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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 171 244
Rank change year-on-year -41 +73 +51
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 585 477 325
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 1.72% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.64% 4.55% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 344 214
10th Percentile £400 £385 £375
25th Percentile £439 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £655
90th Percentile £753 £713 £784
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £62.17 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £63.92 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £69.83 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.98% - -
75th Percentile £72.92 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.97 £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +44.86% - -

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 16,068 10,493 11,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.73% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,724 7,098 7,761
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 247 174
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.30 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 19 September 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
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 19 September 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 -17 397 £575 - 325
North of England -66 66 £463 -7.50% 71
Midlands -46 60 £459 -3.37% 24
West Midlands -50 49 £469 -1.26% 10
South West -20 30 £463 -15.33% 41
North West -59 26 £475 - 40
North East -32 21 £425 -2.86% 13
South East -61 21 £575 +35.29% 38
Yorkshire -47 19 £500 -4.76% 18
East Midlands -10 10 £405 -17.97% 14
East of England -42 8 £375 -31.82% 28
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 73 (12.48%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (9.74%) Confluence
3 48 (8.21%) Apache
4 46 (7.86%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.39%) SAS
6 10 (1.71%) Jupyter
7 9 (1.54%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.85%) nginx
10 2 (0.34%) CMS
10 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.34%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.34%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.17%) Mule
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 574 (98.12%) AWS
2 361 (61.71%) Serverless
3 358 (61.20%) AWS Lambda
4 197 (33.68%) Amazon EC2
5 183 (31.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 138 (23.59%) GitHub
7 121 (20.68%) Amazon ECS
8 116 (19.83%) Amazon EKS
9 110 (18.80%) GitHub Actions
10 105 (17.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 97 (16.58%) Azure
12 91 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 82 (14.02%) Amazon SQS
14 72 (12.31%) dbt
15 70 (11.97%) Snowflake
16 68 (11.62%) Amazon EMR
17 67 (11.45%) AWS Step Functions
18 57 (9.74%) Power Platform
19 43 (7.35%) Amazon EventBridge
19 43 (7.35%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.08%) Firewall
2 17 (2.91%) DNS
3 8 (1.37%) Network Security
4 7 (1.20%) SSL
5 5 (0.85%) HTTP
5 5 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.85%) VPN
6 4 (0.68%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.68%) SAN
6 4 (0.68%) WAN
7 3 (0.51%) CTI
7 3 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.34%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.34%) IMAP
8 2 (0.34%) Internet
8 2 (0.34%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.34%) NAS
8 2 (0.34%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.34%) SSH
8 2 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (26.84%) Amazon RDS
2 124 (21.20%) Amazon Athena
3 114 (19.49%) DynamoDB
4 95 (16.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 83 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (9.74%) Power BI
8 49 (8.38%) Data Lake
9 41 (7.01%) Amazon Aurora
10 36 (6.15%) Metadata
11 29 (4.96%) Tableau
12 27 (4.62%) MongoDB
13 24 (4.10%) Big Data
13 24 (4.10%) NoSQL
14 20 (3.42%) Delta Lake
14 20 (3.42%) SQL Server
15 19 (3.25%) Apache Iceberg
15 19 (3.25%) Relational Database
16 18 (3.08%) BigQuery
16 18 (3.08%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 124 (21.20%) Git
2 115 (19.66%) GitLab
3 105 (17.95%) Jenkins
4 55 (9.40%) JIRA
5 23 (3.93%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.91%) Maven
7 14 (2.39%) JUnit
7 14 (2.39%) Mockito
8 13 (2.22%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.71%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.20%) DbUnit
11 6 (1.03%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (1.03%) jMock
11 6 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.85%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.85%) Postman
13 4 (0.68%) Selenium
14 3 (0.51%) Gradle
General
1 149 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.49%) Finance
3 113 (19.32%) Public Sector
4 61 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.01%) Banking
6 15 (2.56%) Front Office
7 14 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.05%) Back Office
9 10 (1.71%) Military
10 8 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.20%) Law
11 7 (1.20%) Legal
12 6 (1.03%) Publishing
13 4 (0.68%) Billing
13 4 (0.68%) Local Government
13 4 (0.68%) Marketing
13 4 (0.68%) Retail
14 3 (0.51%) Police
14 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 154 (26.32%) Data Engineer
2 110 (18.80%) Senior
3 92 (15.73%) AWS Engineer
4 87 (14.87%) Developer
5 77 (13.16%) Lead
6 65 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 64 (10.94%) Architect
8 51 (8.72%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (6.50%) AWS Data Engineer
10 28 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
11 27 (4.62%) Java Developer
12 24 (4.10%) AWS Architect
12 24 (4.10%) AWS Developer
13 23 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (3.93%) Data Architect
14 22 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (3.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 22 (3.76%) Snowflake Engineer
14 22 (3.76%) Technical Leader
15 21 (3.59%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (48.55%) Terraform
2 68 (11.62%) REST
3 66 (11.28%) Kafka
4 64 (10.94%) PySpark
5 50 (8.55%) RESTful
6 49 (8.38%) Spring Boot
7 48 (8.21%) React
7 48 (8.21%) Spring
8 36 (6.15%) Node.js
9 26 (4.44%) FastAPI
10 25 (4.27%) AngularJS
11 22 (3.76%) GraphQL
12 20 (3.42%) AWS CDK
12 20 (3.42%) SOAP
13 19 (3.25%) JSON
14 15 (2.56%) ActiveMQ
15 14 (2.39%) .NET
15 14 (2.39%) JPA
16 13 (2.22%) Hibernate
16 13 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 151 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 50 (8.55%) Product Ownership
3 34 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.59%) NHS
5 15 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.39%) Replication
7 11 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.71%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.71%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.20%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.20%) Legacy Code
10 7 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.20%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.20%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.03%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (13.85%) Linux
2 22 (3.76%) Unix
3 19 (3.25%) Windows
4 12 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.71%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.68%) AIX
7 4 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (63.76%) CI/CD
2 267 (45.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 250 (42.74%) DevOps
4 211 (36.07%) Agile
5 162 (27.69%) Data Pipeline
6 161 (27.52%) Data Engineering
7 131 (22.39%) Analytics
8 121 (20.68%) Data Modelling
9 114 (19.49%) Observability
10 111 (18.97%) ETL
11 110 (18.80%) Containerisation
12 104 (17.78%) AI
13 91 (15.56%) Migration
14 90 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 89 (15.21%) Technical Leadership
15 89 (15.21%) Test Automation
16 88 (15.04%) Event-Driven
17 84 (14.36%) Microservices
18 79 (13.50%) Business Intelligence
19 73 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 334 (57.09%) Python
2 234 (40.00%) SQL
3 101 (17.26%) Java
4 60 (10.26%) Bash
5 57 (9.74%) TypeScript
6 37 (6.32%) JavaScript
7 25 (4.27%) PowerShell
8 23 (3.93%) C#
9 22 (3.76%) Shell Script
10 18 (3.08%) Groovy
10 18 (3.08%) Scala
11 9 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.37%) Bicep
13 7 (1.20%) Perl
14 6 (1.03%) Go
15 5 (0.85%) R
16 4 (0.68%) Cypher
16 4 (0.68%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 203 (34.70%) Security Cleared
2 186 (31.79%) SC Cleared
3 79 (13.50%) AWS Certification
4 32 (5.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (4.10%) Degree
7 15 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 15 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.22%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.54%) CISM
10 9 (1.54%) CISSP
10 9 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.37%) SAFe Agilist
12 6 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.85%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.67%) QA
3 11 (1.88%) GDPR
4 10 (1.71%) NIST
5 9 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.03%) HL7
6 6 (1.03%) SLA
7 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.34%) NCSC
8 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) PMO
9 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 186 (31.79%) Docker
2 17 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.20%) Postfix
4 6 (1.03%) Squid
5 2 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.34%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.34%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) HDFS
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 105 (17.95%) Kubernetes
2 84 (14.36%) Grafana
3 49 (8.38%) Prometheus
4 38 (6.50%) Ansible
5 17 (2.91%) Argo
6 11 (1.88%) Puppet
7 10 (1.71%) Kibana
8 8 (1.37%) Karpenter
8 8 (1.37%) Packer
9 7 (1.20%) Istio
10 5 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.68%) Salt
12 3 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.51%) systemd
13 2 (0.34%) Consul
13 2 (0.34%) Control-M
13 2 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.34%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (8.03%) Databricks
2 42 (7.18%) Microsoft
3 40 (6.84%) Oracle
4 25 (4.27%) Informatica
5 19 (3.25%) Splunk
6 18 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.56%) Dynatrace
8 14 (2.39%) Google
8 14 (2.39%) Teradata
9 10 (1.71%) Confluent
9 10 (1.71%) Denodo
9 10 (1.71%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.37%) Foundry
10 8 (1.37%) Palantir
10 8 (1.37%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.20%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.20%) Brio
11 7 (1.20%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.20%) SnapLogic
12 6 (1.03%) PagerDuty