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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 212 282
Rank change year-on-year +40 +70 -26
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 490 361 326
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.59% 1.16% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.15% 3.22% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 241 254
10th Percentile £377 £400 £400
25th Percentile £438 £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 £637
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - -
Median hourly rate £46.25 - -
75th Percentile £50.94 - -
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - -

All Cloud 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 11,816 11,223 13,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.43% 36.05% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,058 7,456 9,946
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £718 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 154 276
10th Percentile £15.45 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%
75th Percentile £50.88 £59.36 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +22.50%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +26 297 £575 - 93
North of England -24 60 £500 -1.96% 28
Midlands +16 58 £475 -3.06% 12
West Midlands +3 50 £475 -17.39% 10
Yorkshire -18 37 £500 -4.76% 9
South East +13 28 £419 -32.32% 38
South West +12 18 £575 -4.17% 26
North West -26 17 £450 -7.22% 14
East of England -5 16 £475 -5.00% 1
East Midlands -11 8 £433 -3.24% 2
North East -3 7 £500 -18.03% 5
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 43 (8.78%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (8.57%) Confluence
3 37 (7.55%) Apache Spark
4 20 (4.08%) Apache
5 13 (2.65%) nginx
6 6 (1.22%) SAS
7 5 (1.02%) CMS
7 5 (1.02%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.61%) Traefik
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) CICS
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Actimize
1 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.20%) Finacle
1 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 480 (97.96%) AWS
2 265 (54.08%) Serverless
3 261 (53.27%) AWS Lambda
4 202 (41.22%) Amazon EC2
5 164 (33.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 117 (23.88%) GitHub
7 114 (23.27%) Amazon ECS
8 110 (22.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 105 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 76 (15.51%) Azure
10 76 (15.51%) GitHub Actions
11 58 (11.84%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (9.80%) Amazon ELB
13 43 (8.78%) AWS Step Functions
14 40 (8.16%) Snowflake
15 36 (7.35%) Amazon EMR
16 35 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
17 33 (6.73%) dbt
18 32 (6.53%) AWS KMS
18 32 (6.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 57 (11.63%) DNS
2 55 (11.22%) Firewall
3 35 (7.14%) VPN
4 26 (5.31%) SSL
4 26 (5.31%) TCP/IP
5 25 (5.10%) SSH
6 23 (4.69%) SMTP
7 21 (4.29%) FTP
7 21 (4.29%) HTTP
7 21 (4.29%) Network Security
8 17 (3.47%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (2.45%) IMAP
10 6 (1.22%) DHCP
11 4 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.61%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.41%) Calico
13 2 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.41%) VSAN
14 1 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
14 1 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (32.04%) Amazon RDS
2 106 (21.63%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (15.71%) DynamoDB
4 66 (13.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 59 (12.04%) Amazon Athena
6 51 (10.41%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (10.00%) Relational Database
8 31 (6.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 30 (6.12%) Data Lake
10 22 (4.49%) Amazon QuickSight
11 20 (4.08%) Big Data
11 20 (4.08%) NoSQL
11 20 (4.08%) SQL Server
12 19 (3.88%) MongoDB
12 19 (3.88%) RDBMS
13 18 (3.67%) MySQL
14 16 (3.27%) Power BI
15 15 (3.06%) Metadata
16 12 (2.45%) Hadoop
16 12 (2.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 116 (23.67%) Jenkins
2 109 (22.24%) Git
3 79 (16.12%) GitLab
4 52 (10.61%) JIRA
5 23 (4.69%) Vagrant
6 13 (2.65%) JUnit
7 12 (2.45%) Maven
8 10 (2.04%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.84%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.84%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.43%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.82%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.82%) MLflow
12 3 (0.61%) Gradle
12 3 (0.61%) Postman
12 3 (0.61%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
13 2 (0.41%) PyCharm
13 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 134 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 76 (15.51%) Public Sector
3 73 (14.90%) Finance
4 49 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.88%) Front Office
6 17 (3.47%) Banking
7 16 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.84%) Military
10 7 (1.43%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.61%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.61%) Marketing
11 3 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Legal
12 2 (0.41%) Publishing
12 2 (0.41%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 113 (23.06%) AWS Engineer
2 88 (17.96%) Senior
3 85 (17.35%) Developer
4 84 (17.14%) Data Engineer
5 79 (16.12%) DevOps Engineer
6 47 (9.59%) AWS DevOps
7 45 (9.18%) Architect
8 44 (8.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 38 (7.76%) Platform Engineer
10 34 (6.94%) Lead
11 29 (5.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.31%) AWS Developer
13 25 (5.10%) Software Engineer
14 24 (4.90%) AWS Data Engineer
15 23 (4.69%) Java Developer
16 22 (4.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 21 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
18 19 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
19 18 (3.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 17 (3.47%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (12.45%) Kafka
2 57 (11.63%) Node.js
3 50 (10.20%) React
4 45 (9.18%) REST
5 35 (7.14%) RESTful
6 34 (6.94%) Spring
7 30 (6.12%) Spring Boot
8 24 (4.90%) AWS CDK
9 21 (4.29%) GraphQL
10 20 (4.08%) AngularJS
10 20 (4.08%) LDAP
10 20 (4.08%) OAuth
11 19 (3.88%) Jest
12 14 (2.86%) CSS
12 14 (2.86%) PySpark
12 14 (2.86%) pytest
13 13 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (2.24%) Sass
15 10 (2.04%) JWT
15 10 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (19.18%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.92%) Replication
3 26 (5.31%) Data Protection Act
4 22 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.63%) NHS
8 6 (1.22%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.02%) CSOC
9 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.82%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.82%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.14%) Linux
2 34 (6.94%) Windows
3 27 (5.51%) Amazon Linux
3 27 (5.51%) VMS
4 13 (2.65%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.63%) Unix
7 7 (1.43%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.20%) AIX
9 1 (0.20%) Android
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.20%) Solaris
9 1 (0.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (54.69%) CI/CD
2 211 (43.06%) DevOps
3 169 (34.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (27.14%) Agile
5 121 (24.69%) Containerisation
6 86 (17.55%) Data Pipeline
6 86 (17.55%) ETL
7 83 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (16.33%) Microservices
9 78 (15.92%) Data Modelling
10 76 (15.51%) Data Engineering
11 67 (13.67%) Analytics
12 65 (13.27%) Migration
13 59 (12.04%) Mentoring
14 55 (11.22%) Configuration Management
14 55 (11.22%) Software Engineering
15 54 (11.02%) Infrastructure Automation
15 54 (11.02%) Observability
16 51 (10.41%) High Availability
17 50 (10.20%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 295 (60.20%) Python
2 163 (33.27%) SQL
3 99 (20.20%) Java
4 64 (13.06%) Bash
5 57 (11.63%) TypeScript
6 45 (9.18%) JavaScript
7 40 (8.16%) PowerShell
8 27 (5.51%) Groovy
9 21 (4.29%) Go
10 13 (2.65%) Perl
10 13 (2.65%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.63%) Scala
12 7 (1.43%) C#
13 6 (1.22%) JSX
13 6 (1.22%) Korn
14 4 (0.82%) C
14 4 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.61%) Bicep
16 2 (0.41%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 165 (33.67%) Security Cleared
2 137 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 70 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 33 (6.73%) Degree
5 29 (5.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
12 1 (0.20%) CCNP
12 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PhD
12 1 (0.20%) RHCE
12 1 (0.20%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.18%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.12%) QA
3 27 (5.51%) GDPR
4 11 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.04%) NIST
6 4 (0.82%) NCSC
7 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.61%) WCAG
8 2 (0.41%) MiFID
8 2 (0.41%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) GxP
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 179 (36.53%) Docker
2 24 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.29%) DFS Replication
4 14 (2.86%) Postfix
5 12 (2.45%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.45%) Squid
6 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) etcd
7 1 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.20%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 234 (47.76%) Terraform
2 110 (22.45%) Kubernetes
3 71 (14.49%) Ansible
4 63 (12.86%) Grafana
5 57 (11.63%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.67%) Progress Chef
6 18 (3.67%) Puppet
7 13 (2.65%) Argo
8 12 (2.45%) Nessus
9 10 (2.04%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.63%) Istio
11 4 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.82%) Dell DRAC
11 4 (0.82%) Kibana
11 4 (0.82%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.82%) Packer
11 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 34 (6.94%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.92%) Databricks
2 29 (5.92%) ServiceNow
3 24 (4.90%) Palo Alto
4 23 (4.69%) CheckPoint
4 23 (4.69%) F5
5 22 (4.49%) Splunk
6 16 (3.27%) Oracle
7 14 (2.86%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.84%) Atlassian
8 9 (1.84%) IBM
9 8 (1.63%) Cloudera
10 7 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
10 7 (1.43%) Google
10 7 (1.43%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.22%) StreamSets
12 5 (1.02%) Dell
12 5 (1.02%) Zscaler