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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 188 253
Rank change year-on-year -5 +65 +41
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 559 334 328
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 1.38% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.90% 3.71% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 255 249
10th Percentile £356 £400 £396
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £611 £609
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £507
% change year-on-year - +3.55% -7.82%
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 14,332 8,992 11,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.19% 37.16% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,816 6,239 8,405
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £633 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.97% -1.97% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 195 324
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.40 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%
75th Percentile £67.67 £38.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +36.51% +28.69% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +22 389 £550 - 80
Midlands -23 64 £470 -3.59% 11
West Midlands -17 60 £475 -5.00% 9
North of England -53 52 £500 +2.56% 47
North West -26 31 £500 +5.26% 26
South East -38 29 £580 +14.85% 31
South West -23 16 £450 -18.18% 28
Yorkshire -59 13 £500 -4.76% 17
North East -14 8 £444 - 5
East of England -31 6 £450 -10.00% 3
East Midlands -29 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 59 (10.55%) Apache Spark
2 54 (9.66%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (8.41%) Confluence
4 35 (6.26%) Apache
5 15 (2.68%) SAS
6 10 (1.79%) nginx
7 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.54%) 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%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.72%) 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
1 556 (99.46%) AWS
2 351 (62.79%) Serverless
3 341 (61.00%) AWS Lambda
4 205 (36.67%) Amazon EC2
5 143 (25.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 125 (22.36%) Amazon ECS
7 116 (20.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 113 (20.21%) GitHub
9 110 (19.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 109 (19.50%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (16.28%) Azure
12 84 (15.03%) GitHub Actions
13 83 (14.85%) Amazon SQS
14 71 (12.70%) AWS Step Functions
15 60 (10.73%) Snowflake
16 53 (9.48%) dbt
17 50 (8.94%) Power Platform
18 47 (8.41%) GCP
19 44 (7.87%) Amazon Kinesis
19 44 (7.87%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.83%) DNS
2 21 (3.76%) Firewall
3 15 (2.68%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.68%) VPN
4 11 (1.97%) Network Security
4 11 (1.97%) OpenVPN
5 4 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.54%) BGP
6 3 (0.54%) NAS
6 3 (0.54%) OSPF
6 3 (0.54%) SAN
7 2 (0.36%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.36%) Multicast
7 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.36%) SSL
7 2 (0.36%) VLAN
7 2 (0.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) 5G
8 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (24.51%) Amazon RDS
2 107 (19.14%) Amazon Athena
3 89 (15.92%) DynamoDB
4 86 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 86 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
5 50 (8.94%) Power BI
6 47 (8.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 47 (8.41%) Data Lake
7 42 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (6.08%) NoSQL
9 32 (5.72%) Relational Database
10 30 (5.37%) Tableau
11 27 (4.83%) SQL Server
12 26 (4.65%) Metadata
13 24 (4.29%) Big Data
13 24 (4.29%) BigQuery
14 23 (4.11%) OLTP
15 22 (3.94%) Apache Iceberg
16 19 (3.40%) MongoDB
16 19 (3.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 131 (23.43%) Jenkins
2 114 (20.39%) GitLab
3 113 (20.21%) Git
4 59 (10.55%) JIRA
5 27 (4.83%) Bitbucket
6 25 (4.47%) SonarQube
7 24 (4.29%) JUnit
8 22 (3.94%) Maven
9 18 (3.22%) Mockito
10 11 (1.97%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.97%) jMock
11 10 (1.79%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.61%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.25%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.89%) Postman
14 5 (0.89%) Selenium
15 4 (0.72%) Gradle
15 4 (0.72%) Terragrunt
16 3 (0.54%) Jasmine
General
1 149 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 106 (18.96%) Finance
3 94 (16.82%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (4.47%) Banking
6 20 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.50%) Front Office
8 12 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.89%) Military
10 4 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.54%) Retail
11 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.36%) Games
12 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.36%) Law
12 2 (0.36%) Local Government
12 2 (0.36%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 135 (24.15%) Data Engineer
2 118 (21.11%) Developer
3 78 (13.95%) AWS Engineer
4 72 (12.88%) Architect
5 69 (12.34%) Senior
6 65 (11.63%) Lead
7 40 (7.16%) Java Developer
8 38 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 32 (5.72%) AWS Architect
9 32 (5.72%) AWS Data Engineer
10 30 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (5.01%) Senior Data Engineer
12 27 (4.83%) AWS Developer
13 25 (4.47%) Data Architect
14 23 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
14 23 (4.11%) Lead Data Engineer
15 21 (3.76%) Analyst
15 21 (3.76%) Software Engineer
16 20 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
16 20 (3.58%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (18.43%) Kafka
2 73 (13.06%) Spring
2 73 (13.06%) Spring Boot
3 57 (10.20%) RESTful
4 54 (9.66%) Node.js
5 49 (8.77%) React
5 49 (8.77%) REST
6 46 (8.23%) PySpark
7 34 (6.08%) AngularJS
8 24 (4.29%) OpenID
9 23 (4.11%) OAuth
10 21 (3.76%) AWS CDK
10 21 (3.76%) SOAP
11 19 (3.40%) Hibernate
11 19 (3.40%) JPA
11 19 (3.40%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (3.40%) Web Services
12 17 (3.04%) FastAPI
12 17 (3.04%) Pandas
13 16 (2.86%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 140 (25.04%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 38 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.50%) NHS
5 9 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.25%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.25%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.07%) Clustering
8 6 (1.07%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.07%) PACS
8 6 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.89%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.89%) Replication
9 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.72%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 73 (13.06%) Linux
2 20 (3.58%) Unix
3 10 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.89%) Windows
5 2 (0.36%) Android
5 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.36%) zOS
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (57.25%) CI/CD
2 236 (42.22%) DevOps
3 199 (35.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 165 (29.52%) Agile
5 124 (22.18%) Analytics
6 123 (22.00%) Containerisation
6 123 (22.00%) Data Engineering
7 121 (21.65%) ETL
8 117 (20.93%) Data Modelling
9 105 (18.78%) Data Pipeline
10 94 (16.82%) Microservices
11 85 (15.21%) Observability
12 75 (13.42%) AI
12 75 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
13 69 (12.34%) Event-Driven
13 69 (12.34%) Test Automation
14 65 (11.63%) Migration
15 63 (11.27%) Scrum
16 60 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
17 59 (10.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 310 (55.46%) Python
2 215 (38.46%) SQL
3 126 (22.54%) Java
4 57 (10.20%) TypeScript
5 48 (8.59%) C#
6 40 (7.16%) Bash
7 37 (6.62%) JavaScript
8 27 (4.83%) Shell Script
9 22 (3.94%) PowerShell
10 19 (3.40%) Scala
11 10 (1.79%) Go
12 7 (1.25%) Groovy
13 6 (1.07%) Bicep
13 6 (1.07%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.72%) Perl
14 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.54%) C++
15 3 (0.54%) R
16 2 (0.36%) C
16 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 188 (33.63%) Security Cleared
2 154 (27.55%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.44%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.04%) Degree
5 12 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 10 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.79%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.54%) OCP
10 3 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.54%) PhD
10 3 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (12.70%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.29%) GDPR
3 20 (3.58%) QA
4 8 (1.43%) NIST
4 8 (1.43%) SLA
5 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.25%) PMO
6 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.07%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 183 (32.74%) Docker
2 10 (1.79%) Postfix
2 10 (1.79%) Squid
3 8 (1.43%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.54%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.36%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 251 (44.90%) Terraform
2 127 (22.72%) Kubernetes
3 79 (14.13%) Grafana
4 57 (10.20%) Prometheus
5 38 (6.80%) Ansible
6 18 (3.22%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.79%) Kibana
7 10 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.79%) Puppet
8 9 (1.61%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.43%) Consul
10 5 (0.89%) Argo
11 4 (0.72%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.72%) Salt
12 3 (0.54%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.54%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.54%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 57 (10.20%) Databricks
2 33 (5.90%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.83%) Google
4 25 (4.47%) Splunk
5 18 (3.22%) Atlassian
6 16 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.86%) Oracle
7 15 (2.68%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
9 10 (1.79%) Denodo
9 10 (1.79%) Informatica
10 9 (1.61%) Confluent
11 8 (1.43%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.07%) AVEVA
12 6 (1.07%) Teradata
13 5 (0.89%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.89%) IBM
14 4 (0.72%) SAP
14 4 (0.72%) Sybase