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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 178 245
Rank change year-on-year -10 +67 +33
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 563 365 351
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.50% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.00% 3.96% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 281 271
10th Percentile £353 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
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 14,062 9,221 11,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.37% 37.83% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,696 6,498 8,621
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £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 429 182 321
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.48 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.23% +27.47% -21.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £33.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.45 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -25.43%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +6 376 £525 -8.70% 76
Midlands -30 60 £475 +5.56% 12
North of England -45 60 £500 +5.26% 43
West Midlands -19 53 £500 -2.44% 8
South East -42 27 £540 -11.29% 34
North West -33 26 £450 +9.09% 21
Yorkshire -35 26 £518 +0.98% 17
South West -7 22 £538 -0.92% 13
North East -10 8 £538 -13.90% 5
East of England -26 7 £475 -5.00% 7
East Midlands -32 7 £423 +4.19% 4
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 58 (10.30%) Apache Spark
2 49 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (6.93%) Apache
4 29 (5.15%) Confluence
5 10 (1.78%) nginx
6 9 (1.60%) SAS
7 3 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
2 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 561 (99.64%) AWS
2 353 (62.70%) Serverless
3 341 (60.57%) AWS Lambda
4 215 (38.19%) Amazon EC2
5 146 (25.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 140 (24.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 124 (22.02%) Amazon ECS
8 115 (20.43%) GitHub
9 110 (19.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 107 (19.01%) Amazon EKS
11 99 (17.58%) Azure
12 82 (14.56%) GitHub Actions
13 71 (12.61%) Amazon SQS
14 65 (11.55%) AWS Step Functions
15 57 (10.12%) Snowflake
16 55 (9.77%) GCP
17 51 (9.06%) Route 53
18 47 (8.35%) Power Platform
19 43 (7.64%) Amazon Kinesis
19 43 (7.64%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.15%) DNS
2 22 (3.91%) Firewall
3 18 (3.20%) VPN
4 14 (2.49%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.95%) Network Security
5 11 (1.95%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.71%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.53%) BGP
7 3 (0.53%) OSPF
8 2 (0.36%) Multicast
8 2 (0.36%) NAS
8 2 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.36%) SAN
8 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.36%) VLAN
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) 5G
9 1 (0.18%) AMQP
9 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (27.18%) Amazon RDS
2 100 (17.76%) Amazon Athena
3 90 (15.99%) PostgreSQL
4 88 (15.63%) DynamoDB
5 87 (15.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 54 (9.59%) Data Lake
7 47 (8.35%) Power BI
8 45 (7.99%) Data Warehouse
9 43 (7.64%) Relational Database
10 31 (5.51%) NoSQL
10 31 (5.51%) Tableau
11 30 (5.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 26 (4.62%) BigQuery
12 26 (4.62%) SQL Server
13 24 (4.26%) MongoDB
14 23 (4.09%) Metadata
14 23 (4.09%) OLTP
15 21 (3.73%) OLAP
16 18 (3.20%) Big Data
16 18 (3.20%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 123 (21.85%) Jenkins
2 109 (19.36%) Git
3 103 (18.29%) GitLab
4 39 (6.93%) JIRA
5 24 (4.26%) JUnit
6 22 (3.91%) SonarQube
7 21 (3.73%) Bitbucket
7 21 (3.73%) Maven
8 15 (2.66%) Mockito
9 13 (2.31%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.60%) DbUnit
10 9 (1.60%) jMock
11 8 (1.42%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.24%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.07%) Gradle
14 5 (0.89%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.71%) Postman
15 4 (0.71%) Selenium
15 4 (0.71%) Terragrunt
15 4 (0.71%) Vite
General
1 148 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 100 (17.76%) Finance
3 94 (16.70%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.51%) Banking
6 23 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.31%) Front Office
7 13 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.53%) Legal
9 3 (0.53%) Military
9 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.36%) Games
10 2 (0.36%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.18%) Billing
11 1 (0.18%) iGaming
11 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 132 (23.45%) Data Engineer
2 113 (20.07%) Developer
3 80 (14.21%) AWS Engineer
4 65 (11.55%) Senior
5 63 (11.19%) Architect
6 62 (11.01%) Lead
7 43 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 40 (7.10%) Java Developer
9 31 (5.51%) AWS Architect
10 30 (5.33%) AWS Data Engineer
11 29 (5.15%) Site Engineer
12 28 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 27 (4.80%) AWS Developer
13 27 (4.80%) Lead Data Engineer
14 26 (4.62%) Analyst
15 23 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
16 22 (3.91%) AWS DevOps
16 22 (3.91%) Software Engineer
17 20 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (20.43%) Kafka
2 75 (13.32%) Spring
2 75 (13.32%) Spring Boot
3 64 (11.37%) Node.js
4 56 (9.95%) RESTful
5 49 (8.70%) React
6 43 (7.64%) REST
7 41 (7.28%) PySpark
8 35 (6.22%) AngularJS
9 31 (5.51%) OAuth
10 22 (3.91%) AWS CDK
11 21 (3.73%) OpenID
12 18 (3.20%) CSS
12 18 (3.20%) Great Expectations
12 18 (3.20%) Jest
12 18 (3.20%) SOAP
13 16 (2.84%) Hibernate
13 16 (2.84%) JPA
13 16 (2.84%) Spring Cloud
13 16 (2.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 138 (24.51%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.31%) NHS
5 11 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.07%) Clustering
8 6 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.07%) SCADA
9 5 (0.89%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.89%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.71%) Equities
10 4 (0.71%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 72 (12.79%) Linux
2 15 (2.66%) Unix
3 14 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.07%) Windows
5 4 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.36%) Android
6 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.36%) zOS
7 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (57.73%) CI/CD
2 232 (41.21%) DevOps
3 213 (37.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (27.53%) Agile
5 136 (24.16%) ETL
6 132 (23.45%) Analytics
7 126 (22.38%) Containerisation
8 123 (21.85%) Data Engineering
8 123 (21.85%) Data Modelling
9 106 (18.83%) Data Pipeline
10 97 (17.23%) Microservices
11 87 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (15.28%) Observability
13 70 (12.43%) AI
14 67 (11.90%) Migration
15 65 (11.55%) Performance Tuning
16 63 (11.19%) Data Governance
17 59 (10.48%) Event-Driven
18 57 (10.12%) Software Engineering
19 54 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 304 (54.00%) Python
2 217 (38.54%) SQL
3 124 (22.02%) Java
4 57 (10.12%) TypeScript
5 49 (8.70%) Bash
6 39 (6.93%) C#
6 39 (6.93%) JavaScript
7 30 (5.33%) Shell Script
8 19 (3.37%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.31%) Go
10 12 (2.13%) Scala
11 6 (1.07%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.89%) JSX
13 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.53%) Bicep
14 3 (0.53%) C
14 3 (0.53%) C++
14 3 (0.53%) Korn
15 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 196 (34.81%) Security Cleared
2 159 (28.24%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.82%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.37%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.02%) Degree
6 16 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.53%) OCP
12 3 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.53%) PhD
12 3 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.53%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.50%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.39%) GDPR
3 22 (3.91%) QA
4 13 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.31%) NIST
5 9 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.42%) SLA
7 7 (1.24%) PMO
8 4 (0.71%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.36%) WCAG
10 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.18%) GxP
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
10 1 (0.18%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 187 (33.21%) Docker
2 10 (1.78%) Squid
3 8 (1.42%) Postfix
4 6 (1.07%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.53%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 270 (47.96%) Terraform
2 145 (25.75%) Kubernetes
3 73 (12.97%) Grafana
4 60 (10.66%) Ansible
4 60 (10.66%) Prometheus
5 17 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (2.84%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.49%) Puppet
8 9 (1.60%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.24%) Consul
9 7 (1.24%) Kibana
9 7 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (1.07%) Argo
11 5 (0.89%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (0.89%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.53%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.53%) Istio
12 3 (0.53%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 64 (11.37%) Databricks
2 35 (6.22%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.33%) Google
4 28 (4.97%) Splunk
5 19 (3.37%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.84%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.13%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.95%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (1.95%) Oracle
10 9 (1.60%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.42%) Confluent
12 7 (1.24%) Dell
12 7 (1.24%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.24%) Sybase
13 6 (1.07%) AVEVA
13 6 (1.07%) IBM
13 6 (1.07%) Informatica
14 5 (0.89%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.89%) Teradata