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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 172 241
Rank change year-on-year -19 +69 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 650 470 443
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.58% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.03% 4.17% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 360 351
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £603
90th Percentile £664 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.20% +0.64%
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 16,143 11,274 14,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.33% 37.93% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,015 7,803 10,302
10th Percentile £313 £313 £286
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 199 356
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%
75th Percentile £61.63 £43.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.44 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.15 £23.50 £17.80
% change year-on-year +83.61% +32.02% -19.09%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -5 534 £525 -4.55% 165
London +6 346 £525 -4.55% 78
UK excluding London -14 220 £475 -5.00% 110
Work from Home -7 187 £525 - 92
North of England -20 68 £500 +1.01% 31
Midlands -24 55 £488 +7.26% 9
West Midlands -31 47 £500 -9.09% 7
Scotland -24 35 £429 -14.25% 11
Yorkshire -32 31 £500 -2.44% 13
South East -36 30 £530 -14.34% 32
North West -15 28 £450 +5.88% 15
South West -19 18 £538 -10.54% 22
North East -7 9 £525 -15.90% 3
Northern Ireland +4 8 £400 -
East Midlands -30 8 £433 -3.24% 2
East of England -22 6 £475 -1.30% 4
Wales -10 2 £363 -9.38% 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 65 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 45 (6.92%) Apache
2 45 (6.92%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (4.31%) Confluence
4 11 (1.69%) SAS
5 9 (1.38%) nginx
6 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 645 (99.23%) AWS
2 403 (62.00%) Serverless
3 392 (60.31%) AWS Lambda
4 268 (41.23%) Amazon EC2
5 177 (27.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 176 (27.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 159 (24.46%) Amazon ECS
8 139 (21.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 136 (20.92%) Amazon EKS
10 135 (20.77%) GitHub
11 106 (16.31%) Azure
12 98 (15.08%) GitHub Actions
13 83 (12.77%) AWS Step Functions
14 69 (10.62%) Amazon SQS
15 58 (8.92%) Route 53
15 58 (8.92%) Snowflake
16 57 (8.77%) GCP
17 46 (7.08%) Amazon EMR
18 43 (6.62%) Power Platform
19 42 (6.46%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.08%) DNS
2 24 (3.69%) Firewall
3 19 (2.92%) VPN
4 14 (2.15%) Network Security
4 14 (2.15%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.54%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.62%) DHCP
6 4 (0.62%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.46%) BGP
7 3 (0.46%) SSL
8 2 (0.31%) HTTP
8 2 (0.31%) Multicast
8 2 (0.31%) NAS
8 2 (0.31%) OSPF
8 2 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.31%) SAN
8 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.31%) WAN
9 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (28.92%) Amazon RDS
2 114 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
3 102 (15.69%) Amazon Athena
4 96 (14.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 94 (14.46%) DynamoDB
6 56 (8.62%) Data Lake
6 56 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (8.62%) Relational Database
7 43 (6.62%) Amazon Aurora
7 43 (6.62%) Power BI
8 33 (5.08%) NoSQL
9 32 (4.92%) MongoDB
10 29 (4.46%) SQL Server
11 28 (4.31%) MySQL
12 27 (4.15%) BigQuery
13 24 (3.69%) Metadata
13 24 (3.69%) Tableau
14 22 (3.38%) Amazon QuickSight
14 22 (3.38%) OLTP
15 20 (3.08%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 143 (22.00%) Jenkins
2 134 (20.62%) GitLab
3 114 (17.54%) Git
4 36 (5.54%) JIRA
5 24 (3.69%) JUnit
6 20 (3.08%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.92%) Bitbucket
7 19 (2.92%) Maven
8 13 (2.00%) MLflow
8 13 (2.00%) Mockito
9 11 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.69%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.69%) Postman
10 7 (1.08%) DbUnit
10 7 (1.08%) jMock
11 6 (0.92%) Gradle
12 5 (0.77%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (0.62%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.62%) Terragrunt
General
1 172 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 109 (16.77%) Finance
3 107 (16.46%) Public Sector
4 66 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.00%) Banking
6 25 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.15%) Front Office
8 13 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.92%) Legal
10 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.62%) Military
10 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.46%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.31%) Billing
12 2 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.31%) Publishing
12 2 (0.31%) Retail
13 1 (0.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (19.85%) Data Engineer
2 120 (18.46%) Developer
3 119 (18.31%) AWS Engineer
4 75 (11.54%) Architect
5 73 (11.23%) Senior
6 67 (10.31%) Lead
7 55 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (7.38%) Java Developer
9 39 (6.00%) AWS Architect
10 37 (5.69%) AWS Data Engineer
11 35 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.92%) Site Engineer
13 31 (4.77%) Analyst
13 31 (4.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 28 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
15 26 (4.00%) Software Engineer
16 24 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
17 23 (3.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 22 (3.38%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (18.31%) Kafka
2 81 (12.46%) Spring
2 81 (12.46%) Spring Boot
3 63 (9.69%) Node.js
4 60 (9.23%) RESTful
5 59 (9.08%) REST
6 53 (8.15%) PySpark
7 52 (8.00%) React
8 39 (6.00%) OAuth
9 36 (5.54%) AWS CDK
10 33 (5.08%) AngularJS
11 23 (3.54%) JWT
12 22 (3.38%) CSS
13 21 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
13 21 (3.23%) JSON
14 19 (2.92%) Jest
15 18 (2.77%) Great Expectations
15 18 (2.77%) OAuth2
15 18 (2.77%) OpenID
16 17 (2.62%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 168 (25.85%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.31%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.15%) NHS
5 14 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 12 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.38%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.92%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.92%) Derivative
11 6 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.92%) Replication
11 6 (0.92%) SCADA
12 5 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.77%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 79 (12.15%) Linux
2 15 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (1.69%) Unix
4 10 (1.54%) Windows
5 7 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.31%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 259 (39.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 256 (39.38%) DevOps
4 169 (26.00%) Agile
5 165 (25.38%) Containerisation
6 156 (24.00%) ETL
7 145 (22.31%) Analytics
8 140 (21.54%) Data Engineering
9 133 (20.46%) Data Modelling
10 129 (19.85%) Data Pipeline
11 118 (18.15%) Microservices
12 116 (17.85%) Observability
13 113 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (14.00%) AI
15 83 (12.77%) Migration
16 76 (11.69%) Data Governance
17 71 (10.92%) Software Engineering
18 70 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
19 66 (10.15%) Event-Driven
19 66 (10.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 358 (55.08%) Python
2 230 (35.38%) SQL
3 126 (19.38%) Java
4 67 (10.31%) Bash
5 52 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.08%) JavaScript
7 40 (6.15%) C#
8 29 (4.46%) PowerShell
9 28 (4.31%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.92%) Go
11 13 (2.00%) Scala
12 6 (0.92%) JSX
13 5 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.77%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.46%) C
14 3 (0.46%) C++
14 3 (0.46%) Korn
15 2 (0.31%) Groovy
15 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 203 (31.23%) Security Cleared
2 160 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 63 (9.69%) AWS Certification
4 26 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.08%) Degree
7 15 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.46%) OCP
11 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.46%) PhD
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.31%) CISSP
12 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (12.46%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.46%) GDPR
3 34 (5.23%) QA
4 16 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.46%) NIST
5 14 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.69%) SLA
7 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.77%) PMO
9 4 (0.62%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.46%) NCSC
11 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.31%) GxP
11 2 (0.31%) MiFID
11 2 (0.31%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 216 (33.23%) Docker
2 10 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.23%) Squid
4 6 (0.92%) Postfix
5 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.31%) HDFS
7 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 310 (47.69%) Terraform
2 166 (25.54%) Kubernetes
3 94 (14.46%) Grafana
4 78 (12.00%) Prometheus
5 71 (10.92%) Ansible
6 16 (2.46%) Progress Chef
6 16 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.31%) Puppet
8 9 (1.38%) Argo
8 9 (1.38%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.08%) Consul
9 7 (1.08%) Kibana
9 7 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (0.92%) Karpenter
11 5 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.46%) Istio
12 3 (0.46%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 75 (11.54%) Databricks
2 39 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.31%) Google
3 28 (4.31%) Splunk
4 18 (2.77%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.46%) Atlassian
6 14 (2.15%) Oracle
7 13 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.69%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.38%) Confluent
9 9 (1.38%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.23%) Dell
10 8 (1.23%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.08%) IBM
11 7 (1.08%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.08%) Sybase
12 6 (0.92%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.92%) SAP
13 5 (0.77%) F5
13 5 (0.77%) Informatica