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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 191 255
Rank change year-on-year -5 +64 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 534 345 352
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.39% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.91% 3.67% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 257 271
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £614 £688 £636
90th Percentile £675 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - -4.76%
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 13,669 9,403 12,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.06% 37.78% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,402 6,522 8,821
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 166 326
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.19 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £26.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.23% +23.81% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.66 £42.06
90th Percentile £79.75 £75.88 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 March 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 15 March 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 15 March 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 +6 346 £525 -4.55% 80
North of England -20 68 £500 +1.01% 37
Midlands -24 55 £488 +7.26% 15
West Midlands -31 47 £500 -9.09% 8
Yorkshire -32 31 £500 -2.44% 17
South East -36 30 £530 -14.34% 42
North West -15 28 £450 +5.88% 16
South West -19 18 £538 -10.54% 28
North East -7 9 £525 -15.90% 4
East Midlands -30 8 £433 -3.24% 7
East of England -22 6 £475 -1.30% 10
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 54 (10.11%) Apache Spark
2 37 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (6.55%) Apache
4 27 (5.06%) Confluence
5 9 (1.69%) nginx
6 8 (1.50%) SAS
7 3 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.19%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.19%) Actimize
2 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 531 (99.44%) AWS
2 327 (61.24%) Serverless
3 316 (59.18%) AWS Lambda
4 210 (39.33%) Amazon EC2
5 134 (25.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 129 (24.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 119 (22.28%) Amazon ECS
8 112 (20.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 108 (20.22%) Amazon EKS
9 108 (20.22%) GitHub
10 94 (17.60%) Azure
11 77 (14.42%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (11.05%) Amazon SQS
13 58 (10.86%) AWS Step Functions
14 55 (10.30%) GCP
15 48 (8.99%) Snowflake
16 46 (8.61%) Route 53
17 41 (7.68%) Amazon Kinesis
17 41 (7.68%) Power Platform
18 33 (6.18%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.24%) DNS
2 23 (4.31%) Firewall
3 19 (3.56%) VPN
4 14 (2.62%) Network Security
4 14 (2.62%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.87%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.75%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.56%) BGP
7 3 (0.56%) SSL
8 2 (0.37%) Multicast
8 2 (0.37%) NAS
8 2 (0.37%) OSPF
8 2 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.37%) SAN
8 2 (0.37%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.37%) WAN
9 1 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.19%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (28.28%) Amazon RDS
2 94 (17.60%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (16.48%) Amazon Redshift
4 83 (15.54%) Amazon Athena
5 79 (14.79%) DynamoDB
6 51 (9.55%) Data Lake
7 45 (8.43%) Relational Database
8 42 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
9 41 (7.68%) Power BI
10 33 (6.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 29 (5.43%) NoSQL
12 28 (5.24%) SQL Server
13 27 (5.06%) MongoDB
14 26 (4.87%) BigQuery
15 22 (4.12%) OLTP
15 22 (4.12%) Tableau
16 20 (3.75%) OLAP
17 19 (3.56%) Metadata
17 19 (3.56%) MySQL
18 17 (3.18%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 120 (22.47%) Jenkins
2 103 (19.29%) GitLab
3 99 (18.54%) Git
4 33 (6.18%) JIRA
5 23 (4.31%) JUnit
6 20 (3.75%) SonarQube
7 19 (3.56%) Bitbucket
7 19 (3.56%) Maven
8 13 (2.43%) Mockito
9 11 (2.06%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.06%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.31%) DbUnit
10 7 (1.31%) jMock
11 6 (1.12%) Gradle
12 5 (0.94%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (0.75%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.75%) Postman
13 4 (0.75%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.75%) Vite
General
1 149 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 93 (17.42%) Finance
3 90 (16.85%) Public Sector
4 54 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.62%) Banking
6 22 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.62%) Front Office
8 13 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.75%) Military
9 4 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.56%) Legal
11 2 (0.37%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.37%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.37%) Retail
12 1 (0.19%) Aviation
12 1 (0.19%) Billing
12 1 (0.19%) Games
12 1 (0.19%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 114 (21.35%) Data Engineer
2 106 (19.85%) Developer
3 79 (14.79%) AWS Engineer
4 63 (11.80%) Architect
5 59 (11.05%) Lead
6 49 (9.18%) Senior
7 46 (8.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 41 (7.68%) Java Developer
9 29 (5.43%) AWS Architect
9 29 (5.43%) AWS Data Engineer
10 28 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (5.06%) Site Engineer
12 26 (4.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 25 (4.68%) Lead Data Engineer
14 24 (4.49%) Analyst
14 24 (4.49%) Software Engineer
15 22 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
16 19 (3.56%) AWS Developer
17 18 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 18 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (21.16%) Kafka
2 72 (13.48%) Spring
2 72 (13.48%) Spring Boot
3 56 (10.49%) Node.js
4 52 (9.74%) RESTful
5 49 (9.18%) React
6 47 (8.80%) REST
7 34 (6.37%) PySpark
8 33 (6.18%) AngularJS
9 29 (5.43%) OAuth
10 22 (4.12%) CSS
11 19 (3.56%) Jest
12 18 (3.37%) OpenID
13 17 (3.18%) AWS CDK
13 17 (3.18%) Great Expectations
14 16 (3.00%) SOAP
15 15 (2.81%) boto
15 15 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
16 14 (2.62%) JWT
16 14 (2.62%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 138 (25.84%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.31%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.06%) NHS
6 10 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.12%) Replication
10 6 (1.12%) SCADA
11 5 (0.94%) Derivative
11 5 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.94%) Equities
11 5 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.75%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.75%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 68 (12.73%) Linux
2 14 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (1.87%) Unix
4 6 (1.12%) Windows
5 4 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.37%) Android
7 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.37%) zOS
8 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (58.80%) CI/CD
2 217 (40.64%) DevOps
3 203 (38.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 144 (26.97%) Agile
5 130 (24.34%) Containerisation
6 128 (23.97%) ETL
7 117 (21.91%) Analytics
8 115 (21.54%) Data Modelling
9 113 (21.16%) Data Engineering
10 97 (18.16%) Microservices
11 95 (17.79%) Data Pipeline
12 92 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
13 90 (16.85%) Observability
14 67 (12.55%) AI
15 65 (12.17%) Performance Tuning
16 64 (11.99%) Data Governance
17 61 (11.42%) Software Engineering
18 60 (11.24%) Migration
19 56 (10.49%) Event-Driven
20 55 (10.30%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 287 (53.75%) Python
2 204 (38.20%) SQL
3 113 (21.16%) Java
4 50 (9.36%) Bash
5 48 (8.99%) TypeScript
6 42 (7.87%) JavaScript
7 33 (6.18%) C#
8 26 (4.87%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.00%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.43%) Go
11 11 (2.06%) Scala
12 6 (1.12%) JSX
13 5 (0.94%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.94%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.56%) C
14 3 (0.56%) C++
14 3 (0.56%) Korn
15 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.37%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 182 (34.08%) Security Cleared
2 145 (27.15%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.18%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (3.37%) Degree
6 13 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.56%) OCP
11 3 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.56%) PhD
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.37%) CISSP
12 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.55%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.30%) GDPR
3 22 (4.12%) QA
4 16 (3.00%) NIST
5 14 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.06%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.94%) PMO
7 5 (0.94%) SLA
8 4 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) MiFID
9 2 (0.37%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) WCAG
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) GxP
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 182 (34.08%) Docker
2 8 (1.50%) Squid
3 6 (1.12%) Postfix
4 4 (0.75%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.56%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.37%) HDFS
7 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 254 (47.57%) Terraform
2 142 (26.59%) Kubernetes
3 69 (12.92%) Grafana
4 64 (11.99%) Ansible
5 62 (11.61%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.00%) Progress Chef
6 16 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.81%) Puppet
8 9 (1.69%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.31%) Argo
9 7 (1.31%) Consul
9 7 (1.31%) Kibana
9 7 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.94%) Dell DRAC
10 5 (0.94%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.56%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.56%) Istio
11 3 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.56%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 61 (11.42%) Databricks
2 35 (6.55%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.06%) Google
3 27 (5.06%) Splunk
4 18 (3.37%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.81%) Atlassian
6 13 (2.43%) Oracle
6 13 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.06%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.69%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.50%) Confluent
9 8 (1.50%) Dell
9 8 (1.50%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.31%) Sybase
11 6 (1.12%) AVEVA
11 6 (1.12%) IBM
11 6 (1.12%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.94%) F5
13 4 (0.75%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.75%) SAP