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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 100 124
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 36 38 29
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.93% 1.62% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.75% 4.03% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 20
10th Percentile £437 £417 £463
25th Percentile £563 £504 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +0.44% +4.09%
75th Percentile £709 £762 £700
90th Percentile £800 £908 £830
London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Cloud 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 758 943 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.62% 40.20% 40.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 622 853
10th Percentile £325 £388 £326
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.14% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £18.87 £29.40 £15.58
25th Percentile £24.61 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £54.46 £49.38 £40.69
90th Percentile £65.57 £75.25 £49.88
London median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -19.08% -19.75% +23.66%

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 2025. 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 +9 35 £625 +8.70% 56
City of Westminster +1 1 £475 -26.92%
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 3 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) CICS
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
2 1 (2.78%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 18 (50.00%) Serverless
3 15 (41.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (16.67%) GitHub
6 5 (13.89%) Amazon Cognito
6 5 (13.89%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (13.89%) Datadog
6 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (13.89%) Snowflake
6 5 (13.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (8.33%) SaaS
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
1 3 (8.33%) VPN
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) SSL
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) NAS
3 1 (2.78%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) DynamoDB
1 8 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.33%) DataStage
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.78%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.78%) Metadata
5 1 (2.78%) MySQL
5 1 (2.78%) Redis
5 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Front Office
3 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) Banking
5 3 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Military
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Architect
2 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Senior
3 4 (11.11%) Software Design Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 9 (25.00%) Kafka
1 9 (25.00%) React
2 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
2 7 (19.44%) REST
3 5 (13.89%) Node.js
3 5 (13.89%) Svelte
4 4 (11.11%) .NET
4 4 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (11.11%) WebSockets
5 3 (8.33%) XML
6 2 (5.56%) RESTful
7 1 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
7 1 (2.78%) LDAP
7 1 (2.78%) Memcached
7 1 (2.78%) OAuth
7 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.78%) OpenID
7 1 (2.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) CSOC
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.78%) NHS
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.78%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) AIX
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Solaris
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 12 (33.33%) Agile
3 10 (27.78%) DevOps
3 10 (27.78%) Event-Driven
4 9 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 8 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 8 (22.22%) Microservices
6 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.67%) Migration
8 5 (13.89%) ETL
8 5 (13.89%) Observability
8 5 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (11.11%) Clean Code
9 4 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) SQL
3 8 (22.22%) Java
4 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) COBOL
7 1 (2.78%) Go
7 1 (2.78%) Perl
7 1 (2.78%) PHP
7 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NCSC
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.56%) CheckPoint
2 2 (5.56%) F5
2 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
2 2 (5.56%) Splunk
3 1 (2.78%) NetApp
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Vertica