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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 271 272
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 161 98 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 0.73% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.49% 3.45% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 54 76
10th Percentile £411 £400 £431
25th Percentile £450 £463 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £725 £629 £656
90th Percentile £776 £653 £700
England median daily rate £533 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +6.50% -7.06% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -12.73% - -

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 3,589 2,842 3,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.63% 21.21% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,474 1,960 2,570
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £430 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £711
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
England median daily rate £510 £510 £550
% change year-on-year - -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 37 22
10th Percentile £18.74 £24.81 £27.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £55.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.09% +25.71% -13.37%
75th Percentile £57.50 £72.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.00 £87.50 £78.38
England median hourly rate £41.71 £40.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year +3.64% +11.02% -32.24%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -4 20 £536 -2.28% 2
West London - 18 £725 - 1
Central London -19 17 £700 +72.31% 12
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 (8.07%) Confluence
2 12 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.73%) nginx
4 5 (3.11%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.86%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.24%) Camunda
6 2 (1.24%) SAS
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.62%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.62%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.62%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (0.62%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.62%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 155 (96.27%) AWS
2 106 (65.84%) Amazon S3
3 83 (51.55%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (49.69%) Serverless
5 65 (40.37%) Amazon EC2
6 58 (36.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 48 (29.81%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (27.33%) Amazon ECS
8 44 (27.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 39 (24.22%) Azure
10 24 (14.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (14.91%) AWS KMS
10 24 (14.91%) GitHub
11 18 (11.18%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (9.94%) GCP
13 14 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
14 13 (8.07%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (7.45%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (6.83%) Amazon Bedrock
16 11 (6.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.07%) Firewall
2 9 (5.59%) DNS
3 8 (4.97%) VPN
4 6 (3.73%) Network Security
5 5 (3.11%) SMTP
6 4 (2.48%) DHCP
7 3 (1.86%) OpenVPN
7 3 (1.86%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.24%) FTP
8 2 (1.24%) HTTP
8 2 (1.24%) IMAP
8 2 (1.24%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (1.24%) SSH
8 2 (1.24%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (35.40%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (26.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 32 (19.88%) DynamoDB
4 23 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 20 (12.42%) SQL Server
6 15 (9.32%) MySQL
7 14 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (7.45%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (7.45%) Redis
9 11 (6.83%) Big Data
9 11 (6.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (4.97%) NoSQL
12 7 (4.35%) Metadata
13 4 (2.48%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.48%) Power BI
13 4 (2.48%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.86%) Presto
14 3 (1.86%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (25.47%) Jenkins
2 36 (22.36%) Git
3 28 (17.39%) GitLab
4 18 (11.18%) JIRA
5 12 (7.45%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (4.35%) JUnit
7 7 (4.35%) Mockito
8 6 (3.73%) Maven
9 5 (3.11%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.11%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.48%) Gradle
10 4 (2.48%) Postman
11 3 (1.86%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (1.24%) DbUnit
12 2 (1.24%) jMock
12 2 (1.24%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.62%) Flyway
13 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 58 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.25%) Finance
2 31 (19.25%) Public Sector
3 23 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.80%) Banking
5 10 (6.21%) Back Office
6 8 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.35%) Front Office
8 5 (3.11%) Law
9 4 (2.48%) Local Government
10 3 (1.86%) Billing
10 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.86%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.24%) Police
12 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Marketing
12 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (19.88%) AWS Engineer
2 29 (18.01%) Senior
3 28 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (15.53%) Data Engineer
5 23 (14.29%) DBA
6 20 (12.42%) Lead
7 18 (11.18%) Developer
8 17 (10.56%) Architect
9 16 (9.94%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (9.94%) Technical Leader
10 14 (8.70%) Administrator
10 14 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.83%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (6.21%) AWS Architect
13 9 (5.59%) Consultant
13 9 (5.59%) Java Developer
14 8 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
15 7 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 7 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
15 7 (4.35%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (52.17%) Terraform
2 24 (14.91%) React
2 24 (14.91%) REST
3 17 (10.56%) FastAPI
4 14 (8.70%) Kafka
4 14 (8.70%) Spring
4 14 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 11 (6.83%) AngularJS
6 10 (6.21%) RESTful
7 9 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (4.97%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (4.35%) .NET
9 7 (4.35%) JSON
9 7 (4.35%) Node.js
10 6 (3.73%) GraphQL
10 6 (3.73%) Hibernate
10 6 (3.73%) JPA
10 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (3.11%) Keycloak
11 5 (3.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (27.33%) Cloud Native
2 27 (16.77%) Replication
3 14 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 12 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.59%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.35%) PKI
6 7 (4.35%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.73%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (3.11%) Reinsurance
9 4 (2.48%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.48%) Clustering
9 4 (2.48%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.48%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.48%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.86%) NHS
10 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.98%) Linux
2 14 (8.70%) Windows
3 9 (5.59%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (5.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.11%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.11%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.48%) Unix
5 4 (2.48%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.62%) VMS
6 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (63.35%) CI/CD
2 83 (51.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (50.31%) DevOps
4 67 (41.61%) Agile
5 40 (24.84%) Observability
5 40 (24.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (24.22%) Performance Tuning
7 38 (23.60%) Containerisation
8 37 (22.98%) Data Modelling
9 34 (21.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (20.50%) Microservices
11 32 (19.88%) Disaster Recovery
12 31 (19.25%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (18.63%) Event-Driven
13 30 (18.63%) Root Cause Analysis
14 27 (16.77%) AI
14 27 (16.77%) Data Integration
15 26 (16.15%) Data Engineering
15 26 (16.15%) Migration
15 26 (16.15%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (51.55%) Python
2 53 (32.92%) SQL
3 37 (22.98%) Java
4 23 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 19 (11.80%) Bash
5 19 (11.80%) TypeScript
6 15 (9.32%) Groovy
7 14 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.35%) Perl
8 7 (4.35%) Scala
9 6 (3.73%) C#
10 4 (2.48%) Bicep
11 3 (1.86%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (40.99%) Security Cleared
2 59 (36.65%) SC Cleared
3 40 (24.84%) AWS Certification
4 25 (15.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (8.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (7.45%) Degree
7 11 (6.83%) Azure Certification
8 7 (4.35%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.73%) CISM
9 6 (3.73%) CISSP
9 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (1.24%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.24%) PMP
13 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.73%) NIST
3 3 (1.86%) QA
4 2 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
5 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 62 (38.51%) Docker
2 11 (6.83%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.48%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.48%) Postfix
4 4 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.86%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.86%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.86%) Terminal Services
5 3 (1.86%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.24%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.24%) Dovecot
6 2 (1.24%) Squid
7 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 47 (29.19%) Kubernetes
2 33 (20.50%) Grafana
3 29 (18.01%) Prometheus
4 17 (10.56%) Ansible
5 9 (5.59%) Kibana
6 6 (3.73%) Istio
6 6 (3.73%) Puppet
7 4 (2.48%) Argo
7 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.86%) Nagios
8 3 (1.86%) Rancher
8 3 (1.86%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.86%) vMotion
9 2 (1.24%) Nessus
9 2 (1.24%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.18%) ServiceNow
3 11 (6.83%) Oracle
4 7 (4.35%) Databricks
4 7 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.73%) Google
5 6 (3.73%) Informatica
6 5 (3.11%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.11%) Citrix
7 4 (2.48%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.48%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.48%) Talend
7 4 (2.48%) VMware
8 3 (1.86%) Brio
8 3 (1.86%) HP
8 3 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.86%) Splunk
8 3 (1.86%) Symantec
9 2 (1.24%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.24%) WSO2