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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 85 94
Rank change year-on-year -34 +9 +34
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 30 38 42
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.26% 2.00% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.02% 4.96% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 31
10th Percentile £400 £437 £428
25th Percentile £527 £538 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +8.70% -3.77%
75th Percentile £725 £753 £755
90th Percentile £763 £800 £900
London median daily rate £599 £575 £545
% change year-on-year +4.17% +5.50% -0.91%

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 993 766 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.69% 40.27% 39.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 550 622
10th Percentile £331 £331 £388
25th Percentile £456 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year - -2.00% +2.05%
75th Percentile £657 £660 £675
90th Percentile £763 £751 £768
London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 5
10th Percentile £19.28 £18.87 -
25th Percentile £21.75 £25.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £46.88 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £64.88 £65.57 £69.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.60% -22.84%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -27 30 £675 +8.00% 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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.00%) Apache
2 3 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.67%) Confluence
3 2 (6.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (96.67%) AWS
2 26 (86.67%) AWS Lambda
2 26 (86.67%) Serverless
3 12 (40.00%) GitHub
4 10 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (26.67%) Amazon EventBridge
6 8 (26.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 8 (26.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 7 (23.33%) dbt
8 5 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (13.33%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (13.33%) Azure
9 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
10 3 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (10.00%) GCP
11 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (46.67%) Amazon Athena
1 14 (46.67%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (16.67%) Delta Lake
4 5 (16.67%) DynamoDB
4 5 (16.67%) Metadata
5 4 (13.33%) Power BI
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
6 2 (6.67%) Data Vault
6 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.33%) Data Mining
7 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) GitLab
2 8 (26.67%) Bitbucket
3 6 (20.00%) Git
3 6 (20.00%) JIRA
4 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.67%) JUnit
5 2 (6.67%) Mockito
5 2 (6.67%) Postman
6 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.33%) Gradle
6 1 (3.33%) Maven
General
1 20 (66.67%) Finance
2 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (30.00%) Banking
4 8 (26.67%) Back Office
5 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (10.00%) Front Office
7 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
7 2 (6.67%) Military
7 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (3.33%) Billing
8 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Data Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (33.33%) Senior
4 9 (30.00%) AWS Data Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
7 2 (6.67%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Gen AI Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Lead
8 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Principal Data Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) Terraform
2 7 (23.33%) PySpark
3 6 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (10.00%) Kafka
4 3 (10.00%) Spring
4 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.00%) YAML
5 2 (6.67%) Gherkin
5 2 (6.67%) Jest
5 2 (6.67%) Node.js
5 2 (6.67%) OAuth
5 2 (6.67%) OAuth2
5 2 (6.67%) REST
5 2 (6.67%) SOAP
5 2 (6.67%) WireMock
6 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.33%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) PropTech
4 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Derivative
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.33%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) CI/CD
2 19 (63.33%) Data Engineering
3 18 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (56.67%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (46.67%) Data Modelling
6 12 (40.00%) Agile
6 12 (40.00%) Analytics
7 11 (36.67%) Event-Driven
8 9 (30.00%) Data Governance
8 9 (30.00%) DevOps
8 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (26.67%) ETL
9 8 (26.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (26.67%) Test Automation
10 7 (23.33%) AI
11 6 (20.00%) Data Transformation
11 6 (20.00%) Migration
11 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) SQL
2 17 (56.67%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) Bicep
4 2 (6.67%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Databricks
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) Informatica
4 2 (6.67%) Teradata
5 1 (3.33%) OpenAI