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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 168 235
Rank change year-on-year -25 +67 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 657 472 442
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.61% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 4.29% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 365 341
10th Percentile £358 £400 £405
25th Percentile £433 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -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 17,057 10,999 14,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 37.55% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,545 7,616 9,992
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 252 344
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.88
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.36% +30.95% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.58 £48.19 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £73.63 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.59 £17.69
% change year-on-year +120.01% +22.05% -28.15%

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 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 7 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 7 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 +1 561 £525 -2.33% 187
London +16 388 £550 - 86
UK excluding London -53 208 £475 -5.00% 119
Work from Home -10 187 £500 -4.76% 94
Midlands -30 65 £475 -2.56% 10
West Midlands -15 61 £475 -5.00% 8
North of England -47 50 £500 +2.56% 47
Scotland -30 35 £447 -10.60% 9
South East -26 30 £569 +12.62% 24
North West -33 27 £500 +8.11% 27
South West -22 17 £450 -18.18% 23
Yorkshire -51 14 £500 -4.76% 15
North East -11 9 £475 -23.91% 5
East of England -30 7 £450 -10.00% 6
Northern Ireland +5 4 £400 -20.00%
East Midlands -32 4 £413 -10.13% 2
Wales -13 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 (11.26%) Apache Spark
2 69 (10.50%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (7.46%) Apache
4 47 (7.15%) Confluence
5 21 (3.20%) SAS
6 10 (1.52%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.15%) Actimize
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 652 (99.24%) AWS
2 406 (61.80%) Serverless
3 397 (60.43%) AWS Lambda
4 239 (36.38%) Amazon EC2
5 171 (26.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 156 (23.74%) Amazon ECS
7 149 (22.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 132 (20.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 130 (19.79%) Amazon EKS
10 129 (19.63%) GitHub
11 101 (15.37%) Azure
12 93 (14.16%) Amazon SQS
13 92 (14.00%) AWS Step Functions
14 89 (13.55%) GitHub Actions
15 69 (10.50%) Snowflake
16 59 (8.98%) Amazon EMR
17 57 (8.68%) dbt
18 51 (7.76%) Power Platform
19 50 (7.61%) Route 53
20 49 (7.46%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.72%) DNS
2 20 (3.04%) Firewall
3 15 (2.28%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.28%) VPN
4 12 (1.83%) Network Security
5 11 (1.67%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.76%) DHCP
6 5 (0.76%) HTTP
7 4 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.46%) BGP
8 3 (0.46%) OSPF
9 2 (0.30%) Internet
9 2 (0.30%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.30%) Multicast
9 2 (0.30%) NAS
9 2 (0.30%) SAN
9 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.30%) SSL
9 2 (0.30%) VLAN
9 2 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (24.51%) Amazon RDS
2 131 (19.94%) Amazon Athena
3 106 (16.13%) DynamoDB
4 105 (15.98%) PostgreSQL
5 99 (15.07%) Amazon Redshift
6 55 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
7 54 (8.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 54 (8.22%) Data Lake
8 51 (7.76%) Power BI
9 39 (5.94%) Relational Database
10 37 (5.63%) NoSQL
11 32 (4.87%) Metadata
12 31 (4.72%) SQL Server
12 31 (4.72%) Tableau
13 29 (4.41%) Big Data
14 25 (3.81%) MongoDB
15 24 (3.65%) BigQuery
16 23 (3.50%) Apache Iceberg
16 23 (3.50%) OLTP
17 20 (3.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 137 (20.85%) Jenkins
2 136 (20.70%) GitLab
3 116 (17.66%) Git
4 60 (9.13%) JIRA
5 28 (4.26%) SonarQube
6 26 (3.96%) Bitbucket
7 25 (3.81%) JUnit
8 23 (3.50%) Maven
9 18 (2.74%) Mockito
10 12 (1.83%) MLflow
11 11 (1.67%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.67%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.67%) jMock
12 9 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.37%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.22%) Postman
14 7 (1.07%) Artifactory
15 6 (0.91%) Selenium
16 5 (0.76%) Gradle
17 4 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 158 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 121 (18.42%) Finance
3 107 (16.29%) Public Sector
4 65 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.18%) Banking
6 21 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.28%) Front Office
8 14 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.22%) Legal
10 5 (0.76%) 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 (0.30%) Billing
13 2 (0.30%) Games
13 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Law
13 2 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 155 (23.59%) Data Engineer
2 132 (20.09%) Developer
3 103 (15.68%) AWS Engineer
4 88 (13.39%) Senior
5 79 (12.02%) Architect
6 71 (10.81%) Lead
7 44 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 43 (6.54%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.09%) AWS Data Engineer
10 38 (5.78%) AWS Architect
11 33 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.72%) Senior Data Engineer
13 30 (4.57%) Site Engineer
14 29 (4.41%) AWS Developer
15 28 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
15 28 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 26 (3.96%) Data Architect
17 25 (3.81%) Analyst
17 25 (3.81%) Lead Data Engineer
18 23 (3.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (16.59%) Kafka
2 79 (12.02%) Spring
2 79 (12.02%) Spring Boot
3 65 (9.89%) PySpark
3 65 (9.89%) RESTful
4 60 (9.13%) Node.js
4 60 (9.13%) REST
5 52 (7.91%) React
6 38 (5.78%) AWS CDK
7 36 (5.48%) AngularJS
8 35 (5.33%) OAuth
9 26 (3.96%) FastAPI
9 26 (3.96%) Pandas
10 24 (3.65%) OpenID
11 23 (3.50%) PyTorch
12 21 (3.20%) SOAP
13 20 (3.04%) JPA
14 19 (2.89%) boto
14 19 (2.89%) JWT
14 19 (2.89%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 168 (25.57%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.98%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.67%) NHS
7 9 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.22%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.07%) Hedge funds
10 6 (0.91%) Clustering
10 6 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.91%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.91%) PACS
10 6 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.76%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 85 (12.94%) Linux
2 21 (3.20%) Unix
3 11 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.22%) Windows
5 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.30%) zOS
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (58.14%) CI/CD
2 268 (40.79%) DevOps
3 241 (36.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 197 (29.98%) Agile
5 160 (24.35%) Analytics
6 153 (23.29%) Data Engineering
6 153 (23.29%) ETL
7 152 (23.14%) Containerisation
8 142 (21.61%) Data Pipeline
9 136 (20.70%) Data Modelling
10 112 (17.05%) Microservices
11 106 (16.13%) Observability
12 104 (15.83%) AI
13 96 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
14 86 (13.09%) Migration
15 85 (12.94%) Test Automation
16 75 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 75 (11.42%) Event-Driven
16 75 (11.42%) Software Engineering
17 73 (11.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 378 (57.53%) Python
2 249 (37.90%) SQL
3 137 (20.85%) Java
4 59 (8.98%) TypeScript
5 54 (8.22%) Bash
6 53 (8.07%) C#
7 47 (7.15%) JavaScript
8 29 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.41%) Shell Script
9 23 (3.50%) Scala
10 12 (1.83%) Go
11 7 (1.07%) Bicep
11 7 (1.07%) Groovy
12 6 (0.91%) 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 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 213 (32.42%) Security Cleared
2 174 (26.48%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.15%) AWS Certification
4 19 (2.89%) Degree
5 17 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.22%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.46%) OCP
13 3 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.46%) PhD
13 3 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (12.79%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.11%) GDPR
2 27 (4.11%) QA
3 14 (2.13%) SLA
4 10 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.22%) NIST
6 7 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.07%) PMO
7 6 (0.91%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.30%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 204 (31.05%) Docker
2 11 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.52%) Postfix
3 10 (1.52%) Squid
4 6 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.61%) HDFS
6 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 290 (44.14%) Terraform
2 146 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 107 (16.29%) Grafana
4 66 (10.05%) Prometheus
5 47 (7.15%) Ansible
6 18 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.28%) Puppet
8 12 (1.83%) Kibana
9 11 (1.67%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.37%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.22%) Consul
12 6 (0.91%) Argo
13 5 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.76%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.61%) Salt
15 3 (0.46%) Data Guard
15 3 (0.46%) Istio
15 3 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
15 3 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
15 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 74 (11.26%) Databricks
2 37 (5.63%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.72%) Splunk
4 27 (4.11%) Google
5 20 (3.04%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.59%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.59%) Oracle
7 15 (2.28%) Informatica
7 15 (2.28%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.13%) Jaspersoft
8 14 (2.13%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.67%) Denodo
10 9 (1.37%) Confluent
10 9 (1.37%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.22%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.91%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.91%) IBM
12 6 (0.91%) SAP
12 6 (0.91%) Teradata
13 5 (0.76%) Ab Initio