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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 94 91
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 38 35 39
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.46% 1.70% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.68% 4.14% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 26
10th Percentile £455 £523 £481
25th Percentile £525 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £515
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +26.21% -14.17%
75th Percentile £669 £788 £749
90th Percentile £725 £800 £819
London median daily rate £564 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% +9.52% -12.13%

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 1,032 846 961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.57% 41.21% 41.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 545 676
10th Percentile £338 £360 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £653
90th Percentile £750 £759 £750
London median daily rate £535 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 4
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 £17.03
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 £23.44
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £43.38
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £72.85
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -17 34 £575 -13.21% 4
West End of London -3 4 £650 +12.07%
City of Westminster - 3 £650 - 2
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 6 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.89%) Confluence
3 2 (5.26%) Apache
4 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 37 (97.37%) AWS
2 27 (71.05%) AWS Lambda
2 27 (71.05%) Serverless
3 14 (36.84%) GitHub
4 11 (28.95%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (23.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (23.68%) Amazon Kinesis
7 8 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (15.79%) Azure
8 6 (15.79%) dbt
8 6 (15.79%) Power Platform
8 6 (15.79%) Snowflake
9 5 (13.16%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (13.16%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (13.16%) AWS CodePipeline
9 5 (13.16%) GCP
10 4 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Network Security
2 1 (2.63%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (42.11%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (28.95%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (28.95%) Amazon Redshift
2 11 (28.95%) DynamoDB
3 6 (15.79%) Power BI
4 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (13.16%) Metadata
5 4 (10.53%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (10.53%) Tableau
6 3 (7.89%) BigQuery
6 3 (7.89%) Data Lake
6 3 (7.89%) Delta Lake
6 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.26%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (5.26%) Data Mining
7 2 (5.26%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 2 (5.26%) Star Schema
8 1 (2.63%) Db2
8 1 (2.63%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) GitLab
2 9 (23.68%) Git
2 9 (23.68%) JIRA
3 7 (18.42%) Jenkins
4 5 (13.16%) JUnit
5 4 (10.53%) Cucumber
5 4 (10.53%) Mockito
5 4 (10.53%) Postman
6 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
General
1 12 (31.58%) Finance
2 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Military
6 2 (5.26%) Back Office
7 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Billing
7 1 (2.63%) Law
7 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Data Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Senior
3 5 (13.16%) Architect
3 5 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Platform Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) GCP Data Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Gen AI Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Kafka
2 6 (15.79%) Spring
2 6 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 5 (13.16%) PySpark
4 4 (10.53%) Gherkin
4 4 (10.53%) Node.js
4 4 (10.53%) React
4 4 (10.53%) SOAP
4 4 (10.53%) WireMock
4 4 (10.53%) YAML
5 3 (7.89%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (7.89%) Plotly
6 2 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (5.26%) Jest
6 2 (5.26%) PyTorch
6 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.63%) OAuth
7 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (2.63%) REST
7 1 (2.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.26%) Clustering
2 2 (5.26%) NHS
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Life Science
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (71.05%) CI/CD
2 16 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (39.47%) Data Engineering
4 12 (31.58%) Agile
4 12 (31.58%) Analytics
4 12 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (31.58%) DevOps
5 10 (26.32%) AI
6 9 (23.68%) Test Automation
7 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
7 8 (21.05%) Event-Driven
8 7 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
8 7 (18.42%) Data Governance
8 7 (18.42%) Machine Learning
9 6 (15.79%) ETL
9 6 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (13.16%) Data Science
10 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (13.16%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Python
2 15 (39.47%) SQL
3 7 (18.42%) Java
3 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.16%) C#
4 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.26%) Bash
5 2 (5.26%) Bicep
6 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) SC Cleared
1 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) SnowPro
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (47.37%) Terraform
2 8 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.89%) Grafana
4 2 (5.26%) Ansible
4 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.63%) Puppet
5 1 (2.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Databricks
3 3 (7.89%) Informatica
4 2 (5.26%) Google
4 2 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.26%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) Sybase