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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 66 -
Rank change year-on-year +32 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 38 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.83% 0.43% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.51% 1.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 25 1 0
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £463 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% - -
75th Percentile £488 £688 -
90th Percentile £500 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £625 £300
% change year-on-year -24.00% +108.33% -52.00%

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 217 249 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.28% 35.32% 36.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 181 206
10th Percentile £302 £200 £300
25th Percentile £413 £350 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £669 £713 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £21.83 £17.05 -
25th Percentile £24.19 £18.63 £19.25
Median hourly rate £28.25 £22.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% +15.38% -32.36%
75th Percentile £32.19 £41.88 £19.75
90th Percentile £34.48 £52.75 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £33.74 £18.50
% change year-on-year -11.07% +82.35% +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 31 October 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 21 (55.26%) Confluence
2 9 (23.68%) nginx
3 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 36 (94.74%) AWS
2 32 (84.21%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (76.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 26 (68.42%) AWS KMS
5 25 (65.79%) Amazon ELB
5 25 (65.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 14 (36.84%) Route 53
7 12 (31.58%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (31.58%) Amazon Glacier
8 10 (26.32%) Azure
9 9 (23.68%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (10.53%) GitHub
12 3 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (7.89%) Serverless
13 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (5.26%) GCP
14 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 26 (68.42%) DNS
2 25 (65.79%) Firewall
3 23 (60.53%) SSH
4 21 (55.26%) FTP
4 21 (55.26%) HTTP
4 21 (55.26%) SMTP
5 9 (23.68%) IMAP
5 9 (23.68%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
7 5 (13.16%) SSL
8 4 (10.53%) VPN
9 3 (7.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (73.68%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (39.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (15.79%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.26%) Big Data
5 2 (5.26%) Delta Lake
5 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.26%) Parquet
5 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.63%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 35 (92.11%) Jenkins
2 33 (86.84%) Git
3 21 (55.26%) JIRA
3 21 (55.26%) Vagrant
4 7 (18.42%) SonarQube
5 6 (15.79%) Maven
6 5 (13.16%) JUnit
7 4 (10.53%) GitLab
8 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (7.89%) DbUnit
8 3 (7.89%) jMock
8 3 (7.89%) Mockito
9 2 (5.26%) MLflow
9 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (2.63%) Poetry
10 1 (2.63%) PyCharm
10 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (68.42%) Public Sector
2 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (26.32%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.63%) Military
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (68.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (52.63%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (47.37%) AWS DevOps
3 18 (47.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (42.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (42.11%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (23.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 8 (21.05%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (18.42%) Developer
7 7 (18.42%) Java Developer
8 4 (10.53%) Senior
8 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
9 3 (7.89%) Lead
9 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 2 (5.26%) AWS Developer
10 2 (5.26%) Lead Developer
10 2 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
11 1 (2.63%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) LDAP
2 7 (18.42%) REST
2 7 (18.42%) Spring
2 7 (18.42%) Spring Boot
2 7 (18.42%) Web Services
3 6 (15.79%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (15.79%) SOAP
4 5 (13.16%) Hibernate
4 5 (13.16%) JPA
4 5 (13.16%) RESTful
4 5 (13.16%) Spring Batch
4 5 (13.16%) Spring Integration
5 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.89%) Bootstrap
5 3 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (7.89%) PowerMock
5 3 (7.89%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (5.26%) Apache Avro
6 2 (5.26%) Flask
6 2 (5.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Replication
2 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 26 (68.42%) Linux
2 21 (55.26%) Amazon Linux
2 21 (55.26%) VMS
2 21 (55.26%) Windows
3 9 (23.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (86.84%) DevOps
2 21 (55.26%) Change Management
2 21 (55.26%) Cloud Security
2 21 (55.26%) Configuration Management
2 21 (55.26%) Patch Management
2 21 (55.26%) Platform Engineering
3 16 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 9 (23.68%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (18.42%) Agile
5 7 (18.42%) Microservices
5 7 (18.42%) Scrum
5 7 (18.42%) TDD
6 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (10.53%) BDD
8 4 (10.53%) DevSecOps
8 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (7.89%) Incident Response
9 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (76.32%) Python
2 23 (60.53%) Groovy
3 21 (55.26%) PowerShell
4 20 (52.63%) Java
5 18 (47.37%) SQL
6 12 (31.58%) Perl
7 7 (18.42%) Bash
8 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (78.95%) Security Cleared
2 28 (73.68%) SC Cleared
3 11 (28.95%) AWS Certification
4 10 (26.32%) Degree
5 9 (23.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 36 (94.74%) Docker
2 21 (55.26%) DFS Replication
3 12 (31.58%) Active Directory
3 12 (31.58%) Postfix
4 9 (23.68%) Dovecot
4 9 (23.68%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (71.05%) Terraform
2 24 (63.16%) Grafana
2 24 (63.16%) Prometheus
3 9 (23.68%) Nessus
3 9 (23.68%) Proxmox
4 4 (10.53%) Ansible
4 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.26%) Argo
5 2 (5.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (55.26%) ServiceNow
2 12 (31.58%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (10.53%) CheckPoint
3 4 (10.53%) F5
3 4 (10.53%) Palo Alto
4 3 (7.89%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.26%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.63%) IBM
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.63%) Red Hat