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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 162 221
Rank change year-on-year -45 +59 +42
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 710 572 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.33% 1.74% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.78% 4.67% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 423 290
10th Percentile £388 £400 £409
25th Percentile £450 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £690 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.20%
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 18,763 12,249 13,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.16% 37.16% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,394 8,203 9,135
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £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 616 315 265
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.19 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +12.72% -29.03%
75th Percentile £69.00 £47.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.31 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -40 588 £525 - 348
London -5 392 £563 -2.17% 239
Work from Home -23 262 £525 +3.70% 143
UK excluding London -75 234 £475 - 137
Midlands -26 74 £469 -1.26% 26
West Midlands -22 66 £475 - 12
North of England -65 61 £488 -2.50% 38
Scotland -19 40 £463 -6.94% 10
South West -28 28 £466 -14.06% 22
South East -68 25 £575 +35.29% 25
North West -51 24 £525 +10.53% 19
North East -26 19 £425 -5.56% 7
Yorkshire -48 18 £525 - 12
East Midlands -6 7 £438 -12.15% 14
East of England -33 7 £400 -27.27% 10
Wales - 3 £600 - 4
Northern Ireland +6 1 - - 4

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 80 (11.27%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (10.99%) Confluence
3 60 (8.45%) Apache Spark
4 51 (7.18%) Apache
5 23 (3.24%) SAS
6 9 (1.27%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.13%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.70%) nginx
9 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
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 10 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) 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
1 694 (97.75%) AWS
2 447 (62.96%) Serverless
3 440 (61.97%) AWS Lambda
4 247 (34.79%) Amazon EC2
5 232 (32.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (22.11%) GitHub
7 156 (21.97%) Amazon ECS
8 143 (20.14%) Amazon EKS
9 136 (19.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 128 (18.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 118 (16.62%) GitHub Actions
12 103 (14.51%) Amazon SQS
13 102 (14.37%) Azure
14 88 (12.39%) Amazon EMR
15 82 (11.55%) Snowflake
16 73 (10.28%) AWS Step Functions
16 73 (10.28%) dbt
17 62 (8.73%) Power Platform
18 59 (8.31%) AWS KMS
19 49 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.54%) Firewall
2 17 (2.39%) DNS
3 10 (1.41%) Network Security
4 6 (0.85%) SSL
4 6 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.70%) CTI
5 5 (0.70%) HTTP
5 5 (0.70%) VPN
6 4 (0.56%) Internet
6 4 (0.56%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.56%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.56%) WAN
7 3 (0.42%) DHCP
7 3 (0.42%) SAN
7 3 (0.42%) SMS
8 2 (0.28%) NAS
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) AMQP
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (26.20%) Amazon RDS
2 141 (19.86%) Amazon Athena
3 123 (17.32%) DynamoDB
4 114 (16.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 92 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
6 86 (12.11%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (8.73%) Power BI
8 60 (8.45%) Data Lake
9 47 (6.62%) Amazon Aurora
10 43 (6.06%) Metadata
11 38 (5.35%) MongoDB
12 31 (4.37%) Big Data
13 30 (4.23%) NoSQL
13 30 (4.23%) Relational Database
13 30 (4.23%) Tableau
14 22 (3.10%) SQL Server
15 21 (2.96%) Apache Iceberg
16 20 (2.82%) BigQuery
17 19 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (2.54%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 150 (21.13%) Jenkins
2 145 (20.42%) Git
3 142 (20.00%) GitLab
4 82 (11.55%) JIRA
5 30 (4.23%) Bitbucket
6 27 (3.80%) SonarQube
7 24 (3.38%) JUnit
8 22 (3.10%) Mockito
9 20 (2.82%) Cypress.io
10 18 (2.54%) Maven
11 12 (1.69%) DbUnit
12 11 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (1.55%) jMock
13 10 (1.41%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.99%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.99%) Postman
14 7 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.56%) MLflow
15 4 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 178 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 166 (23.38%) Public Sector
3 124 (17.46%) Finance
4 63 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.62%) Banking
6 13 (1.83%) Front Office
7 12 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.13%) Back Office
11 7 (0.99%) Law
11 7 (0.99%) Marketing
11 7 (0.99%) Military
12 6 (0.85%) Billing
12 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Legal
13 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Retail
13 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 160 (22.54%) Data Engineer
2 132 (18.59%) Developer
3 130 (18.31%) AWS Engineer
4 110 (15.49%) Senior
5 84 (11.83%) Architect
5 84 (11.83%) Lead
6 69 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (6.20%) AWS Data Engineer
8 42 (5.92%) Senior Data Engineer
9 41 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
9 41 (5.77%) Java Developer
10 39 (5.49%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (4.93%) AWS Architect
11 35 (4.93%) AWS Developer
12 29 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 29 (4.08%) Data Architect
13 26 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (3.38%) Software Engineer
15 20 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 20 (2.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (10.99%) PySpark
1 78 (10.99%) REST
2 76 (10.70%) Kafka
3 62 (8.73%) React
3 62 (8.73%) Spring Boot
4 61 (8.59%) Node.js
4 61 (8.59%) Spring
5 59 (8.31%) RESTful
6 52 (7.32%) AWS CDK
7 29 (4.08%) AngularJS
8 28 (3.94%) SOAP
9 27 (3.80%) FastAPI
10 24 (3.38%) OAuth
11 23 (3.24%) JSON
12 21 (2.96%) Web Services
13 20 (2.82%) .NET
14 19 (2.68%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (2.68%) Pandas
15 18 (2.54%) GraphQL
15 18 (2.54%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 177 (24.93%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 44 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.82%) NHS
5 18 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 11 (1.55%) IVR
9 10 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.13%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.99%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.99%) Legacy Code
12 7 (0.99%) Replication
12 7 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.96%) Linux
2 21 (2.96%) Unix
3 19 (2.68%) Windows
4 17 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.13%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.56%) AIX
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.42%) 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
1 443 (62.39%) CI/CD
2 303 (42.68%) DevOps
3 282 (39.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 271 (38.17%) Agile
5 179 (25.21%) Data Pipeline
6 167 (23.52%) Data Engineering
7 161 (22.68%) Analytics
8 141 (19.86%) Data Modelling
9 139 (19.58%) ETL
10 136 (19.15%) AI
10 136 (19.15%) Containerisation
11 121 (17.04%) Microservices
12 110 (15.49%) Observability
13 109 (15.35%) Migration
14 100 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 97 (13.66%) Test Automation
16 91 (12.82%) Event-Driven
16 91 (12.82%) Scrum
17 89 (12.54%) Machine Learning
18 85 (11.97%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 392 (55.21%) Python
2 250 (35.21%) SQL
3 129 (18.17%) Java
4 79 (11.13%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.72%) Bash
6 61 (8.59%) JavaScript
7 34 (4.79%) C#
8 31 (4.37%) PowerShell
9 25 (3.52%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.24%) Scala
11 15 (2.11%) Groovy
12 8 (1.13%) Bicep
13 6 (0.85%) Perl
13 6 (0.85%) SAS Macro
13 6 (0.85%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.70%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.56%) Cypher
15 4 (0.56%) R
16 3 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 249 (35.07%) Security Cleared
2 219 (30.85%) SC Cleared
3 70 (9.86%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.68%) Degree
6 19 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.55%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.85%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.42%) CSPO
13 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.42%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (15.07%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.66%) QA
3 21 (2.96%) GDPR
4 13 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.55%) SLA
6 7 (0.99%) PMO
7 6 (0.85%) HL7
8 4 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.56%) NCSC
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.42%) WCAG
10 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 219 (30.85%) Docker
2 17 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.27%) Postfix
4 5 (0.70%) Squid
5 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 314 (44.23%) Terraform
2 129 (18.17%) Kubernetes
3 108 (15.21%) Grafana
4 55 (7.75%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.77%) Ansible
6 18 (2.54%) Argo
7 16 (2.25%) Kibana
8 11 (1.55%) Puppet
9 9 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.13%) Karpenter
10 8 (1.13%) Packer
11 7 (0.99%) Istio
12 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.70%) Salt
13 3 (0.42%) Consul
13 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.28%) systemd
14 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (8.17%) Databricks
2 40 (5.63%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.23%) Informatica
3 30 (4.23%) Oracle
4 27 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 26 (3.66%) Splunk
6 18 (2.54%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.54%) Google
7 15 (2.11%) Atlassian
7 15 (2.11%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (1.55%) Denodo
8 11 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.41%) Teradata
10 8 (1.13%) Confluent
10 8 (1.13%) Foundry
10 8 (1.13%) IBM
10 8 (1.13%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.13%) Palantir
11 7 (0.99%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.85%) VMware