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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 95 93
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 38 37 40
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.49% 1.80% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.72% 4.42% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 28
10th Percentile £455 £508 £484
25th Percentile £525 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £523
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.62% -9.13%
75th Percentile £684 £775 £741
90th Percentile £748 £800 £806
London median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -8.70%

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 1,021 838 938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.95% 40.76% 40.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 705 550 657
10th Percentile £363 £356 £383
25th Percentile £456 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.51%
75th Percentile £652 £660 £665
90th Percentile £750 £757 £750
London median daily rate £538 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +0.94% -3.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £21.80 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £36.25 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -28.95%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £93.25 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
% change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -15 36 £575 -11.54% 5
West End of London -6 2 £650 +12.07%
City of Westminster -6 2 £650 +36.84% 4
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
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (97.37%) AWS
2 29 (76.32%) AWS Lambda
2 29 (76.32%) Serverless
3 14 (36.84%) GitHub
4 12 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (26.32%) Amazon Kinesis
5 10 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (18.42%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (18.42%) AWS Step Functions
6 7 (18.42%) Power Platform
7 6 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (15.79%) Azure
7 6 (15.79%) dbt
7 6 (15.79%) Snowflake
8 5 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (13.16%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (13.16%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (13.16%) GCP
9 4 (10.53%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (2.63%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (44.74%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (28.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (28.95%) DynamoDB
4 7 (18.42%) Power BI
5 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (13.16%) Metadata
6 4 (10.53%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (10.53%) Tableau
7 3 (7.89%) Data Lake
7 3 (7.89%) Delta Lake
8 2 (5.26%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
8 2 (5.26%) Data Mining
8 2 (5.26%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.26%) Star Schema
9 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) 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%) Bitbucket
5 4 (10.53%) Cucumber
5 4 (10.53%) Mockito
5 4 (10.53%) Postman
6 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (36.84%) Finance
2 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Banking
4 3 (7.89%) Back Office
4 3 (7.89%) Military
5 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Billing
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing
6 1 (2.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Data Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Senior
3 6 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Architect
4 5 (13.16%) Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Data Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Lead
7 2 (5.26%) Platform Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 1 (2.63%) Gen AI Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Senior DevOps
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%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.26%) Jest
6 2 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (5.26%) Plotly
7 1 (2.63%) JWT
7 1 (2.63%) NestJS
7 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (2.63%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.63%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) 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%) 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%) Data Modelling
6 9 (23.68%) Event-Driven
6 9 (23.68%) Test Automation
7 8 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
8 7 (18.42%) Data Governance
9 6 (15.79%) ETL
9 6 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (15.79%) Machine Learning
9 6 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (13.16%) Migration
10 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Python
2 16 (42.11%) SQL
3 7 (18.42%) Java
4 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.16%) C#
5 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) Bicep
7 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 8 (21.05%) 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