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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 93 114
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 42 35 34
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.15% 1.49% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.22% 3.80% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 26 24
10th Percentile £356 £416 £378
25th Percentile £438 £501 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £688 £736 £653
90th Percentile £795 £881 £818
London median daily rate £575 £558 £540
% change year-on-year +3.14% +3.24% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Cloud 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 805 921 1,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.20% 39.29% 40.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 601 832
10th Percentile £342 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 10
10th Percentile £18.65 £29.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £49.83 £49.38 £46.06
90th Percentile £62.04 £75.25 £54.63
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -25.71% -9.68% +49.93%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 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
City of London +2 41 £600 +4.35% 79
City of Westminster - 1 £475 -
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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.38%) CICS
3 1 (2.38%) CMS
3 1 (2.38%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (52.38%) AWS Lambda
2 22 (52.38%) Serverless
3 19 (45.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (26.19%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (26.19%) GitHub
5 10 (23.81%) Azure
6 9 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (11.90%) Apigee
9 5 (11.90%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (11.90%) Datadog
9 5 (11.90%) Snowflake
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (9.52%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) DNS
1 3 (7.14%) VPN
2 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (4.76%) SSL
2 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.38%) NAS
3 1 (2.38%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) DynamoDB
2 10 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon QuickSight
4 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.14%) DataStage
5 3 (7.14%) MySQL
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.76%) Power BI
6 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.76%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.38%) Metadata
7 1 (2.38%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.90%) Git
3 3 (7.14%) GitLab
3 3 (7.14%) JIRA
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 10 (23.81%) Front Office
3 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.90%) Banking
6 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
7 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Developer
2 8 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Senior
4 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Lead
7 3 (7.14%) Architect
7 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Python Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Software Design Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Apigee Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) Kafka
2 9 (21.43%) Node.js
3 8 (19.05%) React
4 7 (16.67%) GraphQL
5 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 6 (14.29%) REST
6 5 (11.90%) OAuth
7 4 (9.52%) .NET
7 4 (9.52%) JWT
7 4 (9.52%) Svelte
8 3 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (7.14%) WebSockets
8 3 (7.14%) XML
9 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
9 2 (4.76%) RESTful
10 1 (2.38%) boto
10 1 (2.38%) Memcached
10 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
10 1 (2.38%) OpenID
10 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.76%) Replication
4 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.38%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.38%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) AIX
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Solaris
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 15 (35.71%) DevOps
3 14 (33.33%) Agile
4 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (23.81%) Event-Driven
6 9 (21.43%) Microservices
6 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 8 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (16.67%) Analytics
8 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 7 (16.67%) ETL
8 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 6 (14.29%) Migration
10 5 (11.90%) Data Modelling
10 5 (11.90%) Observability
10 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (9.52%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) SQL
3 10 (23.81%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.14%) Bash
5 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.38%) C#
6 1 (2.38%) COBOL
6 1 (2.38%) Go
6 1 (2.38%) Perl
6 1 (2.38%) PHP
6 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (28.57%) Terraform
2 7 (16.67%) Ansible
3 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.38%) Grafana
5 1 (2.38%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.76%) CheckPoint
2 2 (4.76%) F5
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle
2 2 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.38%) Confluent
3 1 (2.38%) Databricks
3 1 (2.38%) IBM
3 1 (2.38%) Informatica
3 1 (2.38%) NetApp
3 1 (2.38%) StreamSets
3 1 (2.38%) Vertica