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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 187 258
Rank change year-on-year -4 +71 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 559 345 337
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.38% 1.41% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.89% 3.80% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 269 253
10th Percentile £356 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £614 £624 £613
90th Percentile £703 £775 £735
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 14,359 9,084 11,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.33% 37.23% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 6,352 8,496
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 198 318
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +71.08% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.07 £41.85 £32.31
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.88 £61.72
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.78% +30.95% -40.00%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +25 385 £550 - 77
Midlands -25 66 £475 -2.56% 10
West Midlands -11 62 £475 -5.00% 8
North of England -52 49 £500 +2.56% 41
South East -33 30 £569 +12.62% 28
North West -40 25 £475 +2.70% 24
South West -25 17 £450 -18.18% 21
Yorkshire -56 15 £500 -4.76% 13
North East -14 9 £475 -23.91% 4
East of England -30 7 £450 -10.00% 10
East Midlands -30 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 63 (11.27%) Apache Spark
2 56 (10.02%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (7.87%) Confluence
4 38 (6.80%) 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
9 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.97%) 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
1 557 (99.64%) AWS
2 346 (61.90%) Serverless
3 336 (60.11%) AWS Lambda
4 201 (35.96%) Amazon EC2
5 141 (25.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 128 (22.90%) Amazon ECS
7 121 (21.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 110 (19.68%) Amazon EKS
9 106 (18.96%) GitHub
9 106 (18.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 94 (16.82%) Azure
11 78 (13.95%) Amazon SQS
11 78 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
12 70 (12.52%) AWS Step Functions
13 62 (11.09%) Snowflake
14 54 (9.66%) dbt
15 51 (9.12%) Power Platform
16 48 (8.59%) GCP
17 47 (8.41%) Amazon Kinesis
18 45 (8.05%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.83%) DNS
2 20 (3.58%) Firewall
3 15 (2.68%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.50%) VPN
5 12 (2.15%) Network Security
6 11 (1.97%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.54%) BGP
8 3 (0.54%) OSPF
9 2 (0.36%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.36%) Multicast
9 2 (0.36%) NAS
9 2 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.36%) SSL
9 2 (0.36%) VLAN
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) 4G
10 1 (0.18%) 5G
10 1 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (25.22%) Amazon RDS
2 108 (19.32%) Amazon Athena
3 94 (16.82%) PostgreSQL
4 93 (16.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 88 (15.74%) DynamoDB
6 51 (9.12%) Power BI
7 50 (8.94%) Data Lake
8 46 (8.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (6.44%) NoSQL
11 34 (6.08%) Relational Database
12 31 (5.55%) Tableau
13 30 (5.37%) SQL Server
14 28 (5.01%) Metadata
15 24 (4.29%) Big Data
15 24 (4.29%) BigQuery
16 23 (4.11%) OLTP
17 22 (3.94%) Apache Iceberg
18 21 (3.76%) MongoDB
19 19 (3.40%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 127 (22.72%) Jenkins
2 112 (20.04%) Git
3 111 (19.86%) GitLab
4 55 (9.84%) JIRA
5 26 (4.65%) Bitbucket
6 25 (4.47%) SonarQube
7 24 (4.29%) JUnit
8 23 (4.11%) 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%) Gradle
14 5 (0.89%) Selenium
15 4 (0.72%) Postman
15 4 (0.72%) Terragrunt
16 3 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 144 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 106 (18.96%) Finance
3 93 (16.64%) Public Sector
4 57 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.83%) Banking
6 20 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.68%) Front Office
8 14 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.89%) Military
10 4 (0.72%) 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%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.36%) Law
12 2 (0.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 138 (24.69%) Data Engineer
2 116 (20.75%) Developer
3 78 (13.95%) AWS Engineer
4 73 (13.06%) Architect
5 71 (12.70%) Senior
6 64 (11.45%) Lead
7 39 (6.98%) Java Developer
8 36 (6.44%) DevOps Engineer
9 33 (5.90%) AWS Architect
9 33 (5.90%) AWS Data Engineer
10 30 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
12 27 (4.83%) AWS Developer
13 26 (4.65%) Data Architect
13 26 (4.65%) Site Engineer
14 24 (4.29%) Lead Data Engineer
14 24 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 23 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
16 22 (3.94%) Analyst
17 21 (3.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (19.14%) Kafka
2 75 (13.42%) Spring
2 75 (13.42%) Spring Boot
3 59 (10.55%) RESTful
4 54 (9.66%) Node.js
5 48 (8.59%) React
6 47 (8.41%) REST
7 45 (8.05%) PySpark
8 36 (6.44%) AngularJS
9 24 (4.29%) OAuth
9 24 (4.29%) OpenID
10 21 (3.76%) SOAP
11 19 (3.40%) AWS CDK
11 19 (3.40%) Hibernate
11 19 (3.40%) JPA
11 19 (3.40%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (3.40%) Web Services
12 16 (2.86%) FastAPI
12 16 (2.86%) Great Expectations
12 16 (2.86%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 141 (25.22%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 10 (1.79%) NHS
5 9 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.07%) Clustering
8 6 (1.07%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.07%) Hedge funds
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%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (0.89%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.72%) Derivative
10 4 (0.72%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 75 (13.42%) Linux
2 19 (3.40%) Unix
3 10 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.72%) 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
1 318 (56.89%) CI/CD
2 230 (41.14%) DevOps
3 196 (35.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (30.23%) Agile
5 134 (23.97%) Analytics
6 128 (22.90%) Containerisation
6 128 (22.90%) ETL
7 126 (22.54%) Data Modelling
8 123 (22.00%) Data Engineering
9 107 (19.14%) Data Pipeline
10 97 (17.35%) Microservices
11 86 (15.38%) Observability
12 78 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
13 74 (13.24%) AI
14 68 (12.16%) Test Automation
15 67 (11.99%) Event-Driven
16 66 (11.81%) Migration
17 61 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
17 61 (10.91%) Performance Tuning
17 61 (10.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 318 (56.89%) Python
2 223 (39.89%) SQL
3 127 (22.72%) Java
4 53 (9.48%) TypeScript
5 46 (8.23%) C#
6 43 (7.69%) Bash
7 39 (6.98%) JavaScript
8 27 (4.83%) Shell Script
9 20 (3.58%) PowerShell
10 19 (3.40%) Scala
11 11 (1.97%) Go
12 7 (1.25%) Bicep
13 6 (1.07%) Groovy
13 6 (1.07%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.72%) 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
1 192 (34.35%) Security Cleared
2 158 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.80%) AWS Certification
4 18 (3.22%) Degree
5 12 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.97%) Azure Certification
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 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.72%) 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 73 (13.06%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.47%) GDPR
3 21 (3.76%) 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 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 185 (33.09%) 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
1 253 (45.26%) Terraform
2 131 (23.43%) Kubernetes
3 87 (15.56%) Grafana
4 60 (10.73%) Prometheus
5 45 (8.05%) Ansible
6 18 (3.22%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.68%) Puppet
8 12 (2.15%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.79%) Kibana
10 9 (1.61%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.43%) Consul
12 4 (0.72%) Argo
12 4 (0.72%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.72%) Salt
13 3 (0.54%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.54%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 62 (11.09%) Databricks
2 37 (6.62%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.65%) 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
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
10 9 (1.61%) PagerDuty
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%) Sybase