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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 214 275
Rank change year-on-year +46 +61 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 504 361 329
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.15% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.28% 3.22% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 240 252
10th Percentile £393 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -5.70%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £50.94 - £52.50
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Cloud 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 11,787 11,196 13,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.55% 35.81% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,030 7,444 10,120
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 148 278
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.93 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.27 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% +22.09% +21.11%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.68 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.30 £29.86
% change year-on-year -14.18% +1.46% +35.73%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 +28 297 £575 - 202
Midlands +10 64 £475 +1.06% 21
North of England -22 58 £500 - 58
West Midlands +19 55 £475 -24.00% 12
Yorkshire -18 36 £500 -4.76% 20
South East +14 31 £413 -33.33% 34
East of England +6 23 £550 +10.00% 6
South West +7 18 £575 -4.17% 31
North West -32 17 £500 +4.17% 34
East Midlands -11 9 £434 -2.96% 9
North East -1 6 £450 -26.23% 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 44 (8.73%) Confluence
2 42 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 18 (3.57%) Apache
5 14 (2.78%) nginx
6 5 (0.99%) CMS
6 5 (0.99%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.99%) SAS
7 3 (0.60%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.20%) Finacle
2 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 493 (97.82%) AWS
2 269 (53.37%) Serverless
3 267 (52.98%) AWS Lambda
4 211 (41.87%) Amazon EC2
5 172 (34.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 116 (23.02%) GitHub
7 109 (21.63%) Amazon ECS
7 109 (21.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 99 (19.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 74 (14.68%) GitHub Actions
10 73 (14.48%) Azure
11 55 (10.91%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (10.12%) Amazon ELB
13 40 (7.94%) Amazon EMR
13 40 (7.94%) Snowflake
14 38 (7.54%) Amazon Kinesis
15 37 (7.34%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (7.34%) AWS KMS
16 36 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
16 36 (7.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 58 (11.51%) DNS
2 56 (11.11%) Firewall
3 35 (6.94%) VPN
4 27 (5.36%) SSH
5 26 (5.16%) SSL
5 26 (5.16%) TCP/IP
6 24 (4.76%) SMTP
7 22 (4.37%) FTP
7 22 (4.37%) HTTP
8 21 (4.17%) Network Security
9 17 (3.37%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (2.38%) IMAP
11 6 (1.19%) DHCP
12 4 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.60%) Kerberos
14 2 (0.40%) Calico
14 2 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (0.40%) VSAN
15 1 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
15 1 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (31.35%) Amazon RDS
2 109 (21.63%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (16.87%) DynamoDB
4 68 (13.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 55 (10.91%) Amazon Athena
6 54 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (10.12%) Relational Database
8 34 (6.75%) Amazon Aurora
9 28 (5.56%) Data Lake
10 24 (4.76%) NoSQL
11 22 (4.37%) Amazon QuickSight
12 20 (3.97%) Big Data
12 20 (3.97%) MongoDB
12 20 (3.97%) MySQL
12 20 (3.97%) RDBMS
13 18 (3.57%) SQL Server
14 15 (2.98%) Power BI
15 14 (2.78%) Metadata
16 12 (2.38%) Hadoop
16 12 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 122 (24.21%) Jenkins
2 115 (22.82%) Git
3 75 (14.88%) GitLab
4 55 (10.91%) JIRA
5 24 (4.76%) Vagrant
6 16 (3.17%) JUnit
7 14 (2.78%) Maven
8 9 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.79%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.79%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.79%) DbUnit
11 4 (0.79%) jMock
11 4 (0.79%) Mockito
11 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.60%) MLflow
12 3 (0.60%) Postman
12 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 141 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 81 (16.07%) Public Sector
3 70 (13.89%) Finance
4 55 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.77%) Front Office
5 19 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (3.57%) Banking
7 17 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.98%) Military
9 7 (1.39%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.60%) Marketing
11 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Legal
12 2 (0.40%) Publishing
12 2 (0.40%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 115 (22.82%) AWS Engineer
2 90 (17.86%) Senior
3 86 (17.06%) Developer
4 85 (16.87%) Data Engineer
5 80 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 61 (12.10%) Architect
7 47 (9.33%) AWS DevOps
8 44 (8.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 39 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
10 34 (6.75%) Lead
11 31 (6.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.16%) AWS Developer
12 26 (5.16%) Java Developer
13 25 (4.96%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (4.76%) Software Engineer
15 22 (4.37%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 22 (4.37%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (3.97%) AWS Architect
17 19 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
18 18 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (12.10%) Kafka
2 55 (10.91%) Node.js
3 52 (10.32%) React
4 50 (9.92%) REST
5 35 (6.94%) RESTful
6 32 (6.35%) Spring
7 27 (5.36%) Spring Boot
8 23 (4.56%) AWS CDK
9 22 (4.37%) GraphQL
10 20 (3.97%) LDAP
10 20 (3.97%) OAuth
11 19 (3.77%) AngularJS
12 17 (3.37%) Jest
13 14 (2.78%) pytest
14 13 (2.58%) CSS
14 13 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (2.38%) ActiveMQ
16 11 (2.18%) PySpark
17 10 (1.98%) Flask
17 10 (1.98%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 93 (18.45%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.95%) Replication
3 25 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.18%) CSOC
7 11 (2.18%) Security Operations Centre
8 8 (1.59%) NHS
9 7 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.79%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.79%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.66%) Linux
2 35 (6.94%) Windows
3 29 (5.75%) Amazon Linux
4 28 (5.56%) VMS
5 13 (2.58%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.59%) Unix
8 6 (1.19%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.20%) AIX
10 1 (0.20%) Android
10 1 (0.20%) CentOS
10 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.20%) Solaris
10 1 (0.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (52.58%) CI/CD
2 216 (42.86%) DevOps
3 162 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 136 (26.98%) Agile
5 121 (24.01%) Containerisation
6 90 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (17.46%) Data Pipeline
8 86 (17.06%) ETL
9 80 (15.87%) Data Modelling
10 79 (15.67%) Microservices
11 76 (15.08%) Data Engineering
12 69 (13.69%) Analytics
13 65 (12.90%) Migration
14 63 (12.50%) Mentoring
15 55 (10.91%) Observability
16 54 (10.71%) Configuration Management
17 53 (10.52%) Cloud Security
17 53 (10.52%) Infrastructure Automation
18 52 (10.32%) Software Engineering
19 49 (9.72%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 303 (60.12%) Python
2 167 (33.13%) SQL
3 101 (20.04%) Java
4 62 (12.30%) Bash
5 54 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 51 (10.12%) JavaScript
7 40 (7.94%) PowerShell
8 27 (5.36%) Groovy
9 20 (3.97%) Go
10 15 (2.98%) Perl
10 15 (2.98%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.18%) Scala
12 6 (1.19%) JSX
12 6 (1.19%) Korn
13 5 (0.99%) C#
14 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.60%) Bicep
15 3 (0.60%) C
16 2 (0.40%) CodeQL
16 2 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 171 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 144 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 74 (14.68%) AWS Certification
4 36 (7.14%) Degree
5 32 (6.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.77%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.98%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.60%) CISSP
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PhD
13 1 (0.20%) RHCE
13 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.95%) QA
3 26 (5.16%) GDPR
4 10 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.79%) NIST
6 4 (0.79%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.60%) WCAG
8 2 (0.40%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) GxP
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 183 (36.31%) Docker
2 25 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 22 (4.37%) DFS Replication
4 16 (3.17%) Postfix
5 12 (2.38%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) etcd
7 1 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 231 (45.83%) Terraform
2 110 (21.83%) Kubernetes
3 71 (14.09%) Ansible
4 65 (12.90%) Grafana
5 59 (11.71%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.57%) Progress Chef
7 16 (3.17%) Puppet
8 13 (2.58%) Argo
9 12 (2.38%) Nessus
10 10 (1.98%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.59%) Istio
12 5 (0.99%) Kibana
12 5 (0.99%) Packer
13 4 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.60%) NetBackup
15 2 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 32 (6.35%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.95%) ServiceNow
3 27 (5.36%) Databricks
3 27 (5.36%) Splunk
4 24 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 23 (4.56%) CheckPoint
5 23 (4.56%) F5
6 17 (3.37%) Oracle
7 16 (3.17%) Jaspersoft
8 12 (2.38%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.79%) IBM
10 8 (1.59%) Cloudera
11 7 (1.39%) CA Agile Central
12 6 (1.19%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.19%) Google
12 6 (1.19%) PagerDuty
12 6 (1.19%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.19%) StreamSets
13 5 (0.99%) Dell
13 5 (0.99%) Zscaler