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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 160 215
Rank change year-on-year -49 +55 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 702 596 438
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.81% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.73% 4.81% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 438 292
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £444 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £609
90th Percentile £739 £688 £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -7.50% +1.52% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £32.80 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.86% - -
75th Percentile £72.83 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.93 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.58 - -

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 18,840 12,378 13,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.71% 37.58% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,496 8,249 8,849
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 299 198
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.52
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% -6.23% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £62.14
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £20.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% -33.33% +11.11%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -55 578 £530 +0.95% 636
London -22 393 £575 - 396
Work from Home -25 251 £525 - 281
UK excluding London -84 222 £463 -7.50% 298
North of England -69 65 £463 -7.50% 95
Midlands -39 60 £461 -3.00% 30
West Midlands -51 50 £469 -1.26% 14
Scotland -32 40 £450 -11.11% 33
South West -31 30 £463 -15.33% 45
North West -46 26 £475 - 53
North East -22 20 £419 -4.29% 19
South East -72 20 £550 +29.41% 38
Yorkshire -54 19 £500 -4.76% 23
East Midlands -6 9 £414 -23.00% 16
East of England -40 7 £400 -27.27% 38
Wales - 3 £600 - 6
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 15

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 92 (13.11%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (10.11%) Confluence
3 63 (8.97%) Apache
4 61 (8.69%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.42%) SAS
6 12 (1.71%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.14%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.85%) nginx
8 6 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.85%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.85%) WebLogic Portal
9 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
10 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.28%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 684 (97.44%) AWS
2 446 (63.53%) Serverless
3 443 (63.11%) AWS Lambda
4 232 (33.05%) Amazon EC2
5 227 (32.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 160 (22.79%) GitHub
7 147 (20.94%) Amazon ECS
8 136 (19.37%) Amazon EKS
9 130 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 125 (17.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 123 (17.52%) GitHub Actions
12 108 (15.38%) Azure
13 95 (13.53%) Amazon SQS
14 92 (13.11%) Amazon EMR
15 81 (11.54%) dbt
16 76 (10.83%) AWS Step Functions
17 75 (10.68%) Snowflake
18 65 (9.26%) Power Platform
19 54 (7.69%) AWS KMS
20 53 (7.55%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.71%) Firewall
2 17 (2.42%) DNS
3 9 (1.28%) Network Security
4 7 (1.00%) HTTP
4 7 (1.00%) SSL
5 5 (0.71%) CTI
5 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.71%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) SAN
6 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Internet
7 3 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.28%) IMAP
8 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.28%) SSH
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (26.35%) Amazon RDS
2 145 (20.66%) Amazon Athena
3 130 (18.52%) DynamoDB
4 112 (15.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 95 (13.53%) Data Warehouse
6 94 (13.39%) PostgreSQL
7 65 (9.26%) Power BI
8 60 (8.55%) Data Lake
9 45 (6.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 43 (6.13%) Metadata
10 43 (6.13%) MongoDB
11 33 (4.70%) Tableau
12 31 (4.42%) Big Data
13 27 (3.85%) NoSQL
14 25 (3.56%) Relational Database
15 24 (3.42%) Apache Iceberg
16 23 (3.28%) BigQuery
16 23 (3.28%) Delta Lake
17 20 (2.85%) Data Vault
18 19 (2.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 142 (20.23%) GitLab
2 141 (20.09%) Git
3 127 (18.09%) Jenkins
4 72 (10.26%) JIRA
5 25 (3.56%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.85%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.71%) SonarQube
8 17 (2.42%) Maven
9 15 (2.14%) JUnit
9 15 (2.14%) Mockito
10 8 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.00%) DbUnit
12 6 (0.85%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (0.85%) jMock
12 6 (0.85%) Postman
12 6 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.71%) Selenium
14 4 (0.57%) Flyway
General
1 166 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 152 (21.65%) Public Sector
3 129 (18.38%) Finance
4 66 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.55%) Banking
6 15 (2.14%) Front Office
6 15 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.71%) Legal
8 11 (1.57%) Back Office
9 10 (1.42%) Military
10 9 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.00%) Law
11 7 (1.00%) Marketing
11 7 (1.00%) Publishing
12 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.57%) Billing
13 4 (0.57%) Local Government
13 4 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.57%) Retail
14 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (24.36%) Data Engineer
2 126 (17.95%) Senior
3 120 (17.09%) Developer
4 118 (16.81%) AWS Engineer
5 80 (11.40%) Architect
5 80 (11.40%) Lead
6 79 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 55 (7.83%) Senior Data Engineer
8 46 (6.55%) AWS Data Engineer
9 36 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
10 34 (4.84%) Java Developer
11 33 (4.70%) AWS Architect
11 33 (4.70%) AWS Developer
12 32 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
13 30 (4.27%) Data Architect
14 28 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
16 23 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 23 (3.28%) Software Engineer
17 22 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (45.73%) Terraform
2 83 (11.82%) REST
3 79 (11.25%) PySpark
4 74 (10.54%) Kafka
5 60 (8.55%) React
5 60 (8.55%) Spring Boot
6 59 (8.40%) Spring
7 56 (7.98%) RESTful
8 52 (7.41%) Node.js
9 46 (6.55%) AWS CDK
10 32 (4.56%) FastAPI
11 27 (3.85%) AngularJS
12 25 (3.56%) SOAP
13 24 (3.42%) JSON
14 21 (2.99%) .NET
15 20 (2.85%) GraphQL
16 19 (2.71%) OAuth
16 19 (2.71%) Pandas
17 17 (2.42%) Next.js
17 17 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 181 (25.78%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.55%) Product Ownership
3 37 (5.27%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.99%) NHS
5 20 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 13 (1.85%) IVR
7 13 (1.85%) Replication
8 12 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.28%) Clustering
11 9 (1.28%) Legacy Code
12 8 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.14%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.14%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (12.96%) Linux
2 26 (3.70%) Unix
3 20 (2.85%) Windows
4 14 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.57%) AIX
7 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) Android
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (63.39%) CI/CD
2 310 (44.16%) DevOps
3 304 (43.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 269 (38.32%) Agile
5 188 (26.78%) Data Pipeline
6 177 (25.21%) Data Engineering
7 157 (22.36%) Analytics
8 138 (19.66%) Data Modelling
9 136 (19.37%) ETL
10 129 (18.38%) AI
11 128 (18.23%) Containerisation
12 122 (17.38%) Observability
13 113 (16.10%) Microservices
14 112 (15.95%) Migration
15 107 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 105 (14.96%) Event-Driven
17 98 (13.96%) Test Automation
18 97 (13.82%) Technical Leadership
19 91 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
20 89 (12.68%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 393 (55.98%) Python
2 261 (37.18%) SQL
3 122 (17.38%) Java
4 81 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 66 (9.40%) Bash
6 57 (8.12%) JavaScript
7 25 (3.56%) PowerShell
8 24 (3.42%) C#
9 23 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 21 (2.99%) Scala
11 18 (2.56%) Groovy
12 15 (2.14%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.14%) Bicep
14 7 (1.00%) Perl
15 6 (0.85%) Go
16 5 (0.71%) R
17 4 (0.57%) Cypher
17 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
18 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 236 (33.62%) Security Cleared
2 216 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 87 (12.39%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (4.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (3.13%) Degree
7 18 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 17 (2.42%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.99%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (1.00%) CISM
13 7 (1.00%) CISSP
14 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (0.43%) CSPO
18 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 2 (0.28%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (17.66%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.98%) QA
3 16 (2.28%) GDPR
4 15 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.14%) NIST
6 6 (0.85%) HL7
6 6 (0.85%) SLA
7 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.28%) PMO
9 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 215 (30.63%) Docker
2 18 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.00%) Postfix
4 6 (0.85%) Squid
5 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.28%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.28%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 136 (19.37%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.67%) Grafana
3 57 (8.12%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.13%) Ansible
5 17 (2.42%) Argo
6 16 (2.28%) Kibana
7 12 (1.71%) Karpenter
8 10 (1.42%) Puppet
9 8 (1.14%) Packer
10 7 (1.00%) Istio
11 6 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.57%) Salt
13 3 (0.43%) Control-M
13 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.43%) systemd
14 2 (0.28%) Nessus
14 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (7.98%) Databricks
2 47 (6.70%) Oracle
3 41 (5.84%) Microsoft
4 32 (4.56%) Informatica
5 24 (3.42%) Splunk
6 21 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.42%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.28%) Google
9 13 (1.85%) Teradata
10 12 (1.71%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.57%) Confluent
11 11 (1.57%) Denodo
12 10 (1.42%) Jaspersoft
12 10 (1.42%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.28%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.14%) Foundry
14 8 (1.14%) Palantir
15 7 (1.00%) Brio
15 7 (1.00%) IBM
15 7 (1.00%) SnapLogic