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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 207 278
Rank change year-on-year +27 +71 -16
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 474 361 319
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.53% 1.19% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 3.27% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 241 250
10th Percentile £394 £413 £400
25th Percentile £437 £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 £638
90th Percentile £700 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 11,806 11,023 13,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.13% 36.35% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,086 7,372 9,861
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 142 270
10th Percentile £14.83 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.94 £55.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £69.98 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

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 8 December 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
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 8 December 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 +23 287 £563 -4.26% 70
North of England -25 59 £500 -1.96% 68
Midlands +2 55 £475 +1.06% 45
West Midlands +9 47 £475 -15.56% 29
Yorkshire -18 36 £500 -4.76% 31
South East -1 28 £425 -31.31% 77
South West -1 17 £625 +13.64% 46
North West -22 17 £450 -7.22% 33
East of England -1 16 £475 -5.00% 27
East Midlands -17 8 £433 -3.24% 14
North East -2 7 £500 -18.03% 4
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 44 (9.28%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (8.44%) Confluence
3 36 (7.59%) Apache Spark
4 21 (4.43%) Apache
5 11 (2.32%) nginx
6 5 (1.05%) SAS
7 3 (0.63%) Traefik
8 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.21%) CICS
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.27%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Actimize
1 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.21%) Finacle
1 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 465 (98.10%) AWS
2 257 (54.22%) Serverless
3 251 (52.95%) AWS Lambda
4 195 (41.14%) Amazon EC2
5 158 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 114 (24.05%) GitHub
7 110 (23.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 106 (22.36%) Amazon ECS
8 106 (22.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 77 (16.24%) Azure
9 77 (16.24%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (11.60%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (9.70%) Amazon ELB
12 43 (9.07%) AWS Step Functions
13 41 (8.65%) Snowflake
14 36 (7.59%) Amazon EMR
15 34 (7.17%) dbt
16 33 (6.96%) Amazon Kinesis
17 31 (6.54%) Datadog
17 31 (6.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 54 (11.39%) DNS
2 52 (10.97%) Firewall
3 33 (6.96%) VPN
4 26 (5.49%) TCP/IP
5 24 (5.06%) SSL
6 23 (4.85%) SSH
7 21 (4.43%) Network Security
7 21 (4.43%) SMTP
8 20 (4.22%) FTP
8 20 (4.22%) HTTP
9 16 (3.38%) OpenLDAP
10 11 (2.32%) IMAP
11 4 (0.84%) DHCP
11 4 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.63%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.42%) Calico
13 2 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.42%) VSAN
14 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
14 1 (0.21%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (31.01%) Amazon RDS
2 95 (20.04%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (14.14%) DynamoDB
4 66 (13.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 58 (12.24%) Amazon Athena
6 49 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (9.70%) Relational Database
8 31 (6.54%) Data Lake
9 29 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (4.43%) Amazon QuickSight
10 21 (4.43%) SQL Server
11 20 (4.22%) MongoDB
12 19 (4.01%) Big Data
13 18 (3.80%) Power BI
13 18 (3.80%) RDBMS
14 17 (3.59%) MySQL
14 17 (3.59%) NoSQL
15 15 (3.16%) Metadata
16 12 (2.53%) Star Schema
17 11 (2.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 117 (24.68%) Jenkins
2 109 (23.00%) Git
3 80 (16.88%) GitLab
4 50 (10.55%) JIRA
5 21 (4.43%) Vagrant
6 11 (2.32%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.90%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.69%) JUnit
9 7 (1.48%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.48%) Maven
10 5 (1.05%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.05%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.84%) MLflow
12 3 (0.63%) Gradle
12 3 (0.63%) Postman
12 3 (0.63%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.42%) PyCharm
13 2 (0.42%) SoapUI
13 2 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 127 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 77 (16.24%) Finance
3 75 (15.82%) Public Sector
4 50 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.01%) Banking
5 19 (4.01%) Front Office
6 16 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.90%) Military
9 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.63%) Marketing
10 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.42%) Legal
11 2 (0.42%) Retail
12 1 (0.21%) Advertising
12 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 110 (23.21%) AWS Engineer
2 86 (18.14%) Data Engineer
3 84 (17.72%) Senior
4 80 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 79 (16.67%) Developer
6 47 (9.92%) AWS DevOps
7 44 (9.28%) Architect
7 44 (9.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 37 (7.81%) Platform Engineer
9 32 (6.75%) Lead
10 28 (5.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 25 (5.27%) Software Engineer
12 24 (5.06%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (4.85%) AWS Developer
14 21 (4.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 21 (4.43%) Java Developer
14 21 (4.43%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (4.01%) Senior DevOps
16 18 (3.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.80%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (13.50%) Kafka
2 55 (11.60%) Node.js
3 45 (9.49%) React
4 41 (8.65%) REST
5 34 (7.17%) RESTful
6 31 (6.54%) Spring
7 30 (6.33%) Spring Boot
8 24 (5.06%) AWS CDK
9 19 (4.01%) LDAP
10 18 (3.80%) AngularJS
11 17 (3.59%) GraphQL
11 17 (3.59%) Jest
12 16 (3.38%) CSS
13 15 (3.16%) OAuth
14 14 (2.95%) PySpark
14 14 (2.95%) pytest
15 13 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
15 13 (2.74%) Sass
16 12 (2.53%) Pandas
17 11 (2.32%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 96 (20.25%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.91%) Replication
3 22 (4.64%) Data Protection Act
4 20 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.69%) NHS
8 6 (1.27%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.84%) CSOC
10 4 (0.84%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.84%) Equities
10 4 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.84%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 79 (16.67%) Linux
2 34 (7.17%) Windows
3 25 (5.27%) VMS
4 24 (5.06%) Amazon Linux
5 13 (2.74%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.90%) Unix
7 7 (1.48%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.21%) AIX
9 1 (0.21%) Android
9 1 (0.21%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.21%) Solaris
9 1 (0.21%) SUSE
9 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (57.81%) CI/CD
2 211 (44.51%) DevOps
3 177 (37.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 126 (26.58%) Agile
5 113 (23.84%) Containerisation
6 88 (18.57%) ETL
7 85 (17.93%) Data Pipeline
8 79 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 79 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 78 (16.46%) Microservices
9 78 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (15.40%) Analytics
11 61 (12.87%) Migration
12 57 (12.03%) Software Engineering
13 56 (11.81%) Observability
14 55 (11.60%) Configuration Management
15 54 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
16 49 (10.34%) AI
17 48 (10.13%) High Availability
18 46 (9.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 294 (62.03%) Python
2 161 (33.97%) SQL
3 95 (20.04%) Java
4 69 (14.56%) Bash
5 52 (10.97%) TypeScript
6 43 (9.07%) JavaScript
7 36 (7.59%) PowerShell
8 25 (5.27%) Groovy
9 22 (4.64%) Go
10 15 (3.16%) Shell Script
11 12 (2.53%) Perl
12 11 (2.32%) C#
13 8 (1.69%) Scala
14 6 (1.27%) JSX
14 6 (1.27%) Korn
15 4 (0.84%) C
15 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.63%) Bicep
16 3 (0.63%) C++
17 2 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 165 (34.81%) Security Cleared
2 134 (28.27%) SC Cleared
3 62 (13.08%) AWS Certification
4 32 (6.75%) Degree
5 23 (4.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (4.43%) DV Cleared
7 16 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (2.11%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.63%) PhD
12 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.42%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.21%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) RHCE
13 1 (0.21%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.13%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.12%) GDPR
3 28 (5.91%) QA
4 11 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.11%) NIST
6 4 (0.84%) NCSC
7 3 (0.63%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.42%) MiFID
8 2 (0.42%) SLA
8 2 (0.42%) WCAG
9 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.21%) GxP
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
9 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 178 (37.55%) Docker
2 23 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.22%) DFS Replication
4 11 (2.32%) Dovecot
4 11 (2.32%) Postfix
4 11 (2.32%) Squid
5 2 (0.42%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.21%) etcd
6 1 (0.21%) HDFS
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 240 (50.63%) Terraform
2 115 (24.26%) Kubernetes
3 74 (15.61%) Ansible
4 62 (13.08%) Grafana
5 55 (11.60%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.01%) Progress Chef
6 19 (4.01%) Puppet
7 12 (2.53%) Argo
8 11 (2.32%) Nessus
9 10 (2.11%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.69%) Istio
11 5 (1.05%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.84%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.63%) Kibana
13 3 (0.63%) Packer
14 2 (0.42%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.54%) Databricks
3 25 (5.27%) ServiceNow
4 24 (5.06%) Palo Alto
4 24 (5.06%) Splunk
5 23 (4.85%) CheckPoint
5 23 (4.85%) F5
6 15 (3.16%) Oracle
7 11 (2.32%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.90%) Google
9 8 (1.69%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.48%) Cloudera
10 7 (1.48%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.27%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.27%) Dell
11 6 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.27%) IBM
11 6 (1.27%) StreamSets
12 5 (1.05%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.84%) SnapLogic