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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 164 246
Rank change year-on-year -54 +82 +64
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 586 477 319
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 1.71% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.65% 4.49% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 341 212
10th Percentile £391 £370 £375
25th Percentile £433 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £656
90th Percentile £752 £713 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £62.17 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £63.92 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £69.83 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.98% - -
75th Percentile £72.92 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.97 £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +44.86% - -

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 16,037 10,617 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.00% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,689 7,193 7,615
10th Percentile £319 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
% change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -15 392 £575 - 330
North of England -60 71 £463 -7.50% 75
Midlands -42 61 £461 -3.00% 31
West Midlands -46 50 £469 -1.26% 13
North West -44 29 £500 +5.26% 48
South West -26 28 £456 -16.48% 54
North East -21 22 £419 -1.47% 12
South East -76 22 £575 +38.55% 41
Yorkshire -49 20 £500 -4.76% 15
East Midlands -11 10 £405 -17.97% 18
East of England -53 7 £350 -36.36% 28
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 70 (11.95%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (10.07%) Confluence
3 50 (8.53%) Apache
4 49 (8.36%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.39%) SAS
6 10 (1.71%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (1.19%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.68%) nginx
9 4 (0.68%) Traefik
10 2 (0.34%) CMS
10 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.34%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.34%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.17%) Mule
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.17%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 574 (97.95%) AWS
2 357 (60.92%) Serverless
3 354 (60.41%) AWS Lambda
4 189 (32.25%) Amazon EC2
5 184 (31.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 136 (23.21%) GitHub
7 122 (20.82%) Amazon ECS
8 118 (20.14%) Amazon EKS
9 109 (18.60%) GitHub Actions
10 99 (16.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 98 (16.72%) Azure
12 91 (15.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 83 (14.16%) Amazon SQS
14 73 (12.46%) Snowflake
15 71 (12.12%) dbt
16 70 (11.95%) Amazon EMR
17 64 (10.92%) AWS Step Functions
18 55 (9.39%) Power Platform
19 44 (7.51%) Amazon EventBridge
19 44 (7.51%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.73%) Firewall
2 14 (2.39%) DNS
3 7 (1.19%) Network Security
3 7 (1.19%) SSL
4 5 (0.85%) HTTP
5 4 (0.68%) NetScaler
5 4 (0.68%) SAN
5 4 (0.68%) WAN
6 3 (0.51%) CTI
6 3 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.51%) VPN
7 2 (0.34%) FTP
7 2 (0.34%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.34%) IMAP
7 2 (0.34%) Internet
7 2 (0.34%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.34%) NAS
7 2 (0.34%) SMTP
7 2 (0.34%) SSH
7 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (25.77%) Amazon RDS
2 123 (20.99%) Amazon Athena
3 111 (18.94%) DynamoDB
4 96 (16.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 83 (14.16%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (13.14%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (9.39%) Power BI
8 50 (8.53%) Data Lake
9 40 (6.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 34 (5.80%) Metadata
11 30 (5.12%) MongoDB
12 29 (4.95%) Tableau
13 26 (4.44%) NoSQL
14 24 (4.10%) Big Data
15 22 (3.75%) Apache Iceberg
15 22 (3.75%) SQL Server
16 21 (3.58%) Delta Lake
17 18 (3.07%) BigQuery
17 18 (3.07%) Data Vault
17 18 (3.07%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 123 (20.99%) Git
2 118 (20.14%) GitLab
3 105 (17.92%) Jenkins
4 57 (9.73%) JIRA
5 24 (4.10%) Bitbucket
6 16 (2.73%) Maven
7 13 (2.22%) JUnit
7 13 (2.22%) Mockito
8 12 (2.05%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.02%) DbUnit
10 6 (1.02%) Postman
10 6 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.85%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (0.85%) jMock
11 5 (0.85%) Selenium
12 3 (0.51%) Gradle
General
1 148 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 116 (19.80%) Public Sector
3 113 (19.28%) Finance
4 60 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.17%) Banking
6 16 (2.73%) Front Office
7 15 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.05%) Back Office
9 10 (1.71%) Military
10 8 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.19%) Law
11 7 (1.19%) Legal
12 6 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.02%) Publishing
13 5 (0.85%) Marketing
13 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.68%) Billing
14 4 (0.68%) Local Government
14 4 (0.68%) Police
14 4 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 151 (25.77%) Data Engineer
2 109 (18.60%) Senior
3 94 (16.04%) AWS Engineer
4 87 (14.85%) Developer
5 77 (13.14%) Lead
6 67 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 62 (10.58%) Architect
8 48 (8.19%) Senior Data Engineer
9 39 (6.66%) AWS Data Engineer
10 29 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
11 27 (4.61%) Java Developer
12 23 (3.92%) AWS Architect
12 23 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (3.92%) Data Architect
12 23 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (3.92%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 23 (3.92%) Snowflake Engineer
13 22 (3.75%) Technical Leader
14 21 (3.58%) AWS Developer
14 21 (3.58%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (48.63%) Terraform
2 74 (12.63%) Kafka
3 73 (12.46%) REST
4 63 (10.75%) PySpark
5 50 (8.53%) Spring Boot
6 49 (8.36%) RESTful
7 48 (8.19%) Spring
8 46 (7.85%) React
9 34 (5.80%) Node.js
10 25 (4.27%) FastAPI
11 24 (4.10%) AngularJS
12 23 (3.92%) GraphQL
13 22 (3.75%) SOAP
14 18 (3.07%) AWS CDK
14 18 (3.07%) JSON
15 15 (2.56%) .NET
16 14 (2.39%) ActiveMQ
17 13 (2.22%) JPA
17 13 (2.22%) Pandas
18 12 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 158 (26.96%) Cloud Native
2 53 (9.04%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.58%) NHS
5 15 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.39%) Replication
7 13 (2.22%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.37%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.19%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.19%) Legacy Code
11 7 (1.19%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
12 6 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.02%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.02%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 80 (13.65%) Linux
2 21 (3.58%) Unix
3 19 (3.24%) Windows
4 12 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.71%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.68%) AIX
7 4 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.34%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (64.33%) CI/CD
2 271 (46.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 250 (42.66%) DevOps
4 212 (36.18%) Agile
5 163 (27.82%) Data Engineering
6 160 (27.30%) Data Pipeline
7 131 (22.35%) Analytics
8 120 (20.48%) Data Modelling
9 118 (20.14%) Observability
10 111 (18.94%) Containerisation
11 108 (18.43%) ETL
12 106 (18.09%) AI
13 93 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 93 (15.87%) Test Automation
14 91 (15.53%) Technical Leadership
15 89 (15.19%) Migration
16 88 (15.02%) Event-Driven
17 83 (14.16%) Microservices
18 79 (13.48%) Business Intelligence
19 75 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 334 (57.00%) Python
2 237 (40.44%) SQL
3 97 (16.55%) Java
4 61 (10.41%) Bash
5 53 (9.04%) TypeScript
6 36 (6.14%) JavaScript
7 25 (4.27%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.75%) C#
9 20 (3.41%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.24%) Scala
11 18 (3.07%) Groovy
12 9 (1.54%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.37%) Bicep
14 7 (1.19%) Perl
15 6 (1.02%) Go
16 5 (0.85%) R
17 4 (0.68%) Cypher
17 4 (0.68%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 204 (34.81%) Security Cleared
2 189 (32.25%) SC Cleared
3 79 (13.48%) AWS Certification
4 31 (5.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 28 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (4.27%) Degree
7 16 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (2.22%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.54%) CISM
11 9 (1.54%) CISSP
11 9 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.37%) SAFe Agilist
13 6 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.85%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
17 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (18.43%) Data Quality
2 43 (7.34%) QA
3 11 (1.88%) GDPR
4 10 (1.71%) NIST
5 9 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.02%) HL7
6 6 (1.02%) SLA
7 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.34%) NCSC
8 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 189 (32.25%) Docker
2 15 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.02%) Postfix
4 5 (0.85%) Squid
5 2 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.34%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.34%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) HDFS
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 110 (18.77%) Kubernetes
2 82 (13.99%) Grafana
3 47 (8.02%) Prometheus
4 37 (6.31%) Ansible
5 17 (2.90%) Argo
6 11 (1.88%) Puppet
7 10 (1.71%) Istio
7 10 (1.71%) Kibana
8 8 (1.37%) Karpenter
8 8 (1.37%) Packer
9 4 (0.68%) Salt
10 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.51%) systemd
11 2 (0.34%) Consul
11 2 (0.34%) Control-M
11 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.34%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (8.53%) Databricks
2 44 (7.51%) Oracle
3 41 (7.00%) Microsoft
4 23 (3.92%) Informatica
5 18 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.90%) Splunk
7 15 (2.56%) Dynatrace
8 14 (2.39%) Teradata
9 13 (2.22%) Google
10 11 (1.88%) Confluent
11 10 (1.71%) Denodo
12 9 (1.54%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (1.37%) Brio
13 8 (1.37%) Foundry
13 8 (1.37%) Palantir
13 8 (1.37%) Salesforce
14 7 (1.19%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.19%) SnapLogic
15 6 (1.02%) PagerDuty
15 6 (1.02%) webMethods