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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 181 248
Rank change year-on-year -1 +67 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 573 354 349
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.45% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 3.86% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 274 269
10th Percentile £355 £400 £396
25th Percentile £450 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £636 £625
90th Percentile £694 £788 £728
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £511
% change year-on-year -1.23% +2.69% -7.05%
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 14,246 9,160 12,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.32% 37.62% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,841 6,446 8,640
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £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 £714 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 185 320
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £15.88
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -22.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £33.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.30 £59.96
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -26.96%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +9 388 £525 -8.70% 76
Midlands -22 62 £475 +5.56% 12
North of England -50 58 £500 +5.26% 43
West Midlands -22 55 £494 -3.66% 8
South East -37 27 £540 -11.29% 34
North West -24 26 £450 +9.09% 21
Yorkshire -38 24 £500 -3.61% 17
South West -11 23 £531 -2.07% 13
North East -13 8 £538 -13.90% 5
East of England -31 7 £475 -5.00% 7
East Midlands -32 7 £423 +4.19% 4
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 59 (10.30%) Apache Spark
2 54 (9.42%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (6.98%) Apache
4 29 (5.06%) Confluence
5 10 (1.75%) nginx
5 10 (1.75%) SAS
6 3 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.35%) 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 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 571 (99.65%) AWS
2 353 (61.61%) Serverless
3 340 (59.34%) AWS Lambda
4 216 (37.70%) Amazon EC2
5 148 (25.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 138 (24.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 123 (21.47%) Amazon ECS
8 114 (19.90%) GitHub
9 108 (18.85%) Amazon EKS
9 108 (18.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 101 (17.63%) Azure
11 79 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
12 73 (12.74%) Amazon SQS
13 65 (11.34%) AWS Step Functions
14 59 (10.30%) Snowflake
15 56 (9.77%) GCP
16 52 (9.08%) Route 53
17 49 (8.55%) Power Platform
18 47 (8.20%) dbt
19 46 (8.03%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.06%) DNS
2 24 (4.19%) Firewall
3 17 (2.97%) VPN
4 14 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.09%) Network Security
6 11 (1.92%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.70%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.52%) BGP
8 3 (0.52%) OSPF
9 2 (0.35%) Multicast
9 2 (0.35%) NAS
9 2 (0.35%) SAN
9 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.35%) VLAN
9 2 (0.35%) WAN
10 1 (0.17%) DHCP
10 1 (0.17%) SMS
10 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (26.35%) Amazon RDS
2 105 (18.32%) Amazon Athena
3 93 (16.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 92 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
5 88 (15.36%) DynamoDB
6 52 (9.08%) Data Lake
7 49 (8.55%) Power BI
8 46 (8.03%) Data Warehouse
9 44 (7.68%) Relational Database
10 33 (5.76%) Tableau
11 32 (5.58%) Amazon Aurora
12 31 (5.41%) NoSQL
13 27 (4.71%) SQL Server
14 26 (4.54%) BigQuery
15 25 (4.36%) Metadata
16 24 (4.19%) MongoDB
17 23 (4.01%) OLTP
18 21 (3.66%) OLAP
19 18 (3.14%) Big Data
19 18 (3.14%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 123 (21.47%) Jenkins
2 111 (19.37%) Git
3 106 (18.50%) GitLab
4 40 (6.98%) JIRA
5 25 (4.36%) JUnit
6 23 (4.01%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.84%) Bitbucket
7 22 (3.84%) Maven
8 16 (2.79%) Mockito
9 12 (2.09%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.57%) DbUnit
10 9 (1.57%) jMock
11 8 (1.40%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.22%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.22%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.05%) Gradle
14 4 (0.70%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.70%) Postman
14 4 (0.70%) Selenium
14 4 (0.70%) Terragrunt
General
1 149 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.15%) Finance
3 92 (16.06%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.41%) Banking
6 24 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.44%) Front Office
8 13 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.87%) Military
10 4 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.52%) Legal
11 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.35%) Games
12 2 (0.35%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.35%) Law
12 2 (0.35%) Police
12 2 (0.35%) Retail
13 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (23.91%) Data Engineer
2 116 (20.24%) Developer
3 81 (14.14%) AWS Engineer
4 70 (12.22%) Senior
5 64 (11.17%) Architect
6 60 (10.47%) Lead
7 43 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 41 (7.16%) Java Developer
9 32 (5.58%) AWS Architect
10 30 (5.24%) AWS Data Engineer
10 30 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (5.06%) Site Engineer
12 28 (4.89%) AWS Developer
12 28 (4.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 27 (4.71%) Lead Data Engineer
14 26 (4.54%) Analyst
15 25 (4.36%) Senior Data Engineer
16 22 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
17 21 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
17 21 (3.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (20.07%) Kafka
2 76 (13.26%) Spring
2 76 (13.26%) Spring Boot
3 64 (11.17%) Node.js
4 56 (9.77%) RESTful
5 48 (8.38%) React
6 45 (7.85%) REST
7 42 (7.33%) PySpark
8 36 (6.28%) AngularJS
9 32 (5.58%) OAuth
10 23 (4.01%) AWS CDK
11 22 (3.84%) OpenID
12 19 (3.32%) SOAP
13 18 (3.14%) Great Expectations
14 17 (2.97%) Hibernate
14 17 (2.97%) JPA
14 17 (2.97%) Spring Cloud
14 17 (2.97%) Web Services
15 16 (2.79%) CSS
15 16 (2.79%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 139 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 11 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (1.92%) NHS
5 9 (1.57%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.22%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.05%) Clustering
7 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.05%) SCADA
8 5 (0.87%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.87%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.70%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.70%) Equities
9 4 (0.70%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.70%) PACS
9 4 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 73 (12.74%) Linux
2 16 (2.79%) Unix
3 14 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.05%) Windows
5 4 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Android
6 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.35%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (57.59%) CI/CD
2 233 (40.66%) DevOps
3 212 (37.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (27.05%) Agile
5 137 (23.91%) ETL
6 136 (23.73%) Analytics
7 130 (22.69%) Containerisation
8 125 (21.82%) Data Engineering
8 125 (21.82%) Data Modelling
9 108 (18.85%) Data Pipeline
10 99 (17.28%) Microservices
11 89 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (15.01%) Observability
13 72 (12.57%) AI
14 67 (11.69%) Migration
15 65 (11.34%) Performance Tuning
16 63 (10.99%) Data Governance
17 58 (10.12%) Business Intelligence
17 58 (10.12%) Event-Driven
18 57 (9.95%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 316 (55.15%) Python
2 224 (39.09%) SQL
3 125 (21.82%) Java
4 55 (9.60%) TypeScript
5 51 (8.90%) Bash
6 42 (7.33%) C#
7 37 (6.46%) JavaScript
8 31 (5.41%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.32%) PowerShell
10 12 (2.09%) Go
10 12 (2.09%) Scala
11 6 (1.05%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.87%) Bicep
13 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.52%) C
14 3 (0.52%) C++
14 3 (0.52%) JSX
14 3 (0.52%) Korn
15 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 199 (34.73%) Security Cleared
2 162 (28.27%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.68%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.32%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.97%) Degree
6 16 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.22%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.52%) OCP
12 3 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.52%) PhD
12 3 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.52%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.61%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.93%) GDPR
3 22 (3.84%) QA
4 14 (2.44%) NIST
5 13 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.40%) SLA
8 7 (1.22%) PMO
9 4 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.35%) WCAG
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) GxP
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
11 1 (0.17%) NCSC
11 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 191 (33.33%) Docker
2 10 (1.75%) Squid
3 8 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.40%) Postfix
4 3 (0.52%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 272 (47.47%) Terraform
2 147 (25.65%) Kubernetes
3 74 (12.91%) Grafana
4 62 (10.82%) Ansible
5 60 (10.47%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (2.79%) Progress Chef
7 16 (2.79%) Puppet
8 9 (1.57%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.22%) Consul
9 7 (1.22%) Kibana
9 7 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (1.05%) Argo
11 5 (0.87%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (0.87%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.70%) Istio
12 4 (0.70%) Salt
13 3 (0.52%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.52%) Opsgenie
13 3 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 63 (10.99%) Databricks
2 39 (6.81%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.24%) Google
4 28 (4.89%) Splunk
5 19 (3.32%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.79%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.09%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.09%) Jaspersoft
8 12 (2.09%) Oracle
9 9 (1.57%) PagerDuty
10 8 (1.40%) Confluent
11 7 (1.22%) Dell
11 7 (1.22%) Informatica
11 7 (1.22%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.22%) Sybase
12 6 (1.05%) AVEVA
12 6 (1.05%) Denodo
12 6 (1.05%) IBM
13 5 (0.87%) Teradata