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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 218 305
Rank change year-on-year +49 +87 -44
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 469 357 304
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.14% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.23% 3.20% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 239 229
10th Percentile £400 £375 £406
25th Percentile £450 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £650
90th Percentile £738 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £50.94 - £52.50
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Cloud 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 11,080 11,150 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.84% 35.54% 35.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,473 7,408 10,557
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £741 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 150 286
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.33 £14.56
25th Percentile £18.78 £23.80 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £27.10
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% +31.00% +20.44%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.06 £58.56
90th Percentile £69.27 £70.00 £78.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +33.33%

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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 2025. 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 +21 278 £575 +4.55% 170
Midlands +15 60 £475 +1.06% 9
North of England -26 57 £500 -1.38% 56
West Midlands +22 51 £475 -24.00% 6
Yorkshire -20 32 £500 -1.38% 26
South East +24 27 £414 -31.04% 116
East of England +12 26 £550 +10.00% 16
North West -24 21 £525 +8.25% 26
South West +20 13 £525 -12.50% 30
East Midlands -6 9 £451 +0.78% 2
North East -5 5 £438 -26.78% 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 44 (9.38%) Confluence
2 36 (7.68%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (6.18%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.99%) nginx
5 12 (2.56%) Apache
6 5 (1.07%) CMS
6 5 (1.07%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.07%) SAS
7 3 (0.64%) Traefik
8 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.21%) CICS
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.07%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.21%) Finacle
2 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 454 (96.80%) AWS
2 241 (51.39%) Serverless
3 238 (50.75%) AWS Lambda
4 199 (42.43%) Amazon EC2
5 152 (32.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 99 (21.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 94 (20.04%) GitHub
8 84 (17.91%) Amazon ECS
9 73 (15.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 61 (13.01%) GitHub Actions
11 54 (11.51%) Azure
12 52 (11.09%) Amazon SQS
13 51 (10.87%) Amazon ELB
14 43 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
15 39 (8.32%) Snowflake
16 36 (7.68%) Amazon EMR
16 36 (7.68%) Amazon Kinesis
16 36 (7.68%) AWS KMS
16 36 (7.68%) AWS Step Functions
17 35 (7.46%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 55 (11.73%) DNS
2 53 (11.30%) Firewall
3 32 (6.82%) VPN
4 27 (5.76%) SSH
5 26 (5.54%) SSL
5 26 (5.54%) TCP/IP
6 24 (5.12%) SMTP
7 22 (4.69%) FTP
7 22 (4.69%) HTTP
8 18 (3.84%) Network Security
9 17 (3.62%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (2.56%) IMAP
11 6 (1.28%) DHCP
12 4 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.43%) Calico
13 2 (0.43%) SMS
13 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.43%) VSAN
14 1 (0.21%) iSCSI
14 1 (0.21%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (27.72%) Amazon RDS
2 95 (20.26%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (17.70%) DynamoDB
4 58 (12.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 57 (12.15%) Data Warehouse
6 51 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
7 46 (9.81%) Relational Database
8 33 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 25 (5.33%) NoSQL
10 21 (4.48%) Big Data
11 20 (4.26%) Data Lake
11 20 (4.26%) RDBMS
12 19 (4.05%) Amazon QuickSight
13 17 (3.62%) MongoDB
14 15 (3.20%) MySQL
15 12 (2.56%) Metadata
15 12 (2.56%) SQL Server
15 12 (2.56%) Tableau
16 11 (2.35%) Hadoop
16 11 (2.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 113 (24.09%) Git
2 111 (23.67%) Jenkins
3 60 (12.79%) GitLab
4 56 (11.94%) JIRA
5 24 (5.12%) Vagrant
6 18 (3.84%) JUnit
7 14 (2.99%) Maven
8 11 (2.35%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.13%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.28%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.28%) Mockito
11 5 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.85%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.85%) jMock
12 4 (0.85%) MLflow
13 3 (0.64%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.64%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.64%) Postman
13 3 (0.64%) REST Assured
General
1 127 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 86 (18.34%) Public Sector
3 59 (12.58%) Finance
4 49 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (3.62%) Front Office
8 12 (2.56%) Military
9 11 (2.35%) Banking
10 7 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.85%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.64%) Marketing
13 3 (0.64%) Retail
14 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Publishing
15 1 (0.21%) Aviation
15 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (21.75%) AWS Engineer
2 89 (18.98%) Developer
3 84 (17.91%) Senior
4 72 (15.35%) Architect
5 69 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (14.50%) Data Engineer
7 41 (8.74%) AWS DevOps
8 39 (8.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 35 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
10 31 (6.61%) Lead
11 30 (6.40%) Java Developer
12 28 (5.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 23 (4.90%) AWS Developer
14 22 (4.69%) Software Engineer
15 21 (4.48%) AWS Architect
16 20 (4.26%) Security Architect
17 19 (4.05%) AWS Data Engineer
17 19 (4.05%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 19 (4.05%) Senior Developer
18 18 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (12.37%) Kafka
2 51 (10.87%) REST
3 50 (10.66%) React
4 45 (9.59%) Node.js
5 33 (7.04%) Spring
6 27 (5.76%) Spring Boot
7 26 (5.54%) RESTful
8 25 (5.33%) GraphQL
9 21 (4.48%) AWS CDK
10 20 (4.26%) LDAP
11 19 (4.05%) AngularJS
12 17 (3.62%) ActiveMQ
13 14 (2.99%) Jest
14 12 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
15 11 (2.35%) PySpark
15 11 (2.35%) pytest
15 11 (2.35%) Svelte
16 10 (2.13%) CSS
16 10 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
16 10 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (16.42%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.40%) Onboarding
3 29 (6.18%) Replication
4 25 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (4.69%) CSOC
5 22 (4.69%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.28%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.28%) NHS
9 5 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.07%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.85%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.85%) PKI
10 4 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (15.14%) Linux
2 35 (7.46%) Windows
3 28 (5.97%) VMS
4 26 (5.54%) Amazon Linux
5 13 (2.77%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.28%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.07%) Unix
9 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.21%) AIX
10 1 (0.21%) Android
10 1 (0.21%) CentOS
10 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.21%) Solaris
10 1 (0.21%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (47.33%) CI/CD
2 194 (41.36%) DevOps
3 123 (26.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (26.01%) Agile
5 104 (22.17%) Containerisation
6 89 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (16.63%) Data Pipeline
8 72 (15.35%) ETL
9 71 (15.14%) Microservices
10 68 (14.50%) Data Modelling
10 68 (14.50%) Migration
11 67 (14.29%) Data Engineering
12 65 (13.86%) Mentoring
13 48 (10.23%) Cloud Security
14 47 (10.02%) High Availability
15 45 (9.59%) Analytics
16 44 (9.38%) Event-Driven
17 43 (9.17%) Infrastructure Automation
17 43 (9.17%) Observability
18 42 (8.96%) AI
Programming Languages
1 266 (56.72%) Python
2 141 (30.06%) SQL
3 94 (20.04%) Java
4 52 (11.09%) TypeScript
5 47 (10.02%) Bash
5 47 (10.02%) JavaScript
6 38 (8.10%) PowerShell
7 27 (5.76%) Groovy
8 17 (3.62%) Go
9 16 (3.41%) Perl
10 11 (2.35%) Scala
11 7 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.85%) Korn
12 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.64%) CodeQL
13 3 (0.64%) JSX
14 2 (0.43%) Bicep
14 2 (0.43%) PHP
14 2 (0.43%) Ruby
14 2 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 152 (32.41%) Security Cleared
2 133 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 66 (14.07%) AWS Certification
4 36 (7.68%) Degree
5 28 (5.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.35%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.13%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.64%) CISSP
13 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.43%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.21%) CCNP
14 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.21%) RHCE
14 1 (0.21%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.97%) QA
3 19 (4.05%) GDPR
4 7 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.85%) NCSC
6 4 (0.85%) NIST
7 3 (0.64%) WCAG
8 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.43%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) GxP
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
9 1 (0.21%) MiFID
9 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 156 (33.26%) Docker
2 25 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 22 (4.69%) DFS Replication
4 16 (3.41%) Postfix
5 12 (2.56%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.56%) Squid
6 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.21%) etcd
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 178 (37.95%) Terraform
2 94 (20.04%) Kubernetes
3 53 (11.30%) Ansible
3 53 (11.30%) Grafana
4 52 (11.09%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.77%) Argo
6 12 (2.56%) Nessus
7 11 (2.35%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.13%) Proxmox
9 9 (1.92%) Puppet
10 6 (1.28%) Istio
11 5 (1.07%) Kibana
12 4 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.64%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.64%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.43%) Packer
14 2 (0.43%) SELinux
14 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.21%) QRadar
15 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (6.40%) ServiceNow
2 29 (6.18%) Splunk
3 28 (5.97%) Microsoft
4 24 (5.12%) Palo Alto
5 23 (4.90%) CheckPoint
5 23 (4.90%) F5
6 18 (3.84%) Oracle
7 16 (3.41%) Databricks
7 16 (3.41%) Jaspersoft
8 12 (2.56%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.13%) IBM
10 9 (1.92%) StreamSets
11 7 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
11 7 (1.49%) Google
12 6 (1.28%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.07%) Cloudera
13 5 (1.07%) Zscaler
14 4 (0.85%) AppDynamics
14 4 (0.85%) Sage
14 4 (0.85%) Sybase