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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 163 230
Rank change year-on-year -26 +67 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 745 543 458
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.71% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.05% 4.52% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 404 338
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £460 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +3.75% -5.86%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £700 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.50% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 18,392 12,008 14,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.33% 37.73% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,208 8,033 10,031
10th Percentile £330 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 614 302 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.06 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £82.33 £70.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.99
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.08% -20.78%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -24 623 £525 - 155
London +5 418 £550 -1.79% 80
Work from Home -11 263 £513 -2.38% 84
UK excluding London -77 242 £475 -5.00% 106
Midlands -25 72 £469 -1.26% 17
West Midlands -27 67 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -58 62 £500 +1.27% 24
Scotland -33 43 £463 -7.50% 8
North West -39 31 £525 +10.53% 13
South East -58 29 £580 +36.47% 22
South West -17 27 £469 -14.77% 27
Yorkshire -52 16 £500 -4.76% 6
North East -25 15 £425 -5.56% 5
East of England -36 8 £400 -27.27% 2
East Midlands -17 4 £425 -6.54% 11
Wales - 4 £575 - 2
Northern Ireland +4 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 85 (11.41%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (11.01%) Confluence
3 65 (8.72%) Apache Spark
4 49 (6.58%) Apache
5 22 (2.95%) SAS
6 11 (1.48%) nginx
7 9 (1.21%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.81%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 735 (98.66%) AWS
2 468 (62.82%) Serverless
3 462 (62.01%) AWS Lambda
4 272 (36.51%) Amazon EC2
5 213 (28.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 159 (21.34%) Amazon ECS
7 153 (20.54%) GitHub
8 149 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
9 143 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 140 (18.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 114 (15.30%) Azure
12 113 (15.17%) GitHub Actions
13 107 (14.36%) Amazon SQS
14 90 (12.08%) Amazon EMR
15 87 (11.68%) Snowflake
16 81 (10.87%) dbt
17 74 (9.93%) AWS Step Functions
18 65 (8.72%) Power Platform
19 54 (7.25%) AWS KMS
20 48 (6.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.36%) DNS
1 25 (3.36%) Firewall
2 15 (2.01%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.74%) VPN
4 11 (1.48%) Network Security
4 11 (1.48%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.81%) WAN
6 5 (0.67%) HTTP
7 4 (0.54%) DHCP
7 4 (0.54%) Internet
7 4 (0.54%) NAS
7 4 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.54%) SAN
7 4 (0.54%) SSL
8 3 (0.40%) BGP
8 3 (0.40%) CTI
8 3 (0.40%) OSPF
9 2 (0.27%) Multicast
9 2 (0.27%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (24.30%) Amazon RDS
2 149 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 127 (17.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 123 (16.51%) DynamoDB
5 97 (13.02%) PostgreSQL
6 80 (10.74%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (8.72%) Power BI
8 59 (7.92%) Data Lake
9 47 (6.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (5.10%) Metadata
11 36 (4.83%) NoSQL
11 36 (4.83%) Relational Database
12 33 (4.43%) MongoDB
13 32 (4.30%) Big Data
14 31 (4.16%) Tableau
15 25 (3.36%) BigQuery
15 25 (3.36%) SQL Server
16 21 (2.82%) Snowflake Schema
17 20 (2.68%) Apache Iceberg
18 18 (2.42%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 149 (20.00%) Git
2 147 (19.73%) GitLab
3 144 (19.33%) Jenkins
4 92 (12.35%) JIRA
5 31 (4.16%) Bitbucket
5 31 (4.16%) SonarQube
6 30 (4.03%) JUnit
7 24 (3.22%) Mockito
8 23 (3.09%) Maven
9 16 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.88%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.74%) jMock
12 11 (1.48%) Artifactory
12 11 (1.48%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (1.07%) Postman
14 7 (0.94%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.94%) MLflow
15 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.54%) Selenium
16 3 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 191 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 158 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 126 (16.91%) Finance
4 63 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.50%) Banking
6 22 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.74%) Front Office
8 11 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.81%) Law
10 6 (0.81%) Legal
10 6 (0.81%) Military
11 5 (0.67%) Marketing
12 4 (0.54%) Back Office
12 4 (0.54%) Billing
12 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Retail
12 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 179 (24.03%) Data Engineer
2 138 (18.52%) AWS Engineer
3 135 (18.12%) Developer
4 107 (14.36%) Senior
5 91 (12.21%) Lead
6 85 (11.41%) Architect
7 63 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.44%) AWS Data Engineer
9 47 (6.31%) Java Developer
10 46 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (5.37%) Senior Data Engineer
12 38 (5.10%) AWS Architect
13 37 (4.97%) AWS DevOps
14 31 (4.16%) AWS Developer
15 28 (3.76%) Software Engineer
16 27 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
17 26 (3.49%) Python Engineer
18 23 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 22 (2.95%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (11.81%) Kafka
2 82 (11.01%) PySpark
3 70 (9.40%) REST
3 70 (9.40%) Spring
3 70 (9.40%) Spring Boot
4 61 (8.19%) React
5 60 (8.05%) Node.js
5 60 (8.05%) RESTful
6 55 (7.38%) AWS CDK
7 32 (4.30%) SOAP
8 28 (3.76%) FastAPI
9 27 (3.62%) OAuth
10 26 (3.49%) AngularJS
11 24 (3.22%) PyTorch
12 23 (3.09%) Web Services
13 22 (2.95%) JPA
13 22 (2.95%) Pandas
14 21 (2.82%) JSON
14 21 (2.82%) OpenID
15 20 (2.68%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 193 (25.91%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 47 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (2.95%) NHS
5 18 (2.42%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.61%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.21%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.07%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.07%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.07%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.94%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (0.94%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.94%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 90 (12.08%) Linux
2 20 (2.68%) Unix
3 18 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.01%) Windows
5 5 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 2 (0.27%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (61.74%) CI/CD
2 312 (41.88%) DevOps
3 285 (38.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 249 (33.42%) Agile
5 183 (24.56%) Data Engineering
6 176 (23.62%) Analytics
7 174 (23.36%) Data Pipeline
8 155 (20.81%) ETL
9 154 (20.67%) Containerisation
10 145 (19.46%) AI
11 143 (19.19%) Data Modelling
12 127 (17.05%) Microservices
13 111 (14.90%) Observability
14 104 (13.96%) Machine Learning
15 98 (13.15%) Migration
16 96 (12.89%) Test Automation
17 92 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
18 91 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
18 91 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
19 87 (11.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 423 (56.78%) Python
2 269 (36.11%) SQL
3 134 (17.99%) Java
4 76 (10.20%) TypeScript
5 67 (8.99%) Bash
6 55 (7.38%) JavaScript
7 44 (5.91%) C#
8 31 (4.16%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.09%) Shell Script
10 22 (2.95%) Scala
11 8 (1.07%) Groovy
12 7 (0.94%) Bicep
13 6 (0.81%) Go
13 6 (0.81%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.67%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.54%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.54%) Perl
16 3 (0.40%) C
16 3 (0.40%) Cypher
16 3 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 241 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 208 (27.92%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.32%) AWS Certification
4 36 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (2.68%) Degree
7 18 (2.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.61%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.48%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.40%) CSPO
13 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (15.30%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.49%) QA
3 22 (2.95%) GDPR
4 14 (1.88%) SLA
5 9 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.94%) PMO
7 5 (0.67%) HL7
8 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.40%) NCSC
9 3 (0.40%) NIST
9 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 218 (29.26%) Docker
2 15 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.61%) Squid
4 11 (1.48%) Postfix
5 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 339 (45.50%) Terraform
2 145 (19.46%) Kubernetes
3 106 (14.23%) Grafana
4 66 (8.86%) Prometheus
5 49 (6.58%) Ansible
6 16 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.01%) Argo
8 12 (1.61%) Puppet
9 9 (1.21%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.21%) Kibana
10 8 (1.07%) Consul
11 7 (0.94%) Packer
12 6 (0.81%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.81%) Salt
13 5 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.54%) Istio
14 4 (0.54%) Karpenter
15 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
16 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 69 (9.26%) Databricks
2 38 (5.10%) Microsoft
3 29 (3.89%) Informatica
4 25 (3.36%) Oracle
4 25 (3.36%) Splunk
5 24 (3.22%) Google
6 23 (3.09%) Atlassian
7 22 (2.95%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.82%) Dynatrace
9 17 (2.28%) Jaspersoft
10 15 (2.01%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.61%) Teradata
12 11 (1.48%) Denodo
12 11 (1.48%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.07%) Foundry
13 8 (1.07%) IBM
13 8 (1.07%) Palantir
13 8 (1.07%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.81%) Ab Initio
14 6 (0.81%) AVEVA