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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 176 256
Rank change year-on-year -16 +80 +48
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 576 371 335
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.38% 1.55% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.92% 4.14% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 274 258
10th Percentile £358 £400 £376
25th Percentile £450 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £624
90th Percentile £713 £743 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £505
% change year-on-year - +3.96% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +47.27% - -

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 14,697 8,969 11,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.14% 37.48% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,011 6,159 8,493
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £747
UK median daily rate £508 £508 £525
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 207 324
10th Percentile £15.67 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £17.96 £15.96
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.63 £38.28
90th Percentile £81.15 £68.00 £68.23
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +10 397 £550 - 67
Midlands -25 65 £469 -1.26% 13
West Midlands -26 60 £469 -1.26% 10
North of England -64 56 £500 - 34
North West -28 32 £518 +8.95% 18
South East -37 29 £586 +30.28% 15
South West -21 18 £450 -18.18% 21
Yorkshire -58 13 £500 -4.76% 12
North East -19 11 £425 - 4
East of England -34 7 £425 -15.00% 2
East Midlands -28 4 £425 -6.54% 3
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 62 (10.76%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (9.90%) Apache Spark
3 48 (8.33%) Confluence
4 37 (6.42%) Apache
5 14 (2.43%) SAS
6 10 (1.74%) nginx
7 4 (0.69%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 572 (99.31%) AWS
2 358 (62.15%) Serverless
3 350 (60.76%) AWS Lambda
4 213 (36.98%) Amazon EC2
5 155 (26.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 118 (20.49%) Amazon ECS
6 118 (20.49%) GitHub
7 111 (19.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 109 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
9 107 (18.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (15.97%) Azure
11 91 (15.80%) Amazon SQS
12 89 (15.45%) GitHub Actions
13 69 (11.98%) AWS Step Functions
14 65 (11.28%) Snowflake
15 61 (10.59%) dbt
16 51 (8.85%) Power Platform
17 48 (8.33%) GCP
18 47 (8.16%) Route 53
19 42 (7.29%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.03%) DNS
2 23 (3.99%) Firewall
3 15 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.43%) VPN
5 11 (1.91%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.56%) Network Security
7 4 (0.69%) NAS
7 4 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.69%) SAN
7 4 (0.69%) SSL
7 4 (0.69%) WAN
8 3 (0.52%) BGP
8 3 (0.52%) OSPF
9 2 (0.35%) Internet
9 2 (0.35%) Multicast
9 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.35%) VLAN
10 1 (0.17%) 5G
10 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (24.31%) Amazon RDS
2 109 (18.92%) Amazon Athena
3 102 (17.71%) DynamoDB
4 87 (15.10%) PostgreSQL
5 86 (14.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 51 (8.85%) Power BI
7 48 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 46 (7.99%) Data Lake
9 42 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (6.25%) NoSQL
11 30 (5.21%) Tableau
12 29 (5.03%) Relational Database
13 26 (4.51%) SQL Server
14 25 (4.34%) Metadata
15 24 (4.17%) BigQuery
16 22 (3.82%) Apache Iceberg
16 22 (3.82%) Big Data
17 21 (3.65%) OLTP
18 20 (3.47%) MongoDB
18 20 (3.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 127 (22.05%) Jenkins
2 123 (21.35%) Git
3 117 (20.31%) GitLab
4 62 (10.76%) JIRA
5 28 (4.86%) JUnit
5 28 (4.86%) SonarQube
6 27 (4.69%) Bitbucket
7 23 (3.99%) Maven
7 23 (3.99%) Mockito
8 14 (2.43%) DbUnit
9 13 (2.26%) jMock
10 11 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (1.56%) Artifactory
12 8 (1.39%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.39%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.04%) Postman
14 4 (0.69%) Terragrunt
15 3 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.52%) TeamCity
15 3 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 150 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 100 (17.36%) Finance
2 100 (17.36%) Public Sector
3 55 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (4.51%) Banking
5 21 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (1.91%) Front Office
8 6 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (0.87%) Military
10 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.69%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.52%) Back Office
11 3 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.52%) Retail
12 2 (0.35%) Billing
12 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.35%) Local Government
12 2 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 140 (24.31%) Data Engineer
2 115 (19.97%) Developer
3 92 (15.97%) AWS Engineer
4 74 (12.85%) Senior
5 73 (12.67%) Lead
6 72 (12.50%) Architect
7 43 (7.47%) Java Developer
8 42 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 35 (6.08%) AWS Data Engineer
10 34 (5.90%) AWS Architect
10 34 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.86%) AWS Developer
12 27 (4.69%) Senior Data Engineer
13 26 (4.51%) Software Engineer
14 24 (4.17%) Data Architect
15 23 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
15 23 (3.99%) Lead Data Engineer
16 21 (3.65%) Analyst
16 21 (3.65%) Python Developer
17 19 (3.30%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (16.84%) Kafka
2 69 (11.98%) Spring
2 69 (11.98%) Spring Boot
3 55 (9.55%) REST
3 55 (9.55%) RESTful
4 54 (9.38%) React
5 50 (8.68%) PySpark
6 49 (8.51%) Node.js
7 36 (6.25%) AngularJS
8 28 (4.86%) SOAP
9 24 (4.17%) OAuth
9 24 (4.17%) OpenID
10 23 (3.99%) Hibernate
10 23 (3.99%) JPA
10 23 (3.99%) Web Services
11 22 (3.82%) AWS CDK
12 21 (3.65%) Spring Cloud
13 20 (3.47%) FastAPI
14 19 (3.30%) ActiveMQ
15 18 (3.13%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 144 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.43%) NHS
5 9 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (1.22%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.22%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.04%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.04%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.04%) PACS
8 6 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.87%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.87%) Clustering
9 5 (0.87%) Legacy Code
9 5 (0.87%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (12.85%) Linux
2 20 (3.47%) Unix
3 14 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.22%) Windows
5 5 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Android
6 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.35%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) CentOS
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (57.81%) CI/CD
2 241 (41.84%) DevOps
3 209 (36.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (30.56%) Agile
5 126 (21.88%) Analytics
6 125 (21.70%) Data Engineering
7 120 (20.83%) Containerisation
8 119 (20.66%) Data Modelling
8 119 (20.66%) ETL
9 110 (19.10%) Data Pipeline
10 92 (15.97%) Microservices
11 84 (14.58%) Observability
12 76 (13.19%) AI
13 72 (12.50%) Migration
14 69 (11.98%) Scrum
14 69 (11.98%) Test Automation
15 67 (11.63%) Event-Driven
16 64 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
17 62 (10.76%) Platform Engineering
17 62 (10.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 317 (55.03%) Python
2 229 (39.76%) SQL
3 123 (21.35%) Java
4 54 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 46 (7.99%) C#
6 41 (7.12%) Bash
7 35 (6.08%) JavaScript
8 27 (4.69%) PowerShell
9 24 (4.17%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.30%) Scala
11 8 (1.39%) Go
11 8 (1.39%) Groovy
12 6 (1.04%) Bicep
12 6 (1.04%) SAS Macro
13 4 (0.69%) Perl
13 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.52%) C
14 3 (0.52%) R
15 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 191 (33.16%) Security Cleared
2 162 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.90%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.60%) Degree
5 13 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.74%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.52%) OCP
13 3 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.52%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (12.33%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.17%) QA
3 22 (3.82%) GDPR
4 8 (1.39%) SLA
5 7 (1.22%) NIST
5 7 (1.22%) PMO
6 6 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.04%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) HL7
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 183 (31.77%) Docker
2 12 (2.08%) Squid
3 11 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.91%) Postfix
4 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.35%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 258 (44.79%) Terraform
2 122 (21.18%) Kubernetes
3 79 (13.72%) Grafana
4 56 (9.72%) Prometheus
5 39 (6.77%) Ansible
6 18 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.91%) Puppet
8 10 (1.74%) Kibana
9 9 (1.56%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.39%) Consul
11 7 (1.22%) Argo
11 7 (1.22%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.87%) Salt
13 4 (0.69%) Istio
13 4 (0.69%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.69%) Packer
14 3 (0.52%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.52%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.52%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 57 (9.90%) Databricks
2 30 (5.21%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.51%) Google
4 25 (4.34%) Splunk
5 21 (3.65%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.95%) Jaspersoft
6 17 (2.95%) Oracle
6 17 (2.95%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.78%) Dynatrace
8 15 (2.60%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.91%) Teradata
10 10 (1.74%) Denodo
10 10 (1.74%) Informatica
11 9 (1.56%) Confluent
12 7 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.04%) AVEVA
14 5 (0.87%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.87%) IBM
15 4 (0.69%) Brio
15 4 (0.69%) Sybase