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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 168 227
Rank change year-on-year -34 +59 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 733 556 436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.39% 1.69% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.93% 4.51% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 411 306
10th Percentile £384 £400 £403
25th Percentile £441 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -5.12%
75th Percentile £629 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £39.85 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile - £50.94 -
90th Percentile - £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 18,656 12,322 13,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.33% 37.39% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,322 8,252 9,412
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 317 296
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.13 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.02 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +96.18% -10.14% -20.75%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -29 606 £525 - 123
London +7 397 £565 -0.44% 68
Work from Home -16 263 £513 -1.16% 61
UK excluding London -51 255 £475 - 68
Midlands -19 80 £469 -1.26% 11
West Midlands -19 73 £469 -1.26% 7
North of England -67 61 £500 - 25
Scotland -6 47 £450 -9.56% 3
South West -19 32 £463 -15.33% 11
North West -50 28 £518 +8.95% 5
South East -70 27 £563 +32.35% 15
Yorkshire -51 17 £550 +4.76% 6
North East -27 16 £444 -1.39% 14
East of England -32 8 £400 -20.00% 4
East Midlands -12 6 £450 -9.64% 4
Wales - 4 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland +1 1 - -

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 85 (11.60%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (10.91%) Confluence
3 67 (9.14%) Apache Spark
4 55 (7.50%) Apache
5 23 (3.14%) SAS
6 9 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.95%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.82%) nginx
10 4 (0.55%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.14%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 720 (98.23%) AWS
2 454 (61.94%) Serverless
3 446 (60.85%) AWS Lambda
4 258 (35.20%) Amazon EC2
5 225 (30.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 157 (21.42%) Amazon ECS
7 148 (20.19%) GitHub
8 142 (19.37%) Amazon EKS
9 139 (18.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 139 (18.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 109 (14.87%) Amazon SQS
10 109 (14.87%) Azure
11 107 (14.60%) GitHub Actions
12 94 (12.82%) Amazon EMR
13 87 (11.87%) dbt
14 84 (11.46%) Snowflake
15 78 (10.64%) AWS Step Functions
16 62 (8.46%) Power Platform
17 59 (8.05%) AWS KMS
18 45 (6.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.46%) Firewall
2 17 (2.32%) DNS
3 10 (1.36%) Network Security
4 8 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.82%) HTTP
5 6 (0.82%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.82%) VPN
6 5 (0.68%) CTI
7 4 (0.55%) DHCP
7 4 (0.55%) Internet
7 4 (0.55%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.55%) SSL
7 4 (0.55%) WAN
8 3 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) NAS
9 2 (0.27%) SAN
9 2 (0.27%) VLAN
10 1 (0.14%) BGP
10 1 (0.14%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (24.69%) Amazon RDS
2 147 (20.05%) Amazon Athena
3 128 (17.46%) Amazon Redshift
3 128 (17.46%) DynamoDB
4 95 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
5 84 (11.46%) Data Warehouse
6 62 (8.46%) Power BI
7 61 (8.32%) Data Lake
8 49 (6.68%) Amazon Aurora
9 45 (6.14%) Metadata
10 36 (4.91%) Relational Database
11 33 (4.50%) Big Data
11 33 (4.50%) MongoDB
11 33 (4.50%) NoSQL
12 30 (4.09%) Tableau
13 25 (3.41%) SQL Server
14 24 (3.27%) BigQuery
15 21 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
16 20 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (2.46%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 143 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 141 (19.24%) Git
3 138 (18.83%) GitLab
4 85 (11.60%) JIRA
5 28 (3.82%) JUnit
5 28 (3.82%) SonarQube
6 27 (3.68%) Bitbucket
7 24 (3.27%) Mockito
8 21 (2.86%) Maven
9 19 (2.59%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.91%) DbUnit
11 13 (1.77%) jMock
12 11 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.36%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.95%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.95%) Postman
15 6 (0.82%) MLflow
16 5 (0.68%) Selenium
16 5 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
17 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 188 (25.65%) Social Skills
2 161 (21.96%) Public Sector
3 125 (17.05%) Finance
4 67 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (6.00%) Banking
6 14 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (1.91%) Front Office
7 11 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (0.95%) Back Office
9 7 (0.95%) Law
9 7 (0.95%) Marketing
9 7 (0.95%) Military
10 6 (0.82%) Legal
11 5 (0.68%) Billing
11 5 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.55%) Retail
12 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 166 (22.65%) Data Engineer
2 138 (18.83%) Developer
3 135 (18.42%) AWS Engineer
4 104 (14.19%) Senior
5 91 (12.41%) Lead
6 90 (12.28%) Architect
7 60 (8.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (6.14%) AWS Data Engineer
8 45 (6.14%) Java Developer
9 42 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (5.59%) Senior Data Engineer
11 37 (5.05%) AWS Architect
12 36 (4.91%) AWS DevOps
13 32 (4.37%) AWS Developer
14 29 (3.96%) Data Architect
15 28 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 24 (3.27%) Python Engineer
18 22 (3.00%) Software Engineer
19 21 (2.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.32%) PySpark
2 79 (10.78%) Kafka
3 74 (10.10%) REST
4 66 (9.00%) Spring Boot
5 65 (8.87%) Spring
6 63 (8.59%) Node.js
7 62 (8.46%) React
8 58 (7.91%) RESTful
9 56 (7.64%) AWS CDK
10 32 (4.37%) SOAP
11 30 (4.09%) FastAPI
12 28 (3.82%) AngularJS
13 26 (3.55%) OAuth
14 25 (3.41%) Web Services
15 23 (3.14%) JSON
15 23 (3.14%) Pandas
15 23 (3.14%) PyTorch
16 21 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
16 21 (2.86%) JPA
17 19 (2.59%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 175 (23.87%) Cloud Native
2 61 (8.32%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.86%) NHS
5 18 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.77%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.23%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.23%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.09%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.09%) Legacy Code
10 7 (0.95%) Fixed Income
10 7 (0.95%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.95%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 89 (12.14%) Linux
2 21 (2.86%) Unix
2 21 (2.86%) Windows
3 17 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.55%) AIX
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.27%) zOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (61.26%) CI/CD
2 299 (40.79%) DevOps
3 290 (39.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 266 (36.29%) Agile
5 186 (25.38%) Data Pipeline
6 181 (24.69%) Analytics
6 181 (24.69%) Data Engineering
7 152 (20.74%) Data Modelling
7 152 (20.74%) ETL
8 145 (19.78%) AI
9 143 (19.51%) Containerisation
10 120 (16.37%) Microservices
11 115 (15.69%) Observability
12 109 (14.87%) Migration
13 99 (13.51%) Machine Learning
14 98 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 96 (13.10%) Test Automation
16 94 (12.82%) Scrum
17 88 (12.01%) Business Intelligence
17 88 (12.01%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 414 (56.48%) Python
2 269 (36.70%) SQL
3 132 (18.01%) Java
4 79 (10.78%) TypeScript
5 70 (9.55%) Bash
6 61 (8.32%) JavaScript
7 38 (5.18%) C#
8 31 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.27%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.14%) Scala
11 13 (1.77%) Groovy
12 7 (0.95%) Bicep
13 6 (0.82%) SAS Macro
13 6 (0.82%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.68%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.68%) Perl
14 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.55%) Cypher
16 3 (0.41%) Go
16 3 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 246 (33.56%) Security Cleared
2 216 (29.47%) SC Cleared
3 69 (9.41%) AWS Certification
4 40 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (2.59%) Degree
7 18 (2.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 18 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.50%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.41%) CSPO
13 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.27%) CISSP
14 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (16.10%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.41%) QA
3 22 (3.00%) GDPR
4 14 (1.91%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.91%) SLA
5 7 (0.95%) PMO
6 5 (0.68%) HL7
7 4 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.55%) NIST
8 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.41%) NCSC
9 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.27%) GRC
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.27%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 210 (28.65%) Docker
2 15 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.50%) Postfix
4 7 (0.95%) Squid
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) HDFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 319 (43.52%) Terraform
2 129 (17.60%) Kubernetes
3 105 (14.32%) Grafana
4 58 (7.91%) Prometheus
5 42 (5.73%) Ansible
6 18 (2.46%) Argo
7 11 (1.50%) Puppet
7 11 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.36%) Kibana
9 7 (0.95%) Packer
10 6 (0.82%) Istio
11 5 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.68%) Salt
12 4 (0.55%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.55%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.55%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.41%) Consul
14 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.27%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 66 (9.00%) Databricks
2 36 (4.91%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.23%) Informatica
4 29 (3.96%) Oracle
5 25 (3.41%) Splunk
6 24 (3.27%) ServiceNow
7 22 (3.00%) Google
8 18 (2.46%) Atlassian
9 17 (2.32%) Dynatrace
9 17 (2.32%) Jaspersoft
10 12 (1.64%) Teradata
11 11 (1.50%) Denodo
12 10 (1.36%) IBM
12 10 (1.36%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.23%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.09%) Foundry
14 8 (1.09%) Palantir
14 8 (1.09%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.82%) Confluent
15 6 (0.82%) VMware