Amazon S3 Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Amazon S3 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 51 64
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 8 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.93% 1.21% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.16% 4.62% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 1
10th Percentile £354 £356 -
25th Percentile £389 £398 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £447 £468
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -4.39% -33.21%
75th Percentile £456 £514 £476
90th Percentile £526 £644 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -6.52%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 253 173 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.45% 26.17% 37.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 96 228
10th Percentile £206 £189 £221
25th Percentile £360 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £454
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +4.58% -9.16%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £531
90th Percentile £615 £629 £616
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 21
10th Percentile £15.44 £13.16 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.52 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% +4.69% +12.90%
75th Percentile £24.03 £39.68 £33.25
90th Percentile £38.94 £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon S3 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Amazon S3 job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Amazon S3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the East Midlands

Amazon S3
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon S3 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -6 8 £433 +8.13% 1
Amazon S3
England

Amazon S3
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospike
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Gen AI Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) PySpark
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (25.00%) Flask
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) pytest
3 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) ETL
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Data Security
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Data Science
4 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) LLM
4 2 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
1 2 (25.00%) Google