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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 214 289
Rank change year-on-year +36 +75 -36
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 491 364 323
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.17% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.15% 3.23% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 244 251
10th Percentile £387 £400 £400
25th Percentile £441 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -6.11%
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 0
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - -
Median hourly rate £46.25 - -
75th Percentile £50.94 - -
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - -

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 11,844 11,252 13,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.51% 36.05% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,062 7,474 9,888
10th Percentile £305 £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 £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 156 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% +24.53% +17.78%
75th Percentile £50.88 £58.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +21.13%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +27 296 £575 - 93
North of England -19 61 £500 - 29
Midlands +16 59 £475 +1.06% 14
West Midlands +12 50 £475 -24.00% 12
Yorkshire -16 37 £500 -4.76% 10
South East +7 28 £419 -32.32% 39
South West +8 18 £575 -4.17% 28
North West -28 18 £463 -3.65% 15
East of England -2 16 £475 -5.00%
East Midlands -10 9 £434 -2.96% 2
North East -4 7 £500 -18.03% 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 42 (8.55%) Apache Airflow
1 42 (8.55%) Confluence
2 36 (7.33%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.87%) Apache
4 14 (2.85%) nginx
5 5 (1.02%) CMS
5 5 (1.02%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.02%) SAS
6 3 (0.61%) Traefik
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) CICS
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Actimize
1 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.20%) Finacle
1 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 481 (97.96%) AWS
2 265 (53.97%) Serverless
3 261 (53.16%) AWS Lambda
4 202 (41.14%) Amazon EC2
5 165 (33.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 117 (23.83%) GitHub
7 112 (22.81%) Amazon ECS
8 108 (22.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 103 (20.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 76 (15.48%) GitHub Actions
11 75 (15.27%) Azure
12 57 (11.61%) Amazon EKS
13 48 (9.78%) Amazon ELB
14 42 (8.55%) AWS Step Functions
15 40 (8.15%) Snowflake
16 37 (7.54%) Amazon EMR
17 36 (7.33%) Amazon Kinesis
18 33 (6.72%) dbt
19 32 (6.52%) AWS KMS
19 32 (6.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 57 (11.61%) DNS
2 55 (11.20%) Firewall
3 35 (7.13%) VPN
4 26 (5.30%) SSH
4 26 (5.30%) SSL
4 26 (5.30%) TCP/IP
5 23 (4.68%) SMTP
6 21 (4.28%) FTP
6 21 (4.28%) HTTP
6 21 (4.28%) Network Security
7 17 (3.46%) OpenLDAP
8 12 (2.44%) IMAP
9 6 (1.22%) DHCP
10 4 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.61%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.41%) Calico
12 2 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.41%) VSAN
13 1 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
13 1 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (31.98%) Amazon RDS
2 105 (21.38%) PostgreSQL
3 78 (15.89%) DynamoDB
4 67 (13.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 58 (11.81%) Amazon Athena
6 51 (10.39%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (9.98%) Relational Database
8 30 (6.11%) Amazon Aurora
9 29 (5.91%) Data Lake
10 22 (4.48%) Amazon QuickSight
11 20 (4.07%) Big Data
11 20 (4.07%) NoSQL
11 20 (4.07%) SQL Server
12 19 (3.87%) MongoDB
12 19 (3.87%) RDBMS
13 18 (3.67%) MySQL
14 16 (3.26%) Power BI
15 15 (3.05%) Metadata
16 12 (2.44%) Hadoop
16 12 (2.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 117 (23.83%) Jenkins
2 109 (22.20%) Git
3 78 (15.89%) GitLab
4 53 (10.79%) JIRA
5 23 (4.68%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.44%) JUnit
6 12 (2.44%) Maven
7 10 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.83%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.83%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.43%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.81%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.61%) Gradle
11 3 (0.61%) MLflow
11 3 (0.61%) Postman
11 3 (0.61%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.41%) DbUnit
12 2 (0.41%) jMock
12 2 (0.41%) Mockito
12 2 (0.41%) SoapUI
General
1 134 (27.29%) Social Skills
2 76 (15.48%) Public Sector
3 72 (14.66%) Finance
4 50 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.87%) Front Office
6 17 (3.46%) Banking
7 16 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.83%) Military
10 7 (1.43%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.61%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.61%) Marketing
11 3 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Legal
12 2 (0.41%) Publishing
12 2 (0.41%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 114 (23.22%) AWS Engineer
2 88 (17.92%) Senior
3 86 (17.52%) Developer
4 84 (17.11%) Data Engineer
5 79 (16.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 47 (9.57%) AWS DevOps
7 46 (9.37%) Architect
8 44 (8.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 37 (7.54%) Platform Engineer
10 33 (6.72%) Lead
11 29 (5.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.30%) AWS Developer
13 25 (5.09%) Software Engineer
14 24 (4.89%) AWS Data Engineer
15 23 (4.68%) Java Developer
16 22 (4.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 21 (4.28%) Senior Data Engineer
18 19 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
19 18 (3.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 17 (3.46%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (12.22%) Kafka
2 58 (11.81%) Node.js
3 50 (10.18%) React
4 45 (9.16%) REST
5 33 (6.72%) RESTful
5 33 (6.72%) Spring
6 28 (5.70%) Spring Boot
7 24 (4.89%) AWS CDK
8 21 (4.28%) GraphQL
9 20 (4.07%) AngularJS
9 20 (4.07%) Jest
9 20 (4.07%) LDAP
9 20 (4.07%) OAuth
10 15 (3.05%) CSS
11 14 (2.85%) pytest
12 13 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (2.65%) PySpark
13 11 (2.24%) Sass
14 10 (2.04%) Flask
14 10 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (18.94%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.91%) Replication
3 25 (5.09%) Data Protection Act
4 23 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.05%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.63%) NHS
7 7 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.22%) CSOC
8 6 (1.22%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.81%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.81%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.11%) Linux
2 33 (6.72%) Windows
3 28 (5.70%) Amazon Linux
4 27 (5.50%) VMS
5 13 (2.65%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.63%) Unix
8 6 (1.22%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.41%) 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
1 269 (54.79%) CI/CD
2 211 (42.97%) DevOps
3 168 (34.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (27.09%) Agile
5 118 (24.03%) Containerisation
6 87 (17.72%) ETL
7 86 (17.52%) Data Pipeline
8 84 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (16.09%) Data Modelling
10 78 (15.89%) Microservices
11 76 (15.48%) Data Engineering
12 67 (13.65%) Analytics
13 65 (13.24%) Migration
14 59 (12.02%) Mentoring
15 55 (11.20%) Software Engineering
16 54 (11.00%) Configuration Management
16 54 (11.00%) Infrastructure Automation
16 54 (11.00%) Observability
17 50 (10.18%) Cloud Security
17 50 (10.18%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 296 (60.29%) Python
2 163 (33.20%) SQL
3 99 (20.16%) Java
4 64 (13.03%) Bash
5 58 (11.81%) TypeScript
6 45 (9.16%) JavaScript
7 39 (7.94%) PowerShell
8 27 (5.50%) Groovy
9 21 (4.28%) Go
10 14 (2.85%) Perl
11 13 (2.65%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.63%) Scala
13 7 (1.43%) C#
14 6 (1.22%) JSX
14 6 (1.22%) Korn
15 4 (0.81%) C
15 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.61%) Bicep
17 2 (0.41%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 167 (34.01%) Security Cleared
2 139 (28.31%) SC Cleared
3 70 (14.26%) AWS Certification
4 34 (6.92%) Degree
5 29 (5.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.87%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.04%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.41%) CISSP
13 1 (0.20%) CCNP
13 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.20%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PhD
13 1 (0.20%) RHCE
13 1 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.16%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.91%) QA
3 27 (5.50%) GDPR
4 11 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.04%) NIST
6 4 (0.81%) NCSC
7 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.61%) WCAG
8 2 (0.41%) MiFID
8 2 (0.41%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) GxP
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 179 (36.46%) Docker
2 24 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.28%) DFS Replication
4 14 (2.85%) Postfix
5 12 (2.44%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.44%) Squid
6 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) etcd
7 1 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.20%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 234 (47.66%) Terraform
2 108 (22.00%) Kubernetes
3 71 (14.46%) Ansible
4 63 (12.83%) Grafana
5 57 (11.61%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.67%) Progress Chef
7 17 (3.46%) Puppet
8 13 (2.65%) Argo
9 12 (2.44%) Nessus
10 10 (2.04%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.63%) Istio
12 5 (1.02%) Kibana
12 5 (1.02%) Packer
13 4 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.61%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.61%) NetBackup
15 2 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 34 (6.92%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.91%) ServiceNow
3 28 (5.70%) Databricks
4 24 (4.89%) Palo Alto
5 23 (4.68%) CheckPoint
5 23 (4.68%) F5
5 23 (4.68%) Splunk
6 16 (3.26%) Oracle
7 14 (2.85%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.83%) Atlassian
8 9 (1.83%) IBM
9 8 (1.63%) Cloudera
10 7 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
10 7 (1.43%) Google
10 7 (1.43%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.22%) StreamSets
12 5 (1.02%) Dell
12 5 (1.02%) Zscaler