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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 174 224
Rank change year-on-year -10 +50 +41
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 618 466 472
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 1.52% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.08% 4.06% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 346 386
10th Percentile £363 £402 £400
25th Percentile £417 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.00% -1.96% -1.31%
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 15,133 11,470 14,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.94% 37.39% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,388 7,693 10,645
10th Percentile £310 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £636 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 171 321
10th Percentile £14.80 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £59.86 £44.56 £53.00
90th Percentile £79.05 £75.50 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.43 £24.66 £20.77
% change year-on-year +59.89% +18.73% +3.85%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +7 492 £525 -4.55% 171
London +10 323 £525 -8.70% 68
UK excluding London -19 214 £490 -2.00% 116
Work from Home -26 162 £525 +0.96% 93
North of England -26 62 £500 - 46
Midlands -26 50 £488 +8.33% 15
West Midlands -19 43 £506 -7.95% 12
Scotland -20 43 £463 -6.57% 5
Yorkshire -34 30 £500 -4.76% 23
South East -17 25 £528 -17.25% 27
North West -20 24 £450 -5.26% 21
South West -13 17 £538 -4.51% 14
Northern Ireland +5 9 £400 -
East of England -14 9 £475 -1.30% 6
North East -10 8 £450 -26.23% 2
East Midlands -23 7 £417 -6.02% 3
Wales -1 2 £363 -9.38% 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 53 (8.58%) Apache Spark
2 40 (6.47%) Apache
2 40 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (5.34%) Confluence
4 12 (1.94%) nginx
5 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.49%) Traefik
6 2 (0.32%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Actimize
1 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 614 (99.35%) AWS
2 390 (63.11%) Serverless
3 382 (61.81%) AWS Lambda
4 255 (41.26%) Amazon EC2
5 191 (30.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 177 (28.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 153 (24.76%) Amazon ECS
8 141 (22.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 130 (21.04%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (19.90%) GitHub
11 101 (16.34%) Azure
12 94 (15.21%) GitHub Actions
13 73 (11.81%) AWS Step Functions
14 56 (9.06%) Amazon SQS
15 55 (8.90%) Route 53
16 49 (7.93%) Amazon Kinesis
16 49 (7.93%) GCP
16 49 (7.93%) Snowflake
17 41 (6.63%) Amazon EMR
18 34 (5.50%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 47 (7.61%) DNS
2 40 (6.47%) Firewall
3 31 (5.02%) VPN
4 24 (3.88%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.40%) Network Security
6 14 (2.27%) SSL
7 10 (1.62%) HTTP
8 7 (1.13%) OpenVPN
9 6 (0.97%) FTP
9 6 (0.97%) SMTP
9 6 (0.97%) SSH
10 4 (0.65%) IMAP
10 4 (0.65%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.65%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.49%) BGP
12 2 (0.32%) Multicast
12 2 (0.32%) NAS
12 2 (0.32%) OSPF
12 2 (0.32%) SAN
12 2 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (30.26%) Amazon RDS
2 109 (17.64%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (14.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 88 (14.24%) Amazon Athena
5 86 (13.92%) DynamoDB
6 51 (8.25%) Relational Database
7 46 (7.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 46 (7.44%) Data Lake
8 45 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (5.50%) Power BI
10 30 (4.85%) MySQL
11 29 (4.69%) MongoDB
12 24 (3.88%) NoSQL
13 23 (3.72%) BigQuery
13 23 (3.72%) OLTP
13 23 (3.72%) SQL Server
14 20 (3.24%) Amazon QuickSight
14 20 (3.24%) OLAP
15 19 (3.07%) Tableau
16 17 (2.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 142 (22.98%) Jenkins
2 131 (21.20%) GitLab
3 107 (17.31%) Git
4 39 (6.31%) JIRA
5 16 (2.59%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.43%) JUnit
7 14 (2.27%) Maven
7 14 (2.27%) MLflow
8 12 (1.94%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.62%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.46%) Postman
11 8 (1.29%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.97%) Gradle
12 6 (0.97%) Mockito
12 6 (0.97%) Vagrant
13 4 (0.65%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.65%) NUnit
13 4 (0.65%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.65%) Vite
14 3 (0.49%) DbUnit
General
1 164 (26.54%) Social Skills
2 100 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 90 (14.56%) Finance
4 60 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.53%) Banking
6 20 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.94%) Front Office
9 7 (1.13%) Legal
9 7 (1.13%) Military
10 4 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.49%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.49%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.32%) Publishing
12 2 (0.32%) Retail
13 1 (0.16%) Games
13 1 (0.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 115 (18.61%) AWS Engineer
2 110 (17.80%) Data Engineer
3 104 (16.83%) Developer
4 82 (13.27%) Senior
5 79 (12.78%) Architect
6 69 (11.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (9.22%) Lead
8 39 (6.31%) AWS Architect
9 38 (6.15%) Java Developer
10 34 (5.50%) AWS Data Engineer
11 32 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
12 31 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
13 29 (4.69%) Python Engineer
14 27 (4.37%) Analyst
14 27 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (4.37%) Software Engineer
15 26 (4.21%) Site Engineer
16 25 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 25 (4.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 25 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (16.83%) Kafka
2 68 (11.00%) Spring
2 68 (11.00%) Spring Boot
3 54 (8.74%) Node.js
4 53 (8.58%) REST
5 52 (8.41%) RESTful
6 50 (8.09%) React
7 46 (7.44%) AWS CDK
8 41 (6.63%) OAuth
9 40 (6.47%) PySpark
10 30 (4.85%) AngularJS
11 25 (4.05%) FastAPI
11 25 (4.05%) JWT
12 23 (3.72%) CSS
12 23 (3.72%) PyTorch
13 21 (3.40%) boto
13 21 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
13 21 (3.40%) JSON
14 19 (3.07%) Pandas
15 18 (2.91%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 147 (23.79%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (3.56%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.10%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.10%) NHS
6 13 (2.10%) Replication
7 8 (1.29%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.29%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (0.97%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.81%) Derivative
10 5 (0.81%) SCADA
11 4 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 79 (12.78%) Linux
2 15 (2.43%) Windows
3 12 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.62%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (1.62%) Unix
5 9 (1.46%) VMS
6 6 (0.97%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.32%) zOS
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (58.41%) CI/CD
2 268 (43.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 247 (39.97%) DevOps
4 160 (25.89%) Containerisation
5 159 (25.73%) Agile
6 138 (22.33%) ETL
7 128 (20.71%) Analytics
8 121 (19.58%) Data Pipeline
9 119 (19.26%) Data Engineering
10 118 (19.09%) Data Modelling
11 108 (17.48%) Microservices
12 104 (16.83%) Observability
13 97 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
14 80 (12.94%) AI
15 73 (11.81%) Migration
16 71 (11.49%) Event-Driven
16 71 (11.49%) Software Engineering
17 67 (10.84%) Machine Learning
18 66 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
19 63 (10.19%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 371 (60.03%) Python
2 205 (33.17%) SQL
3 113 (18.28%) Java
4 77 (12.46%) Bash
5 52 (8.41%) TypeScript
6 44 (7.12%) JavaScript
7 35 (5.66%) C#
8 29 (4.69%) PowerShell
9 25 (4.05%) Shell Script
10 24 (3.88%) Go
11 8 (1.29%) Groovy
12 7 (1.13%) Scala
13 6 (0.97%) JSX
14 5 (0.81%) Korn
15 4 (0.65%) Perl
15 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.49%) C++
17 2 (0.32%) Bicep
17 2 (0.32%) C
18 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 196 (31.72%) Security Cleared
2 162 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 61 (9.87%) AWS Certification
4 23 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 23 (3.72%) Degree
5 21 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (1.62%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.49%) OCP
10 3 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.49%) PhD
11 2 (0.32%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) CCNP
12 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.17%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.80%) GDPR
3 35 (5.66%) QA
4 19 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.43%) NIST
6 14 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.13%) SLA
8 6 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.65%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.65%) NCSC
10 3 (0.49%) PMO
11 2 (0.32%) GxP
11 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.32%) MiFID
11 2 (0.32%) WCAG
12 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 219 (35.44%) Docker
2 11 (1.78%) Squid
3 9 (1.46%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.13%) Postfix
5 6 (0.97%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.65%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.32%) HDFS
8 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.16%) etcd
9 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 311 (50.32%) Terraform
2 173 (27.99%) Kubernetes
3 97 (15.70%) Grafana
4 81 (13.11%) Ansible
5 79 (12.78%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.91%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.75%) Puppet
8 14 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.78%) Argo
10 8 (1.29%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.13%) Kibana
11 7 (1.13%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (0.97%) Consul
12 6 (0.97%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.81%) Istio
14 4 (0.65%) Nessus
14 4 (0.65%) Proxmox
15 3 (0.49%) Data Guard
15 3 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 63 (10.19%) Databricks
2 36 (5.83%) Microsoft
3 24 (3.88%) Google
4 21 (3.40%) Splunk
5 17 (2.75%) F5
5 17 (2.75%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.59%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.43%) CheckPoint
7 15 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.10%) Oracle
9 10 (1.62%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.46%) Confluent
10 9 (1.46%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.29%) Dell
11 8 (1.29%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.29%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.13%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.97%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.97%) IBM
13 6 (0.97%) SAP