Amazon S3 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 226 242
Rank change year-on-year +42 +16 +72
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 155 173 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 0.84% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.80% 3.21% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 144 182
10th Percentile £401 £415 £425
25th Percentile £450 £456 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £575
90th Percentile £563 £685 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
UK median hourly rate - - £60.55
% change year-on-year - - -28.76%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,080 5,392 7,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.94% 26.05% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,889 3,814 5,914
10th Percentile £237 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £373 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 257 227
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.54 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £20.97 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.78% -40.09% +62.79%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon S3 in the UK excluding London

Amazon S3
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon S3 in the UK excluding London

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the UK excluding London

Amazon S3
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon S3 in the UK excluding London

Amazon S3
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Scotland +16 71 £500 +5.26% 16
North of England +4 40 £475 -6.86% 64
North West -1 23 £463 -9.31% 45
Midlands +35 21 £488 -1.27% 38
West Midlands +25 16 £500 +1.27% 20
Yorkshire +8 13 £525 -12.50% 13
South East +14 12 £505 -8.18% 76
South West +25 8 £550 - 28
East Midlands - 5 £459 - 14
North East - 4 £624 - 9
East of England +34 3 £500 -20.00% 15
Wales +5 1 £400 -37.94% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 10
Amazon S3
UK

Amazon S3
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (7.10%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.45%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.16%) Apache
4 3 (1.94%) IIS
4 3 (1.94%) nginx
4 3 (1.94%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.29%) Confluence
5 2 (1.29%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.29%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.65%) CMS
6 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.65%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 143 (92.26%) AWS
2 90 (58.06%) AWS Lambda
2 90 (58.06%) Serverless
3 56 (36.13%) Amazon EC2
4 38 (24.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 37 (23.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (16.13%) OpenShift
7 20 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
7 20 (12.90%) AWS CodePipeline
7 20 (12.90%) Azure
8 18 (11.61%) GitHub
9 16 (10.32%) Route 53
10 15 (9.68%) Amazon Cognito
11 14 (9.03%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (9.03%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (9.03%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (8.39%) AWS CodeBuild
13 11 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (6.45%) AWS KMS
14 10 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.10%) NAS
1 11 (7.10%) SAN
2 5 (3.23%) DNS
3 4 (2.58%) Firewall
4 2 (1.29%) DHCP
4 2 (1.29%) SMS
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.65%) FTP
5 1 (0.65%) Internet
5 1 (0.65%) Network Security
5 1 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (27.10%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (23.87%) DynamoDB
3 33 (21.29%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (12.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 19 (12.26%) MongoDB
5 18 (11.61%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (10.32%) Relational Database
7 15 (9.68%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (9.03%) NoSQL
9 12 (7.74%) Oracle Database
10 10 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (4.52%) MySQL
12 6 (3.87%) Parquet
12 6 (3.87%) SQL Server
13 5 (3.23%) Data Lake
13 5 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (3.23%) Flink
13 5 (3.23%) GIS
13 5 (3.23%) Metadata
14 4 (2.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (34.19%) Jenkins
2 22 (14.19%) Git
2 22 (14.19%) GitLab
3 9 (5.81%) Cypress.io
3 9 (5.81%) Mockito
4 8 (5.16%) JUnit
5 7 (4.52%) JIRA
6 5 (3.23%) Maven
6 5 (3.23%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.23%) Storybook
7 4 (2.58%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.58%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.58%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (2.58%) DbUnit
7 4 (2.58%) jMock
8 3 (1.94%) webpack
9 2 (1.29%) Ant
10 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.65%) Selenium
10 1 (0.65%) Toad
General
1 37 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.29%) Public Sector
3 21 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.03%) Finance
5 8 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.94%) Banking
7 2 (1.29%) Back Office
8 1 (0.65%) Aviation
8 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (27.10%) Developer
2 28 (18.06%) Data Engineer
3 27 (17.42%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (11.61%) Architect
4 18 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (10.32%) Senior
6 13 (8.39%) AWS Developer
6 13 (8.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (7.10%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.81%) Java Developer
10 8 (5.16%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.52%) Lead
11 7 (4.52%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.87%) AWS Data Engineer
12 6 (3.87%) Cloud Developer
12 6 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (23.87%) AWS CDK
2 22 (14.19%) React
3 21 (13.55%) Kafka
4 19 (12.26%) Spring Boot
5 18 (11.61%) RESTful
5 18 (11.61%) Spring
6 16 (10.32%) Node.js
6 16 (10.32%) REST
7 10 (6.45%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (6.45%) JSON
8 8 (5.16%) CSS
8 8 (5.16%) Hibernate
8 8 (5.16%) OAuth
8 8 (5.16%) Web Services
9 7 (4.52%) HTML
9 7 (4.52%) JDBC
9 7 (4.52%) Spring Batch
10 6 (3.87%) Jest
10 6 (3.87%) JPA
10 6 (3.87%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.87%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.58%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.58%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.58%) Replication
5 3 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.94%) Oracle Licensing
6 2 (1.29%) Clustering
6 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.29%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.68%) Linux
2 14 (9.03%) Windows
3 13 (8.39%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.10%) Unix
5 5 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.29%) CentOS
6 2 (1.29%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (54.19%) CI/CD
2 57 (36.77%) DevOps
3 52 (33.55%) Agile
4 39 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 30 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (18.71%) Microservices
9 26 (16.77%) ETL
9 26 (16.77%) Migration
9 26 (16.77%) Scrum
10 23 (14.84%) Decision-Making
11 22 (14.19%) Kanban
12 21 (13.55%) Software Engineering
13 20 (12.90%) TDD
14 18 (11.61%) Computer Science
15 17 (10.97%) Data Migration
15 17 (10.97%) Event-Driven
16 15 (9.68%) Data Engineering
16 15 (9.68%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 83 (53.55%) Python
2 49 (31.61%) SQL
3 36 (23.23%) Java
4 23 (14.84%) JavaScript
4 23 (14.84%) TypeScript
5 11 (7.10%) Bash
6 5 (3.23%) Groovy
7 3 (1.94%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.94%) Scala
7 3 (1.94%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.94%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.29%) C#
8 2 (1.29%) R
9 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.55%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.90%) AWS Certification
4 18 (11.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (11.61%) Degree
5 8 (5.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) OCP
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.81%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.16%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.29%) SLA
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 49 (31.61%) Docker
2 5 (3.23%) Postfix
3 3 (1.94%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (27.74%) Kubernetes
2 29 (18.71%) Terraform
3 17 (10.97%) Ansible
3 17 (10.97%) Grafana
4 14 (9.03%) Oracle RMAN
5 11 (7.10%) NetBackup
5 11 (7.10%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.87%) Kibana
7 2 (1.29%) Nagios
7 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.29%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.65%) Argo
8 1 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.65%) logstash
8 1 (0.65%) QRadar
8 1 (0.65%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 19 (12.26%) Oracle
2 11 (7.10%) Veritas
3 5 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 5 (3.23%) Databricks
4 4 (2.58%) IBM
4 4 (2.58%) Informatica
4 4 (2.58%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (1.94%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.94%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.94%) Teradata
5 3 (1.94%) Virgin Media
5 3 (1.94%) VMware
6 2 (1.29%) Dell
6 2 (1.29%) HP
6 2 (1.29%) Imperva
6 2 (1.29%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.29%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco
7 1 (0.65%) Confluent
7 1 (0.65%) Okta