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

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	297	264	265
Rank change year-on-year	-33	+1	+15
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS	163	97	117
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.80%	0.73%	0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	4.56%	3.49%	3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted	123	52	79
10^th Percentile	£418	£400	£438
25^th Percentile	£463	£463	£509
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£516	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+6.54%	-6.14%	-5.38%
75^th Percentile	£731	£608	£650
90^th Percentile	£775	£653	£758
England median daily rate	£537	£500	£545
% change year-on-year	+7.45%	-8.26%	-5.22%
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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills	3,578	2,781	3,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	17.57%	20.92%	22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted	2,463	1,928	2,524
10^th Percentile	£363	£375	£363
25^th Percentile	£430	£431	£456
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£537	£550	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-2.36%	-4.35%	-
75^th Percentile	£650	£675	£700
90^th Percentile	£738	£802	£850
England median daily rate	£510	£510	£550
% change year-on-year	-	-7.27%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	33	39	22
10^th Percentile	£20.10	£18.25	£27.81
25^th Percentile	£25.25	£31.29	£36.25
Median hourly rate	£36.25	£52.50	£43.75
Median % change year-on-year	-30.95%	+20.00%	-12.06%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£68.38	£62.21
90^th Percentile	£67.50	£87.50	£78.75
England median hourly rate	£40.25	£42.00	£34.47
% change year-on-year	-4.16%	+21.85%	-33.44%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 19 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.

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 19 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	-6	19	£536	-2.28%	2
West London	-	19	£725	-	1
Central London	-12	18	£688	+83.33%	12
Amazon RDS England

Amazon RDS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Amazon RDS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for Amazon RDS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	96.3%	157
2	Amazon S3	65.0%	106
3	CI/CD	63.8%	104
4	Terraform	54.0%	88
5	AWS Lambda	52.1%	85
5	DevOps	52.1%	85
5	Infrastructure as Code	52.1%	85
5	Serverless	52.1%	85
9	Python	50.3%	82
10	Amazon EC2	41.7%	68
11	Agile	40.5%	66
11	Security Cleared	40.5%	66
13	Docker	38.0%	62
14	Amazon CloudWatch	36.2%	59
14	SC Cleared	36.2%	59
16	PostgreSQL	33.1%	54
17	Amazon EKS	31.3%	51
17	SQL	31.3%	51
19	Amazon ECS	29.4%	48
20	Kubernetes	28.8%	47
20	Virtual Private Cloud	28.8%	47
22	Observability	25.8%	42
23	Amazon Aurora	25.2%	41
23	Stakeholder Management	25.2%	41
25	AWS Certification	24.5%	40
25	Containerisation	24.5%	40
25	Performance Tuning	24.5%	40
28	Azure	23.9%	39
28	Data Modelling	23.9%	39
28	Jenkins	23.9%	39

Amazon RDS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	PostgreSQL	33.1%	54
2	Amazon Aurora	25.2%	41
3	DynamoDB	21.5%	35
4	SQL Server	12.3%	20
5	MongoDB	11.7%	19
6	Amazon Athena	8.6%	14
6	MySQL	8.6%	14
8	Redis	7.4%	12
9	SQL Server Integration Services	6.7%	11
10	Amazon Redshift	6.1%	10
10	Elasticsearch	6.1%	10
12	Big Data	4.9%	8
12	Data Warehouse	4.9%	8
14	Metadata	4.3%	7
15	NoSQL	3.1%	5
15	Relational Database	3.1%	5
17	BigQuery	2.5%	4
17	Power BI	2.5%	4
19	Data Lake	1.8%	3
19	Pinecone	1.8%	3