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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 31 62
Rank change year-on-year -38 +31 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 8 38 5
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.87% 6.38% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 21.47% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 26 3
10th Percentile £382 £419 £401
25th Percentile £398 £463 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -29.63% +96.36%
75th Percentile £478 £488 £719
90th Percentile £495 £500 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £475 £675
% change year-on-year -1.26% -29.63% +125.00%

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 281 177 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.68% 29.70% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 121 185
10th Percentile £260 £200 £210
25th Percentile £380 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £594
90th Percentile £716 £633 £703
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -7.32% +5.13% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile - £38.09 £17.58
25th Percentile £65.00 £41.22 £19.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.38 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.76% +22.26% +98.72%
75th Percentile £75.00 £54.47 £56.25
90th Percentile - £58.16 £58.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £35.49 £33.74
% change year-on-year -4.23% +5.20% +82.35%

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
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 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
1 1 (12.50%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub
5 2 (25.00%) Route 53
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Data Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) JUnit
3 2 (25.00%) Maven
3 2 (25.00%) Mockito
3 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DataOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
4 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Node.js
2 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (37.50%) REST
3 3 (37.50%) Web Services
4 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (25.00%) JPA
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) SOAP
4 2 (25.00%) Spring Batch
4 2 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) Spring Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (12.50%) Kafka
5 1 (12.50%) Mustache
5 1 (12.50%) React
5 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Derivative
2 1 (12.50%) Equities
2 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) Scrum
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Kanban
5 3 (37.50%) TDD
6 2 (25.00%) Biometrics
6 2 (25.00%) BPMN
6 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Digital Identity
6 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (12.50%) Charles River
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Murex