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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 87 126
Rank change year-on-year -4 +39 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 36 43 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.85% 1.87% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.65% 4.59% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 31 25
10th Percentile £494 £490 £463
25th Percentile £575 £503 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £595
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -9.66% +8.18%
75th Percentile £775 £755 £700
90th Percentile £800 £900 £875
London median daily rate £575 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +6.88% -2.18% -4.35%
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 775 936 1,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.80% 40.70% 42.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 633 940
10th Percentile £333 £389 £325
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - -2.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £763 £788
London median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.56 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%
75th Percentile £54.46 - £34.44
90th Percentile £79.48 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.25
% change year-on-year +1.34% -24.00% +15.00%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon S3 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +3 35 £638 +18.60% 17
City of Westminster -1 1 £475 -26.92%
Amazon S3
London

Amazon S3
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) CICS
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
2 1 (2.78%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (97.22%) AWS
2 18 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 18 (50.00%) Serverless
3 15 (41.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (19.44%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (19.44%) AWS Step Functions
6 6 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (13.89%) Datadog
7 5 (13.89%) GitHub
8 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (11.11%) SaaS
8 4 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (8.33%) Snowflake
10 2 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (2.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) VPN
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) SSL
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) NAS
3 1 (2.78%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) DynamoDB
2 8 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (8.33%) DataStage
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.78%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) Parquet
5 1 (2.78%) Pinecone
5 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) GitLab
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Front Office
3 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Military
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (16.67%) Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Software Design Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) GraphQL
2 9 (25.00%) Kafka
3 8 (22.22%) React
4 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
5 6 (16.67%) REST
6 5 (13.89%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (13.89%) Svelte
6 5 (13.89%) WebSockets
7 4 (11.11%) Node.js
8 3 (8.33%) RESTful
8 3 (8.33%) XML
9 2 (5.56%) .NET
9 2 (5.56%) AWS CDK
10 1 (2.78%) Faiss
10 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
10 1 (2.78%) Flake8
10 1 (2.78%) LangChain
10 1 (2.78%) LangGraph
10 1 (2.78%) mypy
10 1 (2.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) CSOC
2 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.78%) NHS
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.78%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) AIX
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Solaris
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (30.56%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) DevOps
3 10 (27.78%) Event-Driven
3 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
4 9 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (25.00%) Microservices
5 8 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (16.67%) Migration
7 6 (16.67%) Observability
7 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (13.89%) Clean Code
8 5 (13.89%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (13.89%) ETL
8 5 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (13.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) Java
3 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) COBOL
6 1 (2.78%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) Perl
6 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NCSC
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Terraform
2 5 (13.89%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) CheckPoint
1 2 (5.56%) F5
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
1 2 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.78%) NetApp
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.78%) Vertica