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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 113 105
Rank change year-on-year -19 -8 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 11 15 24
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.46% 0.76% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.64% 3.59% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 16
10th Percentile £503 £400 £393
25th Percentile £511 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% -17.37%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £575
90th Percentile £668 - £713
London median daily rate £505 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -15.83% +14.29% -12.50%

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 416 418 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.57% 21.06% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 269 369
10th Percentile £350 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% -3.07% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
London median daily rate £521 £560 £560
% change year-on-year -7.05% - -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £33.51 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £37.23 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.07 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £45.53
% change year-on-year +7.06% -6.65% +4.35%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -17 11 £550 -4.35% 14
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Amazon S3
3 7 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (63.64%) Serverless
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (54.55%) GitHub
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (18.18%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) Datadog
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (9.09%) Slack
7 1 (9.09%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) DynamoDB
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (9.09%) DB2
4 1 (9.09%) MySQL
4 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 4 (36.36%) JUnit
3 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
3 3 (27.27%) Git
3 3 (27.27%) GitLab
3 3 (27.27%) Mockito
3 3 (27.27%) Postman
General
1 3 (27.27%) Banking
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Spring
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
2 5 (45.45%) Kafka
3 4 (36.36%) Node.js
3 4 (36.36%) React
4 3 (27.27%) Gherkin
4 3 (27.27%) JSON
4 3 (27.27%) SOAP
4 3 (27.27%) WireMock
4 3 (27.27%) YAML
5 2 (18.18%) Great Expectations
5 2 (18.18%) PySpark
5 2 (18.18%) pytest
6 1 (9.09%) .NET
6 1 (9.09%) Playwright
6 1 (9.09%) REST
6 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) API Testing
4 3 (27.27%) BDD
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Issue Tracking
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) OOP
4 3 (27.27%) Webhook
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) Quality Management
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) Scala
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase