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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 153 218
Rank change year-on-year -65 +65 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 705 601 428
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.82% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.71% 4.87% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 439 293
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £447 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £609
90th Percentile £738 £695 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -1.16% -3.85% -1.20%
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 18,981 12,340 13,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.83% 37.41% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,589 8,206 8,882
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
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 619 306 207
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.63 £54.69 £60.83
90th Percentile £81.45 £71.73 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -47 584 £535 +1.90% 240
London -18 395 £575 - 151
Work from Home -28 255 £525 - 114
UK excluding London -91 222 £470 -1.16% 124
North of England -60 66 £469 -6.25% 34
Midlands -47 64 £463 -2.63% 10
West Midlands -40 54 £469 -1.26% 3
Scotland -49 37 £475 -5.00% 16
South West -29 28 £470 -13.96% 20
North West -54 27 £500 +5.26% 13
North East -27 22 £425 -2.86% 8
South East -69 20 £550 +29.41% 26
Yorkshire -54 17 £500 -4.76% 13
East Midlands -13 9 £419 -22.02% 7
East of England -46 7 £400 -27.27% 17
Wales - 3 £600 - 2
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 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 89 (12.62%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (10.92%) Confluence
3 57 (8.09%) Apache Spark
4 54 (7.66%) Apache
5 17 (2.41%) SAS
6 12 (1.70%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.13%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.71%) nginx
8 5 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.71%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.71%) 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%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.71%) 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
3 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 686 (97.30%) AWS
2 450 (63.83%) Serverless
3 448 (63.55%) AWS Lambda
4 235 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 228 (32.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 169 (23.97%) GitHub
7 148 (20.99%) Amazon ECS
8 138 (19.57%) Amazon EKS
9 129 (18.30%) GitHub Actions
10 128 (18.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 123 (17.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 113 (16.03%) Azure
13 95 (13.48%) Amazon SQS
14 89 (12.62%) Amazon EMR
15 81 (11.49%) dbt
16 77 (10.92%) Snowflake
17 75 (10.64%) AWS Step Functions
18 62 (8.79%) Power Platform
19 52 (7.38%) AWS KMS
20 51 (7.23%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.70%) DNS
1 19 (2.70%) Firewall
2 10 (1.42%) Network Security
3 7 (0.99%) HTTP
3 7 (0.99%) SSL
4 5 (0.71%) CTI
4 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.71%) VPN
5 4 (0.57%) DHCP
5 4 (0.57%) Internet
5 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
5 4 (0.57%) SAN
5 4 (0.57%) SMS
5 4 (0.57%) WAN
6 3 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.28%) FTP
7 2 (0.28%) IMAP
7 2 (0.28%) NAS
7 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (26.52%) Amazon RDS
2 138 (19.57%) Amazon Athena
3 127 (18.01%) DynamoDB
4 114 (16.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 93 (13.19%) Data Warehouse
5 93 (13.19%) PostgreSQL
6 62 (8.79%) Power BI
7 56 (7.94%) Data Lake
8 45 (6.38%) Amazon Aurora
8 45 (6.38%) MongoDB
9 41 (5.82%) Metadata
10 31 (4.40%) Big Data
11 29 (4.11%) NoSQL
11 29 (4.11%) Tableau
12 28 (3.97%) Relational Database
13 25 (3.55%) Apache Iceberg
14 23 (3.26%) BigQuery
15 21 (2.98%) Data Vault
16 20 (2.84%) Delta Lake
17 19 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 143 (20.28%) Git
2 142 (20.14%) GitLab
3 132 (18.72%) Jenkins
4 79 (11.21%) JIRA
5 26 (3.69%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.98%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.55%) SonarQube
8 16 (2.27%) JUnit
8 16 (2.27%) Mockito
9 15 (2.13%) Maven
10 9 (1.28%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.99%) DbUnit
11 7 (0.99%) Postman
12 6 (0.85%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (0.85%) jMock
12 6 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.71%) Selenium
14 4 (0.57%) Flyway
General
1 163 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 158 (22.41%) Public Sector
3 117 (16.60%) Finance
4 60 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.10%) Banking
6 14 (1.99%) Front Office
6 14 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.42%) Back Office
7 10 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.28%) Military
9 7 (0.99%) Law
9 7 (0.99%) Marketing
10 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.85%) Legal
10 6 (0.85%) Publishing
11 5 (0.71%) Retail
12 4 (0.57%) Billing
12 4 (0.57%) Local Government
13 3 (0.43%) Games
13 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 171 (24.26%) Data Engineer
2 125 (17.73%) Senior
3 123 (17.45%) AWS Engineer
4 118 (16.74%) Developer
5 85 (12.06%) Architect
6 79 (11.21%) Lead
7 78 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 54 (7.66%) Senior Data Engineer
9 46 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
10 38 (5.39%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (4.96%) AWS Architect
12 33 (4.68%) AWS Developer
13 31 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (4.40%) Data Architect
13 31 (4.40%) Java Developer
14 29 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.55%) Software Engineer
16 23 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 23 (3.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (45.96%) Terraform
2 81 (11.49%) REST
3 77 (10.92%) Kafka
4 76 (10.78%) PySpark
5 60 (8.51%) React
6 58 (8.23%) Spring Boot
7 57 (8.09%) RESTful
7 57 (8.09%) Spring
8 52 (7.38%) Node.js
9 48 (6.81%) AWS CDK
10 33 (4.68%) FastAPI
11 25 (3.55%) AngularJS
11 25 (3.55%) JSON
12 21 (2.98%) .NET
12 21 (2.98%) SOAP
13 20 (2.84%) GraphQL
13 20 (2.84%) OAuth
13 20 (2.84%) Pandas
14 18 (2.55%) Next.js
15 16 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 180 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.79%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.12%) NHS
5 19 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.84%) AI Agents
7 13 (1.84%) IVR
8 12 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.70%) Replication
9 11 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.42%) Clustering
11 9 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.28%) Legacy Code
11 9 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.28%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.13%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.13%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.99%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 94 (13.33%) Linux
2 26 (3.69%) Unix
3 23 (3.26%) Windows
4 15 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (0.85%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.57%) AIX
9 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.28%) Android
10 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (62.55%) CI/CD
2 310 (43.97%) DevOps
3 304 (43.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 269 (38.16%) Agile
5 188 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
6 171 (24.26%) Data Engineering
7 152 (21.56%) Analytics
8 141 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 135 (19.15%) ETL
10 132 (18.72%) AI
11 131 (18.58%) Containerisation
12 119 (16.88%) Observability
13 114 (16.17%) Microservices
14 106 (15.04%) Migration
15 104 (14.75%) Test Automation
16 103 (14.61%) Event-Driven
17 102 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 94 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
19 89 (12.62%) Machine Learning
20 87 (12.34%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 395 (56.03%) Python
2 249 (35.32%) SQL
3 124 (17.59%) Java
4 82 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 67 (9.50%) Bash
6 59 (8.37%) JavaScript
7 29 (4.11%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.83%) C#
9 24 (3.40%) Shell Script
10 22 (3.12%) Scala
11 18 (2.55%) Groovy
12 14 (1.99%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.13%) Bicep
14 7 (0.99%) 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%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 243 (34.47%) Security Cleared
2 220 (31.21%) SC Cleared
3 82 (11.63%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (4.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (3.12%) Degree
7 20 (2.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 19 (2.70%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.99%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.56%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.99%) CISM
12 7 (0.99%) CISSP
13 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.57%) SnowPro
16 3 (0.43%) CSPO
16 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (16.60%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.39%) QA
3 18 (2.55%) GDPR
4 13 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.28%) NIST
6 6 (0.85%) HL7
6 6 (0.85%) SLA
7 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.43%) PMO
9 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
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
1 218 (30.92%) Docker
2 20 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.99%) 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
1 134 (19.01%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.61%) Grafana
3 56 (7.94%) Prometheus
4 42 (5.96%) Ansible
5 18 (2.55%) Argo
6 16 (2.27%) Kibana
7 12 (1.70%) Karpenter
8 10 (1.42%) Puppet
9 8 (1.13%) Packer
10 7 (0.99%) Istio
11 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (0.57%) Salt
14 3 (0.43%) Control-M
14 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.43%) systemd
15 2 (0.28%) Nessus
15 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (7.94%) Databricks
2 45 (6.38%) Oracle
3 44 (6.24%) Microsoft
4 34 (4.82%) Informatica
5 24 (3.40%) Splunk
6 21 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.70%) Google
8 17 (2.41%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.70%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.70%) Teradata
10 11 (1.56%) Confluent
10 11 (1.56%) Denodo
11 10 (1.42%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.42%) Jaspersoft
11 10 (1.42%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.13%) Foundry
12 8 (1.13%) IBM
12 8 (1.13%) Palantir
13 7 (0.99%) SnapLogic
14 6 (0.85%) PagerDuty