Amazon S3 Contracts in the City of London

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Amazon S3 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon S3 over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 89 118
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 28 35 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.60% 1.61% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.69% 4.10% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 31
10th Percentile £467 £444 £450
25th Percentile £511 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% -15.00% +3.36%
75th Percentile £709 £598 £731
90th Percentile £800 £756 £875
Central London median daily rate £625 £510 £605
% change year-on-year +22.55% -15.63% +2.37%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 759 854 1,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.42% 39.30% 37.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 606 921
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £669 £674 £713
90th Percentile £750 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £533 £575
% change year-on-year +3.29% -7.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +308.72%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Amazon S3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon S3 in the City of London

Amazon S3
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon S3 in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon S3 in the City of London

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in the City of London

Amazon S3
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) AWS
2 12 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (39.29%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (39.29%) Serverless
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (25.00%) Route 53
5 6 (21.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 6 (21.43%) CloudFront
6 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (7.14%) Azure
9 2 (7.14%) Datadog
9 2 (7.14%) GitHub
10 1 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) SAN
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 7 (25.00%) Redis
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (21.43%) DocumentDB
2 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (17.86%) DynamoDB
4 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.71%) Tableau
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.57%) MySQL
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) GitLab
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.57%) ESLint
3 1 (3.57%) Mocha
3 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.57%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (28.57%) Banking
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 6 (21.43%) Retail Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Military
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) C# Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Data Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Risk Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Data Scientist
7 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Site Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Software Design Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) GraphQL
2 7 (25.00%) RESTful
3 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.29%) Kafka
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 2 (7.14%) Node.js
4 2 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (7.14%) WebSockets
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.57%) CSS
5 1 (3.57%) Express.js
5 1 (3.57%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) NumPy
5 1 (3.57%) OpenCV
5 1 (3.57%) Pandas
5 1 (3.57%) pydantic
5 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.57%) SciPy
5 1 (3.57%) Spring
5 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 6 (21.43%) Derivative
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) DevOps
2 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 6 (21.43%) Microservices
4 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Secure Coding
4 6 (21.43%) SOLID
4 6 (21.43%) TDD
5 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (14.29%) Agile
6 4 (14.29%) Observability
7 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
7 3 (10.71%) Migration
7 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
7 3 (10.71%) SFIA
7 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) C#
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) Ruby
6 1 (3.57%) Scala
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Terraform
2 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.14%) Grafana
5 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
5 2 (7.14%) Puppet
6 1 (3.57%) Karpenter
6 1 (3.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
1 2 (7.14%) Splunk
2 1 (3.57%) F5
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Hitachi
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.57%) TOWER Software