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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 94 101
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 39 33 34
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.56% 1.75% 1.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.05% 4.10% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 25
10th Percentile £365 £490 £413
25th Percentile £466 £512 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £510
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +22.55% -15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £775 £700
90th Percentile £652 £800 £783
London median daily rate £550 £550 £505
% change year-on-year - +8.91% -15.83%

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 962 805 965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.53% 42.66% 40.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 515 687
10th Percentile £338 £363 £354
25th Percentile £453 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.63% -0.95% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £21.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £28.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.49% +26.67% -66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £89.75 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 34 £550 -18.52% 6
West End of London -1 4 £650 +25.00%
City of Westminster -1 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 7 (17.95%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (69.23%) AWS Lambda
2 27 (69.23%) Serverless
3 12 (30.77%) GitHub
4 11 (28.21%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (17.95%) Azure
7 7 (17.95%) Snowflake
8 6 (15.38%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (15.38%) GCP
9 5 (12.82%) dbt
10 4 (10.26%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
10 4 (10.26%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.77%) DynamoDB
2 11 (28.21%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (17.95%) Metadata
5 5 (12.82%) Data Lake
5 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (10.26%) Power BI
6 4 (10.26%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (10.26%) Tableau
7 3 (7.69%) CockroachDB
7 3 (7.69%) Delta Lake
8 2 (5.13%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
8 2 (5.13%) Data Mining
8 2 (5.13%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
8 2 (5.13%) Star Schema
9 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Git
2 9 (23.08%) GitLab
2 9 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 8 (20.51%) JIRA
4 5 (12.82%) JUnit
5 4 (10.26%) Cucumber
5 4 (10.26%) Mockito
5 4 (10.26%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (23.08%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Banking
3 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Billing
5 1 (2.56%) Front Office
5 1 (2.56%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Military
5 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Data Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Snowflake Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Data Scientist
7 1 (2.56%) Gen AI Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) Kafka
2 7 (17.95%) Spring
2 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
3 5 (12.82%) PySpark
3 5 (12.82%) React
4 4 (10.26%) boto
4 4 (10.26%) Gherkin
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%) NumPy
5 3 (7.69%) Pandas
5 3 (7.69%) Plotly
5 3 (7.69%) REST
6 2 (5.13%) HTML
6 2 (5.13%) Node.js
6 2 (5.13%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.56%) CSS
7 1 (2.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Clustering
2 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) NHS
3 1 (2.56%) Derivative
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Equities
3 1 (2.56%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (2.56%) Life Science
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 15 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (35.90%) DevOps
4 11 (28.21%) Analytics
4 11 (28.21%) Data Engineering
4 11 (28.21%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (25.64%) Agile
5 10 (25.64%) ETL
6 9 (23.08%) AI
7 8 (20.51%) Event-Driven
8 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
8 7 (17.95%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (15.38%) Data Governance
9 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
9 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
9 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
10 5 (12.82%) Data Science
10 5 (12.82%) Dimensional Modelling
10 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (12.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) Python
2 15 (38.46%) SQL
3 8 (20.51%) Java
3 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.38%) C#
5 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.13%) Bicep
6 2 (5.13%) Scala
7 1 (2.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.13%) SnowPro
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.56%) PhD
4 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) Terraform
2 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Argo
5 1 (2.56%) Karpenter
5 1 (2.56%) Kibana
5 1 (2.56%) Opsgenie
5 1 (2.56%) Puppet
5 1 (2.56%) Salt
5 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Databricks
3 3 (7.69%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) Splunk
4 2 (5.13%) Informatica
4 2 (5.13%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.13%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) Amplitude
5 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Sybase