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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 162 241
Rank change year-on-year -58 +79 +67
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 579 478 321
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 1.74% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.64% 4.66% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 347 222
10th Percentile £388 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £638
90th Percentile £753 £713 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +0.95% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £62.17 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £63.92 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £69.83 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.98% - -
75th Percentile £72.92 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.97 £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +44.86% - -

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 15,928 10,256 11,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.71% 37.44% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,663 6,930 7,715
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 262 188
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.60 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.01 £60.11
90th Percentile £82.37 £71.43 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.75 £29.07 £30.00
% change year-on-year +16.08% -3.10% -14.29%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -21 391 £575 - 272
North of England -58 65 £475 -5.00% 54
Midlands -48 62 £463 -2.63% 14
West Midlands -47 52 £469 -1.26% 6
South West -24 28 £470 -13.96% 27
North West -59 26 £500 +5.26% 29
North East -21 21 £425 -2.86% 12
South East -72 21 £550 +29.41% 30
Yorkshire -53 18 £525 - 13
East Midlands -14 9 £419 -22.02% 8
East of England -37 7 £400 -27.27% 20
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 73 (12.61%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (11.23%) Confluence
3 42 (7.25%) Apache
3 42 (7.25%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.59%) SAS
5 10 (1.73%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.38%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.86%) nginx
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.35%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) Mule
9 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 568 (98.10%) AWS
2 364 (62.87%) Serverless
3 362 (62.52%) AWS Lambda
4 190 (32.82%) Amazon EC2
5 182 (31.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 138 (23.83%) GitHub
7 123 (21.24%) Amazon ECS
8 112 (19.34%) Amazon EKS
9 109 (18.83%) GitHub Actions
10 101 (17.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 94 (16.23%) Azure
12 91 (15.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 84 (14.51%) Amazon SQS
14 70 (12.09%) Snowflake
15 69 (11.92%) dbt
16 68 (11.74%) AWS Step Functions
17 60 (10.36%) Amazon EMR
18 53 (9.15%) Power Platform
19 44 (7.60%) AWS KMS
20 38 (6.56%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.11%) Firewall
2 15 (2.59%) DNS
3 9 (1.55%) Network Security
4 7 (1.21%) SSL
5 5 (0.86%) HTTP
5 5 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.69%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.69%) VPN
6 4 (0.69%) WAN
7 3 (0.52%) CTI
7 3 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.52%) SAN
8 2 (0.35%) FTP
8 2 (0.35%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.35%) IMAP
8 2 (0.35%) Internet
8 2 (0.35%) NAS
8 2 (0.35%) SMTP
8 2 (0.35%) SSH
8 2 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (26.60%) Amazon RDS
2 118 (20.38%) Amazon Athena
3 109 (18.83%) DynamoDB
4 96 (16.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 81 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (13.30%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (9.15%) Power BI
8 46 (7.94%) Data Lake
9 40 (6.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 36 (6.22%) Metadata
11 26 (4.49%) MongoDB
12 25 (4.32%) Tableau
13 24 (4.15%) Big Data
13 24 (4.15%) NoSQL
14 22 (3.80%) Relational Database
15 20 (3.45%) Delta Lake
16 19 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
16 19 (3.28%) BigQuery
16 19 (3.28%) Data Vault
17 18 (3.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 123 (21.24%) Git
2 116 (20.03%) GitLab
3 110 (19.00%) Jenkins
4 64 (11.05%) JIRA
5 23 (3.97%) Bitbucket
6 13 (2.25%) JUnit
6 13 (2.25%) Maven
6 13 (2.25%) Mockito
7 12 (2.07%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.90%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.21%) DbUnit
9 7 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (1.04%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.04%) jMock
10 6 (1.04%) Postman
11 5 (0.86%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.52%) Selenium
13 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 141 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 119 (20.55%) Public Sector
3 101 (17.44%) Finance
4 54 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.74%) Banking
6 13 (2.25%) Front Office
7 12 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.55%) Back Office
9 9 (1.55%) Military
10 7 (1.21%) Law
11 6 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.04%) Publishing
12 4 (0.69%) Billing
12 4 (0.69%) Local Government
12 4 (0.69%) Marketing
12 4 (0.69%) Retail
13 3 (0.52%) Games
13 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 152 (26.25%) Data Engineer
2 104 (17.96%) Senior
3 95 (16.41%) AWS Engineer
4 84 (14.51%) Developer
5 75 (12.95%) Lead
6 69 (11.92%) Architect
7 65 (11.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 46 (7.94%) Senior Data Engineer
9 35 (6.04%) AWS Data Engineer
10 31 (5.35%) AWS DevOps
11 25 (4.32%) AWS Developer
12 24 (4.15%) AWS Architect
12 24 (4.15%) Data Architect
13 23 (3.97%) Java Developer
13 23 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.80%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 22 (3.80%) Snowflake Engineer
14 22 (3.80%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (48.36%) Terraform
2 67 (11.57%) Kafka
3 61 (10.54%) REST
4 60 (10.36%) PySpark
5 51 (8.81%) React
6 47 (8.12%) RESTful
7 43 (7.43%) Spring Boot
8 42 (7.25%) Spring
9 36 (6.22%) Node.js
10 27 (4.66%) FastAPI
11 23 (3.97%) AngularJS
11 23 (3.97%) AWS CDK
12 20 (3.45%) JSON
13 19 (3.28%) GraphQL
14 17 (2.94%) SOAP
15 14 (2.42%) .NET
15 14 (2.42%) Flask
15 14 (2.42%) Next.js
16 12 (2.07%) ActiveMQ
16 12 (2.07%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 148 (25.56%) Cloud Native
2 52 (8.98%) Product Ownership
3 33 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.63%) NHS
5 17 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.73%) Replication
7 10 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.21%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.21%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.21%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.21%) Legacy Code
10 7 (1.21%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.21%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.04%) Clustering
11 6 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 79 (13.64%) Linux
2 22 (3.80%) Unix
3 18 (3.11%) Windows
4 12 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.73%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.86%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.69%) AIX
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.35%) Android
9 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (63.39%) CI/CD
2 260 (44.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 248 (42.83%) DevOps
4 211 (36.44%) Agile
5 158 (27.29%) Data Pipeline
6 152 (26.25%) Data Engineering
7 126 (21.76%) Analytics
8 118 (20.38%) Data Modelling
9 113 (19.52%) ETL
10 109 (18.83%) Containerisation
11 107 (18.48%) AI
12 104 (17.96%) Observability
13 91 (15.72%) Test Automation
14 86 (14.85%) Migration
15 82 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 82 (14.16%) Event-Driven
15 82 (14.16%) Microservices
16 80 (13.82%) Technical Leadership
17 74 (12.78%) Business Intelligence
18 73 (12.61%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 339 (58.55%) Python
2 220 (38.00%) SQL
3 100 (17.27%) Java
4 61 (10.54%) Bash
5 58 (10.02%) TypeScript
6 38 (6.56%) JavaScript
7 27 (4.66%) C#
8 26 (4.49%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.80%) Shell Script
10 18 (3.11%) Groovy
10 18 (3.11%) Scala
11 8 (1.38%) Bicep
11 8 (1.38%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.21%) Perl
13 5 (0.86%) Go
13 5 (0.86%) R
14 4 (0.69%) Cypher
14 4 (0.69%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.69%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 207 (35.75%) Security Cleared
2 189 (32.64%) SC Cleared
3 71 (12.26%) AWS Certification
4 28 (4.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 28 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.28%) Degree
6 18 (3.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.90%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.21%) CISM
11 7 (1.21%) CISSP
11 7 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.69%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (16.58%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.35%) QA
3 12 (2.07%) GDPR
4 9 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.55%) NIST
5 6 (1.04%) HL7
6 5 (0.86%) SLA
7 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.52%) PMO
8 2 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.35%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 185 (31.95%) Docker
2 16 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.21%) Postfix
4 6 (1.04%) Squid
5 2 (0.35%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.35%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (17.44%) Kubernetes
2 82 (14.16%) Grafana
3 46 (7.94%) Prometheus
4 38 (6.56%) Ansible
5 18 (3.11%) Argo
6 10 (1.73%) Kibana
6 10 (1.73%) Puppet
7 8 (1.38%) Karpenter
7 8 (1.38%) Packer
8 7 (1.21%) Istio
9 5 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.69%) Salt
11 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.35%) Consul
12 2 (0.35%) Control-M
12 2 (0.35%) Nessus
12 2 (0.35%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.35%) systemd
12 2 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (8.46%) Databricks
2 41 (7.08%) Microsoft
3 35 (6.04%) Oracle
4 26 (4.49%) Informatica
5 20 (3.45%) Splunk
6 19 (3.28%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.76%) Google
8 15 (2.59%) Dynatrace
9 12 (2.07%) Teradata
10 10 (1.73%) Denodo
10 10 (1.73%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.55%) Confluent
12 8 (1.38%) Foundry
12 8 (1.38%) Palantir
12 8 (1.38%) Salesforce
13 7 (1.21%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.21%) SnapLogic
14 6 (1.04%) Brio
14 6 (1.04%) PagerDuty
14 6 (1.04%) Red Hat