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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 218 279
Rank change year-on-year +37 +61 -17
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 487 361 327
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.59% 1.17% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.12% 3.23% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 242 255
10th Percentile £377 £407 £400
25th Percentile £438 £477 £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 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 - -

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 11,826 11,181 13,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.50% 36.09% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,083 7,436 10,014
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 £618 £650 £649
90th Percentile £715 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 152 276
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.04 £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 £51.13 £58.95 £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% +22.73%

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 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
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 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 +36 295 £575 - 77
North of England -27 59 £500 -1.96% 24
Midlands +6 58 £475 -3.06% 12
West Midlands +15 50 £475 -17.39% 10
Yorkshire -7 36 £500 -4.76% 7
South East +16 28 £419 -32.32% 42
South West +20 18 £575 +4.55% 22
North West -32 17 £450 -7.22% 13
East of England -3 16 £475 -5.00%
East Midlands -12 8 £433 -3.24% 2
North East -3 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 43 (8.83%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (8.62%) Confluence
3 36 (7.39%) Apache Spark
4 20 (4.11%) Apache
5 13 (2.67%) nginx
6 6 (1.23%) SAS
7 5 (1.03%) CMS
7 5 (1.03%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.62%) Traefik
9 1 (0.21%) 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 12 (2.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.23%) Chatbot
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
1 478 (98.15%) AWS
2 263 (54.00%) Serverless
3 259 (53.18%) AWS Lambda
4 200 (41.07%) Amazon EC2
5 161 (33.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 117 (24.02%) GitHub
7 113 (23.20%) Amazon ECS
8 110 (22.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 104 (21.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 76 (15.61%) Azure
10 76 (15.61%) GitHub Actions
11 58 (11.91%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (9.86%) Amazon ELB
13 42 (8.62%) AWS Step Functions
14 40 (8.21%) Snowflake
15 36 (7.39%) Amazon EMR
16 34 (6.98%) Amazon Kinesis
17 33 (6.78%) dbt
18 32 (6.57%) Datadog
19 31 (6.37%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (11.70%) DNS
2 55 (11.29%) Firewall
3 35 (7.19%) VPN
4 26 (5.34%) SSL
4 26 (5.34%) TCP/IP
5 25 (5.13%) SSH
6 23 (4.72%) SMTP
7 21 (4.31%) FTP
7 21 (4.31%) HTTP
7 21 (4.31%) Network Security
8 17 (3.49%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (2.46%) IMAP
10 6 (1.23%) DHCP
11 4 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.62%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.41%) Calico
13 2 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.41%) VSAN
14 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
14 1 (0.21%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (31.83%) Amazon RDS
2 103 (21.15%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (14.99%) DynamoDB
4 66 (13.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 59 (12.11%) Amazon Athena
6 51 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (10.06%) Relational Database
8 30 (6.16%) Amazon Aurora
8 30 (6.16%) Data Lake
9 22 (4.52%) Amazon QuickSight
10 20 (4.11%) Big Data
10 20 (4.11%) SQL Server
11 19 (3.90%) NoSQL
11 19 (3.90%) RDBMS
12 18 (3.70%) MongoDB
12 18 (3.70%) MySQL
13 16 (3.29%) Power BI
14 15 (3.08%) Metadata
15 12 (2.46%) Hadoop
15 12 (2.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 117 (24.02%) Jenkins
2 109 (22.38%) Git
3 79 (16.22%) GitLab
4 52 (10.68%) JIRA
5 23 (4.72%) Vagrant
6 10 (2.05%) JUnit
7 9 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.85%) Cypress.io
7 9 (1.85%) Maven
8 8 (1.64%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.23%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.82%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.82%) MLflow
11 3 (0.62%) Gradle
11 3 (0.62%) Postman
11 3 (0.62%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.41%) PyCharm
12 2 (0.41%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 134 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 75 (15.40%) Public Sector
3 74 (15.20%) Finance
4 50 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.11%) Front Office
6 18 (3.70%) Banking
7 16 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.85%) Military
10 7 (1.44%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.62%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.62%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.62%) Marketing
11 3 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Legal
12 2 (0.41%) Publishing
12 2 (0.41%) Retail
13 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 113 (23.20%) AWS Engineer
2 87 (17.86%) Senior
3 84 (17.25%) Data Engineer
4 83 (17.04%) Developer
5 79 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 47 (9.65%) AWS DevOps
7 44 (9.03%) Architect
7 44 (9.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 38 (7.80%) Platform Engineer
9 34 (6.98%) Lead
10 29 (5.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 25 (5.13%) Software Engineer
12 24 (4.93%) AWS Data Engineer
12 24 (4.93%) AWS Developer
13 22 (4.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 22 (4.52%) Java Developer
14 21 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
16 18 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 17 (3.49%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (12.32%) Kafka
2 56 (11.50%) Node.js
3 49 (10.06%) React
4 44 (9.03%) REST
5 34 (6.98%) RESTful
6 31 (6.37%) Spring
7 29 (5.95%) Spring Boot
8 24 (4.93%) AWS CDK
9 20 (4.11%) GraphQL
9 20 (4.11%) LDAP
9 20 (4.11%) OAuth
10 19 (3.90%) AngularJS
11 17 (3.49%) Jest
12 14 (2.87%) CSS
12 14 (2.87%) PySpark
12 14 (2.87%) pytest
13 13 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (2.26%) Pandas
14 11 (2.26%) Sass
15 10 (2.05%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 94 (19.30%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.95%) Replication
3 26 (5.34%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.64%) NHS
8 6 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.03%) CSOC
9 5 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.03%) 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 (17.25%) Linux
2 34 (6.98%) Windows
3 27 (5.54%) Amazon Linux
3 27 (5.54%) VMS
4 13 (2.67%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.64%) Unix
7 7 (1.44%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.41%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (55.24%) CI/CD
2 210 (43.12%) DevOps
3 169 (34.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (26.49%) Agile
5 118 (24.23%) Containerisation
6 86 (17.66%) ETL
7 85 (17.45%) Data Pipeline
8 82 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (16.22%) Microservices
10 78 (16.02%) Data Modelling
11 76 (15.61%) Data Engineering
12 68 (13.96%) Analytics
13 65 (13.35%) Migration
14 58 (11.91%) Mentoring
15 56 (11.50%) Configuration Management
16 55 (11.29%) Software Engineering
17 54 (11.09%) Infrastructure Automation
17 54 (11.09%) Observability
18 50 (10.27%) Cloud Security
18 50 (10.27%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 293 (60.16%) Python
2 163 (33.47%) SQL
3 96 (19.71%) Java
4 64 (13.14%) Bash
5 54 (11.09%) TypeScript
6 44 (9.03%) JavaScript
7 38 (7.80%) PowerShell
8 27 (5.54%) Groovy
9 21 (4.31%) Go
10 14 (2.87%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.67%) Perl
12 8 (1.64%) C#
12 8 (1.64%) Scala
13 6 (1.23%) JSX
13 6 (1.23%) Korn
14 4 (0.82%) C
14 4 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.62%) Bicep
16 2 (0.41%) C++
16 2 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 165 (33.88%) Security Cleared
2 136 (27.93%) SC Cleared
3 69 (14.17%) AWS Certification
4 34 (6.98%) Degree
5 29 (5.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (4.11%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.85%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.41%) CISSP
13 2 (0.41%) PhD
14 1 (0.21%) CCNP
14 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.21%) RHCE
14 1 (0.21%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.24%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.95%) QA
3 27 (5.54%) GDPR
4 11 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.05%) NIST
6 4 (0.82%) NCSC
7 3 (0.62%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.62%) WCAG
8 2 (0.41%) MiFID
8 2 (0.41%) SLA
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 (36.55%) Docker
2 24 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.31%) DFS Replication
4 13 (2.67%) Postfix
5 12 (2.46%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.46%) Squid
6 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.21%) etcd
7 1 (0.21%) HDFS
7 1 (0.21%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 235 (48.25%) Terraform
2 112 (23.00%) Kubernetes
3 72 (14.78%) Ansible
4 63 (12.94%) Grafana
5 57 (11.70%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.90%) Progress Chef
7 18 (3.70%) Puppet
8 13 (2.67%) Argo
9 12 (2.46%) Nessus
10 10 (2.05%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.64%) Istio
12 4 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.82%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (0.82%) Kibana
12 4 (0.82%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.82%) Packer
12 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.41%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 34 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.95%) Databricks
3 28 (5.75%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.93%) Palo Alto
5 23 (4.72%) CheckPoint
5 23 (4.72%) F5
6 22 (4.52%) Splunk
7 16 (3.29%) Oracle
8 13 (2.67%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.85%) IBM
10 8 (1.64%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.44%) Cloudera
11 7 (1.44%) Google
11 7 (1.44%) PagerDuty
12 6 (1.23%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.23%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.23%) StreamSets
13 5 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
13 5 (1.03%) Dell
13 5 (1.03%) Zscaler