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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 93 102
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 39 33 33
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.78% 1.61% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.27% 3.83% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 24
10th Percentile £336 £424 £368
25th Percentile £361 £498 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £580 £533
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +8.92% -3.18%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £596
90th Percentile - £738 £726
London median daily rate £525 £555 £525
% change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -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 914 861 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.68% 42.02% 38.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 565 710
10th Percentile £343 £375 £342
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £557 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +3.21% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £666
90th Percentile £750 £738 £746
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.64 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.97 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -36.67%
75th Percentile £49.83 £38.44 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £90.38 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
% change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 32 £411 -32.86% 13
West End of London +11 4 £650 +25.00%
City of Westminster +5 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 6 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (64.10%) AWS Lambda
2 25 (64.10%) Serverless
3 15 (38.46%) GitHub
4 14 (35.90%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (33.33%) Azure
6 10 (25.64%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (25.64%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (17.95%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (15.38%) Apigee
8 6 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
8 6 (15.38%) GCP
8 6 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (12.82%) dbt
9 5 (12.82%) Snowflake
10 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Network Security
2 2 (5.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) DynamoDB
2 8 (20.51%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (12.82%) Data Lake
5 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (10.26%) Metadata
5 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (10.26%) Power BI
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (7.69%) CockroachDB
6 3 (7.69%) MySQL
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
7 2 (5.13%) DB2
7 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (5.13%) OLAP
7 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
7 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
7 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 9 (23.08%) Git
3 7 (17.95%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.69%) JIRA
4 3 (7.69%) JUnit
5 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.13%) Mockito
5 2 (5.13%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (28.21%) Finance
2 10 (25.64%) Banking
3 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Front Office
6 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Data Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Developer
3 7 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Developer
7 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead
7 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Kafka
2 6 (15.38%) Node.js
3 5 (12.82%) NumPy
3 5 (12.82%) OAuth
3 5 (12.82%) Pandas
4 4 (10.26%) boto
4 4 (10.26%) JWT
4 4 (10.26%) REST
4 4 (10.26%) Spring
4 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (7.69%) Plotly
5 3 (7.69%) PySpark
5 3 (7.69%) React
5 3 (7.69%) SciPy
6 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.13%) Gherkin
6 2 (5.13%) HTML
6 2 (5.13%) WireMock
6 2 (5.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.69%) Derivative
4 3 (7.69%) Equities
4 3 (7.69%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.13%) Replication
6 1 (2.56%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Life Science
6 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) CI/CD
2 16 (41.03%) DevOps
3 13 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (30.77%) Analytics
5 11 (28.21%) ETL
6 10 (25.64%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (17.95%) Agile
8 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
8 7 (17.95%) Data Modelling
8 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven
8 7 (17.95%) Workflow
9 6 (15.38%) Microservices
10 5 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (12.82%) Decision-Making
10 5 (12.82%) Design Patterns
10 5 (12.82%) Observability
11 4 (10.26%) Migration
11 4 (10.26%) Test Automation
11 4 (10.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (69.23%) Python
2 19 (48.72%) SQL
3 9 (23.08%) Java
4 6 (15.38%) C#
4 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) C++
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) PHP
7 1 (2.56%) Scala
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.69%) PhD
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) Terraform
2 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.38%) Ansible
4 3 (7.69%) Grafana
5 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.56%) Argo
6 1 (2.56%) Istio
6 1 (2.56%) Karpenter
6 1 (2.56%) Kibana
6 1 (2.56%) Opsgenie
6 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Databricks
3 2 (5.13%) SAP
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.56%) Confluent
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) Informatica
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.56%) Sybase