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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 201 252
Rank change year-on-year +13 +51 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 514 338 354
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.32% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.86% 3.50% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 243 274
10th Percentile £356 £401 £396
25th Percentile £425 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -9.68%
75th Percentile £614 £688 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £734
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -2.14% +0.48% -7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 13,318 9,669 12,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.48% 37.65% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,188 6,547 8,966
10th Percentile £309 £313 £275
25th Percentile £408 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 150 322
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.42
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +28.41% -14.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.30 £45.57
90th Percentile £79.90 £73.93 £65.63
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £27.35 £21.46
% change year-on-year +45.34% +27.45% -14.16%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +14 334 £525 -7.89% 64
North of England -20 68 £500 - 30
Midlands -24 56 £488 +8.33% 12
West Midlands -17 48 £500 -9.09% 10
Yorkshire -37 33 £500 -2.44% 8
North West -19 28 £450 -5.26% 18
South East -23 24 £530 -16.86% 17
South West -15 17 £531 -11.58% 20
East of England -16 9 £475 -1.30% 4
East Midlands -22 8 £433 -2.59% 2
North East -12 7 £475 -22.13% 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 49 (9.53%) Apache Spark
2 32 (6.23%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (6.03%) Apache
4 29 (5.64%) Confluence
5 11 (2.14%) nginx
6 6 (1.17%) SAS
7 3 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.58%) Traefik
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.17%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Actimize
1 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 511 (99.42%) AWS
2 312 (60.70%) Serverless
3 302 (58.75%) AWS Lambda
4 213 (41.44%) Amazon EC2
5 143 (27.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 127 (24.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 117 (22.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 113 (21.98%) Amazon ECS
9 101 (19.65%) Amazon EKS
10 97 (18.87%) GitHub
11 89 (17.32%) Azure
12 72 (14.01%) GitHub Actions
13 52 (10.12%) AWS Step Functions
14 48 (9.34%) Amazon SQS
14 48 (9.34%) GCP
15 47 (9.14%) Route 53
16 44 (8.56%) Snowflake
17 40 (7.78%) Amazon Kinesis
18 35 (6.81%) Amazon EMR
18 35 (6.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.98%) DNS
2 37 (7.20%) Firewall
3 31 (6.03%) VPN
4 24 (4.67%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.89%) Network Security
6 13 (2.53%) SSL
7 8 (1.56%) OpenVPN
8 4 (0.78%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.58%) BGP
9 3 (0.58%) FTP
9 3 (0.58%) HTTP
9 3 (0.58%) SMTP
9 3 (0.58%) SSH
10 2 (0.39%) IMAP
10 2 (0.39%) Multicast
10 2 (0.39%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.39%) OSPF
10 2 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.39%) SAN
10 2 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (28.79%) Amazon RDS
2 92 (17.90%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (15.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 75 (14.59%) Amazon Athena
4 75 (14.59%) DynamoDB
5 42 (8.17%) Data Lake
6 40 (7.78%) Relational Database
7 36 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (6.81%) Amazon Aurora
8 35 (6.81%) Power BI
9 26 (5.06%) MongoDB
10 25 (4.86%) NoSQL
11 24 (4.67%) BigQuery
11 24 (4.67%) SQL Server
12 21 (4.09%) MySQL
13 20 (3.89%) OLTP
14 19 (3.70%) Tableau
15 18 (3.50%) OLAP
16 15 (2.92%) Metadata
16 15 (2.92%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 120 (23.35%) Jenkins
2 102 (19.84%) Git
3 101 (19.65%) GitLab
4 33 (6.42%) JIRA
5 22 (4.28%) JUnit
6 19 (3.70%) Bitbucket
6 19 (3.70%) Maven
7 18 (3.50%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.33%) Mockito
9 9 (1.75%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.75%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.36%) DbUnit
10 7 (1.36%) jMock
11 6 (1.17%) Gradle
12 5 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (0.78%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.78%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.78%) Vite
14 3 (0.58%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 144 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 86 (16.73%) Finance
2 86 (16.73%) Public Sector
3 52 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (4.86%) Banking
5 20 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.33%) Front Office
8 7 (1.36%) Military
9 4 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.58%) Legal
10 3 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.39%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.19%) Aviation
12 1 (0.19%) Billing
12 1 (0.19%) Marketing
12 1 (0.19%) Retail
12 1 (0.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (19.65%) Developer
2 99 (19.26%) Data Engineer
3 77 (14.98%) AWS Engineer
4 61 (11.87%) Architect
5 58 (11.28%) Lead
6 57 (11.09%) Senior
7 56 (10.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 39 (7.59%) Java Developer
9 29 (5.64%) AWS Architect
9 29 (5.64%) Cloud Engineer
10 27 (5.25%) AWS Data Engineer
11 25 (4.86%) Software Engineer
12 24 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
13 23 (4.47%) Lead Data Engineer
13 23 (4.47%) Site Engineer
14 22 (4.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 22 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 21 (4.09%) Analyst
15 21 (4.09%) AWS Developer
16 20 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (19.26%) Kafka
2 67 (13.04%) Spring
2 67 (13.04%) Spring Boot
3 54 (10.51%) Node.js
4 51 (9.92%) RESTful
5 45 (8.75%) REST
6 44 (8.56%) React
7 34 (6.61%) AngularJS
8 27 (5.25%) OAuth
9 25 (4.86%) PySpark
10 22 (4.28%) CSS
11 20 (3.89%) Jest
12 19 (3.70%) AWS CDK
13 17 (3.31%) OpenID
14 15 (2.92%) Great Expectations
15 14 (2.72%) boto
15 14 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (2.72%) JPA
15 14 (2.72%) SOAP
15 14 (2.72%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 128 (24.90%) Cloud Native
2 36 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (3.89%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.14%) NHS
6 10 (1.95%) Replication
7 8 (1.56%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.97%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.97%) SCADA
10 5 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.78%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.78%) Derivative
11 4 (0.78%) Equities
11 4 (0.78%) PACS
11 4 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 71 (13.81%) Linux
2 14 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.75%) Unix
3 9 (1.75%) Windows
4 7 (1.36%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (1.17%) VMS
6 4 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.39%) zOS
9 1 (0.19%) Android
9 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (58.95%) CI/CD
2 221 (43.00%) DevOps
3 203 (39.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 136 (26.46%) Agile
5 130 (25.29%) Containerisation
6 115 (22.37%) ETL
7 111 (21.60%) Analytics
8 107 (20.82%) Data Modelling
9 103 (20.04%) Data Engineering
10 93 (18.09%) Microservices
11 89 (17.32%) Data Pipeline
12 85 (16.54%) Observability
13 84 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
15 60 (11.67%) Software Engineering
16 59 (11.48%) AI
17 57 (11.09%) Migration
18 56 (10.89%) Event-Driven
19 55 (10.70%) Data Governance
20 53 (10.31%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 288 (56.03%) Python
2 192 (37.35%) SQL
3 106 (20.62%) Java
4 60 (11.67%) Bash
5 45 (8.75%) TypeScript
6 38 (7.39%) JavaScript
7 28 (5.45%) C#
8 24 (4.67%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.11%) Go
10 15 (2.92%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.17%) JSX
12 5 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.97%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.97%) Scala
13 4 (0.78%) Groovy
14 3 (0.58%) C
14 3 (0.58%) C++
14 3 (0.58%) Korn
15 2 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 185 (35.99%) Security Cleared
2 149 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.53%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 19 (3.70%) Degree
6 17 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.58%) OCP
10 3 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.58%) PhD
11 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.39%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.28%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.00%) GDPR
3 22 (4.28%) QA
4 15 (2.92%) NIST
5 14 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.33%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.78%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.78%) PMO
8 3 (0.58%) NCSC
8 3 (0.58%) SLA
9 2 (0.39%) MiFID
9 2 (0.39%) WCAG
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) GxP
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 185 (35.99%) Docker
2 10 (1.95%) Squid
3 8 (1.56%) Postfix
4 5 (0.97%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.58%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.58%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.39%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.39%) HDFS
6 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.19%) etcd
7 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 251 (48.83%) Terraform
2 140 (27.24%) Kubernetes
3 76 (14.79%) Ansible
4 70 (13.62%) Grafana
5 62 (12.06%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.50%) Progress Chef
7 17 (3.31%) Puppet
7 17 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.75%) Argo
8 9 (1.75%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.36%) Consul
9 7 (1.36%) Kibana
9 7 (1.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.97%) Dell DRAC
10 5 (0.97%) Istio
10 5 (0.97%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.58%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.58%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.58%) Packer
Vendors
1 54 (10.51%) Databricks
2 30 (5.84%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.67%) Google
4 22 (4.28%) Splunk
5 18 (3.50%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.11%) F5
7 15 (2.92%) Atlassian
7 15 (2.92%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.92%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.72%) CheckPoint
9 13 (2.53%) Oracle
10 11 (2.14%) Dynatrace
10 11 (2.14%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.56%) Confluent
11 8 (1.56%) Dell
11 8 (1.56%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.36%) Sybase
13 6 (1.17%) AVEVA
13 6 (1.17%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.97%) IBM