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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 189 249
Rank change year-on-year 0 +60 +50
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 563 351 331
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 1.45% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.90% 3.89% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 267 253
10th Percentile £358 £396 £377
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £613
90th Percentile £713 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £507
% change year-on-year - +3.65% -7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 14,423 9,023 11,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.26% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,870 6,247 8,432
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 200 326
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.34 £18.13 £15.92
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -33.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.56 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.38 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.09% +29.90% -38.94%

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 21 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon S3 in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

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 21 May 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 +13 389 £550 - 74
Midlands -17 65 £469 -1.26% 11
West Midlands -18 60 £469 -3.79% 9
North of England -59 53 £500 +1.27% 46
North West -31 32 £505 +6.32% 24
South East -35 30 £585 +15.84% 24
South West -25 17 £450 -18.18% 24
Yorkshire -54 13 £500 -4.76% 15
North East -18 8 £444 - 8
East of England -23 7 £425 -15.00% 2
East Midlands -28 4 £413 -10.13% 2
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 58 (10.30%) Apache Spark
2 54 (9.59%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (8.35%) Confluence
4 35 (6.22%) Apache
5 15 (2.66%) SAS
6 10 (1.78%) nginx
7 3 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
2 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 560 (99.47%) AWS
2 349 (61.99%) Serverless
3 339 (60.21%) AWS Lambda
4 207 (36.77%) Amazon EC2
5 144 (25.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 120 (21.31%) Amazon ECS
7 112 (19.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 111 (19.72%) GitHub
9 108 (19.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 106 (18.83%) Amazon EKS
11 90 (15.99%) Azure
12 89 (15.81%) Amazon SQS
13 83 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
14 74 (13.14%) AWS Step Functions
15 62 (11.01%) Snowflake
16 57 (10.12%) dbt
17 51 (9.06%) Power Platform
18 46 (8.17%) GCP
18 46 (8.17%) Route 53
19 44 (7.82%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.97%) DNS
2 22 (3.91%) Firewall
3 15 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.49%) VPN
5 11 (1.95%) OpenVPN
6 9 (1.60%) Network Security
7 4 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.53%) BGP
8 3 (0.53%) NAS
8 3 (0.53%) OSPF
8 3 (0.53%) SAN
8 3 (0.53%) SSL
8 3 (0.53%) WAN
9 2 (0.36%) Multicast
9 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.36%) VLAN
10 1 (0.18%) 5G
10 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.18%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (24.51%) Amazon RDS
2 107 (19.01%) Amazon Athena
3 95 (16.87%) DynamoDB
4 87 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
5 86 (15.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 51 (9.06%) Power BI
7 50 (8.88%) Amazon Aurora
8 47 (8.35%) Data Lake
9 43 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (6.22%) NoSQL
11 30 (5.33%) Tableau
12 29 (5.15%) Relational Database
13 26 (4.62%) Metadata
13 26 (4.62%) SQL Server
14 24 (4.26%) BigQuery
15 23 (4.09%) OLTP
16 22 (3.91%) Apache Iceberg
16 22 (3.91%) Big Data
17 20 (3.55%) Snowflake Schema
18 19 (3.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 130 (23.09%) Jenkins
2 122 (21.67%) Git
3 110 (19.54%) GitLab
4 60 (10.66%) JIRA
5 29 (5.15%) SonarQube
6 28 (4.97%) JUnit
7 27 (4.80%) Bitbucket
8 26 (4.62%) Maven
9 22 (3.91%) Mockito
10 14 (2.49%) DbUnit
11 13 (2.31%) jMock
12 11 (1.95%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.78%) Cypress.io
14 9 (1.60%) Cucumber
15 7 (1.24%) Artifactory
16 5 (0.89%) Postman
16 5 (0.89%) Selenium
17 4 (0.71%) Gradle
17 4 (0.71%) Terragrunt
18 3 (0.53%) Jasmine
General
1 153 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.47%) Finance
3 99 (17.58%) Public Sector
4 57 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.80%) Banking
6 20 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.31%) Front Office
7 13 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (0.89%) Military
9 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.53%) Retail
10 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.36%) Billing
11 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.36%) Law
11 2 (0.36%) Local Government
11 2 (0.36%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 138 (24.51%) Data Engineer
2 123 (21.85%) Developer
3 82 (14.56%) AWS Engineer
4 73 (12.97%) Senior
5 71 (12.61%) Architect
6 67 (11.90%) Lead
7 45 (7.99%) Java Developer
8 38 (6.75%) DevOps Engineer
9 33 (5.86%) AWS Data Engineer
10 32 (5.68%) AWS Architect
11 31 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (5.15%) AWS Developer
13 28 (4.97%) Senior Data Engineer
14 25 (4.44%) Data Architect
15 23 (4.09%) Lead Data Engineer
15 23 (4.09%) Software Engineer
16 21 (3.73%) Analyst
16 21 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
17 20 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
17 20 (3.55%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (18.29%) Kafka
2 76 (13.50%) Spring
2 76 (13.50%) Spring Boot
3 60 (10.66%) RESTful
4 54 (9.59%) Node.js
4 54 (9.59%) REST
5 53 (9.41%) React
6 46 (8.17%) PySpark
7 41 (7.28%) AngularJS
8 26 (4.62%) SOAP
9 24 (4.26%) OpenID
10 23 (4.09%) Hibernate
10 23 (4.09%) JPA
10 23 (4.09%) OAuth
10 23 (4.09%) Web Services
11 21 (3.73%) AWS CDK
11 21 (3.73%) Spring Cloud
12 19 (3.37%) ActiveMQ
12 19 (3.37%) FastAPI
13 18 (3.20%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 139 (24.69%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.49%) NHS
5 10 (1.78%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.24%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.24%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.07%) Clustering
8 6 (1.07%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.07%) PACS
8 6 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (0.89%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.89%) Replication
9 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.71%) Equities
10 4 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 71 (12.61%) Linux
2 20 (3.55%) Unix
3 12 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.07%) Windows
5 5 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.36%) Android
6 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.36%) zOS
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (56.84%) CI/CD
2 238 (42.27%) DevOps
3 195 (34.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 175 (31.08%) Agile
5 126 (22.38%) Analytics
5 126 (22.38%) Data Engineering
6 123 (21.85%) ETL
7 122 (21.67%) Containerisation
8 120 (21.31%) Data Modelling
9 107 (19.01%) Data Pipeline
10 95 (16.87%) Microservices
11 81 (14.39%) Observability
12 75 (13.32%) AI
13 72 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
14 71 (12.61%) Migration
15 69 (12.26%) Event-Driven
16 68 (12.08%) Scrum
16 68 (12.08%) Test Automation
17 61 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
18 58 (10.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 303 (53.82%) Python
2 223 (39.61%) SQL
3 127 (22.56%) Java
4 56 (9.95%) TypeScript
5 48 (8.53%) C#
6 38 (6.75%) JavaScript
7 37 (6.57%) Bash
8 24 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 23 (4.09%) PowerShell
10 19 (3.37%) Scala
11 8 (1.42%) Go
11 8 (1.42%) Groovy
12 6 (1.07%) Bicep
12 6 (1.07%) SAS Macro
13 4 (0.71%) Perl
13 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.53%) C++
14 3 (0.53%) R
15 2 (0.36%) C
15 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 188 (33.39%) Security Cleared
2 157 (27.89%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.04%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.66%) Degree
5 13 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.78%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.53%) OCP
12 3 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.53%) PhD
12 3 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (12.79%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.26%) GDPR
3 22 (3.91%) QA
4 8 (1.42%) NIST
4 8 (1.42%) SLA
5 7 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.24%) PMO
6 6 (1.07%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.89%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 183 (32.50%) Docker
2 11 (1.95%) Postfix
2 11 (1.95%) Squid
3 9 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.53%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 244 (43.34%) Terraform
2 123 (21.85%) Kubernetes
3 78 (13.85%) Grafana
4 54 (9.59%) Prometheus
5 36 (6.39%) Ansible
6 18 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.78%) Kibana
7 10 (1.78%) Puppet
8 9 (1.60%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.42%) Consul
10 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.89%) Argo
12 4 (0.71%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.71%) Salt
13 3 (0.53%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.53%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.53%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.53%) Packer
13 3 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 55 (9.77%) Databricks
2 33 (5.86%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.80%) Google
4 25 (4.44%) Splunk
5 21 (3.73%) Atlassian
6 17 (3.02%) Jaspersoft
7 16 (2.84%) Dynatrace
7 16 (2.84%) Oracle
7 16 (2.84%) Red Hat
8 15 (2.66%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.78%) Denodo
9 10 (1.78%) Informatica
10 9 (1.60%) Confluent
10 9 (1.60%) Teradata
11 8 (1.42%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.07%) AVEVA
13 5 (0.89%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.89%) IBM
14 4 (0.71%) SAP
14 4 (0.71%) Sybase