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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 156 224
Rank change year-on-year -59 +68 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 697 589 426
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.82% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.72% 4.88% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 433 292
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £447 £454 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £602
90th Percentile £750 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -0.53% -3.85% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £32.80 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.86% - -
75th Percentile £72.83 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.93 £53.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.58 - -

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 18,744 12,058 12,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.94% 37.32% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,461 8,019 8,883
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 308 214
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £19.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £29.16 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.56% -2.80% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.06 £59.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.62 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.27 £28.00
% change year-on-year +68.66% -31.18% +3.70%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -49 578 £535 +1.90% 419
London -23 390 £575 - 296
Work from Home -28 255 £525 - 238
UK excluding London -75 221 £473 -0.53% 175
North of England -65 65 £475 -5.00% 54
Midlands -42 62 £463 -2.63% 17
West Midlands -44 52 £469 -1.26% 7
Scotland -29 38 £475 -5.00% 19
South West -32 28 £470 -13.96% 26
North West -47 26 £500 +5.26% 29
North East -19 21 £425 -2.86% 12
South East -74 21 £550 +29.41% 30
Yorkshire -49 18 £525 - 13
East Midlands -17 9 £419 -22.02% 10
East of England -33 7 £400 -27.27% 20
Wales - 3 £600 - 3
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 8

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 90 (12.91%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (11.19%) Confluence
3 57 (8.18%) Apache Spark
4 55 (7.89%) Apache
5 18 (2.58%) SAS
6 12 (1.72%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.15%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.72%) nginx
9 4 (0.57%) PowerExchange
10 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.29%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 678 (97.27%) AWS
2 444 (63.70%) Serverless
3 442 (63.41%) AWS Lambda
4 226 (32.42%) Amazon EC2
5 225 (32.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 163 (23.39%) GitHub
7 144 (20.66%) Amazon ECS
8 134 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
9 126 (18.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 123 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
11 122 (17.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 109 (15.64%) Azure
13 96 (13.77%) Amazon SQS
14 88 (12.63%) Amazon EMR
15 78 (11.19%) dbt
16 77 (11.05%) AWS Step Functions
17 75 (10.76%) Snowflake
18 61 (8.75%) Power Platform
19 52 (7.46%) AWS KMS
20 50 (7.17%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.73%) Firewall
2 17 (2.44%) DNS
3 10 (1.43%) Network Security
4 7 (1.00%) HTTP
4 7 (1.00%) SSL
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
5 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.57%) Internet
6 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 4 (0.57%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
7 3 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.43%) SAN
8 2 (0.29%) FTP
8 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.29%) SMTP
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (25.97%) Amazon RDS
2 139 (19.94%) Amazon Athena
3 125 (17.93%) DynamoDB
4 115 (16.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 94 (13.49%) Data Warehouse
6 93 (13.34%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (8.75%) Power BI
8 58 (8.32%) Data Lake
9 45 (6.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 43 (6.17%) MongoDB
11 41 (5.88%) Metadata
12 31 (4.45%) Big Data
13 28 (4.02%) NoSQL
13 28 (4.02%) Relational Database
13 28 (4.02%) Tableau
14 24 (3.44%) Apache Iceberg
14 24 (3.44%) BigQuery
15 21 (3.01%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.01%) Delta Lake
16 19 (2.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 141 (20.23%) Git
1 141 (20.23%) GitLab
2 130 (18.65%) Jenkins
3 81 (11.62%) JIRA
4 25 (3.59%) Bitbucket
5 21 (3.01%) Cypress.io
6 18 (2.58%) SonarQube
7 15 (2.15%) JUnit
7 15 (2.15%) Mockito
8 14 (2.01%) Maven
9 7 (1.00%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.00%) DbUnit
9 7 (1.00%) Postman
9 7 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.86%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (0.86%) jMock
11 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.72%) Selenium
12 4 (0.57%) MLflow
General
1 163 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 158 (22.67%) Public Sector
3 116 (16.64%) Finance
4 59 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (6.31%) Banking
6 13 (1.87%) Front Office
6 13 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.29%) Back Office
8 9 (1.29%) Military
9 7 (1.00%) Law
9 7 (1.00%) Marketing
10 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.86%) Publishing
11 4 (0.57%) Billing
11 4 (0.57%) Legal
11 4 (0.57%) Local Government
11 4 (0.57%) Retail
12 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 169 (24.25%) Data Engineer
2 123 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 121 (17.36%) Senior
4 117 (16.79%) Developer
5 87 (12.48%) Architect
6 79 (11.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 77 (11.05%) Lead
8 50 (7.17%) Senior Data Engineer
9 44 (6.31%) AWS Data Engineer
10 39 (5.60%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (5.02%) AWS Architect
12 33 (4.73%) AWS Developer
13 31 (4.45%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (4.45%) Data Architect
14 30 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 29 (4.16%) Java Developer
16 25 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
16 25 (3.59%) Software Engineer
17 23 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 22 (3.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (46.20%) Terraform
2 78 (11.19%) REST
3 74 (10.62%) Kafka
4 73 (10.47%) PySpark
5 61 (8.75%) React
6 55 (7.89%) RESTful
7 53 (7.60%) Spring Boot
8 52 (7.46%) Node.js
8 52 (7.46%) Spring
9 48 (6.89%) AWS CDK
10 32 (4.59%) FastAPI
11 25 (3.59%) JSON
12 24 (3.44%) AngularJS
13 21 (3.01%) .NET
13 21 (3.01%) SOAP
14 20 (2.87%) OAuth
15 19 (2.73%) GraphQL
15 19 (2.73%) Pandas
16 18 (2.58%) Next.js
17 15 (2.15%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 179 (25.68%) Cloud Native
2 61 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.16%) NHS
5 21 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.87%) IVR
8 12 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.43%) Replication
10 10 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.29%) Legacy Code
11 9 (1.29%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.15%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.15%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.00%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 90 (12.91%) Linux
2 24 (3.44%) Unix
3 22 (3.16%) Windows
4 15 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.57%) AIX
9 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.29%) Android
10 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (62.55%) CI/CD
2 301 (43.19%) DevOps
3 300 (43.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 264 (37.88%) Agile
5 185 (26.54%) Data Pipeline
6 169 (24.25%) Data Engineering
7 152 (21.81%) Analytics
8 137 (19.66%) Data Modelling
8 137 (19.66%) ETL
9 132 (18.94%) AI
10 127 (18.22%) Containerisation
11 115 (16.50%) Observability
12 112 (16.07%) Microservices
13 108 (15.49%) Migration
14 101 (14.49%) Event-Driven
14 101 (14.49%) Test Automation
15 96 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 91 (13.06%) Technical Leadership
17 90 (12.91%) Machine Learning
18 86 (12.34%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 397 (56.96%) Python
2 243 (34.86%) SQL
3 118 (16.93%) Java
4 81 (11.62%) TypeScript
5 67 (9.61%) Bash
6 58 (8.32%) JavaScript
7 29 (4.16%) PowerShell
8 28 (4.02%) C#
9 24 (3.44%) Shell Script
10 20 (2.87%) Scala
11 18 (2.58%) Groovy
12 11 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.15%) Bicep
14 7 (1.00%) Perl
15 6 (0.86%) Go
16 5 (0.72%) R
17 4 (0.57%) Cypher
17 4 (0.57%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.57%) SPARQL
18 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 237 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 215 (30.85%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.62%) AWS Certification
4 45 (6.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (4.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (3.01%) Degree
7 20 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 19 (2.73%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.58%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.00%) CISM
12 7 (1.00%) CISSP
13 6 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.57%) SnowPro
16 3 (0.43%) CSPO
16 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (16.21%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.88%) QA
3 18 (2.58%) GDPR
4 13 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.29%) NIST
6 6 (0.86%) HL7
7 5 (0.72%) SLA
8 4 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.57%) NCSC
8 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.43%) PMO
10 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 212 (30.42%) Docker
2 19 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.00%) Postfix
4 6 (0.86%) Squid
5 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.29%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.29%) HDFS
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 131 (18.79%) Kubernetes
2 101 (14.49%) Grafana
3 54 (7.75%) Prometheus
4 42 (6.03%) Ansible
5 18 (2.58%) Argo
6 16 (2.30%) Kibana
7 12 (1.72%) Karpenter
8 10 (1.43%) Puppet
9 8 (1.15%) Packer
10 7 (1.00%) Istio
11 6 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.57%) Salt
14 3 (0.43%) Control-M
14 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.29%) Nessus
15 2 (0.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 2 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
15 2 (0.29%) systemd
15 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (8.18%) Databricks
2 42 (6.03%) Microsoft
3 40 (5.74%) Oracle
4 34 (4.88%) Informatica
5 25 (3.59%) Splunk
6 22 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.87%) Google
8 17 (2.44%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.72%) Teradata
10 11 (1.58%) Denodo
11 10 (1.43%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.43%) Confluent
11 10 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
12 9 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.15%) Foundry
13 8 (1.15%) IBM
13 8 (1.15%) Palantir
14 7 (1.00%) SnapLogic
15 6 (0.86%) PagerDuty