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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 192 259
Rank change year-on-year +2 +67 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 555 334 330
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.38% 1.38% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.91% 3.73% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 254 248
10th Percentile £354 £400 £394
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £612 £613
90th Percentile £713 £721 £729
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £506
% change year-on-year - +3.75% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 14,193 8,966 11,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.21% 37.17% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,725 6,222 8,419
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 463 194 323
10th Percentile £15.52 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £34.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.13 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.69% -38.94%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +18 385 £550 - 79
Midlands -12 63 £470 -3.69% 12
West Midlands -14 59 £475 -5.00% 10
North of England -62 52 £500 +2.56% 45
North West -27 30 £505 +12.22% 26
South East -33 30 £580 +14.85% 29
South West -24 16 £450 -18.18% 26
Yorkshire -53 14 £500 -4.76% 15
North East -14 8 £444 - 4
East of England -27 6 £450 -4.00% 4
East Midlands -29 4 £413 -10.13% 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 60 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 54 (9.73%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (8.29%) Confluence
4 36 (6.49%) Apache
5 15 (2.70%) SAS
6 10 (1.80%) nginx
7 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.54%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 11 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
2 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 552 (99.46%) AWS
2 347 (62.52%) Serverless
3 337 (60.72%) AWS Lambda
4 199 (35.86%) Amazon EC2
5 141 (25.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 124 (22.34%) Amazon ECS
7 115 (20.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 109 (19.64%) GitHub
8 109 (19.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 106 (19.10%) Amazon EKS
10 94 (16.94%) Azure
11 82 (14.77%) Amazon SQS
12 81 (14.59%) GitHub Actions
13 71 (12.79%) AWS Step Functions
14 60 (10.81%) Snowflake
15 54 (9.73%) dbt
16 50 (9.01%) Power Platform
17 48 (8.65%) GCP
18 44 (7.93%) Amazon Kinesis
18 44 (7.93%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.86%) DNS
2 21 (3.78%) Firewall
3 15 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.70%) VPN
4 11 (1.98%) Network Security
4 11 (1.98%) OpenVPN
5 4 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.54%) BGP
6 3 (0.54%) NAS
6 3 (0.54%) OSPF
6 3 (0.54%) SAN
7 2 (0.36%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.36%) Multicast
7 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.36%) SSL
7 2 (0.36%) VLAN
7 2 (0.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) 5G
8 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (23.96%) Amazon RDS
2 107 (19.28%) Amazon Athena
3 89 (16.04%) DynamoDB
4 87 (15.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 86 (15.50%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (9.01%) Power BI
7 48 (8.65%) Data Lake
8 47 (8.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 43 (7.75%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (6.13%) NoSQL
11 32 (5.77%) Relational Database
12 30 (5.41%) Tableau
13 26 (4.68%) Metadata
13 26 (4.68%) SQL Server
14 24 (4.32%) Big Data
14 24 (4.32%) BigQuery
15 23 (4.14%) OLTP
16 22 (3.96%) Apache Iceberg
17 20 (3.60%) MongoDB
18 19 (3.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 128 (23.06%) Jenkins
2 113 (20.36%) Git
3 112 (20.18%) GitLab
4 57 (10.27%) JIRA
5 27 (4.86%) Bitbucket
6 25 (4.50%) SonarQube
7 24 (4.32%) JUnit
8 23 (4.14%) Maven
9 18 (3.24%) Mockito
10 11 (1.98%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.98%) jMock
11 10 (1.80%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.62%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.62%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.26%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.90%) Gradle
14 5 (0.90%) Selenium
15 4 (0.72%) Postman
15 4 (0.72%) Terragrunt
16 3 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 145 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 106 (19.10%) Finance
3 94 (16.94%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.86%) Banking
6 20 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.52%) Front Office
8 12 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.90%) Military
10 4 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.54%) Retail
11 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.36%) Games
12 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.36%) Law
12 2 (0.36%) Local Government
12 2 (0.36%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 135 (24.32%) Data Engineer
2 117 (21.08%) Developer
3 78 (14.05%) AWS Engineer
4 73 (13.15%) Architect
5 69 (12.43%) Senior
6 65 (11.71%) Lead
7 39 (7.03%) Java Developer
8 38 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 32 (5.77%) AWS Architect
9 32 (5.77%) AWS Data Engineer
10 31 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (5.05%) Senior Data Engineer
12 27 (4.86%) AWS Developer
13 25 (4.50%) Data Architect
14 23 (4.14%) AWS DevOps
14 23 (4.14%) Lead Data Engineer
15 21 (3.78%) Analyst
16 20 (3.60%) Python Developer
17 19 (3.42%) Site Engineer
17 19 (3.42%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (18.56%) Kafka
2 74 (13.33%) Spring
2 74 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 57 (10.27%) RESTful
4 55 (9.91%) Node.js
5 48 (8.65%) React
6 46 (8.29%) PySpark
6 46 (8.29%) REST
7 35 (6.31%) AngularJS
8 24 (4.32%) OAuth
8 24 (4.32%) OpenID
9 21 (3.78%) SOAP
10 20 (3.60%) AWS CDK
11 19 (3.42%) Hibernate
11 19 (3.42%) JPA
11 19 (3.42%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (3.42%) Web Services
12 17 (3.06%) FastAPI
12 17 (3.06%) Pandas
13 16 (2.88%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 139 (25.05%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 11 (1.98%) NHS
5 9 (1.62%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.26%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.26%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.08%) Clustering
8 6 (1.08%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.08%) PACS
8 6 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.90%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.90%) Replication
9 5 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 72 (12.97%) Linux
2 20 (3.60%) Unix
3 10 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (0.90%) Windows
5 2 (0.36%) Android
5 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.36%) zOS
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (57.12%) CI/CD
2 235 (42.34%) DevOps
3 199 (35.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 161 (29.01%) Agile
5 126 (22.70%) Analytics
6 124 (22.34%) Data Engineering
7 123 (22.16%) Containerisation
8 122 (21.98%) ETL
9 118 (21.26%) Data Modelling
10 106 (19.10%) Data Pipeline
11 96 (17.30%) Microservices
12 86 (15.50%) Observability
13 76 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
14 75 (13.51%) AI
15 68 (12.25%) Event-Driven
16 67 (12.07%) Test Automation
17 66 (11.89%) Migration
18 61 (10.99%) Scrum
19 60 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
20 57 (10.27%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 311 (56.04%) Python
2 218 (39.28%) SQL
3 125 (22.52%) Java
4 55 (9.91%) TypeScript
5 49 (8.83%) C#
6 39 (7.03%) Bash
7 37 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 27 (4.86%) Shell Script
9 21 (3.78%) PowerShell
10 19 (3.42%) Scala
11 10 (1.80%) Go
12 7 (1.26%) Bicep
12 7 (1.26%) Groovy
13 6 (1.08%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.72%) Perl
14 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.54%) C++
15 3 (0.54%) R
16 2 (0.36%) C
16 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 189 (34.05%) Security Cleared
2 155 (27.93%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.31%) AWS Certification
4 16 (2.88%) Degree
5 12 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.62%) SAFe Agilist
8 8 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.54%) OCP
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.54%) PhD
11 3 (0.54%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (12.79%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.32%) GDPR
3 20 (3.60%) QA
4 8 (1.44%) NIST
4 8 (1.44%) SLA
5 7 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.26%) PMO
6 6 (1.08%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.90%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 183 (32.97%) Docker
2 10 (1.80%) Postfix
2 10 (1.80%) Squid
3 8 (1.44%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.54%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.36%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 252 (45.41%) Terraform
2 128 (23.06%) Kubernetes
3 80 (14.41%) Grafana
4 58 (10.45%) Prometheus
5 40 (7.21%) Ansible
6 18 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.80%) Kibana
7 10 (1.80%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.80%) Puppet
8 9 (1.62%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.44%) Consul
10 5 (0.90%) Argo
11 4 (0.72%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.72%) Salt
12 3 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.54%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.54%) Istio
12 3 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.54%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 58 (10.45%) Databricks
2 33 (5.95%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.86%) Google
4 25 (4.50%) Splunk
5 18 (3.24%) Atlassian
6 16 (2.88%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.88%) Oracle
7 15 (2.70%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.52%) Jaspersoft
9 10 (1.80%) Denodo
9 10 (1.80%) Informatica
10 9 (1.62%) Confluent
11 8 (1.44%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.08%) AVEVA
12 6 (1.08%) Teradata
13 5 (0.90%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.90%) IBM
14 4 (0.72%) SAP
14 4 (0.72%) Sybase