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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 217 254
Rank change year-on-year -67 +37 -22
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 121 135 138
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 1.08% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.69% 4.82% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 105 99
10th Percentile £362 £421 £396
25th Percentile £446 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £583 £653 £625
90th Percentile £681 £788 £725
England median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
England median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 3,280 2,799 3,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.50% 22.31% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,247 1,980 2,833
10th Percentile £361 £375 £378
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -1.69% -2.17%
75th Percentile £634 £713 £700
90th Percentile £749 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 37
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.14 £28.03 £25.79
Median hourly rate £50.00 £39.31 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.21% -21.39% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62.63 £56.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.50 £64.73
England median hourly rate £47.54 £32.05 £40.13
% change year-on-year +48.33% -20.12% -30.87%

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 May 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 1 May 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 +6 25 £463 -2.63% 1
Central London -16 11 £550 -4.35% 4
West London - 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 9 (7.44%) Confluence
2 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.65%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 120 (99.17%) AWS
2 89 (73.55%) Amazon S3
3 71 (58.68%) AWS Lambda
4 68 (56.20%) Serverless
5 61 (50.41%) Amazon EC2
6 48 (39.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 41 (33.88%) Amazon ECS
7 41 (33.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 39 (32.23%) Amazon EKS
9 32 (26.45%) GitHub
10 29 (23.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (17.36%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (11.57%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (11.57%) Route 53
13 12 (9.92%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (9.92%) Azure
14 11 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
14 11 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
14 11 (9.09%) AWS KMS
15 10 (8.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.13%) DNS
2 4 (3.31%) Firewall
3 3 (2.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.83%) Network Security
4 1 (0.83%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.83%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (28.93%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.53%) DynamoDB
3 19 (15.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (9.92%) NoSQL
5 11 (9.09%) MySQL
6 10 (8.26%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (8.26%) Power BI
6 10 (8.26%) SQL Server
7 9 (7.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.61%) Tableau
9 7 (5.79%) Redis
10 6 (4.96%) MongoDB
11 5 (4.13%) DocumentDB
12 4 (3.31%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (3.31%) Big Data
12 4 (3.31%) DB2
12 4 (3.31%) Hadoop
12 4 (3.31%) Oracle Database
12 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (29.75%) Jenkins
2 26 (21.49%) Git
3 18 (14.88%) GitLab
4 13 (10.74%) JIRA
5 10 (8.26%) JUnit
6 6 (4.96%) Mockito
7 5 (4.13%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.13%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.13%) git-flow
7 5 (4.13%) Snyk
8 4 (3.31%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.48%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (2.48%) DbUnit
9 3 (2.48%) jMock
9 3 (2.48%) Maven
9 3 (2.48%) Postman
10 2 (1.65%) Storybook
11 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Public Sector
3 23 (19.01%) Finance
4 16 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.44%) Banking
6 7 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Front Office
8 2 (1.65%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (18.18%) Developer
2 19 (15.70%) Senior
3 18 (14.88%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (11.57%) Architect
4 14 (11.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.09%) Analyst
6 10 (8.26%) AWS Developer
7 9 (7.44%) AWS Architect
7 9 (7.44%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (5.79%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Lead
10 6 (4.96%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.96%) Java Architect
10 6 (4.96%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Site Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Technical Delivery Manager
11 5 (4.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.66%) Kafka
2 20 (16.53%) Node.js
2 20 (16.53%) React
2 20 (16.53%) RESTful
3 19 (15.70%) Spring
3 19 (15.70%) Spring Boot
4 9 (7.44%) CSS
4 9 (7.44%) REST
5 8 (6.61%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.79%) Hibernate
6 7 (5.79%) JPA
6 7 (5.79%) SOAP
6 7 (5.79%) Spring Cloud
7 6 (4.96%) FastAPI
7 6 (4.96%) JSON
7 6 (4.96%) Next.js
7 6 (4.96%) OAuth
7 6 (4.96%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (4.13%) Jest
8 5 (4.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.97%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.22%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.96%) Replication
5 4 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.31%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.65%) Clustering
7 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.65%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.83%) Derivative
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Equities
8 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.83%) NHS
8 1 (0.83%) PKI
8 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.31%) Linux
2 5 (4.13%) Unix
3 3 (2.48%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.65%) Windows
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (58.68%) CI/CD
2 59 (48.76%) Agile
3 47 (38.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (38.02%) DevOps
5 38 (31.40%) Containerisation
6 30 (24.79%) Microservices
7 23 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (14.88%) Scrum
10 17 (14.05%) Data Modelling
10 17 (14.05%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (13.22%) ETL
11 16 (13.22%) Software Engineering
12 15 (12.40%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (12.40%) Design Patterns
12 15 (12.40%) Observability
13 14 (11.57%) Event-Driven
13 14 (11.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (11.57%) Migration
13 14 (11.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (41.32%) Python
2 43 (35.54%) Java
3 41 (33.88%) SQL
4 16 (13.22%) Bash
5 14 (11.57%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.13%) C#
7 5 (4.13%) Scala
7 5 (4.13%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.31%) Groovy
8 4 (3.31%) Perl
9 3 (2.48%) Go
9 3 (2.48%) JSX
9 3 (2.48%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.48%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (40.50%) Security Cleared
2 41 (33.88%) SC Cleared
3 21 (17.36%) AWS Certification
4 10 (8.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.96%) Degree
6 5 (4.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.83%) CEH
9 1 (0.83%) CISSP
9 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.83%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) Data Quality
1 8 (6.61%) NIST
2 7 (5.79%) PMO
3 6 (4.96%) QA
4 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.31%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (45.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Postfix
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.83%) HDFS
3 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.83%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (48.76%) Terraform
2 35 (28.93%) Kubernetes
3 18 (14.88%) Grafana
4 9 (7.44%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.61%) Ansible
6 6 (4.96%) Puppet
7 3 (2.48%) Argo
7 3 (2.48%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (2.48%) Kibana
8 2 (1.65%) Istio
9 1 (0.83%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.83%) Rancher
9 1 (0.83%) Sysdig
9 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.83%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (7.44%) Oracle
1 9 (7.44%) ServiceNow
2 7 (5.79%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.96%) PagerDuty
4 5 (4.13%) Sybase
5 4 (3.31%) Databricks
5 4 (3.31%) Qualys
5 4 (3.31%) Splunk
5 4 (3.31%) Tenable
6 3 (2.48%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.48%) AVEVA
6 3 (2.48%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.65%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.65%) Netlify
8 1 (0.83%) Confluent
8 1 (0.83%) Percona
8 1 (0.83%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.83%) Talend
8 1 (0.83%) Virgin Media