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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 169 252
Rank change year-on-year -18 +83 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 613 412 342
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 1.63% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.03% 4.32% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 308 255
10th Percentile £375 £398 £375
25th Percentile £450 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +1.62% -9.48%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £623
90th Percentile £738 £741 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £71.00 £38.13 -
25th Percentile - £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £91.50 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +75.14% - -

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 15,208 9,531 12,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.81% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,287 6,462 8,623
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% -2.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 241 337
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.15
% change year-on-year +33.93% +26.41% -36.71%

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 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +13 413 £550 -1.79% 76
Midlands -31 69 £469 -1.26% 13
West Midlands -26 64 £469 -1.26% 7
North of England -55 62 £500 +1.27% 21
North West -39 32 £525 +10.53% 11
South East -46 29 £580 +28.89% 17
South West -19 25 £456 -17.05% 14
North East -19 15 £425 -5.56% 2
Yorkshire -52 15 £500 -4.76% 8
East of England -37 8 £400 -27.27%
East Midlands -11 4 £425 -6.54% 6
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 68 (11.09%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (9.95%) Confluence
3 56 (9.14%) Apache Spark
4 37 (6.04%) Apache
5 15 (2.45%) SAS
6 11 (1.79%) nginx
7 8 (1.31%) SharePoint
8 7 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.98%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.33%) CMS
10 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 607 (99.02%) AWS
2 392 (63.95%) Serverless
3 387 (63.13%) AWS Lambda
4 222 (36.22%) Amazon EC2
5 175 (28.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 133 (21.70%) Amazon ECS
7 125 (20.39%) GitHub
8 119 (19.41%) Amazon EKS
9 117 (19.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 107 (17.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (15.66%) Amazon SQS
12 95 (15.50%) GitHub Actions
13 92 (15.01%) Azure
14 74 (12.07%) Snowflake
15 72 (11.75%) dbt
16 66 (10.77%) AWS Step Functions
17 59 (9.62%) Power Platform
18 57 (9.30%) Amazon EMR
19 46 (7.50%) AWS KMS
19 46 (7.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.08%) DNS
1 25 (4.08%) Firewall
2 15 (2.45%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.12%) VPN
4 11 (1.79%) Network Security
4 11 (1.79%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.98%) WAN
6 4 (0.65%) NAS
6 4 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.65%) SAN
6 4 (0.65%) SSL
7 3 (0.49%) BGP
7 3 (0.49%) OSPF
8 2 (0.33%) Internet
8 2 (0.33%) Multicast
8 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.33%) VLAN
9 1 (0.16%) 5G
9 1 (0.16%) AMQP
9 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (24.47%) Amazon RDS
2 128 (20.88%) Amazon Athena
3 111 (18.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 107 (17.46%) DynamoDB
5 93 (15.17%) PostgreSQL
6 62 (10.11%) Data Warehouse
7 59 (9.62%) Power BI
8 50 (8.16%) Data Lake
9 47 (7.67%) Amazon Aurora
10 37 (6.04%) NoSQL
11 29 (4.73%) Metadata
11 29 (4.73%) Relational Database
11 29 (4.73%) Tableau
12 26 (4.24%) Big Data
13 25 (4.08%) MongoDB
14 23 (3.75%) SQL Server
15 22 (3.59%) BigQuery
16 20 (3.26%) Apache Iceberg
16 20 (3.26%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (2.94%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 138 (22.51%) Git
2 132 (21.53%) Jenkins
3 130 (21.21%) GitLab
4 75 (12.23%) JIRA
5 29 (4.73%) JUnit
6 28 (4.57%) Bitbucket
6 28 (4.57%) SonarQube
7 24 (3.92%) Mockito
8 23 (3.75%) Maven
9 14 (2.28%) DbUnit
10 13 (2.12%) jMock
11 11 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
12 10 (1.63%) Artifactory
13 8 (1.31%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.31%) Cypress.io
14 7 (1.14%) Postman
15 4 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 3 (0.49%) Gradle
16 3 (0.49%) Selenium
16 3 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 160 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.41%) Public Sector
3 110 (17.94%) Finance
4 58 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.55%) Banking
6 20 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.79%) Front Office
9 7 (1.14%) Military
10 6 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.98%) Law
11 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.49%) Back Office
12 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.49%) Retail
13 2 (0.33%) Billing
13 2 (0.33%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 157 (25.61%) Data Engineer
2 112 (18.27%) Developer
3 104 (16.97%) AWS Engineer
4 89 (14.52%) Senior
5 78 (12.72%) Lead
6 73 (11.91%) Architect
7 52 (8.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 44 (7.18%) Java Developer
9 38 (6.20%) AWS Data Engineer
10 36 (5.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 34 (5.55%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (5.06%) AWS Architect
12 31 (5.06%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (4.24%) AWS Developer
14 25 (4.08%) Software Engineer
15 24 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
16 22 (3.59%) Lead Data Engineer
17 21 (3.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 20 (3.26%) Data Architect
18 20 (3.26%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (14.52%) Kafka
2 69 (11.26%) Spring
2 69 (11.26%) Spring Boot
3 64 (10.44%) REST
4 63 (10.28%) PySpark
5 55 (8.97%) React
6 54 (8.81%) RESTful
7 50 (8.16%) Node.js
8 30 (4.89%) AngularJS
9 29 (4.73%) SOAP
10 25 (4.08%) AWS CDK
11 24 (3.92%) JPA
11 24 (3.92%) OAuth
11 24 (3.92%) OpenID
12 23 (3.75%) Hibernate
12 23 (3.75%) Web Services
13 21 (3.43%) Spring Cloud
14 20 (3.26%) FastAPI
14 20 (3.26%) GraphQL
15 19 (3.10%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 155 (25.29%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.01%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.94%) NHS
5 10 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.31%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (1.14%) Hedge funds
9 6 (0.98%) Legacy Code
9 6 (0.98%) Mainframe
9 6 (0.98%) Security Posture
9 6 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.82%) Clustering
10 5 (0.82%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 76 (12.40%) Linux
2 19 (3.10%) Unix
3 13 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.47%) Windows
5 5 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.33%) Android
7 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) AIX
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (60.52%) CI/CD
2 261 (42.58%) DevOps
3 228 (37.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (31.81%) Agile
5 150 (24.47%) Data Engineering
6 142 (23.16%) Analytics
7 134 (21.86%) Data Pipeline
8 133 (21.70%) Containerisation
9 123 (20.07%) ETL
10 122 (19.90%) Data Modelling
11 109 (17.78%) AI
12 104 (16.97%) Microservices
13 87 (14.19%) Observability
14 80 (13.05%) Machine Learning
15 79 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
15 79 (12.89%) Test Automation
16 77 (12.56%) Migration
17 74 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
18 72 (11.75%) Platform Engineering
19 71 (11.58%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 347 (56.61%) Python
2 245 (39.97%) SQL
3 124 (20.23%) Java
4 56 (9.14%) TypeScript
5 46 (7.50%) Bash
6 44 (7.18%) C#
7 35 (5.71%) JavaScript
8 25 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 21 (3.43%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.94%) Scala
11 8 (1.31%) Groovy
12 6 (0.98%) Bicep
12 6 (0.98%) Go
12 6 (0.98%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.82%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.65%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.65%) Perl
15 3 (0.49%) Cypher
15 3 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 211 (34.42%) Security Cleared
2 181 (29.53%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.50%) AWS Certification
4 18 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 16 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (2.61%) Degree
6 11 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (1.79%) SAFe Agilist
7 10 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.98%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.49%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.49%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.33%) PMP
14 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (14.85%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.24%) QA
3 14 (2.28%) GDPR
4 8 (1.31%) SLA
5 7 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.14%) PMO
6 6 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.98%) NIST
7 4 (0.65%) HL7
7 4 (0.65%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.16%) IFRS
8 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 192 (31.32%) Docker
2 12 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.96%) Squid
3 11 (1.79%) Postfix
4 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 287 (46.82%) Terraform
2 126 (20.55%) Kubernetes
3 82 (13.38%) Grafana
4 60 (9.79%) Prometheus
5 43 (7.01%) Ansible
6 16 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.96%) Puppet
8 9 (1.47%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.31%) Consul
10 7 (1.14%) Kibana
11 6 (0.98%) Argo
11 6 (0.98%) Packer
11 6 (0.98%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.98%) Salt
12 4 (0.65%) Istio
13 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.49%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.33%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 55 (8.97%) Databricks
2 32 (5.22%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.43%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.26%) Google
4 20 (3.26%) Informatica
4 20 (3.26%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.26%) Splunk
5 19 (3.10%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.77%) Jaspersoft
6 17 (2.77%) Oracle
7 15 (2.45%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.79%) Teradata
9 10 (1.63%) Denodo
10 8 (1.31%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.14%) Foundry
11 7 (1.14%) Palantir
11 7 (1.14%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.98%) Ab Initio
12 6 (0.98%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.98%) Confluent