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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 215 282
Rank change year-on-year +45 +67 -22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 502 359 322
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.16% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.26% 3.22% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 238 247
10th Percentile £393 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £50.94 - £52.50
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 11,794 11,147 13,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.62% 35.89% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,030 7,413 10,057
10th Percentile £303 £313 £288
25th Percentile £405 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £724 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 311 144 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.66 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.32 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.15 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% +5.00% +36.36%

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 21 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon S3 in England over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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 +18 296 £575 +1.77% 207
Midlands +17 63 £475 +1.06% 19
North of England -28 58 £500 - 54
West Midlands +23 56 £475 -24.00% 11
Yorkshire -18 36 £500 -4.76% 23
South East +17 31 £414 -33.13% 39
East of England +8 23 £550 +10.00% 6
South West +10 18 £575 -4.17% 31
North West -23 17 £500 +4.17% 30
East Midlands -14 7 £435 -2.68% 8
North East -6 6 £450 -26.23% 1
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 (8.76%) Confluence
2 42 (8.37%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (6.57%) Apache Spark
4 17 (3.39%) Apache
5 14 (2.79%) nginx
6 5 (1.00%) CMS
6 5 (1.00%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.00%) SAS
7 3 (0.60%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.20%) Finacle
2 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 491 (97.81%) AWS
2 269 (53.59%) Serverless
3 267 (53.19%) AWS Lambda
4 211 (42.03%) Amazon EC2
5 174 (34.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 115 (22.91%) GitHub
7 109 (21.71%) Amazon ECS
7 109 (21.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 99 (19.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 73 (14.54%) Azure
9 73 (14.54%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (11.16%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (10.16%) Amazon ELB
12 40 (7.97%) Amazon EMR
12 40 (7.97%) Snowflake
13 38 (7.57%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (7.37%) Amazon Kinesis
14 37 (7.37%) AWS Step Functions
15 36 (7.17%) AWS KMS
15 36 (7.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 58 (11.55%) DNS
2 56 (11.16%) Firewall
3 35 (6.97%) VPN
4 27 (5.38%) SSH
5 26 (5.18%) SSL
5 26 (5.18%) TCP/IP
6 24 (4.78%) SMTP
7 22 (4.38%) FTP
7 22 (4.38%) HTTP
8 21 (4.18%) Network Security
9 17 (3.39%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (2.39%) IMAP
11 6 (1.20%) DHCP
12 4 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.60%) Kerberos
14 2 (0.40%) Calico
14 2 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (0.40%) VSAN
15 1 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
15 1 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (31.27%) Amazon RDS
2 109 (21.71%) PostgreSQL
3 86 (17.13%) DynamoDB
4 68 (13.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 55 (10.96%) Amazon Athena
6 54 (10.76%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (10.16%) Relational Database
8 33 (6.57%) Amazon Aurora
9 28 (5.58%) Data Lake
10 24 (4.78%) NoSQL
11 22 (4.38%) Amazon QuickSight
12 20 (3.98%) Big Data
12 20 (3.98%) MongoDB
12 20 (3.98%) RDBMS
13 19 (3.78%) MySQL
14 18 (3.59%) SQL Server
15 15 (2.99%) Power BI
16 13 (2.59%) Metadata
17 12 (2.39%) Star Schema
17 12 (2.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 120 (23.90%) Jenkins
2 113 (22.51%) Git
3 74 (14.74%) GitLab
4 55 (10.96%) JIRA
5 24 (4.78%) Vagrant
6 16 (3.19%) JUnit
7 13 (2.59%) Maven
8 9 (1.79%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.59%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.80%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.80%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.80%) DbUnit
11 4 (0.80%) jMock
11 4 (0.80%) Mockito
11 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.60%) MLflow
12 3 (0.60%) Postman
12 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 139 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 80 (15.94%) Public Sector
3 67 (13.35%) Finance
4 54 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (3.59%) Front Office
7 17 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (3.19%) Banking
9 10 (1.99%) Military
10 7 (1.39%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.60%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.60%) Marketing
12 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Legal
13 2 (0.40%) Publishing
13 2 (0.40%) Retail
14 1 (0.20%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 114 (22.71%) AWS Engineer
2 91 (18.13%) Senior
3 85 (16.93%) Developer
4 83 (16.53%) Data Engineer
5 81 (16.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 60 (11.95%) Architect
7 48 (9.56%) AWS DevOps
8 45 (8.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 39 (7.77%) Platform Engineer
10 34 (6.77%) Lead
11 31 (6.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.18%) AWS Developer
13 25 (4.98%) Java Developer
13 25 (4.98%) Software Engineer
14 23 (4.58%) AWS Data Engineer
15 22 (4.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 22 (4.38%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (3.98%) AWS Architect
17 19 (3.78%) Senior Developer
17 19 (3.78%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.55%) Kafka
2 53 (10.56%) Node.js
2 53 (10.56%) React
3 50 (9.96%) REST
4 34 (6.77%) RESTful
5 31 (6.18%) Spring
6 26 (5.18%) Spring Boot
7 23 (4.58%) AWS CDK
7 23 (4.58%) GraphQL
8 20 (3.98%) AngularJS
8 20 (3.98%) LDAP
8 20 (3.98%) OAuth
9 18 (3.59%) Jest
10 14 (2.79%) CSS
11 13 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.39%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (2.39%) pytest
13 10 (1.99%) Flask
13 10 (1.99%) Sass
13 10 (1.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (17.93%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.78%) Replication
3 24 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
4 23 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.78%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.19%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.19%) CSOC
7 11 (2.19%) Security Operations Centre
8 8 (1.59%) NHS
9 7 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.73%) Linux
2 35 (6.97%) Windows
3 29 (5.78%) Amazon Linux
4 28 (5.58%) VMS
5 13 (2.59%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.59%) Unix
8 6 (1.20%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.20%) AIX
10 1 (0.20%) Android
10 1 (0.20%) CentOS
10 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.20%) Solaris
10 1 (0.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (52.59%) CI/CD
2 215 (42.83%) DevOps
3 163 (32.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (26.49%) Agile
5 120 (23.90%) Containerisation
6 88 (17.53%) Data Pipeline
6 88 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (16.73%) ETL
8 79 (15.74%) Data Modelling
9 78 (15.54%) Microservices
10 74 (14.74%) Data Engineering
11 66 (13.15%) Analytics
12 64 (12.75%) Mentoring
12 64 (12.75%) Migration
13 55 (10.96%) Observability
14 54 (10.76%) Configuration Management
15 53 (10.56%) Cloud Security
15 53 (10.56%) Software Engineering
16 52 (10.36%) Infrastructure Automation
17 49 (9.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 302 (60.16%) Python
2 166 (33.07%) SQL
3 100 (19.92%) Java
4 63 (12.55%) Bash
5 55 (10.96%) TypeScript
6 52 (10.36%) JavaScript
7 40 (7.97%) PowerShell
8 27 (5.38%) Groovy
9 20 (3.98%) Go
10 15 (2.99%) Perl
10 15 (2.99%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.19%) Scala
12 6 (1.20%) JSX
12 6 (1.20%) Korn
13 4 (0.80%) C#
13 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.60%) Bicep
14 3 (0.60%) C
15 2 (0.40%) CodeQL
15 2 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 170 (33.86%) Security Cleared
2 144 (28.69%) SC Cleared
3 73 (14.54%) AWS Certification
4 35 (6.97%) Degree
5 32 (6.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.78%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.60%) CISSP
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.20%) CCNP
13 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.20%) RHCE
13 1 (0.20%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.98%) QA
3 25 (4.98%) GDPR
4 10 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.79%) NIST
6 4 (0.80%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.60%) WCAG
8 2 (0.40%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) GxP
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 183 (36.45%) Docker
2 25 (4.98%) Active Directory
3 22 (4.38%) DFS Replication
4 16 (3.19%) Postfix
5 12 (2.39%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.39%) Squid
6 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) etcd
7 1 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 230 (45.82%) Terraform
2 110 (21.91%) Kubernetes
3 70 (13.94%) Ansible
4 65 (12.95%) Grafana
5 60 (11.95%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.59%) Progress Chef
7 16 (3.19%) Puppet
8 13 (2.59%) Argo
9 12 (2.39%) Nessus
10 10 (1.99%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.59%) Istio
12 5 (1.00%) Kibana
12 5 (1.00%) Packer
13 4 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.60%) NetBackup
15 2 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 32 (6.37%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.98%) ServiceNow
3 27 (5.38%) Splunk
4 25 (4.98%) Databricks
5 24 (4.78%) Palo Alto
6 23 (4.58%) CheckPoint
6 23 (4.58%) F5
7 17 (3.39%) Oracle
8 16 (3.19%) Jaspersoft
9 12 (2.39%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.79%) IBM
11 8 (1.59%) Cloudera
12 7 (1.39%) CA Agile Central
13 6 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.20%) Google
13 6 (1.20%) PagerDuty
13 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.20%) StreamSets
14 5 (1.00%) Dell
14 5 (1.00%) Zscaler