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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 92 90
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +43
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 37 37 41
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.46% 1.86% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.61% 4.62% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 30
10th Percentile £455 £499 £480
25th Percentile £525 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £526
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +18.88% -11.64%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £728
90th Percentile £759 £800 £794
London median daily rate £575 £575 £538
% change year-on-year - +6.98% -6.52%

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 1,026 801 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.49% 40.17% 40.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 724 533 653
10th Percentile £363 £342 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.65%
75th Percentile £653 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £751
London median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 £59.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.00 £29.54 £28.50
% change year-on-year +18.50% +3.63% -43.00%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -16 37 £575 -9.80% 9
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 9 (24.32%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (10.81%) Confluence
3 3 (8.11%) Apache
3 3 (8.11%) Apache Spark
4 2 (5.41%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (97.30%) AWS
2 30 (81.08%) AWS Lambda
2 30 (81.08%) Serverless
3 11 (29.73%) GitHub
4 10 (27.03%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (24.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (24.32%) Amazon Kinesis
5 9 (24.32%) dbt
6 8 (21.62%) AWS Step Functions
6 8 (21.62%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
7 6 (16.22%) Snowflake
8 5 (13.51%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (13.51%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (13.51%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (13.51%) Azure
8 5 (13.51%) GCP
9 4 (10.81%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (10.81%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
1 1 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (40.54%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (32.43%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (29.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (24.32%) DynamoDB
5 7 (18.92%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (16.22%) Metadata
6 6 (16.22%) Power BI
7 5 (13.51%) Delta Lake
8 4 (10.81%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (10.81%) Tableau
9 3 (8.11%) Data Vault
10 2 (5.41%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (5.41%) BigQuery
10 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
10 2 (5.41%) Data Mining
10 2 (5.41%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
10 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (5.41%) Star Schema
11 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) GitLab
2 9 (24.32%) JIRA
3 8 (21.62%) Git
4 5 (13.51%) Bitbucket
4 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
5 3 (8.11%) Cucumber
5 3 (8.11%) JUnit
5 3 (8.11%) Mockito
5 3 (8.11%) Postman
6 2 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
General
1 17 (45.95%) Finance
2 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
4 7 (18.92%) Banking
5 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (10.81%) Back Office
7 3 (8.11%) Military
8 1 (2.70%) Billing
8 1 (2.70%) Front Office
8 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.70%) Law
8 1 (2.70%) Marketing
8 1 (2.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Data Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Senior
3 8 (21.62%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) AWS Data Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Snowflake Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Data Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Lead
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.41%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Platform Architect
8 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Gen AI Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (2.70%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (45.95%) Terraform
2 7 (18.92%) Kafka
2 7 (18.92%) PySpark
3 4 (10.81%) Node.js
3 4 (10.81%) React
3 4 (10.81%) Spring
3 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (8.11%) Gherkin
4 3 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (8.11%) SOAP
4 3 (8.11%) WireMock
4 3 (8.11%) YAML
5 2 (5.41%) Jest
6 1 (2.70%) JWT
6 1 (2.70%) NestJS
6 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.70%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Clustering
2 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.41%) NHS
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) CI/CD
2 19 (51.35%) Data Engineering
3 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (43.24%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (37.84%) DevOps
6 13 (35.14%) Agile
6 13 (35.14%) Analytics
7 12 (32.43%) Data Modelling
8 10 (27.03%) AI
8 10 (27.03%) Data Governance
9 9 (24.32%) Event-Driven
9 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
10 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (21.62%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (18.92%) ETL
12 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
12 6 (16.22%) Migration
12 6 (16.22%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) Python
2 16 (43.24%) SQL
3 5 (13.51%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.41%) Bash
5 2 (5.41%) Bicep
6 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.41%) SnowPro
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.11%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.11%) Grafana
3 2 (5.41%) Ansible
3 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) Puppet
4 1 (2.70%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) Databricks
3 3 (8.11%) Informatica
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.41%) Splunk
4 2 (5.41%) Teradata
5 1 (2.70%) Fortinet