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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 226 270
Rank change year-on-year -82 +44 -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 138 142 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 1.06% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.77% 4.97% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 97 77
10th Percentile £413 £425 £414
25th Percentile £453 £494 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +7.81% -10.33%
75th Percentile £673 £630 £656
90th Percentile £779 £664 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.09% -10.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 3,661 2,860 3,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.15% 21.31% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,476 1,999 2,798
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £749 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 35 25
10th Percentile £17.72 £25.53 £28.74
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £84.50 £77.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.32% -0.03% -36.36%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 +5 21 £535 -2.46% 3
Central London -14 17 £625 +3.73% 2
West London - 10 £763 - 3
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 11 (7.97%) Confluence
2 9 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.62%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.17%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.45%) Camunda
7 1 (0.72%) Apache
7 1 (0.72%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 136 (98.55%) AWS
2 97 (70.29%) Amazon S3
3 79 (57.25%) AWS Lambda
4 76 (55.07%) Serverless
5 55 (39.86%) Amazon EC2
6 51 (36.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 39 (28.26%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (28.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 37 (26.81%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (18.12%) Azure
10 21 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (15.22%) AWS KMS
10 21 (15.22%) GitHub
11 13 (9.42%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (9.42%) GCP
11 13 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (7.97%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (7.97%) Snowflake
13 10 (7.25%) Amazon Bedrock
13 10 (7.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.25%) Firewall
2 5 (3.62%) DHCP
2 5 (3.62%) DNS
3 4 (2.90%) SMTP
3 4 (2.90%) VPN
4 3 (2.17%) Network Security
5 1 (0.72%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (29.71%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (23.19%) Amazon Aurora
3 28 (20.29%) DynamoDB
4 16 (11.59%) MongoDB
5 13 (9.42%) SQL Server
6 12 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (7.97%) Big Data
8 10 (7.25%) MySQL
9 9 (6.52%) Redis
9 9 (6.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (3.62%) NoSQL
13 5 (3.62%) Power BI
14 4 (2.90%) Apache Hudi
14 4 (2.90%) Metadata
15 3 (2.17%) BigQuery
15 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
15 3 (2.17%) Presto
Development Applications
1 33 (23.91%) Jenkins
2 23 (16.67%) Git
3 20 (14.49%) GitLab
4 17 (12.32%) JIRA
5 9 (6.52%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (5.07%) JUnit
7 7 (5.07%) Mockito
8 5 (3.62%) Postman
8 5 (3.62%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.90%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.90%) SonarQube
10 3 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (2.17%) DbUnit
10 3 (2.17%) jMock
10 3 (2.17%) Maven
11 2 (1.45%) git-flow
12 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 49 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.46%) Public Sector
3 28 (20.29%) Finance
4 20 (14.49%) Banking
5 15 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.62%) Back Office
6 5 (3.62%) Front Office
7 3 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Billing
8 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.45%) Law
8 2 (1.45%) Local Government
8 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (18.12%) AWS Engineer
2 21 (15.22%) Data Engineer
3 19 (13.77%) Developer
3 19 (13.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (13.77%) Senior
4 18 (13.04%) DBA
5 17 (12.32%) Lead
6 14 (10.14%) Architect
7 11 (7.97%) Administrator
7 11 (7.97%) Technical Leader
8 10 (7.25%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (6.52%) AWS Architect
10 8 (5.80%) AWS Data Engineer
10 8 (5.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.35%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.35%) Technical Architect
13 5 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (47.10%) Terraform
2 26 (18.84%) React
3 17 (12.32%) REST
4 16 (11.59%) Node.js
5 14 (10.14%) Spring
5 14 (10.14%) Spring Boot
6 13 (9.42%) AngularJS
6 13 (9.42%) FastAPI
7 12 (8.70%) RESTful
8 9 (6.52%) Kafka
9 8 (5.80%) JSON
10 7 (5.07%) SOAP
11 6 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
12 5 (3.62%) Langfuse
12 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Graph
13 4 (2.90%) Django
13 4 (2.90%) Next.js
13 4 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (2.90%) WireMock
13 4 (2.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (26.81%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.04%) Replication
3 14 (10.14%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.80%) Virtual Team
6 7 (5.07%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (4.35%) Fixed Income
8 5 (3.62%) PKI
9 4 (2.90%) Clustering
9 4 (2.90%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.90%) NHS
10 3 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (2.17%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.45%) Derivative
11 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.45%) Equities
11 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.01%) Linux
2 7 (5.07%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.62%) Windows
4 5 (3.62%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.17%) Unix
6 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 60 (43.48%) DevOps
3 58 (42.03%) Agile
4 56 (40.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (23.19%) Data Modelling
6 31 (22.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (21.01%) Performance Tuning
8 28 (20.29%) Microservices
9 27 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (17.39%) Containerisation
11 23 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (15.22%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (15.22%) Root Cause Analysis
12 21 (15.22%) Test Automation
13 20 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (14.49%) Event-Driven
13 20 (14.49%) High Availability
14 19 (13.77%) Data Engineering
14 19 (13.77%) Observability
15 17 (12.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 66 (47.83%) Python
2 43 (31.16%) Java
3 42 (30.43%) SQL
4 16 (11.59%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.87%) PowerShell
6 13 (9.42%) Bash
7 12 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.07%) Groovy
8 7 (5.07%) Perl
9 5 (3.62%) C#
9 5 (3.62%) Scala
10 1 (0.72%) Bicep
10 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (44.20%) Security Cleared
2 50 (36.23%) SC Cleared
3 33 (23.91%) AWS Certification
4 20 (14.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (10.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (7.25%) Degree
7 9 (6.52%) DV Cleared
8 8 (5.80%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.90%) CISM
9 4 (2.90%) CISSP
9 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.45%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.45%) PMP
12 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.90%) NIST
3 3 (2.17%) PMO
4 2 (1.45%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) SLA
5 1 (0.72%) Solvency II
System Software
1 45 (32.61%) Docker
2 9 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.62%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.90%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.90%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.90%) Terminal Services
4 4 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.17%) Postfix
6 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 43 (31.16%) Kubernetes
2 22 (15.94%) Grafana
3 19 (13.77%) Prometheus
4 13 (9.42%) Ansible
5 7 (5.07%) Istio
6 6 (4.35%) Argo
6 6 (4.35%) Kibana
7 4 (2.90%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.90%) vMotion
8 3 (2.17%) Nagios
8 3 (2.17%) Puppet
9 1 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.72%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 14 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.97%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.07%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.35%) Oracle
5 5 (3.62%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.62%) Citrix
5 5 (3.62%) Databricks
5 5 (3.62%) Google
5 5 (3.62%) VMware
6 4 (2.90%) HP
6 4 (2.90%) Symantec
7 3 (2.17%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.17%) Brio
7 3 (2.17%) Informatica
7 3 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (2.17%) Splunk
8 2 (1.45%) Charles River
8 2 (1.45%) Murex
8 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.45%) Talend