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 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 226 | 175 | 231 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -51 | +56 | +64 |
| Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 | 563 | 461 | 343 |
| As % of all contract jobs in England | 1.20% | 1.63% | 1.07% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 3.48% | 4.22% | 3.04% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 408 | 322 | 229 |
| 10th Percentile | £400 | £393 | £375 |
| 25th Percentile | £430 | £450 | £463 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £528 | £525 | £538 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +0.48% | -2.33% | -2.27% |
| 75th Percentile | £650 | £642 | £669 |
| 90th Percentile | £753 | £738 | £788 |
| UK median daily rate | £525 | £525 | £520 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +0.96% | -0.95% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | £58.10 | £38.13 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £60.86 | £40.94 | - |
| Median hourly rate | £62.45 | £46.25 | - |
| Median % change year-on-year | +35.03% | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £65.04 | £50.94 | - |
| 90th Percentile | £69.61 | £53.38 | - |
| UK median hourly rate | £62.40 | £46.25 | - |
| % change year-on-year | +34.92% | - | - |
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.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 16,167 | 10,925 | 11,284 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England | 34.55% | 38.69% | 35.31% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 10,769 | 7,377 | 7,525 |
| 10th Percentile | £320 | £304 | £313 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £406 | £425 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £503 | £530 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +4.48% | -5.19% | -1.85% |
| 75th Percentile | £631 | £625 | £640 |
| 90th Percentile | £725 | £725 | £750 |
| UK median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 589 | 268 | 158 |
| 10th Percentile | £15.50 | £14.99 | £16.21 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.75 | £18.44 | £23.80 |
| Median hourly rate | £32.50 | £25.15 | £35.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +29.22% | -29.15% | +9.91% |
| 75th Percentile | £69.82 | £40.85 | £68.75 |
| 90th Percentile | £79.20 | £67.00 | £70.00 |
| UK median hourly rate | £30.00 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +19.28% | -28.14% | +8.29% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in England
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 17 October 2026.
Amazon S3 Hourly Rate Trend in England
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 17 October 2026.
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 17 October 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 | -21 | 374 | £600 | +4.35% | 260 |
| North of England | -57 | 74 | £463 | -7.50% | 64 |
| Midlands | -44 | 55 | £469 | -1.26% | 23 |
| West Midlands | -49 | 44 | £475 | - | 11 |
| South West | -18 | 32 | £475 | -11.63% | 32 |
| North West | -36 | 31 | £450 | -12.20% | 35 |
| North East | -23 | 22 | £419 | -1.47% | 9 |
| Yorkshire | -42 | 21 | £500 | - | 20 |
| South East | -71 | 19 | £600 | +44.58% | 21 |
| East Midlands | -8 | 10 | £405 | -10.10% | 12 |
| East of England | -45 | 5 | £350 | -36.36% | 21 |
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Amazon S3 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 96.8% | 545 |
| 2 | Serverless | 59.1% | 333 |
| 3 | AWS Lambda | 58.1% | 327 |
| 4 | Amazon EC2 | 34.1% | 192 |
| 5 | Amazon CloudWatch | 31.6% | 178 |
| 6 | GitHub | 23.8% | 134 |
| 7 | Amazon EKS | 23.4% | 132 |
| 8 | Amazon ECS | 22.7% | 128 |
| 9 | GitHub Actions | 19.4% | 109 |
| 10 | Virtual Private Cloud | 18.5% | 104 |
| 11 | Azure | 17.8% | 100 |
| 12 | AWS CloudFormation | 15.5% | 87 |
| 13 | Amazon SQS | 13.1% | 74 |
| 14 | Amazon EMR | 11.7% | 66 |
| 15 | Snowflake | 11.5% | 65 |
| 16 | dbt | 10.7% | 60 |
| 17 | AWS Step Functions | 9.1% | 51 |
| 17 | Power Platform | 9.1% | 51 |
| 19 | Amazon EventBridge | 6.9% | 39 |
| 20 | AWS KMS | 6.7% | 38 |