Amazon S3 Job Trends

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Amazon S3 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 219 415
Rank change year-on-year -136 +196 -31
Permanent jobs citing Amazon S3 371 683 455
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.39% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 3.73% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 248 250 353
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £45,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.59% -3.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £71,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.89% +10.38% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,608 18,303 28,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.30% 37.21% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,219 10,901 23,698
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon S3 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Amazon S3 job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon S3
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon S3.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon S3 within the UK over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -109 332 £67,500 -14.56% 173
UK excluding London -64 198 £62,500 -12.89% 121
Work from Home -104 173 £65,000 -16.67% 92
London -125 134 £76,000 -15.56% 71
North of England +50 100 £65,000 -10.34% 49
Yorkshire +41 86 £65,000 -7.14% 24
Midlands +22 37 £60,000 -17.24% 17
South West +3 30 £62,500 -19.35% 17
East Midlands -8 24 £60,000 -14.29% 2
South East -106 23 £65,000 -13.33% 25
West Midlands +19 13 £57,600 -23.20% 15
North West +6 13 £67,500 -9.70% 23
East of England -24 6 £62,500 -13.79% 6
Scotland -25 5 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East -8 1 - - 2

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 41 (11.05%) Apache
2 37 (9.97%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (6.20%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.89%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.35%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.35%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.08%) Confluence
6 4 (1.08%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.81%) Appian
7 3 (0.81%) JBoss
8 2 (0.54%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 359 (96.77%) AWS
2 286 (77.09%) Serverless
3 278 (74.93%) AWS Lambda
4 110 (29.65%) Amazon EC2
5 107 (28.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 101 (27.22%) Amazon ECS
7 86 (23.18%) Amazon SQS
8 83 (22.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 79 (21.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 69 (18.60%) Amazon EKS
11 61 (16.44%) GitHub
12 51 (13.75%) Azure
13 44 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (11.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 43 (11.59%) Amazon ECR
15 30 (8.09%) Apigee
16 25 (6.74%) Amazon EventBridge
17 24 (6.47%) SaaS
18 21 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (5.66%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.16%) VLAN
1 8 (2.16%) VPN
2 6 (1.62%) BGP
2 6 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.35%) Network Security
3 5 (1.35%) SSL
4 4 (1.08%) AMQP
5 3 (0.81%) Broadband
5 3 (0.81%) DNS
6 2 (0.54%) Firewall
7 1 (0.27%) 4G
7 1 (0.27%) 5G
7 1 (0.27%) DHCP
7 1 (0.27%) LAN
7 1 (0.27%) MQTT
7 1 (0.27%) NAS
7 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.27%) VSAN
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (28.30%) DynamoDB
2 81 (21.83%) Amazon RDS
3 65 (17.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 59 (15.90%) PostgreSQL
5 48 (12.94%) NoSQL
6 40 (10.78%) Amazon Athena
7 35 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (7.55%) Apache Iceberg
9 26 (7.01%) Data Lake
10 25 (6.74%) Metadata
11 24 (6.47%) SQL Server
12 22 (5.93%) MongoDB
13 18 (4.85%) Relational Database
14 12 (3.23%) MySQL
15 11 (2.96%) Amazon QuickSight
16 10 (2.70%) Tableau
17 9 (2.43%) DB2
18 8 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
18 8 (2.16%) Delta Lake
19 6 (1.62%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 79 (21.29%) Jenkins
2 75 (20.22%) Git
3 56 (15.09%) GitLab
4 45 (12.13%) Cypress.io
5 29 (7.82%) SonarQube
6 28 (7.55%) Maven
7 11 (2.96%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.43%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.43%) JIRA
8 9 (2.43%) MLflow
9 6 (1.62%) Selenium
10 5 (1.35%) git-flow
11 4 (1.08%) JUnit
11 4 (1.08%) Robot Framework
11 4 (1.08%) Vite
12 3 (0.81%) ESLint
12 3 (0.81%) NUnit
12 3 (0.81%) Snyk
13 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.54%) DBeaver
General
1 111 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.02%) Finance
3 42 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.74%) Banking
5 24 (6.47%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (4.58%) Tech for Good
7 15 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.77%) Health Technology
8 14 (3.77%) Publishing
9 13 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.43%) Law
11 8 (2.16%) Retail
12 6 (1.62%) Back Office
12 6 (1.62%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.35%) Advertising
14 4 (1.08%) Billing
14 4 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.08%) Games
14 4 (1.08%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 137 (36.93%) Developer
2 89 (23.99%) Senior
3 60 (16.17%) Data Engineer
4 59 (15.90%) Lead
5 49 (13.21%) AWS Developer
6 43 (11.59%) AWS Engineer
6 43 (11.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 43 (11.59%) Java Developer
7 32 (8.63%) Senior Developer
7 32 (8.63%) Software Engineer
8 29 (7.82%) Lead Developer
8 29 (7.82%) React Developer
9 26 (7.01%) Python Developer
10 21 (5.66%) Architect
10 21 (5.66%) Software Developer
11 20 (5.39%) AWS Data Engineer
12 19 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.58%) Lead Python Developer
13 17 (4.58%) Node.js Developer
14 16 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (30.19%) React
2 92 (24.80%) Node.js
3 61 (16.44%) Spring Boot
4 57 (15.36%) RESTful
5 46 (12.40%) AngularJS
5 46 (12.40%) Jest
5 46 (12.40%) Spring
6 45 (12.13%) Kafka
7 31 (8.36%) AWS CDK
8 29 (7.82%) REST
9 28 (7.55%) Gherkin
10 26 (7.01%) .NET
11 25 (6.74%) HTML
12 21 (5.66%) CSS
13 20 (5.39%) RabbitMQ
14 19 (5.12%) PySpark
15 17 (4.58%) .NET Core
16 16 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
17 13 (3.50%) ASP.NET
17 13 (3.50%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 95 (25.61%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.43%) Blockchain
5 9 (2.43%) Web3
6 8 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.62%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.35%) NHS
9 5 (1.35%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.81%) Animation
11 3 (0.81%) Blog
11 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.81%) Life Science
11 3 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.16%) Linux
2 14 (3.77%) Windows
3 12 (3.23%) Unix
4 5 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.81%) VMS
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (67.12%) CI/CD
2 185 (49.87%) DevOps
3 143 (38.54%) Agile
4 129 (34.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 98 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (25.88%) Microservices
7 89 (23.99%) Software Engineering
8 87 (23.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (21.02%) Analytics
10 77 (20.75%) Mentoring
11 72 (19.41%) Data Pipeline
12 70 (18.87%) Containerisation
13 66 (17.79%) Data Modelling
14 61 (16.44%) Observability
15 60 (16.17%) ETL
16 59 (15.90%) Data Engineering
17 58 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 46 (12.40%) Continuous Integration
19 41 (11.05%) Platform Engineering
20 40 (10.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 174 (46.90%) Python
2 119 (32.08%) SQL
3 92 (24.80%) Java
4 81 (21.83%) TypeScript
5 75 (20.22%) JavaScript
6 59 (15.90%) Bash
7 27 (7.28%) Groovy
8 18 (4.85%) Go
9 13 (3.50%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.50%) Ruby
10 12 (3.23%) C#
11 11 (2.96%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.70%) Scala
13 4 (1.08%) C++
13 4 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.54%) Rust
15 1 (0.27%) C
15 1 (0.27%) PHP
15 1 (0.27%) R
15 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (22.10%) AWS Certification
2 43 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 36 (9.70%) Degree
4 29 (7.82%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (6.47%) AWS Certified Developer
7 20 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (4.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (4.58%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.62%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.81%) IIBA
12 3 (0.81%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.27%) CCNP
14 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (14.02%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.16%) QA
3 9 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.16%) GDPR
4 8 (2.16%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.08%) SLA
7 3 (0.81%) WCAG
8 1 (0.27%) GAAP
8 1 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 143 (38.54%) Docker
2 6 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.35%) vSphere
4 4 (1.08%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.81%) iptables
6 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (35.04%) Terraform
2 89 (23.99%) Kubernetes
3 30 (8.09%) Ansible
4 29 (7.82%) Prometheus
5 28 (7.55%) HP Fortify
6 22 (5.93%) Grafana
7 7 (1.89%) Control-M
8 4 (1.08%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.81%) Kibana
9 3 (0.81%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.81%) Puppet
10 2 (0.54%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (3.50%) Databricks
1 13 (3.50%) VMware
2 11 (2.96%) Oracle
3 8 (2.16%) IBM
4 7 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.62%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.08%) Informatica
7 3 (0.81%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (0.81%) Black Duck
7 3 (0.81%) Blue Prism
7 3 (0.81%) BMC
7 3 (0.81%) Coverity
7 3 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.81%) Google
7 3 (0.81%) Palantir
7 3 (0.81%) Talend
7 3 (0.81%) UiPath
8 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.27%) Pure Storage