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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 202 271
Rank change year-on-year +10 +69 -5
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 466 361 303
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.28% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.86% 3.49% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 247 231
10th Percentile £370 £406 £400
25th Percentile £435 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £632 £675 £630
90th Percentile £695 £788 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 12,062 10,333 12,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.14% 36.62% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,320 6,919 9,215
10th Percentile £304 £313 £278
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 136 245
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.88 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £28.75 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +21.77% +4.86%
75th Percentile £56.38 £49.06 £53.50
90th Percentile £76.96 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 +13 292 £530 -6.19% 215
North of England -38 56 £500 -4.76% 158
Midlands -7 52 £475 +1.06% 119
West Midlands +6 44 £475 -15.56% 60
Yorkshire -21 34 £500 -5.57% 75
South East +3 29 £425 -19.05% 181
South West +11 18 £625 +25.00% 83
North West -30 18 £450 -6.25% 73
East of England -9 12 £475 -5.00% 103
East Midlands -17 8 £433 -3.24% 52
North East -7 5 £550 -9.84% 10
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 42 (9.01%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.73%) Apache Spark
3 34 (7.30%) Confluence
4 22 (4.72%) Apache
5 10 (2.15%) nginx
6 5 (1.07%) SAS
7 3 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.64%) Traefik
8 1 (0.21%) CICS
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (2.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.07%) 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
1 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 457 (98.07%) AWS
2 260 (55.79%) Serverless
3 254 (54.51%) AWS Lambda
4 192 (41.20%) Amazon EC2
5 151 (32.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 119 (25.54%) GitHub
7 106 (22.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 106 (22.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 101 (21.67%) Amazon ECS
9 87 (18.67%) Azure
10 84 (18.03%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (13.73%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (11.16%) AWS Step Functions
13 46 (9.87%) Amazon ELB
14 39 (8.37%) GCP
15 38 (8.15%) Amazon Kinesis
16 36 (7.73%) Snowflake
17 33 (7.08%) Amazon EMR
18 30 (6.44%) dbt
19 29 (6.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 54 (11.59%) DNS
2 49 (10.52%) Firewall
3 34 (7.30%) VPN
4 26 (5.58%) TCP/IP
5 24 (5.15%) SSL
6 22 (4.72%) Network Security
7 20 (4.29%) SSH
8 17 (3.65%) FTP
8 17 (3.65%) HTTP
8 17 (3.65%) SMTP
9 15 (3.22%) OpenLDAP
10 10 (2.15%) IMAP
11 4 (0.86%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.64%) DHCP
13 2 (0.43%) Calico
13 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
14 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
14 1 (0.21%) VSAN
14 1 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (30.69%) Amazon RDS
2 86 (18.45%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (14.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 65 (13.95%) Amazon Athena
5 63 (13.52%) DynamoDB
6 41 (8.80%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (8.80%) Relational Database
7 35 (7.51%) Data Lake
8 31 (6.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 22 (4.72%) Amazon QuickSight
10 21 (4.51%) Power BI
11 20 (4.29%) MongoDB
12 19 (4.08%) Big Data
12 19 (4.08%) SQL Server
13 17 (3.65%) MySQL
14 16 (3.43%) NoSQL
15 14 (3.00%) BigQuery
15 14 (3.00%) Star Schema
16 13 (2.79%) RDBMS
16 13 (2.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 116 (24.89%) Jenkins
2 102 (21.89%) Git
3 86 (18.45%) GitLab
4 44 (9.44%) JIRA
5 17 (3.65%) Vagrant
6 10 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.93%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.29%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.07%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.07%) JUnit
9 5 (1.07%) Maven
9 5 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.86%) MLflow
10 4 (0.86%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.64%) Gradle
11 3 (0.64%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.43%) Poetry
12 2 (0.43%) Postman
12 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 121 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.02%) Finance
3 68 (14.59%) Public Sector
4 46 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.29%) Banking
6 16 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.58%) Front Office
8 10 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.72%) Military
10 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.64%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.64%) Marketing
11 3 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.43%) Legal
12 2 (0.43%) Retail
13 1 (0.21%) Advertising
13 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 106 (22.75%) AWS Engineer
2 92 (19.74%) Data Engineer
3 78 (16.74%) Senior
4 75 (16.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 69 (14.81%) Developer
6 46 (9.87%) Architect
7 43 (9.23%) AWS DevOps
8 41 (8.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 35 (7.51%) Platform Engineer
10 32 (6.87%) Lead
11 27 (5.79%) Software Engineer
12 26 (5.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 23 (4.94%) AWS Data Engineer
14 20 (4.29%) AWS Developer
15 19 (4.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 19 (4.08%) Python Engineer
15 19 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (4.08%) Site Engineer
16 18 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
16 18 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (14.38%) Kafka
2 50 (10.73%) Node.js
3 46 (9.87%) React
4 40 (8.58%) REST
5 34 (7.30%) RESTful
6 29 (6.22%) Spring
6 29 (6.22%) Spring Boot
7 23 (4.94%) AngularJS
8 22 (4.72%) AWS CDK
9 20 (4.29%) CSS
10 18 (3.86%) LDAP
11 17 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (3.65%) OAuth
12 16 (3.43%) boto
12 16 (3.43%) Jest
12 16 (3.43%) PySpark
13 15 (3.22%) pytest
14 14 (3.00%) HTML
14 14 (3.00%) Pandas
15 13 (2.79%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 100 (21.46%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.15%) Replication
3 23 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.51%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.00%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.93%) NHS
8 8 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.86%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.86%) Derivative
11 4 (0.86%) Equities
11 4 (0.86%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (16.31%) Linux
2 29 (6.22%) Windows
3 21 (4.51%) VMS
4 20 (4.29%) Amazon Linux
5 12 (2.58%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.93%) Unix
8 6 (1.29%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.21%) AIX
9 1 (0.21%) Android
9 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.21%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Solaris
9 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (58.58%) CI/CD
2 208 (44.64%) DevOps
3 182 (39.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (24.68%) Agile
5 114 (24.46%) Containerisation
6 90 (19.31%) Data Pipeline
6 90 (19.31%) ETL
7 86 (18.45%) Data Engineering
8 81 (17.38%) Data Modelling
9 78 (16.74%) Analytics
10 74 (15.88%) Microservices
11 72 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
12 65 (13.95%) Observability
13 61 (13.09%) Software Engineering
14 55 (11.80%) Migration
15 53 (11.37%) Infrastructure Automation
16 52 (11.16%) AI
16 52 (11.16%) Configuration Management
17 50 (10.73%) Event-Driven
18 48 (10.30%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 287 (61.59%) Python
2 171 (36.70%) SQL
3 85 (18.24%) Java
4 67 (14.38%) Bash
5 47 (10.09%) TypeScript
6 43 (9.23%) JavaScript
7 32 (6.87%) PowerShell
8 23 (4.94%) Go
9 21 (4.51%) Groovy
10 19 (4.08%) Shell Script
11 15 (3.22%) C#
12 9 (1.93%) Perl
13 7 (1.50%) Scala
14 6 (1.29%) JSX
14 6 (1.29%) Korn
14 6 (1.29%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.86%) C
16 3 (0.64%) Bicep
16 3 (0.64%) C++
17 2 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 163 (34.98%) Security Cleared
2 134 (28.76%) SC Cleared
3 57 (12.23%) AWS Certification
4 31 (6.65%) Degree
5 23 (4.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (4.72%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (3.00%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.64%) OCP
12 3 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.64%) PhD
13 2 (0.43%) CISSP
13 2 (0.43%) MCP
14 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.21%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.73%) Data Quality
2 35 (7.51%) GDPR
3 25 (5.36%) QA
4 11 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.36%) NIST
5 3 (0.64%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.64%) NCSC
6 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.43%) MiFID
6 2 (0.43%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.21%) GxP
7 1 (0.21%) HL7
7 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 177 (37.98%) Docker
2 18 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.65%) DFS Replication
4 10 (2.15%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.15%) Postfix
4 10 (2.15%) Squid
5 3 (0.64%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.43%) HDFS
6 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.21%) etcd
7 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 242 (51.93%) Terraform
2 118 (25.32%) Kubernetes
3 77 (16.52%) Ansible
4 60 (12.88%) Grafana
5 52 (11.16%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.29%) Progress Chef
6 20 (4.29%) Puppet
7 12 (2.58%) Argo
8 10 (2.15%) Nessus
8 10 (2.15%) Proxmox
9 8 (1.72%) Istio
10 7 (1.50%) Kibana
11 5 (1.07%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (1.07%) Karpenter
11 5 (1.07%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.86%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.64%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (8.15%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.30%) Databricks
3 24 (5.15%) Palo Alto
4 23 (4.94%) CheckPoint
4 23 (4.94%) F5
5 22 (4.72%) Splunk
6 19 (4.08%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.65%) Oracle
8 14 (3.00%) Google
9 10 (2.15%) Jaspersoft
9 10 (2.15%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.72%) Cloudera
10 8 (1.72%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.29%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.29%) Dell
11 6 (1.29%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.29%) IBM
12 5 (1.07%) Confluent
12 5 (1.07%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.86%) SnapLogic