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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 170 247
Rank change year-on-year -8 +77 +45
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 616 405 348
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 1.63% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.08% 4.32% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 302 262
10th Percentile £358 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £716 £749 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £506
% change year-on-year -1.23% +3.75% -8.00%
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 15,086 9,377 12,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.70% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,221 6,374 8,650
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 233 339
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +16.98% -36.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £70.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +6 418 £550 -3.08% 61
Midlands -25 68 £469 -1.26% 12
West Midlands -27 63 £469 -1.26% 7
North of England -59 61 £500 - 29
North West -34 31 £525 +10.53% 14
South East -53 28 £585 +23.16% 17
South West -8 26 £456 -17.05% 15
North East -23 15 £425 -5.56% 3
Yorkshire -64 15 £500 -4.76% 12
East of England -34 8 £400 -27.27%
East Midlands -19 4 £425 -6.54% 5
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 67 (10.88%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (9.90%) Confluence
3 56 (9.09%) Apache Spark
4 36 (5.84%) Apache
5 15 (2.44%) SAS
6 11 (1.79%) nginx
7 6 (0.97%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.32%) CMS
9 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 612 (99.35%) AWS
2 397 (64.45%) Serverless
3 392 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
4 225 (36.53%) Amazon EC2
5 175 (28.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 131 (21.27%) Amazon ECS
7 121 (19.64%) GitHub
8 119 (19.32%) Amazon EKS
9 115 (18.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 109 (17.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (15.58%) Amazon SQS
12 93 (15.10%) GitHub Actions
13 91 (14.77%) Azure
14 72 (11.69%) Snowflake
15 70 (11.36%) AWS Step Functions
16 69 (11.20%) dbt
17 57 (9.25%) Power Platform
18 55 (8.93%) Amazon EMR
19 46 (7.47%) Route 53
20 45 (7.31%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.06%) DNS
1 25 (4.06%) Firewall
2 15 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.11%) VPN
4 11 (1.79%) Network Security
4 11 (1.79%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.97%) WAN
6 4 (0.65%) NAS
6 4 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.65%) SAN
6 4 (0.65%) SSL
7 3 (0.49%) BGP
7 3 (0.49%) OSPF
8 2 (0.32%) Internet
8 2 (0.32%) Multicast
8 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.32%) VLAN
9 1 (0.16%) 4G
9 1 (0.16%) 5G
9 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (24.51%) Amazon RDS
2 128 (20.78%) Amazon Athena
3 113 (18.34%) Amazon Redshift
4 107 (17.37%) DynamoDB
5 91 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
6 60 (9.74%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (9.25%) Power BI
8 52 (8.44%) Data Lake
9 49 (7.95%) Amazon Aurora
10 37 (6.01%) NoSQL
11 29 (4.71%) Metadata
11 29 (4.71%) Relational Database
11 29 (4.71%) Tableau
12 25 (4.06%) Big Data
13 24 (3.90%) SQL Server
14 23 (3.73%) BigQuery
15 21 (3.41%) Apache Iceberg
15 21 (3.41%) MongoDB
16 20 (3.25%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (2.92%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 138 (22.40%) Git
2 132 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 130 (21.10%) GitLab
4 74 (12.01%) JIRA
5 28 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 28 (4.55%) JUnit
5 28 (4.55%) SonarQube
6 23 (3.73%) Maven
6 23 (3.73%) Mockito
7 14 (2.27%) DbUnit
8 13 (2.11%) jMock
9 11 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (1.62%) Artifactory
11 8 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.30%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.97%) Postman
13 4 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.49%) Gradle
14 3 (0.49%) Selenium
14 3 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 163 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 121 (19.64%) Public Sector
3 106 (17.21%) Finance
4 59 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.19%) Banking
6 20 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.79%) Front Office
9 8 (1.30%) Military
10 6 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.97%) Law
11 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.49%) Back Office
12 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.49%) Retail
13 2 (0.32%) Billing
13 2 (0.32%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 160 (25.97%) Data Engineer
2 118 (19.16%) Developer
3 105 (17.05%) AWS Engineer
4 85 (13.80%) Senior
5 77 (12.50%) Lead
6 71 (11.53%) Architect
7 49 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 44 (7.14%) Java Developer
9 37 (6.01%) AWS Data Engineer
10 36 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 33 (5.36%) Senior Data Engineer
12 32 (5.19%) AWS Architect
13 31 (5.03%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (4.55%) AWS Developer
15 27 (4.38%) Software Engineer
16 23 (3.73%) Lead Data Engineer
16 23 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
16 23 (3.73%) Python Developer
17 21 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.41%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (14.94%) Kafka
2 69 (11.20%) Spring
2 69 (11.20%) Spring Boot
3 66 (10.71%) REST
4 62 (10.06%) PySpark
5 59 (9.58%) React
6 54 (8.77%) RESTful
7 50 (8.12%) Node.js
8 35 (5.68%) AngularJS
9 28 (4.55%) SOAP
10 26 (4.22%) OAuth
11 25 (4.06%) AWS CDK
12 24 (3.90%) JPA
12 24 (3.90%) OpenID
13 23 (3.73%) FastAPI
13 23 (3.73%) Hibernate
13 23 (3.73%) Web Services
14 21 (3.41%) Spring Cloud
15 19 (3.08%) ActiveMQ
15 19 (3.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 154 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 44 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.60%) NHS
4 9 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (1.46%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.14%) AI Agents
5 7 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.14%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (1.14%) Hedge funds
5 7 (1.14%) Virtual Team
6 6 (0.97%) Legacy Code
6 6 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (0.97%) Mainframe
6 6 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.81%) Clustering
7 5 (0.81%) Fixed Income
7 5 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 5 (0.81%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 74 (12.01%) Linux
2 19 (3.08%) Unix
3 12 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.30%) Windows
5 5 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.32%) Android
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (59.42%) CI/CD
2 257 (41.72%) DevOps
3 229 (37.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (31.66%) Agile
5 147 (23.86%) Data Engineering
6 141 (22.89%) Analytics
7 135 (21.92%) Containerisation
8 133 (21.59%) Data Pipeline
9 123 (19.97%) Data Modelling
9 123 (19.97%) ETL
10 107 (17.37%) AI
11 104 (16.88%) Microservices
12 87 (14.12%) Observability
13 81 (13.15%) Machine Learning
13 81 (13.15%) Test Automation
14 76 (12.34%) Business Intelligence
14 76 (12.34%) Migration
14 76 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
15 75 (12.18%) Event-Driven
16 70 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 354 (57.47%) Python
2 251 (40.75%) SQL
3 124 (20.13%) Java
4 57 (9.25%) TypeScript
5 44 (7.14%) Bash
6 43 (6.98%) C#
7 39 (6.33%) JavaScript
8 25 (4.06%) PowerShell
9 20 (3.25%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.08%) Scala
11 8 (1.30%) Groovy
12 6 (0.97%) Bicep
12 6 (0.97%) Go
12 6 (0.97%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.65%) Perl
15 3 (0.49%) C
15 3 (0.49%) R
15 3 (0.49%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 210 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 180 (29.22%) SC Cleared
3 45 (7.31%) AWS Certification
4 18 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 15 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (2.44%) Degree
7 12 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.79%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (1.46%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.97%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.49%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.49%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.32%) PMP
15 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (14.61%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.22%) QA
3 15 (2.44%) GDPR
4 8 (1.30%) SLA
5 7 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.14%) PMO
6 6 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.97%) NIST
7 5 (0.81%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.49%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 192 (31.17%) Docker
2 12 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.95%) Squid
3 11 (1.79%) Postfix
4 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 289 (46.92%) Terraform
2 124 (20.13%) Kubernetes
3 81 (13.15%) Grafana
4 60 (9.74%) Prometheus
5 42 (6.82%) Ansible
6 18 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.95%) Puppet
8 9 (1.46%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.30%) Consul
10 7 (1.14%) Kibana
11 6 (0.97%) Argo
11 6 (0.97%) Packer
11 6 (0.97%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.97%) Salt
12 4 (0.65%) Istio
13 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.32%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (8.93%) Databricks
2 31 (5.03%) Microsoft
3 22 (3.57%) Google
4 21 (3.41%) Atlassian
5 20 (3.25%) Splunk
6 19 (3.08%) Dynatrace
6 19 (3.08%) Informatica
6 19 (3.08%) Oracle
6 19 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.76%) Jaspersoft
8 15 (2.44%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.79%) Teradata
10 10 (1.62%) Denodo
11 8 (1.30%) Confluent
12 7 (1.14%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.97%) AVEVA
13 6 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.81%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.81%) Foundry
14 5 (0.81%) Palantir