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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 26 56
Rank change year-on-year -34 +30 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 14 30 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.55% 5.34% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.15% 20.41% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 4
10th Percentile £365 £415 £358
25th Percentile £406 £463 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £506 £488 £703
90th Percentile £555 £500 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -1.26% -13.64% +4.76%

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 272 147 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.12% 26.16% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 100 180
10th Percentile £308 £200 £250
25th Percentile £397 £328 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £625
90th Percentile £688 £613 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile - £38.09 £17.05
25th Percentile £65.00 £41.22 £18.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.38 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.76% +110.56% +3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £54.47 £39.38
90th Percentile - £58.16 £48.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £30.88
% change year-on-year -1.28% +11.51% +66.89%

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 18 August 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 2 (14.29%) SAS
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (57.14%) Serverless
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (35.71%) AWS KMS
6 4 (28.57%) Azure
6 4 (28.57%) Route 53
7 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (21.43%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (21.43%) GitHub
8 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 6 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 2 (14.29%) Data Vault
5 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Git
2 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (28.57%) JUnit
3 4 (28.57%) Maven
3 4 (28.57%) Mockito
3 4 (28.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (7.14%) Burp Suite
4 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.14%) DbUnit
4 1 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) jMock
4 1 (7.14%) Metasploit
4 1 (7.14%) sqlmap
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Front Office
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Java Developer
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) DataOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum Master
5 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) Node.js
2 6 (42.86%) Spring
2 6 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 5 (35.71%) REST
3 5 (35.71%) Web Services
4 4 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 4 (28.57%) JPA
4 4 (28.57%) SOAP
4 4 (28.57%) Spring Batch
4 4 (28.57%) Spring Cloud
4 4 (28.57%) Spring Integration
5 3 (21.43%) RESTful
6 2 (14.29%) React
7 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
7 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (7.14%) Kafka
7 1 (7.14%) Mustache
7 1 (7.14%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Equities
3 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 10 (71.43%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Microservices
3 7 (50.00%) Scrum
4 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) TDD
6 4 (28.57%) BPMN
6 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (28.57%) Kanban
7 3 (21.43%) Biometrics
7 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
7 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 3 (21.43%) Digital Identity
7 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (14.29%) Kimball Methodology
8 2 (14.29%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Grafana
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Informatica
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) Charles River
3 1 (7.14%) Murex
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk