Amazon S3 Contracts in the Midlands

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Amazon S3 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon S3 over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 127 158
Rank change year-on-year +36 +31 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 36 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.64% 0.30% 0.093%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.38% 1.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 5 3
10th Percentile £416 £366 £228
25th Percentile £450 £413 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +7.14% +1.94%
75th Percentile £500 £750 £556
90th Percentile £537 £765 £568
England median daily rate £525 £520 £585
% change year-on-year +0.96% -11.11% +6.36%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 669 722 1,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.56% 24.46% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 513 794
10th Percentile £250 £200 £223
25th Percentile £371 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £559 £598 £588
90th Percentile £646 £688 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 19
10th Percentile £15.17 £13.93 £13.23
25th Percentile £17.43 £14.00 £14.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £19.95 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -0.25% +3.90%
75th Percentile £28.44 £26.50 £26.48
90th Percentile £39.18 £31.36 £38.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year +16.98% -33.44% +53.81%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Amazon S3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon S3 in the Midlands

Amazon S3
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3 in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Amazon S3 in the Midlands

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the Midlands

Amazon S3
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
West Midlands +27 30 £475 -3.80% 61
East Midlands +10 6 £455 -39.37% 37
Amazon S3
England

Amazon S3
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (22.22%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) nginx
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) NetSuite
1 2 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (69.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (47.22%) Amazon SQS
4 17 (47.22%) AWS KMS
5 13 (36.11%) Route 53
5 13 (36.11%) Serverless
6 12 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (19.44%) Amazon Glacier
9 6 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (5.56%) GitHub
13 2 (5.56%) PaaS
13 2 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) SMTP
2 4 (11.11%) DNS
2 4 (11.11%) Firewall
2 4 (11.11%) FTP
2 4 (11.11%) HTTP
2 4 (11.11%) SSH
3 2 (5.56%) IMAP
3 2 (5.56%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (69.44%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (47.22%) DynamoDB
4 15 (41.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (16.67%) Relational Database
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.78%) Big Data
8 1 (2.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 20 (55.56%) Git
3 14 (38.89%) JUnit
4 13 (36.11%) Maven
5 12 (33.33%) Mockito
5 12 (33.33%) SonarQube
6 10 (27.78%) JIRA
7 7 (19.44%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (19.44%) DbUnit
7 7 (19.44%) jMock
8 6 (16.67%) Vagrant
9 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.78%) GitLab
9 1 (2.78%) Snyk
General
1 16 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Back Office
5 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Developer
2 16 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 8 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) AWS Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Lead
4 6 (16.67%) Lead Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Java Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (44.44%) ActiveMQ
1 16 (44.44%) REST
1 16 (44.44%) Spring
1 16 (44.44%) Spring Boot
2 14 (38.89%) Web Services
3 13 (36.11%) SOAP
4 12 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 12 (33.33%) JPA
4 12 (33.33%) RESTful
5 10 (27.78%) Spring Cloud
6 9 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 9 (25.00%) Bootstrap
6 9 (25.00%) Spring Batch
6 9 (25.00%) Spring Integration
7 7 (19.44%) Kafka
7 7 (19.44%) PowerMock
8 2 (5.56%) Django
8 2 (5.56%) HTML
8 2 (5.56%) jQuery
8 2 (5.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.11%) Replication
3 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (41.67%) Linux
2 6 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (16.67%) VMS
3 5 (13.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Agile
2 22 (61.11%) DevOps
3 21 (58.33%) Microservices
4 20 (55.56%) CI/CD
5 17 (47.22%) Scrum
5 17 (47.22%) TDD
6 16 (44.44%) Containerisation
7 12 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (27.78%) BDD
9 9 (25.00%) Kanban
10 8 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (19.44%) Configuration Management
11 7 (19.44%) Open Source
11 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (19.44%) Risk Management
12 6 (16.67%) Change Management
12 6 (16.67%) Cloud Security
12 6 (16.67%) ETL
12 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (77.78%) Java
2 18 (50.00%) SQL
3 14 (38.89%) Python
4 6 (16.67%) Groovy
4 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.11%) Perl
7 3 (8.33%) Scala
8 2 (5.56%) R
9 1 (2.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (47.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (86.11%) Docker
2 10 (27.78%) Postfix
3 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.11%) DFS Replication
4 2 (5.56%) Dovecot
4 2 (5.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 17 (47.22%) Prometheus
2 16 (44.44%) Grafana
3 9 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (25.00%) Terraform
4 2 (5.56%) Ansible
4 2 (5.56%) Nessus
5 1 (2.78%) Argo
5 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.78%) logstash
5 1 (2.78%) QRadar
5 1 (2.78%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (19.44%) Atlassian
3 6 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco
5 1 (2.78%) Databricks
5 1 (2.78%) Red Hat