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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 161 249
Rank change year-on-year -61 +88 +58
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 576 482 318
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 1.73% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.59% 4.62% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 347 215
10th Percentile £400 £381 £375
25th Percentile £448 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £635 £650
90th Percentile £760 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £62.17 £38.13 -
25th Percentile £63.92 £40.94 -
Median hourly rate £69.83 £46.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.98% - -
75th Percentile £72.92 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £72.97 £53.38 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £46.25 -
% change year-on-year +44.86% - -

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 16,038 10,427 11,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.60% 37.48% 34.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,714 7,046 7,779
10th Percentile £320 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £640
90th Percentile £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 260 183
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £19.97
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.38 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -14.57% -6.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.61 £61.78
90th Percentile £82.75 £71.51 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%

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 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 12 September 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
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 12 September 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 -17 392 £575 -2.13% 216
North of England -66 64 £463 -7.50% 50
Midlands -46 62 £463 -2.63% 13
West Midlands -48 53 £469 -1.26% 5
South West -29 28 £470 -13.96% 22
North West -48 26 £475 - 21
North East -27 21 £425 -2.86% 12
South East -62 20 £550 +29.41% 29
Yorkshire -55 17 £500 -4.76% 17
East Midlands -14 8 £425 -20.86% 8
East of England -39 7 £400 -27.27% 28
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 72 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (10.59%) Confluence
3 42 (7.29%) Apache
4 41 (7.12%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.43%) SAS
6 10 (1.74%) Jupyter
7 8 (1.39%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (1.39%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.87%) nginx
9 2 (0.35%) CMS
9 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.35%) PowerExchange
9 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.35%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.17%) Mule
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 565 (98.09%) AWS
2 364 (63.19%) Serverless
3 362 (62.85%) AWS Lambda
4 198 (34.38%) Amazon EC2
5 183 (31.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 141 (24.48%) GitHub
7 124 (21.53%) Amazon ECS
8 116 (20.14%) Amazon EKS
9 113 (19.62%) GitHub Actions
10 102 (17.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 96 (16.67%) Azure
12 92 (15.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 80 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
14 71 (12.33%) dbt
14 71 (12.33%) Snowflake
15 64 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
16 61 (10.59%) Amazon EMR
17 53 (9.20%) Power Platform
18 43 (7.47%) AWS KMS
19 38 (6.60%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.13%) Firewall
2 17 (2.95%) DNS
3 9 (1.56%) Network Security
4 7 (1.22%) SSL
5 5 (0.87%) HTTP
5 5 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.87%) VPN
6 4 (0.69%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.69%) SAN
6 4 (0.69%) WAN
7 3 (0.52%) CTI
7 3 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.35%) DHCP
8 2 (0.35%) FTP
8 2 (0.35%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.35%) Internet
8 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.35%) SMTP
8 2 (0.35%) SSH
8 2 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (27.08%) Amazon RDS
2 117 (20.31%) Amazon Athena
3 109 (18.92%) DynamoDB
4 93 (16.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 81 (14.06%) PostgreSQL
6 75 (13.02%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (9.20%) Power BI
8 44 (7.64%) Data Lake
9 40 (6.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 36 (6.25%) Metadata
11 27 (4.69%) MongoDB
12 25 (4.34%) Tableau
13 24 (4.17%) NoSQL
14 23 (3.99%) Big Data
15 21 (3.65%) Relational Database
16 20 (3.47%) Apache Iceberg
16 20 (3.47%) Delta Lake
17 19 (3.30%) BigQuery
18 18 (3.13%) Data Vault
19 17 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 124 (21.53%) Git
2 114 (19.79%) GitLab
3 111 (19.27%) Jenkins
4 59 (10.24%) JIRA
5 24 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 14 (2.43%) JUnit
6 14 (2.43%) Maven
6 14 (2.43%) Mockito
7 12 (2.08%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.91%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.22%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.22%) DbUnit
10 6 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (1.04%) jMock
10 6 (1.04%) Postman
10 6 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.87%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.52%) Selenium
13 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 140 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 117 (20.31%) Public Sector
3 104 (18.06%) Finance
4 54 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.42%) Banking
6 14 (2.43%) Front Office
7 13 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.74%) Back Office
8 10 (1.74%) Military
9 8 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.22%) Law
11 6 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.04%) Publishing
12 4 (0.69%) Billing
12 4 (0.69%) Local Government
12 4 (0.69%) Marketing
12 4 (0.69%) Retail
13 3 (0.52%) Games
13 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 151 (26.22%) Data Engineer
2 109 (18.92%) Senior
3 92 (15.97%) AWS Engineer
4 83 (14.41%) Developer
5 75 (13.02%) Lead
6 64 (11.11%) Architect
7 63 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 50 (8.68%) Senior Data Engineer
9 36 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
10 29 (5.03%) AWS DevOps
11 25 (4.34%) AWS Developer
12 24 (4.17%) Java Developer
13 23 (3.99%) AWS Architect
13 23 (3.99%) Data Architect
14 22 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (3.82%) Scrum Master
14 22 (3.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 22 (3.82%) Snowflake Engineer
14 22 (3.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (48.78%) Terraform
2 66 (11.46%) Kafka
3 64 (11.11%) REST
4 62 (10.76%) PySpark
5 49 (8.51%) RESTful
6 48 (8.33%) React
7 47 (8.16%) Spring Boot
8 46 (7.99%) Spring
9 35 (6.08%) Node.js
10 27 (4.69%) FastAPI
11 24 (4.17%) AngularJS
12 23 (3.99%) AWS CDK
13 20 (3.47%) GraphQL
14 19 (3.30%) JSON
15 17 (2.95%) SOAP
16 14 (2.43%) .NET
16 14 (2.43%) Flask
16 14 (2.43%) Next.js
17 13 (2.26%) ActiveMQ
17 13 (2.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 148 (25.69%) Cloud Native
2 53 (9.20%) Product Ownership
3 33 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.65%) NHS
5 14 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.08%) Replication
7 11 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.56%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.22%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.22%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.22%) Legacy Code
9 7 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.22%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.22%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.04%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 81 (14.06%) Linux
2 22 (3.82%) Unix
3 19 (3.30%) Windows
4 12 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.74%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.69%) AIX
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.35%) Android
9 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (64.06%) CI/CD
2 262 (45.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 252 (43.75%) DevOps
4 210 (36.46%) Agile
5 159 (27.60%) Data Pipeline
6 151 (26.22%) Data Engineering
7 125 (21.70%) Analytics
8 118 (20.49%) Data Modelling
9 110 (19.10%) Containerisation
10 108 (18.75%) Observability
11 107 (18.58%) AI
11 107 (18.58%) ETL
12 92 (15.97%) Test Automation
13 86 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 84 (14.58%) Microservices
15 83 (14.41%) Migration
16 82 (14.24%) Event-Driven
17 81 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
18 75 (13.02%) Business Intelligence
19 72 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 331 (57.47%) Python
2 223 (38.72%) SQL
3 104 (18.06%) Java
4 60 (10.42%) Bash
5 57 (9.90%) TypeScript
6 37 (6.42%) JavaScript
7 26 (4.51%) C#
7 26 (4.51%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.82%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.30%) Scala
10 18 (3.13%) Groovy
11 9 (1.56%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.39%) Bicep
13 7 (1.22%) Perl
14 5 (0.87%) Go
14 5 (0.87%) R
15 4 (0.69%) Cypher
15 4 (0.69%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.69%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 207 (35.94%) Security Cleared
2 188 (32.64%) SC Cleared
3 73 (12.67%) AWS Certification
4 28 (4.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (3.30%) Degree
7 18 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (2.78%) DV Cleared
9 13 (2.26%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.91%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.22%) CISM
12 7 (1.22%) CISSP
12 7 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (0.87%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.52%) SnowPro
16 2 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (17.01%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.08%) QA
3 12 (2.08%) GDPR
4 9 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.56%) NIST
5 6 (1.04%) HL7
5 6 (1.04%) SLA
6 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.35%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.35%) NCSC
7 2 (0.35%) PMO
7 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 188 (32.64%) Docker
2 17 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.22%) Postfix
4 6 (1.04%) Squid
5 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.35%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.35%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 103 (17.88%) Kubernetes
2 83 (14.41%) Grafana
3 48 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 38 (6.60%) Ansible
5 18 (3.13%) Argo
6 10 (1.74%) Kibana
6 10 (1.74%) Puppet
7 8 (1.39%) Karpenter
7 8 (1.39%) Packer
8 7 (1.22%) Istio
9 5 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.69%) Salt
11 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.52%) systemd
12 2 (0.35%) Control-M
12 2 (0.35%) Nessus
12 2 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (8.33%) Databricks
2 42 (7.29%) Microsoft
3 38 (6.60%) Oracle
4 25 (4.34%) Informatica
5 19 (3.30%) Splunk
6 18 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.60%) Dynatrace
8 14 (2.43%) Google
9 12 (2.08%) Teradata
10 10 (1.74%) Confluent
10 10 (1.74%) Denodo
10 10 (1.74%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (1.39%) Foundry
11 8 (1.39%) Palantir
11 8 (1.39%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.22%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.22%) SnapLogic
13 6 (1.04%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.04%) PagerDuty
13 6 (1.04%) Red Hat