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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 204 256
Rank change year-on-year +11 +52 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 508 341 341
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.32% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.89% 3.51% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 245 269
10th Percentile £358 £405 £381
25th Percentile £427 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £618 £688 £635
90th Percentile £688 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -1.09% +0.48% -7.93%
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 13,054 9,716 12,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.60% 37.50% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,995 6,527 8,939
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £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 362 143 307
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.60 £14.08
25th Percentile £19.05 £21.25 £16.20
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.15 £66.25
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.55% +25.00% -12.00%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +15 335 £525 -8.70% 73
North of England -34 64 £500 - 45
Midlands -37 53 £500 +11.11% 18
West Midlands -28 46 £506 -7.95% 15
Yorkshire -32 31 £500 -4.76% 19
North West -14 25 £450 -5.26% 23
South East -14 25 £528 -17.25% 24
South West -10 16 £538 -4.51% 19
East of England -17 9 £475 -1.30% 5
North East -12 8 £450 -26.23% 3
East Midlands -27 7 £417 -6.02% 3
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 45 (8.86%) Apache Spark
2 33 (6.50%) Confluence
3 32 (6.30%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (6.10%) Apache
5 12 (2.36%) 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 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.18%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.79%) 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
2 306 (60.24%) Serverless
3 298 (58.66%) AWS Lambda
4 204 (40.16%) Amazon EC2
5 145 (28.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 121 (23.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 117 (23.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 106 (20.87%) Amazon ECS
9 97 (19.09%) GitHub
10 96 (18.90%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (17.91%) Azure
12 72 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
13 54 (10.63%) AWS Step Functions
14 47 (9.25%) GCP
15 45 (8.86%) Amazon Kinesis
16 44 (8.66%) Route 53
16 44 (8.66%) Snowflake
17 41 (8.07%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (6.89%) Amazon EMR
19 34 (6.69%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.46%) DNS
2 38 (7.48%) Firewall
3 30 (5.91%) VPN
4 23 (4.53%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.94%) Network Security
6 13 (2.56%) SSL
7 7 (1.38%) OpenVPN
8 6 (1.18%) FTP
8 6 (1.18%) HTTP
8 6 (1.18%) SMTP
8 6 (1.18%) SSH
9 4 (0.79%) IMAP
9 4 (0.79%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.79%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.59%) BGP
11 2 (0.39%) Multicast
11 2 (0.39%) NAS
11 2 (0.39%) OSPF
11 2 (0.39%) SAN
11 2 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (28.74%) Amazon RDS
2 88 (17.32%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (15.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 72 (14.17%) Amazon Athena
5 69 (13.58%) DynamoDB
6 41 (8.07%) Data Lake
7 39 (7.68%) Relational Database
8 36 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (6.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 33 (6.50%) Power BI
10 25 (4.92%) MongoDB
11 22 (4.33%) BigQuery
11 22 (4.33%) SQL Server
12 21 (4.13%) MySQL
12 21 (4.13%) NoSQL
13 19 (3.74%) OLTP
14 18 (3.54%) Tableau
15 16 (3.15%) OLAP
16 14 (2.76%) Metadata
16 14 (2.76%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 118 (23.23%) Jenkins
2 99 (19.49%) GitLab
3 96 (18.90%) Git
4 38 (7.48%) JIRA
5 17 (3.35%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.95%) JUnit
6 15 (2.95%) Maven
7 13 (2.56%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.77%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.57%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.38%) Mockito
11 6 (1.18%) Gradle
11 6 (1.18%) Vagrant
12 4 (0.79%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.79%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.79%) jMock
12 4 (0.79%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.79%) Vite
13 3 (0.59%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 142 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 83 (16.34%) Finance
3 80 (15.75%) Public Sector
4 52 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.53%) Banking
6 18 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.36%) Front Office
9 7 (1.38%) Military
10 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.59%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.59%) Legal
11 3 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.39%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Aviation
13 1 (0.20%) Billing
13 1 (0.20%) Games
13 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (19.69%) Data Engineer
2 92 (18.11%) Developer
3 82 (16.14%) AWS Engineer
4 64 (12.60%) Architect
5 59 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 55 (10.83%) Senior
7 54 (10.63%) Lead
8 31 (6.10%) Java Developer
9 29 (5.71%) AWS Architect
9 29 (5.71%) AWS Data Engineer
10 26 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (5.12%) Software Engineer
11 25 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
12 23 (4.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 23 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (4.53%) Site Engineer
13 22 (4.33%) Lead Data Engineer
13 22 (4.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 21 (4.13%) Analyst
15 19 (3.74%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (19.49%) Kafka
2 59 (11.61%) Spring
2 59 (11.61%) Spring Boot
3 49 (9.65%) Node.js
4 46 (9.06%) React
4 46 (9.06%) RESTful
5 40 (7.87%) REST
6 31 (6.10%) AngularJS
7 26 (5.12%) OAuth
8 23 (4.53%) PySpark
9 22 (4.33%) CSS
10 19 (3.74%) AWS CDK
11 18 (3.54%) Jest
12 15 (2.95%) OpenID
13 14 (2.76%) boto
13 14 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (2.76%) Great Expectations
13 14 (2.76%) HTML
14 13 (2.56%) FastAPI
14 13 (2.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 122 (24.02%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.56%) Replication
6 11 (2.17%) NHS
7 8 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.38%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.18%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.18%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.98%) SCADA
11 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.79%) Derivative
11 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.79%) Equities
11 4 (0.79%) PACS
11 4 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 71 (13.98%) Linux
2 13 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (2.56%) Windows
3 10 (1.97%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (1.77%) Unix
4 9 (1.77%) VMS
5 5 (0.98%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.39%) zOS
8 1 (0.20%) Android
8 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (58.46%) CI/CD
2 214 (42.13%) DevOps
3 197 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (25.00%) Agile
5 122 (24.02%) Containerisation
6 112 (22.05%) ETL
7 105 (20.67%) Analytics
8 102 (20.08%) Data Engineering
9 101 (19.88%) Data Modelling
10 92 (18.11%) Data Pipeline
11 88 (17.32%) Microservices
12 83 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
13 82 (16.14%) Observability
14 63 (12.40%) Performance Tuning
14 63 (12.40%) Software Engineering
15 60 (11.81%) Event-Driven
16 57 (11.22%) Migration
17 55 (10.83%) Data Governance
18 54 (10.63%) AI
19 52 (10.24%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 293 (57.68%) Python
2 188 (37.01%) SQL
3 103 (20.28%) Java
4 59 (11.61%) Bash
5 44 (8.66%) TypeScript
6 40 (7.87%) JavaScript
7 26 (5.12%) C#
8 24 (4.72%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.54%) Go
9 18 (3.54%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.38%) Groovy
11 6 (1.18%) JSX
12 5 (0.98%) Korn
12 5 (0.98%) Scala
13 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.59%) C++
14 3 (0.59%) Perl
14 3 (0.59%) SAS Macro
15 2 (0.39%) C
15 2 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 179 (35.24%) Security Cleared
2 147 (28.94%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.25%) AWS Certification
4 21 (4.13%) Degree
4 21 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.15%) 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%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) CISSP
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.02%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.89%) GDPR
3 24 (4.72%) 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
1 181 (35.63%) Docker
2 11 (2.17%) Squid
3 7 (1.38%) Postfix
4 6 (1.18%) DFS Replication
5 5 (0.98%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.79%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.59%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.39%) HDFS
8 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.20%) etcd
9 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 251 (49.41%) Terraform
2 140 (27.56%) Kubernetes
3 74 (14.57%) Ansible
4 64 (12.60%) Grafana
5 61 (12.01%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.54%) Progress Chef
7 17 (3.35%) Puppet
8 14 (2.76%) 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 4 (0.79%) Nessus
14 4 (0.79%) Proxmox
15 3 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 3 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 51 (10.04%) Databricks
2 32 (6.30%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.53%) Google
4 20 (3.94%) 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 12 (2.36%) Oracle
10 11 (2.17%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.97%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.77%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (1.57%) Confluent
13 8 (1.57%) Dell
13 8 (1.57%) PagerDuty
14 6 (1.18%) AVEVA
14 6 (1.18%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.98%) IBM
15 5 (0.98%) Sybase