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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 191 249
Rank change year-on-year -4 +58 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 521 343 349
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.36% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 3.61% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 245 267
10th Percentile £356 £404 £389
25th Percentile £427 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £618 £688 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.23% - -4.55%
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 13,431 9,509 12,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.35% 37.78% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,261 6,488 8,860
10th Percentile £310 £313 £274
25th Percentile £409 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 145 325
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.26 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.05 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.25 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% +27.52% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.05 £71.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.47 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.49% +26.93% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +6 339 £525 -7.89% 73
North of England -18 68 £500 - 52
Midlands -32 54 £500 +11.11% 25
West Midlands -24 47 £500 -9.09% 17
Yorkshire -36 33 £500 -2.44% 19
North West -22 28 £450 -5.26% 27
South East -18 25 £530 -14.34% 42
South West -16 17 £531 -11.58% 32
East of England -17 9 £475 -1.30% 18
North East -12 7 £475 -22.13% 6
East Midlands -32 7 £434 -2.31% 7
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 50 (9.60%) Apache Spark
2 36 (6.91%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (6.14%) Apache
4 28 (5.37%) Confluence
5 10 (1.92%) nginx
6 6 (1.15%) SAS
7 3 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.58%) Traefik
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Actimize
1 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 518 (99.42%) AWS
2 317 (60.84%) Serverless
3 307 (58.93%) AWS Lambda
4 216 (41.46%) Amazon EC2
5 144 (27.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 129 (24.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 119 (22.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 113 (21.69%) Amazon ECS
9 104 (19.96%) Amazon EKS
10 99 (19.00%) GitHub
11 89 (17.08%) Azure
12 73 (14.01%) GitHub Actions
13 52 (9.98%) GCP
14 51 (9.79%) AWS Step Functions
15 49 (9.40%) Amazon SQS
16 48 (9.21%) Snowflake
17 46 (8.83%) Route 53
18 41 (7.87%) Amazon Kinesis
19 37 (7.10%) Power Platform
20 35 (6.72%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.68%) DNS
2 36 (6.91%) Firewall
3 31 (5.95%) VPN
4 24 (4.61%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.84%) Network Security
6 13 (2.50%) SSL
7 8 (1.54%) OpenVPN
8 4 (0.77%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.58%) BGP
10 2 (0.38%) FTP
10 2 (0.38%) HTTP
10 2 (0.38%) Multicast
10 2 (0.38%) NAS
10 2 (0.38%) OSPF
10 2 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.38%) SAN
10 2 (0.38%) SMTP
10 2 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.38%) SSH
10 2 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (28.02%) Amazon RDS
2 91 (17.47%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (15.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 76 (14.59%) Amazon Athena
5 75 (14.40%) DynamoDB
6 43 (8.25%) Data Lake
7 40 (7.68%) Relational Database
8 37 (7.10%) Power BI
9 36 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (6.53%) Amazon Aurora
11 27 (5.18%) MongoDB
12 25 (4.80%) BigQuery
12 25 (4.80%) NoSQL
12 25 (4.80%) SQL Server
13 21 (4.03%) MySQL
13 21 (4.03%) OLTP
14 20 (3.84%) Tableau
15 19 (3.65%) OLAP
16 16 (3.07%) Metadata
16 16 (3.07%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 123 (23.61%) Jenkins
2 104 (19.96%) GitLab
3 102 (19.58%) Git
4 32 (6.14%) JIRA
5 22 (4.22%) JUnit
6 19 (3.65%) Bitbucket
6 19 (3.65%) Maven
7 18 (3.45%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.30%) Mockito
9 10 (1.92%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.73%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.34%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.34%) jMock
12 6 (1.15%) Gradle
13 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (0.77%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.77%) Terragrunt
14 4 (0.77%) Vite
15 3 (0.58%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 145 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 87 (16.70%) Finance
3 85 (16.31%) Public Sector
4 51 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (4.80%) Banking
6 20 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.50%) Front Office
7 13 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.34%) Military
9 4 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.58%) Legal
10 3 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.38%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.19%) Aviation
12 1 (0.19%) Billing
12 1 (0.19%) Games
12 1 (0.19%) Marketing
12 1 (0.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 103 (19.77%) Developer
2 101 (19.39%) Data Engineer
3 79 (15.16%) AWS Engineer
4 61 (11.71%) Architect
4 61 (11.71%) Senior
5 59 (11.32%) Lead
6 55 (10.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 39 (7.49%) Java Developer
8 29 (5.57%) AWS Architect
8 29 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
9 27 (5.18%) AWS Data Engineer
10 26 (4.99%) Site Engineer
11 25 (4.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 25 (4.80%) Software Engineer
12 24 (4.61%) Lead Data Engineer
13 23 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
14 21 (4.03%) Analyst
14 21 (4.03%) AWS Developer
14 21 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (19.39%) Kafka
2 68 (13.05%) Spring
2 68 (13.05%) Spring Boot
3 55 (10.56%) Node.js
4 52 (9.98%) RESTful
5 45 (8.64%) React
6 44 (8.45%) REST
7 34 (6.53%) AngularJS
8 28 (5.37%) OAuth
9 26 (4.99%) PySpark
10 22 (4.22%) CSS
11 20 (3.84%) Jest
12 19 (3.65%) AWS CDK
13 17 (3.26%) OpenID
14 16 (3.07%) Great Expectations
15 15 (2.88%) SOAP
16 14 (2.69%) Hibernate
16 14 (2.69%) HTML
16 14 (2.69%) JPA
16 14 (2.69%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 131 (25.14%) Cloud Native
2 37 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (3.84%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.11%) NHS
6 9 (1.73%) Replication
7 8 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.34%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.15%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.96%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.96%) SCADA
10 5 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.77%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.77%) Derivative
11 4 (0.77%) Equities
11 4 (0.77%) PACS
11 4 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 70 (13.44%) Linux
2 14 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.73%) Unix
4 8 (1.54%) Windows
5 6 (1.15%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.96%) VMS
7 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.38%) zOS
9 1 (0.19%) Android
9 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (58.93%) CI/CD
2 222 (42.61%) DevOps
3 206 (39.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (25.91%) Agile
5 130 (24.95%) Containerisation
6 117 (22.46%) ETL
7 111 (21.31%) Analytics
8 108 (20.73%) Data Modelling
9 104 (19.96%) Data Engineering
10 94 (18.04%) Microservices
11 90 (17.27%) Observability
12 89 (17.08%) Data Pipeline
13 86 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (12.67%) Performance Tuning
15 61 (11.71%) AI
15 61 (11.71%) Migration
15 61 (11.71%) Software Engineering
16 56 (10.75%) Data Governance
16 56 (10.75%) Event-Driven
17 54 (10.36%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 291 (55.85%) Python
2 194 (37.24%) SQL
3 107 (20.54%) Java
4 60 (11.52%) Bash
5 46 (8.83%) TypeScript
6 39 (7.49%) JavaScript
7 30 (5.76%) C#
8 24 (4.61%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.07%) Go
10 15 (2.88%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.15%) JSX
12 5 (0.96%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.96%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.96%) Scala
13 3 (0.58%) C
13 3 (0.58%) C++
13 3 (0.58%) Groovy
13 3 (0.58%) Korn
14 2 (0.38%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.38%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 185 (35.51%) Security Cleared
2 148 (28.41%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.21%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.84%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.45%) Degree
6 17 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.58%) OCP
10 3 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.58%) PhD
11 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.38%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 37 (7.10%) GDPR
3 22 (4.22%) QA
4 15 (2.88%) NIST
5 14 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.30%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.15%) SLA
8 4 (0.77%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.77%) PMO
9 3 (0.58%) NCSC
10 2 (0.38%) MiFID
10 2 (0.38%) WCAG
11 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.19%) GxP
11 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.19%) IFRS
11 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 189 (36.28%) Docker
2 9 (1.73%) Squid
3 7 (1.34%) Postfix
4 5 (0.96%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.58%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.38%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.38%) HDFS
6 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.19%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.19%) etcd
7 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 256 (49.14%) Terraform
2 140 (26.87%) Kubernetes
3 76 (14.59%) Ansible
4 72 (13.82%) Grafana
5 64 (12.28%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 17 (3.26%) Puppet
7 17 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.73%) Argo
8 9 (1.73%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.34%) Consul
9 7 (1.34%) Kibana
9 7 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.96%) Dell DRAC
10 5 (0.96%) Istio
10 5 (0.96%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.58%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.58%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.58%) Packer
Vendors
1 55 (10.56%) Databricks
2 32 (6.14%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.80%) Splunk
4 24 (4.61%) Google
5 18 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.07%) F5
7 15 (2.88%) Atlassian
7 15 (2.88%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.69%) CheckPoint
8 14 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 13 (2.50%) Oracle
10 11 (2.11%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (1.54%) Confluent
12 8 (1.54%) Dell
12 8 (1.54%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.34%) Sybase
14 6 (1.15%) AVEVA
14 6 (1.15%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.96%) IBM