74%) Kubernetes
3 107 (14.32%) Grafana
4 67 (8.97%) Prometheus
5 47 (6.29%) Ansible
6 16 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.01%) Argo
8 12 (1.61%) Puppet
9 9 (1.20%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.20%) Kibana
10 8 (1.07%) Consul
11 7 (0.94%) Packer
12 6 (0.80%) Salt
13 5 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.67%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.54%) Istio
14 4 (0.54%) Karpenter
15 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
16 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 69 (9.24%) Databricks
2 38 (5.09%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.02%) Informatica
4 26 (3.48%) Splunk
5 25 (3.35%) Oracle
6 24 (3.21%) Google
7 23 (3.08%) Atlassian
7 23 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.81%) Dynatrace
9 17 (2.28%) Jaspersoft
10 15 (2.01%) Red Hat
11 13 (1.74%) Teradata
12 11 (1.47%) Denodo
12 11 (1.47%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.07%) Foundry
13 8 (1.07%) IBM
13 8 (1.07%) Palantir
13 8 (1.07%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.80%) Ab Initio
14 6 (0.80%) AVEVA