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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 233 252
Rank change year-on-year -45 +19 -28
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 119 121 139
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.90% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.87% 4.10% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 79 103
10th Percentile £363 £423 £400
25th Percentile £419 £478 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £581 £788 £619
90th Percentile £688 £798 £738
England median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £72.53 - -
25th Percentile £78.94 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.13 - -
90th Percentile £89.25 - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 3,078 2,951 3,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.38% 21.97% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,113 2,043 2,647
10th Percentile £361 £370 £385
25th Percentile £420 £455 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +1.35% -5.11%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £533
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.84% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 31 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £28.75 £28.84 £25.90
Median hourly rate £52.00 £41.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.30% -5.14% +4.01%
75th Percentile £75.94 £59.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £91.50 £78.75 £65.27
England median hourly rate £53.25 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.48% -4.71% -24.01%

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 27 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon RDS in London over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon RDS in London

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 27 February 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 22 £469 -2.60% 3
Central London -7 9 £520 -9.57% 6
West London - 3 - - 2
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 11 (9.24%) Confluence
2 3 (2.52%) nginx
3 1 (0.84%) Apache
3 1 (0.84%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (70.59%) Amazon S3
3 68 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
3 68 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
3 68 (57.14%) Serverless
4 49 (41.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 44 (36.97%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (36.13%) Amazon EKS
6 43 (36.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 35 (29.41%) GitHub
8 33 (27.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (21.85%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (15.97%) Amazon Kinesis
11 17 (14.29%) Route 53
12 13 (10.92%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (10.92%) Datadog
13 12 (10.08%) Amazon Cognito
14 10 (8.40%) AWS KMS
14 10 (8.40%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (8.40%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.72%) DNS
2 5 (4.20%) Firewall
3 3 (2.52%) FTP
3 3 (2.52%) HTTP
3 3 (2.52%) IMAP
3 3 (2.52%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (2.52%) SMTP
3 3 (2.52%) SSH
4 2 (1.68%) VPN
5 1 (0.84%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.81%) MySQL
3 19 (15.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (15.97%) DynamoDB
4 13 (10.92%) SQL Server
5 12 (10.08%) NoSQL
6 10 (8.40%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (8.40%) Redis
7 9 (7.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.72%) Hadoop
8 8 (6.72%) Relational Database
9 7 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (5.88%) DB2
9 7 (5.88%) Power BI
10 6 (5.04%) Tableau
11 5 (4.20%) DocumentDB
11 5 (4.20%) MongoDB
12 4 (3.36%) RDBMS
13 3 (2.52%) Oracle Database
13 3 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 39 (32.77%) Jenkins
2 34 (28.57%) Git
3 18 (15.13%) GitLab
4 14 (11.76%) JIRA
5 11 (9.24%) JUnit
6 6 (5.04%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.20%) Maven
7 5 (4.20%) Snyk
8 4 (3.36%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.36%) Mockito
9 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.52%) git-flow
9 3 (2.52%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.52%) Vagrant
10 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.68%) DbUnit
10 2 (1.68%) jMock
10 2 (1.68%) Postman
10 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.68%) Storybook
General
1 34 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.69%) Finance
3 21 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 15 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.56%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (6.72%) Banking
7 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Military
8 1 (0.84%) Front Office
8 1 (0.84%) Games
8 1 (0.84%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.84%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (21.01%) Developer
2 22 (18.49%) Senior
3 21 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (10.92%) AWS Developer
5 13 (10.92%) Software Engineer
6 11 (9.24%) Java Developer
7 10 (8.40%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (7.56%) Architect
9 8 (6.72%) Java Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.72%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (5.88%) Analyst
10 7 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) AWS Architect
11 6 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (5.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (24.37%) Kafka
2 19 (15.97%) RESTful
2 19 (15.97%) Spring
3 18 (15.13%) Spring Boot
4 14 (11.76%) React
5 13 (10.92%) Node.js
6 10 (8.40%) CSS
6 10 (8.40%) REST
7 7 (5.88%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (5.88%) FastAPI
7 7 (5.88%) Jest
7 7 (5.88%) Sass
8 6 (5.04%) Enzyme
8 6 (5.04%) Hibernate
8 6 (5.04%) JPA
8 6 (5.04%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (4.20%) OAuth
9 5 (4.20%) OpenID
9 5 (4.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.01%) Cloud Native
2 19 (15.97%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.40%) Replication
4 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.04%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.36%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.68%) Derivative
7 2 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.84%) Clustering
8 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.84%) Equities
8 1 (0.84%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.84%) NHS
8 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.01%) Linux
2 5 (4.20%) Windows
3 4 (3.36%) VMS
4 3 (2.52%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.52%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (61.34%) CI/CD
2 56 (47.06%) Agile
3 49 (41.18%) DevOps
3 49 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (34.45%) Containerisation
5 36 (30.25%) Microservices
6 26 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (17.65%) Observability
8 18 (15.13%) Software Engineering
9 17 (14.29%) Design Patterns
10 16 (13.45%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (13.45%) Secrets Management
11 15 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (12.61%) Event-Driven
11 15 (12.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (11.76%) Configuration Management
12 14 (11.76%) Fintech
12 14 (11.76%) Migration
12 14 (11.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (43.70%) Python
2 44 (36.97%) SQL
3 36 (30.25%) Java
4 23 (19.33%) Bash
5 13 (10.92%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.56%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.72%) TypeScript
8 7 (5.88%) Groovy
9 6 (5.04%) JSX
10 5 (4.20%) C#
11 4 (3.36%) Go
12 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.52%) Ruby
13 2 (1.68%) Perl
13 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.84%) Bicep
14 1 (0.84%) PHP
14 1 (0.84%) R
14 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (32.77%) Security Cleared
2 34 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 21 (17.65%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.88%) Degree
5 5 (4.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.84%) CEH
8 1 (0.84%) CISSP
8 1 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.84%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.84%) PMP
8 1 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.72%) NIST
2 5 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.20%) QA
3 4 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.36%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.36%) PMO
4 3 (2.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.84%) GxP
5 1 (0.84%) NCSC
5 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (46.22%) Docker
2 4 (3.36%) Postfix
3 3 (2.52%) DFS Replication
3 3 (2.52%) Dovecot
3 3 (2.52%) Squid
4 2 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 56 (47.06%) Terraform
2 36 (30.25%) Kubernetes
3 17 (14.29%) Grafana
4 12 (10.08%) Ansible
4 12 (10.08%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.88%) Puppet
6 3 (2.52%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (2.52%) Nessus
6 3 (2.52%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.52%) Proxmox
6 3 (2.52%) Rancher
7 2 (1.68%) Kibana
8 1 (0.84%) Argo
8 1 (0.84%) Istio
8 1 (0.84%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 12 (10.08%) ServiceNow
2 8 (6.72%) Sybase
3 7 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.88%) Oracle
4 6 (5.04%) PagerDuty
5 5 (4.20%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.20%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (3.36%) Qualys
6 4 (3.36%) Tenable
7 3 (2.52%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.52%) AVEVA
8 2 (1.68%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.68%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.68%) Databricks
9 1 (0.84%) Confluent
9 1 (0.84%) Netlify
9 1 (0.84%) Percona
9 1 (0.84%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.84%) Talend
9 1 (0.84%) Virgin Media