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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 170 249
Rank change year-on-year -39 +79 +52
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 597 447 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 1.62% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 4.36% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 329 234
10th Percentile £385 £368 £376
25th Percentile £450 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £636
90th Percentile £738 £750 £770
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £63.00 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £66.00 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -
75th Percentile £79.00 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £80.20 £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 15,864 10,262 11,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.29% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,589 6,956 8,088
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 267 250
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.24 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.23% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.15
% change year-on-year +29.09% +18.79% -33.86%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +5 399 £573 -0.43% 89
Midlands -26 74 £470 -1.16% 11
West Midlands -36 67 £475 - 7
North of England -65 58 £500 - 20
South West -22 31 £466 -14.06% 11
South East -62 27 £575 +35.29% 18
North West -57 25 £518 +8.95% 6
Yorkshire -56 17 £550 +4.76% 7
North East -30 16 £444 -1.39% 7
East of England -33 7 £400 -20.00% 4
East Midlands -12 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 (11.39%) Confluence
2 66 (11.06%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (8.71%) Apache Spark
4 41 (6.87%) Apache
5 17 (2.85%) SAS
6 8 (1.34%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.17%) nginx
8 6 (1.01%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.34%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.17%) Mule
11 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 589 (98.66%) AWS
2 365 (61.14%) Serverless
3 357 (59.80%) AWS Lambda
4 210 (35.18%) Amazon EC2
5 184 (30.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 130 (21.78%) GitHub
7 129 (21.61%) Amazon ECS
8 119 (19.93%) Amazon EKS
9 113 (18.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 100 (16.75%) GitHub Actions
11 98 (16.42%) Azure
12 97 (16.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 93 (15.58%) Amazon SQS
14 73 (12.23%) Snowflake
15 71 (11.89%) dbt
16 66 (11.06%) AWS Step Functions
17 59 (9.88%) Amazon EMR
18 57 (9.55%) Power Platform
19 51 (8.54%) AWS KMS
20 40 (6.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.18%) Firewall
2 16 (2.68%) DNS
3 10 (1.68%) Network Security
4 8 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.17%) VPN
6 6 (1.01%) OpenVPN
7 5 (0.84%) SSL
8 4 (0.67%) NetScaler
8 4 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.67%) WAN
9 3 (0.50%) CTI
10 2 (0.34%) HTTP
10 2 (0.34%) Internet
10 2 (0.34%) NAS
10 2 (0.34%) SAN
10 2 (0.34%) VLAN
11 1 (0.17%) 4G
11 1 (0.17%) 5G
11 1 (0.17%) AMQP
11 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (24.96%) Amazon RDS
2 123 (20.60%) Amazon Athena
3 108 (18.09%) DynamoDB
4 102 (17.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 84 (14.07%) PostgreSQL
6 65 (10.89%) Data Warehouse
7 57 (9.55%) Power BI
8 51 (8.54%) Data Lake
9 44 (7.37%) Amazon Aurora
10 35 (5.86%) Metadata
11 28 (4.69%) NoSQL
12 27 (4.52%) Relational Database
13 26 (4.36%) Big Data
13 26 (4.36%) Tableau
14 24 (4.02%) SQL Server
15 22 (3.69%) MongoDB
16 20 (3.35%) BigQuery
17 19 (3.18%) Apache Iceberg
17 19 (3.18%) Snowflake Schema
18 18 (3.02%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 133 (22.28%) Git
2 126 (21.11%) Jenkins
3 115 (19.26%) GitLab
4 68 (11.39%) JIRA
5 26 (4.36%) JUnit
6 25 (4.19%) Bitbucket
7 24 (4.02%) SonarQube
8 23 (3.85%) Mockito
9 22 (3.69%) Maven
10 14 (2.35%) DbUnit
11 13 (2.18%) jMock
12 11 (1.84%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.68%) Cypress.io
14 9 (1.51%) Artifactory
15 6 (1.01%) Cucumber
15 6 (1.01%) Postman
15 6 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 3 (0.50%) Selenium
17 3 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 157 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 129 (21.61%) Public Sector
3 108 (18.09%) Finance
4 57 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.37%) Banking
6 14 (2.35%) Front Office
7 12 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.17%) Back Office
9 7 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.17%) Law
9 7 (1.17%) Military
10 5 (0.84%) Billing
10 5 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.67%) Marketing
11 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.67%) Retail
11 4 (0.67%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.50%) Local Government
12 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 144 (24.12%) Data Engineer
2 105 (17.59%) Developer
3 99 (16.58%) AWS Engineer
4 88 (14.74%) Senior
5 85 (14.24%) Lead
6 71 (11.89%) Architect
7 49 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 40 (6.70%) Java Developer
9 37 (6.20%) Senior Data Engineer
10 35 (5.86%) AWS Data Engineer
11 33 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (4.36%) AWS Developer
14 25 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (4.02%) AWS Architect
15 24 (4.02%) Data Architect
16 20 (3.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 20 (3.35%) Snowflake Engineer
17 19 (3.18%) Software Engineer
18 18 (3.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (12.23%) Kafka
2 64 (10.72%) REST
3 63 (10.55%) PySpark
4 57 (9.55%) Spring Boot
5 56 (9.38%) Spring
6 53 (8.88%) React
7 51 (8.54%) Node.js
8 50 (8.38%) RESTful
9 29 (4.86%) SOAP
10 28 (4.69%) AngularJS
11 25 (4.19%) AWS CDK
11 25 (4.19%) Web Services
12 21 (3.52%) ActiveMQ
12 21 (3.52%) FastAPI
13 20 (3.35%) JPA
14 19 (3.18%) Hibernate
15 18 (3.02%) JSON
15 18 (3.02%) Spring Batch
15 18 (3.02%) Spring Integration
16 17 (2.85%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 139 (23.28%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.04%) Product Ownership
3 41 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.02%) NHS
5 12 (2.01%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.51%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.51%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.51%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (1.17%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.17%) Hedge funds
8 7 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.17%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.01%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 79 (13.23%) Linux
2 20 (3.35%) Unix
3 16 (2.68%) Windows
4 15 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.17%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.67%) AIX
7 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.34%) Android
8 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.34%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (62.65%) CI/CD
2 248 (41.54%) DevOps
3 243 (40.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 215 (36.01%) Agile
5 147 (24.62%) Data Engineering
6 146 (24.46%) Data Pipeline
7 138 (23.12%) Analytics
8 128 (21.44%) Data Modelling
9 119 (19.93%) Containerisation
10 116 (19.43%) ETL
11 111 (18.59%) AI
12 98 (16.42%) Observability
13 96 (16.08%) Microservices
14 84 (14.07%) Test Automation
15 82 (13.74%) Migration
16 80 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
17 78 (13.07%) Machine Learning
18 76 (12.73%) Scrum
19 75 (12.56%) Business Intelligence
20 72 (12.06%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 345 (57.79%) Python
2 234 (39.20%) SQL
3 115 (19.26%) Java
4 61 (10.22%) Bash
5 57 (9.55%) TypeScript
6 42 (7.04%) JavaScript
7 37 (6.20%) C#
8 28 (4.69%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.69%) Shell Script
10 20 (3.35%) Scala
11 13 (2.18%) Groovy
12 8 (1.34%) Bicep
13 6 (1.01%) SAS Macro
13 6 (1.01%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.84%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.84%) Perl
14 5 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.67%) Cypher
15 4 (0.67%) R
16 3 (0.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 223 (37.35%) Security Cleared
2 198 (33.17%) SC Cleared
3 59 (9.88%) AWS Certification
4 24 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (2.85%) Degree
7 16 (2.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (2.51%) DV Cleared
9 12 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.84%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.01%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.50%) SnowPro
16 2 (0.34%) CISM
16 2 (0.34%) CISSP
16 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (15.41%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.85%) QA
3 16 (2.68%) GDPR
4 9 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.34%) SLA
6 7 (1.17%) PMO
7 5 (0.84%) HL7
8 4 (0.67%) NIST
9 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.34%) NCSC
11 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 187 (31.32%) Docker
2 14 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.84%) Postfix
4 7 (1.17%) Squid
5 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 272 (45.56%) Terraform
2 101 (16.92%) Kubernetes
3 88 (14.74%) Grafana
4 48 (8.04%) Prometheus
5 39 (6.53%) Ansible
6 19 (3.18%) Argo
7 11 (1.84%) Puppet
8 10 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.17%) Kibana
9 7 (1.17%) Packer
10 6 (1.01%) Istio
11 5 (0.84%) Salt
12 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.50%) Consul
13 3 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.50%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.34%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.34%) Sysdig
15 1 (0.17%) systemd
Vendors
1 55 (9.21%) Databricks
2 37 (6.20%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.69%) Oracle
4 24 (4.02%) ServiceNow
5 23 (3.85%) Informatica
6 20 (3.35%) Splunk
7 18 (3.02%) Google
8 17 (2.85%) Jaspersoft
9 16 (2.68%) Atlassian
10 15 (2.51%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.84%) Teradata
12 10 (1.68%) Denodo
13 9 (1.51%) Red Hat
14 8 (1.34%) Foundry
14 8 (1.34%) Palantir
14 8 (1.34%) Salesforce
15 6 (1.01%) IBM
15 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
15 6 (1.01%) VMware
16 5 (0.84%) Amplitude