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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 187 278
Rank change year-on-year -5 +91 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 466 350 312
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.49% 1.32% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.92% 3.58% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 238 240
10th Percentile £374 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £634 £684 £650
90th Percentile £694 £788 £722
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 11,896 9,764 12,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.98% 36.73% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,223 6,507 9,063
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 130 237
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -0.07%
75th Percentile £56.13 £45.89 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £64.78 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.35 £22.75
% change year-on-year +0.55% +20.22% +1.11%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +7 308 £530 -3.64% 69
North of England -32 59 £500 -4.76% 56
Midlands -18 44 £475 +1.06% 27
West Midlands -10 37 £500 -11.11% 13
Yorkshire -18 34 £500 -5.57% 31
South East -11 22 £425 -24.44% 80
North West -25 20 £450 -6.74% 18
South West -5 18 £625 +13.55% 32
East of England -11 11 £613 +22.50% 46
East Midlands -17 7 £417 -6.66% 14
North East -8 6 £488 -20.08% 7
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 38 (8.15%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (7.51%) Apache Spark
3 32 (6.87%) Confluence
4 24 (5.15%) Apache
5 9 (1.93%) nginx
6 5 (1.07%) SAS
7 3 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.64%) Traefik
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.93%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Actimize
1 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.21%) Finacle
1 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 461 (98.93%) AWS
2 265 (56.87%) Serverless
3 259 (55.58%) AWS Lambda
4 187 (40.13%) Amazon EC2
5 146 (31.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 118 (25.32%) GitHub
7 106 (22.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 102 (21.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 101 (21.67%) Amazon ECS
10 87 (18.67%) GitHub Actions
11 82 (17.60%) Azure
12 71 (15.24%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (10.94%) AWS Step Functions
14 46 (9.87%) Amazon Kinesis
15 44 (9.44%) Amazon ELB
16 39 (8.37%) GCP
17 38 (8.15%) Snowflake
18 31 (6.65%) Amazon EMR
18 31 (6.65%) Route 53
19 28 (6.01%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 52 (11.16%) DNS
2 47 (10.09%) Firewall
3 31 (6.65%) VPN
4 24 (5.15%) TCP/IP
5 23 (4.94%) SSL
6 22 (4.72%) Network Security
7 16 (3.43%) SSH
8 15 (3.22%) FTP
8 15 (3.22%) HTTP
8 15 (3.22%) SMTP
9 14 (3.00%) OpenLDAP
10 9 (1.93%) IMAP
11 4 (0.86%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.43%) Calico
12 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (0.21%) BGP
13 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 1 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.21%) VSAN
13 1 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (30.04%) Amazon RDS
2 82 (17.60%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (15.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 67 (14.38%) DynamoDB
5 61 (13.09%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (8.58%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (7.94%) Relational Database
8 36 (7.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 34 (7.30%) Data Lake
10 24 (5.15%) Amazon QuickSight
11 22 (4.72%) Power BI
12 21 (4.51%) MongoDB
12 21 (4.51%) MySQL
13 18 (3.86%) NoSQL
13 18 (3.86%) SQL Server
14 16 (3.43%) BigQuery
14 16 (3.43%) Star Schema
15 15 (3.22%) Tableau
16 14 (3.00%) Apache Iceberg
16 14 (3.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 119 (25.54%) Jenkins
2 100 (21.46%) Git
3 90 (19.31%) GitLab
4 38 (8.15%) JIRA
5 15 (3.22%) Vagrant
6 9 (1.93%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.93%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.50%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.50%) JUnit
8 5 (1.07%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.07%) Maven
9 4 (0.86%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.64%) Gradle
10 3 (0.64%) Jasmine
10 3 (0.64%) MLflow
10 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.43%) Postman
11 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.43%) Selenium
11 2 (0.43%) Storybook
General
1 117 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.02%) Finance
3 68 (14.59%) Public Sector
4 47 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.29%) Banking
6 15 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.36%) Front Office
8 9 (1.93%) Military
9 3 (0.64%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.64%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.64%) Legal
9 3 (0.64%) Marketing
9 3 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.43%) Retail
11 1 (0.21%) Advertising
11 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.21%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (20.82%) AWS Engineer
2 96 (20.60%) Data Engineer
3 73 (15.67%) Developer
4 72 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 72 (15.45%) Senior
5 50 (10.73%) Architect
6 38 (8.15%) AWS DevOps
7 36 (7.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 34 (7.30%) Lead
9 33 (7.08%) Platform Engineer
10 28 (6.01%) Software Engineer
11 24 (5.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 23 (4.94%) AWS Data Engineer
13 21 (4.51%) AWS Architect
13 21 (4.51%) AWS Developer
13 21 (4.51%) Java Developer
14 20 (4.29%) Site Engineer
15 19 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
15 19 (4.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (17.17%) Kafka
2 49 (10.52%) Node.js
3 47 (10.09%) React
4 44 (9.44%) REST
5 40 (8.58%) RESTful
6 38 (8.15%) Spring
6 38 (8.15%) Spring Boot
7 26 (5.58%) AngularJS
8 22 (4.72%) CSS
8 22 (4.72%) OAuth
9 19 (4.08%) AWS CDK
10 18 (3.86%) boto
10 18 (3.86%) PySpark
11 17 (3.65%) LDAP
12 16 (3.43%) Jest
13 15 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (3.22%) FastAPI
13 15 (3.22%) HTML
13 15 (3.22%) pytest
14 13 (2.79%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 107 (22.96%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.72%) Replication
4 17 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.93%) NHS
6 9 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.86%) Derivative
10 4 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.86%) Equities
10 4 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.86%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.86%) PACS
10 4 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (0.64%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 69 (14.81%) Linux
2 23 (4.94%) Windows
3 19 (4.08%) VMS
4 18 (3.86%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.15%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.93%) Unix
7 6 (1.29%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.21%) Android
8 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (59.87%) CI/CD
2 201 (43.13%) DevOps
3 180 (38.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (24.25%) Agile
5 110 (23.61%) Containerisation
6 91 (19.53%) ETL
7 90 (19.31%) Data Pipeline
8 83 (17.81%) Analytics
8 83 (17.81%) Data Engineering
9 82 (17.60%) Data Modelling
10 80 (17.17%) Microservices
11 72 (15.45%) Observability
12 68 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
13 62 (13.30%) Software Engineering
14 56 (12.02%) AI
15 55 (11.80%) Event-Driven
16 51 (10.94%) Migration
17 50 (10.73%) Configuration Management
17 50 (10.73%) High Availability
17 50 (10.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 283 (60.73%) Python
2 171 (36.70%) SQL
3 94 (20.17%) Java
4 65 (13.95%) Bash
5 45 (9.66%) TypeScript
6 42 (9.01%) JavaScript
7 28 (6.01%) PowerShell
8 22 (4.72%) Go
9 20 (4.29%) Shell Script
10 17 (3.65%) C#
10 17 (3.65%) Groovy
11 8 (1.72%) Perl
12 7 (1.50%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.50%) Scala
13 6 (1.29%) JSX
13 6 (1.29%) Korn
14 4 (0.86%) C
15 3 (0.64%) Bicep
15 3 (0.64%) C++
16 2 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 164 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 136 (29.18%) SC Cleared
3 49 (10.52%) AWS Certification
4 26 (5.58%) Degree
5 23 (4.94%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.79%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.64%) MCP
12 3 (0.64%) OCP
12 3 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.64%) PhD
13 2 (0.43%) CISSP
13 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.21%) CCNP
14 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.65%) GDPR
3 30 (6.44%) QA
4 15 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.22%) NIST
5 11 (2.36%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.86%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.64%) NCSC
8 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.43%) MiFID
8 2 (0.43%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.21%) GxP
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
9 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 182 (39.06%) Docker
2 15 (3.22%) DFS Replication
3 14 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.93%) Dovecot
4 9 (1.93%) Postfix
4 9 (1.93%) Squid
5 3 (0.64%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.43%) HDFS
6 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.21%) etcd
7 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 241 (51.72%) Terraform
2 126 (27.04%) Kubernetes
3 77 (16.52%) Ansible
4 59 (12.66%) Grafana
5 49 (10.52%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.29%) Progress Chef
6 20 (4.29%) Puppet
7 10 (2.15%) Argo
8 9 (1.93%) Nessus
8 9 (1.93%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.50%) Kibana
10 6 (1.29%) Istio
11 5 (1.07%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (1.07%) Karpenter
11 5 (1.07%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.86%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.64%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 36 (7.73%) Databricks
2 32 (6.87%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.15%) Palo Alto
4 23 (4.94%) CheckPoint
4 23 (4.94%) F5
5 22 (4.72%) Splunk
6 17 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.43%) Oracle
8 15 (3.22%) Google
9 9 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.93%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.72%) Confluent
10 8 (1.72%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.29%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.29%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.29%) Dell
12 5 (1.07%) Sybase
12 5 (1.07%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.86%) SnapLogic
13 4 (0.86%) StreamSets