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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 194 273
Rank change year-on-year +1 +79 -15
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 466 359 300
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.31% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 3.58% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 245 229
10th Percentile £370 £402 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £696 £788 £714
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 12,040 10,015 12,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.04% 36.62% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,329 6,697 9,015
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 134 233
10th Percentile £14.47 £16.41 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -0.57%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.18 £51.58
90th Percentile £77.85 £67.63 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%

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 7 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 7 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 +21 301 £530 -3.64% 81
North of England -31 58 £500 -4.76% 35
Midlands -10 48 £475 +1.06% 19
West Midlands -8 40 £500 -11.11% 9
Yorkshire -26 34 £500 -5.57% 18
South East -11 24 £450 -14.29% 62
North West -28 20 £450 -6.25% 13
South West +11 18 £625 +25.00% 23
East of England -13 12 £475 -5.00% 27
East Midlands -23 8 £433 -3.24% 10
North East -13 5 £550 -9.84% 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 40 (8.58%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (7.51%) Apache Spark
3 33 (7.08%) Confluence
4 22 (4.72%) Apache
5 10 (2.15%) nginx
6 5 (1.07%) SAS
7 3 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.64%) Traefik
8 1 (0.21%) CICS
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (2.15%) 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
1 458 (98.28%) AWS
2 261 (56.01%) Serverless
3 255 (54.72%) AWS Lambda
4 186 (39.91%) Amazon EC2
5 146 (31.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 119 (25.54%) GitHub
7 107 (22.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 103 (22.10%) Amazon ECS
9 101 (21.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 84 (18.03%) GitHub Actions
11 81 (17.38%) Azure
12 68 (14.59%) Amazon EKS
13 52 (11.16%) AWS Step Functions
14 45 (9.66%) Amazon ELB
15 44 (9.44%) Amazon Kinesis
16 39 (8.37%) GCP
17 35 (7.51%) Snowflake
18 32 (6.87%) Amazon EMR
19 31 (6.65%) Route 53
20 28 (6.01%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 53 (11.37%) DNS
2 48 (10.30%) Firewall
3 31 (6.65%) VPN
4 26 (5.58%) TCP/IP
5 24 (5.15%) SSL
6 22 (4.72%) Network Security
7 19 (4.08%) SSH
8 16 (3.43%) FTP
8 16 (3.43%) HTTP
8 16 (3.43%) SMTP
9 15 (3.22%) OpenLDAP
10 10 (2.15%) IMAP
11 4 (0.86%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.43%) Calico
12 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 1 (0.21%) NAS
13 1 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.21%) VSAN
13 1 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (30.90%) Amazon RDS
2 88 (18.88%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (15.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 67 (14.38%) DynamoDB
5 62 (13.30%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (8.58%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (8.58%) Relational Database
7 35 (7.51%) Amazon Aurora
8 33 (7.08%) Data Lake
9 23 (4.94%) Amazon QuickSight
10 21 (4.51%) Power BI
11 20 (4.29%) MongoDB
11 20 (4.29%) MySQL
12 19 (4.08%) SQL Server
13 18 (3.86%) NoSQL
14 15 (3.22%) Star Schema
15 14 (3.00%) Big Data
15 14 (3.00%) BigQuery
15 14 (3.00%) Tableau
16 13 (2.79%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 117 (25.11%) Jenkins
2 102 (21.89%) Git
3 90 (19.31%) GitLab
4 39 (8.37%) JIRA
5 16 (3.43%) Vagrant
6 10 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.93%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.50%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.07%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.07%) JUnit
9 5 (1.07%) Maven
9 5 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.86%) MLflow
10 4 (0.86%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.64%) Gradle
11 3 (0.64%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.43%) Postman
12 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.43%) Selenium
12 2 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 124 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.24%) Finance
3 67 (14.38%) Public Sector
4 48 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.29%) Banking
6 16 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (2.36%) Front Office
8 10 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.93%) Military
10 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.64%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.64%) Legal
11 3 (0.64%) Marketing
11 3 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.43%) Retail
13 1 (0.21%) Advertising
13 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (21.89%) AWS Engineer
2 94 (20.17%) Data Engineer
3 74 (15.88%) Senior
4 73 (15.67%) Developer
5 71 (15.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 51 (10.94%) Architect
7 38 (8.15%) AWS DevOps
8 36 (7.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 34 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
10 33 (7.08%) Lead
11 28 (6.01%) Software Engineer
12 25 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 23 (4.94%) AWS Data Engineer
14 22 (4.72%) AWS Architect
15 21 (4.51%) AWS Developer
16 20 (4.29%) Python Engineer
17 19 (4.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 19 (4.08%) Java Developer
17 19 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
17 19 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (15.45%) Kafka
2 50 (10.73%) Node.js
3 47 (10.09%) React
4 44 (9.44%) REST
5 37 (7.94%) RESTful
6 34 (7.30%) Spring
6 34 (7.30%) Spring Boot
7 27 (5.79%) AngularJS
8 22 (4.72%) CSS
9 21 (4.51%) AWS CDK
9 21 (4.51%) OAuth
10 18 (3.86%) boto
10 18 (3.86%) LDAP
11 17 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (3.65%) PySpark
12 16 (3.43%) Jest
13 15 (3.22%) FastAPI
13 15 (3.22%) HTML
13 15 (3.22%) pytest
14 14 (3.00%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 104 (22.32%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.94%) Replication
4 21 (4.51%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.00%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.93%) NHS
8 8 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.86%) Derivative
11 4 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.86%) Equities
11 4 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.86%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.64%) Equity Derivative
12 3 (0.64%) PACS
12 3 (0.64%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 70 (15.02%) Linux
2 25 (5.36%) Windows
3 20 (4.29%) VMS
4 19 (4.08%) Amazon Linux
5 11 (2.36%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.93%) Unix
7 6 (1.29%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.21%) AIX
8 1 (0.21%) Android
8 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.21%) Solaris
8 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (59.01%) CI/CD
2 204 (43.78%) DevOps
3 184 (39.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (24.46%) Containerisation
5 111 (23.82%) Agile
6 92 (19.74%) Data Pipeline
7 91 (19.53%) ETL
8 82 (17.60%) Data Engineering
9 81 (17.38%) Data Modelling
10 79 (16.95%) Analytics
11 78 (16.74%) Microservices
12 74 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
13 70 (15.02%) Observability
14 62 (13.30%) Software Engineering
15 57 (12.23%) Migration
16 55 (11.80%) AI
17 54 (11.59%) Event-Driven
18 50 (10.73%) Configuration Management
19 49 (10.52%) High Availability
19 49 (10.52%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 284 (60.94%) Python
2 171 (36.70%) SQL
3 89 (19.10%) Java
4 66 (14.16%) Bash
5 47 (10.09%) TypeScript
6 44 (9.44%) JavaScript
7 28 (6.01%) PowerShell
8 22 (4.72%) Go
9 20 (4.29%) Groovy
10 19 (4.08%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.43%) C#
12 8 (1.72%) Perl
13 7 (1.50%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.50%) Scala
14 6 (1.29%) JSX
14 6 (1.29%) Korn
15 4 (0.86%) C
16 3 (0.64%) Bicep
16 3 (0.64%) C++
17 2 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 162 (34.76%) Security Cleared
2 134 (28.76%) SC Cleared
3 55 (11.80%) AWS Certification
4 31 (6.65%) Degree
5 23 (4.94%) DV Cleared
6 22 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (3.00%) Azure Certification
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
14 1 (0.21%) CCNP
14 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.44%) GDPR
3 28 (6.01%) QA
4 14 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.00%) NIST
5 11 (2.36%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.64%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.64%) NCSC
6 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.43%) MiFID
7 2 (0.43%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.21%) GxP
8 1 (0.21%) HL7
8 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 179 (38.41%) Docker
2 16 (3.43%) DFS Replication
3 14 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.15%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.15%) Postfix
4 10 (2.15%) 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
1 240 (51.50%) Terraform
2 121 (25.97%) Kubernetes
3 75 (16.09%) Ansible
4 59 (12.66%) Grafana
5 50 (10.73%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.29%) Puppet
7 19 (4.08%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.58%) Argo
9 10 (2.15%) Nessus
9 10 (2.15%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.72%) Istio
11 7 (1.50%) Kibana
12 5 (1.07%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (1.07%) Karpenter
12 5 (1.07%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.86%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.64%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 34 (7.30%) Databricks
1 34 (7.30%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.15%) Palo Alto
3 23 (4.94%) CheckPoint
3 23 (4.94%) F5
4 22 (4.72%) Splunk
5 18 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.65%) Oracle
7 14 (3.00%) Google
8 10 (2.15%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (2.15%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.72%) Cloudera
9 8 (1.72%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.50%) Confluent
11 6 (1.29%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.29%) Dell
11 6 (1.29%) IBM
12 5 (1.07%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.86%) SnapLogic
13 4 (0.86%) StreamSets