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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 170 237
Rank change year-on-year -53 +67 +67
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 580 463 330
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 1.65% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.62% 4.32% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 325 219
10th Percentile £394 £377 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £653
90th Percentile £751 £728 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.34% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £58.15 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% - -
75th Percentile £72.66 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.86 £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £62.45 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +35.03% - -

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 16,031 10,713 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.23% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,669 7,252 7,558
10th Percentile £321 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 253 165
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.30 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -9 387 £586 +5.52% 345
North of England -60 72 £463 -7.50% 93
Midlands -48 58 £466 -1.95% 41
West Midlands -43 47 £475 - 16
South West -17 33 £466 -15.23% 62
North West -45 30 £450 -10.00% 54
North East -27 22 £419 -1.47% 17
Yorkshire -47 20 £500 -3.61% 23
South East -69 20 £575 +38.55% 56
East Midlands -13 10 £405 -17.97% 25
East of England -43 6 £350 -41.67% 37
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 67 (11.55%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (10.52%) Confluence
3 57 (9.83%) Apache
4 54 (9.31%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.41%) SAS
6 9 (1.55%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.38%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (1.21%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.86%) nginx
10 4 (0.69%) Traefik
11 2 (0.34%) CMS
11 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.34%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.34%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.17%) Mule
12 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.17%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 562 (96.90%) AWS
2 344 (59.31%) Serverless
3 341 (58.79%) AWS Lambda
4 191 (32.93%) Amazon EC2
5 180 (31.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 137 (23.62%) GitHub
7 125 (21.55%) Amazon ECS
7 125 (21.55%) Amazon EKS
8 110 (18.97%) GitHub Actions
9 103 (17.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 102 (17.59%) Azure
11 89 (15.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 77 (13.28%) Amazon SQS
13 71 (12.24%) Snowflake
14 68 (11.72%) Amazon EMR
14 68 (11.72%) dbt
15 58 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
16 56 (9.66%) Power Platform
17 43 (7.41%) AWS KMS
18 41 (7.07%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.76%) Firewall
2 14 (2.41%) DNS
3 11 (1.90%) Network Security
4 6 (1.03%) SSL
5 5 (0.86%) HTTP
6 4 (0.69%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.69%) SAN
6 4 (0.69%) WAN
7 3 (0.52%) CTI
7 3 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.52%) VPN
8 2 (0.34%) FTP
8 2 (0.34%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.34%) Internet
8 2 (0.34%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.34%) NAS
8 2 (0.34%) SMTP
8 2 (0.34%) SSH
8 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (27.24%) Amazon RDS
2 113 (19.48%) Amazon Athena
3 107 (18.45%) DynamoDB
4 95 (16.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 85 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (13.28%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (9.66%) Power BI
8 51 (8.79%) Data Lake
9 40 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 40 (6.90%) Metadata
10 34 (5.86%) MongoDB
11 27 (4.66%) Big Data
12 25 (4.31%) Tableau
13 24 (4.14%) NoSQL
13 24 (4.14%) SQL Server
14 22 (3.79%) Apache Iceberg
15 21 (3.62%) Delta Lake
16 19 (3.28%) Relational Database
17 18 (3.10%) BigQuery
18 17 (2.93%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 125 (21.55%) GitLab
2 123 (21.21%) Git
3 106 (18.28%) Jenkins
4 57 (9.83%) JIRA
5 24 (4.14%) Bitbucket
6 16 (2.76%) Maven
7 12 (2.07%) JUnit
7 12 (2.07%) Mockito
8 11 (1.90%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.72%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.55%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.03%) Postman
11 6 (1.03%) Selenium
11 6 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.86%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.86%) DbUnit
13 4 (0.69%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (0.69%) Gradle
13 4 (0.69%) jMock
General
1 151 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 118 (20.34%) Public Sector
3 112 (19.31%) Finance
4 56 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (7.41%) Banking
6 16 (2.76%) Front Office
7 15 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.24%) Back Office
9 10 (1.72%) Military
10 8 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.21%) Law
11 7 (1.21%) Legal
12 6 (1.03%) Publishing
13 5 (0.86%) Billing
13 5 (0.86%) Marketing
13 5 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.69%) Police
14 4 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 150 (25.86%) Data Engineer
2 111 (19.14%) Senior
3 90 (15.52%) AWS Engineer
4 84 (14.48%) Developer
5 75 (12.93%) Lead
6 71 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 59 (10.17%) Architect
8 50 (8.62%) Senior Data Engineer
9 37 (6.38%) AWS Data Engineer
10 29 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
11 27 (4.66%) Java Developer
12 24 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
13 23 (3.97%) AWS Architect
14 22 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 22 (3.79%) Snowflake Engineer
14 22 (3.79%) Technical Leader
15 21 (3.62%) Data Architect
15 21 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
15 21 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (50.52%) Terraform
2 80 (13.79%) REST
3 78 (13.45%) Kafka
4 60 (10.34%) PySpark
5 47 (8.10%) RESTful
5 47 (8.10%) Spring Boot
6 45 (7.76%) Spring
7 42 (7.24%) React
8 27 (4.66%) Node.js
9 25 (4.31%) FastAPI
10 24 (4.14%) AngularJS
11 23 (3.97%) GraphQL
12 21 (3.62%) SOAP
13 19 (3.28%) AWS CDK
13 19 (3.28%) JSON
14 15 (2.59%) .NET
15 13 (2.24%) ActiveMQ
15 13 (2.24%) JPA
15 13 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
16 12 (2.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 161 (27.76%) Cloud Native
2 54 (9.31%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.28%) NHS
5 17 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.41%) Replication
8 13 (2.24%) Security Posture
9 11 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.21%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.21%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.21%) Legacy Code
13 7 (1.21%) Mainframe
14 6 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.03%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 83 (14.31%) Linux
2 20 (3.45%) Unix
2 20 (3.45%) Windows
3 14 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.72%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.21%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.69%) AIX
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.34%) Android
8 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (66.72%) CI/CD
2 274 (47.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 257 (44.31%) DevOps
4 215 (37.07%) Agile
5 168 (28.97%) Data Engineering
6 156 (26.90%) Data Pipeline
7 127 (21.90%) Analytics
8 121 (20.86%) Observability
9 119 (20.52%) Data Modelling
10 114 (19.66%) AI
10 114 (19.66%) Containerisation
11 106 (18.28%) ETL
12 103 (17.76%) Test Automation
13 99 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 91 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
15 88 (15.17%) Event-Driven
15 88 (15.17%) Migration
16 84 (14.48%) Microservices
17 80 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
18 79 (13.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 336 (57.93%) Python
2 237 (40.86%) SQL
3 93 (16.03%) Java
4 62 (10.69%) Bash
5 49 (8.45%) TypeScript
6 36 (6.21%) JavaScript
7 27 (4.66%) PowerShell
8 21 (3.62%) C#
9 20 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.28%) Scala
11 17 (2.93%) Groovy
12 10 (1.72%) Bicep
13 9 (1.55%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.21%) Go
14 7 (1.21%) Perl
15 4 (0.69%) Cypher
15 4 (0.69%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.69%) R
15 4 (0.69%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 206 (35.52%) Security Cleared
2 185 (31.90%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.79%) AWS Certification
4 31 (5.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 30 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (5.17%) Degree
6 22 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (2.24%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.55%) CISM
10 9 (1.55%) CISSP
11 8 (1.38%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (18.45%) Data Quality
2 43 (7.41%) QA
3 11 (1.90%) GDPR
3 11 (1.90%) NIST
4 10 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.03%) HL7
6 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.52%) SLA
7 2 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.34%) NCSC
7 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.17%) GLBA
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 194 (33.45%) Docker
2 16 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.86%) Postfix
4 4 (0.69%) Squid
5 2 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.34%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.34%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) HDFS
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 120 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 86 (14.83%) Grafana
3 53 (9.14%) Prometheus
4 46 (7.93%) Ansible
5 18 (3.10%) Argo
6 13 (2.24%) Puppet
7 10 (1.72%) Istio
7 10 (1.72%) Kibana
8 9 (1.55%) Karpenter
9 8 (1.38%) Packer
10 4 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.69%) Salt
11 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.52%) systemd
12 2 (0.34%) Consul
12 2 (0.34%) Control-M
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.34%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (9.14%) Databricks
2 46 (7.93%) Oracle
3 45 (7.76%) Microsoft
4 24 (4.14%) Informatica
5 18 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.93%) Splunk
7 15 (2.59%) Dynatrace
8 14 (2.41%) Google
8 14 (2.41%) Teradata
9 11 (1.90%) Confluent
10 10 (1.72%) Denodo
11 8 (1.38%) Brio
11 8 (1.38%) Foundry
11 8 (1.38%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.38%) Palantir
11 8 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.21%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.21%) SnapLogic
13 6 (1.03%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.03%) Red Hat