Amazon S3 Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon S3 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 152 214
Rank change year-on-year +22 +62 -24
Contract jobs citing Amazon S3 289 259 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.00% 1.73% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.54% 4.21% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 180 148
10th Percentile £394 £427 £398
25th Percentile £461 £502 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £641
90th Percentile £700 £794 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -6.52%

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,363 6,155 7,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.03% 41.12% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,337 4,159 5,198
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £772
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 43 62
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.09
25th Percentile £23.75 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -16.56% +23.77%
75th Percentile £49.06 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.29 £65.00 £73.63
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +16.00% +11.11%

Amazon S3
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon S3 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Amazon S3 job vacancy trend in London

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon S3.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon S3 in London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon S3 in London

Amazon S3
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon S3.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon S3

Amazon S3
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Central London +1 43 £550 -1.12% 36
South London +4 21 £530 -1.49% 11
West London - 9 £603 - 9
Amazon S3
England

Amazon S3
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 33 (11.42%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (9.00%) Apache Spark
3 24 (8.30%) Confluence
4 18 (6.23%) Apache
5 10 (3.46%) nginx
6 5 (1.73%) SAS
7 3 (1.04%) Traefik
8 1 (0.35%) CICS
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (3.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Actimize
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 285 (98.62%) AWS
2 163 (56.40%) Serverless
3 162 (56.06%) AWS Lambda
4 91 (31.49%) Amazon EC2
5 90 (31.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 80 (27.68%) GitHub
7 69 (23.88%) Amazon ECS
8 65 (22.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 57 (19.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 54 (18.69%) Azure
10 54 (18.69%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (14.88%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
13 30 (10.38%) Amazon Kinesis
14 28 (9.69%) GCP
15 27 (9.34%) Snowflake
16 26 (9.00%) dbt
17 24 (8.30%) Amazon ELB
18 20 (6.92%) Amazon EMR
18 20 (6.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.00%) DNS
2 22 (7.61%) Firewall
3 15 (5.19%) OpenLDAP
3 15 (5.19%) VPN
4 10 (3.46%) FTP
4 10 (3.46%) HTTP
4 10 (3.46%) IMAP
4 10 (3.46%) SMTP
4 10 (3.46%) SSH
4 10 (3.46%) SSL
4 10 (3.46%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.77%) Network Security
6 2 (0.69%) Calico
6 2 (0.69%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.35%) BGP
7 1 (0.35%) DMZ
7 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.35%) NAS
7 1 (0.35%) VSAN
7 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (26.64%) Amazon RDS
2 64 (22.15%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (16.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 47 (16.26%) Amazon Athena
5 38 (13.15%) DynamoDB
6 32 (11.07%) Data Warehouse
7 28 (9.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 27 (9.34%) Data Lake
8 27 (9.34%) Relational Database
9 21 (7.27%) Amazon QuickSight
10 16 (5.54%) Power BI
11 15 (5.19%) SQL Server
12 14 (4.84%) Star Schema
13 13 (4.50%) BigQuery
13 13 (4.50%) Tableau
14 12 (4.15%) Metadata
15 11 (3.81%) Apache Iceberg
15 11 (3.81%) OLAP
15 11 (3.81%) OLTP
15 11 (3.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (21.45%) Git
2 56 (19.38%) Jenkins
3 51 (17.65%) GitLab
4 26 (9.00%) JIRA
5 10 (3.46%) Vagrant
6 6 (2.08%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.73%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.38%) JUnit
8 4 (1.38%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.69%) Postman
9 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.35%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.35%) Charles Proxy
10 1 (0.35%) MLflow
10 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.35%) Vite
10 1 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 75 (25.95%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.34%) Finance
3 38 (13.15%) Public Sector
4 33 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.54%) Banking
6 13 (4.50%) Front Office
7 12 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.38%) Military
10 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.04%) Marketing
11 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Retail
12 1 (0.35%) Advertising
12 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 70 (24.22%) Data Engineer
2 64 (22.15%) AWS Engineer
3 56 (19.38%) Senior
4 48 (16.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 41 (14.19%) Developer
6 29 (10.03%) Architect
7 25 (8.65%) AWS DevOps
8 23 (7.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 20 (6.92%) Platform Engineer
10 19 (6.57%) Software Engineer
11 18 (6.23%) Lead
11 18 (6.23%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (5.54%) AWS Data Engineer
12 16 (5.54%) AWS Developer
13 15 (5.19%) Python Engineer
14 12 (4.15%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.81%) AWS Architect
15 11 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (3.81%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (19.72%) Kafka
2 33 (11.42%) React
3 29 (10.03%) Node.js
4 25 (8.65%) REST
5 20 (6.92%) RESTful
6 17 (5.88%) LDAP
7 15 (5.19%) boto
8 14 (4.84%) OAuth
9 12 (4.15%) AWS CDK
9 12 (4.15%) Spring
9 12 (4.15%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.81%) CSS
10 11 (3.81%) GraphQL
10 11 (3.81%) pytest
11 10 (3.46%) PySpark
12 9 (3.11%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.77%) Great Expectations
13 8 (2.77%) Jest
13 8 (2.77%) JWT
14 7 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 73 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.19%) Replication
4 11 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.77%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.73%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.38%) Derivative
8 4 (1.38%) Equities
8 4 (1.38%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.38%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.04%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.04%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.69%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.11%) Linux
2 18 (6.23%) Windows
3 13 (4.50%) VMS
4 12 (4.15%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.46%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.73%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.04%) Unix
8 1 (0.35%) AIX
8 1 (0.35%) Android
8 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.35%) CentOS
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Solaris
8 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (60.55%) CI/CD
2 120 (41.52%) DevOps
3 113 (39.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (22.15%) Containerisation
4 64 (22.15%) Data Pipeline
5 62 (21.45%) Agile
5 62 (21.45%) Analytics
6 61 (21.11%) Data Modelling
6 61 (21.11%) ETL
7 60 (20.76%) Data Engineering
8 48 (16.61%) Microservices
8 48 (16.61%) Observability
9 37 (12.80%) AI
9 37 (12.80%) Event-Driven
9 37 (12.80%) Software Engineering
10 36 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (11.76%) Data Governance
11 34 (11.76%) Migration
12 31 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
12 31 (10.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 198 (68.51%) Python
2 124 (42.91%) SQL
3 43 (14.88%) Java
4 35 (12.11%) Bash
5 28 (9.69%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.34%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.88%) Go
7 17 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.84%) C#
9 10 (3.46%) Groovy
10 7 (2.42%) Scala
11 6 (2.08%) JSX
12 4 (1.38%) Korn
13 3 (1.04%) C++
13 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.69%) Bicep
14 2 (0.69%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) C
15 1 (0.35%) COBOL
15 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 101 (34.95%) Security Cleared
2 93 (32.18%) SC Cleared
3 36 (12.46%) AWS Certification
4 22 (7.61%) Degree
5 11 (3.81%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.73%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.04%) PhD
12 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.69%) CISSP
12 2 (0.69%) MCP
13 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.35%) RHCE
13 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.61%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.88%) GDPR
3 16 (5.54%) QA
4 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.69%) MiFID
5 2 (0.69%) NCSC
5 2 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) GxP
6 1 (0.35%) HL7
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (32.53%) Docker
2 10 (3.46%) DFS Replication
2 10 (3.46%) Dovecot
2 10 (3.46%) Postfix
2 10 (3.46%) Squid
3 6 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) etcd
5 1 (0.35%) HDFS
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 143 (49.48%) Terraform
2 68 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.53%) Ansible
4 30 (10.38%) Grafana
5 22 (7.61%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.15%) Puppet
7 10 (3.46%) Nessus
7 10 (3.46%) Proxmox
8 6 (2.08%) Kibana
8 6 (2.08%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.73%) Argo
9 5 (1.73%) Istio
9 5 (1.73%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.38%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.69%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (8.30%) Databricks
1 24 (8.30%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.15%) ServiceNow
3 11 (3.81%) Google
3 11 (3.81%) Palo Alto
4 10 (3.46%) CheckPoint
4 10 (3.46%) F5
4 10 (3.46%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (3.11%) Oracle
6 8 (2.77%) Splunk
7 6 (2.08%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.08%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.38%) Commvault
8 4 (1.38%) Confluent
8 4 (1.38%) SnapLogic
9 3 (1.04%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.04%) IBM
9 3 (1.04%) Sybase
9 3 (1.04%) Tenable
10 2 (0.69%) SAP