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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 175 258
Rank change year-on-year -22 +83 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 628 429 341
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.40% 1.58% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 4.22% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 320 249
10th Percentile £375 £379 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £71.00 £38.13 -
25th Percentile - £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £91.50 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +75.14% - -

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 15,658 10,159 11,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 37.34% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,871 8,501
10th Percentile £325 £313 £311
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.60% -4.67% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 267 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.96 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.68 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.86% +25.59% -37.14%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +13 415 £550 -4.35% 38
Midlands -25 77 £469 -1.26% 8
West Midlands -25 72 £469 -1.26% 5
North of England -60 64 £500 +2.56% 25
North West -43 33 £525 +10.53% 6
South West -20 31 £466 -15.23% 9
South East -60 28 £575 +35.29% 13
Yorkshire -45 17 £550 +4.76% 6
North East -26 14 £444 -1.39% 13
East of England -32 8 £400 -20.00% 2
East Midlands -17 4 £425 -7.41% 3
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 71 (11.31%) Confluence
2 70 (11.15%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (8.44%) Apache Spark
4 40 (6.37%) Apache
5 17 (2.71%) SAS
6 11 (1.75%) nginx
7 8 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.27%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.96%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.64%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.32%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.16%) Mule
11 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 621 (98.89%) AWS
2 393 (62.58%) Serverless
3 385 (61.31%) AWS Lambda
4 224 (35.67%) Amazon EC2
5 186 (29.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 137 (21.82%) Amazon ECS
7 131 (20.86%) GitHub
8 128 (20.38%) Amazon EKS
9 115 (18.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 104 (16.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 101 (16.08%) Amazon SQS
12 100 (15.92%) GitHub Actions
13 99 (15.76%) Azure
14 74 (11.78%) dbt
14 74 (11.78%) Snowflake
15 67 (10.67%) AWS Step Functions
16 63 (10.03%) Amazon EMR
17 58 (9.24%) Power Platform
18 47 (7.48%) AWS KMS
19 41 (6.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.98%) Firewall
2 21 (3.34%) DNS
3 14 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.07%) VPN
5 11 (1.75%) Network Security
5 11 (1.75%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.96%) WAN
7 4 (0.64%) SSL
8 3 (0.48%) BGP
8 3 (0.48%) CTI
8 3 (0.48%) NAS
8 3 (0.48%) NetScaler
8 3 (0.48%) OSPF
8 3 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.48%) SAN
9 2 (0.32%) HTTP
9 2 (0.32%) Internet
9 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.32%) VLAN
10 1 (0.16%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (24.68%) Amazon RDS
2 125 (19.90%) Amazon Athena
3 111 (17.68%) DynamoDB
4 109 (17.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 89 (14.17%) PostgreSQL
6 65 (10.35%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (9.24%) Power BI
8 51 (8.12%) Data Lake
9 44 (7.01%) Amazon Aurora
10 35 (5.57%) Metadata
11 29 (4.62%) NoSQL
11 29 (4.62%) Relational Database
12 27 (4.30%) Tableau
13 26 (4.14%) Big Data
14 24 (3.82%) SQL Server
15 23 (3.66%) MongoDB
16 22 (3.50%) BigQuery
17 20 (3.18%) Snowflake Schema
18 19 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
19 18 (2.87%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 140 (22.29%) Git
2 131 (20.86%) Jenkins
3 123 (19.59%) GitLab
4 75 (11.94%) JIRA
5 30 (4.78%) Bitbucket
6 29 (4.62%) SonarQube
7 27 (4.30%) JUnit
8 24 (3.82%) Maven
8 24 (3.82%) Mockito
9 14 (2.23%) DbUnit
10 13 (2.07%) jMock
11 11 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
12 10 (1.59%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.43%) Artifactory
14 7 (1.11%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.11%) Postman
15 4 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 3 (0.48%) Gradle
16 3 (0.48%) Selenium
16 3 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 161 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 128 (20.38%) Public Sector
3 111 (17.68%) Finance
4 59 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.73%) Banking
6 18 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.07%) Front Office
8 11 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.96%) Back Office
9 6 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.96%) Law
9 6 (0.96%) Military
10 4 (0.64%) Billing
10 4 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.64%) Retail
10 4 (0.64%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.48%) Games
11 3 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 155 (24.68%) Data Engineer
2 114 (18.15%) Developer
3 104 (16.56%) AWS Engineer
4 92 (14.65%) Senior
5 90 (14.33%) Lead
6 71 (11.31%) Architect
7 51 (8.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 42 (6.69%) Java Developer
9 38 (6.05%) AWS Data Engineer
10 36 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 36 (5.73%) Senior Data Engineer
11 29 (4.62%) AWS DevOps
12 26 (4.14%) AWS Architect
12 26 (4.14%) AWS Developer
12 26 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (3.82%) Software Engineer
14 21 (3.34%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 21 (3.34%) Snowflake Engineer
15 19 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.03%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (12.58%) Kafka
2 65 (10.35%) PySpark
3 64 (10.19%) Spring Boot
4 63 (10.03%) REST
4 63 (10.03%) Spring
5 58 (9.24%) React
6 57 (9.08%) Node.js
7 50 (7.96%) RESTful
8 30 (4.78%) SOAP
9 27 (4.30%) AngularJS
9 27 (4.30%) AWS CDK
10 25 (3.98%) Web Services
11 21 (3.34%) ActiveMQ
12 20 (3.18%) FastAPI
12 20 (3.18%) GraphQL
12 20 (3.18%) JPA
12 20 (3.18%) OpenID
13 19 (3.03%) Hibernate
13 19 (3.03%) OAuth
14 18 (2.87%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 154 (24.52%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 43 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.03%) NHS
5 11 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.43%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.43%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (1.11%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.11%) Hedge funds
9 6 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (0.96%) Legacy Code
9 6 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.96%) Mainframe
9 6 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.80%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.90%) Linux
2 18 (2.87%) Unix
3 14 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.07%) Windows
5 6 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.48%) AIX
6 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.32%) Android
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.32%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (62.42%) CI/CD
2 264 (42.04%) DevOps
3 248 (39.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 212 (33.76%) Agile
5 154 (24.52%) Data Engineering
6 145 (23.09%) Analytics
7 144 (22.93%) Data Pipeline
8 135 (21.50%) Data Modelling
9 126 (20.06%) ETL
10 125 (19.90%) Containerisation
11 114 (18.15%) AI
12 100 (15.92%) Microservices
13 95 (15.13%) Observability
14 87 (13.85%) Machine Learning
15 86 (13.69%) Test Automation
16 85 (13.54%) Migration
17 79 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
17 79 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 74 (11.78%) Scrum
19 72 (11.46%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 362 (57.64%) Python
2 246 (39.17%) SQL
3 123 (19.59%) Java
4 60 (9.55%) TypeScript
5 56 (8.92%) Bash
6 43 (6.85%) JavaScript
7 42 (6.69%) C#
8 28 (4.46%) PowerShell
9 21 (3.34%) Scala
10 20 (3.18%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.07%) Groovy
12 7 (1.11%) Bicep
13 6 (0.96%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.80%) Go
14 5 (0.80%) Perl
14 5 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.80%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.64%) Gremlin
16 3 (0.48%) Cypher
16 3 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 223 (35.51%) Security Cleared
2 194 (30.89%) SC Cleared
3 57 (9.08%) AWS Certification
4 22 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (2.87%) Degree
6 16 (2.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.75%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.96%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.48%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.32%) PMP
15 1 (0.16%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (15.45%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.50%) QA
3 15 (2.39%) GDPR
4 8 (1.27%) SLA
5 7 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.11%) PMO
6 5 (0.80%) HL7
7 3 (0.48%) NIST
8 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 198 (31.53%) Docker
2 12 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.91%) Squid
3 11 (1.75%) Postfix
4 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 294 (46.82%) Terraform
2 112 (17.83%) Kubernetes
3 92 (14.65%) Grafana
4 57 (9.08%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.53%) Ansible
6 15 (2.39%) Argo
6 15 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.75%) Puppet
8 9 (1.43%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.27%) Consul
10 7 (1.11%) Kibana
10 7 (1.11%) Packer
11 5 (0.80%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.80%) Salt
12 4 (0.64%) Istio
13 3 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.48%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.32%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.16%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 58 (9.24%) Databricks
2 37 (5.89%) Microsoft
3 24 (3.82%) Oracle
3 24 (3.82%) ServiceNow
4 22 (3.50%) Google
4 22 (3.50%) Informatica
5 21 (3.34%) Atlassian
6 20 (3.18%) Splunk
7 19 (3.03%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.71%) Jaspersoft
9 14 (2.23%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.91%) Teradata
11 10 (1.59%) Denodo
12 8 (1.27%) Foundry
12 8 (1.27%) Palantir
13 7 (1.11%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.11%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.96%) AVEVA
15 5 (0.80%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.80%) VMware