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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 202 261
Rank change year-on-year +3 +59 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 474 347 337
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 1.32% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 3.54% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 243 268
10th Percentile £362 £401 £398
25th Percentile £445 £475 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £668 £636
90th Percentile £696 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
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 12,602 9,804 12,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.72% 37.31% 33.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,724 6,501 9,106
10th Percentile £304 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £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 329 144 302
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.36
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £58.75 £46.51 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.75 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +11 315 £528 -6.64% 73
North of England -28 63 £500 - 35
Midlands -31 46 £475 +5.56% 13
West Midlands -16 39 £500 -9.09% 9
Yorkshire -32 31 £500 -4.76% 16
North West -20 24 £450 -5.26% 17
South East -15 23 £528 -17.25% 26
South West -8 13 £700 +27.18% 18
East of England -15 10 £650 +30.00% 9
North East -10 8 £450 -26.23% 2
East Midlands -23 7 £417 -6.02% 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 40 (8.44%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (7.81%) Apache Spark
3 28 (5.91%) Apache
4 25 (5.27%) Confluence
5 12 (2.53%) nginx
6 3 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.63%) SAS
6 3 (0.63%) Traefik
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.27%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Actimize
1 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.21%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 470 (99.16%) AWS
2 281 (59.28%) Serverless
3 275 (58.02%) AWS Lambda
4 183 (38.61%) Amazon EC2
5 129 (27.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 118 (24.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 106 (22.36%) GitHub
8 102 (21.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 100 (21.10%) Amazon ECS
10 88 (18.57%) Azure
11 86 (18.14%) Amazon EKS
12 78 (16.46%) GitHub Actions
13 48 (10.13%) AWS Step Functions
14 47 (9.92%) Amazon Kinesis
15 46 (9.70%) GCP
16 41 (8.65%) Snowflake
17 39 (8.23%) Route 53
18 32 (6.75%) Amazon EMR
18 32 (6.75%) Amazon SQS
18 32 (6.75%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 44 (9.28%) DNS
2 42 (8.86%) Firewall
3 29 (6.12%) VPN
4 22 (4.64%) TCP/IP
5 19 (4.01%) Network Security
6 14 (2.95%) SSL
7 10 (2.11%) FTP
7 10 (2.11%) HTTP
7 10 (2.11%) SMTP
7 10 (2.11%) SSH
8 7 (1.48%) IMAP
8 7 (1.48%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (1.05%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.84%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.63%) BGP
12 2 (0.42%) Multicast
12 2 (0.42%) NAS
12 2 (0.42%) OSPF
12 2 (0.42%) SAN
12 2 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (28.27%) Amazon RDS
2 83 (17.51%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 64 (13.50%) Amazon Athena
4 64 (13.50%) DynamoDB
5 41 (8.65%) Data Lake
6 34 (7.17%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (7.17%) Relational Database
7 33 (6.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 27 (5.70%) Power BI
9 23 (4.85%) MongoDB
10 21 (4.43%) BigQuery
10 21 (4.43%) MySQL
11 20 (4.22%) SQL Server
12 19 (4.01%) Amazon QuickSight
13 18 (3.80%) NoSQL
13 18 (3.80%) OLTP
14 16 (3.38%) Star Schema
15 15 (3.16%) OLAP
16 14 (2.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 111 (23.42%) Jenkins
2 93 (19.62%) GitLab
3 89 (18.78%) Git
4 31 (6.54%) JIRA
5 13 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.11%) Vagrant
7 9 (1.90%) JUnit
7 9 (1.90%) Maven
8 8 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.69%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.48%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.27%) Gradle
11 4 (0.84%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.84%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.63%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.63%) Vite
13 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.42%) Selenium
13 2 (0.42%) Snyk
13 2 (0.42%) Storybook
General
1 123 (25.95%) Social Skills
2 74 (15.61%) Finance
3 65 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 52 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.64%) Banking
6 16 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.32%) Front Office
9 8 (1.69%) Military
10 4 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.63%) Legal
12 2 (0.42%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.42%) Retail
13 1 (0.21%) Aviation
13 1 (0.21%) Games
13 1 (0.21%) Marketing
13 1 (0.21%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 105 (22.15%) Data Engineer
2 85 (17.93%) AWS Engineer
3 77 (16.24%) Developer
4 62 (13.08%) Senior
5 60 (12.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 58 (12.24%) Architect
7 43 (9.07%) Lead
8 29 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
9 28 (5.91%) AWS DevOps
10 27 (5.70%) AWS Architect
10 27 (5.70%) Software Engineer
11 26 (5.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 25 (5.27%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (4.85%) Site Engineer
14 22 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 20 (4.22%) Cloud Architect
15 20 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 20 (4.22%) Java Developer
16 18 (3.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (20.04%) Kafka
2 48 (10.13%) Spring
2 48 (10.13%) Spring Boot
3 46 (9.70%) React
4 42 (8.86%) Node.js
5 40 (8.44%) RESTful
6 34 (7.17%) REST
7 26 (5.49%) AngularJS
8 23 (4.85%) OAuth
9 22 (4.64%) CSS
10 20 (4.22%) PySpark
11 17 (3.59%) AWS CDK
12 16 (3.38%) Jest
13 14 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (2.95%) HTML
13 14 (2.95%) LDAP
14 13 (2.74%) boto
14 13 (2.74%) FastAPI
14 13 (2.74%) Great Expectations
14 13 (2.74%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 122 (25.74%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.59%) Replication
4 11 (2.32%) NHS
5 8 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.48%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.05%) SCADA
9 4 (0.84%) Derivative
9 4 (0.84%) Equities
9 4 (0.84%) PACS
9 4 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (0.63%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 68 (14.35%) Linux
2 18 (3.80%) Windows
3 13 (2.74%) Amazon Linux
3 13 (2.74%) VMS
4 10 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.11%) Unix
5 8 (1.69%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.42%) zOS
8 1 (0.21%) Android
8 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (60.34%) CI/CD
2 196 (41.35%) DevOps
3 191 (40.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (23.84%) Containerisation
5 106 (22.36%) Agile
6 104 (21.94%) ETL
7 101 (21.31%) Data Engineering
8 99 (20.89%) Analytics
9 92 (19.41%) Data Modelling
10 91 (19.20%) Data Pipeline
11 76 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (15.82%) Microservices
12 75 (15.82%) Observability
13 62 (13.08%) Software Engineering
14 59 (12.45%) Performance Tuning
15 58 (12.24%) Event-Driven
16 57 (12.03%) AI
17 53 (11.18%) Data Governance
18 50 (10.55%) Data Architecture
18 50 (10.55%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 287 (60.55%) Python
2 182 (38.40%) SQL
3 93 (19.62%) Java
4 60 (12.66%) Bash
5 43 (9.07%) TypeScript
6 38 (8.02%) JavaScript
7 23 (4.85%) C#
8 22 (4.64%) PowerShell
9 21 (4.43%) Shell Script
10 19 (4.01%) Go
11 11 (2.32%) Groovy
12 7 (1.48%) Scala
13 6 (1.27%) JSX
13 6 (1.27%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.05%) Korn
14 5 (1.05%) Perl
15 3 (0.63%) C++
16 2 (0.42%) Bicep
16 2 (0.42%) C
17 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 161 (33.97%) Security Cleared
2 132 (27.85%) SC Cleared
3 48 (10.13%) AWS Certification
4 24 (5.06%) Degree
5 20 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.32%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.63%) OCP
11 3 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.63%) PhD
12 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.42%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.21%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.45%) Data Quality
2 35 (7.38%) GDPR
3 22 (4.64%) QA
4 15 (3.16%) NIST
5 14 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.32%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.84%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.63%) NCSC
9 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.42%) MiFID
9 2 (0.42%) SLA
10 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.21%) GxP
10 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 174 (36.71%) Docker
2 12 (2.53%) Squid
3 10 (2.11%) DFS Replication
4 7 (1.48%) Dovecot
4 7 (1.48%) Postfix
5 6 (1.27%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.63%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.42%) HDFS
7 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.21%) etcd
8 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 245 (51.69%) Terraform
2 132 (27.85%) Kubernetes
3 73 (15.40%) Ansible
4 60 (12.66%) Grafana
5 58 (12.24%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.01%) Progress Chef
7 18 (3.80%) Puppet
8 10 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.69%) Argo
10 7 (1.48%) Kibana
10 7 (1.48%) Nessus
10 7 (1.48%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (1.27%) FortiGate
12 5 (1.05%) Consul
12 5 (1.05%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (1.05%) Istio
12 5 (1.05%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.63%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 45 (9.49%) Databricks
2 31 (6.54%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.43%) Google
3 21 (4.43%) Splunk
4 17 (3.59%) F5
5 16 (3.38%) Palo Alto
6 15 (3.16%) CheckPoint
6 15 (3.16%) Red Hat
7 13 (2.74%) Oracle
8 12 (2.53%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.69%) Confluent
9 8 (1.69%) Dell
9 8 (1.69%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.69%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.48%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (1.27%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.27%) AVEVA
12 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.05%) Sybase
13 4 (0.84%) StreamSets