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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 62 -
Rank change year-on-year +17 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 27 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.74% 0.58% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.02% 1.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 0
10th Percentile £421 £438 -
25th Percentile £463 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £488 £625 -
90th Percentile £495 £663 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £563 £300
% change year-on-year -15.56% +87.50% -57.14%

All Cloud 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 245 254 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.93% 37.13% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 195 192
10th Percentile £285 £194 £289
25th Percentile £413 £369 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £575
90th Percentile £649 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.30% +8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £23.40 - £22.83
25th Percentile £28.13 - £28.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +61.07% -17.22%
75th Percentile £56.63 - £46.19
90th Percentile £69.00 - £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%

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 15 December 2025.

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 18 (66.67%) Confluence
2 9 (33.33%) nginx
3 2 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 25 (92.59%) AWS
2 22 (81.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 22 (81.48%) Amazon EC2
2 22 (81.48%) Amazon ELB
2 22 (81.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 18 (66.67%) AWS KMS
4 10 (37.04%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (37.04%) Azure
5 9 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
5 9 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (33.33%) Route 53
6 3 (11.11%) GitHub
7 2 (7.41%) GCP
7 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (85.19%) DNS
2 22 (81.48%) Firewall
3 20 (74.07%) SSH
4 18 (66.67%) FTP
4 18 (66.67%) HTTP
4 18 (66.67%) SMTP
5 9 (33.33%) IMAP
5 9 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (22.22%) TCP/IP
7 5 (18.52%) SSL
8 4 (14.81%) VPN
9 3 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (70.37%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.41%) Big Data
4 2 (7.41%) Delta Lake
4 2 (7.41%) Hadoop
4 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.41%) Parquet
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.70%) DataStage
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (88.89%) Jenkins
2 23 (85.19%) Git
3 18 (66.67%) JIRA
3 18 (66.67%) Vagrant
4 4 (14.81%) GitLab
5 2 (7.41%) MLflow
5 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.70%) Poetry
6 1 (3.70%) PyCharm
6 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (70.37%) Public Sector
2 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 9 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (81.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (70.37%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (62.96%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (62.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (59.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (59.26%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (33.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 8 (29.63%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 4 (14.81%) Senior
7 4 (14.81%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (14.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
9 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Network Operations Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) LDAP
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Avro
2 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.41%) Flask
2 2 (7.41%) NumPy
2 2 (7.41%) Pandas
3 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 20 (74.07%) Linux
2 18 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
2 18 (66.67%) VMS
2 18 (66.67%) Windows
3 9 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (96.30%) DevOps
2 18 (66.67%) Change Management
2 18 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 18 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 18 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 18 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 14 (51.85%) CI/CD
4 9 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
7 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 3 (11.11%) ETL
7 3 (11.11%) High Availability
7 3 (11.11%) Incident Response
7 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (7.41%) Data Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (92.59%) Python
2 20 (74.07%) Groovy
3 18 (66.67%) PowerShell
4 13 (48.15%) SQL
5 10 (37.04%) Java
6 9 (33.33%) Perl
7 6 (22.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (85.19%) Security Cleared
2 21 (77.78%) SC Cleared
3 11 (40.74%) AWS Certification
4 10 (37.04%) Degree
5 9 (33.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (92.59%) Docker
2 18 (66.67%) DFS Replication
3 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 9 (33.33%) Dovecot
3 9 (33.33%) Postfix
3 9 (33.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (88.89%) Terraform
2 18 (66.67%) Grafana
2 18 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 9 (33.33%) Nessus
3 9 (33.33%) Proxmox
4 4 (14.81%) Ansible
5 2 (7.41%) Argo
5 2 (7.41%) Istio
5 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 9 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (14.81%) CheckPoint
3 4 (14.81%) F5
3 4 (14.81%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.41%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) Red Hat