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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 176 242
Rank change year-on-year -8 +66 +1
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 638 468 447
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.58% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.03% 4.16% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 350 353
10th Percentile £354 £403 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £663 £788 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +0.89%
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 15,848 11,250 14,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.35% 38.05% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,836 7,775 10,362
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £631
90th Percentile £700 £733 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £489
% change year-on-year -4.04% +1.23% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 189 360
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.30 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.97 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.10 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.15 £24.09 £17.80
% change year-on-year +79.11% +35.34% -19.38%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -7 516 £525 -4.55% 165
London +7 335 £525 -5.41% 69
UK excluding London -20 219 £500 - 104
Work from Home -12 184 £525 +0.38% 85
North of England -24 66 £500 - 33
Midlands -39 51 £488 +7.26% 12
West Midlands -32 44 £500 -9.09% 9
Scotland -19 41 £447 -10.60% 7
Yorkshire -32 32 £500 -2.44% 14
South East -26 29 £540 -12.73% 26
North West -21 27 £450 +5.88% 16
South West -14 18 £538 -10.54% 19
Northern Ireland +3 8 £400 - 2
North East -12 7 £475 -21.44% 3
East Midlands -32 7 £434 -2.96% 3
East of England -27 6 £475 -1.30% 4
Wales -1 2 £363 -9.38% 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 64 (10.03%) Apache Spark
2 45 (7.05%) Apache
2 45 (7.05%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (3.76%) Confluence
4 11 (1.72%) SAS
5 9 (1.41%) nginx
6 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Actimize
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 634 (99.37%) AWS
2 403 (63.17%) Serverless
3 392 (61.44%) AWS Lambda
4 264 (41.38%) Amazon EC2
5 179 (28.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 178 (27.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 161 (25.24%) Amazon ECS
8 139 (21.79%) Amazon EKS
9 137 (21.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 128 (20.06%) GitHub
11 101 (15.83%) Azure
12 96 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
13 80 (12.54%) AWS Step Functions
14 72 (11.29%) Amazon SQS
15 57 (8.93%) Route 53
16 56 (8.78%) Snowflake
17 55 (8.62%) GCP
18 45 (7.05%) Amazon EMR
19 41 (6.43%) Amazon Kinesis
20 40 (6.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.86%) DNS
2 24 (3.76%) Firewall
3 19 (2.98%) VPN
4 14 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 13 (2.04%) Network Security
6 10 (1.57%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.63%) HTTP
7 4 (0.63%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.47%) BGP
8 3 (0.47%) SSL
9 2 (0.31%) DHCP
9 2 (0.31%) Multicast
9 2 (0.31%) NAS
9 2 (0.31%) OSPF
9 2 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.31%) SAN
9 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.31%) WAN
10 1 (0.16%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (29.00%) Amazon RDS
2 113 (17.71%) PostgreSQL
3 99 (15.52%) Amazon Athena
4 91 (14.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 91 (14.26%) DynamoDB
5 54 (8.46%) Data Lake
6 53 (8.31%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (8.31%) Relational Database
7 43 (6.74%) Amazon Aurora
8 40 (6.27%) Power BI
9 31 (4.86%) MongoDB
10 30 (4.70%) MySQL
10 30 (4.70%) NoSQL
11 27 (4.23%) BigQuery
11 27 (4.23%) SQL Server
12 23 (3.61%) Metadata
13 22 (3.45%) OLTP
13 22 (3.45%) Tableau
14 21 (3.29%) Amazon QuickSight
15 20 (3.13%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 142 (22.26%) Jenkins
2 131 (20.53%) GitLab
3 109 (17.08%) Git
4 30 (4.70%) JIRA
5 23 (3.61%) JUnit
6 20 (3.13%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.98%) Bitbucket
7 19 (2.98%) Maven
8 15 (2.35%) MLflow
9 12 (1.88%) Mockito
10 10 (1.57%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.57%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.57%) Postman
11 7 (1.10%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.10%) jMock
12 6 (0.94%) Gradle
13 5 (0.78%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (0.63%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 170 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 106 (16.61%) Finance
3 101 (15.83%) Public Sector
4 63 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.64%) Banking
6 24 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.04%) Front Office
7 13 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (0.94%) Legal
9 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.63%) Military
9 4 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.47%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.31%) Billing
11 2 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.31%) Publishing
12 1 (0.16%) Games
12 1 (0.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (19.12%) Data Engineer
2 118 (18.50%) Developer
3 117 (18.34%) AWS Engineer
4 73 (11.44%) Senior
5 70 (10.97%) Architect
6 67 (10.50%) Lead
7 55 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (7.68%) Java Developer
9 38 (5.96%) AWS Architect
10 36 (5.64%) AWS Data Engineer
11 35 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (5.02%) Site Engineer
13 31 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 29 (4.55%) Analyst
15 27 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
16 26 (4.08%) Lead Data Engineer
17 25 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
17 25 (3.92%) Python Engineer
17 25 (3.92%) Software Engineer
18 22 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (17.87%) Kafka
2 80 (12.54%) Spring
2 80 (12.54%) Spring Boot
3 62 (9.72%) Node.js
4 60 (9.40%) RESTful
5 59 (9.25%) REST
6 50 (7.84%) PySpark
7 49 (7.68%) React
8 45 (7.05%) AWS CDK
9 42 (6.58%) OAuth
10 33 (5.17%) AngularJS
11 26 (4.08%) JWT
12 24 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
12 24 (3.76%) FastAPI
13 22 (3.45%) CSS
14 21 (3.29%) boto
14 21 (3.29%) JSON
15 20 (3.13%) PyTorch
16 19 (2.98%) Jest
16 19 (2.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 165 (25.86%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.19%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.04%) NHS
6 13 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.10%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.10%) Replication
10 6 (0.94%) Derivative
10 6 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.78%) Equities
11 5 (0.78%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 78 (12.23%) Linux
2 14 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (1.72%) Unix
4 8 (1.25%) Windows
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.31%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (59.87%) CI/CD
2 263 (41.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 253 (39.66%) DevOps
4 171 (26.80%) Agile
5 167 (26.18%) Containerisation
6 151 (23.67%) ETL
7 141 (22.10%) Analytics
8 136 (21.32%) Data Engineering
9 128 (20.06%) Data Modelling
10 125 (19.59%) Data Pipeline
11 116 (18.18%) Microservices
11 116 (18.18%) Observability
12 109 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
13 95 (14.89%) AI
14 82 (12.85%) Migration
15 72 (11.29%) Data Governance
16 71 (11.13%) Machine Learning
16 71 (11.13%) Performance Tuning
17 70 (10.97%) Software Engineering
18 65 (10.19%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 357 (55.96%) Python
2 223 (34.95%) SQL
3 122 (19.12%) Java
4 68 (10.66%) Bash
5 49 (7.68%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.74%) JavaScript
7 39 (6.11%) C#
8 28 (4.39%) Shell Script
9 26 (4.08%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.98%) Go
11 10 (1.57%) Scala
12 6 (0.94%) JSX
13 5 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.78%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.47%) C
14 3 (0.47%) C++
14 3 (0.47%) Korn
15 2 (0.31%) Groovy
15 2 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 195 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 155 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 62 (9.72%) AWS Certification
4 26 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.98%) Degree
7 14 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.47%) OCP
11 3 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.47%) PhD
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.31%) CISSP
13 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (11.91%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.43%) GDPR
3 34 (5.33%) QA
4 17 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.35%) NIST
6 13 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.88%) SLA
8 6 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.63%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.63%) PMO
10 3 (0.47%) NCSC
11 2 (0.31%) GxP
11 2 (0.31%) MiFID
11 2 (0.31%) WCAG
12 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.16%) IFRS
12 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 212 (33.23%) Docker
2 8 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.25%) Squid
3 6 (0.94%) Postfix
4 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.31%) HDFS
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 307 (48.12%) Terraform
2 170 (26.65%) Kubernetes
3 99 (15.52%) Grafana
4 79 (12.38%) Prometheus
5 73 (11.44%) Ansible
6 18 (2.82%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.66%) Puppet
8 16 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.41%) Argo
9 9 (1.41%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.10%) Consul
10 7 (1.10%) Kibana
10 7 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.94%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.47%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.47%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 73 (11.44%) Databricks
2 36 (5.64%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.23%) Splunk
4 26 (4.08%) Google
5 18 (2.82%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.35%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.04%) Oracle
7 13 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.41%) Confluent
9 9 (1.41%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.25%) Dell
10 8 (1.25%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.10%) Sybase
12 6 (0.94%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.94%) IBM
12 6 (0.94%) SAP
13 5 (0.78%) F5
14 4 (0.63%) Cloudera