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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 155 222
Rank change year-on-year -60 +67 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 703 581 426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.31% 1.76% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.73% 4.75% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 427 287
10th Percentile £388 £400 £408
25th Percentile £449 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £29.28 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £34.56 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £46.75 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% - -
75th Percentile £61.56 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £68.43 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 - -

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 18,857 12,243 13,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.15% 37.15% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,454 8,169 9,129
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 319 263
10th Percentile £15.75 £15.23 £14.18
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +15.80% -26.73%
75th Percentile £69.50 £47.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £82.26 £67.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -14.95%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -41 580 £535 +1.90% 323
London -7 387 £575 - 223
Work from Home -23 258 £525 +1.25% 135
UK excluding London -78 228 £475 - 132
Midlands -26 69 £469 -1.26% 22
West Midlands -28 61 £469 -1.26% 10
North of England -61 61 £488 -2.50% 28
Scotland -29 39 £475 -4.43% 10
South West -36 28 £463 -15.33% 26
South East -68 25 £575 +35.29% 26
North West -56 24 £525 +10.53% 12
North East -27 19 £425 -5.56% 5
Yorkshire -49 18 £525 - 11
East Midlands -12 7 £438 -18.53% 12
East of England -34 7 £400 -27.27% 10
Wales - 3 £600 - 2
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 10

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 83 (11.81%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (10.10%) Confluence
3 63 (8.96%) Apache Spark
4 51 (7.25%) Apache
5 23 (3.27%) SAS
6 9 (1.28%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.14%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.71%) nginx
9 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Mule
11 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 687 (97.72%) AWS
2 443 (63.02%) Serverless
3 437 (62.16%) AWS Lambda
4 236 (33.57%) Amazon EC2
5 219 (31.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 159 (22.62%) GitHub
7 151 (21.48%) Amazon ECS
8 141 (20.06%) Amazon EKS
9 128 (18.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 126 (17.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 118 (16.79%) GitHub Actions
12 105 (14.94%) Azure
13 102 (14.51%) Amazon SQS
14 91 (12.94%) Amazon EMR
15 82 (11.66%) Snowflake
16 77 (10.95%) dbt
17 76 (10.81%) AWS Step Functions
18 63 (8.96%) Power Platform
19 53 (7.54%) AWS KMS
20 49 (6.97%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.56%) Firewall
2 17 (2.42%) DNS
3 11 (1.56%) Network Security
4 6 (0.85%) SSL
4 6 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.71%) CTI
5 5 (0.71%) HTTP
5 5 (0.71%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) Internet
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
7 3 (0.43%) SAN
7 3 (0.43%) SMS
8 2 (0.28%) NAS
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) 4G
9 1 (0.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (25.32%) Amazon RDS
2 147 (20.91%) Amazon Athena
3 122 (17.35%) DynamoDB
4 117 (16.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 91 (12.94%) PostgreSQL
6 90 (12.80%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (8.96%) Power BI
8 61 (8.68%) Data Lake
9 46 (6.54%) Amazon Aurora
10 42 (5.97%) Metadata
11 38 (5.41%) MongoDB
12 31 (4.41%) Big Data
13 29 (4.13%) NoSQL
13 29 (4.13%) Relational Database
14 28 (3.98%) Tableau
15 25 (3.56%) Apache Iceberg
15 25 (3.56%) BigQuery
16 22 (3.13%) SQL Server
17 21 (2.99%) Data Vault
18 18 (2.56%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 146 (20.77%) Jenkins
2 143 (20.34%) GitLab
3 140 (19.91%) Git
4 75 (10.67%) JIRA
5 28 (3.98%) Bitbucket
6 25 (3.56%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.13%) JUnit
8 20 (2.84%) Mockito
9 19 (2.70%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.28%) Maven
11 11 (1.56%) DbUnit
12 10 (1.42%) Artifactory
12 10 (1.42%) Bitbucket Server
12 10 (1.42%) jMock
13 7 (1.00%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.00%) Postman
13 7 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.57%) MLflow
14 4 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 168 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 157 (22.33%) Public Sector
3 122 (17.35%) Finance
4 61 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.69%) Banking
6 13 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (1.85%) Front Office
7 10 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.14%) Back Office
9 7 (1.00%) Law
9 7 (1.00%) Marketing
9 7 (1.00%) Military
10 6 (0.85%) Billing
10 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.57%) Legal
12 4 (0.57%) Retail
12 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 164 (23.33%) Data Engineer
2 132 (18.78%) AWS Engineer
3 130 (18.49%) Developer
4 111 (15.79%) Senior
5 87 (12.38%) Architect
6 84 (11.95%) Lead
7 69 (9.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 46 (6.54%) AWS Data Engineer
9 43 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
10 40 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (5.55%) AWS DevOps
12 38 (5.41%) Java Developer
13 36 (5.12%) AWS Architect
14 35 (4.98%) AWS Developer
15 31 (4.41%) Data Architect
16 29 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
18 24 (3.41%) Software Engineer
19 22 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 20 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.24%) Kafka
2 78 (11.10%) PySpark
3 77 (10.95%) REST
4 62 (8.82%) React
5 59 (8.39%) Spring Boot
6 58 (8.25%) Node.js
6 58 (8.25%) Spring
7 57 (8.11%) RESTful
8 50 (7.11%) AWS CDK
9 27 (3.84%) AngularJS
9 27 (3.84%) FastAPI
10 26 (3.70%) SOAP
11 23 (3.27%) JSON
12 22 (3.13%) OAuth
13 20 (2.84%) .NET
14 19 (2.70%) Pandas
14 19 (2.70%) Web Services
15 18 (2.56%) GraphQL
16 17 (2.42%) ActiveMQ
16 17 (2.42%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 174 (24.75%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.53%) Product Ownership
3 42 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.84%) NHS
5 18 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.56%) IVR
7 11 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.28%) Legacy Code
8 9 (1.28%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.14%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.14%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.00%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 90 (12.80%) Linux
2 21 (2.99%) Unix
3 19 (2.70%) Windows
4 17 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.57%) AIX
6 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (62.87%) CI/CD
2 297 (42.25%) DevOps
3 286 (40.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 257 (36.56%) Agile
5 180 (25.60%) Data Pipeline
6 170 (24.18%) Data Engineering
7 160 (22.76%) Analytics
8 141 (20.06%) ETL
9 139 (19.77%) Data Modelling
10 137 (19.49%) AI
11 131 (18.63%) Containerisation
12 118 (16.79%) Microservices
13 111 (15.79%) Migration
13 111 (15.79%) Observability
14 97 (13.80%) Test Automation
15 90 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 90 (12.80%) Event-Driven
15 90 (12.80%) Machine Learning
16 89 (12.66%) Scrum
17 87 (12.38%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 394 (56.05%) Python
2 249 (35.42%) SQL
3 126 (17.92%) Java
4 78 (11.10%) TypeScript
5 70 (9.96%) Bash
6 61 (8.68%) JavaScript
7 34 (4.84%) C#
8 31 (4.41%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.27%) Scala
9 23 (3.27%) Shell Script
10 15 (2.13%) Groovy
11 10 (1.42%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.14%) Bicep
13 6 (0.85%) Perl
13 6 (0.85%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.71%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.71%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.57%) Cypher
15 4 (0.57%) Go
15 4 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 235 (33.43%) Security Cleared
2 205 (29.16%) SC Cleared
3 73 (10.38%) AWS Certification
4 43 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.70%) Degree
6 19 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.56%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.57%) CISM
13 4 (0.57%) CISSP
14 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.56%) QA
3 21 (2.99%) GDPR
4 13 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.42%) SLA
6 6 (0.85%) HL7
6 6 (0.85%) NIST
7 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) PMO
8 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 213 (30.30%) Docker
2 17 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.14%) Postfix
4 5 (0.71%) Squid
5 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 320 (45.52%) Terraform
2 129 (18.35%) Kubernetes
3 106 (15.08%) Grafana
4 53 (7.54%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.83%) Ansible
6 18 (2.56%) Argo
7 16 (2.28%) Kibana
8 11 (1.56%) Puppet
9 9 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.14%) Karpenter
10 8 (1.14%) Packer
11 7 (1.00%) Istio
12 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.71%) Salt
13 3 (0.43%) Consul
13 3 (0.43%) Control-M
13 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (8.68%) Databricks
2 41 (5.83%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.98%) Oracle
4 34 (4.84%) Informatica
5 26 (3.70%) Splunk
6 20 (2.84%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.70%) Google
8 18 (2.56%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.99%) Atlassian
10 13 (1.85%) Jaspersoft
11 11 (1.56%) Denodo
11 11 (1.56%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.42%) Teradata
13 8 (1.14%) Confluent
13 8 (1.14%) Foundry
13 8 (1.14%) IBM
13 8 (1.14%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.14%) Palantir
14 7 (1.00%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.85%) VMware