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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 175 253
Rank change year-on-year -17 +78 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 548 361 356
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.44% 1.48% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.95% 3.90% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 273 276
10th Percentile £356 £400 £397
25th Percentile £450 £459 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 13,879 9,267 12,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.59% 37.90% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,549 6,534 8,719
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 187 328
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.06 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.39% +29.17% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67.19 £43.19 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £74.25 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -21.47%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 +5 364 £530 -6.61% 76
North of England -31 63 £500 +2.56% 43
Midlands -32 57 £475 +5.56% 12
West Midlands -21 50 £500 -2.44% 8
Yorkshire -39 30 £500 -2.44% 17
North West -29 25 £450 +5.88% 21
South East -43 25 £556 -8.62% 34
South West -11 21 £542 -0.14% 13
North East -8 8 £538 -13.90% 5
East of England -25 7 £475 -5.00% 7
East Midlands -35 7 £423 +4.19% 4
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 55 (10.04%) Apache Spark
2 45 (8.21%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (6.93%) Apache
4 31 (5.66%) Confluence
5 10 (1.82%) nginx
6 9 (1.64%) SAS
7 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Actimize
1 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 545 (99.45%) AWS
2 335 (61.13%) Serverless
3 324 (59.12%) AWS Lambda
4 221 (40.33%) Amazon EC2
5 139 (25.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 134 (24.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 123 (22.45%) Amazon ECS
8 117 (21.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 114 (20.80%) GitHub
10 109 (19.89%) Amazon EKS
11 94 (17.15%) Azure
12 82 (14.96%) GitHub Actions
13 65 (11.86%) Amazon SQS
14 60 (10.95%) AWS Step Functions
15 55 (10.04%) GCP
16 50 (9.12%) Route 53
17 49 (8.94%) Snowflake
18 45 (8.21%) Power Platform
19 40 (7.30%) Amazon Kinesis
20 37 (6.75%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.02%) DNS
2 26 (4.74%) Firewall
3 21 (3.83%) VPN
4 17 (3.10%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.74%) Network Security
6 11 (2.01%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.73%) BGP
7 4 (0.73%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.73%) SSL
8 3 (0.55%) OSPF
9 2 (0.36%) Multicast
9 2 (0.36%) NAS
9 2 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.36%) VLAN
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (27.55%) Amazon RDS
2 93 (16.97%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (15.88%) Amazon Athena
4 86 (15.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 79 (14.42%) DynamoDB
6 52 (9.49%) Data Lake
7 45 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (8.21%) Power BI
7 45 (8.21%) Relational Database
8 35 (6.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 29 (5.29%) SQL Server
10 28 (5.11%) NoSQL
11 27 (4.93%) BigQuery
12 26 (4.74%) MongoDB
13 24 (4.38%) Tableau
14 23 (4.20%) OLTP
15 22 (4.01%) Metadata
16 21 (3.83%) OLAP
17 19 (3.47%) MySQL
18 18 (3.28%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 125 (22.81%) Jenkins
2 107 (19.53%) Git
2 107 (19.53%) GitLab
3 40 (7.30%) JIRA
4 24 (4.38%) JUnit
5 22 (4.01%) Bitbucket
6 21 (3.83%) SonarQube
7 20 (3.65%) Maven
8 14 (2.55%) Mockito
9 12 (2.19%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.46%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.46%) DbUnit
10 8 (1.46%) jMock
11 6 (1.09%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (1.09%) Gradle
12 5 (0.91%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.73%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.73%) Postman
13 4 (0.73%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.73%) Vite
General
1 146 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 98 (17.88%) Finance
3 91 (16.61%) Public Sector
4 55 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.47%) Banking
6 24 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.19%) Front Office
9 4 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.55%) Legal
10 3 (0.55%) Military
11 2 (0.36%) Games
11 2 (0.36%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.36%) Retail
11 2 (0.36%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.18%) Billing
12 1 (0.18%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 124 (22.63%) Data Engineer
2 109 (19.89%) Developer
3 77 (14.05%) AWS Engineer
4 62 (11.31%) Architect
5 60 (10.95%) Senior
6 59 (10.77%) Lead
7 46 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 39 (7.12%) Java Developer
9 31 (5.66%) AWS Architect
10 29 (5.29%) Site Engineer
11 28 (5.11%) AWS Data Engineer
11 28 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (5.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 26 (4.74%) Analyst
12 26 (4.74%) Lead Data Engineer
13 23 (4.20%) AWS Developer
14 22 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
15 21 (3.83%) Software Engineer
16 20 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
17 19 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (20.80%) Kafka
2 70 (12.77%) Spring
2 70 (12.77%) Spring Boot
3 56 (10.22%) Node.js
4 54 (9.85%) RESTful
5 47 (8.58%) React
6 45 (8.21%) REST
7 38 (6.93%) PySpark
8 34 (6.20%) AngularJS
9 31 (5.66%) OAuth
10 23 (4.20%) AWS CDK
11 21 (3.83%) OpenID
12 19 (3.47%) CSS
13 18 (3.28%) Great Expectations
14 17 (3.10%) Jest
14 17 (3.10%) SOAP
15 15 (2.74%) FastAPI
15 15 (2.74%) Hibernate
15 15 (2.74%) JPA
15 15 (2.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 137 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.01%) NHS
4 11 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.46%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.09%) Replication
8 6 (1.09%) SCADA
9 5 (0.91%) Clustering
9 5 (0.91%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.73%) Derivative
10 4 (0.73%) Equities
10 4 (0.73%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.73%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 73 (13.32%) Linux
2 14 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (2.19%) Unix
4 7 (1.28%) Windows
5 4 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.36%) Android
7 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.36%) zOS
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (58.39%) CI/CD
2 227 (41.42%) DevOps
3 208 (37.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 149 (27.19%) Agile
5 134 (24.45%) ETL
6 127 (23.18%) Containerisation
7 126 (22.99%) Analytics
8 122 (22.26%) Data Modelling
9 119 (21.72%) Data Engineering
10 101 (18.43%) Data Pipeline
11 93 (16.97%) Microservices
12 88 (16.06%) Observability
12 88 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
13 68 (12.41%) Performance Tuning
14 67 (12.23%) AI
15 64 (11.68%) Data Governance
16 61 (11.13%) Migration
17 55 (10.04%) Data Architecture
17 55 (10.04%) Event-Driven
17 55 (10.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 297 (54.20%) Python
2 208 (37.96%) SQL
3 115 (20.99%) Java
4 54 (9.85%) TypeScript
5 51 (9.31%) Bash
6 40 (7.30%) JavaScript
7 37 (6.75%) C#
8 29 (5.29%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.47%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.37%) Go
10 13 (2.37%) Scala
11 6 (1.09%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.91%) JSX
12 5 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.55%) C
13 3 (0.55%) C++
13 3 (0.55%) Korn
14 2 (0.36%) Groovy
14 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 192 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 154 (28.10%) SC Cleared
3 44 (8.03%) AWS Certification
4 21 (3.83%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.10%) Degree
6 16 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.55%) OCP
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.55%) PhD
11 3 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (13.14%) Data Quality
2 38 (6.93%) GDPR
3 23 (4.20%) QA
4 15 (2.74%) NIST
5 14 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.28%) PMO
8 5 (0.91%) SLA
9 4 (0.73%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) MiFID
10 2 (0.36%) NCSC
10 2 (0.36%) WCAG
11 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.18%) GxP
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.18%) IFRS
11 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 189 (34.49%) Docker
2 10 (1.82%) Squid
3 7 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.28%) Postfix
4 3 (0.55%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.36%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 266 (48.54%) Terraform
2 138 (25.18%) Kubernetes
3 72 (13.14%) Grafana
4 65 (11.86%) Ansible
5 63 (11.50%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (2.92%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.55%) Puppet
9 10 (1.82%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.28%) Argo
10 7 (1.28%) Consul
10 7 (1.28%) Kibana
10 7 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.91%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (0.91%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.55%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.55%) Istio
12 3 (0.55%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 62 (11.31%) Databricks
2 36 (6.57%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.47%) Google
4 29 (5.29%) Splunk
5 19 (3.47%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.92%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.19%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.19%) Oracle
9 10 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (1.64%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.46%) Confluent
11 8 (1.46%) Dell
12 7 (1.28%) Sybase
13 6 (1.09%) AVEVA
13 6 (1.09%) F5
13 6 (1.09%) IBM
13 6 (1.09%) Informatica
13 6 (1.09%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.91%) Palo Alto