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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 210 279
Rank change year-on-year +40 +69 -20
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 499 361 325
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.16% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.22% 3.23% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 241 252
10th Percentile £391 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £38.13 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - -
Median hourly rate £46.25 - -
75th Percentile £50.94 - -
90th Percentile £53.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - -

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 11,829 11,179 13,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.57% 36.02% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,059 7,426 9,971
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 152 274
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.74 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +27.30% +17.78%
75th Percentile £50.81 £59.68 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.73 £27.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +13.82% +22.50%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +30 300 £575 - 91
Midlands +14 62 £475 +1.06% 28
North of England -28 62 £500 - 46
West Midlands +23 53 £475 -24.00% 19
Yorkshire -11 38 £500 -4.76% 21
South East +9 29 £419 -32.32% 57
North West -26 19 £475 -1.04% 21
South West +6 18 £575 -4.17% 37
East of England -2 16 £475 -5.00% 12
East Midlands -11 9 £434 -2.96% 8
North East -5 6 £450 -26.23% 4
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 (8.82%) Confluence
2 42 (8.42%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (7.21%) Apache Spark
4 18 (3.61%) Apache
5 14 (2.81%) nginx
6 5 (1.00%) CMS
6 5 (1.00%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.00%) SAS
7 3 (0.60%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Actimize
1 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.20%) Finacle
1 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 488 (97.80%) AWS
2 265 (53.11%) Serverless
3 261 (52.30%) AWS Lambda
4 209 (41.88%) Amazon EC2
5 166 (33.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 116 (23.25%) GitHub
7 110 (22.04%) Amazon ECS
8 108 (21.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 101 (20.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 75 (15.03%) Azure
10 75 (15.03%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (11.02%) Amazon EKS
12 49 (9.82%) Amazon ELB
13 42 (8.42%) AWS Step Functions
14 40 (8.02%) Snowflake
15 37 (7.41%) Amazon EMR
16 36 (7.21%) Amazon Kinesis
17 35 (7.01%) Amazon SQS
17 35 (7.01%) AWS KMS
18 34 (6.81%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 58 (11.62%) DNS
2 56 (11.22%) Firewall
3 35 (7.01%) VPN
4 27 (5.41%) SSH
5 26 (5.21%) SSL
5 26 (5.21%) TCP/IP
6 24 (4.81%) SMTP
7 22 (4.41%) FTP
7 22 (4.41%) HTTP
8 21 (4.21%) Network Security
9 17 (3.41%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (2.40%) IMAP
11 6 (1.20%) DHCP
12 4 (0.80%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.60%) Kerberos
14 2 (0.40%) Calico
14 2 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (0.40%) VSAN
15 1 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
15 1 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (31.86%) Amazon RDS
2 108 (21.64%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (16.03%) DynamoDB
4 67 (13.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 57 (11.42%) Amazon Athena
6 51 (10.22%) Data Warehouse
6 51 (10.22%) Relational Database
7 32 (6.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 28 (5.61%) Data Lake
9 22 (4.41%) Amazon QuickSight
10 21 (4.21%) NoSQL
11 20 (4.01%) Big Data
11 20 (4.01%) MongoDB
11 20 (4.01%) RDBMS
12 19 (3.81%) MySQL
12 19 (3.81%) SQL Server
13 15 (3.01%) Metadata
13 15 (3.01%) Power BI
14 12 (2.40%) Hadoop
14 12 (2.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 119 (23.85%) Jenkins
2 113 (22.65%) Git
3 77 (15.43%) GitLab
4 55 (11.02%) JIRA
5 24 (4.81%) Vagrant
6 14 (2.81%) JUnit
6 14 (2.81%) Maven
7 10 (2.00%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.80%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.80%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.80%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.60%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.60%) Gradle
10 3 (0.60%) jMock
10 3 (0.60%) MLflow
10 3 (0.60%) Mockito
10 3 (0.60%) Postman
10 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 134 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 81 (16.23%) Public Sector
3 73 (14.63%) Finance
4 51 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.81%) Front Office
6 17 (3.41%) Banking
6 17 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.00%) Military
9 7 (1.40%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.60%) Marketing
11 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Legal
12 2 (0.40%) Publishing
12 2 (0.40%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 114 (22.85%) AWS Engineer
2 90 (18.04%) Developer
3 89 (17.84%) Senior
4 83 (16.63%) Data Engineer
5 80 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 52 (10.42%) Architect
7 47 (9.42%) AWS DevOps
8 44 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 37 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
10 33 (6.61%) Lead
11 29 (5.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 27 (5.41%) AWS Developer
13 25 (5.01%) Java Developer
14 24 (4.81%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (4.81%) Software Engineer
15 22 (4.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 21 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
17 19 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
18 18 (3.61%) Senior Developer
18 18 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.82%) Kafka
2 58 (11.62%) Node.js
3 52 (10.42%) React
4 48 (9.62%) REST
5 36 (7.21%) RESTful
6 35 (7.01%) Spring
7 30 (6.01%) Spring Boot
8 23 (4.61%) AWS CDK
9 22 (4.41%) AngularJS
9 22 (4.41%) GraphQL
10 20 (4.01%) Jest
10 20 (4.01%) LDAP
10 20 (4.01%) OAuth
11 15 (3.01%) CSS
12 14 (2.81%) pytest
13 13 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (2.61%) PySpark
14 11 (2.20%) Sass
15 10 (2.00%) Flask
15 10 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (18.24%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.01%) Replication
3 25 (5.01%) Data Protection Act
4 24 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.01%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.20%) CSOC
7 11 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
8 8 (1.60%) NHS
9 7 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.80%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 85 (17.03%) Linux
2 35 (7.01%) Windows
3 29 (5.81%) Amazon Linux
4 28 (5.61%) VMS
5 13 (2.61%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.60%) Unix
8 6 (1.20%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.40%) 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
1 267 (53.51%) CI/CD
2 213 (42.69%) DevOps
3 165 (33.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 134 (26.85%) Agile
5 118 (23.65%) Containerisation
6 87 (17.43%) Data Pipeline
7 86 (17.23%) ETL
8 85 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (16.03%) Microservices
10 79 (15.83%) Data Modelling
11 75 (15.03%) Data Engineering
12 65 (13.03%) Analytics
12 65 (13.03%) Migration
13 60 (12.02%) Mentoring
14 54 (10.82%) Configuration Management
14 54 (10.82%) Infrastructure Automation
15 53 (10.62%) Cloud Security
15 53 (10.62%) Observability
15 53 (10.62%) Software Engineering
16 51 (10.22%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 295 (59.12%) Python
2 163 (32.67%) SQL
3 101 (20.24%) Java
4 63 (12.63%) Bash
5 58 (11.62%) TypeScript
6 45 (9.02%) JavaScript
7 40 (8.02%) PowerShell
8 28 (5.61%) Groovy
9 20 (4.01%) Go
10 15 (3.01%) Perl
11 13 (2.61%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.60%) Scala
13 6 (1.20%) C#
13 6 (1.20%) JSX
13 6 (1.20%) Korn
14 4 (0.80%) C
14 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.60%) Bicep
16 2 (0.40%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 172 (34.47%) Security Cleared
2 144 (28.86%) SC Cleared
3 70 (14.03%) AWS Certification
4 34 (6.81%) Degree
5 29 (5.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.81%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.60%) CISSP
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.20%) CCNP
13 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.20%) RHCE
13 1 (0.20%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.81%) QA
3 26 (5.21%) GDPR
4 11 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.00%) NIST
6 4 (0.80%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.60%) WCAG
8 2 (0.40%) MiFID
8 2 (0.40%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) GxP
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 181 (36.27%) Docker
2 25 (5.01%) Active Directory
3 22 (4.41%) DFS Replication
4 15 (3.01%) Postfix
5 12 (2.40%) Dovecot
5 12 (2.40%) Squid
6 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) etcd
7 1 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.20%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 232 (46.49%) Terraform
2 109 (21.84%) Kubernetes
3 71 (14.23%) Ansible
4 63 (12.63%) Grafana
5 58 (11.62%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.61%) Progress Chef
7 16 (3.21%) Puppet
8 13 (2.61%) Argo
9 12 (2.40%) Nessus
10 10 (2.00%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.60%) Istio
12 5 (1.00%) Kibana
12 5 (1.00%) Packer
13 4 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.60%) NetBackup
15 2 (0.40%) SELinux
Vendors
1 34 (6.81%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.01%) ServiceNow
3 28 (5.61%) Splunk
4 27 (5.41%) Databricks
5 24 (4.81%) Palo Alto
6 23 (4.61%) CheckPoint
6 23 (4.61%) F5
7 16 (3.21%) Oracle
8 15 (3.01%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (2.20%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.80%) IBM
11 8 (1.60%) Cloudera
12 7 (1.40%) CA Agile Central
13 6 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.20%) Google
13 6 (1.20%) PagerDuty
13 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.20%) StreamSets
14 5 (1.00%) Dell
14 5 (1.00%) Zscaler