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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 183 242
Rank change year-on-year +5 +59 +49
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 587 357 355
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.49% 1.46% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.14% 3.88% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 274 272
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £625
90th Percentile £696 £785 £736
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -1.23% +2.94% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 14,171 9,198 11,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.95% 37.56% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,767 6,452 8,581
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 190 318
10th Percentile £16.05 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.75 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +68.22% +28.79% -24.47%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.74 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.05 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £42.59 £27.76 £21.00
% change year-on-year +53.43% +32.19% -30.58%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +17 403 £525 -8.70% 71
Midlands -25 62 £475 +5.56% 11
West Midlands -22 57 £488 -4.88% 9
North of England -49 55 £500 +5.26% 38
South East -25 30 £563 +3.69% 18
North West -39 27 £450 +5.88% 26
South West -12 22 £525 -3.89% 12
Yorkshire -48 20 £500 -4.76% 9
North East -9 8 £538 -13.90% 3
East of England -28 7 £450 -10.00% 10
East Midlands -35 5 £423 +4.19% 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 69 (11.75%) Apache Spark
2 66 (11.24%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (7.50%) Apache
4 32 (5.45%) Confluence
5 10 (1.70%) nginx
5 10 (1.70%) SAS
6 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 585 (99.66%) AWS
2 363 (61.84%) Serverless
3 353 (60.14%) AWS Lambda
4 211 (35.95%) Amazon EC2
5 147 (25.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 136 (23.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 134 (22.83%) Amazon ECS
8 115 (19.59%) GitHub
9 107 (18.23%) Amazon EKS
10 106 (18.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 102 (17.38%) Azure
12 81 (13.80%) Amazon SQS
12 81 (13.80%) GitHub Actions
13 74 (12.61%) AWS Step Functions
14 64 (10.90%) Snowflake
15 54 (9.20%) dbt
15 54 (9.20%) GCP
16 52 (8.86%) Power Platform
16 52 (8.86%) Route 53
17 49 (8.35%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.77%) DNS
2 21 (3.58%) Firewall
3 16 (2.73%) VPN
4 14 (2.39%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.04%) Network Security
6 11 (1.87%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.51%) BGP
8 3 (0.51%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.51%) OSPF
9 2 (0.34%) Multicast
9 2 (0.34%) NAS
9 2 (0.34%) SAN
9 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.34%) VLAN
9 2 (0.34%) WAN
10 1 (0.17%) 4G
10 1 (0.17%) 5G
10 1 (0.17%) AMQP
10 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (25.38%) Amazon RDS
2 113 (19.25%) Amazon Athena
3 102 (17.38%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (16.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 93 (15.84%) DynamoDB
6 53 (9.03%) Data Lake
7 52 (8.86%) Power BI
8 47 (8.01%) Data Warehouse
9 44 (7.50%) Relational Database
10 42 (7.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 37 (6.30%) NoSQL
11 37 (6.30%) Tableau
12 29 (4.94%) SQL Server
13 28 (4.77%) MongoDB
14 27 (4.60%) Metadata
15 26 (4.43%) BigQuery
16 25 (4.26%) Big Data
16 25 (4.26%) OLTP
17 21 (3.58%) OLAP
18 19 (3.24%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 129 (21.98%) Jenkins
2 115 (19.59%) Git
3 106 (18.06%) GitLab
4 43 (7.33%) JIRA
5 27 (4.60%) JUnit
6 25 (4.26%) SonarQube
7 24 (4.09%) Maven
8 23 (3.92%) Bitbucket
9 18 (3.07%) Mockito
10 14 (2.39%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.87%) DbUnit
11 11 (1.87%) jMock
12 9 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (1.36%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.19%) Artifactory
15 6 (1.02%) Gradle
16 5 (0.85%) Selenium
17 4 (0.68%) Postman
17 4 (0.68%) Terragrunt
17 4 (0.68%) Vite
General
1 150 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 109 (18.57%) Finance
3 95 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 66 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.11%) Banking
6 24 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.39%) Front Office
7 14 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (0.85%) Military
9 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.51%) Legal
10 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.34%) Games
11 2 (0.34%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.34%) Law
11 2 (0.34%) Local Government
11 2 (0.34%) Police
11 2 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 143 (24.36%) Data Engineer
2 121 (20.61%) Developer
3 84 (14.31%) AWS Engineer
4 74 (12.61%) Architect
5 72 (12.27%) Senior
6 63 (10.73%) Lead
7 43 (7.33%) Java Developer
8 42 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 36 (6.13%) AWS Architect
10 32 (5.45%) AWS Data Engineer
11 31 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (5.11%) AWS Developer
13 27 (4.60%) Site Engineer
14 26 (4.43%) Lead Data Engineer
14 26 (4.43%) Senior Data Engineer
15 25 (4.26%) Analyst
15 25 (4.26%) Data Architect
15 25 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 24 (4.09%) AWS DevOps
17 22 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (19.93%) Kafka
2 78 (13.29%) Spring
2 78 (13.29%) Spring Boot
3 65 (11.07%) Node.js
4 60 (10.22%) RESTful
5 51 (8.69%) React
6 46 (7.84%) REST
7 43 (7.33%) PySpark
8 38 (6.47%) AngularJS
9 33 (5.62%) OAuth
10 23 (3.92%) OpenID
11 22 (3.75%) AWS CDK
12 21 (3.58%) CSS
12 21 (3.58%) SOAP
13 19 (3.24%) Hibernate
13 19 (3.24%) JPA
13 19 (3.24%) Spring Cloud
13 19 (3.24%) Web Services
14 18 (3.07%) Great Expectations
15 16 (2.73%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 11 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (1.87%) NHS
5 9 (1.53%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.02%) Clustering
7 6 (1.02%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.02%) PACS
7 6 (1.02%) SCADA
7 6 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (0.85%) Mainframe
8 5 (0.85%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.68%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 75 (12.78%) Linux
2 19 (3.24%) Unix
3 13 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.68%) Windows
5 2 (0.34%) Android
5 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.34%) zOS
6 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (56.90%) CI/CD
2 232 (39.52%) DevOps
3 219 (37.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (28.79%) Agile
5 141 (24.02%) Analytics
6 140 (23.85%) ETL
7 132 (22.49%) Containerisation
8 129 (21.98%) Data Modelling
9 127 (21.64%) Data Engineering
10 111 (18.91%) Data Pipeline
11 101 (17.21%) Microservices
12 89 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
13 85 (14.48%) Observability
14 74 (12.61%) AI
15 68 (11.58%) Migration
16 65 (11.07%) Data Governance
16 65 (11.07%) Performance Tuning
17 64 (10.90%) Test Automation
18 63 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
19 61 (10.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 326 (55.54%) Python
2 238 (40.55%) SQL
3 133 (22.66%) Java
4 57 (9.71%) TypeScript
5 46 (7.84%) Bash
6 45 (7.67%) JavaScript
7 44 (7.50%) C#
8 28 (4.77%) Shell Script
9 21 (3.58%) Scala
10 16 (2.73%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.04%) Go
12 6 (1.02%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.85%) Bicep
14 4 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.51%) C
15 3 (0.51%) C++
15 3 (0.51%) JSX
15 3 (0.51%) R
16 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 202 (34.41%) Security Cleared
2 165 (28.11%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.33%) AWS Certification
4 17 (2.90%) Degree
4 17 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.51%) OCP
10 3 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.51%) PhD
10 3 (0.51%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (13.46%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.62%) GDPR
3 22 (3.75%) QA
4 13 (2.21%) NIST
5 12 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.36%) SLA
8 7 (1.19%) PMO
9 6 (1.02%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.34%) WCAG
12 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) GxP
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
12 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 194 (33.05%) Docker
2 10 (1.70%) Postfix
2 10 (1.70%) Squid
3 7 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.51%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 277 (47.19%) Terraform
2 141 (24.02%) Kubernetes
3 81 (13.80%) Grafana
4 61 (10.39%) Prometheus
5 56 (9.54%) Ansible
6 17 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.56%) Puppet
8 13 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 12 (2.04%) Kibana
10 9 (1.53%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.19%) Consul
12 6 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.85%) Argo
14 4 (0.68%) Dell DRAC
14 4 (0.68%) Istio
14 4 (0.68%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.68%) Salt
15 3 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.51%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 65 (11.07%) Databricks
2 40 (6.81%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.62%) Splunk
4 28 (4.77%) Google
5 18 (3.07%) Atlassian
5 18 (3.07%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.39%) Jaspersoft
7 13 (2.21%) Oracle
7 13 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.87%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.70%) Confluent
10 9 (1.53%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.36%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.19%) Denodo
12 7 (1.19%) Informatica
12 7 (1.19%) Sybase
13 6 (1.02%) AVEVA
13 6 (1.02%) Dell
13 6 (1.02%) IBM
13 6 (1.02%) Teradata