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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 237 284
Rank change year-on-year -65 +47 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 129 127 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.93% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.70% 4.33% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 93 84
10th Percentile £378 £420 £367
25th Percentile £450 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £533
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +7.98% -11.25%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £658
90th Percentile £758 £656 £700
England median daily rate £500 £537 £528
% change year-on-year -6.89% +1.80% -12.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -10.30% - -

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 3,490 2,934 3,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.62% 21.50% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,337 2,054 2,977
10th Percentile £363 £381 £363
25th Percentile £435 £444 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -0.87%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £520 £528
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.52% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 25
10th Percentile £18.48 £25.53 £23.75
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £43.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -13.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £58.06 £62.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £73.23 £84.50 £71.80
England median hourly rate £40.25 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.41% -13.56% -27.27%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 0 20 £463 -25.64%
Central London -6 18 £625 +7.76% 4
West London - 10 £763 - 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 12 (9.30%) Confluence
2 6 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.88%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.33%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.78%) Apache
6 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 127 (98.45%) AWS
2 96 (74.42%) Amazon S3
3 80 (62.02%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (59.69%) Serverless
5 58 (44.96%) Amazon EC2
6 47 (36.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 40 (31.01%) Amazon ECS
8 35 (27.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 33 (25.58%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (18.60%) GitHub
11 21 (16.28%) Azure
12 16 (12.40%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (10.08%) AWS KMS
13 13 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (8.53%) Datadog
15 11 (8.53%) Power Platform
16 9 (6.98%) Amazon EventBridge
16 9 (6.98%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (6.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.20%) Firewall
2 5 (3.88%) DHCP
2 5 (3.88%) DNS
3 4 (3.10%) SMTP
3 4 (3.10%) VPN
4 3 (2.33%) Network Security
5 1 (0.78%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (24.03%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (23.26%) DynamoDB
3 19 (14.73%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (10.08%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (8.53%) Big Data
5 11 (8.53%) Power BI
6 8 (6.20%) Tableau
7 6 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (4.65%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.88%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.10%) Apache Hudi
10 3 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.33%) Db2
10 3 (2.33%) MySQL
10 3 (2.33%) Presto
10 3 (2.33%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.55%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 27 (20.93%) Git
3 19 (14.73%) GitLab
3 19 (14.73%) JIRA
4 11 (8.53%) JUnit
5 9 (6.98%) Mockito
6 7 (5.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (4.65%) Postman
8 5 (3.88%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.88%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.88%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (3.10%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.10%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (3.10%) DbUnit
9 4 (3.10%) jMock
9 4 (3.10%) Maven
10 3 (2.33%) git-flow
11 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.78%) Selenium
11 1 (0.78%) Snyk
General
1 37 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.03%) Finance
3 26 (20.16%) Public Sector
4 19 (14.73%) Banking
5 15 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.10%) Front Office
8 3 (2.33%) Back Office
8 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.55%) Law
9 2 (1.55%) Local Government
10 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (15.50%) AWS Engineer
1 20 (15.50%) Developer
2 19 (14.73%) Lead
3 17 (13.18%) Data Engineer
3 17 (13.18%) Senior
4 15 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (8.53%) Architect
5 11 (8.53%) Technical Leader
6 10 (7.75%) Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) AWS Architect
7 8 (6.20%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.20%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) AWS Developer
9 6 (4.65%) DBA
9 6 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (4.65%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.65%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.16%) React
2 18 (13.95%) Node.js
3 17 (13.18%) REST
4 16 (12.40%) Spring
4 16 (12.40%) Spring Boot
5 14 (10.85%) Kafka
6 13 (10.08%) AngularJS
6 13 (10.08%) FastAPI
6 13 (10.08%) RESTful
7 9 (6.98%) SOAP
8 8 (6.20%) JSON
9 6 (4.65%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (3.88%) Gherkin
10 5 (3.88%) Langfuse
10 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (3.88%) WireMock
10 5 (3.88%) YAML
11 4 (3.10%) Bootstrap
11 4 (3.10%) Next.js
11 4 (3.10%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 34 (26.36%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.20%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.65%) Replication
5 6 (4.65%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.88%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (3.88%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.10%) Clustering
7 4 (3.10%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.10%) NHS
7 4 (3.10%) PKI
8 2 (1.55%) Derivative
8 2 (1.55%) Equities
8 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.48%) Linux
2 6 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (4.65%) Windows
3 5 (3.88%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (3.88%) Unix
3 5 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (52.71%) Agile
1 68 (52.71%) CI/CD
2 51 (39.53%) DevOps
3 39 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (23.26%) Microservices
5 28 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (20.93%) Containerisation
7 21 (16.28%) Technical Leadership
8 20 (15.50%) Data Modelling
8 20 (15.50%) Test Automation
9 19 (14.73%) Event-Driven
10 18 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (13.95%) Scrum
11 17 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (13.18%) Decision-Making
11 17 (13.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 16 (12.40%) AI
12 16 (12.40%) Cloud Security
12 16 (12.40%) ETL
12 16 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.74%) Python
2 42 (32.56%) Java
3 37 (28.68%) SQL
4 15 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.85%) JavaScript
5 14 (10.85%) PowerShell
6 12 (9.30%) Bash
7 6 (4.65%) C#
8 5 (3.88%) Groovy
8 5 (3.88%) Perl
9 4 (3.10%) Scala
10 3 (2.33%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.78%) Bicep
11 1 (0.78%) Go
11 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (40.31%) Security Cleared
2 44 (34.11%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.73%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.75%) Degree
5 7 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.43%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.65%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.55%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.55%) PMP
10 1 (0.78%) CISM
10 1 (0.78%) CISSP
10 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.43%) PMO
3 2 (1.55%) NIST
3 2 (1.55%) QA
3 2 (1.55%) SLA
4 1 (0.78%) Solvency II
System Software
1 43 (33.33%) Docker
2 7 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.88%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.10%) BitLocker
4 4 (3.10%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (3.10%) Terminal Services
4 4 (3.10%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.33%) Postfix
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 49 (37.98%) Terraform
2 39 (30.23%) Kubernetes
3 17 (13.18%) Grafana
4 14 (10.85%) Ansible
5 12 (9.30%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.10%) Argo
6 4 (3.10%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.10%) vMotion
7 3 (2.33%) Istio
7 3 (2.33%) Kibana
7 3 (2.33%) Nagios
7 3 (2.33%) Puppet
8 1 (0.78%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.78%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 14 (10.85%) ServiceNow
2 11 (8.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.43%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.65%) Oracle
5 5 (3.88%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.88%) Citrix
5 5 (3.88%) VMware
6 4 (3.10%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.10%) Google
6 4 (3.10%) HP
6 4 (3.10%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (3.10%) Symantec
7 3 (2.33%) Brio
7 3 (2.33%) Databricks
7 3 (2.33%) Splunk
7 3 (2.33%) Sybase
8 2 (1.55%) Charles River
8 2 (1.55%) Murex
8 2 (1.55%) Netlify
8 2 (1.55%) Red Hat