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 3 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 161 208
Rank change year-on-year -20 +47 +50
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 238 165 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.38% 1.50% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 3.92% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 128 135
10th Percentile £360 £412 £363
25th Percentile £425 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -15.20%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £656
90th Percentile £688 £788 £733
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -10.64%

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 6,328 4,211 5,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.57% 38.21% 32.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,452 3,031 4,032
10th Percentile £305 £313 £263
25th Percentile £402 £419 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 73 109
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.80 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.84 £21.25 £16.54
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +17.84% -11.67%
75th Percentile £59.38 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.13 £77.44 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.22% +21.43% -15.15%

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 3 months to 18 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 3 months to 18 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -3 170 £525 -8.70% 61
North of England -30 27 £500 - 40
Midlands -35 17 £525 +17.45% 19
West Midlands -26 14 £538 -2.27% 10
Yorkshire -25 13 £500 - 22
South East -29 12 £546 -1.58% 57
North West -25 9 £450 - 14
South West -9 8 £700 +21.74% 26
North East -10 5 £550 -11.90% 4
East Midlands -28 3 £417 -6.02% 9
East of England -18 1 - - 28
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 37 (8.03%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (7.16%) Apache Spark
3 30 (6.51%) Confluence
4 24 (5.21%) Apache
5 9 (1.95%) nginx
6 5 (1.08%) SAS
7 3 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.65%) 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 (1.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.30%) 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
Cloud Services
1 459 (99.57%) AWS
2 269 (58.35%) Serverless
3 263 (57.05%) AWS Lambda
4 187 (40.56%) Amazon EC2
5 142 (30.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 115 (24.95%) GitHub
7 107 (23.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 103 (22.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 101 (21.91%) Amazon ECS
10 86 (18.66%) GitHub Actions
11 81 (17.57%) Azure
12 71 (15.40%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (10.85%) AWS Step Functions
14 46 (9.98%) Amazon Kinesis
15 43 (9.33%) Amazon ELB
16 38 (8.24%) GCP
16 38 (8.24%) Snowflake
17 31 (6.72%) Route 53
18 29 (6.29%) Amazon EMR
19 26 (5.64%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 50 (10.85%) DNS
2 47 (10.20%) Firewall
3 31 (6.72%) VPN
4 24 (5.21%) TCP/IP
5 22 (4.77%) Network Security
5 22 (4.77%) SSL
6 14 (3.04%) FTP
6 14 (3.04%) HTTP
6 14 (3.04%) OpenLDAP
6 14 (3.04%) SMTP
6 14 (3.04%) SSH
7 9 (1.95%) IMAP
8 4 (0.87%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.43%) Calico
9 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.22%) NAS
10 1 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.22%) VSAN
10 1 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (29.50%) Amazon RDS
2 81 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (14.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 68 (14.75%) DynamoDB
5 62 (13.45%) Amazon Athena
6 36 (7.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 34 (7.38%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (7.38%) Relational Database
8 32 (6.94%) Data Lake
9 22 (4.77%) MongoDB
9 22 (4.77%) Power BI
10 21 (4.56%) Amazon QuickSight
10 21 (4.56%) MySQL
11 18 (3.90%) SQL Server
12 17 (3.69%) NoSQL
13 16 (3.47%) Star Schema
14 15 (3.25%) BigQuery
14 15 (3.25%) Tableau
15 14 (3.04%) Apache Iceberg
15 14 (3.04%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 117 (25.38%) Jenkins
2 98 (21.26%) Git
3 95 (20.61%) GitLab
4 37 (8.03%) JIRA
5 14 (3.04%) Vagrant
6 9 (1.95%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.74%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.52%) JUnit
9 5 (1.08%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.08%) Maven
10 4 (0.87%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.65%) Gradle
11 3 (0.65%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.43%) Postman
12 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.43%) Selenium
12 2 (0.43%) Snyk
12 2 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 120 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 72 (15.62%) Finance
3 66 (14.32%) Public Sector
4 45 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.34%) Banking
6 15 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.39%) Front Office
9 9 (1.95%) Military
10 3 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.65%) Legal
10 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.43%) Marketing
11 2 (0.43%) Retail
12 1 (0.22%) Aviation
12 1 (0.22%) iGaming
12 1 (0.22%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (20.61%) AWS Engineer
2 93 (20.17%) Data Engineer
3 74 (16.05%) Developer
4 70 (15.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (14.75%) Senior
6 49 (10.63%) Architect
7 35 (7.59%) AWS DevOps
8 34 (7.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 34 (7.38%) Lead
9 32 (6.94%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (5.86%) Software Engineer
11 23 (4.99%) AWS Data Engineer
11 23 (4.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 22 (4.77%) Java Developer
13 21 (4.56%) AWS Architect
13 21 (4.56%) Site Engineer
14 20 (4.34%) AWS Developer
14 20 (4.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 19 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (4.12%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (18.22%) Kafka
2 47 (10.20%) Node.js
2 47 (10.20%) React
3 44 (9.54%) REST
4 42 (9.11%) RESTful
5 41 (8.89%) Spring
5 41 (8.89%) Spring Boot
6 26 (5.64%) AngularJS
7 22 (4.77%) CSS
7 22 (4.77%) OAuth
8 18 (3.90%) AWS CDK
8 18 (3.90%) boto
9 17 (3.69%) LDAP
9 17 (3.69%) PySpark
10 16 (3.47%) Jest
10 16 (3.47%) pytest
11 15 (3.25%) FastAPI
12 14 (3.04%) HTML
13 13 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (2.82%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 110 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.56%) Replication
4 17 (3.69%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.17%) NHS
7 9 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.08%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.87%) Derivative
12 4 (0.87%) Equities
12 4 (0.87%) Life Science
12 4 (0.87%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.87%) PACS
12 4 (0.87%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 67 (14.53%) Linux
2 22 (4.77%) Windows
3 18 (3.90%) VMS
4 17 (3.69%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.17%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.17%) Unix
6 6 (1.30%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) Android
7 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (61.82%) CI/CD
2 202 (43.82%) DevOps
3 184 (39.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (24.51%) Agile
4 113 (24.51%) Containerisation
5 88 (19.09%) Data Pipeline
5 88 (19.09%) ETL
6 85 (18.44%) Data Engineering
7 82 (17.79%) Analytics
8 81 (17.57%) Data Modelling
8 81 (17.57%) Microservices
9 71 (15.40%) Observability
10 68 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (13.67%) Software Engineering
12 58 (12.58%) Event-Driven
13 55 (11.93%) AI
14 53 (11.50%) High Availability
15 49 (10.63%) Performance Tuning
16 47 (10.20%) Configuration Management
16 47 (10.20%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 285 (61.82%) Python
2 166 (36.01%) SQL
3 92 (19.96%) Java
4 66 (14.32%) Bash
5 45 (9.76%) TypeScript
6 41 (8.89%) JavaScript
7 27 (5.86%) PowerShell
8 23 (4.99%) Go
9 19 (4.12%) Shell Script
10 17 (3.69%) C#
11 15 (3.25%) Groovy
12 7 (1.52%) Perl
12 7 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.30%) JSX
13 6 (1.30%) Korn
13 6 (1.30%) Scala
14 4 (0.87%) C
15 3 (0.65%) Bicep
15 3 (0.65%) C++
16 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 162 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 135 (29.28%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.76%) AWS Certification
4 25 (5.42%) Degree
5 23 (4.99%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.65%) MCP
11 3 (0.65%) OCP
11 3 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.65%) PhD
12 2 (0.43%) CISSP
12 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.22%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.98%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.72%) GDPR
3 30 (6.51%) QA
4 15 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.25%) NIST
5 11 (2.39%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.87%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.65%) NCSC
8 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.43%) MiFID
8 2 (0.43%) 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
1 179 (38.83%) Docker
2 14 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.04%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.95%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.95%) Postfix
3 9 (1.95%) Squid
4 3 (0.65%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.43%) HDFS
5 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.22%) etcd
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 242 (52.49%) Terraform
2 129 (27.98%) Kubernetes
3 78 (16.92%) Ansible
4 56 (12.15%) Grafana
5 50 (10.85%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.34%) Puppet
7 18 (3.90%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.95%) Nessus
8 9 (1.95%) Proxmox
9 8 (1.74%) Argo
10 7 (1.52%) Kibana
11 6 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.08%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (1.08%) Istio
12 5 (1.08%) Karpenter
12 5 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.87%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.65%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 35 (7.59%) Databricks
2 32 (6.94%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.21%) F5
3 24 (5.21%) Palo Alto
4 23 (4.99%) CheckPoint
5 22 (4.77%) Splunk
6 16 (3.47%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.25%) Oracle
8 14 (3.04%) Google
9 9 (1.95%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.95%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.74%) Confluent
10 8 (1.74%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.52%) Dell
12 6 (1.30%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.08%) Sybase
13 5 (1.08%) Zscaler
14 4 (0.87%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.87%) Commvault
14 4 (0.87%) SnapLogic