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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 243 272
Rank change year-on-year -33 +29 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 112 137 152
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 0.87% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.81% 4.05% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 117
10th Percentile £400 £432 £425
25th Percentile £450 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -7.56% -7.89%
75th Percentile £603 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £788 £738
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,940 3,380 3,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.80% 21.49% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,050 2,374 2,719
10th Percentile £363 £360 £381
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £652 £700 £685
90th Percentile £781 £838 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 22 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £20.13
25th Percentile £31.12 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £49.50 £42.75 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -6.10% -17.22%
75th Percentile £68.69 £53.75 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £76.95 £78.00
England median hourly rate £44.25 £33.93 £47.90
% change year-on-year +30.42% -29.16% -0.10%

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 20 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon RDS in London over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon RDS in London

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 20 November 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
South London -2 16 £528 -2.13% 1
Central London -2 7 £475 -12.64% 22
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 13 (11.61%) Confluence
2 10 (8.93%) nginx
3 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.89%) CICS
4 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (8.93%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 109 (97.32%) AWS
2 80 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 62 (55.36%) Amazon EC2
4 61 (54.46%) Serverless
5 60 (53.57%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (41.07%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (34.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 32 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
8 32 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 31 (27.68%) GitHub
10 30 (26.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (18.75%) Amazon Kinesis
13 16 (14.29%) Azure
13 16 (14.29%) Route 53
14 14 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
15 13 (11.61%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (11.61%) Datadog
16 12 (10.71%) AWS KMS
17 11 (9.82%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.61%) DNS
2 12 (10.71%) Firewall
3 11 (9.82%) HTTP
4 10 (8.93%) FTP
4 10 (8.93%) IMAP
4 10 (8.93%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (8.93%) SMTP
4 10 (8.93%) SSH
5 3 (2.68%) VPN
6 1 (0.89%) Internet
6 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.89%) NAS
6 1 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (45.54%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (24.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 21 (18.75%) DynamoDB
4 15 (13.39%) MySQL
5 13 (11.61%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (9.82%) SQL Server
7 8 (7.14%) Hadoop
7 8 (7.14%) NoSQL
8 7 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (6.25%) Relational Database
9 6 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (5.36%) Redis
10 5 (4.46%) RDBMS
11 4 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.57%) DB2
11 4 (3.57%) Metadata
11 4 (3.57%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (2.68%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.79%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 39 (34.82%) Jenkins
2 35 (31.25%) Git
3 17 (15.18%) GitLab
4 16 (14.29%) JIRA
5 10 (8.93%) JUnit
5 10 (8.93%) Maven
5 10 (8.93%) Vagrant
6 6 (5.36%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.57%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.68%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.79%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.89%) Ant
10 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.89%) DbUnit
10 1 (0.89%) jMock
10 1 (0.89%) Mockito
10 1 (0.89%) RStudio
General
1 43 (38.39%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.54%) Finance
3 17 (15.18%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.14%) Banking
7 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.89%) Front Office
9 1 (0.89%) Games
9 1 (0.89%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (27.68%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (24.11%) Developer
4 22 (19.64%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (19.64%) Senior
5 18 (16.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 13 (11.61%) AWS Developer
6 13 (11.61%) Java Developer
6 13 (11.61%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (9.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 11 (9.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (8.93%) Software Engineer
9 8 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.14%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.25%) Architect
10 7 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.36%) Java Engineer
12 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.64%) Kafka
2 16 (14.29%) Node.js
3 15 (13.39%) Spring
4 13 (11.61%) RESTful
5 11 (9.82%) Jest
5 11 (9.82%) Spring Boot
6 10 (8.93%) LDAP
6 10 (8.93%) React
7 8 (7.14%) CSS
8 7 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (6.25%) Sass
9 6 (5.36%) Enzyme
9 6 (5.36%) REST
10 4 (3.57%) Keycloak
11 3 (2.68%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.68%) Hibernate
11 3 (2.68%) SOAP
12 2 (1.79%) .NET
12 2 (1.79%) ActiveMQ
12 2 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.18%) Replication
2 16 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 15 (13.39%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.25%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.79%) Derivative
8 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.89%) Equities
9 1 (0.89%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.89%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.89%) NHS
9 1 (0.89%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.21%) Linux
2 12 (10.71%) Windows
3 11 (9.82%) VMS
4 10 (8.93%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (8.93%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.89%) AIX
5 1 (0.89%) Android
5 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.89%) Solaris
5 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (61.61%) CI/CD
2 56 (50.00%) DevOps
3 39 (34.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (33.04%) Agile
4 37 (33.04%) Containerisation
5 31 (27.68%) Microservices
6 21 (18.75%) Configuration Management
7 19 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (16.07%) Observability
9 17 (15.18%) Change Management
9 17 (15.18%) Cloud Security
10 16 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 15 (13.39%) Fintech
11 15 (13.39%) Test Automation
12 14 (12.50%) Analytics
12 14 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (12.50%) Migration
12 14 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
12 14 (12.50%) Secrets Management
13 13 (11.61%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 60 (53.57%) Python
2 38 (33.93%) SQL
3 34 (30.36%) Java
4 20 (17.86%) Bash
5 17 (15.18%) PowerShell
6 15 (13.39%) Groovy
7 14 (12.50%) TypeScript
8 13 (11.61%) JavaScript
9 6 (5.36%) JSX
10 4 (3.57%) Go
11 3 (2.68%) Ruby
12 2 (1.79%) Perl
13 1 (0.89%) Bicep
13 1 (0.89%) C#
13 1 (0.89%) COBOL
13 1 (0.89%) PHP
13 1 (0.89%) R
13 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (27.68%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 27 (24.11%) AWS Certification
4 19 (16.96%) Degree
5 10 (8.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (8.93%) Azure Certification
6 8 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.68%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.46%) QA
2 4 (3.57%) GDPR
3 2 (1.79%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.89%) GxP
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) NCSC
4 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (45.54%) Docker
2 11 (9.82%) Postfix
3 10 (8.93%) DFS Replication
3 10 (8.93%) Dovecot
3 10 (8.93%) Squid
4 2 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (50.89%) Terraform
2 31 (27.68%) Kubernetes
3 26 (23.21%) Grafana
4 19 (16.96%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.71%) Ansible
6 10 (8.93%) Nessus
6 10 (8.93%) Proxmox
7 8 (7.14%) Puppet
8 5 (4.46%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.57%) Rancher
10 3 (2.68%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.79%) Kibana
12 1 (0.89%) Argo
12 1 (0.89%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (16.07%) ServiceNow
2 11 (9.82%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.25%) Oracle
5 6 (5.36%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (5.36%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.46%) PagerDuty
7 4 (3.57%) Sybase
8 3 (2.68%) IBM
8 3 (2.68%) Splunk
9 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.79%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.79%) Databricks
9 2 (1.79%) Pega
10 1 (0.89%) Charles River
10 1 (0.89%) Confluent
10 1 (0.89%) Murex
10 1 (0.89%) NetApp
10 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.89%) Sage