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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 196 264
Rank change year-on-year -1 +68 +1
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 463 358 319
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.33% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.81% 3.61% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 245 248
10th Percentile £369 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £641
90th Percentile £694 £788 £722
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 12,140 9,908 12,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.99% 36.81% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,418 6,602 9,078
10th Percentile £300 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 140 257
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.21 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +21.49% +1.75%
75th Percentile £57.06 £46.51 £51.58
90th Percentile £77.19 £68.75 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £29.11 £27.50 £24.02
% change year-on-year +5.85% +14.49% +6.76%

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 17 January 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
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 17 January 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 +18 309 £530 -4.29% 65
North of England -37 60 £500 -2.44% 45
Midlands -16 42 £475 -3.06% 20
West Midlands -15 35 £520 -5.45% 13
Yorkshire -24 35 £500 -4.76% 24
South East -6 23 £475 -20.83% 69
North West -28 19 £450 -5.26% 15
South West -2 18 £625 +13.55% 30
East of England -14 9 £750 +50.00% 41
North East -9 7 £425 -30.33% 6
East Midlands -27 7 £417 -6.66% 7
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 37 (7.99%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (7.13%) Apache Spark
3 30 (6.48%) Confluence
4 24 (5.18%) Apache
5 9 (1.94%) nginx
6 5 (1.08%) SAS
7 3 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.65%) Traefik
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Actimize
1 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 461 (99.57%) AWS
2 270 (58.32%) Serverless
3 264 (57.02%) AWS Lambda
4 188 (40.60%) Amazon EC2
5 143 (30.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 116 (25.05%) GitHub
7 108 (23.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 103 (22.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 102 (22.03%) Amazon ECS
10 87 (18.79%) GitHub Actions
11 82 (17.71%) Azure
12 71 (15.33%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (10.80%) AWS Step Functions
14 46 (9.94%) Amazon Kinesis
15 43 (9.29%) Amazon ELB
16 38 (8.21%) GCP
16 38 (8.21%) Snowflake
17 31 (6.70%) Route 53
18 30 (6.48%) Amazon EMR
19 26 (5.62%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 50 (10.80%) DNS
2 47 (10.15%) Firewall
3 31 (6.70%) VPN
4 24 (5.18%) TCP/IP
5 22 (4.75%) Network Security
5 22 (4.75%) SSL
6 14 (3.02%) FTP
6 14 (3.02%) HTTP
6 14 (3.02%) OpenLDAP
6 14 (3.02%) SMTP
6 14 (3.02%) SSH
7 9 (1.94%) IMAP
8 4 (0.86%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.43%) Calico
9 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.22%) Multicast
10 1 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.22%) VSAN
10 1 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (29.37%) Amazon RDS
2 81 (17.49%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (15.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 68 (14.69%) DynamoDB
5 63 (13.61%) Amazon Athena
6 36 (7.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 34 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (7.34%) Relational Database
8 32 (6.91%) Data Lake
9 22 (4.75%) MongoDB
9 22 (4.75%) Power BI
10 21 (4.54%) Amazon QuickSight
10 21 (4.54%) MySQL
11 18 (3.89%) SQL Server
12 17 (3.67%) NoSQL
13 16 (3.46%) Star Schema
14 15 (3.24%) BigQuery
14 15 (3.24%) Tableau
15 14 (3.02%) Apache Iceberg
15 14 (3.02%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 118 (25.49%) Jenkins
2 98 (21.17%) Git
3 95 (20.52%) GitLab
4 37 (7.99%) JIRA
5 14 (3.02%) Vagrant
6 9 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.73%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.51%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.51%) JUnit
9 5 (1.08%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.08%) Maven
10 4 (0.86%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.65%) Gradle
11 3 (0.65%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.43%) MLflow
12 2 (0.43%) Postman
12 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.43%) Selenium
12 2 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 120 (25.92%) Social Skills
2 72 (15.55%) Finance
3 67 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 45 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.32%) Banking
6 15 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.38%) Front Office
9 10 (2.16%) Military
10 3 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.65%) Legal
10 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.43%) Marketing
11 2 (0.43%) Retail
12 1 (0.22%) Advertising
12 1 (0.22%) Games
12 1 (0.22%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (20.95%) AWS Engineer
2 93 (20.09%) Data Engineer
3 74 (15.98%) Developer
4 71 (15.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (14.69%) Senior
6 49 (10.58%) Architect
7 36 (7.78%) AWS DevOps
8 35 (7.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 34 (7.34%) Lead
10 32 (6.91%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (6.05%) Software Engineer
12 23 (4.97%) AWS Data Engineer
12 23 (4.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 22 (4.75%) Java Developer
14 21 (4.54%) AWS Architect
14 21 (4.54%) Site Engineer
15 20 (4.32%) AWS Developer
15 20 (4.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 19 (4.10%) Python Engineer
16 19 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (18.14%) Kafka
2 47 (10.15%) Node.js
2 47 (10.15%) React
3 44 (9.50%) REST
4 42 (9.07%) RESTful
5 41 (8.86%) Spring
5 41 (8.86%) Spring Boot
6 26 (5.62%) AngularJS
7 22 (4.75%) CSS
7 22 (4.75%) OAuth
8 19 (4.10%) AWS CDK
9 18 (3.89%) boto
10 17 (3.67%) LDAP
10 17 (3.67%) PySpark
11 16 (3.46%) Jest
11 16 (3.46%) pytest
12 15 (3.24%) FastAPI
13 14 (3.02%) HTML
14 13 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (2.81%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 110 (23.76%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.54%) Replication
4 17 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.16%) NHS
7 9 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.08%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.86%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.86%) Derivative
12 4 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.86%) Life Science
12 4 (0.86%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.86%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 68 (14.69%) Linux
2 22 (4.75%) Windows
3 18 (3.89%) VMS
4 17 (3.67%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.16%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.16%) Unix
6 6 (1.30%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) Android
7 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (61.77%) CI/CD
2 203 (43.84%) DevOps
3 185 (39.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (24.62%) Containerisation
5 113 (24.41%) Agile
6 88 (19.01%) Data Pipeline
6 88 (19.01%) ETL
7 85 (18.36%) Data Engineering
8 83 (17.93%) Analytics
9 81 (17.49%) Data Modelling
9 81 (17.49%) Microservices
10 71 (15.33%) Observability
11 68 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (13.82%) Software Engineering
13 58 (12.53%) Event-Driven
14 56 (12.10%) AI
15 53 (11.45%) High Availability
16 50 (10.80%) Performance Tuning
17 48 (10.37%) Configuration Management
17 48 (10.37%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 286 (61.77%) Python
2 167 (36.07%) SQL
3 92 (19.87%) Java
4 66 (14.25%) Bash
5 45 (9.72%) TypeScript
6 41 (8.86%) JavaScript
7 27 (5.83%) PowerShell
8 23 (4.97%) Go
9 19 (4.10%) Shell Script
10 17 (3.67%) C#
11 15 (3.24%) Groovy
12 7 (1.51%) Perl
12 7 (1.51%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.30%) JSX
13 6 (1.30%) Korn
13 6 (1.30%) Scala
14 4 (0.86%) C
15 3 (0.65%) Bicep
15 3 (0.65%) C++
16 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 164 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 137 (29.59%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.72%) AWS Certification
4 25 (5.40%) Degree
5 23 (4.97%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.81%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.65%) MCP
11 3 (0.65%) OCP
11 3 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.65%) PhD
12 2 (0.43%) CISSP
12 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) CCNP
13 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.94%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.70%) GDPR
3 30 (6.48%) QA
4 15 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.24%) NIST
5 11 (2.38%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.86%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.65%) NCSC
8 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.43%) MiFID
8 2 (0.43%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.22%) GxP
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 181 (39.09%) Docker
2 14 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.02%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.94%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.94%) Postfix
3 9 (1.94%) Squid
4 3 (0.65%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.43%) HDFS
5 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.22%) etcd
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 244 (52.70%) Terraform
2 129 (27.86%) Kubernetes
3 79 (17.06%) Ansible
4 56 (12.10%) Grafana
5 50 (10.80%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.32%) Puppet
7 19 (4.10%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.94%) Nessus
8 9 (1.94%) Proxmox
9 8 (1.73%) Argo
10 7 (1.51%) Kibana
11 6 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.08%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (1.08%) Istio
12 5 (1.08%) Karpenter
12 5 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.86%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 35 (7.56%) Databricks
2 32 (6.91%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.18%) F5
3 24 (5.18%) Palo Alto
4 23 (4.97%) CheckPoint
5 22 (4.75%) Splunk
6 16 (3.46%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.24%) Oracle
8 14 (3.02%) Google
9 9 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.94%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.73%) Confluent
10 8 (1.73%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.51%) Dell
12 6 (1.30%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.08%) Sybase
13 5 (1.08%) Zscaler
14 4 (0.86%) Commvault
14 4 (0.86%) SnapLogic
14 4 (0.86%) StreamSets