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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 219 305
Rank change year-on-year +46 +86 -42
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 501 358 312
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.16% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.39% 3.24% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 239 238
10th Percentile £377 £394 £400
25th Percentile £438 £471 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -1.28% -3.54%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £738
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 11,424 11,044 14,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.81% 35.80% 35.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,747 7,338 10,324
10th Percentile £303 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 142 290
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.35 £14.49
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.80 £18.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +27.16%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.14 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.45 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +43.56%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +32 299 £575 +4.45% 349
Midlands +19 61 £475 +1.06% 19
North of England -25 57 £500 -1.38% 73
West Midlands +15 54 £475 -24.00% 9
Yorkshire -17 33 £518 +0.78% 28
South East +20 30 £414 -33.13% 298
East of England +8 25 £550 +10.00% 22
North West -15 20 £500 +3.09% 43
South West +18 17 £575 -4.17% 38
East Midlands -10 7 £435 -2.68% 8
North East -9 5 £438 -28.28% 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 (8.78%) Confluence
2 43 (8.58%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (6.59%) Apache Spark
4 16 (3.19%) 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 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) CICS
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.00%) 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
1 488 (97.41%) AWS
2 255 (50.90%) Serverless
3 252 (50.30%) AWS Lambda
4 212 (42.32%) Amazon EC2
5 164 (32.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 111 (22.16%) GitHub
7 104 (20.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 94 (18.76%) Amazon ECS
9 86 (17.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 71 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
11 65 (12.97%) Azure
12 51 (10.18%) Amazon SQS
13 50 (9.98%) Amazon ELB
14 47 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
15 41 (8.18%) Amazon EMR
15 41 (8.18%) Snowflake
16 38 (7.58%) Amazon Kinesis
17 36 (7.19%) AWS KMS
17 36 (7.19%) AWS Step Functions
18 34 (6.79%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 58 (11.58%) DNS
2 56 (11.18%) Firewall
3 34 (6.79%) VPN
4 27 (5.39%) SSH
5 26 (5.19%) SSL
5 26 (5.19%) TCP/IP
6 24 (4.79%) SMTP
7 22 (4.39%) FTP
7 22 (4.39%) HTTP
8 18 (3.59%) Network Security
9 17 (3.39%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (2.40%) IMAP
11 6 (1.20%) DHCP
12 4 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.40%) Calico
13 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.40%) VSAN
14 1 (0.20%) iSCSI
14 1 (0.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (28.34%) Amazon RDS
2 107 (21.36%) PostgreSQL
3 86 (17.17%) DynamoDB
4 66 (13.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 57 (11.38%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (10.78%) Amazon Athena
7 49 (9.78%) Relational Database
8 34 (6.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 27 (5.39%) Data Lake
10 24 (4.79%) NoSQL
11 22 (4.39%) Amazon QuickSight
12 20 (3.99%) MongoDB
12 20 (3.99%) RDBMS
13 19 (3.79%) Big Data
14 17 (3.39%) MySQL
15 15 (2.99%) Power BI
16 14 (2.79%) SQL Server
17 13 (2.59%) Metadata
17 13 (2.59%) Tableau
18 12 (2.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 117 (23.35%) Jenkins
2 115 (22.95%) Git
3 65 (12.97%) GitLab
4 56 (11.18%) JIRA
5 24 (4.79%) Vagrant
6 18 (3.59%) JUnit
7 15 (2.99%) Maven
8 11 (2.20%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.80%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.40%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.20%) Mockito
12 4 (0.80%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.80%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.80%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.80%) jMock
12 4 (0.80%) MLflow
12 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.60%) Postman
13 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 137 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 84 (16.77%) Public Sector
3 64 (12.77%) Finance
4 56 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (3.59%) Front Office
6 18 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.40%) Banking
7 12 (2.40%) Military
8 7 (1.40%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.60%) Marketing
11 3 (0.60%) Retail
12 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Publishing
13 1 (0.20%) Games
13 1 (0.20%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (22.36%) AWS Engineer
2 89 (17.76%) Developer
3 88 (17.56%) Senior
4 81 (16.17%) Data Engineer
5 78 (15.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 71 (14.17%) Architect
7 44 (8.78%) AWS DevOps
8 42 (8.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 39 (7.78%) Platform Engineer
10 31 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 31 (6.19%) Lead
11 30 (5.99%) Java Developer
12 25 (4.99%) Software Engineer
13 24 (4.79%) AWS Developer
14 23 (4.59%) AWS Data Engineer
15 22 (4.39%) AWS Architect
15 22 (4.39%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 21 (4.19%) Senior Data Engineer
17 20 (3.99%) Security Architect
18 19 (3.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.78%) Kafka
2 54 (10.78%) REST
3 53 (10.58%) React
4 52 (10.38%) Node.js
5 34 (6.79%) Spring
6 30 (5.99%) RESTful
7 28 (5.59%) Spring Boot
8 25 (4.99%) AWS CDK
9 24 (4.79%) GraphQL
10 20 (3.99%) AngularJS
10 20 (3.99%) LDAP
11 18 (3.59%) Jest
11 18 (3.59%) OAuth
12 15 (2.99%) ActiveMQ
13 14 (2.79%) CSS
14 13 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
15 11 (2.20%) pytest
15 11 (2.20%) Svelte
16 10 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
16 10 (2.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 83 (16.57%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.99%) Onboarding
2 30 (5.99%) Replication
3 25 (4.99%) Data Protection Act
4 22 (4.39%) CSOC
4 22 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (4.39%) Security Operations Centre
5 16 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.20%) NHS
8 5 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.00%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.80%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 80 (15.97%) Linux
2 35 (6.99%) Windows
3 29 (5.79%) Amazon Linux
4 28 (5.59%) VMS
5 13 (2.59%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.60%) 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
1 246 (49.10%) CI/CD
2 204 (40.72%) DevOps
3 148 (29.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (25.75%) Agile
5 109 (21.76%) Containerisation
6 89 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (16.57%) Data Pipeline
8 80 (15.97%) ETL
9 77 (15.37%) Data Modelling
10 76 (15.17%) Microservices
11 70 (13.97%) Data Engineering
12 66 (13.17%) Migration
13 63 (12.57%) Mentoring
14 60 (11.98%) Analytics
15 52 (10.38%) Cloud Security
16 49 (9.78%) Infrastructure Automation
17 46 (9.18%) Observability
17 46 (9.18%) Software Engineering
18 45 (8.98%) High Availability
19 43 (8.58%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 284 (56.69%) Python
2 158 (31.54%) SQL
3 94 (18.76%) Java
4 54 (10.78%) Bash
4 54 (10.78%) TypeScript
5 50 (9.98%) JavaScript
6 39 (7.78%) PowerShell
7 27 (5.39%) Groovy
8 19 (3.79%) Go
9 16 (3.19%) Perl
10 11 (2.20%) Scala
10 11 (2.20%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.20%) JSX
12 5 (1.00%) Korn
13 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.60%) C
14 3 (0.60%) C#
15 2 (0.40%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.40%) PHP
15 2 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 172 (34.33%) Security Cleared
2 149 (29.74%) SC Cleared
3 67 (13.37%) AWS Certification
4 34 (6.79%) Degree
5 29 (5.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.60%) CISSP
13 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.20%) CCNP
14 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.20%) RHCE
14 1 (0.20%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.98%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.59%) QA
3 25 (4.99%) GDPR
4 10 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.80%) NIST
6 7 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.80%) NCSC
8 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.60%) WCAG
9 2 (0.40%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) GxP
10 1 (0.20%) HL7
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 174 (34.73%) Docker
2 25 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 22 (4.39%) DFS Replication
4 16 (3.19%) Postfix
5 12 (2.40%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.40%) Squid
6 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) etcd
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 207 (41.32%) Terraform
2 102 (20.36%) Kubernetes
3 61 (12.18%) Ansible
4 57 (11.38%) Grafana
5 56 (11.18%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.79%) Argo
7 13 (2.59%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.40%) Nessus
9 10 (2.00%) Proxmox
9 10 (2.00%) Puppet
10 7 (1.40%) Istio
11 5 (1.00%) Kibana
11 5 (1.00%) Packer
12 4 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.60%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.40%) SELinux
14 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (7.58%) Splunk
2 30 (5.99%) ServiceNow
3 29 (5.79%) Microsoft
4 24 (4.79%) Palo Alto
5 23 (4.59%) CheckPoint
5 23 (4.59%) F5
6 22 (4.39%) Databricks
7 18 (3.59%) Oracle
8 16 (3.19%) Jaspersoft
9 12 (2.40%) Atlassian
10 10 (2.00%) IBM
11 8 (1.60%) Google
11 8 (1.60%) StreamSets
12 7 (1.40%) CA Agile Central
12 7 (1.40%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.00%) Dell
14 5 (1.00%) Zscaler
15 4 (0.80%) Sybase