Hybrid/Remote Amazon S3 Contract Job Trends

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Amazon S3 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 154 183
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 178 175 213
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.74% 1.49% 1.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 3.83% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 129 173
10th Percentile £400 £400 £408
25th Percentile £425 £455 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -1.82% -3.24%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £788 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,386 4,570 6,494
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.84% 38.89% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 3,073 4,706
10th Percentile £325 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £734 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 80
10th Percentile £17.80 £20.86 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - -24.10% +39.29%
75th Percentile £66.07 £64.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £78.67 £81.50 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £28.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.17% +15.00% +11.11%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon S3 and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Amazon S3 job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon S3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Amazon S3 daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Amazon S3
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon S3.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 15 (8.43%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (6.74%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.06%) Confluence
4 6 (3.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 174 (97.75%) AWS
2 105 (58.99%) Serverless
3 103 (57.87%) AWS Lambda
4 81 (45.51%) Amazon EC2
5 74 (41.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 54 (30.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (29.78%) GitHub
8 43 (24.16%) Amazon ECS
9 42 (23.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 39 (21.91%) GitHub Actions
11 37 (20.79%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (10.67%) Azure
13 17 (9.55%) AWS Step Functions
13 17 (9.55%) Datadog
13 17 (9.55%) Route 53
14 14 (7.87%) Amazon EMR
14 14 (7.87%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (7.87%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (7.30%) AWS Fargate
16 12 (6.74%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.43%) DNS
2 12 (6.74%) VPN
3 10 (5.62%) Firewall
3 10 (5.62%) SSL
3 10 (5.62%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.37%) Network Security
5 3 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.69%) SSH
6 2 (1.12%) HTTP
6 2 (1.12%) NAS
7 1 (0.56%) DHCP
7 1 (0.56%) FTP
7 1 (0.56%) IMAP
7 1 (0.56%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (34.83%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (20.79%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (15.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (13.48%) DynamoDB
5 22 (12.36%) Relational Database
6 19 (10.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 16 (8.99%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (6.74%) MongoDB
9 12 (6.74%) MySQL
10 10 (5.62%) Data Lake
10 10 (5.62%) NoSQL
11 8 (4.49%) Amazon QuickSight
11 8 (4.49%) RDBMS
12 7 (3.93%) Big Data
13 6 (3.37%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (2.81%) Delta Lake
14 5 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (2.81%) Metadata
14 5 (2.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (26.97%) Jenkins
2 43 (24.16%) GitLab
3 36 (20.22%) Git
4 12 (6.74%) JIRA
5 7 (3.93%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.25%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.25%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.69%) JUnit
7 3 (1.69%) Maven
7 3 (1.69%) MLflow
8 2 (1.12%) Poetry
8 2 (1.12%) PyCharm
8 2 (1.12%) Selenium
8 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.56%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.56%) NUnit
9 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 44 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.91%) Public Sector
3 22 (12.36%) Finance
4 18 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.25%) Banking
5 4 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.25%) Legal
6 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Front Office
7 2 (1.12%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.56%) iGaming
8 1 (0.56%) Military
8 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (26.40%) AWS Engineer
2 31 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (16.85%) Data Engineer
4 24 (13.48%) Developer
5 22 (12.36%) Senior
6 21 (11.80%) Architect
7 14 (7.87%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (7.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (7.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 13 (7.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 13 (7.30%) Lead
8 13 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) AWS Data Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Data Architect
9 11 (6.18%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) AWS Architect
11 8 (4.49%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (3.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.37%) Cloud Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.73%) AWS CDK
2 22 (12.36%) Kafka
3 19 (10.67%) Node.js
4 13 (7.30%) REST
5 12 (6.74%) React
6 11 (6.18%) Spring
7 10 (5.62%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (5.62%) Pandas
7 10 (5.62%) PySpark
7 10 (5.62%) Spring Boot
8 9 (5.06%) NumPy
8 9 (5.06%) PyTorch
8 9 (5.06%) RESTful
9 8 (4.49%) Jest
10 7 (3.93%) boto
10 7 (3.93%) JWT
10 7 (3.93%) OAuth
11 6 (3.37%) FastAPI
11 6 (3.37%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (3.37%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.93%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.93%) Replication
4 4 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.69%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.69%) Clustering
5 3 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.12%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.36%) Linux
2 5 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.69%) VMS
3 3 (1.69%) Windows
4 2 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.12%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (58.99%) CI/CD
2 89 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 80 (44.94%) DevOps
4 52 (29.21%) Agile
5 48 (26.97%) Containerisation
6 34 (19.10%) Observability
7 29 (16.29%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (16.29%) Migration
8 28 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (14.61%) ETL
10 25 (14.04%) Infrastructure Automation
10 25 (14.04%) Microservices
11 24 (13.48%) Data Modelling
12 23 (12.92%) AI
12 23 (12.92%) Analytics
13 21 (11.80%) Software Engineering
14 20 (11.24%) Test Automation
15 19 (10.67%) Machine Learning
16 18 (10.11%) Scrum
17 17 (9.55%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (57.87%) Python
2 45 (25.28%) SQL
3 30 (16.85%) Java
4 28 (15.73%) TypeScript
5 27 (15.17%) Bash
6 17 (9.55%) JavaScript
7 16 (8.99%) Go
8 7 (3.93%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.81%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.25%) Groovy
11 3 (1.69%) C#
11 3 (1.69%) JSX
11 3 (1.69%) Scala
12 2 (1.12%) Perl
13 1 (0.56%) Bicep
13 1 (0.56%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.03%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.80%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (2.25%) Degree
6 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) OCP
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.56%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.24%) QA
2 16 (8.99%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.99%) GDPR
3 6 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) NCSC
4 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.12%) GxP
5 2 (1.12%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 61 (34.27%) Docker
2 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.56%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.56%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.56%) KVM
4 1 (0.56%) Postfix
4 1 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 99 (55.62%) Terraform
2 55 (30.90%) Kubernetes
3 38 (21.35%) Grafana
4 29 (16.29%) Ansible
5 27 (15.17%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.62%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.93%) Argo
8 5 (2.81%) Puppet
9 4 (2.25%) Istio
10 2 (1.12%) Data Guard
10 2 (1.12%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.12%) Kibana
10 2 (1.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (1.12%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.12%) Packer
11 1 (0.56%) Consul
11 1 (0.56%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.56%) systemd
Vendors
1 9 (5.06%) Databricks
2 8 (4.49%) CheckPoint
2 8 (4.49%) F5
2 8 (4.49%) Palo Alto
3 6 (3.37%) Oracle
4 5 (2.81%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.81%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.25%) Splunk
5 4 (2.25%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.69%) Google
7 2 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.12%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.12%) IBM
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.12%) Sybase
8 1 (0.56%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.56%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.56%) Percona