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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 225 269
Rank change year-on-year -50 +44 -18
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 113 128 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 0.92% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.89% 4.27% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 76 94
10th Percentile £374 £444 £413
25th Percentile £437 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £603 £788 £638
90th Percentile £679 - £794
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
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 2,902 2,996 3,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.48% 21.63% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,015 2,049 2,530
10th Percentile £358 £363 £385
25th Percentile £415 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.88% -5.00%
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 32 26 39
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £23.10
25th Percentile £29.72 £26.21 £30.62
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +3.14%
75th Percentile £70.50 £59.50 £56.44
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £64.51
England median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +1 17 £500 -7.06% 2
Central London -8 6 £448 -19.55% 8
West London - 3 - - 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 12 (10.62%) Confluence
2 9 (7.96%) nginx
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (7.96%) 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
1 112 (99.12%) AWS
2 83 (73.45%) Amazon S3
3 66 (58.41%) AWS Lambda
3 66 (58.41%) 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%) GitHub
9 35 (30.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 30 (26.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (24.78%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (18.58%) Amazon Kinesis
13 18 (15.93%) Route 53
14 14 (12.39%) AWS Step Functions
14 14 (12.39%) Azure
15 13 (11.50%) Datadog
16 11 (9.73%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 11 (9.73%) Amazon MSK
16 11 (9.73%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.16%) DNS
2 11 (9.73%) Firewall
3 10 (8.85%) HTTP
4 9 (7.96%) FTP
4 9 (7.96%) IMAP
4 9 (7.96%) OpenLDAP
4 9 (7.96%) SMTP
4 9 (7.96%) SSH
5 2 (1.77%) VPN
6 1 (0.88%) Internet
6 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (38.05%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (25.66%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (15.93%) MySQL
4 17 (15.04%) DynamoDB
5 12 (10.62%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (10.62%) NoSQL
5 12 (10.62%) SQL Server
6 10 (8.85%) Redis
7 9 (7.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (6.19%) Hadoop
9 6 (5.31%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (4.42%) DB2
10 5 (4.42%) DocumentDB
10 5 (4.42%) Metadata
10 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
11 4 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.54%) MongoDB
11 4 (3.54%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.65%) Oracle Database
12 3 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (32.74%) Jenkins
2 33 (29.20%) Git
3 18 (15.93%) GitLab
4 15 (13.27%) JIRA
5 9 (7.96%) Vagrant
6 6 (5.31%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.42%) JUnit
8 4 (3.54%) Maven
9 3 (2.65%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.65%) Snyk
10 2 (1.77%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.77%) git-flow
10 2 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.77%) Storybook
11 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.88%) ERwin
11 1 (0.88%) RStudio
11 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.70%) Finance
3 19 (16.81%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.73%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.19%) 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%) 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 31 (27.43%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (24.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (21.24%) Developer
4 20 (17.70%) Senior
5 19 (16.81%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (13.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (11.50%) AWS Developer
8 12 (10.62%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (10.62%) Software Engineer
9 10 (8.85%) Architect
9 10 (8.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 10 (8.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Java Developer
10 7 (6.19%) Senior Developer
11 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.31%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (5.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.31%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (5.31%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.55%) Kafka
2 16 (14.16%) RESTful
3 15 (13.27%) Node.js
4 14 (12.39%) React
5 12 (10.62%) Spring
6 11 (9.73%) Spring Boot
7 10 (8.85%) CSS
8 9 (7.96%) LDAP
9 8 (7.08%) REST
10 7 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (6.19%) FastAPI
10 7 (6.19%) Jest
10 7 (6.19%) Sass
11 6 (5.31%) Enzyme
11 6 (5.31%) Next.js
12 5 (4.42%) AngularJS
12 5 (4.42%) Flask
12 5 (4.42%) OAuth2
12 5 (4.42%) OpenID
12 5 (4.42%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.47%) Cloud Native
2 17 (15.04%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (15.04%) Replication
3 6 (5.31%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.54%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.77%) Derivative
6 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.88%) Clustering
7 1 (0.88%) Equities
7 1 (0.88%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.12%) Linux
2 10 (8.85%) VMS
2 10 (8.85%) Windows
3 9 (7.96%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (7.96%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.88%) Android
4 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (68.14%) CI/CD
2 60 (53.10%) DevOps
3 46 (40.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (33.63%) Agile
5 34 (30.09%) Containerisation
6 29 (25.66%) Microservices
7 23 (20.35%) Observability
8 21 (18.58%) Configuration Management
8 21 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (16.81%) Software Engineering
10 18 (15.93%) Cloud Security
11 17 (15.04%) Event-Driven
11 17 (15.04%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (15.04%) Secrets Management
12 16 (14.16%) Change Management
12 16 (14.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (13.27%) Design Patterns
14 14 (12.39%) Analytics
15 13 (11.50%) Fintech
15 13 (11.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (57.52%) Python
2 44 (38.94%) SQL
3 29 (25.66%) Java
4 23 (20.35%) Bash
5 14 (12.39%) Groovy
5 14 (12.39%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.39%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.96%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.31%) JSX
8 4 (3.54%) Go
9 3 (2.65%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.65%) Ruby
10 2 (1.77%) Perl
11 1 (0.88%) Bicep
11 1 (0.88%) C#
11 1 (0.88%) PHP
11 1 (0.88%) R
11 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (30.97%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 23 (20.35%) AWS Certification
4 15 (13.27%) Degree
5 9 (7.96%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.65%) 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 6 (5.31%) NIST
2 5 (4.42%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.42%) GDPR
2 5 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.42%) QA
3 4 (3.54%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.88%) GxP
4 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.88%) NCSC
4 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (46.90%) Docker
2 9 (7.96%) DFS Replication
2 9 (7.96%) Dovecot
2 9 (7.96%) Postfix
2 9 (7.96%) Squid
3 2 (1.77%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 63 (55.75%) Terraform
2 37 (32.74%) Kubernetes
3 25 (22.12%) Grafana
4 17 (15.04%) Prometheus
5 13 (11.50%) Ansible
6 9 (7.96%) Nessus
6 9 (7.96%) Proxmox
6 9 (7.96%) Puppet
7 5 (4.42%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.54%) Rancher
9 3 (2.65%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.77%) Kibana
11 1 (0.88%) Argo
11 1 (0.88%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (12.39%) ServiceNow
2 9 (7.96%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.19%) Oracle
4 6 (5.31%) Dynatrace
4 6 (5.31%) PagerDuty
5 5 (4.42%) Sybase
6 3 (2.65%) Splunk
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%) Percona
8 1 (0.88%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.88%) Sage