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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 168 231
Rank change year-on-year -15 +63 +17
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 671 472 447
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.44% 1.60% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.98% 4.24% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 368 349
10th Percentile £356 £400 £405
25th Percentile £430 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £689 £700 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 16,867 11,134 14,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.17% 37.72% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,484 7,745 10,000
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £704 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 252 349
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.36 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.64 £27.43 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.83% +30.60% -38.95%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.01% -27.13%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -2 575 £525 -2.78% 134
London +18 393 £530 -4.50% 57
UK excluding London -35 212 £488 -2.50% 92
Work from Home 0 192 £500 -4.76% 178
Midlands -14 63 £475 +1.71% 9
West Midlands -14 59 £475 -5.00% 5
North of England -53 53 £500 +5.26% 35
Scotland -26 32 £444 -11.30% 2
South East -46 30 £563 +11.39% 21
North West -34 26 £450 +2.86% 24
South West -27 22 £525 -4.55% 15
Yorkshire -52 19 £500 -4.76% 9
North East -14 8 £500 -19.91% 2
East of England -35 7 £450 -10.00% 6
Northern Ireland +6 4 £400 -20.00% 4
East Midlands -32 4 £413 +12.40% 4
Wales -7 2 £363 -9.38%

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 78 (11.62%) Apache Spark
2 74 (11.03%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (7.75%) Apache
4 39 (5.81%) Confluence
5 17 (2.53%) SAS
6 10 (1.49%) nginx
7 4 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
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 (99.25%) AWS
2 415 (61.85%) Serverless
3 406 (60.51%) AWS Lambda
4 249 (37.11%) Amazon EC2
5 177 (26.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 163 (24.29%) Amazon ECS
7 161 (23.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 137 (20.42%) GitHub
9 134 (19.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 128 (19.08%) Amazon EKS
11 111 (16.54%) Azure
12 93 (13.86%) AWS Step Functions
12 93 (13.86%) GitHub Actions
13 89 (13.26%) Amazon SQS
14 68 (10.13%) Snowflake
15 58 (8.64%) Amazon EMR
16 57 (8.49%) Route 53
17 53 (7.90%) dbt
17 53 (7.90%) GCP
18 51 (7.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.07%) DNS
2 24 (3.58%) Firewall
3 16 (2.38%) VPN
4 15 (2.24%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.79%) Network Security
6 11 (1.64%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.75%) DHCP
7 5 (0.75%) HTTP
8 4 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.45%) BGP
9 3 (0.45%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.45%) OSPF
10 2 (0.30%) Internet
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%) SSL
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
10 2 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (25.34%) Amazon RDS
2 127 (18.93%) Amazon Athena
3 118 (17.59%) PostgreSQL
4 111 (16.54%) DynamoDB
5 99 (14.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 56 (8.35%) Data Lake
7 53 (7.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 52 (7.75%) Data Warehouse
9 51 (7.60%) Power BI
10 44 (6.56%) Relational Database
11 41 (6.11%) NoSQL
12 34 (5.07%) MongoDB
13 33 (4.92%) Tableau
14 32 (4.77%) Metadata
15 30 (4.47%) Big Data
15 30 (4.47%) SQL Server
16 25 (3.73%) BigQuery
17 24 (3.58%) MySQL
17 24 (3.58%) OLTP
18 20 (2.98%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 143 (21.31%) Jenkins
2 132 (19.67%) GitLab
3 120 (17.88%) Git
4 52 (7.75%) JIRA
5 28 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 25 (3.73%) JUnit
7 24 (3.58%) Maven
8 23 (3.43%) Bitbucket
9 18 (2.68%) Mockito
10 15 (2.24%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.79%) MLflow
12 11 (1.64%) DbUnit
12 11 (1.64%) jMock
13 9 (1.34%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.34%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.04%) Artifactory
14 7 (1.04%) Postman
15 6 (0.89%) Gradle
15 6 (0.89%) Selenium
16 4 (0.60%) NUnit
General
1 160 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 121 (18.03%) Finance
3 106 (15.80%) Public Sector
4 72 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (5.22%) Banking
6 25 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.09%) Front Office
7 14 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (0.89%) Legal
9 5 (0.75%) Military
10 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.30%) Billing
12 2 (0.30%) Games
12 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.30%) Law
12 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.30%) Police
12 2 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 153 (22.80%) Data Engineer
2 134 (19.97%) Developer
3 107 (15.95%) AWS Engineer
4 85 (12.67%) Senior
5 80 (11.92%) Architect
6 70 (10.43%) Lead
7 50 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 46 (6.86%) Java Developer
9 41 (6.11%) AWS Architect
10 38 (5.66%) AWS Data Engineer
11 35 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.77%) Site Engineer
13 30 (4.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 29 (4.32%) Senior Data Engineer
15 28 (4.17%) AWS Developer
15 28 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
16 26 (3.87%) Lead Data Engineer
17 25 (3.73%) Data Architect
18 24 (3.58%) Analyst
19 23 (3.43%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (17.14%) Kafka
2 84 (12.52%) Spring Boot
3 83 (12.37%) Spring
4 71 (10.58%) Node.js
4 71 (10.58%) RESTful
5 62 (9.24%) PySpark
6 59 (8.79%) REST
7 53 (7.90%) React
8 44 (6.56%) OAuth
9 43 (6.41%) AWS CDK
10 38 (5.66%) AngularJS
11 27 (4.02%) JWT
12 24 (3.58%) OpenID
13 22 (3.28%) CSS
13 22 (3.28%) Pandas
13 22 (3.28%) SOAP
14 21 (3.13%) FastAPI
14 21 (3.13%) PyTorch
15 20 (2.98%) JPA
16 19 (2.83%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 169 (25.19%) Cloud Native
2 54 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.94%) NHS
4 13 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.34%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.19%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.19%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.89%) Clustering
9 6 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (0.89%) PACS
9 6 (0.89%) SCADA
9 6 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (0.75%) Mainframe
10 5 (0.75%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 90 (13.41%) Linux
2 22 (3.28%) Unix
3 14 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.19%) Windows
5 7 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.30%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (59.17%) CI/CD
2 272 (40.54%) DevOps
3 260 (38.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 196 (29.21%) Agile
5 165 (24.59%) Analytics
6 158 (23.55%) ETL
7 155 (23.10%) Containerisation
8 150 (22.35%) Data Engineering
9 143 (21.31%) Data Pipeline
10 140 (20.86%) Data Modelling
11 117 (17.44%) Microservices
12 106 (15.80%) Observability
13 105 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (15.20%) AI
15 83 (12.37%) Migration
16 80 (11.92%) Test Automation
17 76 (11.33%) Software Engineering
18 75 (11.18%) Data Governance
19 73 (10.88%) Performance Tuning
20 72 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 382 (56.93%) Python
2 249 (37.11%) SQL
3 141 (21.01%) Java
4 60 (8.94%) TypeScript
5 57 (8.49%) Bash
6 52 (7.75%) JavaScript
7 51 (7.60%) C#
8 31 (4.62%) Shell Script
9 28 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 24 (3.58%) Scala
11 14 (2.09%) Go
12 7 (1.04%) Groovy
13 6 (0.89%) Bicep
13 6 (0.89%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.45%) C
15 3 (0.45%) C++
15 3 (0.45%) JSX
15 3 (0.45%) Perl
15 3 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 224 (33.38%) Security Cleared
2 182 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.90%) AWS Certification
4 20 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (2.68%) Degree
5 18 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.45%) OCP
11 3 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.45%) PhD
11 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (12.97%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.92%) GDPR
3 30 (4.47%) QA
4 14 (2.09%) SLA
5 13 (1.94%) NIST
6 12 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.04%) PMO
9 6 (0.89%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.30%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 220 (32.79%) Docker
2 11 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.49%) Postfix
3 10 (1.49%) Squid
4 6 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.60%) HDFS
6 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 315 (46.94%) Terraform
2 158 (23.55%) Kubernetes
3 107 (15.95%) Grafana
4 72 (10.73%) Prometheus
5 60 (8.94%) Ansible
6 18 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.24%) Puppet
8 13 (1.94%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.79%) Kibana
10 9 (1.34%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.19%) Consul
12 7 (1.04%) Argo
13 6 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.75%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.60%) Dell DRAC
15 4 (0.60%) Istio
15 4 (0.60%) Packer
15 4 (0.60%) Salt
16 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 76 (11.33%) Databricks
2 40 (5.96%) Splunk
3 37 (5.51%) Microsoft
4 28 (4.17%) Google
5 20 (2.98%) Atlassian
6 18 (2.68%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.09%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (2.09%) Oracle
7 14 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.94%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.79%) Informatica
10 10 (1.49%) Confluent
11 9 (1.34%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.19%) Denodo
12 8 (1.19%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.89%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.89%) Dell
13 6 (0.89%) IBM
13 6 (0.89%) SAP
13 6 (0.89%) Teradata