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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 195 259
Rank change year-on-year +4 +64 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 502 343 344
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.34% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.89% 3.57% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 245 272
10th Percentile £358 £404 £383
25th Percentile £432 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £620 £688 £636
90th Percentile £688 £788 £736
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -0.95% +0.48% -8.33%
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 12,911 9,595 12,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 37.42% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 6,420 9,080
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 140 308
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.18 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.58% -11.70%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.19 £48.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.93 £67.17
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +13 330 £525 -8.70% 87
North of England -23 64 £500 - 48
Midlands -29 51 £500 +11.11% 19
West Midlands -20 44 £500 -9.09% 16
Yorkshire -27 31 £500 -4.76% 22
South East -12 25 £528 -17.25% 32
North West -17 25 £450 -5.26% 24
South West -12 17 £538 -4.51% 16
East of England -16 9 £475 -1.30% 13
North East -10 8 £450 -26.23% 2
East Midlands -25 7 £417 -6.02% 3
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 42 (8.37%) Apache Spark
2 33 (6.57%) Confluence
3 32 (6.37%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (5.78%) Apache
5 12 (2.39%) nginx
6 4 (0.80%) SAS
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.60%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Actimize
1 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 499 (99.40%) AWS
2 302 (60.16%) Serverless
3 294 (58.57%) AWS Lambda
4 203 (40.44%) Amazon EC2
5 145 (28.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 120 (23.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 118 (23.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 106 (21.12%) Amazon ECS
9 97 (19.32%) GitHub
10 95 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
11 90 (17.93%) Azure
12 72 (14.34%) GitHub Actions
13 51 (10.16%) AWS Step Functions
14 47 (9.36%) GCP
15 45 (8.96%) Amazon Kinesis
16 43 (8.57%) Route 53
17 42 (8.37%) Snowflake
18 39 (7.77%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (6.97%) Amazon ELB
20 34 (6.77%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.76%) DNS
2 39 (7.77%) Firewall
3 31 (6.18%) VPN
4 24 (4.78%) TCP/IP
5 21 (4.18%) Network Security
6 14 (2.79%) SSL
7 7 (1.39%) OpenVPN
8 6 (1.20%) FTP
8 6 (1.20%) HTTP
8 6 (1.20%) SMTP
8 6 (1.20%) SSH
9 4 (0.80%) IMAP
9 4 (0.80%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.60%) BGP
11 2 (0.40%) Multicast
11 2 (0.40%) NAS
11 2 (0.40%) OSPF
11 2 (0.40%) SAN
11 2 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (28.88%) Amazon RDS
2 87 (17.33%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (15.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 71 (14.14%) Amazon Athena
5 68 (13.55%) DynamoDB
6 41 (8.17%) Data Lake
7 39 (7.77%) Relational Database
8 35 (6.97%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (6.57%) Power BI
10 32 (6.37%) Amazon Aurora
11 25 (4.98%) MongoDB
12 22 (4.38%) BigQuery
12 22 (4.38%) SQL Server
13 21 (4.18%) MySQL
14 20 (3.98%) NoSQL
15 19 (3.78%) OLTP
16 18 (3.59%) Tableau
17 16 (3.19%) OLAP
18 14 (2.79%) Metadata
18 14 (2.79%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 118 (23.51%) Jenkins
2 100 (19.92%) GitLab
3 95 (18.92%) Git
4 38 (7.57%) JIRA
5 17 (3.39%) Bitbucket
6 14 (2.79%) JUnit
6 14 (2.79%) Maven
7 12 (2.39%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.79%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.20%) Gradle
10 6 (1.20%) Mockito
10 6 (1.20%) Vagrant
11 4 (0.80%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.80%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.80%) Vite
12 3 (0.60%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.60%) DbUnit
12 3 (0.60%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.60%) jMock
General
1 142 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 80 (15.94%) Finance
3 78 (15.54%) Public Sector
4 51 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.38%) Banking
6 18 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.39%) Front Office
9 7 (1.39%) Military
10 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.60%) Legal
11 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.40%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Aviation
13 1 (0.20%) Billing
13 1 (0.20%) Games
13 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (19.32%) Data Engineer
2 90 (17.93%) Developer
3 78 (15.54%) AWS Engineer
4 64 (12.75%) Architect
5 58 (11.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 56 (11.16%) Senior
7 50 (9.96%) Lead
8 30 (5.98%) Java Developer
9 29 (5.78%) AWS Architect
10 27 (5.38%) AWS Data Engineer
11 26 (5.18%) Software Engineer
12 25 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
13 24 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
14 23 (4.58%) Site Engineer
15 22 (4.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 22 (4.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 21 (4.18%) Analyst
16 21 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
17 19 (3.78%) Cloud Architect
17 19 (3.78%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (19.72%) Kafka
2 58 (11.55%) Spring
2 58 (11.55%) Spring Boot
3 47 (9.36%) Node.js
4 46 (9.16%) React
5 45 (8.96%) RESTful
6 38 (7.57%) REST
7 30 (5.98%) AngularJS
8 26 (5.18%) OAuth
9 22 (4.38%) CSS
9 22 (4.38%) PySpark
10 18 (3.59%) Jest
11 17 (3.39%) AWS CDK
12 15 (2.99%) OpenID
13 14 (2.79%) boto
13 14 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (2.79%) Great Expectations
13 14 (2.79%) HTML
14 13 (2.59%) FastAPI
14 13 (2.59%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 120 (23.90%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.59%) Replication
6 11 (2.19%) NHS
7 8 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.00%) SCADA
11 4 (0.80%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.80%) Derivative
11 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.80%) Equities
11 4 (0.80%) PACS
11 4 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 70 (13.94%) Linux
2 13 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (2.59%) Windows
3 10 (1.99%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (1.79%) Unix
4 9 (1.79%) VMS
5 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.40%) zOS
8 1 (0.20%) Android
8 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (58.96%) CI/CD
2 212 (42.23%) DevOps
3 197 (39.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (24.90%) Agile
5 121 (24.10%) Containerisation
6 111 (22.11%) ETL
7 104 (20.72%) Analytics
8 99 (19.72%) Data Engineering
8 99 (19.72%) Data Modelling
9 88 (17.53%) Data Pipeline
10 87 (17.33%) Microservices
11 83 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
12 81 (16.14%) Observability
13 62 (12.35%) Software Engineering
14 61 (12.15%) Performance Tuning
15 59 (11.75%) Event-Driven
16 55 (10.96%) Data Governance
16 55 (10.96%) Migration
17 53 (10.56%) AI
18 52 (10.36%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 291 (57.97%) Python
2 186 (37.05%) SQL
3 99 (19.72%) Java
4 60 (11.95%) Bash
5 43 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 40 (7.97%) JavaScript
7 26 (5.18%) C#
8 24 (4.78%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.59%) Go
9 18 (3.59%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.39%) Groovy
11 6 (1.20%) JSX
12 5 (1.00%) Korn
12 5 (1.00%) Scala
13 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.60%) C++
14 3 (0.60%) Perl
15 2 (0.40%) Bicep
15 2 (0.40%) C
15 2 (0.40%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 177 (35.26%) Security Cleared
2 147 (29.28%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.36%) AWS Certification
4 21 (4.18%) Degree
5 20 (3.98%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.39%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.60%) OCP
10 3 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.60%) PhD
11 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.16%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.97%) GDPR
3 24 (4.78%) QA
4 15 (2.99%) NIST
5 14 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.39%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.80%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.80%) PMO
8 3 (0.60%) NCSC
8 3 (0.60%) SLA
9 2 (0.40%) MiFID
9 2 (0.40%) WCAG
10 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.20%) GxP
10 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 180 (35.86%) Docker
2 11 (2.19%) Squid
3 7 (1.39%) Postfix
4 6 (1.20%) DFS Replication
5 5 (1.00%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.80%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.60%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.40%) HDFS
8 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.20%) etcd
9 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 251 (50.00%) Terraform
2 139 (27.69%) Kubernetes
3 75 (14.94%) Ansible
4 63 (12.55%) Grafana
5 61 (12.15%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.59%) Progress Chef
7 17 (3.39%) Puppet
8 14 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.79%) Argo
10 8 (1.59%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.39%) Kibana
11 7 (1.39%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (1.20%) Consul
13 5 (1.00%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (1.00%) Istio
13 5 (1.00%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.80%) Nessus
14 4 (0.80%) Proxmox
15 3 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 3 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 51 (10.16%) Databricks
2 32 (6.37%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.58%) Google
4 20 (3.98%) Splunk
5 17 (3.39%) F5
5 17 (3.39%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.19%) Palo Alto
6 16 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.99%) CheckPoint
8 12 (2.39%) Oracle
9 10 (1.99%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.79%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.59%) Confluent
11 8 (1.59%) Dell
11 8 (1.59%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.59%) PagerDuty
12 6 (1.20%) AVEVA
12 6 (1.20%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.00%) IBM
13 5 (1.00%) Sybase