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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 181 245
Rank change year-on-year -11 +64 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 518 356 359
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 1.38% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.82% 3.66% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 256 274
10th Percentile £350 £402 £396
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -11.76%
75th Percentile £614 £688 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £734
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.33% - -4.55%
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 13,561 9,723 12,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.24% 37.83% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,331 6,644 8,980
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £410 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 154 333
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.23 £14.03
25th Percentile £20.46 £20.06 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £27.13 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +42.08% +26.93% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.25 £65.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +41.51% +24.01% -14.52%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +7 336 £525 -7.08% 71
North of England -30 65 £500 - 37
Midlands -36 53 £488 +8.33% 14
West Midlands -24 46 £500 -9.09% 11
Yorkshire -37 31 £500 -2.44% 14
South East -20 28 £540 -12.73% 26
North West -23 27 £450 +5.88% 19
South West -13 18 £538 -10.54% 17
East of England -15 9 £475 -1.30% 4
North East -11 7 £475 -22.13% 4
East Midlands -32 7 £434 -2.31% 3
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 52 (10.04%) Apache Spark
2 36 (6.95%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (6.37%) Apache
4 26 (5.02%) Confluence
5 10 (1.93%) nginx
6 7 (1.35%) SAS
7 3 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.58%) Traefik
8 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.19%) Actimize
2 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 515 (99.42%) AWS
2 320 (61.78%) Serverless
3 309 (59.65%) AWS Lambda
4 208 (40.15%) Amazon EC2
5 131 (25.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 128 (24.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 113 (21.81%) Amazon ECS
8 111 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 106 (20.46%) Amazon EKS
10 101 (19.50%) GitHub
11 89 (17.18%) Azure
12 74 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
13 54 (10.42%) Amazon SQS
14 52 (10.04%) AWS Step Functions
14 52 (10.04%) GCP
15 48 (9.27%) Snowflake
16 46 (8.88%) Route 53
17 41 (7.92%) Amazon Kinesis
18 37 (7.14%) Power Platform
19 35 (6.76%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.79%) DNS
2 26 (5.02%) Firewall
3 21 (4.05%) VPN
4 15 (2.90%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.70%) Network Security
6 10 (1.93%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.77%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.77%) SSL
8 3 (0.58%) BGP
9 2 (0.39%) Calico
9 2 (0.39%) Multicast
9 2 (0.39%) NAS
9 2 (0.39%) OSPF
9 2 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.39%) SAN
9 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.39%) WAN
10 1 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.19%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 94 (18.15%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (16.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 76 (14.67%) Amazon Athena
4 76 (14.67%) DynamoDB
5 47 (9.07%) Data Lake
6 43 (8.30%) Relational Database
7 38 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
8 37 (7.14%) Power BI
9 34 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 27 (5.21%) MongoDB
11 26 (5.02%) NoSQL
11 26 (5.02%) SQL Server
12 25 (4.83%) BigQuery
13 21 (4.05%) MySQL
13 21 (4.05%) OLTP
14 20 (3.86%) Tableau
15 19 (3.67%) OLAP
16 17 (3.28%) Metadata
17 16 (3.09%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 118 (22.78%) Jenkins
2 98 (18.92%) GitLab
3 95 (18.34%) Git
4 30 (5.79%) JIRA
5 22 (4.25%) JUnit
6 20 (3.86%) SonarQube
7 19 (3.67%) Bitbucket
7 19 (3.67%) Maven
8 12 (2.32%) Mockito
9 10 (1.93%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.74%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.35%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.35%) jMock
12 6 (1.16%) Gradle
13 5 (0.97%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (0.77%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.77%) Terragrunt
14 4 (0.77%) Vite
15 3 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 149 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 90 (17.37%) Finance
3 85 (16.41%) Public Sector
4 52 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.02%) Banking
6 20 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.51%) Front Office
9 4 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.77%) Military
9 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.58%) Legal
11 2 (0.39%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.19%) Aviation
12 1 (0.19%) Billing
12 1 (0.19%) iGaming
12 1 (0.19%) Marketing
12 1 (0.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (20.27%) Developer
2 104 (20.08%) Data Engineer
3 79 (15.25%) AWS Engineer
4 60 (11.58%) Architect
5 58 (11.20%) Lead
6 51 (9.85%) Senior
7 47 (9.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 41 (7.92%) Java Developer
9 30 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (5.60%) AWS Architect
11 28 (5.41%) AWS Data Engineer
12 27 (5.21%) Site Engineer
13 26 (5.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 24 (4.63%) Lead Data Engineer
14 24 (4.63%) Software Engineer
15 23 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
16 21 (4.05%) Analyst
16 21 (4.05%) AWS Developer
17 19 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 18 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (20.66%) Kafka
2 70 (13.51%) Spring
2 70 (13.51%) Spring Boot
3 56 (10.81%) Node.js
4 52 (10.04%) RESTful
5 46 (8.88%) React
6 45 (8.69%) REST
7 33 (6.37%) AngularJS
8 30 (5.79%) PySpark
9 28 (5.41%) OAuth
10 22 (4.25%) CSS
11 20 (3.86%) Jest
12 19 (3.67%) AWS CDK
13 18 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (3.28%) OpenID
15 16 (3.09%) Great Expectations
16 15 (2.90%) SOAP
17 14 (2.70%) Hibernate
17 14 (2.70%) HTML
17 14 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 131 (25.29%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (1.93%) NHS
6 8 (1.54%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.54%) Replication
7 7 (1.35%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.97%) Derivative
9 5 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.97%) Equities
9 5 (0.97%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.97%) SCADA
9 5 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.77%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.77%) PACS
10 4 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 71 (13.71%) Linux
2 14 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.74%) Unix
4 7 (1.35%) Windows
5 5 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.77%) VMS
7 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.39%) zOS
9 1 (0.19%) Android
9 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (59.27%) CI/CD
2 214 (41.31%) DevOps
3 201 (38.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 139 (26.83%) Agile
5 130 (25.10%) Containerisation
6 120 (23.17%) ETL
7 113 (21.81%) Analytics
8 111 (21.43%) Data Modelling
9 108 (20.85%) Data Engineering
10 96 (18.53%) Microservices
11 91 (17.57%) Observability
12 90 (17.37%) Data Pipeline
12 90 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (12.74%) Performance Tuning
14 62 (11.97%) AI
15 61 (11.78%) Migration
16 60 (11.58%) Software Engineering
17 58 (11.20%) Data Governance
18 56 (10.81%) Data Architecture
19 54 (10.42%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 284 (54.83%) Python
2 197 (38.03%) SQL
3 108 (20.85%) Java
4 53 (10.23%) Bash
5 46 (8.88%) TypeScript
6 40 (7.72%) JavaScript
7 31 (5.98%) C#
8 26 (5.02%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.09%) Go
9 16 (3.09%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.54%) Scala
11 6 (1.16%) JSX
12 5 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.97%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.58%) C
13 3 (0.58%) C++
13 3 (0.58%) Korn
14 2 (0.39%) Groovy
14 2 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 179 (34.56%) Security Cleared
2 143 (27.61%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.27%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.86%) DV Cleared
5 19 (3.67%) Degree
6 17 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.58%) OCP
11 3 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.58%) PhD
12 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.39%) CISSP
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.78%) Data Quality
2 37 (7.14%) GDPR
3 23 (4.44%) QA
4 15 (2.90%) NIST
5 13 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.32%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.16%) SLA
8 4 (0.77%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.77%) PMO
9 2 (0.39%) MiFID
9 2 (0.39%) NCSC
9 2 (0.39%) WCAG
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) GxP
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 183 (35.33%) Docker
2 9 (1.74%) Squid
3 7 (1.35%) Postfix
4 4 (0.77%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.58%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.39%) HDFS
6 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.19%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.19%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.19%) etcd
7 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 249 (48.07%) Terraform
2 144 (27.80%) Kubernetes
3 71 (13.71%) Grafana
4 67 (12.93%) Ansible
5 63 (12.16%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.47%) Progress Chef
7 17 (3.28%) Puppet
7 17 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.74%) Argo
8 9 (1.74%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.35%) Consul
9 7 (1.35%) Kibana
9 7 (1.35%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.97%) Dell DRAC
10 5 (0.97%) Istio
10 5 (0.97%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.58%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.58%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.58%) Packer
Vendors
1 57 (11.00%) Databricks
2 32 (6.18%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.83%) Splunk
4 24 (4.63%) Google
5 18 (3.47%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.90%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.51%) Oracle
7 13 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.12%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.54%) Confluent
10 8 (1.54%) Dell
10 8 (1.54%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.35%) Sybase
12 6 (1.16%) AVEVA
12 6 (1.16%) F5
12 6 (1.16%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.97%) IBM
13 5 (0.97%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.77%) Cloudera