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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 166 227
Rank change year-on-year -34 +61 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 740 556 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.39% 1.69% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.94% 4.51% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 411 309
10th Percentile £384 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -5.12%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 18,762 12,315 13,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.35% 37.40% 33.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,385 8,247 9,481
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 316 300
10th Percentile £16.60 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.51 £16.29
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.33
Median % change year-on-year +30.58% +23.18% -36.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +97.35% -10.14% -19.23%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -31 613 £525 - 128
London -1 401 £565 -0.44% 74
Work from Home -9 267 £513 -1.16% 61
UK excluding London -51 258 £475 - 67
Midlands -17 80 £469 -1.26% 11
West Midlands -21 73 £469 -1.26% 7
North of England -67 64 £500 - 25
Scotland -16 47 £450 -9.56% 3
South West -15 32 £463 -15.33% 12
North West -46 31 £518 +8.95% 5
South East -73 27 £563 +32.35% 14
Yorkshire -50 17 £550 +4.76% 6
North East -30 16 £444 -1.39% 14
East of England -38 8 £400 -20.00% 3
East Midlands -13 6 £450 -9.64% 4
Wales - 4 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland +1 1 - -

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 85 (11.49%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (10.81%) Confluence
3 69 (9.32%) Apache Spark
4 57 (7.70%) Apache
5 23 (3.11%) SAS
6 9 (1.22%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.95%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.81%) nginx
10 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) 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
1 727 (98.24%) AWS
2 458 (61.89%) Serverless
3 450 (60.81%) AWS Lambda
4 261 (35.27%) Amazon EC2
5 226 (30.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 161 (21.76%) Amazon ECS
7 148 (20.00%) GitHub
8 142 (19.19%) Amazon EKS
8 142 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 139 (18.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 112 (15.14%) Amazon SQS
11 111 (15.00%) Azure
12 107 (14.46%) GitHub Actions
13 94 (12.70%) Amazon EMR
14 87 (11.76%) dbt
15 84 (11.35%) Snowflake
16 78 (10.54%) AWS Step Functions
17 64 (8.65%) Power Platform
18 59 (7.97%) AWS KMS
19 48 (6.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.43%) Firewall
2 17 (2.30%) DNS
3 10 (1.35%) Network Security
4 8 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.81%) HTTP
5 6 (0.81%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.81%) VPN
6 5 (0.68%) CTI
7 4 (0.54%) DHCP
7 4 (0.54%) Internet
7 4 (0.54%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.54%) SSL
7 4 (0.54%) WAN
8 3 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) NAS
9 2 (0.27%) SAN
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
10 1 (0.14%) BGP
10 1 (0.14%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (24.86%) Amazon RDS
2 149 (20.14%) Amazon Athena
3 131 (17.70%) DynamoDB
4 128 (17.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 97 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (11.35%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (8.65%) Power BI
8 63 (8.51%) Data Lake
9 49 (6.62%) Amazon Aurora
10 46 (6.22%) Metadata
11 36 (4.86%) Relational Database
12 34 (4.59%) MongoDB
13 33 (4.46%) Big Data
13 33 (4.46%) NoSQL
14 30 (4.05%) Tableau
15 27 (3.65%) BigQuery
16 26 (3.51%) SQL Server
17 21 (2.84%) Apache Iceberg
18 20 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
19 18 (2.43%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 145 (19.59%) Git
2 143 (19.32%) Jenkins
3 138 (18.65%) GitLab
4 85 (11.49%) JIRA
5 28 (3.78%) JUnit
5 28 (3.78%) SonarQube
6 27 (3.65%) Bitbucket
7 24 (3.24%) Maven
7 24 (3.24%) Mockito
8 19 (2.57%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.89%) DbUnit
10 13 (1.76%) jMock
11 11 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
12 10 (1.35%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.95%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.95%) Postman
14 6 (0.81%) MLflow
15 5 (0.68%) Selenium
15 5 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 188 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 161 (21.76%) Public Sector
3 125 (16.89%) Finance
4 67 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (5.95%) Banking
6 14 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (1.89%) Front Office
7 11 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (0.95%) Back Office
9 7 (0.95%) Law
9 7 (0.95%) Marketing
9 7 (0.95%) Military
10 6 (0.81%) Legal
11 5 (0.68%) Billing
11 5 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Retail
12 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 168 (22.70%) Data Engineer
2 139 (18.78%) Developer
3 135 (18.24%) AWS Engineer
4 106 (14.32%) Senior
5 92 (12.43%) Lead
6 90 (12.16%) Architect
7 60 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (6.08%) AWS Data Engineer
8 45 (6.08%) Java Developer
9 42 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (5.54%) Senior Data Engineer
11 37 (5.00%) AWS Architect
12 36 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
13 32 (4.32%) AWS Developer
14 29 (3.92%) Data Architect
15 28 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 25 (3.38%) Software Engineer
18 24 (3.24%) Python Engineer
19 21 (2.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.22%) PySpark
2 81 (10.95%) Kafka
3 74 (10.00%) REST
4 69 (9.32%) Spring Boot
5 68 (9.19%) Spring
6 66 (8.92%) React
7 64 (8.65%) Node.js
8 59 (7.97%) RESTful
9 56 (7.57%) AWS CDK
10 32 (4.32%) SOAP
11 30 (4.05%) FastAPI
12 28 (3.78%) AngularJS
13 27 (3.65%) OAuth
14 25 (3.38%) Web Services
15 24 (3.24%) PyTorch
16 23 (3.11%) JSON
16 23 (3.11%) Pandas
17 21 (2.84%) ActiveMQ
17 21 (2.84%) JPA
18 20 (2.70%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 180 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 61 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.84%) NHS
5 18 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.76%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.22%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.08%) Legacy Code
10 7 (0.95%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.95%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.95%) IVR
10 7 (0.95%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 89 (12.03%) Linux
2 21 (2.84%) Unix
2 21 (2.84%) Windows
3 17 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.54%) AIX
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.27%) zOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (61.49%) CI/CD
2 305 (41.22%) DevOps
3 293 (39.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 266 (35.95%) Agile
5 186 (25.14%) Data Pipeline
6 183 (24.73%) Analytics
6 183 (24.73%) Data Engineering
7 154 (20.81%) Data Modelling
8 153 (20.68%) ETL
9 147 (19.86%) AI
10 143 (19.32%) Containerisation
11 121 (16.35%) Microservices
12 117 (15.81%) Observability
13 109 (14.73%) Migration
14 105 (14.19%) Machine Learning
15 99 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (13.38%) Test Automation
16 94 (12.70%) Scrum
17 90 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
18 88 (11.89%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 418 (56.49%) Python
2 272 (36.76%) SQL
3 135 (18.24%) Java
4 79 (10.68%) TypeScript
5 70 (9.46%) Bash
6 62 (8.38%) JavaScript
7 40 (5.41%) C#
8 31 (4.19%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.24%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.11%) Scala
11 13 (1.76%) Groovy
12 7 (0.95%) Bicep
13 6 (0.81%) SAS Macro
13 6 (0.81%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.68%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.68%) Perl
14 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.54%) Cypher
15 4 (0.54%) Go
16 3 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 246 (33.24%) Security Cleared
2 216 (29.19%) SC Cleared
3 69 (9.32%) AWS Certification
4 40 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (2.70%) Degree
7 18 (2.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 18 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.49%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.41%) CSPO
14 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.27%) CISSP
15 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (16.22%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.51%) QA
3 24 (3.24%) GDPR
4 14 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.89%) SLA
5 7 (0.95%) PMO
6 5 (0.68%) HL7
7 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.54%) NIST
8 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
9 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.27%) GRC
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.27%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 214 (28.92%) Docker
2 15 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.49%) Postfix
4 7 (0.95%) Squid
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 322 (43.51%) Terraform
2 129 (17.43%) Kubernetes
3 105 (14.19%) Grafana
4 58 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 42 (5.68%) Ansible
6 18 (2.43%) Argo
7 11 (1.49%) Puppet
7 11 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.35%) Kibana
9 7 (0.95%) Packer
10 6 (0.81%) Istio
11 5 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.68%) Salt
12 4 (0.54%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.54%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.41%) Consul
14 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (9.19%) Databricks
2 37 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.19%) Informatica
4 29 (3.92%) Oracle
5 25 (3.38%) Google
5 25 (3.38%) Splunk
6 24 (3.24%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.43%) Atlassian
8 17 (2.30%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.30%) Jaspersoft
9 12 (1.62%) Teradata
10 11 (1.49%) Denodo
11 10 (1.35%) IBM
11 10 (1.35%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.22%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.08%) Foundry
13 8 (1.08%) Palantir
13 8 (1.08%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.81%) Confluent
14 6 (0.81%) VMware