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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 196 256
Rank change year-on-year +3 +60 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 515 340 344
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.31% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.93% 3.49% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 244 272
10th Percentile £358 £405 £383
25th Percentile £432 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £615 £688 £628
90th Percentile £688 £788 £736
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £522
% change year-on-year -1.23% +0.53% -8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 13,090 9,729 12,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.57% 37.49% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,022 6,531 9,016
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 147 309
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.44 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.14
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.28 £74.45 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £37.25 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.45% +25.00% -12.00%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +15 337 £525 -8.70% 86
North of England -23 67 £500 - 43
Midlands -23 54 £500 +11.11% 21
West Midlands -15 47 £500 -9.09% 18
Yorkshire -38 32 £500 -4.76% 19
North West -11 27 £450 -5.26% 21
South East -17 25 £528 -17.25% 28
South West -6 17 £531 -5.62% 18
East of England -17 9 £475 -1.30% 5
North East -13 8 £450 -26.23% 3
East Midlands -28 7 £417 -6.02% 3
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 47 (9.13%) Apache Spark
2 32 (6.21%) Apache
2 32 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (6.21%) Confluence
3 12 (2.33%) nginx
4 5 (0.97%) SAS
5 3 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.58%) Traefik
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.17%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Actimize
1 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 512 (99.42%) AWS
2 312 (60.58%) Serverless
3 303 (58.83%) AWS Lambda
4 208 (40.39%) Amazon EC2
5 148 (28.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 123 (23.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 119 (23.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 112 (21.75%) Amazon ECS
9 99 (19.22%) Amazon EKS
9 99 (19.22%) GitHub
10 93 (18.06%) Azure
11 74 (14.37%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (10.29%) AWS Step Functions
13 48 (9.32%) GCP
14 46 (8.93%) Amazon Kinesis
15 45 (8.74%) Route 53
16 44 (8.54%) Amazon SQS
16 44 (8.54%) Snowflake
17 35 (6.80%) Amazon EMR
17 35 (6.80%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.35%) DNS
2 38 (7.38%) Firewall
3 30 (5.83%) VPN
4 23 (4.47%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.88%) Network Security
6 13 (2.52%) SSL
7 7 (1.36%) OpenVPN
8 6 (1.17%) FTP
8 6 (1.17%) HTTP
8 6 (1.17%) SMTP
8 6 (1.17%) SSH
9 4 (0.78%) IMAP
9 4 (0.78%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.58%) BGP
11 2 (0.39%) Multicast
11 2 (0.39%) NAS
11 2 (0.39%) OSPF
11 2 (0.39%) SAN
11 2 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (29.13%) Amazon RDS
2 89 (17.28%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (15.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 73 (14.17%) Amazon Athena
5 72 (13.98%) DynamoDB
6 41 (7.96%) Data Lake
7 40 (7.77%) Relational Database
8 35 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (6.80%) Power BI
9 34 (6.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 25 (4.85%) MongoDB
11 24 (4.66%) NoSQL
12 23 (4.47%) BigQuery
13 22 (4.27%) SQL Server
14 21 (4.08%) MySQL
15 20 (3.88%) OLTP
16 19 (3.69%) Tableau
17 17 (3.30%) OLAP
18 15 (2.91%) Mixpanel
19 14 (2.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 121 (23.50%) Jenkins
2 99 (19.22%) GitLab
3 96 (18.64%) Git
4 37 (7.18%) JIRA
5 18 (3.50%) JUnit
6 17 (3.30%) Bitbucket
7 16 (3.11%) Maven
8 14 (2.72%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.75%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.55%) Mockito
11 6 (1.17%) Gradle
11 6 (1.17%) Vagrant
12 5 (0.97%) DbUnit
12 5 (0.97%) jMock
13 4 (0.78%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.78%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.78%) Vite
14 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket Server
14 3 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 143 (27.77%) Social Skills
2 84 (16.31%) Finance
3 82 (15.92%) Public Sector
4 51 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.47%) Banking
6 18 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.33%) Front Office
9 7 (1.36%) Military
10 4 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.58%) Legal
11 3 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.39%) Retail
13 1 (0.19%) Aviation
13 1 (0.19%) Billing
13 1 (0.19%) Games
13 1 (0.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (19.61%) Data Engineer
2 96 (18.64%) Developer
3 81 (15.73%) AWS Engineer
4 64 (12.43%) Architect
5 59 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 57 (11.07%) Senior
7 56 (10.87%) Lead
8 35 (6.80%) Java Developer
9 29 (5.63%) AWS Architect
9 29 (5.63%) AWS Data Engineer
10 27 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
11 25 (4.85%) Software Engineer
12 23 (4.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 23 (4.47%) Lead Data Engineer
12 23 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (4.47%) Site Engineer
13 22 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 21 (4.08%) Analyst
14 21 (4.08%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (20.00%) Kafka
2 63 (12.23%) Spring
2 63 (12.23%) Spring Boot
3 51 (9.90%) Node.js
4 50 (9.71%) RESTful
5 46 (8.93%) React
6 42 (8.16%) REST
7 32 (6.21%) AngularJS
8 27 (5.24%) OAuth
9 23 (4.47%) PySpark
10 22 (4.27%) CSS
11 19 (3.69%) AWS CDK
11 19 (3.69%) Jest
12 16 (3.11%) OpenID
13 15 (2.91%) Great Expectations
14 14 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (2.72%) HTML
15 13 (2.52%) ActiveMQ
15 13 (2.52%) boto
15 13 (2.52%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 127 (24.66%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.52%) Replication
6 11 (2.14%) NHS
7 8 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.17%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.97%) SCADA
11 4 (0.78%) Derivative
11 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.78%) Equities
11 4 (0.78%) PACS
11 4 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.17%) Linux
2 14 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (2.52%) Windows
4 10 (1.94%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (1.75%) Unix
5 9 (1.75%) VMS
6 6 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.39%) zOS
9 1 (0.19%) Android
9 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (58.64%) CI/CD
2 217 (42.14%) DevOps
3 200 (38.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (25.63%) Agile
5 126 (24.47%) Containerisation
6 114 (22.14%) ETL
7 108 (20.97%) Analytics
8 104 (20.19%) Data Engineering
8 104 (20.19%) Data Modelling
9 93 (18.06%) Data Pipeline
10 92 (17.86%) Microservices
11 85 (16.50%) Observability
12 83 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (12.62%) Performance Tuning
14 62 (12.04%) Event-Driven
15 61 (11.84%) Software Engineering
16 58 (11.26%) AI
17 57 (11.07%) Migration
18 56 (10.87%) Data Governance
19 53 (10.29%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 293 (56.89%) Python
2 193 (37.48%) SQL
3 106 (20.58%) Java
4 59 (11.46%) Bash
5 45 (8.74%) TypeScript
6 40 (7.77%) JavaScript
7 26 (5.05%) C#
8 24 (4.66%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.50%) PowerShell
10 17 (3.30%) Go
11 7 (1.36%) Groovy
12 6 (1.17%) JSX
13 5 (0.97%) Korn
13 5 (0.97%) Scala
14 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.58%) C++
15 3 (0.58%) SAS Macro
16 2 (0.39%) C
16 2 (0.39%) Perl
16 2 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 181 (35.15%) Security Cleared
2 148 (28.74%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.32%) AWS Certification
4 21 (4.08%) Degree
4 21 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.58%) OCP
9 3 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.58%) PhD
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) CISSP
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.19%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (11.07%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.99%) GDPR
3 24 (4.66%) QA
4 15 (2.91%) NIST
5 14 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.33%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.78%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.78%) PMO
8 3 (0.58%) NCSC
8 3 (0.58%) SLA
9 2 (0.39%) MiFID
9 2 (0.39%) WCAG
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) GxP
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 185 (35.92%) Docker
2 11 (2.14%) Squid
3 8 (1.55%) Postfix
4 6 (1.17%) DFS Replication
5 5 (0.97%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.78%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.58%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.39%) HDFS
8 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.19%) etcd
9 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 253 (49.13%) Terraform
2 141 (27.38%) Kubernetes
3 74 (14.37%) Ansible
4 66 (12.82%) Grafana
5 62 (12.04%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.50%) Progress Chef
7 17 (3.30%) Puppet
8 15 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.75%) Argo
10 8 (1.55%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.36%) Kibana
11 7 (1.36%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (1.17%) Consul
13 5 (0.97%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.97%) Istio
13 5 (0.97%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.78%) Nessus
14 4 (0.78%) Proxmox
15 3 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 3 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 55 (10.68%) Databricks
2 32 (6.21%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.66%) Google
4 21 (4.08%) Splunk
5 18 (3.50%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.30%) Red Hat
7 16 (3.11%) F5
8 15 (2.91%) Palo Alto
9 14 (2.72%) CheckPoint
10 12 (2.33%) Atlassian
10 12 (2.33%) Oracle
11 10 (1.94%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (1.55%) Confluent
12 8 (1.55%) Dell
12 8 (1.55%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.36%) Sybase
14 6 (1.17%) AVEVA
14 6 (1.17%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.97%) IBM