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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 166 229
Rank change year-on-year -60 +63 +77
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 566 465 344
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.66% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.55% 4.31% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 323 227
10th Percentile £400 £394 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £669
90th Percentile £753 £733 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £58.15 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% - -
75th Percentile £72.66 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.86 £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £62.45 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +35.03% - -

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 15,937 10,784 11,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.44% 35.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,280 7,554
10th Percentile £323 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.49%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 256 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.12 £16.03
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -23 376 £599 +4.17% 359
North of England -59 72 £463 -7.50% 72
Midlands -44 56 £469 -1.26% 23
West Midlands -52 45 £475 - 7
South West -9 32 £470 -14.55% 48
North West -43 30 £450 -10.00% 43
North East -24 22 £419 -1.47% 10
Yorkshire -40 20 £500 -2.44% 19
South East -77 20 £600 +44.58% 28
East Midlands -9 10 £405 -17.97% 16
East of England -53 6 £350 -41.67% 26
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 65 (11.48%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (10.95%) Confluence
3 57 (10.07%) Apache
4 52 (9.19%) Apache Spark
5 13 (2.30%) SAS
6 9 (1.59%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (1.24%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.88%) nginx
10 4 (0.71%) Traefik
11 2 (0.35%) CMS
11 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.35%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.35%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.18%) Mule
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.18%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 548 (96.82%) AWS
2 337 (59.54%) Serverless
3 334 (59.01%) AWS Lambda
4 188 (33.22%) Amazon EC2
5 176 (31.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 136 (24.03%) GitHub
7 130 (22.97%) Amazon ECS
8 126 (22.26%) Amazon EKS
9 111 (19.61%) GitHub Actions
10 101 (17.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 99 (17.49%) Azure
12 85 (15.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 78 (13.78%) Amazon SQS
14 70 (12.37%) Amazon EMR
15 67 (11.84%) Snowflake
16 65 (11.48%) dbt
17 58 (10.25%) AWS Step Functions
18 54 (9.54%) Power Platform
19 42 (7.42%) Amazon EventBridge
20 40 (7.07%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.47%) DNS
1 14 (2.47%) Firewall
2 10 (1.77%) Network Security
3 6 (1.06%) SSL
4 5 (0.88%) HTTP
5 4 (0.71%) NetScaler
5 4 (0.71%) SAN
5 4 (0.71%) WAN
6 3 (0.53%) CTI
6 3 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (0.53%) VPN
7 2 (0.35%) FTP
7 2 (0.35%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.35%) Internet
7 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.35%) NAS
7 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.35%) SMTP
7 2 (0.35%) SSH
7 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (28.27%) Amazon RDS
2 110 (19.43%) Amazon Athena
3 106 (18.73%) DynamoDB
4 91 (16.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 79 (13.96%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (13.60%) Data Warehouse
7 54 (9.54%) Power BI
8 51 (9.01%) Data Lake
9 38 (6.71%) Amazon Aurora
10 37 (6.54%) Metadata
11 33 (5.83%) MongoDB
12 25 (4.42%) Big Data
13 24 (4.24%) NoSQL
14 23 (4.06%) SQL Server
15 22 (3.89%) Apache Iceberg
16 20 (3.53%) Delta Lake
16 20 (3.53%) Tableau
17 18 (3.18%) BigQuery
18 16 (2.83%) Data Vault
18 16 (2.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 121 (21.38%) Git
1 121 (21.38%) GitLab
2 107 (18.90%) Jenkins
3 57 (10.07%) JIRA
4 23 (4.06%) Bitbucket
5 15 (2.65%) Maven
6 11 (1.94%) JUnit
6 11 (1.94%) Mockito
7 10 (1.77%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.77%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.41%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.06%) Postman
9 6 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.88%) DbUnit
10 5 (0.88%) Selenium
11 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.71%) Gradle
11 4 (0.71%) jMock
12 3 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 145 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 113 (19.96%) Public Sector
3 108 (19.08%) Finance
4 56 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.24%) Banking
6 16 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.47%) Front Office
8 13 (2.30%) Back Office
9 8 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.41%) Military
10 7 (1.24%) Legal
11 6 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.06%) Marketing
11 6 (1.06%) Publishing
12 5 (0.88%) Billing
12 5 (0.88%) Law
12 5 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.71%) Local Government
14 3 (0.53%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 147 (25.97%) Data Engineer
2 106 (18.73%) Senior
3 88 (15.55%) AWS Engineer
4 77 (13.60%) Developer
5 73 (12.90%) Lead
6 71 (12.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (10.60%) Architect
8 47 (8.30%) Senior Data Engineer
9 39 (6.89%) AWS Data Engineer
10 29 (5.12%) AWS DevOps
11 26 (4.59%) Java Developer
12 25 (4.42%) AWS Architect
13 23 (4.06%) Technical Leader
14 22 (3.89%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 22 (3.89%) Snowflake Engineer
15 21 (3.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 20 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
16 20 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
16 20 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 20 (3.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (50.53%) Terraform
2 79 (13.96%) REST
3 77 (13.60%) Kafka
4 61 (10.78%) PySpark
5 45 (7.95%) RESTful
5 45 (7.95%) Spring Boot
6 43 (7.60%) Spring
7 39 (6.89%) React
8 25 (4.42%) FastAPI
9 23 (4.06%) GraphQL
9 23 (4.06%) Node.js
10 22 (3.89%) AngularJS
10 22 (3.89%) SOAP
11 19 (3.36%) JSON
12 17 (3.00%) AWS CDK
13 15 (2.65%) .NET
14 13 (2.30%) OAuth
14 13 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (2.12%) ActiveMQ
15 12 (2.12%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 161 (28.45%) Cloud Native
2 55 (9.72%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.36%) NHS
5 17 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.47%) Replication
7 13 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.12%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.77%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.24%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.24%) Legacy Code
12 7 (1.24%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.06%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.06%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 83 (14.66%) Linux
2 21 (3.71%) Windows
3 17 (3.00%) Unix
4 14 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.77%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.71%) AIX
7 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.35%) Android
9 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.18%) CentOS
10 1 (0.18%) VMS
10 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (66.43%) CI/CD
2 269 (47.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 254 (44.88%) DevOps
4 212 (37.46%) Agile
5 168 (29.68%) Data Engineering
6 157 (27.74%) Data Pipeline
7 123 (21.73%) Observability
8 119 (21.02%) Data Modelling
9 118 (20.85%) Analytics
10 112 (19.79%) AI
11 109 (19.26%) Containerisation
12 108 (19.08%) ETL
13 106 (18.73%) Test Automation
14 99 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 89 (15.72%) Technical Leadership
16 88 (15.55%) Migration
17 87 (15.37%) Event-Driven
18 85 (15.02%) Microservices
19 76 (13.43%) Business Intelligence
19 76 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 326 (57.60%) Python
2 231 (40.81%) SQL
3 91 (16.08%) Java
4 60 (10.60%) Bash
5 49 (8.66%) TypeScript
6 35 (6.18%) JavaScript
7 28 (4.95%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.36%) Scala
8 19 (3.36%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.00%) C#
9 17 (3.00%) Groovy
10 9 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.41%) Go
12 7 (1.24%) Bicep
12 7 (1.24%) Perl
13 4 (0.71%) Cypher
13 4 (0.71%) Gremlin
13 4 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.71%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 203 (35.87%) Security Cleared
2 182 (32.16%) SC Cleared
3 81 (14.31%) AWS Certification
4 31 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (5.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (5.12%) Degree
6 22 (3.89%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (2.30%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.59%) CISM
10 9 (1.59%) CISSP
10 9 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.41%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (1.06%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.88%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (18.73%) Data Quality
2 44 (7.77%) QA
3 11 (1.94%) GDPR
4 10 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.77%) NIST
5 6 (1.06%) HL7
6 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.35%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.35%) NCSC
7 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) GLBA
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 189 (33.39%) Docker
2 15 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.88%) Postfix
4 4 (0.71%) Squid
5 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.35%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.35%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 117 (20.67%) Kubernetes
2 83 (14.66%) Grafana
3 51 (9.01%) Prometheus
4 45 (7.95%) Ansible
5 17 (3.00%) Argo
6 12 (2.12%) Puppet
7 10 (1.77%) Kibana
8 9 (1.59%) Istio
8 9 (1.59%) Karpenter
9 8 (1.41%) Packer
10 5 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.53%) systemd
12 2 (0.35%) Consul
12 2 (0.35%) Control-M
12 2 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.35%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.35%) Salt
12 2 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (8.83%) Databricks
2 46 (8.13%) Oracle
3 43 (7.60%) Microsoft
4 23 (4.06%) Informatica
5 18 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.00%) Splunk
7 15 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.65%) Google
8 12 (2.12%) Teradata
9 11 (1.94%) Confluent
10 10 (1.77%) Denodo
11 8 (1.41%) Brio
11 8 (1.41%) Foundry
11 8 (1.41%) Palantir
11 8 (1.41%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.24%) Jaspersoft
12 7 (1.24%) SnapLogic
12 7 (1.24%) webMethods
13 6 (1.06%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.06%) Red Hat