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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 172 244
Rank change year-on-year -29 +72 +58
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 610 441 343
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.61% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 4.32% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 327 248
10th Percentile £381 £369 £376
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £507
% change year-on-year - +3.55% -4.56%
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 15,724 10,215 11,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.33% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,491 6,914 8,297
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 267 278
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -36.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.02 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +25.00% -37.14%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -1 398 £564 -1.96% 63
Midlands -17 80 £469 -1.26% 11
West Midlands -27 73 £469 -1.26% 7
North of England -53 64 £500 - 25
South West -19 32 £463 -15.91% 14
North West -42 31 £518 +8.95% 5
South East -62 27 £563 +32.35% 16
Yorkshire -48 17 £550 +4.76% 6
North East -22 16 £444 -1.39% 14
East of England -31 8 £400 -20.00% 5
East Midlands -11 6 £450 -9.64% 4
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 (11.15%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (10.98%) Confluence
3 56 (9.18%) Apache Spark
4 42 (6.89%) Apache
5 17 (2.79%) SAS
6 8 (1.31%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.98%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.98%) nginx
8 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.33%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.16%) Mule
10 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 601 (98.52%) AWS
2 375 (61.48%) Serverless
3 367 (60.16%) AWS Lambda
4 213 (34.92%) Amazon EC2
5 182 (29.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 134 (21.97%) Amazon ECS
7 125 (20.49%) GitHub
8 117 (19.18%) Amazon EKS
9 112 (18.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 100 (16.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 98 (16.07%) Amazon SQS
12 97 (15.90%) Azure
13 95 (15.57%) GitHub Actions
14 78 (12.79%) dbt
15 73 (11.97%) Snowflake
16 66 (10.82%) AWS Step Functions
17 60 (9.84%) Amazon EMR
18 58 (9.51%) Power Platform
19 49 (8.03%) AWS KMS
20 44 (7.21%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.95%) Firewall
2 14 (2.30%) DNS
3 10 (1.64%) Network Security
4 8 (1.31%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.98%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.98%) VPN
6 4 (0.66%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.66%) SSL
6 4 (0.66%) WAN
7 3 (0.49%) CTI
7 3 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.33%) HTTP
8 2 (0.33%) Internet
8 2 (0.33%) NAS
8 2 (0.33%) SAN
8 2 (0.33%) VLAN
9 1 (0.16%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.16%) DHCP
9 1 (0.16%) SMS
9 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (25.08%) Amazon RDS
2 123 (20.16%) Amazon Athena
3 112 (18.36%) DynamoDB
4 109 (17.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 87 (14.26%) PostgreSQL
6 65 (10.66%) Data Warehouse
7 58 (9.51%) Power BI
8 52 (8.52%) Data Lake
9 44 (7.21%) Amazon Aurora
10 38 (6.23%) Metadata
11 30 (4.92%) NoSQL
12 29 (4.75%) Relational Database
13 27 (4.43%) Tableau
14 26 (4.26%) Big Data
15 25 (4.10%) SQL Server
16 24 (3.93%) BigQuery
17 23 (3.77%) MongoDB
18 19 (3.11%) Apache Iceberg
18 19 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
19 18 (2.95%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 134 (21.97%) Git
2 125 (20.49%) Jenkins
3 116 (19.02%) GitLab
4 68 (11.15%) JIRA
5 26 (4.26%) JUnit
6 25 (4.10%) Bitbucket
7 24 (3.93%) Maven
7 24 (3.93%) SonarQube
8 23 (3.77%) Mockito
9 14 (2.30%) DbUnit
10 13 (2.13%) jMock
11 11 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
12 10 (1.64%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.48%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.98%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.98%) Postman
15 5 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 3 (0.49%) Selenium
17 3 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 158 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 130 (21.31%) Public Sector
3 110 (18.03%) Finance
4 59 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.07%) Banking
6 13 (2.13%) Front Office
7 12 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.15%) Law
9 7 (1.15%) Military
10 6 (0.98%) Back Office
11 5 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.66%) Billing
12 4 (0.66%) Marketing
12 4 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.66%) Retail
12 4 (0.66%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.49%) Games
13 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 145 (23.77%) Data Engineer
2 111 (18.20%) Developer
3 99 (16.23%) AWS Engineer
4 90 (14.75%) Senior
5 87 (14.26%) Lead
6 72 (11.80%) Architect
7 49 (8.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 41 (6.72%) Java Developer
9 36 (5.90%) Senior Data Engineer
10 34 (5.57%) AWS Data Engineer
11 32 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (4.26%) AWS Developer
14 25 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (3.93%) AWS Architect
16 23 (3.77%) Data Architect
17 22 (3.61%) Software Engineer
18 19 (3.11%) Analyst
18 19 (3.11%) Senior Developer
18 19 (3.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (12.30%) Kafka
2 64 (10.49%) REST
3 63 (10.33%) PySpark
4 62 (10.16%) Spring Boot
5 61 (10.00%) Spring
6 58 (9.51%) React
7 54 (8.85%) Node.js
8 50 (8.20%) RESTful
9 29 (4.75%) SOAP
10 28 (4.59%) AngularJS
11 25 (4.10%) AWS CDK
11 25 (4.10%) Web Services
12 21 (3.44%) ActiveMQ
12 21 (3.44%) FastAPI
13 20 (3.28%) GraphQL
13 20 (3.28%) JPA
14 19 (3.11%) Hibernate
15 18 (2.95%) JSON
15 18 (2.95%) OAuth
15 18 (2.95%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 143 (23.44%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 42 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.11%) NHS
5 11 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.48%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.48%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.48%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (1.15%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.15%) Hedge funds
8 7 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 6 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (0.98%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.98%) Legacy Code
9 6 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.82%) Clustering
10 5 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 79 (12.95%) Linux
2 20 (3.28%) Unix
3 16 (2.62%) Windows
4 14 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.66%) AIX
7 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.33%) Android
8 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.33%) zOS
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (62.13%) CI/CD
2 254 (41.64%) DevOps
3 244 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 213 (34.92%) Agile
5 151 (24.75%) Data Engineering
6 148 (24.26%) Analytics
7 145 (23.77%) Data Pipeline
8 133 (21.80%) Data Modelling
9 121 (19.84%) Containerisation
9 121 (19.84%) ETL
10 113 (18.52%) AI
11 98 (16.07%) Observability
12 96 (15.74%) Microservices
13 88 (14.43%) Migration
14 85 (13.93%) Test Automation
15 84 (13.77%) Machine Learning
16 79 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
17 77 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 74 (12.13%) Scrum
19 70 (11.48%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 350 (57.38%) Python
2 245 (40.16%) SQL
3 120 (19.67%) Java
4 59 (9.67%) TypeScript
5 58 (9.51%) Bash
6 43 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 39 (6.39%) C#
8 27 (4.43%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.61%) Shell Script
10 20 (3.28%) Scala
11 13 (2.13%) Groovy
12 7 (1.15%) Bicep
13 6 (0.98%) SAS Macro
13 6 (0.98%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.82%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.82%) Perl
14 5 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.66%) Cypher
15 4 (0.66%) Go
16 3 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 218 (35.74%) Security Cleared
2 192 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.02%) AWS Certification
4 22 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (2.95%) Degree
7 16 (2.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (2.46%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.80%) SAFe Agilist
10 10 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.98%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.49%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.33%) CISM
15 2 (0.33%) CISSP
15 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (16.07%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.93%) QA
3 18 (2.95%) GDPR
4 9 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.31%) SLA
6 7 (1.15%) PMO
7 5 (0.82%) HL7
8 4 (0.66%) NIST
9 2 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 191 (31.31%) Docker
2 12 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.80%) Postfix
4 7 (1.15%) Squid
5 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 277 (45.41%) Terraform
2 103 (16.89%) Kubernetes
3 86 (14.10%) Grafana
4 49 (8.03%) Prometheus
5 39 (6.39%) Ansible
6 17 (2.79%) Argo
7 11 (1.80%) Puppet
8 10 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.15%) Kibana
9 7 (1.15%) Packer
10 5 (0.82%) Istio
10 5 (0.82%) Salt
11 4 (0.66%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.66%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.49%) Consul
12 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.49%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.33%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.33%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (9.34%) Databricks
2 37 (6.07%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.43%) Oracle
4 24 (3.93%) ServiceNow
5 23 (3.77%) Informatica
6 22 (3.61%) Google
7 20 (3.28%) Splunk
8 17 (2.79%) Jaspersoft
9 16 (2.62%) Atlassian
10 15 (2.46%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.97%) Teradata
12 10 (1.64%) Denodo
13 8 (1.31%) Foundry
13 8 (1.31%) Palantir
13 8 (1.31%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.31%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.98%) IBM
14 6 (0.98%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.98%) VMware
15 5 (0.82%) Amplitude