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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 163 230
Rank change year-on-year -49 +67 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 698 568 426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.31% 1.72% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.73% 4.64% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 419 288
10th Percentile £388 £400 £408
25th Percentile £448 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £690 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £29.28 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £34.56 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £46.75 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% - -
75th Percentile £61.56 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £68.43 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 - -

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 18,735 12,238 13,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.11% 37.16% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,373 8,183 9,139
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 318 262
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.35
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
Median % change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.41 £54.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -37 577 £530 +0.95% 220
London -11 385 £571 -0.76% 140
Work from Home -13 258 £525 +2.44% 102
UK excluding London -88 228 £475 - 99
Midlands -32 68 £469 -1.26% 19
North of England -56 61 £488 -2.50% 23
West Midlands -25 60 £469 -1.26% 9
Scotland -22 39 £475 -4.43% 7
South West -23 29 £463 -15.33% 19
South East -63 25 £575 +35.29% 23
North West -50 24 £525 +10.53% 7
North East -26 19 £425 -5.56% 4
Yorkshire -45 18 £525 - 12
East Midlands -14 7 £438 -18.53% 10
East of England -35 7 £400 -27.27% 8
Wales - 3 £600 - 1
Northern Ireland +6 1 - - 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 80 (11.46%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (10.17%) Confluence
3 60 (8.60%) Apache Spark
4 51 (7.31%) Apache
5 23 (3.30%) SAS
6 9 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.15%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.72%) nginx
9 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Mule
11 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 682 (97.71%) AWS
2 442 (63.32%) Serverless
3 436 (62.46%) AWS Lambda
4 234 (33.52%) Amazon EC2
5 218 (31.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 156 (22.35%) GitHub
7 152 (21.78%) Amazon ECS
8 142 (20.34%) Amazon EKS
9 127 (18.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 124 (17.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 117 (16.76%) GitHub Actions
12 101 (14.47%) Amazon SQS
12 101 (14.47%) Azure
13 87 (12.46%) Amazon EMR
14 82 (11.75%) Snowflake
15 73 (10.46%) AWS Step Functions
15 73 (10.46%) dbt
16 58 (8.31%) Power Platform
17 51 (7.31%) AWS KMS
18 49 (7.02%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.58%) Firewall
2 17 (2.44%) DNS
3 10 (1.43%) Network Security
4 6 (0.86%) SSL
4 6 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
5 5 (0.72%) HTTP
5 5 (0.72%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) Internet
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
7 3 (0.43%) SAN
7 3 (0.43%) SMS
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) AMQP
9 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (25.50%) Amazon RDS
2 141 (20.20%) Amazon Athena
3 121 (17.34%) DynamoDB
4 114 (16.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 91 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
6 87 (12.46%) Data Warehouse
7 61 (8.74%) Data Lake
8 58 (8.31%) Power BI
9 46 (6.59%) Amazon Aurora
10 42 (6.02%) Metadata
11 38 (5.44%) MongoDB
12 31 (4.44%) Big Data
13 30 (4.30%) NoSQL
13 30 (4.30%) Relational Database
14 27 (3.87%) Tableau
15 22 (3.15%) SQL Server
16 21 (3.01%) Apache Iceberg
17 20 (2.87%) BigQuery
18 19 (2.72%) Snowflake Schema
19 18 (2.58%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 146 (20.92%) Jenkins
2 140 (20.06%) GitLab
3 136 (19.48%) Git
4 75 (10.74%) JIRA
5 28 (4.01%) Bitbucket
6 25 (3.58%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.15%) JUnit
8 20 (2.87%) Cypress.io
8 20 (2.87%) Mockito
9 16 (2.29%) Maven
10 11 (1.58%) DbUnit
11 10 (1.43%) Artifactory
11 10 (1.43%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (1.43%) jMock
12 7 (1.00%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.00%) Postman
12 7 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.57%) MLflow
13 4 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 169 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 157 (22.49%) Public Sector
3 120 (17.19%) Finance
4 61 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.73%) Banking
6 13 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (1.86%) Front Office
7 10 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.15%) Back Office
9 7 (1.00%) Law
9 7 (1.00%) Marketing
9 7 (1.00%) Military
10 6 (0.86%) Billing
10 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.57%) Legal
12 4 (0.57%) Retail
12 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 161 (23.07%) Data Engineer
2 130 (18.62%) AWS Engineer
2 130 (18.62%) Developer
3 110 (15.76%) Senior
4 85 (12.18%) Architect
5 82 (11.75%) Lead
6 69 (9.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (6.30%) AWS Data Engineer
8 42 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
9 40 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 39 (5.59%) AWS DevOps
10 39 (5.59%) Java Developer
11 36 (5.16%) AWS Architect
12 35 (5.01%) AWS Developer
13 29 (4.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 29 (4.15%) Data Architect
14 26 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (3.44%) Software Engineer
16 22 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 20 (2.87%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (11.03%) PySpark
2 76 (10.89%) Kafka
2 76 (10.89%) REST
3 62 (8.88%) React
4 60 (8.60%) Spring Boot
5 59 (8.45%) Spring
6 58 (8.31%) Node.js
6 58 (8.31%) RESTful
7 50 (7.16%) AWS CDK
8 27 (3.87%) AngularJS
8 27 (3.87%) FastAPI
9 26 (3.72%) SOAP
10 23 (3.30%) JSON
11 22 (3.15%) OAuth
12 20 (2.87%) .NET
13 19 (2.72%) Pandas
13 19 (2.72%) Web Services
14 18 (2.58%) GraphQL
14 18 (2.58%) Next.js
15 17 (2.44%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 175 (25.07%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.60%) Product Ownership
3 42 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.87%) NHS
5 18 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.86%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.58%) IVR
8 10 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.29%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.29%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.15%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.00%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.00%) Legacy Code
11 7 (1.00%) Replication
12 6 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 90 (12.89%) Linux
2 21 (3.01%) Unix
3 19 (2.72%) Windows
4 17 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.57%) AIX
6 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (62.89%) CI/CD
2 299 (42.84%) DevOps
3 282 (40.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 258 (36.96%) Agile
5 179 (25.64%) Data Pipeline
6 168 (24.07%) Data Engineering
7 162 (23.21%) Analytics
8 137 (19.63%) AI
8 137 (19.63%) Data Modelling
9 136 (19.48%) ETL
10 132 (18.91%) Containerisation
11 118 (16.91%) Microservices
12 109 (15.62%) Observability
13 106 (15.19%) Migration
14 96 (13.75%) Test Automation
15 91 (13.04%) Event-Driven
16 90 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 90 (12.89%) Machine Learning
17 89 (12.75%) Scrum
18 82 (11.75%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 391 (56.02%) Python
2 245 (35.10%) SQL
3 127 (18.19%) Java
4 78 (11.17%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.89%) Bash
6 61 (8.74%) JavaScript
7 34 (4.87%) C#
8 31 (4.44%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.30%) Scala
9 23 (3.30%) Shell Script
10 15 (2.15%) Groovy
11 8 (1.15%) Bicep
12 6 (0.86%) Perl
12 6 (0.86%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.86%) SAS Macro
12 6 (0.86%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.72%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.57%) Cypher
14 4 (0.57%) R
15 3 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 236 (33.81%) Security Cleared
2 205 (29.37%) SC Cleared
3 73 (10.46%) AWS Certification
4 43 (6.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.72%) Degree
6 19 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.58%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.57%) CISM
13 4 (0.57%) CISSP
14 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.43%) CSPO
14 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (14.90%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.72%) QA
3 21 (3.01%) GDPR
4 13 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.43%) SLA
6 6 (0.86%) HL7
6 6 (0.86%) NIST
7 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) PMO
8 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.43%) WCAG
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 214 (30.66%) Docker
2 17 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.15%) Postfix
4 5 (0.72%) Squid
5 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 316 (45.27%) Terraform
2 129 (18.48%) Kubernetes
3 105 (15.04%) Grafana
4 54 (7.74%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.87%) Ansible
6 18 (2.58%) Argo
7 16 (2.29%) Kibana
8 11 (1.58%) Puppet
9 8 (1.15%) Karpenter
9 8 (1.15%) Packer
9 8 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.00%) Istio
11 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.72%) Salt
12 3 (0.43%) Consul
12 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.29%) Sysdig
13 2 (0.29%) systemd
13 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (8.31%) Databricks
2 40 (5.73%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.44%) Oracle
4 30 (4.30%) Informatica
5 26 (3.72%) Splunk
6 20 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.58%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.58%) Google
8 14 (2.01%) Atlassian
9 13 (1.86%) Jaspersoft
10 11 (1.58%) Denodo
10 11 (1.58%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.43%) Teradata
12 8 (1.15%) Confluent
12 8 (1.15%) Foundry
12 8 (1.15%) IBM
12 8 (1.15%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.15%) Palantir
13 7 (1.00%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.86%) VMware