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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 188 253
Rank change year-on-year -4 +65 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 562 344 341
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.39% 1.41% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.93% 3.79% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 268 256
10th Percentile £357 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £698 £777 £731
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -1.23% +2.94% -7.27%
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 14,317 9,065 11,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.46% 37.24% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,856 6,343 8,545
10th Percentile £316 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 194 321
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £46.00 £25.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +80.39% +22.77% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.84 £40.50 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.38 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +19 382 £530 -3.64% 70
Midlands -32 65 £475 -2.56% 9
West Midlands -17 61 £475 -5.00% 6
North of England -53 52 £500 +5.26% 32
South East -38 30 £563 +11.39% 23
North West -39 25 £475 +2.70% 21
South West -18 20 £450 -18.18% 18
Yorkshire -46 18 £500 -4.76% 8
North East -14 9 £475 -23.91% 3
East of England -23 7 £450 -10.00% 9
East Midlands -31 4 £413 -10.13% 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 64 (11.39%) Apache Spark
2 58 (10.32%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (7.65%) Confluence
4 39 (6.94%) Apache
5 15 (2.67%) SAS
6 10 (1.78%) nginx
7 3 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.53%) 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
9 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.89%) 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
1 560 (99.64%) AWS
2 351 (62.46%) Serverless
3 341 (60.68%) AWS Lambda
4 209 (37.19%) Amazon EC2
5 147 (26.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 130 (23.13%) Amazon ECS
7 124 (22.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 113 (20.11%) GitHub
9 111 (19.75%) Amazon EKS
10 110 (19.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 94 (16.73%) Azure
12 84 (14.95%) GitHub Actions
13 77 (13.70%) Amazon SQS
14 71 (12.63%) AWS Step Functions
15 60 (10.68%) Snowflake
16 52 (9.25%) Power Platform
17 50 (8.90%) dbt
17 50 (8.90%) Route 53
18 49 (8.72%) Amazon Kinesis
18 49 (8.72%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.16%) DNS
2 23 (4.09%) Firewall
3 16 (2.85%) VPN
4 15 (2.67%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.14%) Network Security
6 11 (1.96%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.53%) BGP
8 3 (0.53%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.53%) OSPF
9 2 (0.36%) Multicast
9 2 (0.36%) NAS
9 2 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.36%) SSL
9 2 (0.36%) VLAN
9 2 (0.36%) WAN
10 1 (0.18%) 4G
10 1 (0.18%) 5G
10 1 (0.18%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (26.51%) Amazon RDS
2 106 (18.86%) Amazon Athena
3 100 (17.79%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (16.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 91 (16.19%) DynamoDB
6 53 (9.43%) Data Lake
7 52 (9.25%) Power BI
8 47 (8.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 44 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (6.41%) NoSQL
11 35 (6.23%) Relational Database
12 33 (5.87%) Tableau
13 30 (5.34%) SQL Server
14 26 (4.63%) Metadata
15 25 (4.45%) Big Data
16 24 (4.27%) BigQuery
17 23 (4.09%) MongoDB
17 23 (4.09%) OLTP
18 20 (3.56%) Apache Iceberg
19 19 (3.38%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 132 (23.49%) Jenkins
2 116 (20.64%) Git
3 110 (19.57%) GitLab
4 54 (9.61%) JIRA
5 26 (4.63%) Bitbucket
6 25 (4.45%) SonarQube
7 24 (4.27%) JUnit
7 24 (4.27%) Maven
8 18 (3.20%) Mockito
9 14 (2.49%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.96%) DbUnit
10 11 (1.96%) jMock
11 9 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (1.60%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.25%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.07%) Gradle
14 5 (0.89%) Selenium
15 4 (0.71%) Postman
15 4 (0.71%) Terragrunt
16 3 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 144 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.51%) Finance
3 94 (16.73%) Public Sector
4 58 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.80%) Banking
6 21 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.31%) Front Office
9 5 (0.89%) Military
10 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.53%) Legal
11 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.53%) 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
12 2 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 135 (24.02%) Data Engineer
2 116 (20.64%) Developer
3 84 (14.95%) AWS Engineer
4 71 (12.63%) Architect
5 70 (12.46%) Senior
6 62 (11.03%) Lead
7 40 (7.12%) Java Developer
8 37 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
9 34 (6.05%) AWS Data Engineer
10 33 (5.87%) AWS Architect
11 30 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (4.98%) Senior Data Engineer
13 27 (4.80%) AWS Developer
14 26 (4.63%) Site Engineer
15 25 (4.45%) Data Architect
16 24 (4.27%) Lead Data Engineer
16 24 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 23 (4.09%) AWS DevOps
18 22 (3.91%) Analyst
19 21 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (19.04%) Kafka
2 76 (13.52%) Spring
2 76 (13.52%) Spring Boot
3 64 (11.39%) RESTful
4 59 (10.50%) Node.js
5 50 (8.90%) React
6 45 (8.01%) REST
7 42 (7.47%) PySpark
8 38 (6.76%) AngularJS
9 25 (4.45%) OAuth
10 24 (4.27%) OpenID
11 22 (3.91%) SOAP
12 20 (3.56%) CSS
13 19 (3.38%) AWS CDK
13 19 (3.38%) Hibernate
13 19 (3.38%) JPA
13 19 (3.38%) Spring Cloud
13 19 (3.38%) Web Services
14 16 (2.85%) Great Expectations
14 16 (2.85%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 140 (24.91%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 11 (1.96%) NHS
5 9 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.60%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.07%) Clustering
7 6 (1.07%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.07%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.07%) PACS
7 6 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (0.89%) Mainframe
8 5 (0.89%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.89%) Replication
8 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.71%) Equities
9 4 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 80 (14.23%) Linux
2 21 (3.74%) Unix
3 12 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.25%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (0.71%) Windows
6 2 (0.36%) Android
6 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.36%) zOS
7 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (58.01%) CI/CD
2 232 (41.28%) DevOps
3 202 (35.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 171 (30.43%) Agile
5 135 (24.02%) Analytics
6 129 (22.95%) Containerisation
6 129 (22.95%) ETL
7 126 (22.42%) Data Modelling
8 118 (21.00%) Data Engineering
9 108 (19.22%) Data Pipeline
10 97 (17.26%) Microservices
11 85 (15.12%) Observability
12 79 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
13 73 (12.99%) AI
14 69 (12.28%) Test Automation
15 66 (11.74%) Software Engineering
16 65 (11.57%) Migration
17 62 (11.03%) Business Intelligence
17 62 (11.03%) Event-Driven
17 62 (11.03%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 318 (56.58%) Python
2 225 (40.04%) SQL
3 128 (22.78%) Java
4 55 (9.79%) TypeScript
5 46 (8.19%) Bash
5 46 (8.19%) C#
6 44 (7.83%) JavaScript
7 29 (5.16%) Shell Script
8 19 (3.38%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.38%) Scala
9 11 (1.96%) Go
10 6 (1.07%) Bicep
10 6 (1.07%) Groovy
10 6 (1.07%) SAS Macro
11 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.53%) C++
12 3 (0.53%) JSX
12 3 (0.53%) Perl
12 3 (0.53%) R
13 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 201 (35.77%) Security Cleared
2 164 (29.18%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.12%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.02%) Degree
5 14 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
10 6 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.53%) OCP
12 3 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.53%) PhD
12 3 (0.53%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (12.99%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.80%) GDPR
3 21 (3.74%) QA
4 8 (1.42%) NIST
4 8 (1.42%) SLA
5 7 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.25%) PMO
6 6 (1.07%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 192 (34.16%) Docker
2 10 (1.78%) Postfix
2 10 (1.78%) Squid
3 7 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.53%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 263 (46.80%) Terraform
2 134 (23.84%) Kubernetes
3 87 (15.48%) Grafana
4 60 (10.68%) Prometheus
5 48 (8.54%) Ansible
6 18 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.67%) Puppet
8 12 (2.14%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.78%) Kibana
10 9 (1.60%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.42%) Consul
12 5 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.71%) Argo
13 4 (0.71%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.71%) Packer
13 4 (0.71%) Salt
14 3 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.53%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.53%) Istio
14 3 (0.53%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 62 (11.03%) Databricks
2 36 (6.41%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.34%) Splunk
4 26 (4.63%) Google
5 18 (3.20%) Atlassian
6 17 (3.02%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.85%) Dynatrace
8 15 (2.67%) Oracle
9 14 (2.49%) Jaspersoft
9 14 (2.49%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.78%) Denodo
10 10 (1.78%) Informatica
11 9 (1.60%) Confluent
11 9 (1.60%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.42%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.07%) AVEVA
13 6 (1.07%) Teradata
14 5 (0.89%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.89%) Dell
14 5 (0.89%) IBM