Amazon RDS Contracts in the City of London

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Amazon RDS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 105 141
Rank change year-on-year -2 +36 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 13 18 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.74% 0.85% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.19% 3.67% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 11
10th Percentile £400 £413 £409
25th Percentile £419 £478 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -16.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £622 £713
90th Percentile £668 £688 £763
Central London median daily rate £578 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £60.45
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £84.09

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 407 491 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.09% 23.20% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 345 432
10th Percentile £404 £400 £420
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +1.69%
75th Percentile £690 £711 £730
90th Percentile £775 £800 £813
Central London median daily rate £564 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.97% -4.17% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £22.70 - £42.50
25th Percentile £32.00 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £85.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.33 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -29.23% -42.32% +52.89%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the City of London

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the City of London

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the City of London

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon RDS in the City of London

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (46.15%) Serverless
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
3 5 (38.46%) GitHub
3 5 (38.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (15.38%) SaaS
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (7.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) DHCP
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall
4 1 (7.69%) HTTP
4 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Billing
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Database Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Lead
1 2 (15.38%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Principal Software Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Risk Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
2 1 (7.69%) DBA
2 1 (7.69%) Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (7.69%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Node.js
2 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
2 2 (15.38%) Jest
2 2 (15.38%) React
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Database Optimisation
3 2 (15.38%) Database Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Protective Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) SDLC
3 2 (15.38%) Security Patching
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) Go
4 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 2 (15.38%) Rust
4 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 4 (30.77%) Ansible
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) VMware