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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 156 239
Rank change year-on-year -57 +83 +59
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 580 481 329
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 1.73% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.63% 4.64% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 352 226
10th Percentile £388 £371 £376
25th Percentile £450 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% -2.10% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £638
90th Percentile £753 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £62.17 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £63.92 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £69.83 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.98% - -
75th Percentile £72.92 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.97 £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +44.86% - -

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 15,959 10,359 11,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.33% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,663 7,014 7,872
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 268 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.13 £18.51 £18.07
Median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £58.39
90th Percentile £82.62 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.23% -4.17% -14.29%

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 29 August 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
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 29 August 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 -19 388 £575 - 258
Midlands -34 64 £461 -3.00% 24
North of England -61 63 £475 -5.00% 56
West Midlands -31 54 £466 -1.95% 10
South West -25 29 £473 -13.50% 25
North West -63 25 £505 +6.32% 27
South East -66 25 £575 +35.29% 25
North East -21 20 £425 -2.86% 15
Yorkshire -48 18 £550 +4.76% 14
East Midlands -10 9 £419 -22.02% 14
East of England -38 7 £400 -27.27% 19
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 74 (12.76%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (11.03%) Confluence
3 45 (7.76%) Apache Spark
4 41 (7.07%) Apache
5 16 (2.76%) SAS
6 10 (1.72%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.38%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.38%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.86%) nginx
9 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.34%) CMS
10 2 (0.34%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.17%) Mule
11 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 572 (98.62%) AWS
2 366 (63.10%) Serverless
3 362 (62.41%) AWS Lambda
4 192 (33.10%) Amazon EC2
5 177 (30.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 134 (23.10%) GitHub
7 123 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
8 116 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
9 105 (18.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 103 (17.76%) GitHub Actions
11 94 (16.21%) Azure
12 90 (15.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 88 (15.17%) Amazon SQS
14 74 (12.76%) Snowflake
15 71 (12.24%) dbt
16 66 (11.38%) AWS Step Functions
17 60 (10.34%) Amazon EMR
18 55 (9.48%) Power Platform
19 43 (7.41%) AWS KMS
20 40 (6.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.28%) Firewall
2 15 (2.59%) DNS
3 8 (1.38%) Network Security
4 6 (1.03%) SSL
5 5 (0.86%) HTTP
5 5 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.69%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.69%) VPN
6 4 (0.69%) WAN
7 3 (0.52%) CTI
7 3 (0.52%) OpenVPN
7 3 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.52%) SAN
8 2 (0.34%) FTP
8 2 (0.34%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.34%) Internet
8 2 (0.34%) NAS
8 2 (0.34%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.34%) SMTP
8 2 (0.34%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (26.38%) Amazon RDS
2 119 (20.52%) Amazon Athena
3 108 (18.62%) DynamoDB
4 100 (17.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 79 (13.62%) Data Warehouse
6 77 (13.28%) PostgreSQL
7 55 (9.48%) Power BI
8 50 (8.62%) Data Lake
9 39 (6.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 37 (6.38%) Metadata
11 26 (4.48%) Tableau
12 25 (4.31%) Big Data
12 25 (4.31%) Relational Database
13 22 (3.79%) NoSQL
14 21 (3.62%) Data Vault
14 21 (3.62%) MongoDB
15 20 (3.45%) BigQuery
15 20 (3.45%) Delta Lake
15 20 (3.45%) SQL Server
16 19 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 122 (21.03%) Git
2 118 (20.34%) GitLab
2 118 (20.34%) Jenkins
3 63 (10.86%) JIRA
4 23 (3.97%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.41%) SonarQube
6 12 (2.07%) JUnit
6 12 (2.07%) Maven
6 12 (2.07%) Mockito
7 11 (1.90%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.21%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.21%) DbUnit
8 7 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.03%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.03%) jMock
9 6 (1.03%) Postman
10 5 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.52%) Selenium
12 2 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 144 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 118 (20.34%) Public Sector
3 100 (17.24%) Finance
4 53 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.72%) Banking
6 14 (2.41%) Front Office
7 10 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.55%) Back Office
8 9 (1.55%) Military
9 7 (1.21%) Law
10 6 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.03%) Publishing
11 4 (0.69%) Billing
11 4 (0.69%) Marketing
11 4 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.69%) Retail
12 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.52%) Police
12 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 155 (26.72%) Data Engineer
2 101 (17.41%) Senior
3 100 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
4 85 (14.66%) Developer
5 75 (12.93%) Lead
6 69 (11.90%) Architect
7 59 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (7.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 36 (6.21%) AWS Data Engineer
10 33 (5.69%) AWS DevOps
11 25 (4.31%) AWS Developer
12 24 (4.14%) AWS Architect
12 24 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (4.14%) Data Architect
12 24 (4.14%) Java Developer
13 23 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 22 (3.79%) Snowflake Engineer
15 21 (3.62%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (49.14%) Terraform
2 70 (12.07%) Kafka
3 63 (10.86%) PySpark
4 59 (10.17%) REST
5 53 (9.14%) React
6 45 (7.76%) RESTful
7 44 (7.59%) Spring Boot
8 43 (7.41%) Spring
9 38 (6.55%) Node.js
10 24 (4.14%) FastAPI
11 22 (3.79%) AngularJS
11 22 (3.79%) AWS CDK
12 20 (3.45%) JSON
13 18 (3.10%) GraphQL
13 18 (3.10%) SOAP
14 14 (2.41%) .NET
15 13 (2.24%) Next.js
15 13 (2.24%) Web Services
16 12 (2.07%) Flask
16 12 (2.07%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 145 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 52 (8.97%) Product Ownership
3 34 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.45%) NHS
5 13 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.72%) Replication
7 10 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.38%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.21%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.21%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.21%) Legacy Code
10 7 (1.21%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.21%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 80 (13.79%) Linux
2 21 (3.62%) Unix
3 17 (2.93%) Windows
4 12 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.72%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.86%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.69%) AIX
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.34%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (63.10%) CI/CD
2 259 (44.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 241 (41.55%) DevOps
4 205 (35.34%) Agile
5 158 (27.24%) Data Pipeline
6 154 (26.55%) Data Engineering
7 128 (22.07%) Analytics
8 119 (20.52%) Data Modelling
9 116 (20.00%) ETL
10 109 (18.79%) AI
11 107 (18.45%) Containerisation
12 104 (17.93%) Observability
13 88 (15.17%) Test Automation
14 85 (14.66%) Migration
15 84 (14.48%) Microservices
16 81 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
17 78 (13.45%) Event-Driven
18 76 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
19 75 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
20 73 (12.59%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 343 (59.14%) Python
2 224 (38.62%) SQL
3 102 (17.59%) Java
4 63 (10.86%) Bash
5 58 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 40 (6.90%) JavaScript
7 30 (5.17%) C#
8 29 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.97%) Shell Script
10 20 (3.45%) Scala
11 18 (3.10%) Groovy
12 8 (1.38%) Bicep
13 7 (1.21%) Perl
13 7 (1.21%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.86%) R
15 4 (0.69%) Cypher
15 4 (0.69%) Go
15 4 (0.69%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.69%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 202 (34.83%) Security Cleared
2 183 (31.55%) SC Cleared
3 70 (12.07%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 27 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.28%) Degree
6 18 (3.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.24%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.90%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.03%) CISM
12 6 (1.03%) CISSP
13 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.52%) SnowPro
16 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (16.72%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.83%) QA
3 14 (2.41%) GDPR
4 9 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.38%) NIST
5 8 (1.38%) SLA
6 6 (1.03%) HL7
7 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.52%) PMO
8 2 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.34%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 186 (32.07%) Docker
2 15 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.21%) Postfix
4 6 (1.03%) Squid
5 2 (0.34%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.34%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 98 (16.90%) Kubernetes
2 83 (14.31%) Grafana
3 47 (8.10%) Prometheus
4 38 (6.55%) Ansible
5 18 (3.10%) Argo
6 10 (1.72%) Kibana
6 10 (1.72%) Puppet
7 8 (1.38%) Packer
8 7 (1.21%) Istio
9 5 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.69%) Karpenter
10 4 (0.69%) Salt
11 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.34%) Consul
12 2 (0.34%) Control-M
12 2 (0.34%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.34%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.34%) systemd
12 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (8.45%) Databricks
2 43 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.69%) Oracle
4 27 (4.66%) Informatica
5 22 (3.79%) Splunk
6 18 (3.10%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.76%) Google
8 14 (2.41%) Dynatrace
9 12 (2.07%) Teradata
10 10 (1.72%) Denodo
10 10 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.38%) Confluent
11 8 (1.38%) Foundry
11 8 (1.38%) Palantir
11 8 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.21%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.21%) SnapLogic
13 6 (1.03%) Brio
13 6 (1.03%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.03%) VMware