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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 170 202
Rank change year-on-year -46 +32 +70
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 701 580 448
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.76% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.68% 4.61% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 415 299
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £640 £625 £600
90th Percentile £738 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -2.63% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £41.00 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £57.44 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £62.45 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.03% - -
75th Percentile £70.12 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.83 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.40 - -

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 19,035 12,577 12,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.67% 38.09% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,626 8,394 8,567
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £409 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 292 184
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.22 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.93
% change year-on-year +55.68% -43.21% +46.00%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -54 575 £528 +0.57% 563
London -17 385 £593 +3.09% 350
Work from Home -30 256 £536 +7.20% 239
UK excluding London -92 226 £463 -2.63% 266
North of England -52 72 £463 -7.50% 66
Midlands -45 58 £466 -1.95% 23
West Midlands -52 47 £475 - 8
Scotland -34 40 £433 -13.50% 29
South West -22 33 £466 -15.23% 50
North West -32 30 £450 -10.00% 40
North East -21 22 £419 -1.47% 7
Yorkshire -44 20 £500 - 19
South East -76 17 £588 +41.57% 51
East Midlands -13 10 £405 -17.97% 15
East of England -43 6 £350 -41.67% 28
Wales - 3 £600 - 9
Northern Ireland +4 2 £600 +50.00% 11

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 87 (12.41%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (10.98%) Apache
3 76 (10.84%) Confluence
4 73 (10.41%) Apache Spark
5 15 (2.14%) SAS
6 12 (1.71%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (1.00%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.86%) nginx
9 6 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.86%) Traefik
9 6 (0.86%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.86%) WebLogic Portal
10 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
11 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.29%) CMS
13 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.14%) Mule
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 677 (96.58%) AWS
2 422 (60.20%) Serverless
3 419 (59.77%) AWS Lambda
4 233 (33.24%) Amazon EC2
5 225 (32.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 166 (23.68%) GitHub
7 157 (22.40%) Amazon ECS
8 155 (22.11%) Amazon EKS
9 132 (18.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 130 (18.54%) GitHub Actions
11 129 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 117 (16.69%) Azure
13 94 (13.41%) Amazon SQS
14 92 (13.12%) Amazon EMR
15 77 (10.98%) dbt
16 72 (10.27%) Snowflake
17 67 (9.56%) AWS Step Functions
18 63 (8.99%) Power Platform
19 55 (7.85%) AWS KMS
20 53 (7.56%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.57%) Firewall
2 14 (2.00%) DNS
3 12 (1.71%) Network Security
4 6 (0.86%) HTTP
4 6 (0.86%) SSL
5 5 (0.71%) CTI
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.57%) SAN
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Internet
7 3 (0.43%) SMS
7 3 (0.43%) VPN
8 2 (0.29%) FTP
8 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.29%) IMAP
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) SMTP
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (27.25%) Amazon RDS
2 135 (19.26%) Amazon Athena
3 122 (17.40%) DynamoDB
4 116 (16.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 97 (13.84%) PostgreSQL
6 94 (13.41%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (9.13%) Data Lake
8 63 (8.99%) Power BI
9 51 (7.28%) MongoDB
10 47 (6.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 45 (6.42%) Metadata
12 33 (4.71%) Big Data
13 30 (4.28%) Apache Iceberg
14 27 (3.85%) NoSQL
14 27 (3.85%) SQL Server
15 25 (3.57%) MySQL
15 25 (3.57%) Tableau
16 24 (3.42%) Delta Lake
17 23 (3.28%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 159 (22.68%) GitLab
2 146 (20.83%) Git
3 131 (18.69%) Jenkins
4 75 (10.70%) JIRA
5 26 (3.71%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.43%) Cypress.io
6 17 (2.43%) Maven
6 17 (2.43%) SonarQube
7 14 (2.00%) JUnit
7 14 (2.00%) Mockito
8 12 (1.71%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.00%) Postman
10 6 (0.86%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.86%) Selenium
10 6 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.71%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.57%) Gradle
12 4 (0.57%) jMock
General
1 173 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 153 (21.83%) Public Sector
3 127 (18.12%) Finance
4 58 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.70%) Banking
6 19 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.14%) Front Office
8 13 (1.85%) Back Office
9 12 (1.71%) Legal
10 10 (1.43%) Military
11 8 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.14%) Marketing
12 7 (1.00%) Law
12 7 (1.00%) Publishing
13 6 (0.86%) Billing
14 5 (0.71%) Police
14 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 169 (24.11%) Data Engineer
2 129 (18.40%) Senior
3 121 (17.26%) AWS Engineer
4 114 (16.26%) Developer
5 90 (12.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 78 (11.13%) Architect
7 77 (10.98%) Lead
8 54 (7.70%) Senior Data Engineer
9 46 (6.56%) AWS Data Engineer
10 40 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (4.99%) AWS Architect
12 34 (4.85%) Java Developer
13 32 (4.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 31 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
15 27 (3.85%) Data Architect
16 26 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
17 25 (3.57%) AWS Developer
17 25 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
17 25 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 22 (3.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (48.36%) Terraform
2 95 (13.55%) REST
3 89 (12.70%) Kafka
4 74 (10.56%) PySpark
5 57 (8.13%) Spring Boot
6 55 (7.85%) Spring
7 53 (7.56%) RESTful
8 52 (7.42%) React
9 42 (5.99%) AWS CDK
10 39 (5.56%) Node.js
11 30 (4.28%) FastAPI
12 28 (3.99%) SOAP
13 25 (3.57%) AngularJS
14 23 (3.28%) .NET
14 23 (3.28%) GraphQL
14 23 (3.28%) JSON
15 20 (2.85%) OAuth
16 19 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
17 16 (2.28%) Keycloak
17 16 (2.28%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 192 (27.39%) Cloud Native
2 65 (9.27%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.71%) NHS
6 17 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.00%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.00%) Replication
9 13 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.85%) IVR
10 10 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.28%) Legacy Code
11 9 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.14%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.14%) Mainframe
13 7 (1.00%) Clustering
13 7 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 98 (13.98%) Linux
2 24 (3.42%) Windows
3 23 (3.28%) Unix
4 17 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.00%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.57%) AIX
9 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.29%) Android
10 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (66.19%) CI/CD
2 319 (45.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 317 (45.22%) DevOps
4 274 (39.09%) Agile
5 189 (26.96%) Data Engineering
6 186 (26.53%) Data Pipeline
7 150 (21.40%) Analytics
8 138 (19.69%) AI
9 137 (19.54%) Data Modelling
9 137 (19.54%) Observability
10 132 (18.83%) Containerisation
11 131 (18.69%) ETL
12 118 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (16.41%) Microservices
14 114 (16.26%) Test Automation
15 108 (15.41%) Migration
16 107 (15.26%) Event-Driven
17 101 (14.41%) Technical Leadership
18 94 (13.41%) Machine Learning
19 91 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 396 (56.49%) Python
2 267 (38.09%) SQL
3 111 (15.83%) Java
4 73 (10.41%) Bash
5 72 (10.27%) TypeScript
6 53 (7.56%) JavaScript
7 30 (4.28%) PowerShell
8 23 (3.28%) Scala
9 22 (3.14%) C#
9 22 (3.14%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.43%) Groovy
11 15 (2.14%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.43%) Go
13 9 (1.28%) Bicep
14 7 (1.00%) Perl
15 5 (0.71%) R
16 4 (0.57%) Cypher
16 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 242 (34.52%) Security Cleared
2 218 (31.10%) SC Cleared
3 96 (13.69%) AWS Certification
4 47 (6.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (4.42%) Degree
7 24 (3.42%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 14 (2.00%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.28%) CISM
11 9 (1.28%) CISSP
12 8 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (1.00%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.43%) CSPO
15 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (18.12%) Data Quality
2 50 (7.13%) QA
3 17 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.43%) GDPR
4 11 (1.57%) NIST
5 6 (0.86%) HL7
6 5 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) SLA
8 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) GLBA
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 226 (32.24%) Docker
2 18 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.71%) Postfix
3 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) Squid
5 3 (0.43%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.29%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 154 (21.97%) Kubernetes
2 108 (15.41%) Grafana
3 65 (9.27%) Prometheus
4 52 (7.42%) Ansible
5 18 (2.57%) Argo
6 16 (2.28%) Kibana
7 15 (2.14%) Puppet
8 13 (1.85%) Karpenter
9 12 (1.71%) Istio
10 8 (1.14%) Packer
11 6 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.71%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (0.57%) Salt
14 3 (0.43%) Control-M
14 3 (0.43%) systemd
15 2 (0.29%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (8.56%) Databricks
2 56 (7.99%) Oracle
3 49 (6.99%) Microsoft
4 30 (4.28%) Informatica
5 23 (3.28%) Splunk
6 22 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.85%) Google
8 18 (2.57%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.85%) Confluent
9 13 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.71%) Teradata
11 11 (1.57%) Denodo
12 10 (1.43%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.28%) webMethods
14 8 (1.14%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.14%) Brio
14 8 (1.14%) Foundry
14 8 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (1.14%) Palantir
15 7 (1.00%) Red Hat