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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 190 252
Rank change year-on-year -4 +62 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 487 355 335
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.33% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.91% 3.60% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 243 267
10th Percentile £363 £401 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £636
90th Percentile £693 £788 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.00 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £88.00 - -

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 12,448 9,860 12,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.88% 37.06% 33.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,641 6,537 9,068
10th Percentile £304 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 138 286
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% +18.39% -3.30%
75th Percentile £58.75 £45.89 £49.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £70.25 £66.66
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.43
% change year-on-year +18.18% +17.40% -0.32%

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 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon S3 in England over the 6 months to 29 January 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 29 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 +17 323 £530 -3.64% 74
North of England -31 63 £500 - 40
Midlands -29 47 £475 +5.56% 19
West Midlands -8 40 £500 -9.09% 11
Yorkshire -27 33 £500 -4.76% 18
South East -17 23 £528 -17.25% 60
North West -20 23 £463 -2.63% 16
South West -5 16 £625 +13.55% 26
East of England -8 9 £650 +30.00% 33
North East -13 7 £425 -30.33% 6
East Midlands -27 7 £417 -6.02% 8
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 41 (8.42%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (7.19%) Apache Spark
3 27 (5.54%) Apache
3 27 (5.54%) Confluence
4 13 (2.67%) nginx
5 3 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.62%) SAS
5 3 (0.62%) Traefik
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.23%) 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
Cloud Services
1 485 (99.59%) AWS
2 287 (58.93%) Serverless
3 281 (57.70%) AWS Lambda
4 193 (39.63%) Amazon EC2
5 143 (29.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 120 (24.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 113 (23.20%) GitHub
8 111 (22.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 110 (22.59%) Amazon ECS
10 88 (18.07%) Amazon EKS
11 86 (17.66%) Azure
12 84 (17.25%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (10.27%) AWS Step Functions
14 48 (9.86%) Amazon Kinesis
15 43 (8.83%) GCP
16 41 (8.42%) Amazon ELB
16 41 (8.42%) Route 53
17 40 (8.21%) Snowflake
18 30 (6.16%) Amazon EMR
18 30 (6.16%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 54 (11.09%) DNS
2 52 (10.68%) Firewall
3 38 (7.80%) VPN
4 30 (6.16%) TCP/IP
5 24 (4.93%) Network Security
6 22 (4.52%) SSL
7 12 (2.46%) FTP
7 12 (2.46%) HTTP
7 12 (2.46%) SMTP
7 12 (2.46%) SSH
8 8 (1.64%) IMAP
8 8 (1.64%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (1.03%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.82%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.62%) BGP
12 2 (0.41%) Multicast
12 2 (0.41%) NAS
12 2 (0.41%) SAN
12 2 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (28.95%) Amazon RDS
2 83 (17.04%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (15.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 69 (14.17%) DynamoDB
5 63 (12.94%) Amazon Athena
6 38 (7.80%) Data Lake
7 34 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (6.78%) Amazon Aurora
9 32 (6.57%) Relational Database
10 25 (5.13%) Power BI
11 23 (4.72%) MongoDB
12 21 (4.31%) Amazon QuickSight
12 21 (4.31%) MySQL
13 19 (3.90%) BigQuery
13 19 (3.90%) SQL Server
14 16 (3.29%) NoSQL
14 16 (3.29%) OLTP
14 16 (3.29%) Star Schema
15 15 (3.08%) Tableau
16 14 (2.87%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 123 (25.26%) Jenkins
2 100 (20.53%) Git
3 98 (20.12%) GitLab
4 35 (7.19%) JIRA
5 13 (2.67%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.46%) Vagrant
7 9 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.64%) JUnit
8 8 (1.64%) Maven
9 7 (1.44%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.23%) Gradle
11 5 (1.03%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.82%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.62%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.62%) Postman
13 3 (0.62%) Vite
14 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.41%) MLflow
14 2 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 124 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 73 (14.99%) Finance
3 69 (14.17%) Public Sector
4 49 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.31%) Banking
6 16 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.26%) Front Office
9 9 (1.85%) Military
10 3 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.62%) Legal
11 2 (0.41%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.41%) Marketing
11 2 (0.41%) Retail
12 1 (0.21%) Advertising
12 1 (0.21%) Games
12 1 (0.21%) iGaming
12 1 (0.21%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (21.36%) Data Engineer
2 94 (19.30%) AWS Engineer
3 74 (15.20%) Developer
4 71 (14.58%) Senior
5 65 (13.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 57 (11.70%) Architect
7 40 (8.21%) Lead
8 32 (6.57%) AWS DevOps
9 31 (6.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 31 (6.37%) Software Engineer
10 30 (6.16%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (5.54%) AWS Architect
11 27 (5.54%) AWS Data Engineer
12 23 (4.72%) Site Engineer
13 22 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (4.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 21 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 20 (4.11%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (3.90%) Java Developer
17 18 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (19.10%) Kafka
2 50 (10.27%) React
3 48 (9.86%) Node.js
4 45 (9.24%) Spring
4 45 (9.24%) Spring Boot
5 41 (8.42%) RESTful
6 35 (7.19%) REST
7 26 (5.34%) AngularJS
8 24 (4.93%) OAuth
9 22 (4.52%) CSS
10 20 (4.11%) AWS CDK
11 19 (3.90%) PySpark
12 17 (3.49%) Jest
13 15 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (3.08%) FastAPI
13 15 (3.08%) LDAP
14 14 (2.87%) HTML
15 13 (2.67%) boto
15 13 (2.67%) Sass
16 12 (2.46%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 124 (25.46%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.90%) Replication
4 17 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.85%) NHS
7 8 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.23%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.03%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.03%) SCADA
10 5 (1.03%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.82%) Derivative
11 4 (0.82%) Equities
11 4 (0.82%) PACS
11 4 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 70 (14.37%) Linux
2 19 (3.90%) Windows
3 16 (3.29%) VMS
4 15 (3.08%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.05%) Unix
6 9 (1.85%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.03%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.21%) Android
8 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (60.99%) CI/CD
2 209 (42.92%) DevOps
3 195 (40.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (23.82%) Containerisation
5 110 (22.59%) Agile
6 101 (20.74%) ETL
7 93 (19.10%) Data Engineering
8 91 (18.69%) Data Pipeline
9 90 (18.48%) Analytics
10 88 (18.07%) Data Modelling
11 77 (15.81%) Microservices
11 77 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (14.78%) Observability
13 69 (14.17%) Software Engineering
14 60 (12.32%) Event-Driven
15 57 (11.70%) Performance Tuning
16 56 (11.50%) AI
16 56 (11.50%) High Availability
17 51 (10.47%) Data Governance
18 48 (9.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 293 (60.16%) Python
2 177 (36.34%) SQL
3 93 (19.10%) Java
4 67 (13.76%) Bash
5 46 (9.45%) TypeScript
6 41 (8.42%) JavaScript
7 25 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 22 (4.52%) C#
9 21 (4.31%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.90%) Go
11 13 (2.67%) Groovy
12 7 (1.44%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.44%) Scala
13 6 (1.23%) JSX
13 6 (1.23%) Perl
14 5 (1.03%) Korn
15 4 (0.82%) C
16 3 (0.62%) Bicep
16 3 (0.62%) C++
17 1 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 172 (35.32%) Security Cleared
2 140 (28.75%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.86%) AWS Certification
4 25 (5.13%) Degree
5 23 (4.72%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.46%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.44%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.62%) MCP
10 3 (0.62%) OCP
10 3 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.62%) PhD
11 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
12 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.21%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.29%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.78%) GDPR
3 22 (4.52%) QA
4 15 (3.08%) NIST
5 14 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.26%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.82%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.62%) NCSC
9 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.41%) MiFID
9 2 (0.41%) SLA
10 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.21%) GxP
10 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 188 (38.60%) Docker
2 13 (2.67%) Squid
3 12 (2.46%) DFS Replication
4 8 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.64%) Dovecot
4 8 (1.64%) Postfix
5 3 (0.62%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.41%) HDFS
6 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.21%) etcd
7 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 258 (52.98%) Terraform
2 131 (26.90%) Kubernetes
3 80 (16.43%) Ansible
4 62 (12.73%) Grafana
5 59 (12.11%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.90%) Progress Chef
7 18 (3.70%) Puppet
8 10 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.64%) Argo
9 8 (1.64%) Nessus
9 8 (1.64%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.44%) Kibana
10 7 (1.44%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (1.23%) FortiGate
12 5 (1.03%) Consul
12 5 (1.03%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (1.03%) Istio
12 5 (1.03%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.62%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.62%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (8.62%) Databricks
2 32 (6.57%) Microsoft
3 25 (5.13%) F5
4 24 (4.93%) Palo Alto
5 23 (4.72%) CheckPoint
6 22 (4.52%) Splunk
7 18 (3.70%) Google
8 15 (3.08%) Red Hat
9 14 (2.87%) Oracle
9 14 (2.87%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.64%) Confluent
10 8 (1.64%) Dell
10 8 (1.64%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.64%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.23%) AVEVA
12 5 (1.03%) Sybase
12 5 (1.03%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.82%) OpenAI