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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 87 92
Rank change year-on-year -32 +5 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 33 37 41
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.34% 1.91% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.26% 4.80% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 29
10th Percentile £455 £467 £475
25th Percentile £563 £575 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +10.87% -3.36%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £758
90th Percentile £763 £800 £905
London median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

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 1,013 771 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.15% 39.87% 39.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 544 623
10th Percentile £337 £335 £386
25th Percentile £456 £432 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £774
London median daily rate £550 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% -3.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £19.36 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.96 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £86.43 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £30.59
% change year-on-year +0.18% -6.83% -23.53%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -18 33 £675 +3.85% 12
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 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (12.12%) Apache
3 3 (9.09%) Apache Spark
4 2 (6.06%) Confluence
4 2 (6.06%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (96.97%) AWS
2 28 (84.85%) AWS Lambda
2 28 (84.85%) Serverless
3 12 (36.36%) GitHub
4 11 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (30.30%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (27.27%) Amazon Kinesis
6 9 (27.27%) AWS Step Functions
7 8 (24.24%) Amazon EventBridge
8 7 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (18.18%) dbt
10 5 (15.15%) Amazon Bedrock
10 5 (15.15%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (12.12%) Azure
12 3 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (9.09%) GCP
12 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
13 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (48.48%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (39.39%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (30.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (18.18%) Delta Lake
4 6 (18.18%) Metadata
5 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (15.15%) DynamoDB
6 3 (9.09%) Power BI
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (6.06%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
7 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
7 2 (6.06%) Data Mining
7 2 (6.06%) Data Vault
7 2 (6.06%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
8 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) GitLab
2 8 (24.24%) Bitbucket
3 5 (15.15%) Git
3 5 (15.15%) JIRA
4 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.06%) JUnit
5 2 (6.06%) Mockito
5 2 (6.06%) Postman
6 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
General
1 20 (60.61%) Finance
2 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Banking
4 7 (21.21%) Back Office
4 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.09%) Front Office
5 3 (9.09%) Military
6 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.03%) Billing
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Law
7 1 (3.03%) Marketing
7 1 (3.03%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Data Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) Senior
3 8 (24.24%) AWS Data Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Data Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) Platform Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 1 (3.03%) AWS Architect
8 1 (3.03%) Principal Data Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (48.48%) Terraform
2 7 (21.21%) PySpark
3 6 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (9.09%) Kafka
4 3 (9.09%) Node.js
4 3 (9.09%) Spring
4 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.06%) Gherkin
5 2 (6.06%) Jest
5 2 (6.06%) React
5 2 (6.06%) SOAP
5 2 (6.06%) WireMock
5 2 (6.06%) YAML
6 1 (3.03%) Express.js
6 1 (3.03%) OAuth
6 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (3.03%) REST
6 1 (3.03%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 14 (42.42%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) PropTech
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) NHS
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) CI/CD
2 20 (60.61%) Data Engineering
3 19 (57.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (51.52%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (39.39%) Analytics
5 13 (39.39%) Data Modelling
6 12 (36.36%) DevOps
6 12 (36.36%) Event-Driven
7 11 (33.33%) Agile
8 9 (27.27%) Data Governance
8 9 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (24.24%) AI
9 8 (24.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (24.24%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
10 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (21.21%) ETL
10 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Python
2 16 (48.48%) SQL
3 3 (9.09%) C#
3 3 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) Bicep
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Ansible
2 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.03%) Puppet
3 1 (3.03%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Databricks
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) OpenAI
4 2 (6.06%) Teradata
5 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.03%) Informatica