Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 225 266
Rank change year-on-year -74 +41 -27
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 116 126 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 1.02% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.56% 4.52% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 96 93
10th Percentile £364 £416 £385
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £578 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.55% +12.68% -14.58%
75th Percentile £598 £634 £575
90th Percentile £710 £763 £717
England median daily rate £500 £563 £516
% change year-on-year -11.19% +9.06% -13.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Database & BI Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,262 2,786 3,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.25% 22.48% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,215 1,963 2,832
10th Percentile £363 £380 £377
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £837
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 35
10th Percentile £18.19 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.32 £25.62
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.88 £58.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.75 £70.30
England median hourly rate £45.90 £32.43 £40.13
% change year-on-year +41.54% -19.18% -30.22%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in London

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in London

Amazon RDS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
South London +9 23 £463 -3.90%
Central London -11 11 £544 -5.80% 15
West London - 5 £763 -
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 10 (8.62%) Confluence
2 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.86%) Apache
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 115 (99.14%) AWS
2 86 (74.14%) Amazon S3
3 71 (61.21%) AWS Lambda
4 68 (58.62%) Serverless
5 59 (50.86%) Amazon EC2
6 48 (41.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 39 (33.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 37 (31.90%) Amazon ECS
9 33 (28.45%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (22.41%) GitHub
11 23 (19.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (12.07%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (11.21%) Azure
14 13 (11.21%) Route 53
15 12 (10.34%) AWS KMS
16 11 (9.48%) Amazon Kinesis
17 10 (8.62%) Amazon MSK
17 10 (8.62%) Power Platform
18 9 (7.76%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) DNS
2 4 (3.45%) Firewall
3 2 (1.72%) VPN
4 1 (0.86%) DHCP
4 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.86%) Network Security
4 1 (0.86%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.86%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (18.97%) DynamoDB
3 20 (17.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 10 (8.62%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (8.62%) MySQL
5 10 (8.62%) Power BI
6 8 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (6.90%) Tableau
7 7 (6.03%) Redis
8 6 (5.17%) MongoDB
8 6 (5.17%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.45%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (3.45%) Big Data
9 4 (3.45%) DB2
9 4 (3.45%) DocumentDB
9 4 (3.45%) Hadoop
9 4 (3.45%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.45%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (30.17%) Jenkins
2 21 (18.10%) Git
3 18 (15.52%) GitLab
4 14 (12.07%) JIRA
5 10 (8.62%) JUnit
6 6 (5.17%) Mockito
7 5 (4.31%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.31%) git-flow
7 5 (4.31%) Snyk
8 4 (3.45%) Postman
8 4 (3.45%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.59%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (2.59%) DbUnit
9 3 (2.59%) jMock
9 3 (2.59%) Maven
10 2 (1.72%) Storybook
11 1 (0.86%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.86%) Selenium
General
1 32 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.55%) Public Sector
3 21 (18.10%) Finance
4 16 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.90%) Banking
6 7 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Front Office
8 2 (1.72%) Local Government
9 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Legal
9 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (20.69%) Developer
2 16 (13.79%) Senior
3 15 (12.93%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (12.07%) Architect
5 13 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.48%) Analyst
7 10 (8.62%) AWS Developer
8 9 (7.76%) AWS Architect
8 9 (7.76%) Java Developer
8 9 (7.76%) Lead
9 8 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (6.03%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (6.03%) Software Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (5.17%) DBA
11 6 (5.17%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (5.17%) Java Architect
11 6 (5.17%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.31%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.83%) Kafka
2 19 (16.38%) Spring
2 19 (16.38%) Spring Boot
3 18 (15.52%) React
4 17 (14.66%) RESTful
5 16 (13.79%) Node.js
6 10 (8.62%) REST
7 8 (6.90%) AngularJS
7 8 (6.90%) FastAPI
8 7 (6.03%) Hibernate
8 7 (6.03%) JPA
8 7 (6.03%) Next.js
8 7 (6.03%) Spring Cloud
9 6 (5.17%) OAuth
9 6 (5.17%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (5.17%) SOAP
10 5 (4.31%) CSS
10 5 (4.31%) Gherkin
10 5 (4.31%) JSON
10 5 (4.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.72%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.17%) Replication
5 4 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.45%) NHS
5 4 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.72%) Clustering
7 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.72%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.86%) Derivative
8 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Equities
8 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.86%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.86%) PKI
8 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.83%) Linux
2 5 (4.31%) Unix
3 4 (3.45%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.72%) Windows
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (56.90%) CI/CD
2 58 (50.00%) Agile
3 46 (39.66%) DevOps
4 43 (37.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (25.86%) Containerisation
6 29 (25.00%) Microservices
7 22 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (16.38%) Scrum
10 18 (15.52%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (14.66%) Data Modelling
12 16 (13.79%) Observability
13 15 (12.93%) ETL
13 15 (12.93%) Event-Driven
13 15 (12.93%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (12.07%) Migration
14 14 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (12.07%) Test Automation
15 13 (11.21%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (38.79%) Java
2 44 (37.93%) Python
3 36 (31.03%) SQL
4 11 (9.48%) Bash
5 10 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.03%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.31%) C#
7 5 (4.31%) Groovy
7 5 (4.31%) Scala
7 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.45%) Perl
9 3 (2.59%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.59%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 47 (40.52%) Security Cleared
2 40 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 22 (18.97%) AWS Certification
4 10 (8.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.31%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.45%) Degree
8 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.72%) PMP
9 2 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.86%) CEH
10 1 (0.86%) CISSP
10 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.86%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 8 (6.90%) NIST
2 7 (6.03%) PMO
3 6 (5.17%) QA
4 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.45%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.72%) GDPR
6 1 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (41.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.72%) Postfix
3 1 (0.86%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.86%) HDFS
3 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.86%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (46.55%) Terraform
2 34 (29.31%) Kubernetes
3 15 (12.93%) Grafana
4 10 (8.62%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.59%) Ansible
5 3 (2.59%) Argo
5 3 (2.59%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (2.59%) Kibana
6 2 (1.72%) Istio
6 2 (1.72%) Puppet
7 1 (0.86%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.86%) Rancher
7 1 (0.86%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.86%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.86%) vMotion
Vendors
1 10 (8.62%) ServiceNow
2 8 (6.90%) Oracle
3 5 (4.31%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.31%) Sybase
4 4 (3.45%) Qualys
4 4 (3.45%) Tenable
5 3 (2.59%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.59%) AVEVA
5 3 (2.59%) Brio
5 3 (2.59%) Databricks
5 3 (2.59%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (2.59%) Splunk
6 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.72%) Netlify
6 2 (1.72%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.86%) HP
7 1 (0.86%) Murex
7 1 (0.86%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.86%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.86%) VMware