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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 162 231
Rank change year-on-year -25 +69 +16
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 662 488 446
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.67% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 4.37% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 377 355
10th Percentile £358 £400 £402
25th Percentile £425 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £614 £600
90th Percentile £675 £745 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.00% -1.96% +2.00%
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 16,471 11,165 14,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.97% 38.13% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,216 7,836 10,201
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 464 221 349
10th Percentile £15.54 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.47 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.92% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £66.56 £41.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.50 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year +86.10% +36.46% -20.04%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -13 550 £525 -4.55% 173
London +6 364 £530 -5.36% 76
UK excluding London -31 210 £490 -2.00% 120
Work from Home +1 199 £525 - 97
North of England -26 63 £500 +2.56% 43
Midlands -31 58 £475 +5.56% 12
West Midlands -20 51 £500 -2.44% 8
Yorkshire -37 30 £500 -2.44% 17
Scotland -31 28 £440 -12.00% 9
South East -34 26 £556 -8.62% 34
North West -30 25 £450 +5.88% 21
South West -12 21 £542 -0.14% 13
North East -7 8 £538 -13.90% 5
Northern Ireland +2 7 £400 -20.00%
East of England -26 7 £475 -5.00% 7
East Midlands -29 7 £423 +4.19% 4
Wales -9 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 63 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 53 (8.01%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (7.25%) Apache
4 33 (4.98%) Confluence
5 14 (2.11%) SAS
6 10 (1.51%) nginx
7 4 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Actimize
1 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 658 (99.40%) AWS
2 411 (62.08%) Serverless
3 400 (60.42%) AWS Lambda
4 276 (41.69%) Amazon EC2
5 186 (28.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 176 (26.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 164 (24.77%) Amazon ECS
8 145 (21.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 143 (21.60%) GitHub
10 139 (21.00%) Amazon EKS
11 106 (16.01%) Azure
12 103 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
13 85 (12.84%) AWS Step Functions
14 72 (10.88%) Amazon SQS
15 62 (9.37%) Route 53
16 58 (8.76%) Snowflake
17 56 (8.46%) GCP
18 51 (7.70%) Amazon EMR
19 47 (7.10%) Power Platform
20 41 (6.19%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.74%) DNS
2 27 (4.08%) Firewall
3 21 (3.17%) VPN
4 17 (2.57%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.27%) Network Security
6 11 (1.66%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.76%) DHCP
8 4 (0.60%) BGP
8 4 (0.60%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.60%) SSL
9 3 (0.45%) OSPF
10 2 (0.30%) HTTP
10 2 (0.30%) Multicast
10 2 (0.30%) NAS
10 2 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.30%) SAN
10 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.30%) VLAN
10 2 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (28.40%) Amazon RDS
2 108 (16.31%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (15.86%) Amazon Athena
4 95 (14.35%) DynamoDB
5 90 (13.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 58 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (8.61%) Data Lake
8 54 (8.16%) Relational Database
9 47 (7.10%) Power BI
10 41 (6.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 32 (4.83%) NoSQL
12 31 (4.68%) MongoDB
13 29 (4.38%) Metadata
13 29 (4.38%) SQL Server
14 27 (4.08%) BigQuery
15 26 (3.93%) MySQL
15 26 (3.93%) Tableau
16 23 (3.47%) OLTP
17 21 (3.17%) OLAP
18 20 (3.02%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 145 (21.90%) Jenkins
2 141 (21.30%) GitLab
3 118 (17.82%) Git
4 44 (6.65%) JIRA
5 25 (3.78%) JUnit
6 22 (3.32%) Bitbucket
7 21 (3.17%) SonarQube
8 20 (3.02%) Maven
9 14 (2.11%) Mockito
10 13 (1.96%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.66%) Postman
12 10 (1.51%) MLflow
13 8 (1.21%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.21%) DbUnit
13 8 (1.21%) jMock
14 6 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (0.91%) Gradle
15 5 (0.76%) Artifactory
16 4 (0.60%) NUnit
16 4 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 164 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 114 (17.22%) Finance
3 109 (16.47%) Public Sector
4 64 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.74%) Banking
6 27 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.81%) Front Office
9 6 (0.91%) Legal
10 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.45%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.45%) Military
12 2 (0.30%) Billing
12 2 (0.30%) Games
12 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.30%) Retail
12 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 141 (21.30%) Data Engineer
2 125 (18.88%) Developer
3 115 (17.37%) AWS Engineer
4 83 (12.54%) Senior
5 73 (11.03%) Architect
6 67 (10.12%) Lead
7 55 (8.31%) DevOps Engineer
8 46 (6.95%) Java Developer
9 38 (5.74%) AWS Architect
9 38 (5.74%) AWS Data Engineer
10 34 (5.14%) Site Engineer
11 33 (4.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 32 (4.83%) Analyst
12 32 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (4.08%) Lead Data Engineer
15 25 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
16 23 (3.47%) AWS Developer
16 23 (3.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 23 (3.47%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (18.13%) Kafka
2 79 (11.93%) Spring Boot
3 78 (11.78%) Spring
4 62 (9.37%) Node.js
4 62 (9.37%) RESTful
5 61 (9.21%) PySpark
6 56 (8.46%) REST
7 51 (7.70%) React
8 43 (6.50%) AWS CDK
9 41 (6.19%) OAuth
10 34 (5.14%) AngularJS
11 23 (3.47%) JWT
12 21 (3.17%) JSON
12 21 (3.17%) OpenID
13 20 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (2.87%) CSS
14 19 (2.87%) FastAPI
14 19 (2.87%) Great Expectations
15 18 (2.72%) OAuth2
16 17 (2.57%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 171 (25.83%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.11%) NHS
6 12 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.36%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.91%) Replication
11 6 (0.91%) SCADA
12 5 (0.76%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.76%) Clustering
12 5 (0.76%) Derivative
12 5 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (12.54%) Linux
2 15 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (1.81%) Unix
4 11 (1.66%) Windows
5 7 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.30%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (59.52%) CI/CD
2 269 (40.63%) DevOps
3 262 (39.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 174 (26.28%) Agile
5 162 (24.47%) ETL
6 160 (24.17%) Containerisation
7 154 (23.26%) Analytics
8 150 (22.66%) Data Engineering
9 138 (20.85%) Data Modelling
10 137 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
11 116 (17.52%) Observability
12 114 (17.22%) Microservices
13 109 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
14 94 (14.20%) AI
15 82 (12.39%) Migration
16 79 (11.93%) Data Governance
17 74 (11.18%) Performance Tuning
18 70 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
19 69 (10.42%) Test Automation
20 65 (9.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 363 (54.83%) Python
2 236 (35.65%) SQL
3 127 (19.18%) Java
4 69 (10.42%) Bash
5 60 (9.06%) TypeScript
6 47 (7.10%) JavaScript
7 43 (6.50%) C#
8 31 (4.68%) PowerShell
8 31 (4.68%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.87%) Go
10 15 (2.27%) Scala
11 6 (0.91%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.76%) JSX
12 5 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.45%) C
13 3 (0.45%) C++
13 3 (0.45%) Groovy
13 3 (0.45%) Korn
14 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 214 (32.33%) Security Cleared
2 170 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.46%) AWS Certification
4 23 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.72%) Degree
7 13 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.45%) OCP
10 3 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.45%) PhD
10 3 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (0.45%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (13.14%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.50%) GDPR
3 36 (5.44%) QA
4 15 (2.27%) NIST
5 14 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.66%) SLA
8 7 (1.06%) PMO
9 6 (0.91%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.60%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.45%) NCSC
12 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.30%) GxP
12 2 (0.30%) MiFID
12 2 (0.30%) WCAG
13 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.15%) IFRS
13 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 221 (33.38%) Docker
2 12 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.51%) Squid
4 7 (1.06%) Postfix
5 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.30%) HDFS
7 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 317 (47.89%) Terraform
2 162 (24.47%) Kubernetes
3 96 (14.50%) Grafana
4 80 (12.08%) Prometheus
5 70 (10.57%) Ansible
6 17 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (2.42%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.11%) Puppet
9 10 (1.51%) FortiGate
10 9 (1.36%) Argo
11 7 (1.06%) Consul
11 7 (1.06%) Kibana
11 7 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.91%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.76%) Dell DRAC
14 4 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.45%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.45%) Istio
15 3 (0.45%) Opsgenie
15 3 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 78 (11.78%) Databricks
2 38 (5.74%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.68%) Google
4 30 (4.53%) Splunk
5 19 (2.87%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.57%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.81%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.81%) Oracle
9 10 (1.51%) Informatica
9 10 (1.51%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (1.36%) Confluent
10 9 (1.36%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.21%) Dell
12 7 (1.06%) IBM
12 7 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.06%) Sybase
13 6 (0.91%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.91%) F5
14 5 (0.76%) SAP