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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 73
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 23 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.73% 1.00% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.90% 2.65% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 1
10th Percentile £322 £415 -
25th Percentile £350 £419 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% -20.00% -18.18%
75th Percentile £488 £513 £581
90th Percentile £516 £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 291 226 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.60% 37.73% 31.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 176 173
10th Percentile £313 £195 £253
25th Percentile £420 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £588
90th Percentile £678 £700 £686
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.05%
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 £19.23
% change year-on-year +34.44% +5.28% +17.51%

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 13 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 11 (47.83%) Confluence
2 5 (21.74%) nginx
3 3 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (56.52%) Amazon ELB
3 13 (56.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 12 (52.17%) AWS KMS
5 9 (39.13%) Route 53
6 8 (34.78%) Azure
7 6 (26.09%) dbt
8 5 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (13.04%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (13.04%) Serverless
11 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) DNS
1 11 (47.83%) Firewall
2 7 (30.43%) FTP
2 7 (30.43%) HTTP
2 7 (30.43%) SMTP
2 7 (30.43%) SSH
3 5 (21.74%) IMAP
3 5 (21.74%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (17.39%) SSL
4 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
4 4 (17.39%) VPN
5 3 (13.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (39.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (73.91%) Git
2 15 (65.22%) Jenkins
3 11 (47.83%) JIRA
4 7 (30.43%) Vagrant
5 4 (17.39%) JUnit
5 4 (17.39%) Maven
5 4 (17.39%) Mockito
5 4 (17.39%) SonarQube
6 3 (13.04%) DbUnit
6 3 (13.04%) GitLab
6 3 (13.04%) jMock
7 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 13 (56.52%) Public Sector
2 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Military
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Developer
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
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%) Data Analyst
7 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) LDAP
2 4 (17.39%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
2 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
2 4 (17.39%) JPA
2 4 (17.39%) Node.js
2 4 (17.39%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) SOAP
2 4 (17.39%) Spring
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Batch
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Integration
2 4 (17.39%) Web Services
3 3 (13.04%) PowerMock
4 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
4 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Replication
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 7 (30.43%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (30.43%) VMS
2 7 (30.43%) Windows
3 5 (21.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 10 (43.48%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (34.78%) Change Management
5 7 (30.43%) Cloud Security
5 7 (30.43%) Configuration Management
5 7 (30.43%) Patch Management
5 7 (30.43%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (26.09%) Agile
6 6 (26.09%) Analytics
6 6 (26.09%) ETL
6 6 (26.09%) Migration
7 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
7 5 (21.74%) Validation
8 4 (17.39%) BPMN
8 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
8 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (17.39%) Microservices
8 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (17.39%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
1 13 (56.52%) SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Groovy
2 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
3 6 (26.09%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 15 (65.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (30.43%) AWS Certification
3 7 (30.43%) Azure Certification
4 5 (21.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Docker
2 8 (34.78%) Postfix
3 7 (30.43%) DFS Replication
4 5 (21.74%) Dovecot
4 5 (21.74%) Squid
5 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Grafana
1 11 (47.83%) Terraform
2 7 (30.43%) Prometheus
3 5 (21.74%) Nessus
3 5 (21.74%) Proxmox
4 4 (17.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (39.13%) ServiceNow
2 4 (17.39%) CheckPoint
2 4 (17.39%) F5
2 4 (17.39%) Palo Alto
3 3 (13.04%) Atlassian
3 3 (13.04%) Cognos
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft