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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 177 241
Rank change year-on-year +1 +64 +43
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 579 361 351
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.48% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.10% 3.93% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 277 268
10th Percentile £356 £400 £394
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £625
90th Percentile £692 £788 £729
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -0.48% +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 14,115 9,184 11,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.01% 37.65% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,742 6,440 8,523
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 187 318
10th Percentile £15.77 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £43.61 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +64.57% +27.59% -24.47%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.49 £32.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.20 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +47.78% +31.05% -30.91%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 +15 396 £525 -8.70% 57
Midlands -21 62 £475 +5.56% 6
West Midlands -19 56 £494 -3.66% 4
North of England -47 56 £500 +5.26% 34
South East -37 27 £540 -11.29% 21
North West -36 26 £450 +5.88% 24
South West -10 24 £525 -3.89% 8
Yorkshire -41 22 £500 -4.76% 8
North East -15 8 £538 -13.90% 2
East of England -26 6 £463 -7.50% 9
East Midlands -30 6 £433 +6.66% 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 67 (11.57%) Apache Spark
2 61 (10.54%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (7.08%) Apache
4 30 (5.18%) Confluence
5 10 (1.73%) nginx
5 10 (1.73%) SAS
6 3 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 577 (99.65%) AWS
2 355 (61.31%) Serverless
3 345 (59.59%) AWS Lambda
4 214 (36.96%) Amazon EC2
5 149 (25.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 137 (23.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 129 (22.28%) Amazon ECS
8 114 (19.69%) GitHub
9 107 (18.48%) Amazon EKS
9 107 (18.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 99 (17.10%) Azure
11 79 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
12 75 (12.95%) Amazon SQS
13 66 (11.40%) AWS Step Functions
14 59 (10.19%) Snowflake
15 55 (9.50%) GCP
16 52 (8.98%) Route 53
17 50 (8.64%) Power Platform
18 47 (8.12%) dbt
19 46 (7.94%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.84%) DNS
2 23 (3.97%) Firewall
3 16 (2.76%) VPN
4 14 (2.42%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.07%) Network Security
6 11 (1.90%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.52%) BGP
8 3 (0.52%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.52%) OSPF
9 2 (0.35%) Multicast
9 2 (0.35%) NAS
9 2 (0.35%) SAN
9 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.35%) VLAN
9 2 (0.35%) WAN
10 1 (0.17%) 4G
10 1 (0.17%) 5G
10 1 (0.17%) AMQP
10 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (26.25%) Amazon RDS
2 109 (18.83%) Amazon Athena
3 100 (17.27%) PostgreSQL
4 95 (16.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 89 (15.37%) DynamoDB
6 52 (8.98%) Data Lake
7 50 (8.64%) Power BI
8 47 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
9 45 (7.77%) Relational Database
10 40 (6.91%) Amazon Aurora
11 37 (6.39%) NoSQL
12 35 (6.04%) Tableau
13 29 (5.01%) MongoDB
14 28 (4.84%) SQL Server
15 26 (4.49%) BigQuery
16 25 (4.32%) Metadata
17 24 (4.15%) Big Data
17 24 (4.15%) OLTP
18 21 (3.63%) OLAP
19 18 (3.11%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 130 (22.45%) Jenkins
2 113 (19.52%) Git
3 106 (18.31%) GitLab
4 41 (7.08%) JIRA
5 26 (4.49%) JUnit
6 24 (4.15%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.97%) Maven
8 22 (3.80%) Bitbucket
9 17 (2.94%) Mockito
10 13 (2.25%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.73%) DbUnit
11 10 (1.73%) jMock
12 8 (1.38%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (1.38%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.21%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.04%) Gradle
15 4 (0.69%) Postman
15 4 (0.69%) Selenium
15 4 (0.69%) Terragrunt
15 4 (0.69%) Vite
General
1 146 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 105 (18.13%) Finance
3 93 (16.06%) Public Sector
4 65 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.35%) Banking
6 24 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.42%) Front Office
8 13 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.86%) Military
10 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.52%) Legal
11 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.35%) Games
12 2 (0.35%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.35%) Law
12 2 (0.35%) Local Government
12 2 (0.35%) Police
12 2 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 143 (24.70%) Data Engineer
2 117 (20.21%) Developer
3 83 (14.34%) AWS Engineer
4 70 (12.09%) Senior
5 65 (11.23%) Architect
6 62 (10.71%) Lead
7 43 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 42 (7.25%) Java Developer
9 33 (5.70%) AWS Architect
10 31 (5.35%) AWS Data Engineer
10 31 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (5.01%) Site Engineer
12 28 (4.84%) AWS Developer
12 28 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 27 (4.66%) Lead Data Engineer
14 25 (4.32%) Analyst
14 25 (4.32%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
16 21 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
17 20 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (19.86%) Kafka
2 77 (13.30%) Spring
2 77 (13.30%) Spring Boot
3 64 (11.05%) Node.js
4 59 (10.19%) RESTful
5 48 (8.29%) React
6 45 (7.77%) REST
7 42 (7.25%) PySpark
8 37 (6.39%) AngularJS
9 32 (5.53%) OAuth
10 22 (3.80%) OpenID
11 21 (3.63%) AWS CDK
11 21 (3.63%) CSS
12 20 (3.45%) SOAP
13 18 (3.11%) Great Expectations
13 18 (3.11%) Hibernate
13 18 (3.11%) JPA
13 18 (3.11%) Spring Cloud
13 18 (3.11%) Web Services
14 16 (2.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (24.01%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (5.35%) Product Ownership
4 11 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (1.90%) NHS
5 9 (1.55%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.21%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.04%) Clustering
7 6 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.04%) SCADA
8 5 (0.86%) PACS
8 5 (0.86%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (0.86%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.69%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.69%) Derivative
9 4 (0.69%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 78 (13.47%) Linux
2 21 (3.63%) Unix
3 14 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.86%) Windows
5 4 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Android
6 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.35%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (57.34%) CI/CD
2 232 (40.07%) DevOps
3 218 (37.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 163 (28.15%) Agile
5 138 (23.83%) Analytics
6 137 (23.66%) ETL
7 131 (22.63%) Containerisation
8 126 (21.76%) Data Modelling
9 125 (21.59%) Data Engineering
10 110 (19.00%) Data Pipeline
11 100 (17.27%) Microservices
12 90 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
13 87 (15.03%) Observability
14 71 (12.26%) AI
15 68 (11.74%) Migration
16 65 (11.23%) Performance Tuning
17 63 (10.88%) Data Governance
18 60 (10.36%) Business Intelligence
18 60 (10.36%) Software Engineering
18 60 (10.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 323 (55.79%) Python
2 234 (40.41%) SQL
3 132 (22.80%) Java
4 55 (9.50%) TypeScript
5 51 (8.81%) Bash
6 44 (7.60%) JavaScript
7 43 (7.43%) C#
8 31 (5.35%) Shell Script
9 20 (3.45%) Scala
10 19 (3.28%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.07%) Go
12 6 (1.04%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.86%) Bicep
14 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.52%) C
15 3 (0.52%) C++
15 3 (0.52%) JSX
15 3 (0.52%) Korn
15 3 (0.52%) R
16 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 204 (35.23%) Security Cleared
2 165 (28.50%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.43%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.76%) Degree
6 15 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.52%) OCP
11 3 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.52%) PhD
11 3 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.52%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.70%) GDPR
3 22 (3.80%) QA
4 13 (2.25%) NIST
5 12 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.38%) SLA
8 7 (1.21%) PMO
9 5 (0.86%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.35%) WCAG
12 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) GxP
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
12 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 197 (34.02%) Docker
2 10 (1.73%) Squid
3 9 (1.55%) Postfix
4 7 (1.21%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.52%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 278 (48.01%) Terraform
2 147 (25.39%) Kubernetes
3 82 (14.16%) Grafana
4 62 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 61 (10.54%) Ansible
6 17 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.59%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.59%) Puppet
8 13 (2.25%) Kibana
9 9 (1.55%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.21%) Consul
10 7 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (1.04%) Argo
12 5 (0.86%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (0.86%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.69%) Istio
13 4 (0.69%) Salt
14 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.52%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 63 (10.88%) Databricks
2 39 (6.74%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.70%) Splunk
4 29 (5.01%) Google
5 19 (3.28%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.94%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.25%) Jaspersoft
7 13 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.07%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.07%) Oracle
9 9 (1.55%) Confluent
9 9 (1.55%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.21%) Dell
10 7 (1.21%) Informatica
10 7 (1.21%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.21%) Sybase
11 6 (1.04%) AVEVA
11 6 (1.04%) Denodo
11 6 (1.04%) IBM
12 5 (0.86%) Ab Initio