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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 274 282
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 164 97 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 0.72% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.57% 3.45% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 52 75
10th Percentile £418 £400 £438
25th Percentile £463 £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -6.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £731 £600 £645
90th Percentile £775 £652 £723
England median daily rate £536 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +7.20% -7.41% -6.09%
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 3,585 2,810 3,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.49% 20.99% 22.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,464 1,950 2,554
10th Percentile £363 £377 £363
25th Percentile £430 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
England median daily rate £513 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +0.49% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 38 22
10th Percentile £19.48 £22.63 £27.81
25th Percentile £23.86 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +22.86% -12.94%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £62.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £87.50 £78.75
England median hourly rate £41.36 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.52% +19.99% -33.33%

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 16 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 16 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 - 19 £725 -
Central London -9 18 £688 +83.33% 13
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 14 (8.54%) Confluence
2 9 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.66%) nginx
4 5 (3.05%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.83%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.22%) Camunda
6 2 (1.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.61%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (0.61%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 158 (96.34%) AWS
2 107 (65.24%) Amazon S3
3 85 (51.83%) AWS Lambda
3 85 (51.83%) Serverless
4 69 (42.07%) Amazon EC2
5 60 (36.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 51 (31.10%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (29.27%) Amazon ECS
8 47 (28.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 40 (24.39%) Azure
10 29 (17.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (14.63%) AWS KMS
11 24 (14.63%) GitHub
12 18 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (9.76%) GCP
14 14 (8.54%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (7.93%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (6.71%) Route 53
17 11 (6.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.93%) Firewall
2 9 (5.49%) DNS
3 8 (4.88%) VPN
4 6 (3.66%) Network Security
5 5 (3.05%) SMTP
6 4 (2.44%) DHCP
7 3 (1.83%) OpenVPN
7 3 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.22%) FTP
8 2 (1.22%) HTTP
8 2 (1.22%) IMAP
8 2 (1.22%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (1.22%) SSH
8 2 (1.22%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (33.54%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (25.61%) Amazon Aurora
3 36 (21.95%) DynamoDB
4 20 (12.20%) SQL Server
5 19 (11.59%) MongoDB
6 14 (8.54%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (8.54%) MySQL
7 12 (7.32%) Redis
8 11 (6.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (6.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (4.88%) Big Data
10 8 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (4.27%) Metadata
12 5 (3.05%) NoSQL
12 5 (3.05%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.44%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.44%) Power BI
14 3 (1.83%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.83%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (24.39%) Jenkins
2 36 (21.95%) Git
3 28 (17.07%) GitLab
4 19 (11.59%) JIRA
5 12 (7.32%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (4.27%) JUnit
7 7 (4.27%) Mockito
8 6 (3.66%) Maven
9 5 (3.05%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.05%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.44%) Gradle
10 4 (2.44%) Postman
11 3 (1.83%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.22%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (1.22%) DbUnit
12 2 (1.22%) jMock
12 2 (1.22%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 59 (35.98%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.73%) Finance
3 32 (19.51%) Public Sector
4 20 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (11.59%) Banking
6 10 (6.10%) Back Office
7 8 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.27%) Front Office
9 5 (3.05%) Law
10 3 (1.83%) Billing
10 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.83%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.22%) Local Government
11 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.22%) Police
11 2 (1.22%) Retail
12 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Marketing
12 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (18.90%) AWS Engineer
1 31 (18.90%) Senior
2 27 (16.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (15.24%) DBA
4 22 (13.41%) Data Engineer
5 20 (12.20%) Lead
6 19 (11.59%) Architect
6 19 (11.59%) Developer
7 17 (10.37%) Technical Leader
8 16 (9.76%) Administrator
9 15 (9.15%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (7.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.32%) AWS Architect
12 11 (6.71%) AWS Data Engineer
13 10 (6.10%) Java Developer
14 9 (5.49%) Consultant
14 9 (5.49%) Senior DBA
15 8 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
16 7 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 7 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (53.66%) Terraform
2 25 (15.24%) REST
3 22 (13.41%) React
4 18 (10.98%) FastAPI
5 16 (9.76%) Spring
5 16 (9.76%) Spring Boot
6 13 (7.93%) Kafka
7 11 (6.71%) AngularJS
8 9 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (4.88%) ActiveMQ
9 8 (4.88%) RESTful
10 7 (4.27%) .NET
10 7 (4.27%) JSON
11 6 (3.66%) GraphQL
11 6 (3.66%) Hibernate
11 6 (3.66%) JPA
11 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (3.05%) Node.js
12 5 (3.05%) Swagger
12 5 (3.05%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (29.27%) Cloud Native
2 29 (17.68%) Replication
3 12 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.71%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.49%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.27%) PKI
6 7 (4.27%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.66%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (3.05%) Reinsurance
9 4 (2.44%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.44%) Clustering
9 4 (2.44%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.44%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.44%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.83%) NHS
10 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (20.12%) Linux
2 14 (8.54%) Windows
3 9 (5.49%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.05%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.44%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.61%) Unix
6 1 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (64.02%) CI/CD
2 86 (52.44%) DevOps
3 85 (51.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (40.85%) Agile
5 42 (25.61%) Observability
5 42 (25.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 41 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 41 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 39 (23.78%) Data Modelling
8 35 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (21.34%) Microservices
9 34 (20.73%) Disaster Recovery
10 33 (20.12%) Technical Leadership
11 32 (19.51%) Event-Driven
11 32 (19.51%) Root Cause Analysis
12 29 (17.68%) Migration
13 28 (17.07%) AI
13 28 (17.07%) Data Integration
14 27 (16.46%) Data Engineering
15 26 (15.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 82 (50.00%) Python
2 52 (31.71%) SQL
3 36 (21.95%) Java
4 23 (14.02%) PowerShell
5 21 (12.80%) TypeScript
6 19 (11.59%) Bash
7 15 (9.15%) Groovy
8 11 (6.71%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.27%) Perl
10 6 (3.66%) C#
11 4 (2.44%) Bicep
11 4 (2.44%) Scala
12 3 (1.83%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (40.85%) Security Cleared
2 60 (36.59%) SC Cleared
3 41 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 25 (15.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.93%) Degree
6 11 (6.71%) Azure Certification
6 11 (6.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (4.27%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.66%) CISM
8 6 (3.66%) CISSP
8 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.83%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.83%) PMP
11 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.80%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.66%) NIST
3 3 (1.83%) QA
4 2 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 63 (38.41%) Docker
2 11 (6.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.44%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.44%) Postfix
4 4 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.83%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.83%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.83%) Terminal Services
5 3 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.22%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.22%) Dovecot
6 2 (1.22%) Squid
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 47 (28.66%) Kubernetes
2 30 (18.29%) Grafana
3 29 (17.68%) Prometheus
4 18 (10.98%) Ansible
5 6 (3.66%) Kibana
5 6 (3.66%) Puppet
6 5 (3.05%) Istio
7 4 (2.44%) Argo
7 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.83%) Nagios
8 3 (1.83%) Rancher
8 3 (1.83%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.83%) vMotion
9 2 (1.22%) Nessus
9 2 (1.22%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.98%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.10%) Oracle
4 7 (4.27%) Databricks
4 7 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.66%) Google
5 6 (3.66%) Informatica
6 5 (3.05%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.05%) Citrix
7 4 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.44%) Talend
7 4 (2.44%) VMware
8 3 (1.83%) Brio
8 3 (1.83%) HP
8 3 (1.83%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.83%) Symantec
9 2 (1.22%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.22%) GoldenSource
9 2 (1.22%) Zscaler