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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 121 114
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 17 8 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.70% 0.42% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.04% 2.01% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 16
10th Percentile £561 £334 £496
25th Percentile £613 £352 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £406 £544
Median % change year-on-year +72.31% -25.29% -9.38%
75th Percentile £738 £536 £659
90th Percentile £763 £679 £694
London median daily rate £550 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.38%

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 421 398 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.41% 20.66% 20.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 281 352
10th Percentile £363 £375 £413
25th Percentile £460 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £711
90th Percentile £769 £800 £825
London median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £24.25 £37.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £32.13 £37.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £48.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.59% +20.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £19.75 £63.75 £41.38
90th Percentile - £81.88 £41.60
London median hourly rate £32.28 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -41.32% +22.22% -12.62%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -7 17 £700 +72.31% 10
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 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (82.35%) Amazon S3
3 12 (70.59%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (70.59%) Serverless
4 11 (64.71%) GitHub
5 9 (52.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (52.94%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (52.94%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (41.18%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (41.18%) Amazon EventBridge
6 7 (41.18%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (35.29%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (35.29%) GCP
8 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (17.65%) IaaS
8 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
8 3 (17.65%) PaaS
9 2 (11.76%) Azure
9 2 (11.76%) dbt
10 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DHCP
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
1 3 (17.65%) SMTP
1 3 (17.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (17.65%) Big Data
2 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.88%) Metadata
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) GitLab
2 8 (47.06%) Bitbucket
3 6 (35.29%) JIRA
4 4 (23.53%) Git
4 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
5 2 (11.76%) JUnit
5 2 (11.76%) Mockito
5 2 (11.76%) Postman
6 1 (5.88%) Gradle
6 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 8 (47.06%) Back Office
3 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (29.41%) Banking
5 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
6 3 (17.65%) Front Office
7 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
7 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Data Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) AWS Data Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 6 (35.29%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (35.29%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (17.65%) Spring
3 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 3 (17.65%) YAML
4 2 (11.76%) Gherkin
4 2 (11.76%) Kafka
4 2 (11.76%) SOAP
4 2 (11.76%) WireMock
5 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.88%) Bootstrap
5 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.88%) JPA
5 1 (5.88%) JSON
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Clustering
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) PKI
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.76%) PropTech
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Derivative
4 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
1 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 12 (70.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (52.94%) Data Engineering
3 9 (52.94%) Data Modelling
3 9 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (47.06%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (41.18%) Agile
5 7 (41.18%) DevOps
5 7 (41.18%) Event-Driven
6 6 (35.29%) Analytics
6 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (35.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
7 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (23.53%) AI
8 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
9 3 (17.65%) ETL
9 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 10 (58.82%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
4 3 (17.65%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) Bicep
6 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) BitLocker
2 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (17.65%) Terminal Services
2 3 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) Nagios
2 3 (17.65%) Puppet
2 3 (17.65%) vCenter Server
2 3 (17.65%) vMotion
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Citrix
2 3 (17.65%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) HP
2 3 (17.65%) Symantec
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Informatica