Amazon S3 Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Amazon S3 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 55 71
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 23 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.71% 1.04% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.82% 2.70% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile £323 £415 -
25th Percentile £358 £419 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -20.00% -18.18%
75th Percentile £488 £513 £581
90th Percentile £574 £535 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £431
% change year-on-year -9.09% +27.54% -37.27%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Birmingham

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 in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 294 222 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.59% 38.61% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 172 171
10th Percentile £313 £191 £250
25th Percentile £419 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £584
90th Percentile £679 £698 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £455
% change year-on-year - +9.89% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £21.20 - £14.03
25th Percentile £22.63 - £17.04
Median hourly rate £25.00 £60.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +130.77% +67.85%
75th Percentile £51.13 - £26.50
90th Percentile £66.80 - £37.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.95
% change year-on-year +34.44% +1.45% +21.94%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Amazon S3 job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Amazon S3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in Birmingham

Amazon S3
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 9 (39.13%) Confluence
2 3 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.04%) nginx
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 16 (69.57%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon ELB
3 11 (47.83%) AWS KMS
3 11 (47.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (34.78%) Route 53
5 7 (30.43%) Azure
6 6 (26.09%) dbt
7 5 (21.74%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (17.39%) Serverless
9 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (13.04%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) DNS
1 9 (39.13%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) FTP
2 5 (21.74%) HTTP
2 5 (21.74%) SMTP
2 5 (21.74%) SSH
3 4 (17.39%) SSL
3 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
3 4 (17.39%) VPN
4 3 (13.04%) IMAP
4 3 (13.04%) Network Security
4 3 (13.04%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (34.78%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (21.74%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Git
2 14 (60.87%) Jenkins
3 9 (39.13%) JIRA
4 5 (21.74%) JUnit
4 5 (21.74%) Maven
4 5 (21.74%) Mockito
4 5 (21.74%) SonarQube
4 5 (21.74%) Vagrant
5 4 (17.39%) DbUnit
5 4 (17.39%) jMock
6 3 (13.04%) GitLab
7 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 12 (52.17%) Public Sector
2 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Military
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior
5 4 (17.39%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Analyst
6 3 (13.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Data Analyst
6 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (8.70%) Lead
7 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
1 5 (21.74%) Hibernate
1 5 (21.74%) JPA
1 5 (21.74%) Node.js
1 5 (21.74%) REST
1 5 (21.74%) SOAP
1 5 (21.74%) Spring
1 5 (21.74%) Spring Batch
1 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
1 5 (21.74%) Spring Cloud
1 5 (21.74%) Spring Integration
1 5 (21.74%) Web Services
2 4 (17.39%) PowerMock
3 3 (13.04%) LDAP
4 2 (8.70%) Bootstrap
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Replication
2 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon Linux
2 5 (21.74%) VMS
2 5 (21.74%) Windows
3 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
5 6 (26.09%) Analytics
5 6 (26.09%) Change Management
5 6 (26.09%) ETL
5 6 (26.09%) Migration
6 5 (21.74%) BPMN
6 5 (21.74%) Cloud Security
6 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
6 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
6 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
6 5 (21.74%) Microservices
6 5 (21.74%) Patch Management
6 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Scrum
6 5 (21.74%) TDD
6 5 (21.74%) Validation
7 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 11 (47.83%) Python
3 8 (34.78%) Java
4 5 (21.74%) Groovy
4 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
5 4 (17.39%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 14 (60.87%) SC Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Certification
3 5 (21.74%) Azure Certification
4 3 (13.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) Docker
2 7 (30.43%) Postfix
3 5 (21.74%) DFS Replication
4 3 (13.04%) Dovecot
4 3 (13.04%) Squid
5 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Grafana
2 9 (39.13%) Terraform
3 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
4 4 (17.39%) Ansible
5 3 (13.04%) Nessus
5 3 (13.04%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (30.43%) ServiceNow
3 4 (17.39%) Atlassian
3 4 (17.39%) CheckPoint
3 4 (17.39%) F5
3 4 (17.39%) Palo Alto
4 3 (13.04%) Cognos
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft