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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 32 60
Rank change year-on-year -20 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 27 24 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.88% 4.24% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.03% 15.48% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 4
10th Percentile £324 £413 £358
25th Percentile £358 £450 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% -3.80% -5.95%
75th Percentile £502 £488 £623
90th Percentile £557 £500 £699
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -1.26% -3.80% -5.95%

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 299 155 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.94% 27.39% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 111 184
10th Percentile £312 £200 £237
25th Percentile £400 £340 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £617
90th Percentile £688 £625 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile £57.00 - £14.03
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.88 £15.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +161.11% +15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.63 £26.50
90th Percentile - - £37.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +20.00%

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 19 July 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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
2 4 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 2 (7.41%) SAS
4 1 (3.70%) Apache
4 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (48.15%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 12 (44.44%) Amazon SQS
3 12 (44.44%) Serverless
4 11 (40.74%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (37.04%) AWS KMS
6 8 (29.63%) Route 53
7 7 (25.93%) Azure
8 6 (22.22%) dbt
9 4 (14.81%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (11.11%) GitHub
10 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (7.41%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (7.41%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (7.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (40.74%) DynamoDB
3 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (29.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (29.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (7.41%) Data Vault
5 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) Metadata
6 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (51.85%) Git
2 10 (37.04%) Jenkins
3 8 (29.63%) JUnit
3 8 (29.63%) Maven
3 8 (29.63%) Mockito
3 8 (29.63%) SonarQube
4 5 (18.52%) JIRA
5 4 (14.81%) DbUnit
5 4 (14.81%) jMock
6 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (3.70%) Burp Suite
7 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.70%) GitLab
7 1 (3.70%) Metasploit
7 1 (3.70%) sqlmap
General
1 11 (40.74%) Public Sector
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Front Office
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) DataOps Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Digital Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Digital Transformation Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) Node.js
2 10 (37.04%) Spring
2 10 (37.04%) Spring Boot
3 9 (33.33%) REST
3 9 (33.33%) Web Services
4 8 (29.63%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (29.63%) AngularJS
4 8 (29.63%) Hibernate
4 8 (29.63%) JPA
4 8 (29.63%) SOAP
4 8 (29.63%) Spring Batch
4 8 (29.63%) Spring Cloud
4 8 (29.63%) Spring Integration
5 4 (14.81%) PowerMock
5 4 (14.81%) RESTful
6 2 (7.41%) Bootstrap
6 2 (7.41%) React
7 1 (3.70%) Kafka
7 1 (3.70%) Mustache
7 1 (3.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) Derivative
3 1 (3.70%) Equities
3 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Agile
2 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 14 (51.85%) DevOps
4 11 (40.74%) Microservices
4 11 (40.74%) Scrum
5 9 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 9 (33.33%) TDD
6 8 (29.63%) BPMN
6 8 (29.63%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (25.93%) Data Modelling
7 7 (25.93%) ETL
7 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (25.93%) Kanban
8 6 (22.22%) Analytics
8 6 (22.22%) Biometrics
8 6 (22.22%) Data Engineering
8 6 (22.22%) Migration
8 6 (22.22%) Validation
9 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) SQL
2 11 (40.74%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (48.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Docker
2 4 (14.81%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Grafana
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (14.81%) Atlassian
3 3 (11.11%) Cognos
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.41%) Databricks
4 2 (7.41%) Informatica
4 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Charles River
5 1 (3.70%) Murex
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk