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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 180 246
Rank change year-on-year -7 +66 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 571 357 352
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.47% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 3.89% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 275 272
10th Percentile £354 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £689 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 14,208 9,180 12,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.33% 37.69% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,809 6,465 8,638
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £714 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 185 322
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £15.92
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +26.98% -21.19%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.30 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +45.85% +30.60% -26.32%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +17 384 £525 -8.70% 76
Midlands -22 61 £475 +5.56% 12
North of England -41 60 £500 +5.26% 43
West Midlands -19 54 £494 -3.66% 8
South East -39 27 £540 -11.29% 34
North West -24 26 £450 +9.09% 21
Yorkshire -36 26 £518 +0.98% 17
South West -8 23 £531 -2.07% 13
North East -12 8 £538 -13.90% 5
East of England -31 7 £475 -5.00% 7
East Midlands -32 7 £423 +4.19% 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 59 (10.33%) Apache Spark
2 51 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (7.01%) Apache
4 29 (5.08%) Confluence
5 10 (1.75%) nginx
5 10 (1.75%) SAS
6 3 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
2 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 569 (99.65%) AWS
2 355 (62.17%) Serverless
3 342 (59.89%) AWS Lambda
4 218 (38.18%) Amazon EC2
5 145 (25.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 141 (24.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 123 (21.54%) Amazon ECS
8 114 (19.96%) GitHub
9 111 (19.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 108 (18.91%) Amazon EKS
11 101 (17.69%) Azure
12 79 (13.84%) GitHub Actions
13 72 (12.61%) Amazon SQS
14 65 (11.38%) AWS Step Functions
15 58 (10.16%) Snowflake
16 56 (9.81%) GCP
17 51 (8.93%) Route 53
18 48 (8.41%) Power Platform
19 44 (7.71%) Amazon Kinesis
19 44 (7.71%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.08%) DNS
2 24 (4.20%) Firewall
3 17 (2.98%) VPN
4 14 (2.45%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.10%) Network Security
6 11 (1.93%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.70%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.53%) BGP
8 3 (0.53%) OSPF
9 2 (0.35%) Multicast
9 2 (0.35%) NAS
9 2 (0.35%) SAN
9 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.35%) VLAN
9 2 (0.35%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) 4G
10 1 (0.18%) 5G
10 1 (0.18%) AMQP
10 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (26.27%) Amazon RDS
2 103 (18.04%) Amazon Athena
3 91 (15.94%) Amazon Redshift
3 91 (15.94%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (15.24%) DynamoDB
5 55 (9.63%) Data Lake
6 48 (8.41%) Power BI
7 46 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (7.71%) Relational Database
9 32 (5.60%) Tableau
10 31 (5.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 31 (5.43%) NoSQL
11 27 (4.73%) SQL Server
12 26 (4.55%) BigQuery
13 24 (4.20%) Metadata
13 24 (4.20%) MongoDB
14 23 (4.03%) OLTP
15 21 (3.68%) OLAP
16 18 (3.15%) Big Data
16 18 (3.15%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 122 (21.37%) Jenkins
2 110 (19.26%) Git
3 106 (18.56%) GitLab
4 40 (7.01%) JIRA
5 24 (4.20%) JUnit
6 22 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 22 (3.85%) SonarQube
7 21 (3.68%) Maven
8 15 (2.63%) Mockito
9 12 (2.10%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.58%) DbUnit
10 9 (1.58%) jMock
11 8 (1.40%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.23%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.23%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.05%) Gradle
14 4 (0.70%) Postman
14 4 (0.70%) Selenium
14 4 (0.70%) Terragrunt
14 4 (0.70%) Vite
General
1 148 (25.92%) Social Skills
2 103 (18.04%) Finance
3 93 (16.29%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.43%) Banking
6 24 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.45%) Front Office
8 13 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.88%) Military
10 4 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.53%) Legal
11 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.35%) Games
12 2 (0.35%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.35%) Law
12 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.35%) Police
12 2 (0.35%) Retail
13 1 (0.18%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (23.64%) Data Engineer
2 115 (20.14%) Developer
3 83 (14.54%) AWS Engineer
4 68 (11.91%) Senior
5 63 (11.03%) Architect
6 62 (10.86%) Lead
7 43 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 40 (7.01%) Java Developer
9 31 (5.43%) AWS Architect
10 30 (5.25%) AWS Data Engineer
10 30 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (5.08%) Site Engineer
12 28 (4.90%) AWS Developer
12 28 (4.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 27 (4.73%) Lead Data Engineer
14 26 (4.55%) Analyst
15 24 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
16 23 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
17 22 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
18 21 (3.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (19.96%) Kafka
2 75 (13.13%) Spring
2 75 (13.13%) Spring Boot
3 63 (11.03%) Node.js
4 56 (9.81%) RESTful
5 48 (8.41%) React
6 44 (7.71%) REST
7 41 (7.18%) PySpark
8 35 (6.13%) AngularJS
9 31 (5.43%) OAuth
10 23 (4.03%) AWS CDK
11 21 (3.68%) OpenID
12 18 (3.15%) Great Expectations
12 18 (3.15%) SOAP
13 16 (2.80%) CSS
13 16 (2.80%) Hibernate
13 16 (2.80%) Jest
13 16 (2.80%) JPA
13 16 (2.80%) Spring Cloud
13 16 (2.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 139 (24.34%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.28%) NHS
5 12 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.23%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.05%) Clustering
8 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.05%) SCADA
9 5 (0.88%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.70%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.70%) Equities
10 4 (0.70%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.70%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 73 (12.78%) Linux
2 16 (2.80%) Unix
3 14 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.05%) Windows
5 4 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Android
6 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.35%) zOS
7 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (57.79%) CI/CD
2 235 (41.16%) DevOps
3 215 (37.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 153 (26.80%) Agile
5 136 (23.82%) Analytics
5 136 (23.82%) ETL
6 129 (22.59%) Containerisation
7 125 (21.89%) Data Engineering
8 124 (21.72%) Data Modelling
9 108 (18.91%) Data Pipeline
10 98 (17.16%) Microservices
11 89 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (15.06%) Observability
13 71 (12.43%) AI
14 67 (11.73%) Migration
15 64 (11.21%) Performance Tuning
16 63 (11.03%) Data Governance
17 58 (10.16%) Event-Driven
18 57 (9.98%) Software Engineering
19 56 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 313 (54.82%) Python
2 220 (38.53%) SQL
3 123 (21.54%) Java
4 55 (9.63%) TypeScript
5 51 (8.93%) Bash
6 42 (7.36%) C#
7 37 (6.48%) JavaScript
8 31 (5.43%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 12 (2.10%) Go
10 12 (2.10%) Scala
11 6 (1.05%) SAS Macro
12 5 (0.88%) Bicep
13 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.53%) C
14 3 (0.53%) C++
14 3 (0.53%) JSX
14 3 (0.53%) Korn
15 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 197 (34.50%) Security Cleared
2 160 (28.02%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.71%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.98%) Degree
6 16 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.53%) OCP
12 3 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.53%) PhD
12 3 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.53%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.31%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.30%) GDPR
3 22 (3.85%) QA
4 14 (2.45%) NIST
5 13 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.40%) SLA
8 7 (1.23%) PMO
9 4 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.35%) WCAG
11 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.18%) GRC
11 1 (0.18%) GxP
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.18%) IFRS
11 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.18%) MiFID
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
11 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 190 (33.27%) Docker
2 10 (1.75%) Squid
3 8 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.40%) Postfix
4 3 (0.53%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 274 (47.99%) Terraform
2 147 (25.74%) Kubernetes
3 73 (12.78%) Grafana
4 62 (10.86%) Ansible
5 60 (10.51%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.98%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (2.80%) Progress Chef
7 16 (2.80%) Puppet
8 9 (1.58%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.23%) Consul
9 7 (1.23%) Kibana
9 7 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (1.05%) Argo
11 5 (0.88%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (0.88%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.70%) Istio
12 4 (0.70%) Salt
13 3 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.53%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 66 (11.56%) Databricks
2 38 (6.65%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.25%) Google
4 28 (4.90%) Splunk
5 19 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.80%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.28%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.10%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.10%) Oracle
9 11 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (1.58%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.40%) Confluent
12 7 (1.23%) Dell
12 7 (1.23%) Informatica
12 7 (1.23%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.23%) Sybase
13 6 (1.05%) AVEVA
13 6 (1.05%) IBM
14 5 (0.88%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.88%) Teradata