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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 224 230
Rank change year-on-year +41 +6 +57
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 164 175 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.27% 0.86% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.00% 3.32% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 148 173
10th Percentile £413 £414 £425
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.30% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £575
90th Percentile £575 £679 £648
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +3.75% -8.00% -
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 4,101 5,271 7,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.69% 26.00% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,863 3,743 5,665
10th Percentile £236 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £375 £406
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 £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 262 222
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.51
Median hourly rate £20.11 £17.72 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -31.49% +31.80%
75th Percentile £33.80 £27.25 £64.88
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +56.25%

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 20 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 20 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 +13 74 £500 +7.30% 15
North of England +2 43 £494 -3.19% 99
Midlands +35 25 £475 -3.80% 47
North West +8 25 £475 -6.86% 55
West Midlands +19 20 £488 -1.27% 31
Yorkshire +8 15 £525 +3.55% 24
South East +22 10 £505 -8.18% 130
South West +40 9 £550 - 38
East of England +27 5 £500 -16.67% 21
East Midlands - 5 £459 - 14
North East - 3 - - 22
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 21
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 14 (8.54%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.10%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.88%) Apache
4 3 (1.83%) IIS
4 3 (1.83%) nginx
4 3 (1.83%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.22%) Confluence
5 2 (1.22%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.22%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.61%) CMS
6 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.61%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 153 (93.29%) AWS
2 92 (56.10%) Serverless
3 91 (55.49%) AWS Lambda
4 63 (38.41%) Amazon EC2
5 39 (23.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 37 (22.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (14.63%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (14.63%) OpenShift
8 22 (13.41%) AWS CodePipeline
9 20 (12.20%) Azure
10 19 (11.59%) GitHub
11 16 (9.76%) Route 53
12 15 (9.15%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (9.15%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (9.15%) AWS CodeBuild
12 15 (9.15%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (7.93%) Amazon Cognito
15 12 (7.32%) AWS KMS
16 11 (6.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.10%) NAS
1 10 (6.10%) SAN
2 5 (3.05%) DNS
3 4 (2.44%) Firewall
3 4 (2.44%) SMS
4 2 (1.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.61%) FTP
5 1 (0.61%) Internet
5 1 (0.61%) Network Security
5 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (28.66%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (23.78%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (21.34%) DynamoDB
4 23 (14.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 23 (14.02%) MongoDB
5 21 (12.80%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (10.98%) Relational Database
7 14 (8.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (8.54%) Oracle Database
8 13 (7.93%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (6.71%) NoSQL
10 9 (5.49%) MySQL
11 7 (4.27%) SQL Server
12 6 (3.66%) GIS
12 6 (3.66%) RDBMS
13 5 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (3.05%) Flink
14 4 (2.44%) Data Lake
14 4 (2.44%) Metadata
14 4 (2.44%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 60 (36.59%) Jenkins
2 27 (16.46%) Git
3 20 (12.20%) GitLab
4 11 (6.71%) Mockito
5 10 (6.10%) JUnit
6 9 (5.49%) Cypress.io
6 9 (5.49%) JIRA
7 8 (4.88%) Maven
8 7 (4.27%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.05%) Storybook
10 4 (2.44%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.44%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.44%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.44%) DbUnit
10 4 (2.44%) jMock
11 3 (1.83%) webpack
12 2 (1.22%) Ant
13 1 (0.61%) Selenium
13 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.61%) Toad
General
1 41 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 38 (23.17%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.15%) Finance
5 9 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.44%) Banking
7 2 (1.22%) Back Office
7 2 (1.22%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.22%) Retail
8 1 (0.61%) Aviation
8 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Marketing
8 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (28.66%) Developer
2 28 (17.07%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (17.07%) Data Engineer
3 19 (11.59%) Architect
4 16 (9.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (9.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (9.15%) Senior
6 13 (7.93%) AWS Developer
6 13 (7.93%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.71%) Software Developer
7 11 (6.71%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.10%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (6.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) Lead
10 7 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.27%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.27%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.66%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (22.56%) AWS CDK
2 23 (14.02%) React
2 23 (14.02%) Spring Boot
3 22 (13.41%) Kafka
3 22 (13.41%) Spring
4 21 (12.80%) REST
5 18 (10.98%) Node.js
5 18 (10.98%) RESTful
6 13 (7.93%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (6.10%) Web Services
8 9 (5.49%) SOAP
9 8 (4.88%) CSS
9 8 (4.88%) Hibernate
9 8 (4.88%) JPA
9 8 (4.88%) JSON
9 8 (4.88%) OAuth
9 8 (4.88%) PySpark
10 7 (4.27%) PostGIS
10 7 (4.27%) Spring Batch
10 7 (4.27%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.66%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.05%) Replication
5 4 (2.44%) NHS
5 4 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.83%) Oracle Licensing
7 2 (1.22%) Clustering
7 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.61%) CSOC
8 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) FMCG
8 1 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.37%) Linux
2 15 (9.15%) Windows
3 12 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.10%) Unix
5 7 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.22%) CentOS
6 2 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (51.83%) CI/CD
2 59 (35.98%) Agile
3 56 (34.15%) DevOps
4 45 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (22.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (20.12%) Containerisation
6 33 (20.12%) Microservices
7 31 (18.90%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (18.29%) Scrum
9 28 (17.07%) Migration
10 27 (16.46%) ETL
11 24 (14.63%) TDD
12 22 (13.41%) Decision-Making
12 22 (13.41%) Kanban
13 19 (11.59%) Computer Science
13 19 (11.59%) Data Migration
14 18 (10.98%) Software Engineering
15 17 (10.37%) Data Engineering
15 17 (10.37%) High Availability
16 15 (9.15%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 85 (51.83%) Python
2 50 (30.49%) SQL
3 40 (24.39%) Java
4 24 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 23 (14.02%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.71%) Bash
7 5 (3.05%) Groovy
8 3 (1.83%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.83%) Scala
8 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.83%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.22%) C#
9 2 (1.22%) R
10 1 (0.61%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (11.59%) Degree
4 18 (10.98%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) OCP
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.22%) SLA
6 1 (0.61%) GDPR
6 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 51 (31.10%) Docker
2 5 (3.05%) Postfix
3 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.83%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.22%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (26.22%) Kubernetes
2 32 (19.51%) Terraform
3 20 (12.20%) Grafana
4 18 (10.98%) Ansible
5 13 (7.93%) Oracle RMAN
5 13 (7.93%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.10%) NetBackup
7 6 (3.66%) Kibana
8 2 (1.22%) Nagios
8 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.22%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.61%) Argo
9 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.61%) logstash
9 1 (0.61%) QRadar
9 1 (0.61%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 23 (14.02%) Oracle
2 10 (6.10%) Veritas
3 6 (3.66%) IBM
3 6 (3.66%) StreamSets
4 5 (3.05%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.44%) Databricks
5 4 (2.44%) Informatica
5 4 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (2.44%) Teradata
6 3 (1.83%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.83%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.83%) Virgin Media
6 3 (1.83%) VMware
7 2 (1.22%) Brio
7 2 (1.22%) Dell
7 2 (1.22%) HP
7 2 (1.22%) Imperva
7 2 (1.22%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.61%) Splunk
8 1 (0.61%) TSYS