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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 210 277
Rank change year-on-year +35 +67 -16
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 480 359 315
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.18% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 3.26% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 241 246
10th Percentile £380 £406 £400
25th Percentile £438 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £700 £788 £731
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 - -

All Cloud 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 11,827 11,024 13,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.28% 36.21% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,094 7,350 9,793
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
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 290 148 268
10th Percentile £15.48 £17.00 £14.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.15 £32.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.28% +28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.38 £56.31 £55.63
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -12.33% +14.29% +19.32%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 +17 286 £575 - 84
North of England -29 60 £500 -1.96% 37
Midlands +14 58 £475 -3.06% 14
West Midlands +13 50 £475 -17.39% 9
Yorkshire -9 36 £500 -4.76% 13
South East +12 28 £425 -31.31% 61
South West +15 19 £625 +13.64% 22
North West -32 18 £450 -7.22% 20
East of England -4 16 £475 -5.00% 10
East Midlands -16 8 £433 -3.24% 4
North East -3 7 £500 -18.03% 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 43 (8.96%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (8.75%) Confluence
3 36 (7.50%) Apache Spark
4 20 (4.17%) Apache
5 12 (2.50%) nginx
6 6 (1.25%) SAS
7 3 (0.63%) Traefik
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) CICS
8 1 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.25%) Chatbot
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
1 471 (98.13%) AWS
2 255 (53.13%) Serverless
3 250 (52.08%) AWS Lambda
4 201 (41.88%) Amazon EC2
5 159 (33.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 116 (24.17%) GitHub
7 111 (23.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 108 (22.50%) Amazon ECS
9 104 (21.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 77 (16.04%) Azure
11 76 (15.83%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (11.46%) Amazon EKS
13 48 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
14 42 (8.75%) AWS Step Functions
15 41 (8.54%) Snowflake
16 36 (7.50%) Amazon EMR
17 33 (6.88%) Amazon Kinesis
17 33 (6.88%) dbt
18 31 (6.46%) AWS KMS
18 31 (6.46%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 57 (11.88%) DNS
2 55 (11.46%) Firewall
3 35 (7.29%) VPN
4 26 (5.42%) SSL
4 26 (5.42%) TCP/IP
5 24 (5.00%) SSH
6 23 (4.79%) SMTP
7 21 (4.38%) FTP
7 21 (4.38%) HTTP
7 21 (4.38%) Network Security
8 17 (3.54%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (2.50%) IMAP
10 6 (1.25%) DHCP
11 4 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.63%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.42%) Calico
13 2 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.42%) VSAN
14 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
14 1 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (31.88%) Amazon RDS
2 99 (20.63%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (13.96%) DynamoDB
4 66 (13.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 59 (12.29%) Amazon Athena
6 51 (10.63%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (9.79%) Relational Database
8 31 (6.46%) Data Lake
9 30 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (4.58%) Amazon QuickSight
11 20 (4.17%) Big Data
11 20 (4.17%) MongoDB
11 20 (4.17%) SQL Server
12 18 (3.75%) MySQL
12 18 (3.75%) NoSQL
12 18 (3.75%) RDBMS
13 17 (3.54%) Power BI
14 15 (3.13%) Metadata
15 12 (2.50%) Star Schema
15 12 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 117 (24.38%) Jenkins
2 110 (22.92%) Git
3 80 (16.67%) GitLab
4 52 (10.83%) JIRA
5 23 (4.79%) Vagrant
6 9 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.88%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.88%) JUnit
7 8 (1.67%) Maven
8 7 (1.46%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.25%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.04%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.83%) MLflow
12 3 (0.63%) Gradle
12 3 (0.63%) Postman
12 3 (0.63%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.42%) PyCharm
13 2 (0.42%) SoapUI
13 2 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 132 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 76 (15.83%) Public Sector
3 74 (15.42%) Finance
4 49 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (3.75%) Banking
5 18 (3.75%) Front Office
6 16 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.88%) Military
9 6 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.63%) Marketing
10 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.42%) Legal
11 2 (0.42%) Retail
12 1 (0.21%) Advertising
12 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 113 (23.54%) AWS Engineer
2 85 (17.71%) Data Engineer
2 85 (17.71%) Senior
3 79 (16.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 78 (16.25%) Developer
5 47 (9.79%) AWS DevOps
6 44 (9.17%) Architect
6 44 (9.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 38 (7.92%) Platform Engineer
8 33 (6.88%) Lead
9 29 (6.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.21%) Software Engineer
11 24 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
12 23 (4.79%) AWS Developer
13 22 (4.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 22 (4.58%) Java Developer
14 20 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
16 18 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.75%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (12.71%) Kafka
2 55 (11.46%) Node.js
3 46 (9.58%) React
4 42 (8.75%) REST
5 34 (7.08%) RESTful
6 31 (6.46%) Spring
7 30 (6.25%) Spring Boot
8 24 (5.00%) AWS CDK
9 20 (4.17%) LDAP
10 18 (3.75%) AngularJS
11 17 (3.54%) GraphQL
12 16 (3.33%) Jest
12 16 (3.33%) OAuth
13 15 (3.13%) CSS
14 14 (2.92%) PySpark
14 14 (2.92%) pytest
15 13 (2.71%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (2.50%) Sass
17 11 (2.29%) Pandas
18 10 (2.08%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 94 (19.58%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.04%) Replication
3 25 (5.21%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.67%) NHS
8 6 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.04%) CSOC
9 5 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.04%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.83%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.83%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 85 (17.71%) Linux
2 34 (7.08%) Windows
3 27 (5.63%) VMS
4 26 (5.42%) Amazon Linux
5 13 (2.71%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.88%) Unix
8 7 (1.46%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.21%) AIX
10 1 (0.21%) Android
10 1 (0.21%) CentOS
10 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.21%) Solaris
10 1 (0.21%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 209 (43.54%) DevOps
3 172 (35.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (26.88%) Agile
5 117 (24.38%) Containerisation
6 87 (18.13%) ETL
7 84 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
8 80 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (16.25%) Data Modelling
9 78 (16.25%) Microservices
10 77 (16.04%) Data Engineering
11 71 (14.79%) Analytics
12 64 (13.33%) Migration
13 57 (11.88%) Configuration Management
14 56 (11.67%) Software Engineering
15 55 (11.46%) Observability
16 54 (11.25%) Infrastructure Automation
17 51 (10.63%) Mentoring
18 48 (10.00%) AI
18 48 (10.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 290 (60.42%) Python
2 162 (33.75%) SQL
3 96 (20.00%) Java
4 67 (13.96%) Bash
5 52 (10.83%) TypeScript
6 43 (8.96%) JavaScript
7 37 (7.71%) PowerShell
8 27 (5.63%) Groovy
9 22 (4.58%) Go
10 15 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.71%) Perl
12 9 (1.88%) C#
13 8 (1.67%) Scala
14 6 (1.25%) JSX
14 6 (1.25%) Korn
15 4 (0.83%) C
15 4 (0.83%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.63%) Bicep
17 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 166 (34.58%) Security Cleared
2 136 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 64 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 34 (7.08%) Degree
5 26 (5.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (4.38%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.42%) CISSP
12 2 (0.42%) PhD
13 1 (0.21%) CCNP
13 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.21%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) RHCE
13 1 (0.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.58%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.83%) GDPR
2 28 (5.83%) QA
3 11 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.08%) NIST
5 4 (0.83%) NCSC
6 3 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.63%) WCAG
7 2 (0.42%) MiFID
7 2 (0.42%) 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
System Software
1 179 (37.29%) Docker
2 24 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.38%) DFS Replication
4 13 (2.71%) Postfix
5 12 (2.50%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.50%) Squid
6 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.21%) etcd
7 1 (0.21%) HDFS
7 1 (0.21%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 239 (49.79%) Terraform
2 113 (23.54%) Kubernetes
3 74 (15.42%) Ansible
4 64 (13.33%) Grafana
5 57 (11.88%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.96%) Progress Chef
6 19 (3.96%) Puppet
7 13 (2.71%) Argo
8 12 (2.50%) Nessus
9 10 (2.08%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.67%) Istio
11 5 (1.04%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.83%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.63%) Kibana
13 3 (0.63%) Packer
14 2 (0.42%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.42%) SELinux
Vendors
1 35 (7.29%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.25%) Databricks
3 27 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 24 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 24 (5.00%) Splunk
5 23 (4.79%) CheckPoint
5 23 (4.79%) F5
6 16 (3.33%) Oracle
7 13 (2.71%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (1.67%) Google
8 8 (1.67%) IBM
8 8 (1.67%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.46%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.46%) Cloudera
9 7 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.25%) Dell
10 6 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.25%) StreamSets
11 5 (1.04%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.83%) AppDynamics