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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 86 98
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 36 34 35
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.72% 1.64% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.16% 3.94% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 30 25
10th Percentile £334 £418 £370
25th Percentile £359 £494 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -13.79%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £600
90th Percentile £667 £703 £723
London median daily rate £530 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -7.83% +9.52% -12.50%

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 865 862 994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.41% 41.62% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 555 720
10th Percentile £342 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 13
10th Percentile £19.07 £28.13 £13.60
25th Percentile £24.31 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.04% +84.21% -24.00%
75th Percentile £43.33 - £23.75
90th Percentile £51.69 £41.88 £49.95
London median hourly rate £32.08 £31.50 £30.11
% change year-on-year +1.83% +4.62% +2.07%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -13 31 £413 -28.26% 10
West End of London +9 2 £650 +25.00%
City of Westminster +3 1 £650 +25.00%
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 4 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (69.44%) AWS Lambda
2 25 (69.44%) Serverless
3 14 (38.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (33.33%) Azure
5 11 (30.56%) GitHub
6 8 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (19.44%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (16.67%) Apigee
9 5 (13.89%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (13.89%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (13.89%) Snowflake
9 5 (13.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (11.11%) GCP
11 3 (8.33%) dbt
12 2 (5.56%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 6 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (8.33%) CockroachDB
4 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.33%) Metadata
4 3 (8.33%) MySQL
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.56%) Power BI
5 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.78%) Redis
6 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (22.22%) Git
3 5 (13.89%) GitLab
4 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 3 (8.33%) JIRA
5 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.78%) JUnit
5 1 (2.78%) Mockito
5 1 (2.78%) Postman
5 1 (2.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (30.56%) Banking
2 10 (27.78%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Front Office
4 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Digital Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Node.js
2 6 (16.67%) Kafka
3 5 (13.89%) NumPy
3 5 (13.89%) OAuth
3 5 (13.89%) Pandas
3 5 (13.89%) React
4 4 (11.11%) .NET
4 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 4 (11.11%) boto
4 4 (11.11%) JWT
4 4 (11.11%) REST
5 3 (8.33%) SciPy
6 2 (5.56%) HTML
6 2 (5.56%) PySpark
6 2 (5.56%) Spring
6 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.78%) CSS
7 1 (2.78%) JSON
7 1 (2.78%) SOAP
7 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.33%) Derivative
4 3 (8.33%) Equities
4 3 (8.33%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.56%) Replication
6 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Life Science
6 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.78%) NHS
6 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 15 (41.67%) DevOps
3 12 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (30.56%) Analytics
4 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (27.78%) Event-Driven
6 9 (25.00%) ETL
7 8 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
8 7 (19.44%) Data Modelling
8 7 (19.44%) Microservices
9 6 (16.67%) Agile
10 5 (13.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (13.89%) Workflow
11 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
11 4 (11.11%) Design Patterns
11 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 4 (11.11%) Observability
11 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 4 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (75.00%) Python
2 18 (50.00%) SQL
3 10 (27.78%) Java
4 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.89%) C#
6 3 (8.33%) C++
7 2 (5.56%) Bash
8 1 (2.78%) PHP
8 1 (2.78%) Scala
8 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 3 (8.33%) PhD
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (38.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Terraform
2 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 6 (16.67%) Ansible
4 2 (5.56%) Grafana
5 1 (2.78%) Argo
5 1 (2.78%) Istio
5 1 (2.78%) Karpenter
5 1 (2.78%) Kibana
5 1 (2.78%) Opsgenie
5 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.78%) Confluent
4 1 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) Informatica
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) StreamSets