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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 245 270
Rank change year-on-year -68 +25 +1
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 128 135 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.99% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.60% 4.63% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 96 80
10th Percentile £413 £409 £412
25th Percentile £450 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £578 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +7.34% -10.33%
75th Percentile £656 £631 £658
90th Percentile £769 £666 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £538
% change year-on-year -6.28% -0.74% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 3,556 2,917 3,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.78% 21.42% 23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 2,052 2,845
10th Percentile £363 £381 £363
25th Percentile £437 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 23
10th Percentile £18.23 £24.55 £36.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £41.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £56.63 £63.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.75 £86.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £34.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +11.59% -8.00% -31.82%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 20 £463 -25.64% 2
Central London -6 18 £625 +7.76% 8
West London - 10 £763 - 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 (9.38%) Confluence
2 6 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.91%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.78%) Apache
6 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 126 (98.44%) AWS
2 98 (76.56%) Amazon S3
3 83 (64.84%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (62.50%) Serverless
5 60 (46.88%) Amazon EC2
6 49 (38.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 41 (32.03%) Amazon ECS
8 37 (28.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 36 (28.13%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (18.75%) GitHub
11 23 (17.97%) Azure
12 15 (11.72%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (11.72%) AWS KMS
13 14 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (8.59%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (8.59%) GCP
15 11 (8.59%) Power Platform
16 10 (7.81%) Amazon EventBridge
16 10 (7.81%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.25%) Firewall
2 5 (3.91%) DHCP
2 5 (3.91%) DNS
3 4 (3.13%) SMTP
3 4 (3.13%) VPN
4 3 (2.34%) Network Security
5 1 (0.78%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.44%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (22.66%) DynamoDB
3 18 (14.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (10.94%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (8.59%) Big Data
5 11 (8.59%) Power BI
6 8 (6.25%) Tableau
7 6 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.69%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.13%) Apache Hudi
10 3 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.34%) Db2
10 3 (2.34%) Presto
11 2 (1.56%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.56%) MySQL
11 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (22.66%) Jenkins
2 27 (21.09%) Git
3 19 (14.84%) GitLab
4 18 (14.06%) JIRA
5 10 (7.81%) JUnit
6 8 (6.25%) Mockito
7 7 (5.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (3.91%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.91%) Postman
8 5 (3.91%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.91%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (3.13%) Cucumber
9 4 (3.13%) DbUnit
9 4 (3.13%) jMock
9 4 (3.13%) Maven
10 2 (1.56%) git-flow
11 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.78%) Selenium
11 1 (0.78%) Snyk
General
1 39 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.00%) Finance
3 25 (19.53%) Public Sector
4 20 (15.63%) Banking
5 16 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.91%) Back Office
7 5 (3.91%) Front Office
8 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.56%) Law
9 2 (1.56%) Local Government
10 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (17.19%) AWS Engineer
2 21 (16.41%) Developer
3 19 (14.84%) Data Engineer
4 18 (14.06%) Lead
5 16 (12.50%) Senior
6 14 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.59%) Architect
7 11 (8.59%) Technical Leader
8 10 (7.81%) Analyst
9 9 (7.03%) Java Developer
10 8 (6.25%) AWS Architect
10 8 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) AWS Developer
11 7 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (4.69%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (4.69%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.53%) React
2 18 (14.06%) REST
3 17 (13.28%) Node.js
4 15 (11.72%) Spring
4 15 (11.72%) Spring Boot
5 14 (10.94%) AngularJS
6 13 (10.16%) FastAPI
6 13 (10.16%) RESTful
7 12 (9.38%) Kafka
8 8 (6.25%) JSON
8 8 (6.25%) SOAP
9 7 (5.47%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (3.91%) Langfuse
10 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (3.13%) Bootstrap
11 4 (3.13%) Hibernate
11 4 (3.13%) Next.js
11 4 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
11 4 (3.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 37 (28.91%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 7 (5.47%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.69%) Cloud Security Posture
5 6 (4.69%) Replication
6 5 (3.91%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.91%) PKI
7 4 (3.13%) Clustering
7 4 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.13%) NHS
8 2 (1.56%) Derivative
8 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.56%) Equities
8 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.31%) Linux
2 6 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.91%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (3.91%) Unix
3 5 (3.91%) Windows
3 5 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (54.69%) CI/CD
2 66 (51.56%) Agile
3 50 (39.06%) DevOps
4 40 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (22.66%) Microservices
6 27 (21.09%) Containerisation
7 22 (17.19%) Data Modelling
8 20 (15.63%) Event-Driven
9 19 (14.84%) Data Pipeline
9 19 (14.84%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (14.84%) Test Automation
10 18 (14.06%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (13.28%) Cloud Security
11 17 (13.28%) Data Engineering
11 17 (13.28%) Decision-Making
11 17 (13.28%) ETL
11 17 (13.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 17 (13.28%) Scrum
12 16 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 63 (49.22%) Python
2 41 (32.03%) Java
3 38 (29.69%) SQL
4 15 (11.72%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.94%) Bash
5 14 (10.94%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.16%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.91%) C#
7 5 (3.91%) Groovy
7 5 (3.91%) Perl
8 4 (3.13%) Scala
9 2 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) Go
10 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (41.41%) Security Cleared
2 44 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.41%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.81%) Degree
5 9 (7.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (5.47%) DV Cleared
8 6 (4.69%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.56%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.56%) PMP
12 1 (0.78%) CISM
12 1 (0.78%) CISSP
12 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.47%) PMO
3 2 (1.56%) NIST
3 2 (1.56%) QA
3 2 (1.56%) SLA
4 1 (0.78%) Solvency II
System Software
1 43 (33.59%) Docker
2 7 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.91%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.13%) BitLocker
4 4 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (3.13%) Terminal Services
4 4 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.34%) Postfix
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 49 (38.28%) Terraform
2 42 (32.81%) Kubernetes
3 18 (14.06%) Grafana
4 14 (10.94%) Prometheus
5 13 (10.16%) Ansible
6 6 (4.69%) Argo
7 5 (3.91%) Istio
8 4 (3.13%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.13%) vMotion
9 3 (2.34%) Kibana
9 3 (2.34%) Nagios
9 3 (2.34%) Puppet
10 1 (0.78%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 14 (10.94%) ServiceNow
2 10 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.47%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.69%) Oracle
5 5 (3.91%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.91%) Citrix
5 5 (3.91%) VMware
6 4 (3.13%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.13%) Google
6 4 (3.13%) HP
6 4 (3.13%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (3.13%) Symantec
7 3 (2.34%) Brio
7 3 (2.34%) Databricks
7 3 (2.34%) Splunk
8 2 (1.56%) Charles River
8 2 (1.56%) Murex
8 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.56%) Sybase
9 1 (0.78%) Informatica