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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 179 234
Rank change year-on-year +4 +55 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 612 470 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 1.53% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.09% 4.10% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 346 379
10th Percentile £363 £402 £400
25th Percentile £418 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £788 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 14,947 11,475 14,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.98% 37.39% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,267 7,639 10,716
10th Percentile £307 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 372 171 327
10th Percentile £14.55 £16.75 £14.08
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.61 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% +22.22% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £50.13
90th Percentile £78.75 £73.75 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £24.18 £20.77
% change year-on-year +53.02% +16.42% +3.85%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +2 487 £525 -4.55% 157
London +13 325 £530 -6.19% 70
UK excluding London -22 205 £500 - 110
Work from Home -24 164 £550 +6.49% 83
North of England -29 64 £500 - 37
Midlands -32 46 £475 +5.56% 14
Scotland -25 40 £466 -6.75% 5
West Midlands -24 39 £510 -7.27% 11
Yorkshire -31 31 £500 -4.76% 16
North West -20 25 £450 -5.26% 19
South East -9 24 £528 -17.25% 29
South West -8 14 £619 +2.99% 17
Northern Ireland +5 9 £400 - 1
East of England -12 9 £475 -5.00% 5
North East -9 8 £450 -26.23% 2
East Midlands -31 7 £417 -6.02% 3
Wales -4 2 £363 -9.38% 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 52 (8.50%) Apache Airflow
1 52 (8.50%) Apache Spark
2 43 (7.03%) Apache
3 26 (4.25%) Confluence
4 12 (1.96%) nginx
5 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.49%) SAS
5 3 (0.49%) Traefik
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.98%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Actimize
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.16%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 607 (99.18%) AWS
2 374 (61.11%) Serverless
3 367 (59.97%) AWS Lambda
4 239 (39.05%) Amazon EC2
5 177 (28.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 174 (28.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 149 (24.35%) Amazon ECS
8 137 (22.39%) GitHub
9 130 (21.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 125 (20.42%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (16.99%) GitHub Actions
12 102 (16.67%) Azure
13 70 (11.44%) AWS Step Functions
14 53 (8.66%) Amazon SQS
14 53 (8.66%) Route 53
15 52 (8.50%) Amazon Kinesis
16 49 (8.01%) GCP
16 49 (8.01%) Snowflake
17 42 (6.86%) Amazon EMR
18 37 (6.05%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 47 (7.68%) DNS
2 42 (6.86%) Firewall
3 30 (4.90%) VPN
4 24 (3.92%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.59%) Network Security
6 14 (2.29%) SSL
7 12 (1.96%) HTTP
8 8 (1.31%) FTP
8 8 (1.31%) SMTP
8 8 (1.31%) SSH
9 6 (0.98%) IMAP
9 6 (0.98%) OpenLDAP
9 6 (0.98%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.65%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.49%) BGP
11 3 (0.49%) NAS
12 2 (0.33%) Calico
12 2 (0.33%) Multicast
12 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (29.08%) Amazon RDS
2 108 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (15.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 88 (14.38%) Amazon Athena
5 83 (13.56%) DynamoDB
6 49 (8.01%) Data Lake
7 48 (7.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 47 (7.68%) Relational Database
9 45 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (4.90%) MySQL
10 30 (4.90%) Power BI
11 28 (4.58%) MongoDB
12 26 (4.25%) Amazon QuickSight
13 23 (3.76%) BigQuery
13 23 (3.76%) OLTP
14 22 (3.59%) NoSQL
14 22 (3.59%) SQL Server
15 20 (3.27%) OLAP
16 17 (2.78%) Star Schema
17 16 (2.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 141 (23.04%) Jenkins
2 128 (20.92%) GitLab
3 108 (17.65%) Git
4 33 (5.39%) JIRA
5 14 (2.29%) MLflow
6 13 (2.12%) Bitbucket
6 13 (2.12%) JUnit
7 12 (1.96%) Maven
8 9 (1.47%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.47%) Postman
8 9 (1.47%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.31%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.31%) Vagrant
10 6 (0.98%) Gradle
11 4 (0.65%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.65%) Mockito
11 4 (0.65%) NUnit
11 4 (0.65%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.49%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.49%) Vite
General
1 153 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 93 (15.20%) Public Sector
3 89 (14.54%) Finance
4 63 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.74%) Banking
6 20 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.96%) Front Office
7 12 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.31%) Military
9 7 (1.14%) Legal
10 4 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.49%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.49%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.33%) Publishing
12 2 (0.33%) Retail
13 1 (0.16%) Games
13 1 (0.16%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.16%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (19.93%) AWS Engineer
2 121 (19.77%) Data Engineer
3 98 (16.01%) Developer
4 89 (14.54%) Senior
5 77 (12.58%) Architect
6 71 (11.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 53 (8.66%) Lead
8 40 (6.54%) AWS Architect
9 38 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
10 34 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
11 33 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (5.23%) Java Developer
13 30 (4.90%) Python Engineer
14 29 (4.74%) AWS DevOps
15 28 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 28 (4.58%) Software Engineer
16 27 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 26 (4.25%) Data Architect
18 25 (4.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
18 25 (4.08%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (16.99%) Kafka
2 62 (10.13%) Spring
2 62 (10.13%) Spring Boot
3 53 (8.66%) Node.js
4 52 (8.50%) REST
5 50 (8.17%) React
6 48 (7.84%) RESTful
7 44 (7.19%) AWS CDK
8 38 (6.21%) PySpark
9 37 (6.05%) OAuth
10 28 (4.58%) AngularJS
11 25 (4.08%) FastAPI
12 24 (3.92%) JWT
13 23 (3.76%) CSS
14 22 (3.59%) PyTorch
15 21 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
15 21 (3.43%) JSON
16 20 (3.27%) boto
17 19 (3.10%) Pandas
18 17 (2.78%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 150 (24.51%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.45%) Replication
6 14 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.12%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.12%) NHS
8 9 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.31%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.82%) Derivative
12 5 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.82%) SCADA
13 4 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 81 (13.24%) Linux
2 18 (2.94%) Windows
3 11 (1.80%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (1.80%) VMS
4 10 (1.63%) Unix
5 7 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.33%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (59.64%) CI/CD
2 270 (44.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 242 (39.54%) DevOps
4 157 (25.65%) Containerisation
5 147 (24.02%) Agile
6 134 (21.90%) ETL
7 126 (20.59%) Analytics
7 126 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
8 121 (19.77%) Data Engineering
9 118 (19.28%) Data Modelling
10 101 (16.50%) Microservices
11 98 (16.01%) Observability
12 94 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
13 86 (14.05%) AI
14 71 (11.60%) Software Engineering
15 70 (11.44%) Event-Driven
16 69 (11.27%) Migration
17 67 (10.95%) Machine Learning
17 67 (10.95%) Performance Tuning
18 63 (10.29%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 374 (61.11%) Python
2 210 (34.31%) SQL
3 109 (17.81%) Java
4 77 (12.58%) Bash
5 53 (8.66%) TypeScript
6 45 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 34 (5.56%) C#
8 32 (5.23%) PowerShell
9 25 (4.08%) Go
10 23 (3.76%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.63%) Groovy
12 9 (1.47%) Scala
13 6 (0.98%) JSX
14 5 (0.82%) Korn
14 5 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.65%) Perl
16 3 (0.49%) C++
17 2 (0.33%) Bicep
17 2 (0.33%) C
18 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 191 (31.21%) Security Cleared
2 157 (25.65%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.29%) AWS Certification
4 25 (4.08%) Degree
5 23 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.43%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.49%) OCP
11 3 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.49%) PhD
12 2 (0.33%) CISSP
13 1 (0.16%) CEH
13 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.93%) Data Quality
2 44 (7.19%) GDPR
3 34 (5.56%) QA
4 18 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.45%) NIST
6 14 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.82%) SLA
9 4 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.65%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.65%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.65%) NCSC
10 2 (0.33%) GxP
10 2 (0.33%) MiFID
11 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 217 (35.46%) Docker
2 12 (1.96%) Squid
3 9 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.31%) DFS Replication
4 8 (1.31%) Postfix
5 6 (0.98%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) HDFS
7 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.16%) etcd
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 313 (51.14%) Terraform
2 172 (28.10%) Kubernetes
3 94 (15.36%) Grafana
4 81 (13.24%) Ansible
5 75 (12.25%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.10%) Progress Chef
7 18 (2.94%) Puppet
8 12 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.80%) Argo
10 7 (1.14%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.14%) Kibana
10 7 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.98%) Karpenter
11 6 (0.98%) Nessus
11 6 (0.98%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.82%) Consul
12 5 (0.82%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (0.82%) Istio
13 3 (0.49%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 59 (9.64%) Databricks
2 35 (5.72%) Microsoft
3 23 (3.76%) Google
4 22 (3.59%) Splunk
5 17 (2.78%) F5
6 16 (2.61%) Palo Alto
6 16 (2.61%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.45%) CheckPoint
8 13 (2.12%) Oracle
9 10 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.47%) Confluent
10 9 (1.47%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.31%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.31%) Dell
11 8 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.31%) PagerDuty
12 6 (0.98%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.98%) SAP
13 5 (0.82%) Sybase