Amazon S3 Contract Job Trends in Central London

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Amazon S3 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 89 109
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 41 36 31
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.04% 1.62% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.90% 4.09% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 22
10th Percentile £343 £416 £368
25th Percentile £363 £490 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +0.94% -3.18%
75th Percentile £651 £688 £599
90th Percentile £688 £774 £700
London median daily rate £530 £554 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% +5.48% -10.64%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 837 880 1,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.58% 39.50% 39.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 575 762
10th Percentile £340 £380 £353
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 10
10th Percentile £18.83 £28.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £34.44
90th Percentile £42.50 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £35.63
% change year-on-year -15.16% -12.99% +31.96%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Amazon S3 job vacancy trend in Central London

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in Central London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in Central London

Amazon S3
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
City of London -4 37 £510 -11.30% 30
City of Westminster +3 1 £475 -8.65%
Amazon S3
London

Amazon S3
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.44%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (65.85%) AWS Lambda
2 27 (65.85%) Serverless
3 17 (41.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (34.15%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (29.27%) Azure
6 11 (26.83%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (26.83%) GitHub
7 8 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (17.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (14.63%) Apigee
9 6 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (14.63%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (9.76%) dbt
10 4 (9.76%) GCP
10 4 (9.76%) Snowflake
11 3 (7.32%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) DNS
2 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 2 (4.88%) SSL
2 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.88%) VPN
3 1 (2.44%) NAS
3 1 (2.44%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) DynamoDB
2 8 (19.51%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (14.63%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (12.20%) Amazon QuickSight
4 5 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (12.20%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (7.32%) CockroachDB
5 3 (7.32%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.32%) DataStage
5 3 (7.32%) Metadata
5 3 (7.32%) MySQL
5 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.88%) Pinecone
6 2 (4.88%) Power BI
6 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.88%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.44%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Jenkins
2 9 (21.95%) Git
3 5 (12.20%) GitLab
4 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.32%) JIRA
5 1 (2.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (24.39%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Banking
3 6 (14.63%) Front Office
3 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Data Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Senior
3 5 (12.20%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Architect
4 4 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Lead
5 3 (7.32%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Apigee Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) Node.js
2 6 (14.63%) React
3 5 (12.20%) boto
3 5 (12.20%) NumPy
3 5 (12.20%) OAuth
3 5 (12.20%) Pandas
3 5 (12.20%) REST
4 4 (9.76%) .NET
4 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
4 4 (9.76%) JWT
4 4 (9.76%) Kafka
5 3 (7.32%) SciPy
5 3 (7.32%) XML
6 2 (4.88%) AWS CDK
6 2 (4.88%) HTML
6 2 (4.88%) LangGraph
6 2 (4.88%) PySpark
6 2 (4.88%) RESTful
7 1 (2.44%) Faiss
7 1 (2.44%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.32%) Derivative
4 3 (7.32%) Equities
4 3 (7.32%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.88%) Replication
6 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.44%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.44%) NHS
6 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.44%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) AIX
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Solaris
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) CI/CD
2 18 (43.90%) DevOps
3 12 (29.27%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (26.83%) Analytics
4 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (24.39%) ETL
5 10 (24.39%) Event-Driven
6 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
7 8 (19.51%) Microservices
8 7 (17.07%) Data Modelling
9 6 (14.63%) Agile
9 6 (14.63%) Migration
9 6 (14.63%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
10 5 (12.20%) Decision-Making
10 5 (12.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (12.20%) Observability
11 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (70.73%) Python
2 21 (51.22%) SQL
3 11 (26.83%) Java
4 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.76%) C#
6 3 (7.32%) Bash
6 3 (7.32%) C++
7 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.44%) COBOL
8 1 (2.44%) Go
8 1 (2.44%) Perl
8 1 (2.44%) PHP
8 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.32%) Degree
4 3 (7.32%) Master's Degree
4 3 (7.32%) PhD
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) NCSC
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (34.15%) Terraform
2 8 (19.51%) Ansible
2 8 (19.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.88%) Grafana
4 1 (2.44%) Argo
4 1 (2.44%) Istio
4 1 (2.44%) Karpenter
4 1 (2.44%) Kibana
4 1 (2.44%) Opsgenie
4 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.88%) CheckPoint
2 2 (4.88%) Databricks
2 2 (4.88%) F5
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle
2 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
2 2 (4.88%) SAP
3 1 (2.44%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.44%) Confluent
3 1 (2.44%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) IBM
3 1 (2.44%) Informatica
3 1 (2.44%) NetApp
3 1 (2.44%) Splunk
3 1 (2.44%) StreamSets
3 1 (2.44%) Vertica