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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 212 280
Rank change year-on-year +18 +68 -18
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 465 345 306
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.19% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.92% 3.24% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 234 236
10th Percentile £394 £413 £400
25th Percentile £435 £483 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.58% -7.65%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £608
90th Percentile £693 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 11,871 10,637 13,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.17% 36.58% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,151 7,109 9,616
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 138 250
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.31 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year -14.99% +32.07% +4.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £54.69 £53.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.71 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

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 15 December 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
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 15 December 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 +6 280 £550 -4.35% 65
North of England -25 57 £500 -4.76% 31
Midlands 0 56 £475 +5.56% 11
West Midlands +9 48 £475 -15.56% 7
Yorkshire -17 35 £500 -5.57% 17
South East +9 30 £425 -29.17% 35
North West -28 18 £450 -6.25% 12
South West +5 17 £625 +25.00% 18
East of England -9 15 £463 -7.50% 11
East Midlands -16 8 £433 -2.59% 4
North East -11 5 £550 -9.84% 2
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 44 (9.46%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (7.96%) Confluence
3 36 (7.74%) Apache Spark
4 21 (4.52%) Apache
5 11 (2.37%) nginx
6 5 (1.08%) SAS
7 3 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.65%) Traefik
8 1 (0.22%) CICS
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.86%) 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
1 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 456 (98.06%) AWS
2 254 (54.62%) Serverless
3 247 (53.12%) AWS Lambda
4 194 (41.72%) Amazon EC2
5 156 (33.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 118 (25.38%) GitHub
7 108 (23.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 104 (22.37%) Amazon ECS
8 104 (22.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 84 (18.06%) Azure
10 81 (17.42%) GitHub Actions
11 58 (12.47%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (10.32%) Amazon ELB
13 43 (9.25%) AWS Step Functions
14 40 (8.60%) Snowflake
15 35 (7.53%) Amazon EMR
15 35 (7.53%) GCP
16 34 (7.31%) Amazon Kinesis
17 33 (7.10%) dbt
18 30 (6.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 56 (12.04%) DNS
2 51 (10.97%) Firewall
3 34 (7.31%) VPN
4 26 (5.59%) TCP/IP
5 24 (5.16%) SSL
6 22 (4.73%) Network Security
6 22 (4.73%) SSH
7 20 (4.30%) SMTP
8 19 (4.09%) FTP
8 19 (4.09%) HTTP
9 16 (3.44%) OpenLDAP
10 11 (2.37%) IMAP
11 4 (0.86%) DHCP
11 4 (0.86%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.43%) Calico
12 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.43%) VSAN
13 1 (0.22%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (31.61%) Amazon RDS
2 93 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (14.41%) DynamoDB
4 65 (13.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 57 (12.26%) Amazon Athena
6 48 (10.32%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (9.89%) Relational Database
8 33 (7.10%) Data Lake
9 29 (6.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (4.52%) Amazon QuickSight
11 20 (4.30%) Big Data
11 20 (4.30%) MongoDB
11 20 (4.30%) SQL Server
12 19 (4.09%) Power BI
13 17 (3.66%) MySQL
13 17 (3.66%) NoSQL
13 17 (3.66%) RDBMS
14 14 (3.01%) Metadata
15 12 (2.58%) Star Schema
16 11 (2.37%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 119 (25.59%) Jenkins
2 105 (22.58%) Git
3 83 (17.85%) GitLab
4 48 (10.32%) JIRA
5 20 (4.30%) Vagrant
6 10 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.94%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.72%) JUnit
9 7 (1.51%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.51%) Maven
10 5 (1.08%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.08%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.86%) MLflow
12 3 (0.65%) Gradle
12 3 (0.65%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.65%) Postman
12 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.65%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.43%) Selenium
13 2 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 123 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 73 (15.70%) Finance
3 69 (14.84%) Public Sector
4 49 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.09%) Banking
6 16 (3.44%) Front Office
6 16 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.51%) Military
9 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.65%) Marketing
10 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.43%) Legal
11 2 (0.43%) Retail
12 1 (0.22%) Advertising
12 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (22.58%) AWS Engineer
2 85 (18.28%) Data Engineer
3 82 (17.63%) Senior
4 78 (16.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 73 (15.70%) Developer
6 46 (9.89%) AWS DevOps
7 44 (9.46%) Architect
8 43 (9.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 36 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
10 33 (7.10%) Lead
11 27 (5.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 24 (5.16%) AWS Data Engineer
12 24 (5.16%) Software Engineer
13 21 (4.52%) AWS Developer
13 21 (4.52%) Java Developer
14 20 (4.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.30%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (4.09%) Site Engineer
16 18 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
16 18 (3.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (13.55%) Kafka
2 54 (11.61%) Node.js
3 43 (9.25%) React
4 39 (8.39%) REST
5 35 (7.53%) RESTful
6 32 (6.88%) Spring
7 31 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 24 (5.16%) AWS CDK
9 19 (4.09%) LDAP
10 18 (3.87%) AngularJS
10 18 (3.87%) Jest
11 17 (3.66%) CSS
12 16 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (3.23%) OAuth
14 14 (3.01%) GraphQL
14 14 (3.01%) PySpark
14 14 (3.01%) pytest
14 14 (3.01%) Sass
15 12 (2.58%) Pandas
16 11 (2.37%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 97 (20.86%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.81%) Replication
3 22 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.01%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.72%) NHS
8 6 (1.29%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.08%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.86%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.86%) Derivative
10 4 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.86%) Equities
10 4 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.86%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.65%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 80 (17.20%) Linux
2 32 (6.88%) Windows
3 24 (5.16%) VMS
4 23 (4.95%) Amazon Linux
5 13 (2.80%) Ubuntu
6 12 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.94%) Unix
8 7 (1.51%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.22%) AIX
9 1 (0.22%) Android
9 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
9 1 (0.22%) Solaris
9 1 (0.22%) SUSE
9 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (58.71%) CI/CD
2 209 (44.95%) DevOps
3 174 (37.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (26.24%) Agile
5 115 (24.73%) Containerisation
6 88 (18.92%) ETL
7 85 (18.28%) Data Pipeline
8 81 (17.42%) Data Engineering
9 79 (16.99%) Data Modelling
10 78 (16.77%) Microservices
11 76 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
12 73 (15.70%) Analytics
13 60 (12.90%) Migration
13 60 (12.90%) Observability
14 58 (12.47%) Software Engineering
15 55 (11.83%) Configuration Management
16 53 (11.40%) Infrastructure Automation
17 47 (10.11%) AI
17 47 (10.11%) Event-Driven
17 47 (10.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 282 (60.65%) Python
2 165 (35.48%) SQL
3 93 (20.00%) Java
4 67 (14.41%) Bash
5 51 (10.97%) TypeScript
6 41 (8.82%) JavaScript
7 35 (7.53%) PowerShell
8 24 (5.16%) Groovy
9 23 (4.95%) Go
10 19 (4.09%) Shell Script
11 12 (2.58%) C#
12 11 (2.37%) Perl
13 7 (1.51%) Scala
14 6 (1.29%) JSX
14 6 (1.29%) Korn
15 4 (0.86%) C
15 4 (0.86%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.65%) Bicep
16 3 (0.65%) C++
17 2 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 161 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 131 (28.17%) SC Cleared
3 60 (12.90%) AWS Certification
4 32 (6.88%) Degree
5 23 (4.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (4.30%) DV Cleared
7 16 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (3.01%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.65%) OCP
12 3 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.65%) PhD
13 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.22%) RHCE
14 1 (0.22%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.22%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.32%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.10%) GDPR
3 28 (6.02%) QA
4 11 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.15%) NIST
6 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.65%) NCSC
7 2 (0.43%) MiFID
7 2 (0.43%) SLA
7 2 (0.43%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) GxP
8 1 (0.22%) HL7
8 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 179 (38.49%) Docker
2 21 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.09%) DFS Replication
4 11 (2.37%) Dovecot
4 11 (2.37%) Postfix
4 11 (2.37%) Squid
5 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.65%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.43%) HDFS
7 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.22%) etcd
Systems Management
1 236 (50.75%) Terraform
2 117 (25.16%) Kubernetes
3 78 (16.77%) Ansible
4 62 (13.33%) Grafana
5 54 (11.61%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.30%) Progress Chef
6 20 (4.30%) Puppet
7 12 (2.58%) Argo
8 11 (2.37%) Nessus
9 10 (2.15%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.72%) Istio
11 6 (1.29%) Kibana
12 5 (1.08%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.86%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.65%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 38 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.88%) Databricks
3 24 (5.16%) Palo Alto
3 24 (5.16%) ServiceNow
4 23 (4.95%) CheckPoint
4 23 (4.95%) F5
4 23 (4.95%) Splunk
5 18 (3.87%) Oracle
6 11 (2.37%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (2.15%) Google
7 10 (2.15%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.72%) Cloudera
8 8 (1.72%) PagerDuty
9 6 (1.29%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.29%) Dell
9 6 (1.29%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.29%) IBM
9 6 (1.29%) StreamSets
10 5 (1.08%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.86%) CA Agile Central