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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 164 240
Rank change year-on-year -49 +76 +56
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 567 473 335
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 1.71% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.54% 4.59% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 344 226
10th Percentile £388 £370 £377
25th Percentile £450 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £638
90th Percentile £748 £700 £766
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £524
% change year-on-year +0.95% +0.29% -0.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £62.17 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £63.92 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £69.83 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.98% - -
75th Percentile £72.92 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.97 £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +44.86% - -

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 16,032 10,294 11,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.31% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,712 6,972 7,902
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 275 212
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.29 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%

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 22 August 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
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 22 August 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 -18 381 £575 - 171
Midlands -33 65 £461 -3.00% 13
North of England -64 58 £488 -2.50% 40
West Midlands -37 55 £466 -1.95% 5
South West -29 27 £466 -14.65% 21
South East -69 25 £575 +35.29% 30
North West -56 22 £510 +7.37% 21
North East -26 20 £425 -5.56% 7
Yorkshire -46 16 £550 +4.76% 12
East Midlands -12 9 £419 -22.02% 8
East of England -36 7 £400 -27.27% 10
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 70 (12.35%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (10.76%) Confluence
3 44 (7.76%) Apache Spark
4 37 (6.53%) Apache
5 16 (2.82%) SAS
6 8 (1.41%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.71%) nginx
7 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.18%) Mule
9 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 559 (98.59%) AWS
2 360 (63.49%) Serverless
3 355 (62.61%) AWS Lambda
4 190 (33.51%) Amazon EC2
5 171 (30.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 130 (22.93%) GitHub
7 121 (21.34%) Amazon ECS
8 113 (19.93%) Amazon EKS
9 100 (17.64%) GitHub Actions
9 100 (17.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 91 (16.05%) Azure
11 88 (15.52%) Amazon SQS
11 88 (15.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 73 (12.87%) Snowflake
13 68 (11.99%) dbt
14 64 (11.29%) AWS Step Functions
15 57 (10.05%) Amazon EMR
16 55 (9.70%) Power Platform
17 42 (7.41%) AWS KMS
18 40 (7.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.35%) Firewall
2 14 (2.47%) DNS
3 9 (1.59%) Network Security
4 6 (1.06%) SSL
4 6 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.88%) VPN
6 4 (0.71%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.71%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.71%) WAN
7 3 (0.53%) CTI
7 3 (0.53%) HTTP
7 3 (0.53%) SAN
8 2 (0.35%) Internet
8 2 (0.35%) NAS
8 2 (0.35%) VLAN
9 1 (0.18%) AMQP
9 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (26.10%) Amazon RDS
2 119 (20.99%) Amazon Athena
3 105 (18.52%) DynamoDB
4 99 (17.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 75 (13.23%) Data Warehouse
6 74 (13.05%) PostgreSQL
7 55 (9.70%) Power BI
8 49 (8.64%) Data Lake
9 39 (6.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 34 (6.00%) Metadata
11 25 (4.41%) Big Data
12 24 (4.23%) Tableau
13 22 (3.88%) Relational Database
14 21 (3.70%) MongoDB
14 21 (3.70%) NoSQL
15 20 (3.53%) Apache Iceberg
15 20 (3.53%) BigQuery
15 20 (3.53%) SQL Server
16 19 (3.35%) Data Vault
17 18 (3.17%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 123 (21.69%) Git
2 118 (20.81%) GitLab
2 118 (20.81%) Jenkins
3 61 (10.76%) JIRA
4 26 (4.59%) Bitbucket
5 16 (2.82%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.65%) JUnit
6 15 (2.65%) Mockito
7 14 (2.47%) Maven
8 10 (1.76%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.41%) Artifactory
9 8 (1.41%) DbUnit
10 7 (1.23%) Bitbucket Server
10 7 (1.23%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.23%) jMock
10 7 (1.23%) Postman
10 7 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.53%) Selenium
13 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 139 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 121 (21.34%) Public Sector
3 99 (17.46%) Finance
4 53 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.88%) Banking
6 13 (2.29%) Front Office
7 12 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.41%) Back Office
9 8 (1.41%) Military
10 7 (1.23%) Law
11 6 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.06%) Publishing
12 4 (0.71%) Billing
12 4 (0.71%) Marketing
12 4 (0.71%) Retail
13 3 (0.53%) Games
13 3 (0.53%) Local Government
13 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (25.40%) Data Engineer
2 97 (17.11%) Senior
3 96 (16.93%) AWS Engineer
4 88 (15.52%) Developer
5 74 (13.05%) Lead
6 68 (11.99%) Architect
7 56 (9.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 41 (7.23%) Senior Data Engineer
9 33 (5.82%) AWS Data Engineer
10 30 (5.29%) AWS DevOps
11 27 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 27 (4.76%) Java Developer
12 25 (4.41%) AWS Developer
13 24 (4.23%) AWS Architect
14 23 (4.06%) Data Architect
15 21 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
15 21 (3.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 21 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
15 21 (3.70%) Software Engineer
16 20 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (48.85%) Terraform
2 68 (11.99%) Kafka
3 60 (10.58%) PySpark
4 59 (10.41%) REST
5 52 (9.17%) React
6 45 (7.94%) RESTful
7 44 (7.76%) Spring Boot
8 43 (7.58%) Spring
9 39 (6.88%) Node.js
10 23 (4.06%) AngularJS
11 22 (3.88%) AWS CDK
12 21 (3.70%) FastAPI
12 21 (3.70%) SOAP
13 17 (3.00%) GraphQL
13 17 (3.00%) JSON
14 15 (2.65%) Web Services
15 14 (2.47%) ActiveMQ
16 13 (2.29%) .NET
16 13 (2.29%) Next.js
16 13 (2.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 137 (24.16%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.64%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.53%) NHS
5 13 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.59%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.41%) Fixed Income
8 8 (1.41%) Reference Data
8 8 (1.41%) Replication
9 7 (1.23%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.23%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.23%) Legacy Code
9 7 (1.23%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 76 (13.40%) Linux
2 21 (3.70%) Unix
3 15 (2.65%) Windows
4 11 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.71%) AIX
7 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.35%) Android
8 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.18%) CentOS
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (63.49%) CI/CD
2 244 (43.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 237 (41.80%) DevOps
4 197 (34.74%) Agile
5 149 (26.28%) Data Pipeline
6 146 (25.75%) Data Engineering
7 124 (21.87%) Analytics
8 115 (20.28%) Data Modelling
9 110 (19.40%) ETL
10 107 (18.87%) Containerisation
11 106 (18.69%) AI
12 95 (16.75%) Observability
13 87 (15.34%) Microservices
13 87 (15.34%) Test Automation
14 85 (14.99%) Migration
15 76 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 74 (13.05%) Business Intelligence
16 74 (13.05%) Event-Driven
17 72 (12.70%) Machine Learning
18 69 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 333 (58.73%) Python
2 217 (38.27%) SQL
3 101 (17.81%) Java
4 64 (11.29%) Bash
5 56 (9.88%) TypeScript
6 40 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 32 (5.64%) C#
8 29 (5.11%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.88%) Shell Script
10 20 (3.53%) Scala
11 16 (2.82%) Groovy
12 8 (1.41%) Bicep
12 8 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.23%) Perl
14 4 (0.71%) Cypher
14 4 (0.71%) Go
14 4 (0.71%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.71%) R
14 4 (0.71%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 202 (35.63%) Security Cleared
2 181 (31.92%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.64%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 18 (3.17%) Degree
7 16 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.94%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.88%) CISM
11 5 (0.88%) CISSP
11 5 (0.88%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.53%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.53%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (16.23%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.41%) QA
3 14 (2.47%) GDPR
4 9 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.41%) SLA
6 7 (1.23%) NIST
7 6 (1.06%) HL7
8 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.53%) PMO
9 2 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.35%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 183 (32.28%) Docker
2 16 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.06%) Postfix
4 5 (0.88%) Squid
5 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 99 (17.46%) Kubernetes
2 83 (14.64%) Grafana
3 46 (8.11%) Prometheus
4 38 (6.70%) Ansible
5 18 (3.17%) Argo
6 11 (1.94%) Puppet
7 10 (1.76%) Kibana
8 8 (1.41%) Packer
9 7 (1.23%) Istio
9 7 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.88%) Salt
11 4 (0.71%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.53%) Consul
12 3 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.53%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.35%) Control-M
13 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.35%) Sysdig
13 2 (0.35%) systemd
13 2 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (8.29%) Databricks
2 41 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.82%) Oracle
4 27 (4.76%) Informatica
5 19 (3.35%) Splunk
6 16 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.65%) Google
8 11 (1.94%) Teradata
9 10 (1.76%) Denodo
9 10 (1.76%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (1.59%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.41%) Foundry
11 8 (1.41%) Palantir
11 8 (1.41%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.23%) Confluent
12 7 (1.23%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.06%) SnapLogic
13 6 (1.06%) VMware
14 5 (0.88%) Brio