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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 183 246
Rank change year-on-year -4 +63 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 580 355 355
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.44% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.07% 3.85% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 272 269
10th Percentile £356 £400 £396
25th Percentile £450 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £625
90th Percentile £694 £787 £728
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -1.09% +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 14,244 9,210 11,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.88% 37.47% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 6,447 8,583
10th Percentile £315 £313 £284
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 194 320
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.02 £18.13 £15.88
Median hourly rate £46.00 £26.48 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +73.75% +26.86% -29.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.74 £32.88
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.63 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +55.22% +30.95% -37.78%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +15 399 £530 -7.83% 57
Midlands -20 61 £475 +5.56% 9
West Midlands -18 57 £488 -4.88% 4
North of England -48 53 £500 +5.26% 38
South East -34 30 £563 +3.69% 21
North West -32 26 £450 +5.88% 25
South West -16 22 £525 -3.89% 10
Yorkshire -45 19 £500 -4.76% 9
North East -15 8 £500 -19.91% 4
East of England -22 7 £450 -10.00% 8
East Midlands -34 4 £413 +12.40% 5
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 67 (11.55%) Apache Spark
2 63 (10.86%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (7.24%) Apache
4 35 (6.03%) Confluence
5 10 (1.72%) nginx
5 10 (1.72%) SAS
6 3 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.52%) 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 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.86%) 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
1 578 (99.66%) AWS
2 356 (61.38%) Serverless
3 346 (59.66%) AWS Lambda
4 212 (36.55%) Amazon EC2
5 145 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 133 (22.93%) Amazon ECS
7 131 (22.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 118 (20.34%) GitHub
9 110 (18.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 109 (18.79%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (17.76%) Azure
12 83 (14.31%) GitHub Actions
13 78 (13.45%) Amazon SQS
14 73 (12.59%) AWS Step Functions
15 61 (10.52%) Snowflake
16 53 (9.14%) GCP
17 52 (8.97%) Route 53
18 51 (8.79%) dbt
19 50 (8.62%) Power Platform
20 44 (7.59%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.00%) DNS
2 23 (3.97%) Firewall
3 16 (2.76%) VPN
4 15 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.07%) Network Security
6 11 (1.90%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.52%) BGP
8 3 (0.52%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.52%) 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%) SSL
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (25.52%) Amazon RDS
2 108 (18.62%) Amazon Athena
3 104 (17.93%) PostgreSQL
4 94 (16.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 91 (15.69%) DynamoDB
6 51 (8.79%) Data Lake
7 50 (8.62%) Power BI
8 46 (7.93%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (6.90%) Relational Database
11 37 (6.38%) NoSQL
12 34 (5.86%) Tableau
13 30 (5.17%) SQL Server
14 28 (4.83%) MongoDB
15 26 (4.48%) Metadata
16 25 (4.31%) Big Data
16 25 (4.31%) BigQuery
17 24 (4.14%) OLTP
18 20 (3.45%) OLAP
19 19 (3.28%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 133 (22.93%) Jenkins
2 119 (20.52%) Git
3 106 (18.28%) GitLab
4 45 (7.76%) JIRA
5 25 (4.31%) SonarQube
6 24 (4.14%) Bitbucket
6 24 (4.14%) JUnit
6 24 (4.14%) Maven
7 18 (3.10%) Mockito
8 14 (2.41%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.90%) DbUnit
9 11 (1.90%) jMock
10 9 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (1.55%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.21%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.03%) Gradle
13 5 (0.86%) Selenium
14 4 (0.69%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.69%) Terragrunt
14 4 (0.69%) Vite
General
1 145 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 108 (18.62%) Finance
3 94 (16.21%) Public Sector
4 62 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.00%) Banking
6 23 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.41%) Front Office
7 14 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (0.86%) Military
9 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.52%) Legal
10 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.34%) Games
11 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
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
1 138 (23.79%) Data Engineer
2 119 (20.52%) Developer
3 84 (14.48%) AWS Engineer
4 74 (12.76%) Architect
5 69 (11.90%) Senior
6 62 (10.69%) Lead
7 45 (7.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 40 (6.90%) Java Developer
9 36 (6.21%) AWS Architect
10 31 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (5.17%) AWS Data Engineer
12 28 (4.83%) AWS Developer
13 27 (4.66%) Site Engineer
14 26 (4.48%) Senior Data Engineer
15 25 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
15 25 (4.31%) Data Architect
15 25 (4.31%) Lead Data Engineer
15 25 (4.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 22 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
17 21 (3.62%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (19.14%) Kafka
2 76 (13.10%) Spring
2 76 (13.10%) Spring Boot
3 65 (11.21%) Node.js
4 63 (10.86%) RESTful
5 52 (8.97%) React
6 46 (7.93%) REST
7 43 (7.41%) PySpark
8 38 (6.55%) AngularJS
9 33 (5.69%) OAuth
10 24 (4.14%) OpenID
11 22 (3.79%) AWS CDK
11 22 (3.79%) SOAP
12 21 (3.62%) CSS
13 19 (3.28%) Hibernate
13 19 (3.28%) JPA
13 19 (3.28%) Spring Cloud
13 19 (3.28%) Web Services
14 17 (2.93%) Great Expectations
15 16 (2.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 140 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.52%) Product Ownership
4 11 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (1.90%) NHS
5 9 (1.55%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.03%) Clustering
8 6 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.03%) PACS
8 6 (1.03%) SCADA
8 6 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.86%) Hedge funds
9 5 (0.86%) Mainframe
9 5 (0.86%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.86%) Replication
9 5 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (13.79%) Linux
2 21 (3.62%) Unix
3 13 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.21%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (0.69%) Windows
6 2 (0.34%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (57.59%) CI/CD
2 235 (40.52%) DevOps
3 216 (37.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (28.97%) Agile
5 138 (23.79%) Analytics
6 134 (23.10%) Containerisation
6 134 (23.10%) ETL
7 126 (21.72%) Data Modelling
8 121 (20.86%) Data Engineering
9 108 (18.62%) Data Pipeline
10 101 (17.41%) Microservices
11 85 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
12 84 (14.48%) Observability
13 75 (12.93%) AI
14 67 (11.55%) Performance Tuning
15 65 (11.21%) Test Automation
16 64 (11.03%) Migration
16 64 (11.03%) Software Engineering
17 62 (10.69%) Data Governance
17 62 (10.69%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 327 (56.38%) Python
2 230 (39.66%) SQL
3 131 (22.59%) Java
4 57 (9.83%) TypeScript
5 47 (8.10%) Bash
6 46 (7.93%) C#
7 44 (7.59%) JavaScript
8 30 (5.17%) Shell Script
9 21 (3.62%) Scala
10 19 (3.28%) PowerShell
11 13 (2.24%) Go
12 6 (1.03%) Bicep
12 6 (1.03%) Groovy
12 6 (1.03%) SAS Macro
13 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.52%) C
14 3 (0.52%) C++
14 3 (0.52%) JSX
14 3 (0.52%) Perl
14 3 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 202 (34.83%) Security Cleared
2 166 (28.62%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.93%) AWS Certification
4 17 (2.93%) Degree
4 17 (2.93%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.69%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.52%) OCP
10 3 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.52%) PhD
10 3 (0.52%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (13.28%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.34%) GDPR
3 20 (3.45%) QA
4 13 (2.24%) NIST
5 12 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.38%) SLA
7 7 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.21%) PMO
8 6 (1.03%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.34%) WCAG
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 200 (34.48%) Docker
2 10 (1.72%) Postfix
2 10 (1.72%) Squid
3 7 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.52%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 277 (47.76%) Terraform
2 141 (24.31%) Kubernetes
3 84 (14.48%) Grafana
4 64 (11.03%) Prometheus
5 56 (9.66%) Ansible
6 18 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.59%) Puppet
8 13 (2.24%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.90%) Kibana
10 9 (1.55%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.38%) Consul
12 6 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.86%) Argo
14 4 (0.69%) Dell DRAC
14 4 (0.69%) Istio
14 4 (0.69%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.69%) Packer
14 4 (0.69%) Salt
15 3 (0.52%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 62 (10.69%) Databricks
2 36 (6.21%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.86%) Splunk
4 27 (4.66%) Google
5 18 (3.10%) Atlassian
5 18 (3.10%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.41%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.24%) Oracle
8 11 (1.90%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.72%) Confluent
10 9 (1.55%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.21%) Informatica
13 6 (1.03%) AVEVA
13 6 (1.03%) Dell
13 6 (1.03%) Denodo
13 6 (1.03%) IBM
13 6 (1.03%) Teradata
14 5 (0.86%) Ab Initio