Amazon S3 Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Amazon S3 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 188 248
Rank change year-on-year +11 +60 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 583 364 355
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.49% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.12% 3.96% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 278 271
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £458 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £625
90th Percentile £696 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -1.23% +2.94% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,139 9,184 11,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.01% 37.63% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,757 6,438 8,584
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 186 319
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.22 £15.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +69.81% +27.59% -24.47%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.74 £32.63
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.25 £59.96
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +53.82% +31.57% -30.86%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Amazon S3 job vacancy trend in England

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon S3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in England

Amazon S3
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon S3.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon S3 in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon S3 in England

Amazon S3
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. 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
London +18 399 £525 -8.70% 65
Midlands -27 61 £475 +5.56% 9
North of England -49 57 £500 +5.26% 36
West Midlands -18 55 £488 -4.88% 7
South East -38 28 £550 -5.17% 20
North West -28 27 £450 +5.88% 26
South West -11 23 £531 -2.75% 9
Yorkshire -44 22 £500 -4.76% 8
North East -13 8 £538 -13.90% 2
East of England -31 7 £450 -10.00% 10
East Midlands -33 6 £433 +6.66% 2
Amazon S3
UK

Amazon S3
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 69 (11.84%) Apache Spark
2 63 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (7.38%) Apache
4 31 (5.32%) Confluence
5 10 (1.72%) nginx
5 10 (1.72%) SAS
6 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 581 (99.66%) AWS
2 362 (62.09%) Serverless
3 352 (60.38%) AWS Lambda
4 212 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
5 150 (25.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 136 (23.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 132 (22.64%) Amazon ECS
8 114 (19.55%) GitHub
9 107 (18.35%) Amazon EKS
9 107 (18.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 100 (17.15%) Azure
11 80 (13.72%) GitHub Actions
12 78 (13.38%) Amazon SQS
13 70 (12.01%) AWS Step Functions
14 61 (10.46%) Snowflake
15 54 (9.26%) GCP
16 51 (8.75%) Power Platform
16 51 (8.75%) Route 53
17 50 (8.58%) dbt
18 48 (8.23%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.80%) DNS
2 23 (3.95%) Firewall
3 16 (2.74%) VPN
4 14 (2.40%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.06%) Network Security
6 11 (1.89%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.51%) BGP
8 3 (0.51%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.51%) OSPF
9 2 (0.34%) Multicast
9 2 (0.34%) NAS
9 2 (0.34%) SAN
9 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.34%) VLAN
9 2 (0.34%) WAN
10 1 (0.17%) 4G
10 1 (0.17%) 5G
10 1 (0.17%) AMQP
10 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (25.90%) Amazon RDS
2 112 (19.21%) Amazon Athena
3 102 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (16.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 92 (15.78%) DynamoDB
6 52 (8.92%) Data Lake
7 51 (8.75%) Power BI
8 48 (8.23%) Data Warehouse
9 45 (7.72%) Relational Database
10 41 (7.03%) Amazon Aurora
11 37 (6.35%) NoSQL
11 37 (6.35%) Tableau
12 29 (4.97%) MongoDB
13 28 (4.80%) SQL Server
14 26 (4.46%) BigQuery
14 26 (4.46%) Metadata
15 25 (4.29%) Big Data
15 25 (4.29%) OLTP
16 21 (3.60%) OLAP
17 18 (3.09%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 130 (22.30%) Jenkins
2 116 (19.90%) Git
3 105 (18.01%) GitLab
4 42 (7.20%) JIRA
5 26 (4.46%) JUnit
6 24 (4.12%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.95%) Maven
8 22 (3.77%) Bitbucket
9 17 (2.92%) Mockito
10 14 (2.40%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.72%) DbUnit
11 10 (1.72%) jMock
12 8 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (1.37%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.20%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.03%) Gradle
15 5 (0.86%) Selenium
16 4 (0.69%) Postman
16 4 (0.69%) Terragrunt
16 4 (0.69%) Vite
General
1 148 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 105 (18.01%) Finance
3 93 (15.95%) Public Sector
4 66 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.15%) Banking
6 24 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.40%) Front Office
8 13 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.86%) Military
10 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.51%) Legal
11 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.34%) Games
12 2 (0.34%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.34%) Law
12 2 (0.34%) Local Government
12 2 (0.34%) Police
12 2 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 142 (24.36%) Data Engineer
2 120 (20.58%) Developer
3 83 (14.24%) AWS Engineer
4 70 (12.01%) Architect
4 70 (12.01%) Senior
5 62 (10.63%) Lead
6 42 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (7.20%) Java Developer
7 36 (6.17%) AWS Architect
8 31 (5.32%) AWS Data Engineer
8 31 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (5.15%) AWS Developer
10 27 (4.63%) Site Engineer
11 26 (4.46%) Lead Data Engineer
11 26 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 25 (4.29%) Analyst
12 25 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
13 23 (3.95%) Data Architect
14 22 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
14 22 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (19.90%) Kafka
2 77 (13.21%) Spring
2 77 (13.21%) Spring Boot
3 64 (10.98%) Node.js
4 59 (10.12%) RESTful
5 50 (8.58%) React
6 45 (7.72%) REST
7 42 (7.20%) PySpark
8 37 (6.35%) AngularJS
9 32 (5.49%) OAuth
10 22 (3.77%) OpenID
11 21 (3.60%) AWS CDK
11 21 (3.60%) CSS
12 20 (3.43%) SOAP
13 18 (3.09%) Great Expectations
13 18 (3.09%) Hibernate
13 18 (3.09%) JPA
13 18 (3.09%) Spring Cloud
13 18 (3.09%) Web Services
14 16 (2.74%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (23.84%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 11 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (1.89%) NHS
5 9 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.03%) Clustering
8 6 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.03%) PACS
8 6 (1.03%) SCADA
8 6 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.86%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.69%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (13.04%) Linux
2 21 (3.60%) Unix
3 14 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.86%) Windows
5 4 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.34%) Android
6 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.34%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (56.95%) CI/CD
2 232 (39.79%) DevOps
3 220 (37.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 167 (28.64%) Agile
5 139 (23.84%) Analytics
5 139 (23.84%) ETL
6 130 (22.30%) Containerisation
7 129 (22.13%) Data Modelling
8 126 (21.61%) Data Engineering
9 112 (19.21%) Data Pipeline
10 100 (17.15%) Microservices
11 91 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
12 87 (14.92%) Observability
13 73 (12.52%) AI
14 70 (12.01%) Migration
15 66 (11.32%) Data Governance
16 64 (10.98%) Performance Tuning
17 63 (10.81%) Test Automation
18 62 (10.63%) Business Intelligence
19 60 (10.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 327 (56.09%) Python
2 235 (40.31%) SQL
3 132 (22.64%) Java
4 57 (9.78%) TypeScript
5 50 (8.58%) Bash
6 45 (7.72%) JavaScript
7 43 (7.38%) C#
8 29 (4.97%) Shell Script
9 21 (3.60%) Scala
10 19 (3.26%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.06%) Go
12 6 (1.03%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.86%) Bicep
14 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.51%) C
15 3 (0.51%) C++
15 3 (0.51%) JSX
15 3 (0.51%) R
16 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 202 (34.65%) Security Cleared
2 164 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.38%) AWS Certification
4 18 (3.09%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.92%) Degree
6 15 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.51%) OCP
12 3 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.51%) PhD
12 3 (0.51%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.51%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (13.55%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.66%) GDPR
3 22 (3.77%) QA
4 13 (2.23%) NIST
5 12 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.37%) SLA
8 7 (1.20%) PMO
9 6 (1.03%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.34%) WCAG
12 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) GxP
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
12 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 194 (33.28%) Docker
2 10 (1.72%) Squid
3 9 (1.54%) Postfix
4 7 (1.20%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.51%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 278 (47.68%) Terraform
2 144 (24.70%) Kubernetes
3 80 (13.72%) Grafana
4 61 (10.46%) Prometheus
5 59 (10.12%) Ansible
6 17 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.57%) Puppet
8 13 (2.23%) Kibana
8 13 (2.23%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.54%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.20%) Consul
10 7 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.86%) Argo
11 5 (0.86%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (0.69%) Istio
12 4 (0.69%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.69%) Salt
13 3 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.51%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 64 (10.98%) Databricks
2 40 (6.86%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.66%) Splunk
4 28 (4.80%) Google
5 19 (3.26%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.92%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.23%) Jaspersoft
7 13 (2.23%) Oracle
7 13 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.06%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.72%) Confluent
10 9 (1.54%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.20%) Dell
11 7 (1.20%) Informatica
11 7 (1.20%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.20%) Sybase
12 6 (1.03%) AVEVA
12 6 (1.03%) Denodo
12 6 (1.03%) IBM
13 5 (0.86%) Ab Initio