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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 220 382
Rank change year-on-year -143 +162 -28
Permanent jobs citing Amazon S3 317 725 360
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.34% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 3.70% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 208 252 276
10th Percentile £52,400 £53,876 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £79,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% +12.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £81,500 £97,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £74,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.39% +19.60% -3.85%

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 20,457 19,576 21,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.44% 36.11% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,164 11,507 17,729
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,264 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +5.44% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK

Amazon S3
Top 15 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 6 January 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 -146 289 £72,500 -8.23% 233
UK excluding London -80 168 £62,500 -16.39% 177
Work from Home -108 149 £67,500 -14.56% 161
London -115 125 £76,000 -15.56% 84
North of England +36 78 £61,250 -5.77% 35
Yorkshire +41 64 £61,250 -9.26% 17
South West +10 30 £62,500 -19.35% 22
Midlands +22 27 £63,750 -12.07% 17
South East -97 25 £67,500 -11.48% 61
West Midlands +32 17 £62,500 -16.67% 8
North West -6 14 £62,500 -10.39% 14
East Midlands -3 10 £65,000 -7.14% 9
East of England -8 6 - - 28
Scotland -20 5 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 5

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 34 (10.73%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (10.41%) Apache
3 23 (7.26%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.47%) Confluence
5 7 (2.21%) OpenStack
5 7 (2.21%) Tomcat
5 7 (2.21%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.89%) Appian
6 6 (1.89%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (1.26%) nginx
8 2 (0.63%) JBoss
9 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.32%) Luigi
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 304 (95.90%) AWS
2 236 (74.45%) Serverless
3 229 (72.24%) AWS Lambda
4 103 (32.49%) Amazon EC2
5 88 (27.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 77 (24.29%) Amazon ECS
7 70 (22.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 67 (21.14%) Amazon SQS
9 57 (17.98%) AWS Step Functions
9 57 (17.98%) Azure
10 53 (16.72%) Amazon EKS
11 49 (15.46%) GitHub
12 47 (14.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 36 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (8.83%) Amazon ECR
15 24 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (6.62%) Snowflake
17 20 (6.31%) Amazon EventBridge
18 19 (5.99%) Apigee
18 19 (5.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.10%) DNS
2 10 (3.15%) Firewall
3 9 (2.84%) FTP
3 9 (2.84%) HTTP
3 9 (2.84%) SMTP
3 9 (2.84%) SSH
4 7 (2.21%) AMQP
4 7 (2.21%) SSL
4 7 (2.21%) VPN
5 6 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.58%) Broadband
6 5 (1.58%) VLAN
7 4 (1.26%) IMAP
7 4 (1.26%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.95%) BGP
9 2 (0.63%) NAS
9 2 (0.63%) Network Security
9 2 (0.63%) SAN
10 1 (0.32%) MQTT
10 1 (0.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (27.44%) Amazon RDS
2 84 (26.50%) DynamoDB
3 58 (18.30%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (17.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (12.62%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (11.99%) NoSQL
7 28 (8.83%) Amazon Athena
8 27 (8.52%) Data Lake
8 27 (8.52%) SQL Server
9 21 (6.62%) Apache Iceberg
10 18 (5.68%) Metadata
10 18 (5.68%) Relational Database
11 16 (5.05%) MongoDB
12 11 (3.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (3.47%) DB2
13 9 (2.84%) MySQL
14 8 (2.52%) Big Data
15 7 (2.21%) Amazon QuickSight
15 7 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.89%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 72 (22.71%) Git
1 72 (22.71%) Jenkins
2 40 (12.62%) GitLab
3 31 (9.78%) Cypress.io
4 18 (5.68%) SonarQube
5 17 (5.36%) JIRA
5 17 (5.36%) Maven
6 11 (3.47%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.84%) Vagrant
8 8 (2.52%) MLflow
8 8 (2.52%) Selenium
9 6 (1.89%) Robot Framework
9 6 (1.89%) Snyk
10 5 (1.58%) git-flow
10 5 (1.58%) Vite
11 4 (1.26%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.26%) JUnit
12 3 (0.95%) ESLint
13 2 (0.63%) ER Studio
13 2 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 112 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.62%) Finance
3 31 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (5.99%) Tech for Good
7 16 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (4.73%) Banking
8 15 (4.73%) Health Technology
8 15 (4.73%) Publishing
9 12 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.89%) Law
12 5 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.58%) Retail
13 3 (0.95%) Advertising
13 3 (0.95%) Billing
13 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.95%) Games
13 3 (0.95%) Legal
Job Titles
1 96 (30.28%) Developer
2 71 (22.40%) Senior
3 56 (17.67%) Data Engineer
4 54 (17.03%) Lead
5 42 (13.25%) AWS Developer
6 34 (10.73%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 28 (8.83%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (8.52%) Lead Developer
10 26 (8.20%) Software Engineer
11 24 (7.57%) Java Developer
12 23 (7.26%) React Developer
13 21 (6.62%) Python Developer
13 21 (6.62%) Senior Developer
14 20 (6.31%) Architect
15 19 (5.99%) Senior Data Engineer
16 17 (5.36%) Lead Python Developer
17 15 (4.73%) AWS Data Engineer
17 15 (4.73%) Software Developer
17 15 (4.73%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (27.76%) React
2 59 (18.61%) Node.js
3 46 (14.51%) RESTful
3 46 (14.51%) Spring Boot
4 42 (13.25%) Spring
5 38 (11.99%) Kafka
6 31 (9.78%) Jest
7 30 (9.46%) AWS CDK
8 27 (8.52%) AngularJS
9 25 (7.89%) REST
10 23 (7.26%) .NET
11 20 (6.31%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (5.36%) Gherkin
14 16 (5.05%) HTML
14 16 (5.05%) PySpark
15 15 (4.73%) .NET Core
16 14 (4.42%) CSS
17 13 (4.10%) ASP.NET
17 13 (4.10%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 81 (25.55%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (2.52%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.52%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.89%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.89%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.58%) Replication
8 4 (1.26%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.26%) Life Science
8 4 (1.26%) Web3
9 3 (0.95%) Animation
9 3 (0.95%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.46%) Linux
2 19 (5.99%) Windows
3 15 (4.73%) Unix
4 12 (3.79%) VMS
5 8 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.21%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (65.30%) CI/CD
2 157 (49.53%) DevOps
3 129 (40.69%) Agile
4 109 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (26.18%) Microservices
6 76 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (22.71%) Mentoring
7 72 (22.71%) Software Engineering
8 63 (19.87%) Data Pipeline
9 62 (19.56%) Full-Stack Development
10 59 (18.61%) Containerisation
11 57 (17.98%) Analytics
11 57 (17.98%) Data Modelling
12 54 (17.03%) ETL
13 49 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (15.46%) Data Engineering
14 40 (12.62%) Continuous Integration
15 39 (12.30%) Scrum
16 34 (10.73%) Coaching
16 34 (10.73%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 165 (52.05%) Python
2 100 (31.55%) SQL
3 77 (24.29%) Java
4 64 (20.19%) TypeScript
5 60 (18.93%) JavaScript
6 47 (14.83%) Bash
7 25 (7.89%) Groovy
8 20 (6.31%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.10%) Go
10 12 (3.79%) C#
11 11 (3.47%) Scala
12 10 (3.15%) Ruby
13 7 (2.21%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.58%) Perl
15 4 (1.26%) C++
15 4 (1.26%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.32%) C
16 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.32%) R
16 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (24.92%) AWS Certification
2 54 (17.03%) Security Cleared
3 44 (13.88%) SC Cleared
4 35 (11.04%) Degree
5 24 (7.57%) AWS Certified Developer
5 24 (7.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.47%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.15%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (2.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.89%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.58%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.95%) MCP
12 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.63%) IIBA
14 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.25%) Data Quality
2 36 (11.36%) QA
3 9 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.21%) GDPR
4 7 (2.21%) SLA
5 6 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.26%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.95%) WCAG
8 1 (0.32%) CDISC
8 1 (0.32%) DICOM
8 1 (0.32%) GAAP
8 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.32%) HL7
8 1 (0.32%) IFRS
8 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 118 (37.22%) Docker
2 7 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.26%) DFS Replication
3 4 (1.26%) Dovecot
3 4 (1.26%) Postfix
3 4 (1.26%) Squid
3 4 (1.26%) vSphere
4 3 (0.95%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) iptables
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 117 (36.91%) Terraform
2 73 (23.03%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.41%) Prometheus
4 31 (9.78%) Ansible
5 29 (9.15%) Grafana
6 17 (5.36%) HP Fortify
7 6 (1.89%) Control-M
7 6 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.26%) Nessus
8 4 (1.26%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.95%) Kibana
9 3 (0.95%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.63%) Argo
10 2 (0.63%) Nagios
10 2 (0.63%) Puppet
11 1 (0.32%) Podman
11 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (5.05%) VMware
2 10 (3.15%) IBM
2 10 (3.15%) Oracle
3 9 (2.84%) Red Hat
3 9 (2.84%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.52%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.21%) Databricks
6 6 (1.89%) BiZZdesign
6 6 (1.89%) Black Duck
6 6 (1.89%) UiPath
7 5 (1.58%) Blue Prism
7 5 (1.58%) Coverity
8 4 (1.26%) Informatica
8 4 (1.26%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (0.95%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.95%) BMC
9 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.95%) Google
9 3 (0.95%) Talend
10 1 (0.32%) StreamSets