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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 168 234
Rank change year-on-year -22 +66 +14
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 670 484 455
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.46% 1.66% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.00% 4.36% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 376 360
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £459 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -1.25% -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 16,733 11,092 14,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.56% 37.96% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,425 7,746 10,122
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £702 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 236 343
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.99 £16.03
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +45.85% +30.78% -27.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.88 £61.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +97.65% +29.94% -22.20%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +9 568 £525 -4.55% 173
London +8 387 £525 -8.70% 76
UK excluding London -50 209 £494 -1.25% 120
Work from Home -10 200 £500 -4.76% 97
Midlands -23 62 £475 +5.56% 12
North of England -42 56 £500 +5.26% 43
West Midlands -21 55 £494 -3.66% 8
Scotland -33 29 £440 -12.00% 9
South East -41 27 £540 -11.29% 34
North West -21 26 £450 +9.09% 21
South West -13 23 £531 -2.07% 13
Yorkshire -38 22 £500 -4.76% 17
North East -12 8 £538 -13.90% 5
East Midlands -39 7 £423 +4.19% 4
East of England -27 6 £463 -7.50% 7
Northern Ireland +1 5 £400 -20.00%
Wales -7 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 67 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 62 (9.25%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (7.46%) Apache
4 31 (4.63%) Confluence
5 15 (2.24%) SAS
6 10 (1.49%) nginx
7 4 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.45%) 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%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 666 (99.40%) AWS
2 415 (61.94%) Serverless
3 402 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
4 260 (38.81%) Amazon EC2
5 186 (27.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 174 (25.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 159 (23.73%) Amazon ECS
8 139 (20.75%) GitHub
9 133 (19.85%) Amazon EKS
10 130 (19.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 110 (16.42%) Azure
12 95 (14.18%) GitHub Actions
13 89 (13.28%) AWS Step Functions
14 82 (12.24%) Amazon SQS
15 66 (9.85%) Snowflake
16 62 (9.25%) Route 53
17 56 (8.36%) GCP
18 51 (7.61%) Power Platform
19 49 (7.31%) dbt
20 48 (7.16%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.93%) DNS
2 24 (3.58%) Firewall
3 16 (2.39%) VPN
4 14 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.79%) Network Security
6 11 (1.64%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.75%) DHCP
8 4 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.45%) BGP
9 3 (0.45%) HTTP
9 3 (0.45%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.45%) OSPF
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) NAS
10 2 (0.30%) SAN
10 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
10 2 (0.30%) WAN
11 1 (0.15%) 5G
11 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (26.57%) Amazon RDS
2 124 (18.51%) Amazon Athena
3 105 (15.67%) PostgreSQL
4 104 (15.52%) DynamoDB
5 98 (14.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 57 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (8.36%) Data Lake
8 52 (7.76%) Relational Database
9 51 (7.61%) Power BI
10 37 (5.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 35 (5.22%) NoSQL
11 35 (5.22%) Tableau
12 32 (4.78%) Metadata
13 28 (4.18%) MongoDB
14 27 (4.03%) SQL Server
15 26 (3.88%) BigQuery
16 24 (3.58%) MySQL
17 23 (3.43%) OLTP
18 21 (3.13%) OLAP
19 20 (2.99%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 138 (20.60%) Jenkins
2 135 (20.15%) GitLab
3 119 (17.76%) Git
4 44 (6.57%) JIRA
5 26 (3.88%) JUnit
6 24 (3.58%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.28%) Bitbucket
7 22 (3.28%) Maven
8 16 (2.39%) Mockito
9 13 (1.94%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.64%) MLflow
11 9 (1.34%) DbUnit
11 9 (1.34%) jMock
11 9 (1.34%) Postman
12 8 (1.19%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.04%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (0.90%) Gradle
15 5 (0.75%) Selenium
16 4 (0.60%) NUnit
General
1 162 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 119 (17.76%) Finance
3 107 (15.97%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.67%) Banking
6 26 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.09%) Front Office
8 13 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.90%) Legal
10 5 (0.75%) Military
11 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.45%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.30%) Billing
13 2 (0.30%) Games
13 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Law
13 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 151 (22.54%) Data Engineer
2 132 (19.70%) Developer
3 111 (16.57%) AWS Engineer
4 86 (12.84%) Senior
5 71 (10.60%) Architect
6 68 (10.15%) Lead
7 49 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (7.16%) Java Developer
9 38 (5.67%) AWS Data Engineer
10 37 (5.52%) AWS Architect
11 34 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 34 (5.07%) Site Engineer
12 33 (4.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 29 (4.33%) Analyst
13 29 (4.33%) AWS Developer
13 29 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
14 28 (4.18%) Lead Data Engineer
15 26 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
16 25 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
17 22 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (17.91%) Kafka
2 85 (12.69%) Spring Boot
3 84 (12.54%) Spring
4 70 (10.45%) Node.js
5 63 (9.40%) PySpark
5 63 (9.40%) RESTful
6 57 (8.51%) REST
7 50 (7.46%) React
8 43 (6.42%) OAuth
9 41 (6.12%) AWS CDK
10 36 (5.37%) AngularJS
11 24 (3.58%) JWT
12 22 (3.28%) OpenID
13 19 (2.84%) Great Expectations
13 19 (2.84%) SOAP
14 18 (2.69%) boto
14 18 (2.69%) FastAPI
14 18 (2.69%) JPA
15 17 (2.54%) Pandas
15 17 (2.54%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 167 (24.93%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.94%) NHS
5 12 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.04%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.90%) Clustering
10 6 (0.90%) SCADA
11 5 (0.75%) Derivative
11 5 (0.75%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.75%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.60%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.60%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 80 (11.94%) Linux
2 16 (2.39%) Unix
3 15 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.34%) Windows
5 5 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.60%) 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
1 395 (58.96%) CI/CD
2 269 (40.15%) DevOps
3 260 (38.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 179 (26.72%) Agile
5 161 (24.03%) Analytics
5 161 (24.03%) ETL
6 158 (23.58%) Containerisation
7 153 (22.84%) Data Engineering
8 142 (21.19%) Data Pipeline
9 139 (20.75%) Data Modelling
10 118 (17.61%) Microservices
11 110 (16.42%) Observability
11 110 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
12 97 (14.48%) AI
13 86 (12.84%) Migration
14 76 (11.34%) Data Governance
15 71 (10.60%) Performance Tuning
16 69 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (10.15%) Event-Driven
17 68 (10.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 373 (55.67%) Python
2 248 (37.01%) SQL
3 137 (20.45%) Java
4 66 (9.85%) Bash
5 59 (8.81%) TypeScript
6 47 (7.01%) C#
7 44 (6.57%) JavaScript
8 32 (4.78%) Shell Script
9 29 (4.33%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.54%) Go
11 14 (2.09%) Scala
12 6 (0.90%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.75%) Bicep
14 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.45%) C
15 3 (0.45%) C++
15 3 (0.45%) Groovy
15 3 (0.45%) JSX
15 3 (0.45%) Korn
16 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 219 (32.69%) Security Cleared
2 177 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.76%) AWS Certification
4 20 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 20 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.54%) Degree
6 12 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.04%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.45%) OCP
10 3 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.45%) PhD
10 3 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (13.73%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.37%) GDPR
3 34 (5.07%) QA
4 14 (2.09%) SLA
5 13 (1.94%) NIST
6 12 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.04%) PMO
8 6 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.60%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.30%) GRC
11 2 (0.30%) GxP
11 2 (0.30%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 216 (32.24%) Docker
2 11 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.49%) Squid
4 8 (1.19%) Postfix
5 4 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.45%) HDFS
6 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 313 (46.72%) Terraform
2 168 (25.07%) Kubernetes
3 96 (14.33%) Grafana
4 72 (10.75%) Prometheus
5 65 (9.70%) Ansible
6 17 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.24%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.24%) Puppet
8 9 (1.34%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.19%) Argo
10 7 (1.04%) Consul
10 7 (1.04%) Kibana
10 7 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.90%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.75%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.60%) Istio
13 4 (0.60%) Salt
14 3 (0.45%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 77 (11.49%) Databricks
2 40 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.63%) Google
4 29 (4.33%) Splunk
5 19 (2.84%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.54%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.79%) Jaspersoft
8 12 (1.79%) Oracle
9 11 (1.64%) Informatica
10 9 (1.34%) Confluent
10 9 (1.34%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.04%) Dell
11 7 (1.04%) IBM
11 7 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.04%) Sybase
12 6 (0.90%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.90%) Denodo
12 6 (0.90%) SAP