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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 172 245
Rank change year-on-year -18 +73 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 653 474 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.62% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 4.29% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 367 338
10th Percentile £358 £400 £405
25th Percentile £432 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £696 £700 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -3.75% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 16,969 11,037 14,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.87% 37.63% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,518 7,652 9,987
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £701 £737 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 249 348
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.67 £48.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.71
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.21% -28.09%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +7 557 £525 -2.33% 168
London +9 379 £533 -3.18% 80
UK excluding London -51 210 £481 -3.75% 98
Work from Home -20 188 £500 -4.76% 88
Midlands -25 65 £475 -2.56% 8
West Midlands -16 61 £475 -5.00% 5
North of England -50 50 £500 +5.26% 34
Scotland -33 34 £447 -10.60% 4
South East -37 30 £563 +11.39% 23
North West -36 25 £475 +2.70% 22
South West -19 20 £450 -18.18% 20
Yorkshire -45 16 £500 -4.76% 9
North East -14 9 £475 -23.91% 3
East of England -28 7 £450 -10.00% 9
Northern Ireland +7 4 £400 -20.00%
East Midlands -36 4 £413 -10.13% 3
Wales -6 2 £363 -9.38%

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 74 (11.33%) Apache Spark
2 68 (10.41%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (7.66%) Apache
4 46 (7.04%) Confluence
5 21 (3.22%) SAS
6 10 (1.53%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) 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 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.77%) 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
1 648 (99.23%) AWS
2 405 (62.02%) Serverless
3 396 (60.64%) AWS Lambda
4 244 (37.37%) Amazon EC2
5 176 (26.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 160 (24.50%) Amazon ECS
7 153 (23.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 132 (20.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 131 (20.06%) Amazon EKS
10 130 (19.91%) GitHub
11 103 (15.77%) Azure
12 91 (13.94%) GitHub Actions
13 90 (13.78%) Amazon SQS
13 90 (13.78%) AWS Step Functions
14 66 (10.11%) Snowflake
15 57 (8.73%) Amazon EMR
16 53 (8.12%) dbt
16 53 (8.12%) Route 53
17 51 (7.81%) Power Platform
18 50 (7.66%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.75%) DNS
2 21 (3.22%) Firewall
3 16 (2.45%) VPN
4 15 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.84%) Network Security
6 11 (1.68%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.77%) DHCP
7 5 (0.77%) HTTP
8 4 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.46%) BGP
9 3 (0.46%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.46%) OSPF
10 2 (0.31%) Internet
10 2 (0.31%) Multicast
10 2 (0.31%) NAS
10 2 (0.31%) SAN
10 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.31%) SSL
10 2 (0.31%) VLAN
10 2 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (25.11%) Amazon RDS
2 126 (19.30%) Amazon Athena
3 108 (16.54%) DynamoDB
4 106 (16.23%) PostgreSQL
5 98 (15.01%) Amazon Redshift
6 55 (8.42%) Data Lake
7 54 (8.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 53 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
9 51 (7.81%) Power BI
10 39 (5.97%) NoSQL
10 39 (5.97%) Relational Database
11 32 (4.90%) Metadata
12 31 (4.75%) Tableau
13 30 (4.59%) Big Data
13 30 (4.59%) SQL Server
14 29 (4.44%) MongoDB
15 24 (3.68%) BigQuery
16 23 (3.52%) OLTP
17 21 (3.22%) Apache Iceberg
18 20 (3.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 141 (21.59%) Jenkins
2 135 (20.67%) GitLab
3 115 (17.61%) Git
4 59 (9.04%) JIRA
5 28 (4.29%) SonarQube
6 26 (3.98%) Bitbucket
7 25 (3.83%) JUnit
8 24 (3.68%) Maven
9 18 (2.76%) Mockito
10 12 (1.84%) MLflow
11 11 (1.68%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.68%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.68%) jMock
12 9 (1.38%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.38%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.23%) Postman
14 7 (1.07%) Artifactory
15 6 (0.92%) Gradle
15 6 (0.92%) Selenium
16 4 (0.61%) NUnit
General
1 158 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 116 (17.76%) Finance
3 108 (16.54%) Public Sector
4 65 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.21%) Banking
6 22 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.99%) Front Office
9 7 (1.07%) Legal
10 5 (0.77%) Military
11 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.46%) Retail
12 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.31%) Billing
13 2 (0.31%) Games
13 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.31%) Law
13 2 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 150 (22.97%) Data Engineer
2 132 (20.21%) Developer
3 103 (15.77%) AWS Engineer
4 85 (13.02%) Senior
5 77 (11.79%) Architect
6 72 (11.03%) Lead
7 45 (6.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 45 (6.89%) Java Developer
8 40 (6.13%) AWS Data Engineer
9 38 (5.82%) AWS Architect
10 33 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (4.75%) Site Engineer
12 30 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
13 29 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 28 (4.29%) AWS Developer
15 27 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
16 25 (3.83%) Analyst
16 25 (3.83%) Data Architect
16 25 (3.83%) Lead Data Engineer
17 23 (3.52%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (16.54%) Kafka
2 82 (12.56%) Spring
2 82 (12.56%) Spring Boot
3 67 (10.26%) RESTful
4 61 (9.34%) Node.js
4 61 (9.34%) PySpark
5 58 (8.88%) REST
6 49 (7.50%) React
7 39 (5.97%) AWS CDK
8 38 (5.82%) AngularJS
9 37 (5.67%) OAuth
10 25 (3.83%) FastAPI
10 25 (3.83%) Pandas
11 24 (3.68%) OpenID
12 23 (3.52%) PyTorch
13 22 (3.37%) SOAP
14 21 (3.22%) JWT
15 20 (3.06%) JPA
16 19 (2.91%) boto
16 19 (2.91%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 168 (25.73%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.99%) NHS
4 13 (1.99%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.38%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.23%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.92%) Clustering
8 6 (0.92%) Hedge funds
8 6 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (0.92%) PACS
8 6 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.77%) Derivative
9 5 (0.77%) Mainframe
9 5 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 87 (13.32%) Linux
2 22 (3.37%) Unix
3 13 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.23%) Windows
5 5 (0.77%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.31%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.31%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (58.96%) CI/CD
2 272 (41.65%) DevOps
3 242 (37.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 198 (30.32%) Agile
5 159 (24.35%) Analytics
6 153 (23.43%) Containerisation
6 153 (23.43%) ETL
7 148 (22.66%) Data Engineering
8 140 (21.44%) Data Pipeline
9 137 (20.98%) Data Modelling
10 114 (17.46%) Microservices
11 106 (16.23%) Observability
12 103 (15.77%) AI
13 98 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
14 86 (13.17%) Migration
15 84 (12.86%) Test Automation
16 74 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 73 (11.18%) Machine Learning
17 73 (11.18%) Software Engineering
18 71 (10.87%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 372 (56.97%) Python
2 243 (37.21%) SQL
3 140 (21.44%) Java
4 56 (8.58%) Bash
4 56 (8.58%) TypeScript
5 51 (7.81%) C#
6 47 (7.20%) JavaScript
7 30 (4.59%) Shell Script
8 28 (4.29%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.52%) Scala
10 12 (1.84%) Go
11 7 (1.07%) Groovy
12 6 (0.92%) Bicep
12 6 (0.92%) SAS Macro
13 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.46%) C++
14 3 (0.46%) Perl
14 3 (0.46%) R
15 2 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 220 (33.69%) Security Cleared
2 178 (27.26%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.20%) AWS Certification
4 18 (2.76%) Degree
5 17 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.46%) OCP
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.46%) PhD
13 3 (0.46%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (12.71%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.44%) QA
3 27 (4.13%) GDPR
4 14 (2.14%) SLA
5 10 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.23%) NIST
7 7 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.07%) PMO
8 6 (0.92%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.31%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 211 (32.31%) Docker
2 11 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.53%) Postfix
3 10 (1.53%) Squid
4 6 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.61%) HDFS
6 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 297 (45.48%) Terraform
2 151 (23.12%) Kubernetes
3 108 (16.54%) Grafana
4 67 (10.26%) Prometheus
5 51 (7.81%) Ansible
6 18 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.30%) Puppet
8 12 (1.84%) Kibana
8 12 (1.84%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.38%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.23%) Consul
11 5 (0.77%) Argo
11 5 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.77%) Karpenter
11 5 (0.77%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.61%) Salt
13 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 74 (11.33%) Databricks
2 37 (5.67%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.21%) Splunk
4 27 (4.13%) Google
5 20 (3.06%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.60%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.45%) Oracle
8 15 (2.30%) Informatica
9 14 (2.14%) Jaspersoft
9 14 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.68%) Denodo
11 9 (1.38%) Confluent
11 9 (1.38%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.23%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.92%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.92%) IBM
13 6 (0.92%) SAP
13 6 (0.92%) Teradata
14 5 (0.77%) Dell