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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 159 229
Rank change year-on-year -49 +70 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 708 574 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.33% 1.73% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.78% 4.66% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 424 290
10th Percentile £388 £400 £409
25th Percentile £449 £450 £455
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 £700 £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 18,743 12,307 13,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.14% 37.12% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,365 8,244 9,135
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £421 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £616 £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 622 314 265
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.18 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +11.23% -29.03%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.41 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.35 £67.00 £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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -38 586 £528 +0.48% 193
London -7 389 £567 -1.41% 115
Work from Home -8 260 £525 +1.25% 89
UK excluding London -71 237 £475 - 102
Midlands -24 73 £470 -1.16% 19
West Midlands -26 66 £475 - 10
North of England -54 61 £488 -2.50% 16
Scotland -20 42 £450 -10.00% 14
South West -28 29 £466 -14.06% 23
South East -71 26 £575 +35.29% 21
North West -47 24 £525 +10.53% 4
North East -26 19 £425 -5.56% 4
Yorkshire -46 18 £525 - 8
East of England -32 7 £400 -27.27% 8
East Midlands -8 6 £450 -9.64% 9
Wales - 3 £600 - 2
Northern Ireland +5 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 81 (11.44%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (11.02%) Confluence
3 62 (8.76%) Apache Spark
4 51 (7.20%) Apache
5 23 (3.25%) SAS
6 9 (1.27%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.13%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.85%) nginx
9 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.28%) 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 10 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) 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
1 696 (98.31%) AWS
2 448 (63.28%) Serverless
3 441 (62.29%) AWS Lambda
4 249 (35.17%) Amazon EC2
5 232 (32.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 158 (22.32%) Amazon ECS
7 152 (21.47%) GitHub
8 144 (20.34%) Amazon EKS
9 135 (19.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 131 (18.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 113 (15.96%) GitHub Actions
12 103 (14.55%) Amazon SQS
13 102 (14.41%) Azure
14 89 (12.57%) Amazon EMR
15 82 (11.58%) Snowflake
16 74 (10.45%) AWS Step Functions
16 74 (10.45%) dbt
17 61 (8.62%) Power Platform
18 58 (8.19%) AWS KMS
19 49 (6.92%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.54%) Firewall
2 17 (2.40%) DNS
3 10 (1.41%) Network Security
4 7 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.85%) SSL
5 6 (0.85%) VPN
6 5 (0.71%) CTI
6 5 (0.71%) HTTP
6 5 (0.71%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.56%) Internet
7 4 (0.56%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.56%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) DHCP
8 3 (0.42%) SMS
9 2 (0.28%) NAS
9 2 (0.28%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
10 1 (0.14%) AMQP
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (25.71%) Amazon RDS
2 143 (20.20%) Amazon Athena
3 126 (17.80%) DynamoDB
4 114 (16.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 90 (12.71%) PostgreSQL
6 85 (12.01%) Data Warehouse
7 61 (8.62%) Power BI
8 60 (8.47%) Data Lake
9 46 (6.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 43 (6.07%) Metadata
11 35 (4.94%) MongoDB
12 32 (4.52%) Big Data
12 32 (4.52%) NoSQL
12 32 (4.52%) Relational Database
13 29 (4.10%) Tableau
14 23 (3.25%) SQL Server
15 21 (2.97%) Apache Iceberg
15 21 (2.97%) BigQuery
16 19 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (2.54%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 145 (20.48%) Git
1 145 (20.48%) Jenkins
2 140 (19.77%) GitLab
3 82 (11.58%) JIRA
4 29 (4.10%) Bitbucket
5 28 (3.95%) SonarQube
6 24 (3.39%) JUnit
7 22 (3.11%) Mockito
8 20 (2.82%) Cypress.io
9 18 (2.54%) Maven
10 12 (1.69%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (1.55%) jMock
12 10 (1.41%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.99%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.99%) Postman
13 7 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.56%) MLflow
14 4 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 179 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 164 (23.16%) Public Sector
3 124 (17.51%) Finance
4 63 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.64%) Banking
6 13 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (1.84%) Front Office
7 11 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.13%) Back Office
10 7 (0.99%) Law
10 7 (0.99%) Marketing
10 7 (0.99%) Military
11 6 (0.85%) Billing
11 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.71%) Legal
13 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Retail
13 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 159 (22.46%) Data Engineer
2 135 (19.07%) Developer
3 131 (18.50%) AWS Engineer
4 106 (14.97%) Senior
5 87 (12.29%) Architect
6 83 (11.72%) Lead
7 61 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 44 (6.21%) AWS Data Engineer
9 43 (6.07%) Java Developer
10 41 (5.79%) Senior Data Engineer
11 39 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
12 38 (5.37%) AWS DevOps
13 36 (5.08%) AWS Architect
14 34 (4.80%) AWS Developer
15 29 (4.10%) Data Architect
16 28 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
18 24 (3.39%) Software Engineer
19 21 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 20 (2.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.16%) PySpark
2 77 (10.88%) Kafka
2 77 (10.88%) REST
3 64 (9.04%) Spring Boot
4 63 (8.90%) React
4 63 (8.90%) Spring
5 62 (8.76%) Node.js
6 61 (8.62%) RESTful
7 54 (7.63%) AWS CDK
8 29 (4.10%) AngularJS
9 28 (3.95%) SOAP
10 27 (3.81%) FastAPI
11 26 (3.67%) OAuth
12 23 (3.25%) JSON
13 21 (2.97%) Web Services
14 20 (2.82%) .NET
15 19 (2.68%) ActiveMQ
15 19 (2.68%) Pandas
16 18 (2.54%) GraphQL
16 18 (2.54%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 178 (25.14%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 44 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.82%) NHS
5 18 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.55%) IVR
9 10 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.99%) Fixed Income
12 7 (0.99%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.99%) Legacy Code
12 7 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 86 (12.15%) Linux
2 22 (3.11%) Unix
3 19 (2.68%) Windows
4 17 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.56%) AIX
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (62.15%) CI/CD
2 296 (41.81%) DevOps
3 282 (39.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 268 (37.85%) Agile
5 182 (25.71%) Data Pipeline
6 169 (23.87%) Data Engineering
7 163 (23.02%) Analytics
8 143 (20.20%) Data Modelling
9 141 (19.92%) ETL
10 136 (19.21%) AI
11 134 (18.93%) Containerisation
12 123 (17.37%) Microservices
13 112 (15.82%) Observability
14 104 (14.69%) Migration
15 98 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 98 (13.84%) Test Automation
16 91 (12.85%) Event-Driven
16 91 (12.85%) Scrum
17 90 (12.71%) Machine Learning
18 84 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 396 (55.93%) Python
2 249 (35.17%) SQL
3 129 (18.22%) Java
4 79 (11.16%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.75%) Bash
6 62 (8.76%) JavaScript
7 35 (4.94%) C#
8 30 (4.24%) PowerShell
9 25 (3.53%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.25%) Scala
11 14 (1.98%) Groovy
12 8 (1.13%) Bicep
13 6 (0.85%) SAS Macro
13 6 (0.85%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.71%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.71%) Perl
14 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.56%) Cypher
15 4 (0.56%) Go
15 4 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 246 (34.75%) Security Cleared
2 216 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 69 (9.75%) AWS Certification
4 41 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.68%) Degree
6 19 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.55%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.85%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.42%) CSPO
13 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.42%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (15.25%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.67%) QA
3 20 (2.82%) GDPR
4 13 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.55%) SLA
6 7 (0.99%) PMO
7 6 (0.85%) HL7
8 4 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.56%) NCSC
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.42%) WCAG
10 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 211 (29.80%) Docker
2 16 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.27%) Postfix
4 6 (0.85%) Squid
5 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 312 (44.07%) Terraform
2 123 (17.37%) Kubernetes
3 105 (14.83%) Grafana
4 55 (7.77%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.79%) Ansible
6 18 (2.54%) Argo
7 14 (1.98%) Kibana
8 11 (1.55%) Puppet
9 10 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.13%) Packer
11 7 (0.99%) Istio
12 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.71%) Salt
13 4 (0.56%) Consul
13 4 (0.56%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.42%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
15 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 60 (8.47%) Databricks
2 38 (5.37%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.24%) Informatica
3 30 (4.24%) Oracle
4 26 (3.67%) ServiceNow
4 26 (3.67%) Splunk
5 19 (2.68%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.68%) Google
6 16 (2.26%) Atlassian
7 15 (2.12%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (1.55%) Denodo
8 11 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.55%) Teradata
9 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.13%) Foundry
10 8 (1.13%) IBM
10 8 (1.13%) Palantir
10 8 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.99%) Confluent
12 6 (0.85%) VMware