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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 182 252
Rank change year-on-year -6 +70 +42
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 630 421 348
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 1.56% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 4.16% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 315 256
10th Percentile £375 £392 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% -9.13%
75th Percentile £633 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.88%
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 15,698 10,109 12,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.40% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,559 6,818 8,683
10th Percentile £325 £313 £310
25th Percentile £416 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 269 330
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.05% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.13 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.08
% change year-on-year +35.09% +25.75% -36.93%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +20 419 £550 -3.08% 63
Midlands -24 73 £469 -1.26% 14
West Midlands -33 68 £469 -1.26% 5
North of England -69 63 £500 +1.27% 21
North West -38 32 £525 +10.53% 9
South West -11 31 £466 -15.23% 17
South East -52 30 £575 +33.72% 17
Yorkshire -52 16 £500 -4.76% 5
North East -25 15 £425 -5.56% 7
East of England -41 8 £400 -20.00% 1
East Midlands -16 4 £425 -6.54% 9
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 71 (11.27%) Confluence
2 70 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (8.89%) Apache Spark
4 40 (6.35%) Apache
5 17 (2.70%) SAS
6 11 (1.75%) nginx
7 8 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.27%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.95%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.48%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.32%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
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%) Mule
11 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 624 (99.05%) AWS
2 393 (62.38%) Serverless
3 386 (61.27%) AWS Lambda
4 227 (36.03%) Amazon EC2
5 177 (28.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 135 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
7 132 (20.95%) GitHub
8 126 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
9 117 (18.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 104 (16.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 103 (16.35%) Azure
12 102 (16.19%) GitHub Actions
13 96 (15.24%) Amazon SQS
14 77 (12.22%) Snowflake
15 73 (11.59%) dbt
16 63 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
17 61 (9.68%) Amazon EMR
18 59 (9.37%) Power Platform
19 47 (7.46%) AWS KMS
20 43 (6.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.13%) Firewall
2 21 (3.33%) DNS
3 15 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.06%) VPN
5 11 (1.75%) Network Security
5 11 (1.75%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.95%) WAN
7 4 (0.63%) NAS
7 4 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.63%) SAN
7 4 (0.63%) SSL
8 3 (0.48%) BGP
8 3 (0.48%) CTI
8 3 (0.48%) OSPF
9 2 (0.32%) Internet
9 2 (0.32%) Multicast
9 2 (0.32%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.32%) VLAN
10 1 (0.16%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (24.29%) Amazon RDS
2 127 (20.16%) Amazon Athena
3 110 (17.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 106 (16.83%) DynamoDB
5 92 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
6 63 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
7 59 (9.37%) Power BI
8 51 (8.10%) Data Lake
9 43 (6.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 33 (5.24%) NoSQL
11 32 (5.08%) Metadata
12 30 (4.76%) Relational Database
13 28 (4.44%) Tableau
14 27 (4.29%) Big Data
15 25 (3.97%) MongoDB
16 24 (3.81%) SQL Server
17 22 (3.49%) BigQuery
18 20 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
19 19 (3.02%) Apache Iceberg
19 19 (3.02%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 141 (22.38%) Git
2 132 (20.95%) Jenkins
3 128 (20.32%) GitLab
4 76 (12.06%) JIRA
5 30 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 29 (4.60%) JUnit
7 28 (4.44%) SonarQube
8 24 (3.81%) Mockito
9 23 (3.65%) Maven
10 14 (2.22%) DbUnit
11 13 (2.06%) jMock
12 11 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.59%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.27%) Cypress.io
15 7 (1.11%) Cucumber
15 7 (1.11%) Postman
16 4 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 3 (0.48%) Gradle
17 3 (0.48%) Selenium
17 3 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 165 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 128 (20.32%) Public Sector
3 115 (18.25%) Finance
4 56 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (5.56%) Banking
6 19 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.06%) Front Office
8 11 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.95%) Law
9 6 (0.95%) Military
10 5 (0.79%) Back Office
11 4 (0.63%) Billing
11 4 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.63%) Retail
11 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.48%) Games
12 3 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 157 (24.92%) Data Engineer
2 114 (18.10%) Developer
3 106 (16.83%) AWS Engineer
4 94 (14.92%) Senior
5 90 (14.29%) Lead
6 69 (10.95%) Architect
7 55 (8.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 43 (6.83%) Java Developer
9 39 (6.19%) AWS Data Engineer
10 36 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 36 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
11 31 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
12 26 (4.13%) AWS Architect
13 25 (3.97%) AWS Developer
13 25 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (3.97%) Software Engineer
14 21 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.33%) Senior Developer
14 21 (3.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 21 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (13.49%) Kafka
2 65 (10.32%) PySpark
2 65 (10.32%) Spring
2 65 (10.32%) Spring Boot
3 62 (9.84%) REST
4 58 (9.21%) React
5 55 (8.73%) Node.js
6 51 (8.10%) RESTful
7 30 (4.76%) SOAP
8 26 (4.13%) AngularJS
9 25 (3.97%) AWS CDK
10 24 (3.81%) Web Services
11 21 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
12 20 (3.17%) FastAPI
12 20 (3.17%) GraphQL
12 20 (3.17%) JPA
12 20 (3.17%) OpenID
13 19 (3.02%) Hibernate
13 19 (3.02%) OAuth
14 18 (2.86%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 159 (25.24%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 41 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.17%) NHS
5 11 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.43%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.27%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.27%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (1.11%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.11%) Hedge funds
9 6 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (0.95%) Legacy Code
9 6 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.95%) Mainframe
9 6 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 82 (13.02%) Linux
2 19 (3.02%) Unix
3 15 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.59%) Windows
5 6 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.32%) AIX
7 2 (0.32%) Android
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (62.70%) CI/CD
2 269 (42.70%) DevOps
3 245 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 207 (32.86%) Agile
5 155 (24.60%) Data Engineering
6 145 (23.02%) Analytics
7 142 (22.54%) Data Pipeline
8 133 (21.11%) Containerisation
9 131 (20.79%) Data Modelling
10 127 (20.16%) ETL
11 113 (17.94%) AI
12 101 (16.03%) Microservices
13 94 (14.92%) Observability
14 86 (13.65%) Machine Learning
15 84 (13.33%) Test Automation
16 80 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
17 79 (12.54%) Migration
18 75 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
19 73 (11.59%) Event-Driven
19 73 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 365 (57.94%) Python
2 248 (39.37%) SQL
3 123 (19.52%) Java
4 60 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 57 (9.05%) Bash
6 43 (6.83%) C#
7 40 (6.35%) JavaScript
8 27 (4.29%) PowerShell
9 21 (3.33%) Shell Script
10 20 (3.17%) Scala
11 11 (1.75%) Groovy
12 7 (1.11%) Bicep
13 6 (0.95%) Go
13 6 (0.95%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.79%) Perl
14 5 (0.79%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.63%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.48%) C
16 3 (0.48%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 223 (35.40%) Security Cleared
2 193 (30.63%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.25%) AWS Certification
4 21 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.02%) Degree
6 18 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 11 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.75%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.95%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.48%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.48%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.32%) PMP
14 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.08%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.81%) QA
3 15 (2.38%) GDPR
4 8 (1.27%) SLA
5 7 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.11%) PMO
6 5 (0.79%) HL7
7 3 (0.48%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.32%) NIST
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 199 (31.59%) Docker
2 13 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.90%) Squid
4 11 (1.75%) Postfix
5 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 299 (47.46%) Terraform
2 122 (19.37%) Kubernetes
3 93 (14.76%) Grafana
4 61 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 46 (7.30%) Ansible
6 15 (2.38%) Argo
6 15 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.90%) Puppet
8 9 (1.43%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.27%) Consul
10 7 (1.11%) Kibana
10 7 (1.11%) Packer
11 6 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.95%) Salt
12 4 (0.63%) Istio
13 3 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.48%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.32%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (9.52%) Databricks
2 38 (6.03%) Microsoft
3 23 (3.65%) Oracle
3 23 (3.65%) ServiceNow
4 22 (3.49%) Informatica
5 21 (3.33%) Atlassian
5 21 (3.33%) Google
5 21 (3.33%) Splunk
6 19 (3.02%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.70%) Jaspersoft
8 15 (2.38%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.90%) Teradata
10 10 (1.59%) Denodo
11 8 (1.27%) Foundry
11 8 (1.27%) Palantir
11 8 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.11%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.95%) Ab Initio
13 6 (0.95%) AVEVA
14 5 (0.79%) Amplitude