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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 189 256
Rank change year-on-year -2 +67 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 546 347 351
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.41% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.94% 3.72% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 260 272
10th Percentile £350 £400 £394
25th Percentile £439 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £614 £657 £625
90th Percentile £675 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -1.23% +0.96% -5.88%
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 13,852 9,329 12,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.93% 37.82% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,552 6,516 8,757
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £712 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 173 326
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.95 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.85% +29.17% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £40.75
90th Percentile £79.90 £74.75 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +39.62% +26.19% -18.48%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +15 358 £525 -4.55% 76
North of England -37 65 £500 - 55
Midlands -22 57 £475 +5.56% 10
West Midlands -31 50 £500 -2.44% 7
Yorkshire -34 31 £500 -4.76% 28
South East -35 30 £530 -11.67% 32
North West -15 25 £450 +9.09% 23
South West -20 19 £542 -9.83% 19
North East -9 9 £525 -15.90% 4
East Midlands -33 7 £423 +4.19% 3
East of England -18 6 £475 -1.30% 9
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 55 (10.07%) Apache Spark
2 39 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (6.41%) Apache
4 32 (5.86%) Confluence
5 10 (1.83%) nginx
6 8 (1.47%) SAS
7 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
2 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 543 (99.45%) AWS
2 334 (61.17%) Serverless
3 323 (59.16%) AWS Lambda
4 216 (39.56%) Amazon EC2
5 138 (25.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 133 (24.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 123 (22.53%) Amazon ECS
8 117 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 115 (21.06%) GitHub
10 112 (20.51%) Amazon EKS
11 97 (17.77%) Azure
12 83 (15.20%) GitHub Actions
13 63 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
14 59 (10.81%) AWS Step Functions
15 58 (10.62%) GCP
16 51 (9.34%) Snowflake
17 48 (8.79%) Route 53
18 45 (8.24%) Power Platform
19 40 (7.33%) Amazon Kinesis
20 35 (6.41%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.49%) DNS
2 24 (4.40%) Firewall
3 20 (3.66%) VPN
4 16 (2.93%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.56%) Network Security
6 11 (2.01%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.73%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.55%) BGP
8 3 (0.55%) SSL
9 2 (0.37%) Multicast
9 2 (0.37%) NAS
9 2 (0.37%) OSPF
9 2 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.37%) SAN
9 2 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.37%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.18%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (28.02%) Amazon RDS
2 96 (17.58%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (15.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 84 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
5 79 (14.47%) DynamoDB
6 52 (9.52%) Data Lake
7 45 (8.24%) Power BI
7 45 (8.24%) Relational Database
8 44 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (6.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 28 (5.13%) NoSQL
10 28 (5.13%) SQL Server
11 27 (4.95%) BigQuery
11 27 (4.95%) MongoDB
12 24 (4.40%) Tableau
13 23 (4.21%) OLTP
14 21 (3.85%) OLAP
15 20 (3.66%) MySQL
16 19 (3.48%) Metadata
17 18 (3.30%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 124 (22.71%) Jenkins
2 107 (19.60%) GitLab
3 103 (18.86%) Git
4 39 (7.14%) JIRA
5 23 (4.21%) JUnit
6 22 (4.03%) Bitbucket
7 20 (3.66%) SonarQube
8 19 (3.48%) Maven
9 13 (2.38%) Cypress.io
9 13 (2.38%) Mockito
10 11 (2.01%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.28%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.28%) jMock
12 6 (1.10%) Gradle
13 5 (0.92%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (0.73%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.73%) Postman
14 4 (0.73%) Terragrunt
14 4 (0.73%) Vite
General
1 149 (27.29%) Social Skills
2 95 (17.40%) Finance
3 91 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.49%) Banking
6 23 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.56%) Front Office
8 13 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.73%) Military
9 4 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.37%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.37%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.37%) Retail
12 1 (0.18%) Billing
12 1 (0.18%) Games
12 1 (0.18%) Marketing
12 1 (0.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 119 (21.79%) Data Engineer
2 111 (20.33%) Developer
3 78 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 63 (11.54%) Architect
5 59 (10.81%) Lead
6 53 (9.71%) Senior
7 45 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 41 (7.51%) Java Developer
9 31 (5.68%) AWS Architect
10 28 (5.13%) AWS Data Engineer
10 28 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (4.95%) Site Engineer
12 26 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
12 26 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 25 (4.58%) Analyst
14 24 (4.40%) Software Engineer
15 22 (4.03%) AWS Developer
15 22 (4.03%) AWS DevOps
16 19 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (3.48%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (20.88%) Kafka
2 72 (13.19%) Spring
2 72 (13.19%) Spring Boot
3 57 (10.44%) Node.js
4 53 (9.71%) RESTful
5 50 (9.16%) React
6 44 (8.06%) REST
7 35 (6.41%) AngularJS
8 34 (6.23%) PySpark
9 30 (5.49%) OAuth
10 22 (4.03%) CSS
11 21 (3.85%) AWS CDK
12 20 (3.66%) OpenID
13 19 (3.48%) Jest
14 18 (3.30%) Great Expectations
15 16 (2.93%) SOAP
16 15 (2.75%) boto
16 15 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
17 14 (2.56%) FastAPI
17 14 (2.56%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 140 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.01%) NHS
6 10 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.10%) Replication
10 6 (1.10%) SCADA
11 5 (0.92%) Clustering
11 5 (0.92%) Derivative
11 5 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.92%) Equities
11 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.73%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 70 (12.82%) Linux
2 14 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (2.01%) Unix
4 7 (1.28%) Windows
5 4 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.37%) Android
7 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.37%) zOS
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (58.61%) CI/CD
2 221 (40.48%) DevOps
3 209 (38.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (26.92%) Agile
5 132 (24.18%) Containerisation
5 132 (24.18%) ETL
6 120 (21.98%) Analytics
6 120 (21.98%) Data Modelling
7 117 (21.43%) Data Engineering
8 98 (17.95%) Data Pipeline
9 94 (17.22%) Microservices
10 92 (16.85%) Observability
10 92 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
11 68 (12.45%) AI
12 67 (12.27%) Performance Tuning
13 66 (12.09%) Data Governance
14 60 (10.99%) Migration
15 59 (10.81%) Software Engineering
16 56 (10.26%) Test Automation
17 55 (10.07%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 293 (53.66%) Python
2 206 (37.73%) SQL
3 115 (21.06%) Java
4 52 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 51 (9.34%) Bash
6 44 (8.06%) JavaScript
7 35 (6.41%) C#
8 27 (4.95%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.11%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.38%) Go
11 12 (2.20%) Scala
12 6 (1.10%) JSX
13 5 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.92%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.55%) C
14 3 (0.55%) C++
14 3 (0.55%) Korn
15 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.37%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 188 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 151 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.79%) AWS Certification
4 21 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.30%) Degree
6 17 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.55%) OCP
12 3 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.55%) PhD
12 3 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.37%) CISSP
13 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (12.82%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.33%) GDPR
3 23 (4.21%) QA
4 16 (2.93%) NIST
5 14 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.83%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.10%) PMO
8 5 (0.92%) SLA
9 4 (0.73%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.37%) MiFID
10 2 (0.37%) NCSC
10 2 (0.37%) WCAG
11 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.18%) GxP
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.18%) IFRS
11 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 186 (34.07%) Docker
2 9 (1.65%) Squid
3 6 (1.10%) Postfix
4 4 (0.73%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.55%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.37%) HDFS
7 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 264 (48.35%) Terraform
2 142 (26.01%) Kubernetes
3 70 (12.82%) Grafana
4 64 (11.72%) Ansible
5 63 (11.54%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (2.93%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.75%) Puppet
9 10 (1.83%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.28%) Argo
10 7 (1.28%) Consul
10 7 (1.28%) Kibana
10 7 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.92%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (0.92%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.55%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.55%) Istio
12 3 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.55%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 62 (11.36%) Databricks
2 37 (6.78%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.49%) Google
4 29 (5.31%) Splunk
5 19 (3.48%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.75%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.38%) Oracle
7 13 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.20%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.65%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.47%) Confluent
10 8 (1.47%) Dell
10 8 (1.47%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.28%) Sybase
12 6 (1.10%) AVEVA
12 6 (1.10%) IBM
12 6 (1.10%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.92%) F5
13 5 (0.92%) Informatica
14 4 (0.73%) SAP