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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 168 241
Rank change year-on-year -43 +73 +61
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 578 463 329
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.27% 1.68% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.62% 4.51% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 339 225
10th Percentile £385 £368 £377
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £728 £775
UK median daily rate £526 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +0.19% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £38.13 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.86% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile - £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £46.75 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +1.08% - -

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 15,945 10,274 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.97% 37.18% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,633 6,952 7,950
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 275 230
10th Percentile £15.94 £15.03 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.31 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% +6.95% -23.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.58 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.00% +12.36% -24.48%

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 14 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 14 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 -4 386 £575 - 240
Midlands -25 69 £469 -1.26% 25
West Midlands -34 61 £469 -1.26% 11
North of England -58 61 £488 -2.50% 40
South West -33 28 £463 -15.33% 25
South East -71 25 £575 +35.29% 29
North West -48 24 £525 +10.53% 21
North East -27 19 £425 -5.56% 7
Yorkshire -44 18 £525 - 12
East Midlands -17 7 £438 -18.53% 14
East of England -34 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 66 (11.42%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (10.21%) Confluence
3 49 (8.48%) Apache Spark
4 39 (6.75%) Apache
5 17 (2.94%) SAS
6 8 (1.38%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.21%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.87%) nginx
9 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.35%) CMS
10 2 (0.35%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.17%) Mule
11 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 570 (98.62%) AWS
2 364 (62.98%) Serverless
3 358 (61.94%) AWS Lambda
4 197 (34.08%) Amazon EC2
5 177 (30.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 133 (23.01%) GitHub
7 128 (22.15%) Amazon ECS
8 119 (20.59%) Amazon EKS
9 103 (17.82%) GitHub Actions
9 103 (17.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 93 (16.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 91 (15.74%) Amazon SQS
11 91 (15.74%) Azure
12 75 (12.98%) Snowflake
13 68 (11.76%) dbt
14 67 (11.59%) AWS Step Functions
15 59 (10.21%) Amazon EMR
16 54 (9.34%) Power Platform
17 44 (7.61%) AWS KMS
18 39 (6.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.11%) Firewall
2 15 (2.60%) DNS
3 9 (1.56%) Network Security
4 6 (1.04%) SSL
4 6 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.87%) VPN
6 4 (0.69%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.69%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.69%) WAN
7 3 (0.52%) CTI
7 3 (0.52%) HTTP
7 3 (0.52%) SAN
8 2 (0.35%) Internet
8 2 (0.35%) NAS
8 2 (0.35%) VLAN
9 1 (0.17%) 5G
9 1 (0.17%) AMQP
9 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (25.95%) Amazon RDS
2 122 (21.11%) Amazon Athena
3 104 (17.99%) DynamoDB
4 97 (16.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 77 (13.32%) PostgreSQL
6 71 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
7 54 (9.34%) Power BI
8 49 (8.48%) Data Lake
9 41 (7.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 36 (6.23%) Metadata
11 25 (4.33%) Big Data
11 25 (4.33%) NoSQL
12 24 (4.15%) Tableau
13 23 (3.98%) Relational Database
14 21 (3.63%) Apache Iceberg
14 21 (3.63%) MongoDB
14 21 (3.63%) SQL Server
15 19 (3.29%) BigQuery
15 19 (3.29%) Data Vault
16 17 (2.94%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 125 (21.63%) Git
1 125 (21.63%) Jenkins
2 117 (20.24%) GitLab
3 59 (10.21%) JIRA
4 26 (4.50%) Bitbucket
5 20 (3.46%) JUnit
6 19 (3.29%) SonarQube
7 18 (3.11%) Mockito
8 16 (2.77%) Maven
9 11 (1.90%) DbUnit
10 10 (1.73%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (1.73%) jMock
11 9 (1.56%) Artifactory
11 9 (1.56%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (1.04%) Cucumber
13 6 (1.04%) Postman
14 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
15 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 143 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 120 (20.76%) Public Sector
3 105 (18.17%) Finance
4 55 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.92%) Banking
6 13 (2.25%) Front Office
7 11 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.38%) Back Office
10 7 (1.21%) Law
10 7 (1.21%) Military
11 6 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.87%) Billing
12 5 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.69%) Marketing
13 4 (0.69%) Retail
13 4 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.52%) Local Government
14 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 146 (25.26%) Data Engineer
2 102 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 95 (16.44%) Developer
4 94 (16.26%) Senior
5 80 (13.84%) Lead
6 69 (11.94%) Architect
7 55 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 39 (6.75%) Senior Data Engineer
9 37 (6.40%) AWS Data Engineer
10 32 (5.54%) Java Developer
11 31 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
12 30 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (4.67%) AWS Developer
14 25 (4.33%) AWS Architect
15 24 (4.15%) Data Architect
15 24 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
16 21 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 21 (3.63%) Software Engineer
17 20 (3.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 20 (3.46%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (12.46%) Kafka
2 62 (10.73%) REST
3 61 (10.55%) PySpark
4 51 (8.82%) React
5 49 (8.48%) Spring Boot
6 48 (8.30%) RESTful
6 48 (8.30%) Spring
7 44 (7.61%) Node.js
8 26 (4.50%) AngularJS
9 24 (4.15%) AWS CDK
10 23 (3.98%) SOAP
11 21 (3.63%) FastAPI
12 19 (3.29%) Web Services
13 18 (3.11%) GraphQL
13 18 (3.11%) JSON
14 17 (2.94%) ActiveMQ
15 15 (2.60%) JPA
16 14 (2.42%) Hibernate
16 14 (2.42%) OAuth
16 14 (2.42%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 140 (24.22%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.30%) Product Ownership
3 38 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.29%) NHS
5 12 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.56%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.56%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.38%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.21%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.21%) Legacy Code
9 7 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.21%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.21%) Replication
10 6 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (14.01%) Linux
2 20 (3.46%) Unix
3 15 (2.60%) Windows
4 14 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.21%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.69%) AIX
7 3 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.35%) Android
8 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (63.32%) CI/CD
2 242 (41.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 240 (41.52%) DevOps
4 204 (35.29%) Agile
5 146 (25.26%) Data Pipeline
6 144 (24.91%) Data Engineering
7 129 (22.32%) Analytics
8 118 (20.42%) Data Modelling
9 113 (19.55%) ETL
10 112 (19.38%) Containerisation
11 106 (18.34%) AI
12 96 (16.61%) Observability
13 88 (15.22%) Microservices
14 86 (14.88%) Migration
14 86 (14.88%) Test Automation
15 75 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 73 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
16 73 (12.63%) Machine Learning
17 71 (12.28%) Event-Driven
18 70 (12.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 333 (57.61%) Python
2 222 (38.41%) SQL
3 108 (18.69%) Java
4 62 (10.73%) Bash
5 55 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 41 (7.09%) JavaScript
7 33 (5.71%) C#
8 28 (4.84%) PowerShell
9 21 (3.63%) Shell Script
10 20 (3.46%) Scala
11 15 (2.60%) Groovy
12 8 (1.38%) Bicep
12 8 (1.38%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.04%) Perl
13 6 (1.04%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.87%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.87%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.69%) Cypher
15 4 (0.69%) R
16 3 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 207 (35.81%) Security Cleared
2 182 (31.49%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.90%) AWS Certification
4 26 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (4.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (2.94%) Degree
7 16 (2.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (2.77%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.90%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.90%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.69%) CISM
12 4 (0.69%) CISSP
13 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.52%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.15%) QA
3 15 (2.60%) GDPR
4 8 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.38%) SLA
5 6 (1.04%) HL7
5 6 (1.04%) NIST
6 4 (0.69%) PMO
7 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.35%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 187 (32.35%) Docker
2 15 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.38%) Postfix
4 5 (0.87%) Squid
5 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 276 (47.75%) Terraform
2 102 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 87 (15.05%) Grafana
4 46 (7.96%) Prometheus
5 38 (6.57%) Ansible
6 18 (3.11%) Argo
7 11 (1.90%) Puppet
8 10 (1.73%) Kibana
9 8 (1.38%) Packer
10 7 (1.21%) Istio
10 7 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.87%) Salt
12 4 (0.69%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.52%) Consul
13 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.35%) Control-M
14 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.35%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.35%) systemd
Vendors
1 51 (8.82%) Databricks
2 39 (6.75%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.36%) Oracle
4 25 (4.33%) Informatica
5 21 (3.63%) Splunk
6 18 (3.11%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.77%) Dynatrace
8 15 (2.60%) Google
9 13 (2.25%) Jaspersoft
10 12 (2.08%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.73%) Denodo
11 10 (1.73%) Teradata
12 8 (1.38%) Foundry
12 8 (1.38%) Palantir
12 8 (1.38%) Salesforce
13 7 (1.21%) Confluent
13 7 (1.21%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.04%) VMware
15 5 (0.87%) Brio
15 5 (0.87%) Cisco