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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 54 67
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 18 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.11% 0.93% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.27% 2.43% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 2
10th Percentile £322 £415 £426
25th Percentile £334 £419 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -8.86% -21.00%
75th Percentile £488 £513 £545
90th Percentile £516 £535 £567
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £494
% change year-on-year -9.09% +11.39% -21.00%

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 287 206 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.57% 38.43% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 164 174
10th Percentile £313 £193 £250
25th Percentile £413 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +9.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £595 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £684
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
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% +62.65%
75th Percentile £51.13 - £26.50
90th Percentile £66.80 - £37.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £18.44 £19.95
% change year-on-year +47.60% -7.59% +21.06%

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 8 March 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 4 (22.22%) Confluence
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (44.44%) AWS KMS
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (33.33%) dbt
4 6 (33.33%) Route 53
5 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (27.78%) Serverless
6 4 (22.22%) Azure
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon Glacier
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
9 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (33.33%) DynamoDB
3 6 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Data Vault
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Git
2 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
3 6 (33.33%) JUnit
3 6 (33.33%) Maven
3 6 (33.33%) Mockito
3 6 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 4 (22.22%) DbUnit
4 4 (22.22%) JIRA
4 4 (22.22%) jMock
5 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
1 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 6 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 6 (33.33%) JPA
1 6 (33.33%) Node.js
1 6 (33.33%) REST
1 6 (33.33%) SOAP
1 6 (33.33%) Spring
1 6 (33.33%) Spring Batch
1 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 6 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
1 6 (33.33%) Spring Integration
1 6 (33.33%) Web Services
2 4 (22.22%) PowerMock
3 2 (11.11%) Bootstrap
3 2 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Analytics
3 6 (33.33%) BPMN
3 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 6 (33.33%) ETL
3 6 (33.33%) Microservices
3 6 (33.33%) Migration
3 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (33.33%) Scrum
3 6 (33.33%) TDD
4 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
4 5 (27.78%) Validation
5 4 (22.22%) Biometrics
5 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (22.22%) Kanban
5 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 3 (16.67%) Cognos
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.56%) Databricks
5 1 (5.56%) F5
5 1 (5.56%) Informatica
5 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto