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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 95 101
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 40 36 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.51% 1.76% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 4.21% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 30 25
10th Percentile £448 £512 £413
25th Percentile £500 £575 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £510
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +22.55% -15.39%
75th Percentile £663 £784 £738
90th Percentile £725 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £568 £513
% change year-on-year -3.08% +10.73% -14.58%

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 1,034 855 995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.96% 41.69% 41.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 551 703
10th Percentile £333 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £651
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 5
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 £12.75
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £40.95
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
% change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -52.05%

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 10 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 10 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 -4 36 £563 -10.00% 8
West End of London -1 4 £650 +12.07% 1
City of Westminster - 3 £650 - 1
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 8 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 2 (5.00%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (72.50%) AWS Lambda
2 29 (72.50%) Serverless
3 16 (40.00%) GitHub
4 12 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (27.50%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (22.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 8 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (17.50%) Azure
9 7 (17.50%) Snowflake
10 6 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (15.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (15.00%) dbt
10 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
11 5 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (12.50%) GCP
12 4 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (42.50%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (30.00%) DynamoDB
3 11 (27.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (15.00%) Power BI
5 5 (12.50%) Metadata
6 4 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 4 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (10.00%) Tableau
7 3 (7.50%) BigQuery
7 3 (7.50%) Delta Lake
7 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.00%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (5.00%) Data Mining
8 2 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (5.00%) Star Schema
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Git
2 11 (27.50%) GitLab
3 10 (25.00%) JIRA
4 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 6 (15.00%) JUnit
6 5 (12.50%) Cucumber
6 5 (12.50%) Mockito
6 5 (12.50%) Postman
7 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Banking
2 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Back Office
3 2 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Billing
4 1 (2.50%) Law
4 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Data Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Platform Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) Kafka
2 7 (17.50%) Spring
2 7 (17.50%) Spring Boot
3 5 (12.50%) Gherkin
3 5 (12.50%) PySpark
3 5 (12.50%) SOAP
3 5 (12.50%) WireMock
3 5 (12.50%) YAML
4 4 (10.00%) Node.js
4 4 (10.00%) React
5 3 (7.50%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (7.50%) Plotly
6 2 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (5.00%) Jest
6 2 (5.00%) PyTorch
6 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.50%) Express.js
7 1 (2.50%) OAuth
7 1 (2.50%) REST
7 1 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.00%) Clustering
2 2 (5.00%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Life Science
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.50%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (42.50%) Data Engineering
3 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (32.50%) DevOps
5 12 (30.00%) Agile
5 12 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (27.50%) Analytics
7 10 (25.00%) AI
7 10 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
9 8 (20.00%) ETL
9 8 (20.00%) Event-Driven
9 8 (20.00%) Machine Learning
10 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
10 7 (17.50%) Data Governance
11 6 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (12.50%) Data Science
12 5 (12.50%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 22 (55.00%) Python
2 16 (40.00%) SQL
3 8 (20.00%) Java
4 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.00%) C#
6 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) Bicep
7 2 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.00%) SnowPro
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (45.00%) Terraform
2 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Grafana
4 2 (5.00%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Puppet
5 1 (2.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Databricks
3 3 (7.50%) Informatica
4 2 (5.00%) Google
4 2 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) Sybase