Amazon S3 Contracts

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon S3 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon S3 over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 239 261
Rank change year-on-year +69 +22 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 477 434 585
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.62% 1.02% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.32% 3.14% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 336 447
10th Percentile £400 £403 £433
25th Percentile £463 £438 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £699 £697 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £507 £499
% change year-on-year -1.28% +1.45% -4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.55

All Cloud 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 11,033 13,828 20,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.49% 32.49% 36.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,582 9,830 15,157
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 348 336
10th Percentile £15.14 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.05 £18.44
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -38.94% +56.25%
75th Percentile £46.30 £36.16 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.28 £17.72 £25.87
% change year-on-year +20.09% -31.49% +31.80%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon S3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3.

Daily rate trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 16 Contract 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 17 May 2025. 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 +76 351 £538 +2.38% 674
London +48 243 £550 +8.37% 435
Work from Home +45 171 £525 +3.75% 439
UK excluding London +36 161 £500 -1.28% 269
Scotland +15 72 £500 +7.30% 15
North of England +5 42 £488 -4.41% 88
Midlands +38 25 £475 -3.80% 42
North West +9 24 £475 -6.86% 52
West Midlands +22 20 £488 -1.27% 29
Yorkshire +5 15 £525 +3.55% 22
South East +24 10 £505 -8.18% 51
South West +41 9 £550 - 35
East of England +28 5 £500 -16.67% 21
East Midlands - 5 £459 - 13
North East - 3 - - 15
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 20

Amazon S3
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 41 (8.60%) Apache Spark
2 31 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (5.45%) Apache
4 8 (1.68%) Confluence
4 8 (1.68%) nginx
5 6 (1.26%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.05%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.63%) CMS
7 3 (0.63%) IIS
8 2 (0.42%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) JBoss
9 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.21%) Strapi
9 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 461 (96.65%) AWS
2 270 (56.60%) Serverless
3 269 (56.39%) AWS Lambda
4 180 (37.74%) Amazon EC2
5 115 (24.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 80 (16.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 77 (16.14%) Amazon SQS
8 70 (14.68%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (9.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 46 (9.64%) GitHub
11 45 (9.43%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (8.81%) Route 53
13 37 (7.76%) OpenShift
14 33 (6.92%) Azure
15 32 (6.71%) AWS Step Functions
16 31 (6.50%) AWS CodePipeline
17 30 (6.29%) CloudFront
18 28 (5.87%) Amazon EMR
19 25 (5.24%) Snowflake
20 23 (4.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.19%) Firewall
2 13 (2.73%) DNS
2 13 (2.73%) SAN
3 12 (2.52%) VPN
4 10 (2.10%) NAS
5 6 (1.26%) SMS
6 4 (0.84%) HTTP
6 4 (0.84%) Intranet
6 4 (0.84%) SSL
7 3 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.42%) DHCP
8 2 (0.42%) FCoE
8 2 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.42%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.21%) FTP
9 1 (0.21%) Internet
9 1 (0.21%) IPv4
9 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (30.19%) Amazon RDS
2 89 (18.66%) DynamoDB
3 84 (17.61%) PostgreSQL
4 63 (13.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 62 (13.00%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (12.58%) Amazon Athena
7 44 (9.22%) NoSQL
8 40 (8.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 38 (7.97%) Relational Database
10 34 (7.13%) Tableau
11 31 (6.50%) Oracle Database
12 30 (6.29%) MongoDB
13 27 (5.66%) Data Lake
13 27 (5.66%) MySQL
14 26 (5.45%) Big Data
15 17 (3.56%) Hadoop
15 17 (3.56%) Redis
16 15 (3.14%) Power BI
16 15 (3.14%) SQL Server
17 14 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 87 (18.24%) Jenkins
2 55 (11.53%) Git
3 52 (10.90%) GitLab
4 25 (5.24%) JIRA
5 16 (3.35%) Artifactory
6 13 (2.73%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.52%) Cypress.io
8 11 (2.31%) Bitbucket
8 11 (2.31%) JUnit
8 11 (2.31%) Mockito
9 8 (1.68%) Maven
10 6 (1.26%) Mocha
11 5 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.05%) Storybook
12 4 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.84%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.84%) git-flow
12 4 (0.84%) Gradle
12 4 (0.84%) jMock
13 3 (0.63%) ERwin
General
1 96 (20.13%) Public Sector
2 86 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 65 (13.63%) Finance
4 55 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.08%) Banking
6 15 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (2.31%) Retail Banking
8 8 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.68%) Front Office
8 8 (1.68%) Military
9 6 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.26%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.84%) Back Office
11 3 (0.63%) Marketing
11 3 (0.63%) Retail
12 2 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.42%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.42%) Publishing
13 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 108 (22.64%) Developer
2 104 (21.80%) AWS Engineer
3 86 (18.03%) Data Engineer
4 70 (14.68%) Architect
5 62 (13.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (10.27%) Senior
7 41 (8.60%) AWS DevOps
8 40 (8.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 34 (7.13%) AWS Architect
10 31 (6.50%) AWS Data Engineer
11 26 (5.45%) AWS Developer
12 23 (4.82%) Lead
13 22 (4.61%) Java Developer
14 19 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (3.98%) Software Engineer
15 17 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (3.35%) Python Engineer
17 15 (3.14%) Senior Developer
18 14 (2.94%) Software Developer
19 12 (2.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (13.00%) React
2 58 (12.16%) AWS CDK
3 56 (11.74%) Kafka
4 51 (10.69%) Node.js
5 37 (7.76%) RESTful
6 36 (7.55%) Spring
7 34 (7.13%) GraphQL
8 30 (6.29%) Spring Boot
9 28 (5.87%) REST
10 25 (5.24%) PySpark
11 19 (3.98%) CSS
11 19 (3.98%) Pandas
12 18 (3.77%) HTML
13 15 (3.14%) ActiveMQ
14 14 (2.94%) NumPy
15 13 (2.73%) AngularJS
15 13 (2.73%) Express.js
15 13 (2.73%) JSON
15 13 (2.73%) Svelte
16 12 (2.52%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.34%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.19%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (3.56%) Public Cloud
4 14 (2.94%) Derivative
5 12 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.89%) CSOC
6 9 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.47%) Replication
9 6 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.05%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.84%) Clustering
11 4 (0.84%) NHS
11 4 (0.84%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.84%) Wiki
12 3 (0.63%) Oracle Licensing
Operating Systems
1 50 (10.48%) Linux
2 27 (5.66%) Windows
3 17 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (3.14%) Unix
5 13 (2.73%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.47%) CentOS
7 3 (0.63%) Android
7 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (43.61%) CI/CD
2 168 (35.22%) DevOps
3 133 (27.88%) Agile
4 107 (22.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 92 (19.29%) Containerisation
6 89 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (16.56%) Data Pipeline
8 78 (16.35%) Microservices
9 65 (13.63%) ETL
10 63 (13.21%) Migration
11 58 (12.16%) High Availability
12 51 (10.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 47 (9.85%) Analytics
14 45 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (9.01%) Data Modelling
16 42 (8.81%) Data Science
17 41 (8.60%) Data Engineering
18 40 (8.39%) Computer Science
19 39 (8.18%) Software Engineering
20 37 (7.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 253 (53.04%) Python
2 132 (27.67%) SQL
3 72 (15.09%) Java
4 65 (13.63%) JavaScript
5 51 (10.69%) TypeScript
6 44 (9.22%) Bash
7 15 (3.14%) C#
8 11 (2.31%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.89%) Scala
10 7 (1.47%) Groovy
10 7 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.26%) Go
12 5 (1.05%) R
13 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.84%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.63%) Dart
14 3 (0.63%) Perl
15 2 (0.42%) PHP
15 2 (0.42%) Ruby
15 2 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 146 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 136 (28.51%) SC Cleared
3 71 (14.88%) AWS Certification
4 47 (9.85%) Degree
5 33 (6.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.42%) OCP
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.21%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.08%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.68%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (1.68%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.47%) GDPR
4 6 (1.26%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.84%) QA
7 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.63%) NIST
8 2 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 114 (23.90%) Docker
2 5 (1.05%) Postfix
3 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.63%) Lustre
4 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.42%) HDFS
5 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.21%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 141 (29.56%) Terraform
2 121 (25.37%) Kubernetes
3 57 (11.95%) Ansible
4 42 (8.81%) Grafana
5 34 (7.13%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.94%) Oracle RMAN
7 13 (2.73%) Progress Chef
7 13 (2.73%) Puppet
8 10 (2.10%) NetBackup
9 9 (1.89%) Kibana
10 6 (1.26%) Argo
11 4 (0.84%) logstash
12 3 (0.63%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.63%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.63%) Podman
12 3 (0.63%) QRadar
12 3 (0.63%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 2 (0.42%) Nagios
13 2 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 50 (10.48%) Oracle
2 21 (4.40%) Splunk
3 18 (3.77%) Databricks
4 12 (2.52%) Google
5 10 (2.10%) Veritas
6 9 (1.89%) Informatica
7 8 (1.68%) Microsoft
7 8 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.47%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.47%) IBM
8 7 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.47%) StreamSets
9 6 (1.26%) Virgin Media
10 5 (1.05%) Dell
10 5 (1.05%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.05%) Talend
10 5 (1.05%) Teradata
10 5 (1.05%) VMware
11 4 (0.84%) Hitachi
11 4 (0.84%) Jaspersoft