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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 101 91
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 39 34 39
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.50% 1.66% 1.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.78% 4.05% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 27
10th Percentile £455 £520 £483
25th Percentile £525 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +20.19% -13.33%
75th Percentile £669 £794 £745
90th Percentile £725 £800 £813
London median daily rate £573 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -0.43% +9.52% -9.09%

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 1,032 839 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.69% 40.91% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 543 670
10th Percentile £337 £359 £374
25th Percentile £463 £445 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £666 £659
90th Percentile £750 £763 £751
London median daily rate £535 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 3
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
% change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -44.50%

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 31 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 31 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 -5 35 £575 -9.80% 5
West End of London -5 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 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.69%) Confluence
3 2 (5.13%) Apache
4 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (97.44%) AWS
2 28 (71.79%) AWS Lambda
2 28 (71.79%) Serverless
3 14 (35.90%) GitHub
4 11 (28.21%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (25.64%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (23.08%) Amazon Kinesis
7 8 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (17.95%) Power Platform
9 6 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (15.38%) Azure
9 6 (15.38%) dbt
9 6 (15.38%) Snowflake
10 5 (12.82%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (12.82%) AWS CodePipeline
10 5 (12.82%) GCP
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (28.21%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (28.21%) Amazon Redshift
2 11 (28.21%) DynamoDB
3 7 (17.95%) Power BI
4 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (12.82%) Metadata
5 4 (10.26%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (10.26%) Tableau
6 3 (7.69%) BigQuery
6 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
6 3 (7.69%) Delta Lake
6 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.13%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (5.13%) Data Mining
7 2 (5.13%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
7 2 (5.13%) Star Schema
8 1 (2.56%) Db2
8 1 (2.56%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) GitLab
2 9 (23.08%) Git
2 9 (23.08%) JIRA
3 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
4 5 (12.82%) JUnit
5 4 (10.26%) Cucumber
5 4 (10.26%) Mockito
5 4 (10.26%) Postman
6 3 (7.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Public Sector
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Military
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Billing
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Law
6 1 (2.56%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Data Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Gen AI Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) Kafka
2 6 (15.38%) Spring
2 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 5 (12.82%) PySpark
4 4 (10.26%) Gherkin
4 4 (10.26%) Node.js
4 4 (10.26%) React
4 4 (10.26%) SOAP
4 4 (10.26%) WireMock
4 4 (10.26%) YAML
5 3 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (7.69%) Plotly
6 2 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (5.13%) Jest
6 2 (5.13%) PyTorch
6 2 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.56%) OAuth
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (2.56%) REST
7 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Clustering
2 2 (5.13%) NHS
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Life Science
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 16 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (38.46%) Data Engineering
4 12 (30.77%) Agile
4 12 (30.77%) Analytics
4 12 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (30.77%) DevOps
5 10 (25.64%) AI
6 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 8 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (20.51%) Data Modelling
7 8 (20.51%) Event-Driven
8 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
8 7 (17.95%) Data Governance
8 7 (17.95%) Machine Learning
9 6 (15.38%) ETL
9 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (12.82%) Dimensional Modelling
10 5 (12.82%) Migration
10 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) Python
2 16 (41.03%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) Java
3 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.82%) C#
4 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.13%) Bash
5 2 (5.13%) Bicep
6 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.13%) SnowPro
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (46.15%) Terraform
2 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Puppet
5 1 (2.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Databricks
3 3 (7.69%) Informatica
4 2 (5.13%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.13%) Splunk
5 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Sybase