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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 108 139
Rank change year-on-year -6 +31 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 8 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.41% 0.70% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.90% 3.32% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 15
10th Percentile £421 £508 £413
25th Percentile £423 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £778 £669 £638
90th Percentile £784 £695 £698
London median daily rate £600 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +11.52% -10.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £80.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 421 482 676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.69% 21.08% 20.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 348 456
10th Percentile £381 £413 £383
25th Percentile £425 £488 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £714 £701
90th Percentile £800 £818 £788
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £25.80 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 - £51.05
London median hourly rate £52.50 £49.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.91% -

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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
City of London -3 8 £600 +9.09% 6
Amazon RDS
London

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (12.50%) CICS
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (75.00%) Serverless
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (37.50%) GitHub
5 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (25.00%) SaaS
6 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (12.50%) Azure
7 1 (12.50%) IaaS
7 1 (12.50%) PaaS
7 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) NAS
1 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Billing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
1 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
1 1 (12.50%) Jest
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) AIX
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Solaris
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) ArchiMate
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) COBOL
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Rust
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) NetApp
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) VMware