Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 119 117
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 7 12 25
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.35% 0.53% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.87% 2.68% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 19
10th Percentile £338 £470 £411
25th Percentile £363 £514 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +5.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £634 £625
90th Percentile £710 £704 £638
London median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%

All Database & BI Skills
Central London

Amazon RDS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 375 448 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.58% 19.95% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 295 376
10th Percentile £339 £409 £400
25th Percentile £413 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £670 £688 £706
90th Percentile £749 £788 £819
London median daily rate £525 £565 £568
% change year-on-year -7.08% -0.44% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £35.38 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £39.69 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% +5.26% -49.42%
75th Percentile £56.69 £41.38 -
90th Percentile £60.93 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £46.50 £42.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +8.77% -5.00% -14.29%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Central London

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in Central London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in Central London

Amazon RDS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
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 RDS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 January 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 7 £520 -6.52% 3
Amazon RDS
London

Amazon RDS
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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon S3
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (71.43%) Serverless
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (28.57%) Datadog
5 2 (28.57%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (14.29%) Azure
6 1 (14.29%) IaaS
6 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
6 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) CouchDB
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Redis
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Memcached
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) AIX
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Server Hardening
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) BCP
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) COBOL
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) NetApp