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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 192 261
Rank change year-on-year +3 +69 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 455 355 312
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.33% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.86% 3.62% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 242 240
10th Percentile £370 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £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 £641
90th Percentile £695 £788 £722
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 11,786 9,808 12,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.00% 36.72% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,146 6,531 9,054
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 130 239
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £45.89 £50.79
90th Percentile £78.45 £64.78 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.43 £23.11
% change year-on-year +0.27% +18.68% +2.70%

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 12 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 12 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 +8 299 £530 -4.29% 75
North of England -25 58 £500 -4.76% 43
Midlands -19 43 £475 +1.06% 19
West Midlands -10 36 £500 -11.11% 10
Yorkshire -13 34 £500 -5.57% 21
South East -9 22 £425 -24.44% 77
North West -31 20 £450 -6.74% 16
South West -3 18 £625 +13.55% 28
East of England -13 11 £613 +22.50% 39
East Midlands -19 7 £417 -6.66% 9
North East -8 5 £550 -9.84% 6
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 38 (8.35%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (7.25%) Apache Spark
3 32 (7.03%) Confluence
4 22 (4.84%) Apache
5 9 (1.98%) nginx
6 5 (1.10%) SAS
7 3 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.66%) Traefik
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.98%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Actimize
1 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
1 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 450 (98.90%) AWS
2 259 (56.92%) Serverless
3 253 (55.60%) AWS Lambda
4 183 (40.22%) Amazon EC2
5 145 (31.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 116 (25.49%) GitHub
7 102 (22.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 101 (22.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 98 (21.54%) Amazon ECS
10 85 (18.68%) GitHub Actions
11 79 (17.36%) Azure
12 69 (15.16%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (10.99%) AWS Step Functions
14 44 (9.67%) Amazon ELB
14 44 (9.67%) Amazon Kinesis
15 37 (8.13%) GCP
16 35 (7.69%) Snowflake
17 31 (6.81%) Amazon EMR
17 31 (6.81%) Route 53
18 28 (6.15%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 52 (11.43%) DNS
2 47 (10.33%) Firewall
3 31 (6.81%) VPN
4 24 (5.27%) TCP/IP
5 23 (5.05%) SSL
6 22 (4.84%) Network Security
7 16 (3.52%) SSH
8 15 (3.30%) FTP
8 15 (3.30%) HTTP
8 15 (3.30%) SMTP
9 14 (3.08%) OpenLDAP
10 9 (1.98%) IMAP
11 4 (0.88%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.44%) Calico
12 2 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (0.22%) BGP
13 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
13 1 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.22%) VSAN
13 1 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (30.11%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 66 (14.51%) DynamoDB
5 59 (12.97%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (8.79%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (8.13%) Relational Database
8 35 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 33 (7.25%) Data Lake
10 23 (5.05%) Amazon QuickSight
11 21 (4.62%) Power BI
12 20 (4.40%) MongoDB
12 20 (4.40%) MySQL
13 18 (3.96%) SQL Server
14 15 (3.30%) NoSQL
14 15 (3.30%) Star Schema
15 14 (3.08%) BigQuery
15 14 (3.08%) Tableau
16 13 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
17 12 (2.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 116 (25.49%) Jenkins
2 99 (21.76%) Git
3 88 (19.34%) GitLab
4 38 (8.35%) JIRA
5 15 (3.30%) Vagrant
6 9 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.98%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.10%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.10%) JUnit
8 5 (1.10%) Maven
9 4 (0.88%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.66%) Gradle
10 3 (0.66%) Jasmine
10 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.44%) MLflow
11 2 (0.44%) Postman
11 2 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.44%) Selenium
11 2 (0.44%) Snyk
General
1 116 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 68 (14.95%) Finance
3 66 (14.51%) Public Sector
4 47 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.40%) Banking
6 15 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.42%) Front Office
8 9 (1.98%) Military
9 3 (0.66%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.66%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.66%) Legal
9 3 (0.66%) Marketing
9 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.44%) Retail
11 1 (0.22%) Advertising
11 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.22%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (20.88%) AWS Engineer
2 93 (20.44%) Data Engineer
3 71 (15.60%) Developer
4 70 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 70 (15.38%) Senior
5 49 (10.77%) Architect
6 37 (8.13%) AWS DevOps
7 35 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 33 (7.25%) Lead
8 33 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (5.93%) Software Engineer
10 24 (5.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 22 (4.84%) AWS Data Engineer
12 21 (4.62%) AWS Architect
13 20 (4.40%) AWS Developer
14 19 (4.18%) Java Developer
14 19 (4.18%) Python Engineer
14 19 (4.18%) Senior Data Engineer
14 19 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
14 19 (4.18%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (16.26%) Kafka
2 49 (10.77%) Node.js
3 47 (10.33%) React
4 44 (9.67%) REST
5 38 (8.35%) RESTful
6 35 (7.69%) Spring
6 35 (7.69%) Spring Boot
7 26 (5.71%) AngularJS
8 22 (4.84%) CSS
8 22 (4.84%) OAuth
9 19 (4.18%) AWS CDK
10 18 (3.96%) boto
11 17 (3.74%) LDAP
11 17 (3.74%) PySpark
12 16 (3.52%) Jest
13 15 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (3.30%) FastAPI
13 15 (3.30%) HTML
13 15 (3.30%) pytest
14 13 (2.86%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 102 (22.42%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.84%) Replication
4 17 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.98%) NHS
6 9 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.88%) Derivative
10 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.88%) Equities
10 4 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.88%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.66%) Equity Derivative
11 3 (0.66%) PACS
11 3 (0.66%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 67 (14.73%) Linux
2 23 (5.05%) Windows
3 19 (4.18%) VMS
4 18 (3.96%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.20%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.98%) Unix
7 6 (1.32%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.22%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (59.56%) CI/CD
2 196 (43.08%) DevOps
3 179 (39.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (24.18%) Agile
5 106 (23.30%) Containerisation
6 90 (19.78%) Data Pipeline
7 89 (19.56%) ETL
8 81 (17.80%) Data Engineering
9 80 (17.58%) Data Modelling
10 79 (17.36%) Analytics
11 77 (16.92%) Microservices
12 70 (15.38%) Observability
13 67 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
14 61 (13.41%) Software Engineering
15 55 (12.09%) AI
16 52 (11.43%) Event-Driven
17 51 (11.21%) Migration
18 49 (10.77%) Configuration Management
18 49 (10.77%) High Availability
18 49 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 280 (61.54%) Python
2 166 (36.48%) SQL
3 90 (19.78%) Java
4 65 (14.29%) Bash
5 45 (9.89%) TypeScript
6 42 (9.23%) JavaScript
7 28 (6.15%) PowerShell
8 22 (4.84%) Go
9 19 (4.18%) Shell Script
10 17 (3.74%) Groovy
11 16 (3.52%) C#
12 8 (1.76%) Perl
13 7 (1.54%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.54%) Scala
14 6 (1.32%) JSX
14 6 (1.32%) Korn
15 4 (0.88%) C
16 3 (0.66%) Bicep
16 3 (0.66%) C++
17 2 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 160 (35.16%) Security Cleared
2 133 (29.23%) SC Cleared
3 48 (10.55%) AWS Certification
4 26 (5.71%) Degree
5 23 (5.05%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.66%) MCP
12 3 (0.66%) OCP
12 3 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.66%) PhD
13 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.44%) CISSP
13 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.22%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.99%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.59%) GDPR
3 29 (6.37%) QA
4 15 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.30%) NIST
5 11 (2.42%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.66%) NCSC
8 2 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.44%) MiFID
8 2 (0.44%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.22%) GxP
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 177 (38.90%) Docker
2 15 (3.30%) DFS Replication
3 14 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.98%) Dovecot
4 9 (1.98%) Postfix
4 9 (1.98%) Squid
5 3 (0.66%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.44%) HDFS
6 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.22%) etcd
7 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 236 (51.87%) Terraform
2 120 (26.37%) Kubernetes
3 75 (16.48%) Ansible
4 58 (12.75%) Grafana
5 48 (10.55%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.40%) Puppet
7 19 (4.18%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.20%) Argo
9 9 (1.98%) Nessus
9 9 (1.98%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.54%) Kibana
11 6 (1.32%) Istio
12 5 (1.10%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (1.10%) Karpenter
12 5 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.88%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 34 (7.47%) Databricks
2 32 (7.03%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.27%) Palo Alto
4 23 (5.05%) CheckPoint
4 23 (5.05%) F5
5 22 (4.84%) Splunk
6 17 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.52%) Oracle
8 14 (3.08%) Google
9 9 (1.98%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.98%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.76%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.54%) Confluent
12 6 (1.32%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.32%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.32%) Dell
13 5 (1.10%) Zscaler
14 4 (0.88%) Commvault
14 4 (0.88%) SnapLogic
14 4 (0.88%) StreamSets