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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 94 97
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 41 30 37
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.68% 1.52% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.28% 3.50% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 28
10th Percentile £353 £474 £421
25th Percentile £461 £510 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £510
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +22.55% -15.63%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £600
90th Percentile £651 £800 £749
London median daily rate £550 £550 £513
% change year-on-year - +7.32% -14.58%

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 958 856 956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.20% 43.30% 39.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 552 685
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £453 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £26.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -72.73%
75th Percentile £57.83 £45.00 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £94.88 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
% change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -42.94%

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 8 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 8 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 -1 34 £550 -18.52% 15
West End of London +4 4 £650 +25.00%
City of Westminster +2 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 (17.07%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.88%) Apache
2 2 (4.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (70.73%) AWS Lambda
2 29 (70.73%) Serverless
3 12 (29.27%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (26.83%) GitHub
5 10 (24.39%) Azure
6 9 (21.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (21.95%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (17.07%) GCP
7 7 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (17.07%) Snowflake
8 6 (14.63%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (14.63%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (14.63%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (12.20%) dbt
10 4 (9.76%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
10 4 (9.76%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) DynamoDB
2 11 (26.83%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (21.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (17.07%) Metadata
5 5 (12.20%) Data Lake
5 5 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (9.76%) Power BI
6 4 (9.76%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (9.76%) Tableau
7 3 (7.32%) CockroachDB
7 3 (7.32%) Delta Lake
8 2 (4.88%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
8 2 (4.88%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.88%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
8 2 (4.88%) Star Schema
9 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (29.27%) Git
2 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
3 8 (19.51%) GitLab
4 6 (14.63%) JIRA
5 4 (9.76%) JUnit
6 3 (7.32%) Cucumber
6 3 (7.32%) Mockito
6 3 (7.32%) Postman
7 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (26.83%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Banking
3 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Front Office
5 1 (2.44%) Law
5 1 (2.44%) Military
5 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Data Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Architect
3 5 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
3 5 (12.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Data Architect
4 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Lead
4 3 (7.32%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Platform Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Architect
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) Kafka
2 6 (14.63%) Spring
2 6 (14.63%) Spring Boot
3 5 (12.20%) NumPy
3 5 (12.20%) Pandas
3 5 (12.20%) PySpark
3 5 (12.20%) React
4 4 (9.76%) boto
5 3 (7.32%) Gherkin
5 3 (7.32%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (7.32%) Node.js
5 3 (7.32%) Plotly
5 3 (7.32%) REST
5 3 (7.32%) SciPy
5 3 (7.32%) SOAP
5 3 (7.32%) WireMock
5 3 (7.32%) YAML
6 2 (4.88%) HTML
6 2 (4.88%) OAuth
6 2 (4.88%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Derivative
2 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.32%) Equities
2 3 (7.32%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (4.88%) Clustering
3 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.88%) NHS
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.44%) Life Science
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (68.29%) CI/CD
2 17 (41.46%) DevOps
3 15 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (31.71%) Analytics
5 10 (24.39%) Data Engineering
5 10 (24.39%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (24.39%) ETL
6 9 (21.95%) AI
7 8 (19.51%) Agile
7 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
7 8 (19.51%) Event-Driven
7 8 (19.51%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (14.63%) Data Modelling
8 6 (14.63%) Machine Learning
8 6 (14.63%) Microservices
8 6 (14.63%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
9 5 (12.20%) Data Governance
9 5 (12.20%) Dimensional Modelling
9 5 (12.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) Python
2 16 (39.02%) SQL
3 8 (19.51%) C#
3 8 (19.51%) Java
3 8 (19.51%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.32%) C++
6 2 (4.88%) Bicep
6 2 (4.88%) Scala
7 1 (2.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) SC Cleared
1 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) Master's Degree
2 3 (7.32%) PhD
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.88%) SnowPro
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (36.59%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) Terraform
2 13 (31.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.76%) Grafana
4 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.88%) Ansible
6 1 (2.44%) Argo
6 1 (2.44%) Istio
6 1 (2.44%) Karpenter
6 1 (2.44%) Kibana
6 1 (2.44%) Opsgenie
6 1 (2.44%) Puppet
6 1 (2.44%) Salt
6 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) Databricks
3 3 (7.32%) Google
3 3 (7.32%) Splunk
4 2 (4.88%) Informatica
4 2 (4.88%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 1 (2.44%) Amplitude
5 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.44%) Sybase