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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 239 296
Rank change year-on-year +75 +57 -22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 477 325 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.72% 0.99% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.56% 2.86% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 214 248
10th Percentile £384 £375 £418
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.30%
75th Percentile £630 £655 £638
90th Percentile £713 £784 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -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 - - -4.76%

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 10,461 11,377 15,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 34.54% 35.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,080 7,754 11,046
10th Percentile £305 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 175 298
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.31 £14.44
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.24 £68.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon S3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon S3 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +52 287 £575 +6.88% 131
North of England -2 60 £500 +3.09% 29
Midlands +29 57 £475 -13.64% 5
West Midlands +31 51 £475 -29.63% 3
North West -9 30 £475 - 16
Yorkshire -8 28 £525 +3.55% 11
East of England +24 25 £550 -8.33% 8
South East +30 24 £425 -25.60% 48
South West +30 15 £546 -5.00% 22
East Midlands +1 6 £494 +16.18% 2
North East -1 3 £438 -26.78% 3
Amazon S3
UK

Amazon S3
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (8.81%) Confluence
2 37 (7.76%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (6.92%) Apache Spark
4 19 (3.98%) nginx
5 12 (2.52%) Apache
6 7 (1.47%) CMS
7 6 (1.26%) Headless CMS
7 6 (1.26%) Tomcat
8 5 (1.05%) SAS
9 3 (0.63%) Traefik
10 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.21%) CICS
Applications
1 12 (2.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Finacle
3 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 459 (96.23%) AWS
2 242 (50.73%) Serverless
3 238 (49.90%) AWS Lambda
4 189 (39.62%) Amazon EC2
5 142 (29.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 85 (17.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 83 (17.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 82 (17.19%) GitHub
9 79 (16.56%) Amazon ECS
10 63 (13.21%) Amazon SQS
11 54 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
12 50 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
13 47 (9.85%) Amazon ELB
14 43 (9.01%) AWS Step Functions
14 43 (9.01%) Azure
15 41 (8.60%) AWS KMS
16 33 (6.92%) dbt
17 30 (6.29%) SaaS
18 29 (6.08%) Amazon Kinesis
18 29 (6.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 50 (10.48%) DNS
1 50 (10.48%) Firewall
2 30 (6.29%) VPN
3 27 (5.66%) SSH
4 26 (5.45%) SSL
5 25 (5.24%) HTTP
6 24 (5.03%) SMTP
7 23 (4.82%) TCP/IP
8 22 (4.61%) FTP
9 17 (3.56%) OpenLDAP
10 14 (2.94%) Network Security
11 12 (2.52%) IMAP
12 6 (1.26%) DHCP
13 3 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.42%) Calico
14 2 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
14 2 (0.42%) Intranet
14 2 (0.42%) iSCSI
14 2 (0.42%) SMS
15 1 (0.21%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (27.67%) Amazon RDS
2 101 (21.17%) DynamoDB
3 87 (18.24%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (10.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 51 (10.69%) Data Warehouse
6 46 (9.64%) Amazon Athena
7 36 (7.55%) Relational Database
8 28 (5.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 27 (5.66%) NoSQL
10 23 (4.82%) Big Data
11 19 (3.98%) RDBMS
12 17 (3.56%) Data Lake
12 17 (3.56%) MongoDB
13 16 (3.35%) Amazon QuickSight
14 15 (3.14%) MySQL
15 12 (2.52%) Hadoop
15 12 (2.52%) Metadata
15 12 (2.52%) SQL Server
16 11 (2.31%) Star Schema
16 11 (2.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 104 (21.80%) Jenkins
2 102 (21.38%) Git
3 58 (12.16%) JIRA
4 53 (11.11%) GitLab
5 24 (5.03%) Vagrant
6 17 (3.56%) JUnit
7 16 (3.35%) Maven
8 13 (2.73%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.10%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.68%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.68%) Mockito
11 6 (1.26%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (1.26%) DbUnit
11 6 (1.26%) jMock
12 5 (1.05%) Postman
12 5 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.84%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.84%) MLflow
14 3 (0.63%) Mocha
General
1 122 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 99 (20.75%) Public Sector
3 59 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (10.69%) Finance
5 21 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
5 21 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (3.14%) Front Office
7 11 (2.31%) Military
8 8 (1.68%) Banking
9 7 (1.47%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.63%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.63%) Marketing
11 3 (0.63%) Publishing
11 3 (0.63%) Retail
12 2 (0.42%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.21%) Advertising
13 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.21%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (23.90%) AWS Engineer
2 95 (19.92%) Developer
3 88 (18.45%) Architect
4 84 (17.61%) Senior
5 68 (14.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 60 (12.58%) Data Engineer
7 47 (9.85%) AWS DevOps
8 45 (9.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 36 (7.55%) AWS Architect
10 30 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (6.08%) AWS Developer
12 27 (5.66%) Java Developer
12 27 (5.66%) Lead
13 24 (5.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.19%) AWS Data Engineer
14 20 (4.19%) Security Architect
14 20 (4.19%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (4.19%) Software Engineer
15 19 (3.98%) Senior Developer
16 18 (3.77%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (11.11%) Kafka
2 51 (10.69%) Node.js
2 51 (10.69%) REST
3 50 (10.48%) React
4 37 (7.76%) GraphQL
5 28 (5.87%) AWS CDK
5 28 (5.87%) Spring
6 23 (4.82%) RESTful
7 21 (4.40%) Spring Boot
8 20 (4.19%) AngularJS
9 19 (3.98%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (3.98%) LDAP
10 13 (2.73%) Jest
11 12 (2.52%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (2.52%) Svelte
11 12 (2.52%) Web Services
12 11 (2.31%) OAuth
12 11 (2.31%) SOAP
13 10 (2.10%) JPA
13 10 (2.10%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 61 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.29%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.45%) Replication
4 22 (4.61%) CSOC
4 22 (4.61%) Security Operations Centre
5 20 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.05%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.84%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.84%) NHS
11 3 (0.63%) Life Science
11 3 (0.63%) PKI
11 3 (0.63%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 72 (15.09%) Linux
2 35 (7.34%) Windows
3 27 (5.66%) VMS
4 26 (5.45%) Amazon Linux
5 12 (2.52%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.84%) Unix
7 4 (0.84%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.42%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) AIX
9 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.21%) Solaris
9 1 (0.21%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (43.61%) CI/CD
2 189 (39.62%) DevOps
3 118 (24.74%) Agile
4 109 (22.85%) Containerisation
5 103 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 92 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (14.68%) Microservices
8 66 (13.84%) Data Pipeline
9 65 (13.63%) Mentoring
10 62 (13.00%) Migration
11 61 (12.79%) Data Modelling
12 58 (12.16%) High Availability
13 56 (11.74%) ETL
14 50 (10.48%) Data Engineering
15 47 (9.85%) Cloud Security
16 42 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (8.60%) Artificial Intelligence
18 40 (8.39%) Event-Driven
18 40 (8.39%) Full-Stack Development
19 37 (7.76%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 253 (53.04%) Python
2 122 (25.58%) SQL
3 79 (16.56%) Java
4 56 (11.74%) JavaScript
4 56 (11.74%) TypeScript
5 44 (9.22%) Bash
6 35 (7.34%) PowerShell
7 28 (5.87%) Groovy
8 16 (3.35%) Go
8 16 (3.35%) Perl
9 10 (2.10%) Scala
10 6 (1.26%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.63%) CodeQL
11 3 (0.63%) Korn
11 3 (0.63%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.63%) R
12 2 (0.42%) C
12 2 (0.42%) Ruby
12 2 (0.42%) Rust
12 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 165 (34.59%) Security Cleared
2 150 (31.45%) SC Cleared
3 83 (17.40%) AWS Certification
4 41 (8.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 36 (7.55%) Degree
6 20 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.89%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.42%) CISSP
12 2 (0.42%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.21%) RHCE
13 1 (0.21%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.13%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.03%) QA
3 11 (2.31%) GDPR
4 3 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.63%) NIST
4 3 (0.63%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.42%) NCSC
5 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.42%) WCAG
6 1 (0.21%) HL7
6 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 148 (31.03%) Docker
2 23 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 22 (4.61%) DFS Replication
4 18 (3.77%) Postfix
5 12 (2.52%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.52%) Squid
6 1 (0.21%) etcd
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 163 (34.17%) Terraform
2 88 (18.45%) Kubernetes
3 49 (10.27%) Grafana
4 48 (10.06%) Ansible
4 48 (10.06%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.52%) Nessus
6 11 (2.31%) Argo
7 10 (2.10%) Proxmox
8 9 (1.89%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.68%) Puppet
10 6 (1.26%) Istio
10 6 (1.26%) Kibana
11 4 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.84%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.63%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.42%) logstash
13 2 (0.42%) Packer
13 2 (0.42%) QRadar
13 2 (0.42%) SELinux
13 2 (0.42%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 30 (6.29%) ServiceNow
2 25 (5.24%) Splunk
3 22 (4.61%) Microsoft
4 21 (4.40%) F5
5 20 (4.19%) CheckPoint
5 20 (4.19%) Palo Alto
6 19 (3.98%) Oracle
7 18 (3.77%) Jaspersoft
8 13 (2.73%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.10%) Databricks
10 9 (1.89%) IBM
11 8 (1.68%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.68%) Google
11 8 (1.68%) StreamSets
12 5 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
12 5 (1.05%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.05%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.05%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.84%) Sage
13 4 (0.84%) Tenable