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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 209 277
Rank change year-on-year +26 +68 -22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 490 360 334
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.17% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.24% 3.25% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 241 254
10th Percentile £391 £400 £402
25th Percentile £450 £468 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £650
90th Percentile £701 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £50.94 - £52.50
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Cloud 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 11,544 11,091 14,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.64% 35.90% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,863 7,378 10,253
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 140 279
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.47
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +35.09%
75th Percentile £44.43 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.73 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £32.00
% change year-on-year -24.41% +3.97% +46.19%

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 17 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon S3 in England over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 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 +23 286 £575 +2.45% 217
Midlands +14 60 £475 +1.06% 19
North of England -23 58 £500 - 48
West Midlands +16 53 £475 -24.00% 14
Yorkshire -14 35 £500 -4.76% 19
South East +14 31 £414 -33.13% 27
East of England +5 24 £600 +20.00% 7
South West +15 18 £575 -4.17% 28
North West -30 18 £500 +4.17% 28
East Midlands -15 7 £435 -2.68% 5
North East -5 6 £450 -26.23% 1
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 44 (8.98%) Confluence
2 42 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (6.53%) Apache Spark
4 17 (3.47%) Apache
5 14 (2.86%) nginx
6 5 (1.02%) CMS
6 5 (1.02%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.02%) SAS
7 3 (0.61%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.20%) Finacle
2 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 479 (97.76%) AWS
2 256 (52.24%) Serverless
3 254 (51.84%) AWS Lambda
4 206 (42.04%) Amazon EC2
5 168 (34.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 112 (22.86%) GitHub
7 105 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 100 (20.41%) Amazon ECS
9 93 (18.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 71 (14.49%) GitHub Actions
11 68 (13.88%) Azure
12 50 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
12 50 (10.20%) Amazon ELB
13 40 (8.16%) Amazon EMR
13 40 (8.16%) Snowflake
14 39 (7.96%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (7.55%) Amazon Kinesis
16 36 (7.35%) AWS KMS
16 36 (7.35%) AWS Step Functions
17 35 (7.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 58 (11.84%) DNS
2 56 (11.43%) Firewall
3 34 (6.94%) VPN
4 27 (5.51%) SSH
5 26 (5.31%) SSL
5 26 (5.31%) TCP/IP
6 24 (4.90%) SMTP
7 22 (4.49%) FTP
7 22 (4.49%) HTTP
8 19 (3.88%) Network Security
9 17 (3.47%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (2.45%) IMAP
11 6 (1.22%) DHCP
12 4 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.41%) Calico
13 2 (0.41%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.41%) VSAN
14 1 (0.20%) iSCSI
14 1 (0.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (30.20%) Amazon RDS
2 107 (21.84%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (17.35%) DynamoDB
4 68 (13.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 54 (11.02%) Amazon Athena
5 54 (11.02%) Data Warehouse
6 47 (9.59%) Relational Database
7 32 (6.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 27 (5.51%) Data Lake
9 24 (4.90%) NoSQL
10 22 (4.49%) Amazon QuickSight
11 20 (4.08%) MongoDB
12 19 (3.88%) MySQL
12 19 (3.88%) RDBMS
13 18 (3.67%) Big Data
14 17 (3.47%) SQL Server
15 15 (3.06%) Power BI
16 13 (2.65%) Metadata
17 12 (2.45%) Star Schema
17 12 (2.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 112 (22.86%) Git
1 112 (22.86%) Jenkins
2 69 (14.08%) GitLab
3 55 (11.22%) JIRA
4 24 (4.90%) Vagrant
5 16 (3.27%) JUnit
6 13 (2.65%) Maven
7 9 (1.84%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.63%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (0.82%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.82%) DbUnit
10 4 (0.82%) jMock
10 4 (0.82%) Mockito
10 4 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.61%) MLflow
11 3 (0.61%) Postman
11 3 (0.61%) REST Assured
General
1 137 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 79 (16.12%) Public Sector
3 62 (12.65%) Finance
4 54 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (3.67%) Front Office
7 15 (3.06%) Banking
8 10 (2.04%) Military
9 7 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.61%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.61%) Marketing
12 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Legal
12 2 (0.41%) Publishing
12 2 (0.41%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 113 (23.06%) AWS Engineer
2 90 (18.37%) Senior
3 84 (17.14%) Developer
4 82 (16.73%) Data Engineer
5 80 (16.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 62 (12.65%) Architect
7 46 (9.39%) AWS DevOps
8 44 (8.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 39 (7.96%) Platform Engineer
10 32 (6.53%) Lead
11 31 (6.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.10%) AWS Developer
12 25 (5.10%) Java Developer
12 25 (5.10%) Software Engineer
13 23 (4.69%) AWS Data Engineer
14 22 (4.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 21 (4.29%) AWS Architect
15 21 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (3.88%) Senior Developer
16 19 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.84%) Kafka
2 53 (10.82%) React
3 52 (10.61%) Node.js
4 50 (10.20%) REST
5 33 (6.73%) RESTful
6 29 (5.92%) Spring
7 24 (4.90%) Spring Boot
8 23 (4.69%) AWS CDK
8 23 (4.69%) GraphQL
9 20 (4.08%) AngularJS
9 20 (4.08%) LDAP
10 19 (3.88%) OAuth
11 18 (3.67%) Jest
12 14 (2.86%) CSS
13 13 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (2.45%) ActiveMQ
15 11 (2.24%) pytest
16 10 (2.04%) Sass
16 10 (2.04%) XML
17 9 (1.84%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 86 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.92%) Replication
3 23 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.65%) CSOC
7 13 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (1.43%) NHS
9 6 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.82%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.73%) Linux
2 35 (7.14%) Windows
3 29 (5.92%) Amazon Linux
4 28 (5.71%) VMS
5 13 (2.65%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.63%) Unix
8 6 (1.22%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.20%) AIX
10 1 (0.20%) Android
10 1 (0.20%) CentOS
10 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.20%) Solaris
10 1 (0.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (51.22%) CI/CD
2 208 (42.45%) DevOps
3 155 (31.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 131 (26.73%) Agile
5 113 (23.06%) Containerisation
6 86 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (17.35%) Data Pipeline
8 84 (17.14%) ETL
9 79 (16.12%) Data Modelling
10 73 (14.90%) Microservices
11 72 (14.69%) Data Engineering
12 65 (13.27%) Analytics
13 64 (13.06%) Mentoring
13 64 (13.06%) Migration
14 52 (10.61%) Cloud Security
14 52 (10.61%) Infrastructure Automation
15 50 (10.20%) Software Engineering
16 48 (9.80%) Configuration Management
17 47 (9.59%) Observability
18 44 (8.98%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 289 (58.98%) Python
2 162 (33.06%) SQL
3 93 (18.98%) Java
4 59 (12.04%) Bash
5 54 (11.02%) TypeScript
6 50 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 40 (8.16%) PowerShell
8 27 (5.51%) Groovy
9 18 (3.67%) Go
10 15 (3.06%) Perl
11 12 (2.45%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.24%) Scala
13 6 (1.22%) JSX
13 6 (1.22%) Korn
14 4 (0.82%) C#
14 4 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.61%) Bicep
15 3 (0.61%) C
16 2 (0.41%) CodeQL
16 2 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 166 (33.88%) Security Cleared
2 143 (29.18%) SC Cleared
3 70 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 33 (6.73%) Degree
5 29 (5.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.27%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.04%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.61%) CISSP
13 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.20%) CCNP
14 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.20%) RHCE
14 1 (0.20%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.98%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.71%) QA
3 25 (5.10%) GDPR
4 10 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.84%) NIST
6 4 (0.82%) NCSC
7 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.61%) WCAG
8 2 (0.41%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) GxP
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 175 (35.71%) Docker
2 25 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 22 (4.49%) DFS Replication
4 16 (3.27%) Postfix
5 12 (2.45%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.45%) Squid
6 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) etcd
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 217 (44.29%) Terraform
2 102 (20.82%) Kubernetes
3 66 (13.47%) Ansible
4 61 (12.45%) Grafana
5 57 (11.63%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.86%) Progress Chef
6 14 (2.86%) Puppet
7 13 (2.65%) Argo
8 12 (2.45%) Nessus
9 10 (2.04%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.63%) Istio
11 5 (1.02%) Kibana
11 5 (1.02%) Packer
12 4 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.82%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.61%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.61%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.41%) SELinux
14 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (6.12%) Microsoft
1 30 (6.12%) ServiceNow
2 29 (5.92%) Splunk
3 24 (4.90%) Palo Alto
4 23 (4.69%) CheckPoint
4 23 (4.69%) Databricks
4 23 (4.69%) F5
5 17 (3.47%) Oracle
6 16 (3.27%) Jaspersoft
7 12 (2.45%) Atlassian
8 9 (1.84%) IBM
9 7 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
9 7 (1.43%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.22%) Google
10 6 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.22%) StreamSets
11 5 (1.02%) Dell
11 5 (1.02%) PagerDuty
11 5 (1.02%) Zscaler