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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 234 267
Rank change year-on-year -34 +33 -22
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 113 137 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 0.94% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.78% 4.36% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 84 94
10th Percentile £393 £441 £413
25th Percentile £447 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £603 £788 £638
90th Percentile £691 - £794
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 2,988 3,143 3,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.72% 21.50% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,075 2,158 2,541
10th Percentile £359 £362 £382
25th Percentile £415 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £696 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.00
25th Percentile £29.88 £26.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.50 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% -5.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +40.26% -17.89% -13.64%

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 1 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon RDS in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 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 -2 17 £525 -2.42%
Central London -8 7 £520 -6.52% 4
West London - 2 - - 1
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 (11.50%) Confluence
2 10 (8.85%) nginx
3 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) CICS
4 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (8.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 110 (97.35%) AWS
2 83 (73.45%) Amazon S3
3 63 (55.75%) AWS Lambda
3 63 (55.75%) Serverless
4 56 (49.56%) Amazon EC2
5 45 (39.82%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (35.40%) Amazon EKS
7 39 (34.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 36 (31.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 33 (29.20%) GitHub
10 30 (26.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (22.12%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (16.81%) Amazon Kinesis
13 18 (15.93%) Route 53
14 16 (14.16%) Azure
15 14 (12.39%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (11.50%) Datadog
17 12 (10.62%) AWS KMS
18 11 (9.73%) Amazon ELB
19 10 (8.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.16%) DNS
2 12 (10.62%) Firewall
3 11 (9.73%) HTTP
4 10 (8.85%) FTP
4 10 (8.85%) IMAP
4 10 (8.85%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (8.85%) SMTP
4 10 (8.85%) SSH
5 2 (1.77%) VPN
6 1 (0.88%) Internet
6 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.88%) NAS
6 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (40.71%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (25.66%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (15.04%) MySQL
4 16 (14.16%) DynamoDB
5 14 (12.39%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (11.50%) SQL Server
7 11 (9.73%) NoSQL
8 10 (8.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (7.96%) Redis
10 7 (6.19%) Hadoop
11 6 (5.31%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (5.31%) Relational Database
12 5 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (4.42%) Metadata
13 4 (3.54%) DocumentDB
13 4 (3.54%) MongoDB
13 4 (3.54%) RDBMS
14 3 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
14 3 (2.65%) DB2
Development Applications
1 37 (32.74%) Jenkins
2 33 (29.20%) Git
3 18 (15.93%) GitLab
4 16 (14.16%) JIRA
5 10 (8.85%) Vagrant
6 6 (5.31%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.54%) Maven
8 3 (2.65%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.65%) JUnit
9 2 (1.77%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.77%) Snyk
9 2 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.88%) ERwin
10 1 (0.88%) git-flow
10 1 (0.88%) RStudio
10 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 41 (36.28%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.47%) Finance
3 19 (16.81%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.73%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.08%) Banking
7 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Marketing
8 2 (1.77%) Military
9 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.88%) Front Office
9 1 (0.88%) Games
9 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (28.32%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (24.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (18.58%) Developer
4 20 (17.70%) AWS DevOps
4 20 (17.70%) Senior
5 16 (14.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 13 (11.50%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (10.62%) AWS Developer
8 11 (9.73%) Architect
8 11 (9.73%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 11 (9.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (9.73%) Software Engineer
9 8 (7.08%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.31%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (5.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Site Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.78%) Kafka
2 15 (13.27%) Node.js
3 14 (12.39%) RESTful
4 13 (11.50%) React
5 10 (8.85%) LDAP
5 10 (8.85%) Spring
6 9 (7.96%) CSS
6 9 (7.96%) Spring Boot
7 7 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.19%) Jest
7 7 (6.19%) REST
7 7 (6.19%) Sass
8 6 (5.31%) Enzyme
9 5 (4.42%) FastAPI
10 4 (3.54%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.54%) Flask
10 4 (3.54%) Keycloak
10 4 (3.54%) Next.js
10 4 (3.54%) OAuth2
10 4 (3.54%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 18 (15.93%) Replication
3 16 (14.16%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.31%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.77%) Derivative
7 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.88%) Clustering
8 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.88%) Equities
8 1 (0.88%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.88%) NHS
8 1 (0.88%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.89%) Linux
2 12 (10.62%) Windows
3 11 (9.73%) VMS
4 10 (8.85%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (8.85%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.88%) AIX
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.88%) Solaris
5 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (66.37%) CI/CD
2 60 (53.10%) DevOps
3 46 (40.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (30.09%) Containerisation
5 33 (29.20%) Agile
6 27 (23.89%) Microservices
7 22 (19.47%) Configuration Management
7 22 (19.47%) Observability
8 20 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.93%) Cloud Security
9 18 (15.93%) Software Engineering
10 17 (15.04%) Change Management
11 15 (13.27%) Analytics
11 15 (13.27%) Event-Driven
11 15 (13.27%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (13.27%) Secrets Management
11 15 (13.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (12.39%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (11.50%) Fintech
14 12 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 64 (56.64%) Python
2 44 (38.94%) SQL
3 27 (23.89%) Java
4 23 (20.35%) Bash
5 15 (13.27%) Groovy
5 15 (13.27%) PowerShell
6 14 (12.39%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.96%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.31%) JSX
9 4 (3.54%) Go
10 3 (2.65%) Ruby
11 2 (1.77%) Perl
11 2 (1.77%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.88%) Bicep
12 1 (0.88%) C#
12 1 (0.88%) COBOL
12 1 (0.88%) PHP
12 1 (0.88%) R
12 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (30.09%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 25 (22.12%) AWS Certification
4 17 (15.04%) Degree
5 10 (8.85%) Azure Certification
6 8 (7.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.77%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.88%) CEH
10 1 (0.88%) CISSP
10 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.88%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.88%) PMP
10 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.31%) GDPR
3 5 (4.42%) NIST
4 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.54%) QA
5 3 (2.65%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.77%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.88%) GxP
7 1 (0.88%) NCSC
7 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (45.13%) Docker
2 10 (8.85%) DFS Replication
2 10 (8.85%) Dovecot
2 10 (8.85%) Postfix
2 10 (8.85%) Squid
3 2 (1.77%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 63 (55.75%) Terraform
2 34 (30.09%) Kubernetes
3 26 (23.01%) Grafana
4 18 (15.93%) Prometheus
5 13 (11.50%) Ansible
6 10 (8.85%) Nessus
6 10 (8.85%) Proxmox
7 9 (7.96%) Puppet
8 5 (4.42%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.54%) Rancher
10 3 (2.65%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.77%) Kibana
12 1 (0.88%) Argo
12 1 (0.88%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (13.27%) ServiceNow
2 10 (8.85%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (7.96%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.08%) Oracle
5 6 (5.31%) Dynatrace
5 6 (5.31%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.65%) Splunk
6 3 (2.65%) Sybase
7 2 (1.77%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.77%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.77%) Databricks
7 2 (1.77%) Qualys
7 2 (1.77%) Tenable
8 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.88%) Confluent
8 1 (0.88%) Murex
8 1 (0.88%) NetApp
8 1 (0.88%) Percona
8 1 (0.88%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.88%) Red Hat