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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 197 261
Rank change year-on-year +10 +64 +14
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 477 349 345
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.32% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.84% 3.55% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 242 276
10th Percentile £360 £404 £388
25th Percentile £447 £475 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £659 £628
90th Percentile £695 £788 £731
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.00 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £88.00 - -

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 12,432 9,835 12,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.80% 37.12% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,617 6,513 9,250
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 142 298
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.45 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.57
Median hourly rate £33.32 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £45.89 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.48 £68.75 £66.29
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year +19.09% +20.88% -5.21%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +17 315 £530 -6.19% 81
North of England -28 65 £500 - 29
Midlands -28 46 £475 +5.56% 12
West Midlands -15 39 £500 -9.09% 8
Yorkshire -26 33 £500 -4.76% 14
North West -22 25 £463 -2.63% 12
South East -5 23 £528 -17.25% 24
South West -13 15 £625 +13.55% 17
East of England -14 9 £650 +30.00% 8
North East -14 7 £425 -30.33% 3
East Midlands -23 7 £417 -6.02% 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 41 (8.60%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.55%) Apache Spark
3 27 (5.66%) Apache
4 25 (5.24%) Confluence
5 12 (2.52%) nginx
6 3 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.63%) SAS
6 3 (0.63%) Traefik
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.26%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Actimize
1 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.21%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 474 (99.37%) AWS
2 287 (60.17%) Serverless
3 281 (58.91%) AWS Lambda
4 184 (38.57%) Amazon EC2
5 130 (27.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 118 (24.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 111 (23.27%) GitHub
8 108 (22.64%) Amazon ECS
9 101 (21.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 89 (18.66%) Amazon EKS
11 85 (17.82%) Azure
12 82 (17.19%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (10.27%) AWS Step Functions
14 48 (10.06%) Amazon Kinesis
15 45 (9.43%) GCP
16 41 (8.60%) Snowflake
17 40 (8.39%) Route 53
18 32 (6.71%) dbt
19 31 (6.50%) Amazon ELB
19 31 (6.50%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 44 (9.22%) DNS
2 42 (8.81%) Firewall
3 29 (6.08%) VPN
4 22 (4.61%) TCP/IP
5 19 (3.98%) Network Security
6 14 (2.94%) SSL
7 10 (2.10%) FTP
7 10 (2.10%) HTTP
7 10 (2.10%) SMTP
7 10 (2.10%) SSH
8 7 (1.47%) IMAP
8 7 (1.47%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (1.05%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.84%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.63%) BGP
12 2 (0.42%) Multicast
12 2 (0.42%) NAS
12 2 (0.42%) OSPF
12 2 (0.42%) SAN
12 2 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (28.93%) Amazon RDS
2 83 (17.40%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (15.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 68 (14.26%) DynamoDB
5 62 (13.00%) Amazon Athena
6 37 (7.76%) Data Lake
7 35 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (7.13%) Relational Database
9 32 (6.71%) Amazon Aurora
10 26 (5.45%) Power BI
11 23 (4.82%) MongoDB
12 21 (4.40%) Amazon QuickSight
12 21 (4.40%) MySQL
13 20 (4.19%) BigQuery
14 19 (3.98%) SQL Server
15 18 (3.77%) NoSQL
16 16 (3.35%) OLTP
16 16 (3.35%) Star Schema
16 16 (3.35%) Tableau
17 14 (2.94%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 113 (23.69%) Jenkins
2 94 (19.71%) GitLab
3 90 (18.87%) Git
4 33 (6.92%) JIRA
5 13 (2.73%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.10%) Vagrant
7 9 (1.89%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.68%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.68%) JUnit
8 8 (1.68%) Maven
9 7 (1.47%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.26%) Gradle
11 5 (1.05%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.84%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.63%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.63%) Vite
14 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.42%) Postman
14 2 (0.42%) Selenium
14 2 (0.42%) Snyk
General
1 123 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 76 (15.93%) Finance
3 65 (13.63%) Public Sector
4 52 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.61%) Banking
6 16 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.31%) Front Office
9 8 (1.68%) Military
10 4 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.63%) Legal
11 3 (0.63%) Marketing
12 2 (0.42%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.42%) Retail
13 1 (0.21%) Advertising
13 1 (0.21%) Aviation
13 1 (0.21%) Games
13 1 (0.21%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (21.80%) Data Engineer
2 88 (18.45%) AWS Engineer
3 77 (16.14%) Developer
4 64 (13.42%) Senior
5 61 (12.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 57 (11.95%) Architect
7 41 (8.60%) Lead
8 30 (6.29%) Software Engineer
9 29 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
10 28 (5.87%) AWS DevOps
11 27 (5.66%) AWS Architect
11 27 (5.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 26 (5.45%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (4.82%) Site Engineer
14 22 (4.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 20 (4.19%) Cloud Architect
15 20 (4.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 20 (4.19%) Java Developer
16 18 (3.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (19.50%) Kafka
2 49 (10.27%) React
3 48 (10.06%) Node.js
4 47 (9.85%) Spring
4 47 (9.85%) Spring Boot
5 41 (8.60%) RESTful
6 35 (7.34%) REST
7 26 (5.45%) AngularJS
8 24 (5.03%) OAuth
9 22 (4.61%) CSS
10 18 (3.77%) AWS CDK
10 18 (3.77%) PySpark
11 17 (3.56%) Jest
12 15 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (2.94%) FastAPI
13 14 (2.94%) HTML
13 14 (2.94%) LDAP
14 13 (2.73%) boto
14 13 (2.73%) Sass
15 12 (2.52%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 124 (26.00%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.87%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.56%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (3.56%) Replication
4 16 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.31%) NHS
6 8 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.26%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.05%) SCADA
10 4 (0.84%) Derivative
10 4 (0.84%) Equities
10 4 (0.84%) PACS
10 4 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 68 (14.26%) Linux
2 17 (3.56%) Windows
3 13 (2.73%) Amazon Linux
3 13 (2.73%) VMS
4 10 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.10%) Unix
5 8 (1.68%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.21%) Android
7 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (60.59%) CI/CD
2 198 (41.51%) DevOps
3 190 (39.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (24.53%) Containerisation
5 108 (22.64%) Agile
6 101 (21.17%) ETL
7 96 (20.13%) Data Engineering
8 93 (19.50%) Analytics
9 91 (19.08%) Data Pipeline
10 90 (18.87%) Data Modelling
11 77 (16.14%) Microservices
11 77 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (15.09%) Observability
13 67 (14.05%) Software Engineering
14 58 (12.16%) Event-Driven
15 57 (11.95%) Performance Tuning
16 56 (11.74%) AI
17 50 (10.48%) Data Governance
17 50 (10.48%) High Availability
18 49 (10.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 285 (59.75%) Python
2 180 (37.74%) SQL
3 93 (19.50%) Java
4 60 (12.58%) Bash
5 46 (9.64%) TypeScript
6 40 (8.39%) JavaScript
7 22 (4.61%) C#
7 22 (4.61%) PowerShell
8 21 (4.40%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.98%) Go
10 11 (2.31%) Groovy
11 7 (1.47%) Scala
12 6 (1.26%) JSX
12 6 (1.26%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.05%) Korn
13 5 (1.05%) Perl
14 4 (0.84%) C
15 3 (0.63%) C++
16 2 (0.42%) Bicep
17 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 163 (34.17%) Security Cleared
2 131 (27.46%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.85%) AWS Certification
4 24 (5.03%) Degree
5 23 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.31%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.47%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.63%) OCP
11 3 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.63%) PhD
12 2 (0.42%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) CCNP
13 1 (0.21%) CEH
13 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.74%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.92%) GDPR
3 22 (4.61%) QA
4 15 (3.14%) NIST
5 14 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.31%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.84%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.63%) NCSC
9 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.42%) MiFID
9 2 (0.42%) SLA
10 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.21%) GxP
10 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 180 (37.74%) Docker
2 12 (2.52%) Squid
3 10 (2.10%) DFS Replication
4 7 (1.47%) Dovecot
4 7 (1.47%) Postfix
5 6 (1.26%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.63%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.42%) HDFS
7 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.21%) etcd
8 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 246 (51.57%) Terraform
2 133 (27.88%) Kubernetes
3 72 (15.09%) Ansible
4 60 (12.58%) Grafana
5 58 (12.16%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.98%) Progress Chef
7 18 (3.77%) Puppet
8 10 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.68%) Argo
10 7 (1.47%) Kibana
10 7 (1.47%) Nessus
10 7 (1.47%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (1.26%) FortiGate
12 5 (1.05%) Consul
12 5 (1.05%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (1.05%) Istio
12 5 (1.05%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.63%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 43 (9.01%) Databricks
2 31 (6.50%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.61%) Splunk
4 19 (3.98%) Google
5 17 (3.56%) F5
6 16 (3.35%) Palo Alto
7 15 (3.14%) CheckPoint
7 15 (3.14%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.73%) Oracle
9 12 (2.52%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.68%) Confluent
10 8 (1.68%) Dell
10 8 (1.68%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.68%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.47%) Jaspersoft
12 6 (1.26%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.26%) AVEVA
13 5 (1.05%) Sybase
14 4 (0.84%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.84%) SAP