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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 94 98
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 44 33 34
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.85% 1.67% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.48% 3.83% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 29 26
10th Percentile £343 £426 £372
25th Percentile £384 £505 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £505
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +18.81% -15.83%
75th Percentile £631 £688 £584
90th Percentile £650 £778 £688
London median daily rate £525 £575 £523
% change year-on-year -8.70% +10.05% -12.92%

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 982 862 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.35% 43.58% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 563 683
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £729 £749
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile £21.29 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.56 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £54.05 £41.88 £36.25
90th Percentile £73.47 £100.00 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -7 37 £550 -12.00% 27
West End of London +9 4 £650 +25.00%
City of Westminster +3 3 £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 9 (20.45%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (9.09%) Apache
3 2 (4.55%) Confluence
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
2 28 (63.64%) Serverless
3 16 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (34.09%) Azure
4 15 (34.09%) GitHub
5 13 (29.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (18.18%) GCP
8 7 (15.91%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (15.91%) dbt
8 7 (15.91%) Snowflake
9 6 (13.64%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (13.64%) Apigee
9 6 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (13.64%) AWS CodePipeline
9 6 (13.64%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (11.36%) Power Platform
10 5 (11.36%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.82%) DynamoDB
2 9 (20.45%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (15.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (13.64%) Data Lake
6 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (11.36%) Metadata
6 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (11.36%) Power BI
7 3 (6.82%) CockroachDB
7 3 (6.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
7 3 (6.82%) Star Schema
7 3 (6.82%) Tableau
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (4.55%) BigQuery
8 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.55%) MySQL
8 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Git
1 11 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (18.18%) GitLab
3 6 (13.64%) JIRA
4 4 (9.09%) JUnit
5 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.82%) Mockito
5 3 (6.82%) Postman
6 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (27.27%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Banking
3 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Front Office
6 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Data Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Developer
3 7 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Senior
4 5 (11.36%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Lead
6 3 (6.82%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.00%) Kafka
2 6 (13.64%) Node.js
2 6 (13.64%) Spring
2 6 (13.64%) Spring Boot
3 5 (11.36%) NumPy
3 5 (11.36%) OAuth
3 5 (11.36%) Pandas
3 5 (11.36%) React
4 4 (9.09%) boto
4 4 (9.09%) JWT
5 3 (6.82%) Gherkin
5 3 (6.82%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (6.82%) Plotly
5 3 (6.82%) PySpark
5 3 (6.82%) REST
5 3 (6.82%) SciPy
5 3 (6.82%) SOAP
5 3 (6.82%) WireMock
5 3 (6.82%) YAML
6 2 (4.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.82%) Derivative
4 3 (6.82%) Equities
4 3 (6.82%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (4.55%) Clustering
5 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.55%) NHS
6 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Life Science
6 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (70.45%) CI/CD
2 20 (45.45%) DevOps
3 17 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (34.09%) Analytics
5 11 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (25.00%) ETL
5 11 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (22.73%) Agile
7 8 (18.18%) Data Modelling
8 7 (15.91%) Containerisation
8 7 (15.91%) Data Engineering
8 7 (15.91%) Event-Driven
8 7 (15.91%) Microservices
8 7 (15.91%) Test Automation
8 7 (15.91%) Workflow
9 6 (13.64%) AI
9 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (13.64%) Decision-Making
9 6 (13.64%) Validation
10 5 (11.36%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (68.18%) Python
2 18 (40.91%) SQL
3 9 (20.45%) Java
4 8 (18.18%) C#
4 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.82%) C++
7 2 (4.55%) Scala
8 1 (2.27%) Bash
8 1 (2.27%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) Master's Degree
2 3 (6.82%) PhD
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.55%) SnowPro
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (38.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (40.91%) Terraform
2 12 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.36%) Ansible
4 3 (6.82%) Grafana
5 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.27%) Argo
6 1 (2.27%) Istio
6 1 (2.27%) Karpenter
6 1 (2.27%) Kibana
6 1 (2.27%) Opsgenie
6 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) Databricks
3 3 (6.82%) Google
3 3 (6.82%) Informatica
3 3 (6.82%) Splunk
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (2.27%) Amplitude
5 1 (2.27%) Confluent
5 1 (2.27%) IBM
5 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.27%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.27%) Sybase