Amazon S3 Contract Job Trends in Reading

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Amazon S3 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 88 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.69% 0.19% 0.097%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 0.55% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £513 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £800
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -34.38% +68.42%
75th Percentile £606 £538 -
90th Percentile £618 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £563 £563 £663
% change year-on-year - -15.09% +38.02%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 303 361 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 41.62% 35.08% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 230 270
10th Percentile £275 £382 £424
25th Percentile £419 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £664 £670 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £570 £570
% change year-on-year -13.72% +0.04% +4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 1
10th Percentile - £27.35 -
25th Percentile £14.75 £29.00 £16.84
Median hourly rate £81.00 £42.50 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year +90.59% +145.10% -67.28%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £17.84
90th Percentile £100.55 £67.70 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £42.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -4.86% -32.54% +186.36%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon S3 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Amazon S3 job vacancy trend in Reading

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Amazon S3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in Reading over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in Reading

Amazon S3
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) Statistics
2 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (60.00%) OCP
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Data Guard
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (40.00%) systemd
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) IBM