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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 199 255
Rank change year-on-year +5 +56 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 493 347 343
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.33% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 3.55% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 246 272
10th Percentile £357 £404 £383
25th Percentile £435 £475 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £684 £628
90th Percentile £694 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 12,808 9,780 12,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.70% 37.51% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 6,532 9,040
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 141 299
10th Percentile £14.47 £15.44 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £59.86 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +31.27% +21.89% -10.00%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +16 328 £530 -7.83% 76
North of England -27 64 £500 - 41
Midlands -29 46 £475 +5.56% 15
West Midlands -26 39 £510 -7.27% 11
Yorkshire -34 31 £500 -4.76% 19
North West -15 25 £450 -5.26% 20
South East -16 25 £528 -17.25% 26
South West -10 16 £538 -10.54% 18
East of England -19 9 £475 -5.00% 7
North East -12 8 £450 -26.23% 2
East Midlands -23 7 £417 -6.02% 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 42 (8.52%) Apache Airflow
1 42 (8.52%) Apache Spark
2 30 (6.09%) Apache
3 26 (5.27%) Confluence
4 13 (2.64%) nginx
5 3 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.61%) Traefik
6 2 (0.41%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Chatbot
1 6 (1.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Actimize
1 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.20%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 489 (99.19%) AWS
2 290 (58.82%) Serverless
3 283 (57.40%) AWS Lambda
4 187 (37.93%) Amazon EC2
5 131 (26.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 118 (23.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 107 (21.70%) GitHub
8 104 (21.10%) Amazon ECS
9 103 (20.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 92 (18.66%) Azure
11 91 (18.46%) Amazon EKS
12 79 (16.02%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (9.94%) AWS Step Functions
13 49 (9.94%) GCP
14 47 (9.53%) Amazon Kinesis
15 43 (8.72%) Route 53
16 42 (8.52%) Snowflake
17 37 (7.51%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (7.10%) dbt
19 32 (6.49%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 45 (9.13%) DNS
2 42 (8.52%) Firewall
3 31 (6.29%) VPN
4 25 (5.07%) TCP/IP
5 20 (4.06%) Network Security
6 14 (2.84%) SSL
7 8 (1.62%) FTP
7 8 (1.62%) HTTP
7 8 (1.62%) SMTP
7 8 (1.62%) SSH
8 7 (1.42%) OpenVPN
9 6 (1.22%) IMAP
9 6 (1.22%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (0.81%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.61%) BGP
12 2 (0.41%) Multicast
12 2 (0.41%) NAS
12 2 (0.41%) OSPF
12 2 (0.41%) SAN
12 2 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (27.18%) Amazon RDS
2 89 (18.05%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (16.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 68 (13.79%) DynamoDB
5 66 (13.39%) Amazon Athena
6 42 (8.52%) Data Lake
7 38 (7.71%) Relational Database
8 34 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 33 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (5.68%) Power BI
11 25 (5.07%) MongoDB
12 23 (4.67%) BigQuery
13 22 (4.46%) SQL Server
14 21 (4.26%) MySQL
14 21 (4.26%) NoSQL
15 19 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
15 19 (3.85%) OLTP
16 17 (3.45%) Star Schema
17 16 (3.25%) OLAP
18 14 (2.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 115 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 95 (19.27%) GitLab
3 93 (18.86%) Git
4 32 (6.49%) JIRA
5 14 (2.84%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.43%) JUnit
6 12 (2.43%) Maven
7 10 (2.03%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.62%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.62%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.62%) Vagrant
9 6 (1.22%) Gradle
10 4 (0.81%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.81%) Mockito
10 4 (0.81%) Terragrunt
10 4 (0.81%) Vite
11 3 (0.61%) Jasmine
11 3 (0.61%) Selenium
12 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.41%) jMock
General
1 129 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 76 (15.42%) Finance
3 70 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 52 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.46%) Banking
6 19 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.43%) Front Office
7 12 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.62%) Military
9 4 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.61%) Legal
11 2 (0.41%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.41%) Retail
12 1 (0.20%) Aviation
12 1 (0.20%) Games
12 1 (0.20%) Marketing
12 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.20%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 109 (22.11%) Data Engineer
2 86 (17.44%) Developer
3 85 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
4 63 (12.78%) Senior
5 62 (12.58%) Architect
6 59 (11.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 46 (9.33%) Lead
8 28 (5.68%) AWS Architect
9 27 (5.48%) AWS Data Engineer
9 27 (5.48%) Java Developer
9 27 (5.48%) Software Engineer
10 26 (5.27%) AWS DevOps
10 26 (5.27%) Platform Engineer
11 25 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (4.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 23 (4.67%) Site Engineer
14 22 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 19 (3.85%) AWS Developer
15 19 (3.85%) Lead Data Engineer
15 19 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (20.28%) Kafka
2 55 (11.16%) Spring
2 55 (11.16%) Spring Boot
3 47 (9.53%) Node.js
3 47 (9.53%) React
4 44 (8.92%) RESTful
5 37 (7.51%) REST
6 28 (5.68%) AngularJS
7 25 (5.07%) OAuth
8 22 (4.46%) CSS
9 20 (4.06%) PySpark
10 17 (3.45%) Jest
11 16 (3.25%) AWS CDK
12 15 (3.04%) LDAP
13 14 (2.84%) boto
13 14 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (2.84%) Great Expectations
13 14 (2.84%) HTML
13 14 (2.84%) OpenID
14 13 (2.64%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 123 (24.95%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.04%) Replication
5 11 (2.23%) NHS
6 7 (1.42%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.42%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.22%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.01%) SCADA
9 4 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.81%) Derivative
9 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (0.81%) Equities
9 4 (0.81%) PACS
9 4 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 70 (14.20%) Linux
2 15 (3.04%) Windows
3 11 (2.23%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (2.23%) VMS
4 10 (2.03%) Unix
5 7 (1.42%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.41%) zOS
8 1 (0.20%) Android
8 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (60.45%) CI/CD
2 206 (41.78%) DevOps
3 196 (39.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 119 (24.14%) Containerisation
5 111 (22.52%) Agile
6 105 (21.30%) ETL
7 104 (21.10%) Data Engineering
8 103 (20.89%) Analytics
9 98 (19.88%) Data Modelling
9 98 (19.88%) Data Pipeline
10 84 (17.04%) Microservices
11 81 (16.43%) Observability
12 79 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (12.78%) Software Engineering
14 61 (12.37%) Performance Tuning
15 59 (11.97%) AI
16 58 (11.76%) Event-Driven
17 54 (10.95%) Data Governance
18 51 (10.34%) High Availability
19 50 (10.14%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 298 (60.45%) Python
2 190 (38.54%) SQL
3 98 (19.88%) Java
4 61 (12.37%) Bash
5 44 (8.92%) TypeScript
6 40 (8.11%) JavaScript
7 26 (5.27%) C#
8 21 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 20 (4.06%) Go
9 20 (4.06%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.83%) Groovy
11 7 (1.42%) Scala
12 6 (1.22%) JSX
13 5 (1.01%) Korn
13 5 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.61%) C++
14 3 (0.61%) Perl
15 2 (0.41%) Bicep
15 2 (0.41%) C
16 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 170 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 140 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.94%) AWS Certification
4 23 (4.67%) Degree
5 20 (4.06%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.43%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.42%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.61%) OCP
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.61%) PhD
11 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.17%) Data Quality
2 35 (7.10%) GDPR
3 22 (4.46%) QA
4 15 (3.04%) NIST
5 14 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.23%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.81%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.61%) NCSC
9 2 (0.41%) MiFID
9 2 (0.41%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.20%) GxP
10 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 179 (36.31%) Docker
2 13 (2.64%) Squid
3 8 (1.62%) DFS Replication
3 8 (1.62%) Postfix
4 6 (1.22%) Dovecot
5 5 (1.01%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.61%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.41%) HDFS
7 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.20%) etcd
8 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 249 (50.51%) Terraform
2 141 (28.60%) Kubernetes
3 74 (15.01%) Ansible
4 63 (12.78%) Grafana
5 62 (12.58%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.85%) Progress Chef
7 17 (3.45%) Puppet
8 13 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.83%) Argo
10 8 (1.62%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.42%) Kibana
11 7 (1.42%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (1.22%) Consul
12 6 (1.22%) Nessus
12 6 (1.22%) Proxmox
13 5 (1.01%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (1.01%) Istio
13 5 (1.01%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.61%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 50 (10.14%) Databricks
2 32 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.67%) Google
4 21 (4.26%) Splunk
5 17 (3.45%) F5
5 17 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.25%) Palo Alto
7 15 (3.04%) CheckPoint
8 12 (2.43%) Oracle
9 10 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.83%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.62%) Confluent
11 8 (1.62%) Dell
11 8 (1.62%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.62%) PagerDuty
12 6 (1.22%) AVEVA
12 6 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.01%) Sybase
14 4 (0.81%) SAP