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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 178 259
Rank change year-on-year -12 +81 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 618 412 341
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 1.58% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.02% 4.19% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 308 253
10th Percentile £375 £398 £375
25th Percentile £450 £458 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +0.48% -8.70%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £620
90th Percentile £738 £741 £770
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £503
% change year-on-year - +4.48% -6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £71.00 £38.13 -
25th Percentile - £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.14% - -
75th Percentile £91.50 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +75.14% - -

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 15,363 9,838 12,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.70% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,344 6,633 8,684
10th Percentile £325 £310 £308
25th Percentile £415 £410 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 254 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.03 £14.13
25th Percentile £23.17 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.53 £25.33 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.04% +15.11% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +15 415 £550 -3.08% 92
Midlands -28 71 £469 -1.26% 19
West Midlands -28 66 £469 -1.26% 9
North of England -62 61 £500 +1.27% 31
North West -39 31 £525 +10.53% 16
South East -48 29 £580 +28.89% 24
South West -10 27 £469 -14.77% 25
North East -25 15 £425 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire -57 15 £500 -4.76% 9
East of England -30 8 £400 -27.27% 2
East Midlands -16 4 £425 -6.54% 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 70 (11.33%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (11.00%) Confluence
3 56 (9.06%) Apache Spark
4 38 (6.15%) Apache
5 16 (2.59%) SAS
6 11 (1.78%) nginx
7 8 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.29%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.97%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.32%) CMS
9 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 612 (99.03%) AWS
2 386 (62.46%) Serverless
3 380 (61.49%) AWS Lambda
4 224 (36.25%) Amazon EC2
5 173 (27.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 133 (21.52%) Amazon ECS
7 130 (21.04%) GitHub
8 124 (20.06%) Amazon EKS
9 117 (18.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 104 (16.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 101 (16.34%) Azure
12 100 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
13 94 (15.21%) Amazon SQS
14 75 (12.14%) Snowflake
15 73 (11.81%) dbt
16 61 (9.87%) AWS Step Functions
17 59 (9.55%) Amazon EMR
17 59 (9.55%) Power Platform
18 46 (7.44%) AWS KMS
19 43 (6.96%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.05%) Firewall
2 22 (3.56%) DNS
3 15 (2.43%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.10%) VPN
5 11 (1.78%) Network Security
5 11 (1.78%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.97%) WAN
7 4 (0.65%) NAS
7 4 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.65%) SAN
7 4 (0.65%) SSL
8 3 (0.49%) BGP
8 3 (0.49%) OSPF
9 2 (0.32%) Internet
9 2 (0.32%) Multicast
9 2 (0.32%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.32%) VLAN
10 1 (0.16%) 5G
10 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (23.62%) Amazon RDS
2 126 (20.39%) Amazon Athena
3 110 (17.80%) Amazon Redshift
4 104 (16.83%) DynamoDB
5 89 (14.40%) PostgreSQL
6 63 (10.19%) Data Warehouse
7 59 (9.55%) Power BI
8 51 (8.25%) Data Lake
9 43 (6.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 34 (5.50%) NoSQL
11 30 (4.85%) Metadata
12 29 (4.69%) Relational Database
13 28 (4.53%) Tableau
14 27 (4.37%) Big Data
15 25 (4.05%) MongoDB
16 24 (3.88%) SQL Server
17 22 (3.56%) BigQuery
18 20 (3.24%) Snowflake Schema
19 19 (3.07%) Apache Iceberg
20 18 (2.91%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 138 (22.33%) Git
2 131 (21.20%) Jenkins
3 128 (20.71%) GitLab
4 75 (12.14%) JIRA
5 29 (4.69%) JUnit
6 28 (4.53%) Bitbucket
6 28 (4.53%) SonarQube
7 24 (3.88%) Mockito
8 23 (3.72%) Maven
9 14 (2.27%) DbUnit
10 13 (2.10%) jMock
11 11 (1.78%) Bitbucket Server
12 10 (1.62%) Artifactory
13 8 (1.29%) Cypress.io
14 7 (1.13%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.13%) Postman
15 4 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 3 (0.49%) Gradle
16 3 (0.49%) Selenium
16 3 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 160 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 125 (20.23%) Public Sector
3 109 (17.64%) Finance
4 56 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (5.66%) Banking
6 20 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.78%) Front Office
7 11 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (0.97%) Law
8 6 (0.97%) Military
9 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.65%) Retail
9 4 (0.65%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.49%) Back Office
10 3 (0.49%) Billing
10 3 (0.49%) Games
10 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 156 (25.24%) Data Engineer
2 109 (17.64%) Developer
3 104 (16.83%) AWS Engineer
4 92 (14.89%) Senior
5 87 (14.08%) Lead
6 70 (11.33%) Architect
7 53 (8.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 42 (6.80%) Java Developer
9 38 (6.15%) AWS Data Engineer
10 36 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 35 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
12 31 (5.02%) AWS DevOps
13 27 (4.37%) AWS Architect
14 25 (4.05%) AWS Developer
14 25 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
14 25 (4.05%) Software Engineer
15 21 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.40%) Lead Data Engineer
15 21 (3.40%) Senior Developer
16 19 (3.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (13.92%) Kafka
2 65 (10.52%) PySpark
3 64 (10.36%) Spring
3 64 (10.36%) Spring Boot
4 59 (9.55%) REST
5 55 (8.90%) React
6 52 (8.41%) Node.js
7 51 (8.25%) RESTful
8 29 (4.69%) SOAP
9 26 (4.21%) AngularJS
10 25 (4.05%) AWS CDK
11 23 (3.72%) Web Services
12 21 (3.40%) JPA
12 21 (3.40%) OpenID
13 20 (3.24%) GraphQL
13 20 (3.24%) Hibernate
13 20 (3.24%) OAuth
14 19 (3.07%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (3.07%) FastAPI
15 18 (2.91%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 155 (25.08%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 41 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.07%) NHS
5 11 (1.78%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.46%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.29%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.13%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (1.13%) Hedge funds
8 7 (1.13%) Security Posture
9 6 (0.97%) Legacy Code
9 6 (0.97%) Mainframe
9 6 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.81%) Clustering
10 5 (0.81%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 79 (12.78%) Linux
2 19 (3.07%) Unix
3 14 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.62%) Windows
5 5 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.32%) AIX
7 2 (0.32%) Android
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (61.65%) CI/CD
2 260 (42.07%) DevOps
3 237 (38.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 196 (31.72%) Agile
5 151 (24.43%) Data Engineering
6 144 (23.30%) Analytics
7 136 (22.01%) Data Pipeline
8 133 (21.52%) Containerisation
9 124 (20.06%) Data Modelling
9 124 (20.06%) ETL
10 111 (17.96%) AI
11 101 (16.34%) Microservices
12 92 (14.89%) Observability
13 83 (13.43%) Machine Learning
14 81 (13.11%) Test Automation
15 80 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
16 79 (12.78%) Migration
17 72 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 72 (11.65%) Platform Engineering
18 71 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 356 (57.61%) Python
2 243 (39.32%) SQL
3 119 (19.26%) Java
4 59 (9.55%) TypeScript
5 56 (9.06%) Bash
6 44 (7.12%) C#
7 37 (5.99%) JavaScript
8 27 (4.37%) PowerShell
9 21 (3.40%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.07%) Scala
11 8 (1.29%) Groovy
12 7 (1.13%) Bicep
13 6 (0.97%) Go
13 6 (0.97%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.81%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.65%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.65%) Perl
16 3 (0.49%) C
16 3 (0.49%) Cypher
16 3 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 216 (34.95%) Security Cleared
2 187 (30.26%) SC Cleared
3 48 (7.77%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.91%) Degree
6 16 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 16 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 11 (1.78%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.49%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.49%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.32%) PMP
15 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (15.21%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.88%) QA
3 15 (2.43%) GDPR
4 8 (1.29%) SLA
5 7 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.13%) PMO
6 4 (0.65%) HL7
7 3 (0.49%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.49%) NIST
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.16%) IFRS
8 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 197 (31.88%) Docker
2 12 (1.94%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.94%) Squid
3 11 (1.78%) Postfix
4 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 294 (47.57%) Terraform
2 123 (19.90%) Kubernetes
3 91 (14.72%) Grafana
4 60 (9.71%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.28%) Ansible
6 15 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (2.27%) Argo
8 12 (1.94%) Puppet
9 9 (1.46%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.29%) Consul
11 7 (1.13%) Kibana
11 7 (1.13%) Packer
12 6 (0.97%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.97%) Salt
13 4 (0.65%) Istio
14 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.49%) Karpenter
15 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.32%) Sysdig
16 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 59 (9.55%) Databricks
2 37 (5.99%) Microsoft
3 22 (3.56%) Oracle
4 21 (3.40%) Atlassian
4 21 (3.40%) Google
4 21 (3.40%) Informatica
4 21 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.24%) Splunk
6 19 (3.07%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.75%) Jaspersoft
8 15 (2.43%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.94%) Teradata
10 10 (1.62%) Denodo
11 8 (1.29%) Foundry
11 8 (1.29%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.29%) Palantir
12 7 (1.13%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.97%) Ab Initio
13 6 (0.97%) AVEVA
14 5 (0.81%) Amplitude