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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 170 229
Rank change year-on-year -14 +59 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 682 491 456
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.68% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.08% 4.41% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 377 361
10th Percentile £357 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £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 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -3.25% -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 16,714 11,128 14,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.40% 37.98% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,401 7,742 10,061
10th Percentile £315 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £703 £725 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 242 345
10th Percentile £15.30 £16.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £19.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.82% +31.57% -30.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.45 £60.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -25.20%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +11 583 £525 -4.55% 143
London +18 399 £525 -8.70% 63
UK excluding London -38 211 £484 -3.25% 89
Work from Home -9 203 £500 -4.76% 79
Midlands -27 61 £475 +5.56% 8
North of England -49 57 £500 +5.26% 35
West Midlands -18 55 £488 -4.88% 6
Scotland -31 29 £440 -12.00% 2
South East -38 28 £550 -5.17% 23
North West -28 27 £450 +5.88% 26
South West -11 23 £531 -2.75% 10
Yorkshire -44 22 £500 -4.76% 7
North East -13 8 £538 -13.90% 2
East of England -31 7 £450 -10.00% 10
East Midlands -33 6 £433 +6.66% 2
Northern Ireland +2 5 £400 -20.00% 1
Wales -13 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 81 (11.88%) Apache Spark
2 74 (10.85%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (7.77%) Apache
4 33 (4.84%) Confluence
5 15 (2.20%) SAS
6 10 (1.47%) nginx
7 4 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.29%) Apache Superset
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) 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 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 677 (99.27%) AWS
2 424 (62.17%) Serverless
3 415 (60.85%) AWS Lambda
4 255 (37.39%) Amazon EC2
5 181 (26.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 170 (24.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 165 (24.19%) Amazon ECS
8 138 (20.23%) GitHub
9 132 (19.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 128 (18.77%) Amazon EKS
11 111 (16.28%) Azure
12 93 (13.64%) AWS Step Functions
12 93 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
13 87 (12.76%) Amazon SQS
14 68 (9.97%) Snowflake
15 59 (8.65%) Amazon EMR
16 58 (8.50%) Route 53
17 55 (8.06%) GCP
18 52 (7.62%) dbt
18 52 (7.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.84%) DNS
2 24 (3.52%) Firewall
3 16 (2.35%) VPN
4 14 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.76%) Network Security
6 11 (1.61%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.73%) DHCP
8 4 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.44%) BGP
9 3 (0.44%) HTTP
9 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.44%) OSPF
10 2 (0.29%) Internet
10 2 (0.29%) Multicast
10 2 (0.29%) NAS
10 2 (0.29%) SAN
10 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.29%) VLAN
10 2 (0.29%) WAN
11 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (25.66%) Amazon RDS
2 132 (19.35%) Amazon Athena
3 117 (17.16%) PostgreSQL
4 110 (16.13%) DynamoDB
5 103 (15.10%) Amazon Redshift
6 58 (8.50%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (8.06%) Data Lake
8 53 (7.77%) Relational Database
9 52 (7.62%) Power BI
10 48 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
11 42 (6.16%) NoSQL
12 38 (5.57%) Tableau
13 37 (5.43%) MongoDB
14 32 (4.69%) Metadata
15 30 (4.40%) Big Data
16 28 (4.11%) SQL Server
17 26 (3.81%) BigQuery
17 26 (3.81%) MySQL
18 25 (3.67%) OLTP
19 22 (3.23%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 144 (21.11%) Jenkins
2 133 (19.50%) GitLab
3 122 (17.89%) Git
4 47 (6.89%) JIRA
5 27 (3.96%) JUnit
5 27 (3.96%) SonarQube
6 23 (3.37%) Maven
7 22 (3.23%) Bitbucket
8 17 (2.49%) Mockito
9 15 (2.20%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.61%) MLflow
11 10 (1.47%) DbUnit
11 10 (1.47%) jMock
12 9 (1.32%) Postman
13 8 (1.17%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (1.17%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.03%) Artifactory
15 6 (0.88%) Gradle
15 6 (0.88%) Selenium
16 4 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 163 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 119 (17.45%) Finance
3 107 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 76 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.43%) Banking
6 26 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.05%) Front Office
8 13 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Legal
10 5 (0.73%) Military
11 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.44%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.29%) Billing
13 2 (0.29%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.29%) Law
13 2 (0.29%) Local Government
13 2 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 159 (23.31%) Data Engineer
2 137 (20.09%) Developer
3 108 (15.84%) AWS Engineer
4 86 (12.61%) Senior
5 76 (11.14%) Architect
6 70 (10.26%) Lead
7 49 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 49 (7.18%) Java Developer
8 41 (6.01%) AWS Architect
9 39 (5.72%) AWS Data Engineer
10 35 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 32 (4.69%) Site Engineer
12 31 (4.55%) AWS Developer
12 31 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 29 (4.25%) Analyst
14 27 (3.96%) Lead Data Engineer
14 27 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
15 25 (3.67%) AWS DevOps
16 24 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
17 23 (3.37%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (17.89%) Kafka
2 86 (12.61%) Spring Boot
3 85 (12.46%) Spring
4 70 (10.26%) Node.js
5 68 (9.97%) RESTful
6 62 (9.09%) PySpark
7 57 (8.36%) REST
8 53 (7.77%) React
9 43 (6.30%) OAuth
10 41 (6.01%) AWS CDK
11 37 (5.43%) AngularJS
12 24 (3.52%) JWT
13 23 (3.37%) CSS
14 22 (3.23%) OpenID
15 20 (2.93%) SOAP
16 19 (2.79%) JPA
17 18 (2.64%) boto
17 18 (2.64%) Hibernate
17 18 (2.64%) Pandas
17 18 (2.64%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 168 (24.63%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.91%) NHS
4 13 (1.91%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.88%) Clustering
10 6 (0.88%) PACS
10 6 (0.88%) SCADA
10 6 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.73%) Derivative
11 5 (0.73%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.59%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 87 (12.76%) Linux
2 22 (3.23%) Unix
3 15 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.32%) Windows
5 5 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.29%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (58.21%) CI/CD
2 271 (39.74%) DevOps
3 267 (39.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 193 (28.30%) Agile
5 164 (24.05%) Analytics
6 163 (23.90%) ETL
7 156 (22.87%) Containerisation
8 155 (22.73%) Data Engineering
9 148 (21.70%) Data Pipeline
10 143 (20.97%) Data Modelling
11 118 (17.30%) Microservices
12 111 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
13 108 (15.84%) Observability
14 99 (14.52%) AI
15 89 (13.05%) Migration
16 79 (11.58%) Data Governance
16 79 (11.58%) Test Automation
17 70 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
17 70 (10.26%) Software Engineering
18 69 (10.12%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 385 (56.45%) Python
2 259 (37.98%) SQL
3 146 (21.41%) Java
4 62 (9.09%) Bash
4 62 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 54 (7.92%) JavaScript
6 48 (7.04%) C#
7 30 (4.40%) Shell Script
8 29 (4.25%) PowerShell
9 25 (3.67%) Scala
10 14 (2.05%) Go
11 6 (0.88%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.73%) Bicep
13 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.44%) C
14 3 (0.44%) C++
14 3 (0.44%) Groovy
14 3 (0.44%) JSX
14 3 (0.44%) R
15 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 225 (32.99%) Security Cleared
2 181 (26.54%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.62%) AWS Certification
4 20 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 20 (2.93%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.64%) Degree
6 17 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.44%) OCP
12 3 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.44%) PhD
12 3 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (13.34%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.13%) GDPR
3 33 (4.84%) QA
4 14 (2.05%) SLA
5 13 (1.91%) NIST
6 12 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.03%) PMO
8 6 (0.88%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.29%) GRC
10 2 (0.29%) GxP
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 219 (32.11%) Docker
2 11 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.47%) Squid
4 9 (1.32%) Postfix
5 6 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.59%) HDFS
7 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 320 (46.92%) Terraform
2 164 (24.05%) Kubernetes
3 102 (14.96%) Grafana
4 71 (10.41%) Prometheus
5 63 (9.24%) Ansible
6 17 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.20%) Kibana
7 15 (2.20%) Puppet
8 13 (1.91%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.32%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.03%) Argo
10 7 (1.03%) Consul
10 7 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.73%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.59%) Istio
12 4 (0.59%) Salt
13 3 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 78 (11.44%) Databricks
2 41 (6.01%) Microsoft
3 39 (5.72%) Splunk
4 29 (4.25%) Google
5 19 (2.79%) Atlassian
5 19 (2.79%) Red Hat
6 13 (1.91%) Jaspersoft
6 13 (1.91%) Oracle
6 13 (1.91%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.76%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.61%) Confluent
8 11 (1.61%) Informatica
9 9 (1.32%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.03%) Dell
10 7 (1.03%) IBM
10 7 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.03%) Sybase
11 6 (0.88%) AVEVA
11 6 (0.88%) Denodo
11 6 (0.88%) SAP