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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 163 235
Rank change year-on-year -40 +72 +66
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 592 460 337
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.30% 1.67% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.71% 4.48% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 337 235
10th Percentile £388 £368 £377
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £628
90th Percentile £738 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £38.13 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.86% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile - £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £46.75 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +1.08% - -

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 15,974 10,263 11,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.20% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,659 6,965 7,964
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £422 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 267 239
10th Percentile £16.30 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +37.35% +9.24% -27.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £52.45
90th Percentile £83.67 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.15
% change year-on-year +26.67% +14.41% -31.00%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -4 393 £573 -0.43% 119
Midlands -32 73 £470 -1.16% 20
West Midlands -38 66 £475 - 11
North of England -68 61 £488 -2.50% 18
South West -19 30 £470 -13.36% 20
South East -67 27 £575 +35.29% 19
North West -46 24 £525 +10.53% 5
North East -26 19 £425 -5.56% 5
Yorkshire -45 18 £525 - 8
East of England -36 7 £400 -27.27% 5
East Midlands -13 6 £450 -9.64% 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 67 (11.32%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (11.15%) Confluence
3 51 (8.61%) Apache Spark
4 40 (6.76%) Apache
5 17 (2.87%) SAS
6 8 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.18%) Jupyter
8 6 (1.01%) nginx
9 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.34%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.17%) Mule
11 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 585 (98.82%) AWS
2 367 (61.99%) Serverless
3 360 (60.81%) AWS Lambda
4 209 (35.30%) Amazon EC2
5 188 (31.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 133 (22.47%) Amazon ECS
7 132 (22.30%) GitHub
8 122 (20.61%) Amazon EKS
9 112 (18.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 103 (17.40%) GitHub Actions
11 94 (15.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 93 (15.71%) Amazon SQS
13 91 (15.37%) Azure
14 74 (12.50%) Snowflake
15 70 (11.82%) dbt
16 66 (11.15%) AWS Step Functions
17 58 (9.80%) Amazon EMR
18 56 (9.46%) Power Platform
19 50 (8.45%) AWS KMS
20 39 (6.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.04%) Firewall
2 15 (2.53%) DNS
3 10 (1.69%) Network Security
4 7 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.01%) SSL
5 6 (1.01%) VPN
6 5 (0.84%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.68%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.68%) WAN
8 3 (0.51%) CTI
8 3 (0.51%) HTTP
9 2 (0.34%) Internet
9 2 (0.34%) NAS
9 2 (0.34%) SAN
9 2 (0.34%) VLAN
10 1 (0.17%) 4G
10 1 (0.17%) AMQP
10 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (26.01%) Amazon RDS
2 122 (20.61%) Amazon Athena
3 107 (18.07%) DynamoDB
4 98 (16.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 80 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
6 68 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (9.46%) Power BI
8 50 (8.45%) Data Lake
9 41 (6.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 35 (5.91%) Metadata
11 27 (4.56%) NoSQL
12 26 (4.39%) Big Data
12 26 (4.39%) Relational Database
12 26 (4.39%) Tableau
13 22 (3.72%) MongoDB
13 22 (3.72%) SQL Server
14 19 (3.21%) Apache Iceberg
14 19 (3.21%) BigQuery
15 18 (3.04%) Snowflake Schema
16 17 (2.87%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 133 (22.47%) Git
2 125 (21.11%) Jenkins
3 117 (19.76%) GitLab
4 66 (11.15%) JIRA
5 26 (4.39%) Bitbucket
6 23 (3.89%) JUnit
7 22 (3.72%) SonarQube
8 21 (3.55%) Mockito
9 19 (3.21%) Maven
10 12 (2.03%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.86%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (1.86%) jMock
12 10 (1.69%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.52%) Artifactory
14 7 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (1.01%) Cucumber
15 6 (1.01%) Postman
16 4 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 2 (0.34%) Selenium
17 2 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 154 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 128 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 109 (18.41%) Finance
4 57 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.76%) Banking
6 13 (2.20%) Front Office
7 12 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.35%) Back Office
11 7 (1.18%) Law
11 7 (1.18%) Military
12 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.84%) Billing
14 4 (0.68%) Marketing
14 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.68%) Retail
14 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 143 (24.16%) Data Engineer
2 102 (17.23%) Developer
3 101 (17.06%) AWS Engineer
4 89 (15.03%) Senior
5 83 (14.02%) Lead
6 70 (11.82%) Architect
7 49 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 38 (6.42%) Java Developer
9 37 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
10 36 (6.08%) AWS Data Engineer
11 32 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (4.39%) AWS Developer
14 25 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (4.05%) AWS Architect
16 23 (3.89%) Data Architect
17 21 (3.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 21 (3.55%) Snowflake Engineer
18 20 (3.38%) Software Engineer
19 19 (3.21%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (12.50%) Kafka
2 64 (10.81%) REST
3 61 (10.30%) PySpark
4 55 (9.29%) Spring Boot
5 54 (9.12%) Spring
6 53 (8.95%) React
7 52 (8.78%) RESTful
8 48 (8.11%) Node.js
9 28 (4.73%) AngularJS
10 26 (4.39%) AWS CDK
10 26 (4.39%) SOAP
11 22 (3.72%) Web Services
12 21 (3.55%) FastAPI
13 20 (3.38%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (3.04%) GraphQL
14 18 (3.04%) JPA
14 18 (3.04%) JSON
15 17 (2.87%) Hibernate
16 16 (2.70%) OAuth
16 16 (2.70%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 143 (24.16%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.28%) Product Ownership
3 39 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.21%) NHS
5 12 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.52%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.52%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.18%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.18%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.01%) Legacy Code
10 6 (1.01%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.84%) IVR
11 5 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (13.01%) Linux
2 21 (3.55%) Unix
3 15 (2.53%) Windows
4 14 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.18%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.68%) AIX
7 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.34%) Android
8 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (62.84%) CI/CD
2 244 (41.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 243 (41.05%) DevOps
4 216 (36.49%) Agile
5 148 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 144 (24.32%) Data Engineering
7 133 (22.47%) Analytics
8 125 (21.11%) Data Modelling
9 117 (19.76%) Containerisation
10 115 (19.43%) ETL
11 107 (18.07%) AI
12 97 (16.39%) Observability
13 95 (16.05%) Microservices
14 87 (14.70%) Test Automation
15 84 (14.19%) Migration
16 81 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 75 (12.67%) Machine Learning
18 74 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
18 74 (12.50%) Scrum
19 72 (12.16%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 341 (57.60%) Python
2 228 (38.51%) SQL
3 112 (18.92%) Java
4 62 (10.47%) Bash
5 57 (9.63%) TypeScript
6 43 (7.26%) JavaScript
7 35 (5.91%) C#
8 27 (4.56%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.89%) Shell Script
10 20 (3.38%) Scala
11 14 (2.36%) Groovy
12 8 (1.35%) Bicep
13 6 (1.01%) SAS Macro
13 6 (1.01%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.84%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.84%) Perl
14 5 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.68%) Cypher
15 4 (0.68%) Go
15 4 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 221 (37.33%) Security Cleared
2 196 (33.11%) SC Cleared
3 59 (9.97%) AWS Certification
4 24 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (2.87%) Degree
7 16 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.86%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.01%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.51%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.34%) CISSP
14 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (15.20%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.22%) QA
3 15 (2.53%) GDPR
4 9 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.35%) SLA
6 7 (1.18%) PMO
7 6 (1.01%) HL7
8 4 (0.68%) NIST
9 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.34%) NCSC
11 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 189 (31.93%) Docker
2 14 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.52%) Postfix
4 6 (1.01%) Squid
5 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 272 (45.95%) Terraform
2 100 (16.89%) Kubernetes
3 85 (14.36%) Grafana
4 46 (7.77%) Prometheus
5 38 (6.42%) Ansible
6 19 (3.21%) Argo
7 11 (1.86%) Puppet
8 9 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.35%) Packer
10 7 (1.18%) Istio
10 7 (1.18%) Kibana
11 5 (0.84%) Salt
12 4 (0.68%) Consul
13 3 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.51%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.34%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
15 1 (0.17%) systemd
Vendors
1 52 (8.78%) Databricks
2 37 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.73%) Oracle
4 24 (4.05%) ServiceNow
5 23 (3.89%) Informatica
6 21 (3.55%) Splunk
7 17 (2.87%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.87%) Google
8 15 (2.53%) Jaspersoft
9 14 (2.36%) Atlassian
10 11 (1.86%) Teradata
11 10 (1.69%) Denodo
12 8 (1.35%) Foundry
12 8 (1.35%) Palantir
12 8 (1.35%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.35%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.01%) Confluent
13 6 (1.01%) VMware
14 5 (0.84%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.84%) OpenAI