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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 160 225
Rank change year-on-year -26 +65 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 715 511 460
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.73% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.03% 4.56% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 378 347
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £437 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £499
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.25% -0.25%
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 17,749 11,214 14,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.43% 37.91% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,870 7,579 9,983
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 272 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.92 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.25 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +30.97% +30.55% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.95
% change year-on-year +94.60% -3.41% -25.42%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -23 609 £525 - 134
London +2 415 £550 - 70
Work from Home -15 233 £500 -4.76% 78
UK excluding London -65 226 £475 -5.00% 81
Midlands -24 67 £469 -1.26% 10
West Midlands -20 62 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -55 59 £488 -2.50% 26
Scotland -36 36 £450 -10.10% 2
North West -38 31 £525 +10.53% 12
South East -51 28 £585 +23.16% 18
South West -9 26 £456 -17.05% 20
North East -21 15 £425 -5.56% 2
Yorkshire -55 13 £500 -4.76% 12
East of England -34 8 £400 -27.27% 2
East Midlands -25 4 £425 -6.54% 4
Northern Ireland +4 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 79 (11.05%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (8.95%) Apache Spark
2 64 (8.95%) Confluence
3 46 (6.43%) Apache
4 21 (2.94%) SAS
5 10 (1.40%) nginx
6 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.84%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 708 (99.02%) AWS
2 462 (64.62%) Serverless
3 457 (63.92%) AWS Lambda
4 255 (35.66%) Amazon EC2
5 203 (28.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 152 (21.26%) Amazon ECS
7 144 (20.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 138 (19.30%) Amazon EKS
9 135 (18.88%) GitHub
10 132 (18.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 108 (15.10%) Amazon SQS
12 102 (14.27%) Azure
13 97 (13.57%) GitHub Actions
14 86 (12.03%) AWS Step Functions
15 80 (11.19%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.19%) Snowflake
16 71 (9.93%) dbt
17 61 (8.53%) Power Platform
18 52 (7.27%) Amazon Kinesis
18 52 (7.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.06%) DNS
2 24 (3.36%) Firewall
3 15 (2.10%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.82%) VPN
5 11 (1.54%) Network Security
5 11 (1.54%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.70%) HTTP
6 5 (0.70%) WAN
7 4 (0.56%) DHCP
7 4 (0.56%) Internet
7 4 (0.56%) NAS
7 4 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.56%) SAN
7 4 (0.56%) SSL
8 3 (0.42%) BGP
8 3 (0.42%) CTI
8 3 (0.42%) OSPF
9 2 (0.28%) Multicast
9 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (23.92%) Amazon RDS
2 150 (20.98%) Amazon Athena
3 124 (17.34%) Amazon Redshift
3 124 (17.34%) DynamoDB
4 98 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
5 71 (9.93%) Data Warehouse
6 61 (8.53%) Power BI
7 59 (8.25%) Data Lake
8 55 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 38 (5.31%) NoSQL
10 35 (4.90%) Metadata
11 32 (4.48%) Relational Database
11 32 (4.48%) Tableau
12 29 (4.06%) Big Data
13 26 (3.64%) MongoDB
14 25 (3.50%) SQL Server
15 24 (3.36%) Apache Iceberg
15 24 (3.36%) BigQuery
16 21 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
17 19 (2.66%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 145 (20.28%) GitLab
2 142 (19.86%) Git
3 138 (19.30%) Jenkins
4 78 (10.91%) JIRA
5 31 (4.34%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.06%) JUnit
7 27 (3.78%) Bitbucket
8 23 (3.22%) Maven
8 23 (3.22%) Mockito
9 15 (2.10%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.96%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.82%) jMock
12 11 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.40%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.12%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.12%) Postman
15 6 (0.84%) MLflow
16 4 (0.56%) Selenium
17 3 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 3 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 184 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 135 (18.88%) Public Sector
3 117 (16.36%) Finance
4 66 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.17%) Banking
6 22 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.40%) Front Office
9 8 (1.12%) Military
10 7 (0.98%) Legal
11 6 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.84%) Law
12 4 (0.56%) Marketing
12 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.42%) Back Office
13 3 (0.42%) Billing
13 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 176 (24.62%) Data Engineer
2 140 (19.58%) Developer
3 133 (18.60%) AWS Engineer
4 94 (13.15%) Senior
5 85 (11.89%) Architect
6 79 (11.05%) Lead
7 56 (7.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.71%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.29%) AWS Data Engineer
10 43 (6.01%) AWS Architect
11 39 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
12 36 (5.03%) Senior Data Engineer
13 35 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
14 33 (4.62%) AWS Developer
15 30 (4.20%) Software Engineer
16 27 (3.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.78%) Python Engineer
17 26 (3.64%) Data Architect
18 24 (3.36%) Lead Data Engineer
18 24 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (13.15%) Kafka
2 75 (10.49%) PySpark
3 74 (10.35%) REST
4 73 (10.21%) Spring
4 73 (10.21%) Spring Boot
5 61 (8.53%) React
6 60 (8.39%) RESTful
7 54 (7.55%) Node.js
8 51 (7.13%) AWS CDK
9 35 (4.90%) AngularJS
10 34 (4.76%) OAuth
11 30 (4.20%) FastAPI
12 29 (4.06%) SOAP
13 25 (3.50%) JPA
14 24 (3.36%) OpenID
14 24 (3.36%) PyTorch
15 23 (3.22%) Hibernate
15 23 (3.22%) Pandas
15 23 (3.22%) Web Services
16 21 (2.94%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 186 (26.01%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.24%) NHS
5 13 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.12%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.12%) Legacy Code
9 7 (0.98%) Algorithms
9 7 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (0.98%) Hedge funds
9 7 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.84%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.84%) PACS
10 6 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (11.33%) Linux
2 20 (2.80%) Unix
3 12 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.40%) Windows
5 5 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (58.88%) CI/CD
2 290 (40.56%) DevOps
3 262 (36.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 227 (31.75%) Agile
5 171 (23.92%) Analytics
5 171 (23.92%) Data Engineering
6 165 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
7 153 (21.40%) ETL
8 152 (21.26%) Containerisation
9 140 (19.58%) Data Modelling
10 136 (19.02%) AI
11 124 (17.34%) Microservices
12 107 (14.97%) Observability
13 99 (13.85%) Machine Learning
14 92 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
15 91 (12.73%) Migration
15 91 (12.73%) Test Automation
16 88 (12.31%) Event-Driven
17 87 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 85 (11.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 402 (56.22%) Python
2 270 (37.76%) SQL
3 134 (18.74%) Java
4 67 (9.37%) TypeScript
5 53 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 50 (6.99%) Bash
7 45 (6.29%) C#
8 31 (4.34%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.08%) Scala
10 21 (2.94%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.12%) Groovy
12 6 (0.84%) Bicep
12 6 (0.84%) Go
12 6 (0.84%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.56%) Perl
15 3 (0.42%) C
15 3 (0.42%) R
16 2 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 227 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 192 (26.85%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.55%) AWS Certification
4 30 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 17 (2.38%) Degree
7 14 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.54%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.84%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.42%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.28%) CSPO
14 2 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (14.55%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.20%) QA
3 20 (2.80%) GDPR
4 14 (1.96%) SLA
5 8 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.98%) NIST
6 7 (0.98%) PMO
7 6 (0.84%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.42%) NCSC
9 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 202 (28.25%) Docker
2 14 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.68%) Squid
4 11 (1.54%) Postfix
5 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 321 (44.90%) Terraform
2 141 (19.72%) Kubernetes
3 95 (13.29%) Grafana
4 64 (8.95%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.73%) Ansible
6 18 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.40%) Kibana
7 10 (1.40%) Puppet
8 9 (1.26%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.12%) Consul
10 7 (0.98%) Argo
11 6 (0.84%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.70%) Packer
12 5 (0.70%) Salt
13 4 (0.56%) Istio
14 2 (0.28%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 66 (9.23%) Databricks
2 29 (4.06%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.64%) Google
3 26 (3.64%) Splunk
4 23 (3.22%) Atlassian
4 23 (3.22%) Informatica
5 20 (2.80%) Dynatrace
5 20 (2.80%) Oracle
6 19 (2.66%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
8 14 (1.96%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.54%) Denodo
9 11 (1.54%) Teradata
10 10 (1.40%) Confluent
10 10 (1.40%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.84%) AVEVA
11 6 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.70%) Palantir
12 5 (0.70%) SAP