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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 195 256
Rank change year-on-year +4 +61 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 508 339 349
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.32% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.91% 3.51% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 245 277
10th Percentile £357 £402 £389
25th Percentile £425 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £614 £688 £625
90th Percentile £688 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% -8.77%
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 12,984 9,650 12,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.43% 37.61% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,962 6,496 9,030
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 148 312
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.38 £14.14
25th Percentile £19.19 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.63 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.96% +28.51% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.50 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.51% +27.91% -14.00%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +9 328 £525 -8.70% 70
North of England -8 69 £500 - 39
Midlands -22 55 £488 +8.33% 14
West Midlands -24 47 £500 -9.09% 12
Yorkshire -30 33 £500 -4.76% 15
North West -15 28 £450 -5.26% 21
South East -16 24 £530 -16.86% 25
South West -7 17 £531 -11.58% 16
East of England -21 9 £475 -1.30% 5
North East -14 8 £450 -26.23% 3
East Midlands -27 8 £433 -2.59% 2
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 48 (9.45%) Apache Spark
2 32 (6.30%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (6.10%) Apache
4 30 (5.91%) Confluence
5 11 (2.17%) nginx
6 5 (0.98%) SAS
7 3 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.59%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.18%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Actimize
1 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 505 (99.41%) AWS
2 309 (60.83%) Serverless
3 300 (59.06%) AWS Lambda
4 207 (40.75%) Amazon EC2
5 144 (28.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 124 (24.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 115 (22.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 110 (21.65%) Amazon ECS
9 99 (19.49%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (18.70%) GitHub
11 88 (17.32%) Azure
12 71 (13.98%) GitHub Actions
13 52 (10.24%) AWS Step Functions
14 47 (9.25%) GCP
15 45 (8.86%) Amazon SQS
15 45 (8.86%) Route 53
16 44 (8.66%) Amazon Kinesis
17 43 (8.46%) Snowflake
18 34 (6.69%) Amazon EMR
18 34 (6.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (8.07%) DNS
2 36 (7.09%) Firewall
3 30 (5.91%) VPN
4 23 (4.53%) TCP/IP
5 19 (3.74%) Network Security
6 13 (2.56%) SSL
7 7 (1.38%) OpenVPN
8 4 (0.79%) FTP
8 4 (0.79%) HTTP
8 4 (0.79%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.79%) SMTP
8 4 (0.79%) SSH
9 3 (0.59%) BGP
9 3 (0.59%) IMAP
9 3 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.39%) Calico
10 2 (0.39%) Multicast
10 2 (0.39%) NAS
10 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (28.94%) Amazon RDS
2 90 (17.72%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (14.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 73 (14.37%) DynamoDB
5 70 (13.78%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (7.87%) Data Lake
6 40 (7.87%) Relational Database
7 35 (6.89%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (6.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 34 (6.69%) Power BI
9 25 (4.92%) MongoDB
10 24 (4.72%) NoSQL
11 23 (4.53%) BigQuery
11 23 (4.53%) SQL Server
12 21 (4.13%) MySQL
13 20 (3.94%) OLTP
14 19 (3.74%) Tableau
15 17 (3.35%) OLAP
16 15 (2.95%) Mixpanel
17 14 (2.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 121 (23.82%) Jenkins
2 98 (19.29%) GitLab
3 96 (18.90%) Git
4 35 (6.89%) JIRA
5 19 (3.74%) JUnit
6 17 (3.35%) Maven
7 16 (3.15%) Bitbucket
8 15 (2.95%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.77%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.77%) Mockito
10 8 (1.57%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.18%) DbUnit
11 6 (1.18%) Gradle
11 6 (1.18%) jMock
12 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.79%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.79%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.79%) Vagrant
12 4 (0.79%) Vite
13 3 (0.59%) Artifactory
General
1 141 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 83 (16.34%) Finance
3 80 (15.75%) Public Sector
4 50 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.53%) Banking
6 18 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.17%) Front Office
9 7 (1.38%) Military
10 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.59%) Legal
11 3 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.39%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Aviation
13 1 (0.20%) Billing
13 1 (0.20%) iGaming
13 1 (0.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 99 (19.49%) Data Engineer
2 97 (19.09%) Developer
3 76 (14.96%) AWS Engineer
4 64 (12.60%) Architect
5 56 (11.02%) Lead
5 56 (11.02%) Senior
6 54 (10.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 36 (7.09%) Java Developer
8 29 (5.71%) AWS Architect
9 27 (5.31%) AWS Data Engineer
10 26 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.92%) Software Engineer
12 23 (4.53%) Lead Data Engineer
12 23 (4.53%) Site Engineer
13 22 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
13 22 (4.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 21 (4.13%) Analyst
14 21 (4.13%) AWS Developer
14 21 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
15 20 (3.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (20.08%) Kafka
2 64 (12.60%) Spring
2 64 (12.60%) Spring Boot
3 52 (10.24%) Node.js
4 51 (10.04%) RESTful
5 45 (8.86%) React
6 44 (8.66%) REST
7 32 (6.30%) AngularJS
8 27 (5.31%) OAuth
9 24 (4.72%) PySpark
10 22 (4.33%) CSS
11 19 (3.74%) AWS CDK
11 19 (3.74%) Jest
12 16 (3.15%) OpenID
13 15 (2.95%) Great Expectations
14 14 (2.76%) ActiveMQ
14 14 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (2.76%) HTML
15 13 (2.56%) boto
15 13 (2.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 126 (24.80%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.17%) NHS
5 11 (2.17%) Replication
6 8 (1.57%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.98%) SCADA
10 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.79%) Derivative
10 4 (0.79%) Equities
10 4 (0.79%) PACS
10 4 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 71 (13.98%) Linux
2 14 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (1.97%) Windows
4 9 (1.77%) Unix
5 8 (1.57%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.38%) VMS
7 5 (0.98%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.39%) zOS
10 1 (0.20%) Android
10 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (58.86%) CI/CD
2 215 (42.32%) DevOps
3 199 (39.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 136 (26.77%) Agile
5 127 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 112 (22.05%) ETL
7 109 (21.46%) Analytics
8 104 (20.47%) Data Modelling
9 102 (20.08%) Data Engineering
10 93 (18.31%) Microservices
11 92 (18.11%) Data Pipeline
12 85 (16.73%) Observability
13 82 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (12.99%) Performance Tuning
15 60 (11.81%) Event-Driven
15 60 (11.81%) Software Engineering
16 58 (11.42%) AI
17 55 (10.83%) Data Governance
17 55 (10.83%) Migration
18 53 (10.43%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 287 (56.50%) Python
2 190 (37.40%) SQL
3 105 (20.67%) Java
4 59 (11.61%) Bash
5 45 (8.86%) TypeScript
6 38 (7.48%) JavaScript
7 26 (5.12%) C#
8 24 (4.72%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.35%) Go
10 15 (2.95%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.18%) JSX
12 5 (0.98%) Groovy
12 5 (0.98%) Scala
13 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.79%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.59%) C++
14 3 (0.59%) Korn
15 2 (0.39%) C
15 2 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 178 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 144 (28.35%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.45%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.94%) Degree
4 20 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (1.97%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.59%) OCP
9 3 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.59%) PhD
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) CISSP
11 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (11.22%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.09%) GDPR
3 23 (4.53%) QA
4 15 (2.95%) NIST
5 14 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.36%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.79%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.79%) PMO
8 3 (0.59%) NCSC
8 3 (0.59%) SLA
9 2 (0.39%) MiFID
9 2 (0.39%) WCAG
10 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.20%) GxP
10 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 184 (36.22%) Docker
2 10 (1.97%) Squid
3 8 (1.57%) Postfix
4 4 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.79%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.59%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.59%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.39%) HDFS
6 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.20%) etcd
7 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 248 (48.82%) Terraform
2 138 (27.17%) Kubernetes
3 74 (14.57%) Ansible
4 67 (13.19%) Grafana
5 60 (11.81%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.54%) Progress Chef
7 16 (3.15%) Puppet
8 15 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.77%) Argo
10 8 (1.57%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.38%) Kibana
11 7 (1.38%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (1.18%) Consul
13 5 (0.98%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.98%) Istio
13 5 (0.98%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.59%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.59%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.59%) Packer
14 3 (0.59%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 54 (10.63%) Databricks
2 31 (6.10%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.72%) Google
4 22 (4.33%) Splunk
5 17 (3.35%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.15%) F5
6 16 (3.15%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.95%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.76%) CheckPoint
9 13 (2.56%) Atlassian
10 12 (2.36%) Oracle
11 10 (1.97%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.97%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (1.57%) Confluent
12 8 (1.57%) Dell
12 8 (1.57%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.38%) Sybase
14 6 (1.18%) AVEVA
14 6 (1.18%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.98%) IBM