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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 191 258
Rank change year-on-year +7 +67 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 560 339 337
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.38% 1.40% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.92% 3.76% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 260 253
10th Percentile £356 £400 £401
25th Percentile £450 £459 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £614 £615 £613
90th Percentile £704 £753 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -7.27%
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 14,303 9,016 11,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.30% 37.21% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 6,286 8,486
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £742 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 196 320
10th Percentile £15.87 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £18.04 £15.85
Median hourly rate £46.80 £25.98 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.17% +23.69% -34.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £41.62 £32.88
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.13 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £41.64 £27.35 £21.19
% change year-on-year +52.25% +29.10% -39.47%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +21 386 £550 - 85
Midlands -25 65 £475 -2.56% 10
West Midlands -11 61 £475 -5.00% 8
North of England -49 53 £500 +5.26% 47
North West -33 29 £500 +8.11% 27
South East -49 29 £575 +13.86% 23
South West -28 17 £450 -18.18% 22
Yorkshire -47 15 £500 -4.76% 15
North East -10 9 £475 - 5
East of England -27 7 £450 -10.00% 5
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 60 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 54 (9.64%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (7.86%) Confluence
4 37 (6.61%) 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%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.89%) 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
1 558 (99.64%) AWS
2 348 (62.14%) Serverless
3 338 (60.36%) AWS Lambda
4 204 (36.43%) Amazon EC2
5 142 (25.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 127 (22.68%) Amazon ECS
7 118 (21.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 110 (19.64%) Amazon EKS
9 109 (19.46%) GitHub
10 108 (19.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 92 (16.43%) Azure
12 81 (14.46%) Amazon SQS
13 80 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
14 70 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
15 60 (10.71%) Snowflake
16 53 (9.46%) dbt
17 49 (8.75%) Power Platform
18 47 (8.39%) GCP
19 45 (8.04%) Route 53
20 44 (7.86%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.82%) DNS
2 20 (3.57%) Firewall
3 15 (2.68%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.68%) VPN
4 12 (2.14%) Network Security
5 11 (1.96%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.54%) BGP
7 3 (0.54%) OSPF
8 2 (0.36%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.36%) Multicast
8 2 (0.36%) NAS
8 2 (0.36%) SAN
8 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.36%) SSL
8 2 (0.36%) VLAN
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) 4G
9 1 (0.18%) 5G
9 1 (0.18%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 108 (19.29%) Amazon Athena
3 92 (16.43%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (16.07%) DynamoDB
5 89 (15.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 49 (8.75%) Power BI
7 48 (8.57%) Data Lake
8 47 (8.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (7.68%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (6.25%) NoSQL
11 34 (6.07%) Relational Database
12 30 (5.36%) Tableau
13 29 (5.18%) SQL Server
14 26 (4.64%) Metadata
15 24 (4.29%) Big Data
16 23 (4.11%) BigQuery
16 23 (4.11%) OLTP
17 22 (3.93%) Apache Iceberg
18 20 (3.57%) MongoDB
19 19 (3.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 127 (22.68%) Jenkins
2 114 (20.36%) GitLab
3 112 (20.00%) Git
4 55 (9.82%) JIRA
5 26 (4.64%) Bitbucket
6 25 (4.46%) SonarQube
7 24 (4.29%) JUnit
8 23 (4.11%) Maven
9 18 (3.21%) Mockito
10 11 (1.96%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.96%) 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%) Gradle
14 5 (0.89%) Selenium
15 4 (0.71%) Postman
15 4 (0.71%) Terragrunt
16 3 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 142 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 106 (18.93%) Finance
3 96 (17.14%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.82%) Banking
6 20 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.68%) Front Office
8 14 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.89%) Military
10 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.54%) Legal
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
1 136 (24.29%) Data Engineer
2 119 (21.25%) Developer
3 79 (14.11%) AWS Engineer
4 72 (12.86%) Architect
4 72 (12.86%) Senior
5 65 (11.61%) Lead
6 39 (6.96%) Java Developer
7 38 (6.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 32 (5.71%) AWS Architect
8 32 (5.71%) AWS Data Engineer
9 30 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 28 (5.00%) AWS Developer
10 28 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 25 (4.46%) Data Architect
12 24 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
12 24 (4.29%) Lead Data Engineer
12 24 (4.29%) Site Engineer
13 22 (3.93%) Analyst
13 22 (3.93%) Python Developer
13 22 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (18.93%) Kafka
2 74 (13.21%) Spring
2 74 (13.21%) Spring Boot
3 59 (10.54%) RESTful
4 56 (10.00%) Node.js
5 50 (8.93%) React
6 47 (8.39%) REST
7 46 (8.21%) PySpark
8 36 (6.43%) AngularJS
9 24 (4.29%) OAuth
9 24 (4.29%) OpenID
10 21 (3.75%) SOAP
11 19 (3.39%) AWS CDK
11 19 (3.39%) Hibernate
11 19 (3.39%) JPA
11 19 (3.39%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (3.39%) Web Services
12 17 (3.04%) FastAPI
12 17 (3.04%) Pandas
13 16 (2.86%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 140 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.14%) NHS
5 9 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.25%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.07%) Clustering
8 6 (1.07%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.07%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.07%) PACS
8 6 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.89%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.71%) Equities
10 4 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 75 (13.39%) Linux
2 20 (3.57%) Unix
3 10 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.71%) 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
1 319 (56.96%) CI/CD
2 233 (41.61%) DevOps
3 200 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 166 (29.64%) Agile
5 130 (23.21%) Analytics
6 128 (22.86%) Containerisation
7 126 (22.50%) ETL
8 124 (22.14%) Data Engineering
9 121 (21.61%) Data Modelling
10 107 (19.11%) Data Pipeline
11 97 (17.32%) Microservices
12 85 (15.18%) Observability
13 77 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (13.21%) AI
15 69 (12.32%) Test Automation
16 68 (12.14%) Event-Driven
17 67 (11.96%) Migration
18 60 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
18 60 (10.71%) Scrum
18 60 (10.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 319 (56.96%) Python
2 222 (39.64%) SQL
3 126 (22.50%) Java
4 56 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 48 (8.57%) C#
6 43 (7.68%) Bash
7 40 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 28 (5.00%) Shell Script
9 20 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 19 (3.39%) Scala
11 11 (1.96%) Go
12 7 (1.25%) Bicep
13 6 (1.07%) Groovy
13 6 (1.07%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.54%) C++
15 3 (0.54%) Perl
15 3 (0.54%) R
16 2 (0.36%) C
16 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 190 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 156 (27.86%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.61%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.04%) Degree
5 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.43%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.54%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.54%) OCP
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.54%) PhD
11 3 (0.54%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (12.68%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.29%) GDPR
3 20 (3.57%) QA
4 8 (1.43%) NIST
4 8 (1.43%) SLA
5 7 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.25%) PMO
6 6 (1.07%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.71%) 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
1 186 (33.21%) Docker
2 10 (1.79%) Postfix
2 10 (1.79%) Squid
3 7 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.54%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 255 (45.54%) Terraform
2 132 (23.57%) Kubernetes
3 85 (15.18%) Grafana
4 59 (10.54%) Prometheus
5 44 (7.86%) Ansible
6 18 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (2.50%) Puppet
8 11 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.79%) Kibana
10 9 (1.61%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.43%) Consul
12 5 (0.89%) Argo
13 4 (0.71%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.71%) Salt
14 3 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.54%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.54%) Istio
14 3 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.54%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 58 (10.36%) Databricks
2 34 (6.07%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.64%) Google
4 25 (4.46%) Splunk
5 18 (3.21%) Atlassian
6 16 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.86%) Oracle
7 15 (2.68%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
8 14 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.79%) Denodo
9 10 (1.79%) Informatica
10 9 (1.61%) Confluent
11 8 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.43%) PagerDuty
12 6 (1.07%) AVEVA
12 6 (1.07%) Teradata
13 5 (0.89%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.89%) IBM
14 4 (0.71%) Sybase