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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 164 223
Rank change year-on-year -25 +59 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 714 510 459
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.73% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 4.57% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 378 347
10th Percentile £367 £400 £400
25th Percentile £437 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £499
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.25% -0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.90 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
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 17,740 11,169 14,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.85% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,861 7,555 9,988
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 270 359
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.55 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +31.93% -39.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year +94.60% -3.65% -26.87%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -25 608 £525 - 127
London +12 414 £550 - 64
Work from Home -22 232 £500 -4.76% 76
UK excluding London -63 226 £475 -5.00% 81
Midlands -25 67 £469 -1.26% 10
West Midlands -20 62 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -51 59 £488 -2.50% 26
Scotland -32 36 £450 -10.10% 2
North West -34 31 £525 +10.53% 12
South East -50 28 £585 +30.00% 18
South West -5 26 £456 -17.05% 20
North East -22 15 £425 -5.56% 2
Yorkshire -58 13 £500 -4.76% 12
East of England -33 8 £400 -27.27% 2
East Midlands -21 4 £425 -6.54% 4
Northern Ireland +4 3 £400 -20.00% 3
Wales - 3 £475 -

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 79 (11.06%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (8.96%) Apache Spark
2 64 (8.96%) Confluence
3 46 (6.44%) Apache
4 21 (2.94%) SAS
5 10 (1.40%) nginx
6 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.84%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 707 (99.02%) AWS
2 461 (64.57%) Serverless
3 456 (63.87%) AWS Lambda
4 255 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
5 203 (28.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 152 (21.29%) Amazon ECS
7 144 (20.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 138 (19.33%) Amazon EKS
9 135 (18.91%) GitHub
10 132 (18.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 108 (15.13%) Amazon SQS
12 101 (14.15%) Azure
13 97 (13.59%) GitHub Actions
14 86 (12.04%) AWS Step Functions
15 80 (11.20%) Snowflake
16 79 (11.06%) Amazon EMR
17 71 (9.94%) dbt
18 60 (8.40%) Power Platform
19 52 (7.28%) Route 53
20 51 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.06%) DNS
2 24 (3.36%) Firewall
3 15 (2.10%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.82%) VPN
5 11 (1.54%) Network Security
5 11 (1.54%) OpenVPN
6 5 (0.70%) HTTP
6 5 (0.70%) WAN
7 4 (0.56%) DHCP
7 4 (0.56%) Internet
7 4 (0.56%) NAS
7 4 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.56%) SAN
7 4 (0.56%) SSL
8 3 (0.42%) BGP
8 3 (0.42%) CTI
8 3 (0.42%) OSPF
9 2 (0.28%) Multicast
9 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (23.95%) Amazon RDS
2 149 (20.87%) Amazon Athena
3 124 (17.37%) DynamoDB
4 123 (17.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 98 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
6 71 (9.94%) Data Warehouse
7 60 (8.40%) Power BI
8 59 (8.26%) Data Lake
9 55 (7.70%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (5.32%) NoSQL
11 35 (4.90%) Metadata
12 32 (4.48%) Relational Database
12 32 (4.48%) Tableau
13 29 (4.06%) Big Data
14 26 (3.64%) MongoDB
15 25 (3.50%) SQL Server
16 24 (3.36%) Apache Iceberg
16 24 (3.36%) BigQuery
17 21 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
18 19 (2.66%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 145 (20.31%) GitLab
2 142 (19.89%) Git
3 138 (19.33%) Jenkins
4 78 (10.92%) JIRA
5 31 (4.34%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.06%) JUnit
7 27 (3.78%) Bitbucket
8 23 (3.22%) Maven
8 23 (3.22%) Mockito
9 15 (2.10%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.96%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.82%) jMock
12 11 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.40%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.12%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.12%) Postman
15 6 (0.84%) MLflow
16 4 (0.56%) Selenium
17 3 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 3 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 183 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 135 (18.91%) Public Sector
3 116 (16.25%) Finance
4 66 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.04%) Banking
6 22 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.40%) Front Office
9 8 (1.12%) Military
10 7 (0.98%) Legal
11 6 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.84%) Law
12 4 (0.56%) Marketing
12 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.42%) Back Office
13 3 (0.42%) Billing
13 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 176 (24.65%) Data Engineer
2 140 (19.61%) Developer
3 133 (18.63%) AWS Engineer
4 94 (13.17%) Senior
5 84 (11.76%) Architect
6 79 (11.06%) Lead
7 56 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.72%) Java Developer
9 45 (6.30%) AWS Data Engineer
10 42 (5.88%) AWS Architect
11 39 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
12 36 (5.04%) Senior Data Engineer
13 35 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
14 33 (4.62%) AWS Developer
15 30 (4.20%) Software Engineer
16 27 (3.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.78%) Python Engineer
17 26 (3.64%) Data Architect
18 24 (3.36%) Lead Data Engineer
18 24 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (13.17%) Kafka
2 75 (10.50%) PySpark
3 74 (10.36%) REST
4 73 (10.22%) Spring
4 73 (10.22%) Spring Boot
5 61 (8.54%) React
6 60 (8.40%) RESTful
7 54 (7.56%) Node.js
8 51 (7.14%) AWS CDK
9 35 (4.90%) AngularJS
10 34 (4.76%) OAuth
11 30 (4.20%) FastAPI
12 29 (4.06%) SOAP
13 25 (3.50%) JPA
14 24 (3.36%) OpenID
14 24 (3.36%) PyTorch
15 23 (3.22%) Hibernate
15 23 (3.22%) Pandas
15 23 (3.22%) Web Services
16 21 (2.94%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 185 (25.91%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.24%) NHS
5 13 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.12%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.12%) Legacy Code
9 7 (0.98%) Algorithms
9 7 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (0.98%) Hedge funds
9 7 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.84%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.84%) PACS
10 6 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (11.34%) Linux
2 20 (2.80%) Unix
3 12 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.40%) Windows
5 5 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 289 (40.48%) DevOps
3 261 (36.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 227 (31.79%) Agile
5 171 (23.95%) Analytics
6 170 (23.81%) Data Engineering
7 165 (23.11%) Data Pipeline
8 153 (21.43%) ETL
9 152 (21.29%) Containerisation
10 139 (19.47%) Data Modelling
11 136 (19.05%) AI
12 124 (17.37%) Microservices
13 107 (14.99%) Observability
14 99 (13.87%) Machine Learning
15 92 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
16 91 (12.75%) Migration
16 91 (12.75%) Test Automation
17 88 (12.32%) Event-Driven
18 87 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
19 85 (11.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 402 (56.30%) Python
2 270 (37.82%) SQL
3 134 (18.77%) Java
4 67 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 53 (7.42%) JavaScript
6 50 (7.00%) Bash
7 45 (6.30%) C#
8 31 (4.34%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.08%) Scala
10 21 (2.94%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.12%) Groovy
12 6 (0.84%) Bicep
12 6 (0.84%) Go
12 6 (0.84%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.56%) Perl
15 3 (0.42%) C
15 3 (0.42%) R
16 2 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 227 (31.79%) Security Cleared
2 192 (26.89%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.56%) AWS Certification
4 30 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 17 (2.38%) Degree
7 14 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.54%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.42%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.28%) CSPO
13 2 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (14.57%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.20%) QA
3 20 (2.80%) GDPR
4 14 (1.96%) SLA
5 8 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.98%) NIST
6 7 (0.98%) PMO
7 6 (0.84%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.42%) NCSC
9 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 202 (28.29%) Docker
2 14 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.68%) Squid
4 11 (1.54%) Postfix
5 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) HDFS
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 321 (44.96%) Terraform
2 141 (19.75%) Kubernetes
3 95 (13.31%) Grafana
4 64 (8.96%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.74%) Ansible
6 18 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.40%) Kibana
7 10 (1.40%) Puppet
8 9 (1.26%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.12%) Consul
10 7 (0.98%) Argo
11 6 (0.84%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.70%) Packer
12 5 (0.70%) Salt
13 4 (0.56%) Istio
14 2 (0.28%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.28%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 66 (9.24%) Databricks
2 29 (4.06%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.64%) Google
3 26 (3.64%) Splunk
4 23 (3.22%) Atlassian
4 23 (3.22%) Informatica
5 20 (2.80%) Dynatrace
5 20 (2.80%) Oracle
6 19 (2.66%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
8 14 (1.96%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.54%) Denodo
9 11 (1.54%) Teradata
10 10 (1.40%) Confluent
10 10 (1.40%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.84%) AVEVA
11 6 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.70%) Palantir
12 5 (0.70%) SAP