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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 157 217
Rank change year-on-year -61 +60 +39
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 689 583 429
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.77% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.67% 4.77% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 429 290
10th Percentile £388 £400 £406
25th Percentile £447 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
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 18,783 12,214 13,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.07% 37.16% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,416 8,148 9,109
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £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 610 316 251
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.27 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%
75th Percentile £69.80 £47.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £82.26 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -16.03%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -52 568 £535 +1.90% 235
London -15 378 £575 - 156
Work from Home -19 251 £525 +1.11% 103
UK excluding London -81 224 £475 - 104
Midlands -33 67 £463 -2.63% 15
North of England -76 59 £500 - 32
West Midlands -32 58 £469 -1.26% 5
Scotland -23 39 £475 -4.43% 4
South West -27 28 £463 -15.33% 16
South East -76 25 £575 +35.29% 28
North West -54 23 £525 +10.53% 18
North East -23 19 £425 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire -51 17 £525 - 8
East Midlands -14 8 £425 -20.86% 10
East of England -38 7 £400 -27.27% 6
Wales - 3 £600 - 2
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 3

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 82 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (10.01%) Confluence
3 61 (8.85%) Apache Spark
4 48 (6.97%) Apache
5 21 (3.05%) SAS
6 9 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.16%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.58%) nginx
8 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.58%) PowerExchange
9 2 (0.29%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.15%) Mule
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 673 (97.68%) AWS
2 437 (63.43%) Serverless
3 431 (62.55%) AWS Lambda
4 229 (33.24%) Amazon EC2
5 215 (31.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (22.79%) GitHub
7 149 (21.63%) Amazon ECS
8 137 (19.88%) Amazon EKS
9 126 (18.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 122 (17.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 116 (16.84%) GitHub Actions
12 104 (15.09%) Azure
13 101 (14.66%) Amazon SQS
14 87 (12.63%) Amazon EMR
15 80 (11.61%) Snowflake
16 76 (11.03%) dbt
17 73 (10.60%) AWS Step Functions
18 63 (9.14%) Power Platform
19 51 (7.40%) AWS KMS
20 48 (6.97%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.61%) Firewall
2 16 (2.32%) DNS
3 10 (1.45%) Network Security
4 6 (0.87%) SSL
4 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.73%) CTI
5 5 (0.73%) HTTP
5 5 (0.73%) VPN
6 4 (0.58%) Internet
6 4 (0.58%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.58%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.58%) WAN
7 3 (0.44%) DHCP
7 3 (0.44%) SAN
7 3 (0.44%) SMS
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (25.25%) Amazon RDS
2 141 (20.46%) Amazon Athena
3 122 (17.71%) DynamoDB
4 116 (16.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 91 (13.21%) Data Warehouse
6 90 (13.06%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (9.14%) Power BI
8 60 (8.71%) Data Lake
9 45 (6.53%) Amazon Aurora
10 40 (5.81%) Metadata
11 38 (5.52%) MongoDB
12 31 (4.50%) Big Data
13 29 (4.21%) NoSQL
13 29 (4.21%) Relational Database
14 28 (4.06%) Tableau
15 25 (3.63%) BigQuery
16 24 (3.48%) Apache Iceberg
17 22 (3.19%) Data Vault
17 22 (3.19%) SQL Server
18 19 (2.76%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 142 (20.61%) Jenkins
2 140 (20.32%) GitLab
3 135 (19.59%) Git
4 73 (10.60%) JIRA
5 27 (3.92%) Bitbucket
6 24 (3.48%) SonarQube
7 21 (3.05%) JUnit
8 19 (2.76%) Cypress.io
8 19 (2.76%) Mockito
9 15 (2.18%) Maven
10 10 (1.45%) DbUnit
11 9 (1.31%) Artifactory
11 9 (1.31%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (1.31%) jMock
12 7 (1.02%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.02%) Postman
12 7 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.58%) MLflow
13 4 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 165 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 154 (22.35%) Public Sector
3 118 (17.13%) Finance
4 59 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.68%) Banking
6 13 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (1.89%) Front Office
7 11 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.16%) Back Office
9 7 (1.02%) Law
9 7 (1.02%) Marketing
9 7 (1.02%) Military
10 6 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.73%) Billing
12 4 (0.58%) Legal
12 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.58%) Publishing
12 4 (0.58%) Retail
13 3 (0.44%) Games
13 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 160 (23.22%) Data Engineer
2 127 (18.43%) AWS Engineer
3 125 (18.14%) Developer
4 111 (16.11%) Senior
5 85 (12.34%) Architect
6 82 (11.90%) Lead
7 67 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 43 (6.24%) Senior Data Engineer
9 42 (6.10%) AWS Data Engineer
10 38 (5.52%) AWS DevOps
10 38 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
11 36 (5.22%) Java Developer
12 35 (5.08%) AWS Architect
12 35 (5.08%) AWS Developer
13 30 (4.35%) Data Architect
14 28 (4.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (3.48%) Software Engineer
16 22 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 20 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (11.32%) Kafka
2 76 (11.03%) PySpark
2 76 (11.03%) REST
3 62 (9.00%) React
4 57 (8.27%) Node.js
4 57 (8.27%) Spring Boot
5 56 (8.13%) RESTful
5 56 (8.13%) Spring
6 48 (6.97%) AWS CDK
7 27 (3.92%) FastAPI
8 26 (3.77%) AngularJS
9 25 (3.63%) SOAP
10 23 (3.34%) JSON
11 22 (3.19%) OAuth
12 20 (2.90%) .NET
13 19 (2.76%) Pandas
14 18 (2.61%) GraphQL
14 18 (2.61%) Web Services
15 17 (2.47%) Next.js
16 16 (2.32%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 173 (25.11%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.71%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.90%) NHS
5 18 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.89%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.60%) IVR
7 11 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.31%) Legacy Code
8 9 (1.31%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.16%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.16%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.16%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.02%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.02%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 87 (12.63%) Linux
2 21 (3.05%) Unix
3 19 (2.76%) Windows
4 15 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.58%) AIX
6 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (62.84%) CI/CD
2 291 (42.24%) DevOps
3 284 (41.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 254 (36.87%) Agile
5 177 (25.69%) Data Pipeline
6 169 (24.53%) Data Engineering
7 160 (23.22%) Analytics
8 137 (19.88%) ETL
9 136 (19.74%) Data Modelling
10 135 (19.59%) AI
11 128 (18.58%) Containerisation
12 117 (16.98%) Microservices
13 110 (15.97%) Observability
14 108 (15.67%) Migration
15 96 (13.93%) Test Automation
16 91 (13.21%) Event-Driven
17 89 (12.92%) Machine Learning
18 88 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
19 87 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
19 87 (12.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 390 (56.60%) Python
2 243 (35.27%) SQL
3 121 (17.56%) Java
4 78 (11.32%) TypeScript
5 70 (10.16%) Bash
6 60 (8.71%) JavaScript
7 34 (4.93%) C#
8 31 (4.50%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.34%) Scala
10 22 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 15 (2.18%) Groovy
12 10 (1.45%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.16%) Bicep
14 6 (0.87%) Perl
15 5 (0.73%) Gremlin
15 5 (0.73%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.58%) Cypher
16 4 (0.58%) Go
16 4 (0.58%) R
16 4 (0.58%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 229 (33.24%) Security Cleared
2 200 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 73 (10.60%) AWS Certification
4 43 (6.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (4.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.76%) Degree
7 18 (2.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 18 (2.61%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.60%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.58%) CISM
13 4 (0.58%) CISSP
14 3 (0.44%) CSPO
14 3 (0.44%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (15.53%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.48%) QA
3 21 (3.05%) GDPR
4 13 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.45%) SLA
6 6 (0.87%) HL7
6 6 (0.87%) NIST
7 4 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.58%) NCSC
8 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.44%) PMO
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 210 (30.48%) Docker
2 17 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.16%) Postfix
4 5 (0.73%) Squid
5 3 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 315 (45.72%) Terraform
2 126 (18.29%) Kubernetes
3 105 (15.24%) Grafana
4 53 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.66%) Ansible
6 18 (2.61%) Argo
7 16 (2.32%) Kibana
8 11 (1.60%) Puppet
9 9 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.16%) Karpenter
10 8 (1.16%) Packer
11 7 (1.02%) Istio
12 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.73%) Salt
13 3 (0.44%) Consul
13 3 (0.44%) Control-M
13 3 (0.44%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.29%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (9.00%) Databricks
2 41 (5.95%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.08%) Oracle
4 34 (4.93%) Informatica
5 26 (3.77%) Splunk
6 19 (2.76%) Google
6 19 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.47%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.89%) Atlassian
9 12 (1.74%) Jaspersoft
10 11 (1.60%) Denodo
10 11 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.60%) Teradata
11 8 (1.16%) Confluent
11 8 (1.16%) Foundry
11 8 (1.16%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.16%) Palantir
12 7 (1.02%) IBM
12 7 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.87%) VMware