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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 201 262
Rank change year-on-year +17 +61 +3
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 475 356 325
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.33% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 3.61% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 244 255
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +0.28% -9.09%
75th Percentile £629 £656 £644
90th Percentile £692 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.98%

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 12,283 9,875 12,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.94% 36.80% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,535 6,574 8,993
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 140 267
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.46 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +22.57% +0.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.18 £48.92
90th Percentile £76.40 £68.75 £68.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +4.33%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +6 320 £528 -4.09% 62
North of England -37 61 £500 - 37
Midlands -25 43 £488 +8.33% 16
West Midlands -20 36 £523 -5.00% 7
Yorkshire -25 35 £500 -4.76% 20
South East -23 22 £525 -15.15% 52
North West -31 20 £463 -2.63% 13
South West -1 17 £625 +13.55% 26
East of England -12 10 £750 +50.00% 25
North East -11 7 £425 -30.33% 4
East Midlands -22 7 £417 -6.02% 8
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 38 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.16%) Apache Spark
3 25 (5.26%) Apache
4 24 (5.05%) Confluence
5 9 (1.89%) nginx
6 5 (1.05%) SAS
7 3 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.63%) Traefik
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Actimize
1 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.21%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 473 (99.58%) AWS
2 276 (58.11%) Serverless
3 270 (56.84%) AWS Lambda
4 187 (39.37%) Amazon EC2
5 144 (30.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 116 (24.42%) GitHub
7 115 (24.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 108 (22.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 107 (22.53%) Amazon ECS
10 86 (18.11%) Azure
10 86 (18.11%) GitHub Actions
11 80 (16.84%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (10.95%) AWS Step Functions
13 48 (10.11%) Amazon Kinesis
14 43 (9.05%) Amazon ELB
15 39 (8.21%) GCP
15 39 (8.21%) Snowflake
16 36 (7.58%) Route 53
17 31 (6.53%) Amazon EMR
18 27 (5.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (10.95%) DNS
2 49 (10.32%) Firewall
3 33 (6.95%) VPN
4 24 (5.05%) Network Security
4 24 (5.05%) TCP/IP
5 22 (4.63%) SSL
6 14 (2.95%) FTP
6 14 (2.95%) HTTP
6 14 (2.95%) SMTP
6 14 (2.95%) SSH
7 9 (1.89%) IMAP
7 9 (1.89%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.84%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.63%) BGP
10 2 (0.42%) Calico
10 2 (0.42%) OSPF
10 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.42%) WAN
11 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (30.11%) Amazon RDS
2 82 (17.26%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (14.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 69 (14.53%) DynamoDB
5 65 (13.68%) Amazon Athena
6 36 (7.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 36 (7.58%) Data Lake
7 35 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (7.16%) Relational Database
9 23 (4.84%) MongoDB
9 23 (4.84%) Power BI
10 21 (4.42%) Amazon QuickSight
10 21 (4.42%) MySQL
11 18 (3.79%) SQL Server
12 17 (3.58%) NoSQL
13 16 (3.37%) BigQuery
13 16 (3.37%) Star Schema
14 15 (3.16%) OLTP
14 15 (3.16%) Tableau
15 14 (2.95%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 122 (25.68%) Jenkins
2 96 (20.21%) Git
3 94 (19.79%) GitLab
4 32 (6.74%) JIRA
5 14 (2.95%) Vagrant
6 9 (1.89%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.68%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.68%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.68%) JUnit
8 5 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.05%) Maven
9 4 (0.84%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.63%) Gradle
10 3 (0.63%) Jasmine
10 3 (0.63%) Postman
11 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.42%) MLflow
11 2 (0.42%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.42%) Selenium
11 2 (0.42%) Snyk
General
1 125 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 74 (15.58%) Finance
3 69 (14.53%) Public Sector
4 47 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.21%) Banking
6 15 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.32%) Front Office
9 9 (1.89%) Military
10 3 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.63%) Legal
10 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.42%) Marketing
11 2 (0.42%) Retail
12 1 (0.21%) Advertising
12 1 (0.21%) Games
12 1 (0.21%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (21.26%) Data Engineer
2 100 (21.05%) AWS Engineer
3 74 (15.58%) Developer
4 70 (14.74%) Senior
5 68 (14.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 52 (10.95%) Architect
7 40 (8.42%) Lead
8 36 (7.58%) AWS DevOps
9 35 (7.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 33 (6.95%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (5.68%) Software Engineer
12 26 (5.47%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (4.84%) AWS Architect
13 23 (4.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (4.63%) Site Engineer
15 21 (4.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 20 (4.21%) Java Developer
17 19 (4.00%) AWS Developer
17 19 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (18.74%) Kafka
2 49 (10.32%) Node.js
3 48 (10.11%) React
4 43 (9.05%) RESTful
5 41 (8.63%) Spring
5 41 (8.63%) Spring Boot
6 38 (8.00%) REST
7 26 (5.47%) AngularJS
8 23 (4.84%) OAuth
9 22 (4.63%) CSS
10 20 (4.21%) AWS CDK
11 18 (3.79%) PySpark
12 17 (3.58%) Jest
13 15 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (3.16%) FastAPI
14 14 (2.95%) HTML
15 13 (2.74%) boto
15 13 (2.74%) Sass
16 11 (2.32%) Flask
16 11 (2.32%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 118 (24.84%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.89%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.42%) Replication
4 17 (3.58%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.11%) NHS
7 8 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.26%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.05%) SCADA
10 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.84%) Derivative
11 4 (0.84%) Equities
11 4 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.84%) Life Science
11 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (14.74%) Linux
2 22 (4.63%) Windows
3 18 (3.79%) VMS
4 17 (3.58%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.11%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.11%) Unix
6 6 (1.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.21%) Android
7 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (61.47%) CI/CD
2 205 (43.16%) DevOps
3 196 (41.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (24.42%) Containerisation
5 114 (24.00%) Agile
6 94 (19.79%) ETL
7 92 (19.37%) Data Pipeline
8 91 (19.16%) Data Engineering
9 87 (18.32%) Analytics
10 85 (17.89%) Data Modelling
11 79 (16.63%) Microservices
12 72 (15.16%) Observability
13 71 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (13.47%) Software Engineering
15 61 (12.84%) Event-Driven
16 56 (11.79%) AI
17 55 (11.58%) High Availability
18 51 (10.74%) Performance Tuning
19 49 (10.32%) Data Governance
20 48 (10.11%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 291 (61.26%) Python
2 171 (36.00%) SQL
3 91 (19.16%) Java
4 66 (13.89%) Bash
5 47 (9.89%) TypeScript
6 41 (8.63%) JavaScript
7 27 (5.68%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.21%) C#
8 20 (4.21%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.79%) Go
10 15 (3.16%) Groovy
11 7 (1.47%) Perl
11 7 (1.47%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.47%) Scala
12 6 (1.26%) JSX
13 5 (1.05%) Korn
14 4 (0.84%) C
15 3 (0.63%) Bicep
15 3 (0.63%) C++
16 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 166 (34.95%) Security Cleared
2 138 (29.05%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.74%) AWS Certification
4 27 (5.68%) Degree
5 23 (4.84%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.74%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.26%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.63%) MCP
11 3 (0.63%) OCP
11 3 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.63%) PhD
12 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.42%) CISSP
12 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.32%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.74%) GDPR
3 22 (4.63%) QA
4 15 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.16%) NIST
5 11 (2.32%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.84%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.63%) NCSC
8 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.42%) MiFID
8 2 (0.42%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.21%) GxP
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
9 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 188 (39.58%) Docker
2 14 (2.95%) DFS Replication
3 9 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.89%) Dovecot
3 9 (1.89%) Postfix
3 9 (1.89%) Squid
4 3 (0.63%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.42%) HDFS
5 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.21%) etcd
6 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 258 (54.32%) Terraform
2 124 (26.11%) Kubernetes
3 79 (16.63%) Ansible
4 59 (12.42%) Grafana
5 54 (11.37%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.21%) Puppet
7 19 (4.00%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.89%) Nessus
8 9 (1.89%) Proxmox
9 8 (1.68%) Argo
10 7 (1.47%) Kibana
11 6 (1.26%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.05%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (1.05%) Istio
12 5 (1.05%) Karpenter
12 5 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.84%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 40 (8.42%) Databricks
2 30 (6.32%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.05%) F5
3 24 (5.05%) Palo Alto
4 23 (4.84%) CheckPoint
5 22 (4.63%) Splunk
6 16 (3.37%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.16%) Google
7 15 (3.16%) Oracle
8 9 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.89%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.68%) Confluent
9 8 (1.68%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.47%) Dell
11 5 (1.05%) AVEVA
11 5 (1.05%) StreamSets
11 5 (1.05%) Sybase
11 5 (1.05%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.84%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.84%) SnapLogic