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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 245 279
Rank change year-on-year -63 +34 -3
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 150 125 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.93% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.06% 4.40% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 79 75
10th Percentile £413 £419 £414
25th Percentile £455 £488 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -10.00%
75th Percentile £725 £613 £653
90th Percentile £788 £653 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £539
% change year-on-year - -2.60% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 3,698 2,840 3,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.19% 21.19% 22.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,513 1,967 2,666
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £437 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -0.20% -8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 22
10th Percentile £18.48 £28.26 £24.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +3.96% -8.18%
75th Percentile £54.69 £69.75 £62.52
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.88
England median hourly rate £38.38 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.62% +19.99% -36.36%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -1 22 £535 -2.46% 5
Central London -12 18 £700 +16.67% 7
West London - 13 £750 - 5
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 13 (8.67%) Confluence
2 12 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.00%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.33%) Camunda
6 2 (1.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.67%) SAS
7 1 (0.67%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.67%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.67%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 147 (98.00%) AWS
2 105 (70.00%) Amazon S3
3 84 (56.00%) AWS Lambda
4 81 (54.00%) Serverless
5 61 (40.67%) Amazon EC2
6 56 (37.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 44 (29.33%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (28.00%) Amazon EKS
9 41 (27.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 33 (22.00%) Azure
11 24 (16.00%) GitHub
12 22 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (14.67%) AWS KMS
13 17 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (9.33%) GCP
15 12 (8.00%) Amazon EventBridge
15 12 (8.00%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (8.00%) Snowflake
16 11 (7.33%) Amazon SQS
17 10 (6.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.00%) Firewall
2 8 (5.33%) DNS
3 6 (4.00%) SMTP
4 5 (3.33%) DHCP
5 4 (2.67%) VPN
6 3 (2.00%) Network Security
7 2 (1.33%) FTP
7 2 (1.33%) HTTP
7 2 (1.33%) IMAP
7 2 (1.33%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.33%) SSH
8 1 (0.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (31.33%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (24.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 31 (20.67%) DynamoDB
4 19 (12.67%) MongoDB
5 15 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 13 (8.67%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (7.33%) Big Data
7 11 (7.33%) MySQL
7 11 (7.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (6.67%) Redis
9 9 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (4.67%) NoSQL
11 6 (4.00%) Metadata
12 5 (3.33%) Power BI
13 3 (2.00%) BigQuery
13 3 (2.00%) Data Lake
13 3 (2.00%) Presto
13 3 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.00%) Git
3 23 (15.33%) GitLab
4 18 (12.00%) JIRA
5 10 (6.67%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (4.67%) JUnit
7 7 (4.67%) Mockito
8 5 (3.33%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.67%) Maven
9 4 (2.67%) Postman
10 3 (2.00%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.33%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (1.33%) DbUnit
11 2 (1.33%) Gradle
11 2 (1.33%) jMock
11 2 (1.33%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 53 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 29 (19.33%) Finance
4 20 (13.33%) Banking
5 17 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.67%) Back Office
6 7 (4.67%) Front Office
7 5 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.00%) Billing
8 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.33%) Law
9 2 (1.33%) Local Government
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.67%) Marketing
10 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (20.67%) AWS Engineer
2 24 (16.00%) Data Engineer
3 23 (15.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (15.33%) Senior
4 20 (13.33%) Developer
4 20 (13.33%) Lead
5 19 (12.67%) DBA
6 16 (10.67%) Architect
7 14 (9.33%) AWS DevOps
7 14 (9.33%) Technical Leader
8 12 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) Administrator
10 10 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) AWS Architect
12 7 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Java Developer
13 6 (4.00%) Consultant
13 6 (4.00%) Python Developer
13 6 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (47.33%) Terraform
2 26 (17.33%) React
3 18 (12.00%) REST
4 16 (10.67%) FastAPI
5 15 (10.00%) Node.js
6 14 (9.33%) Spring
6 14 (9.33%) Spring Boot
7 12 (8.00%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.33%) Kafka
8 11 (7.33%) RESTful
9 8 (5.33%) JSON
10 6 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.33%) GraphQL
11 5 (3.33%) Langfuse
11 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (3.33%) SOAP
12 4 (2.67%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.67%) OpenAPI
12 4 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.00%) Cloud Native
2 22 (14.67%) Replication
3 14 (9.33%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.33%) Virtual Team
6 7 (4.67%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (4.00%) PKI
8 5 (3.33%) Clustering
8 5 (3.33%) Fixed Income
8 5 (3.33%) Reinsurance
9 4 (2.67%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.67%) NHS
10 3 (2.00%) AI Agents
10 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (2.00%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.67%) Linux
2 9 (6.00%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (5.33%) Windows
4 7 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.00%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.67%) Unix
7 3 (2.00%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.67%) VMS
8 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (60.67%) CI/CD
2 70 (46.67%) DevOps
3 67 (44.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (42.00%) Agile
5 38 (25.33%) Data Modelling
6 34 (22.67%) Performance Tuning
7 33 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (19.33%) Containerisation
10 28 (18.67%) Event-Driven
10 28 (18.67%) Microservices
11 27 (18.00%) Observability
11 27 (18.00%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (16.00%) Data Integration
13 23 (15.33%) Disaster Recovery
13 23 (15.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 22 (14.67%) Root Cause Analysis
15 21 (14.00%) Data Engineering
15 21 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (14.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 72 (48.00%) Python
2 48 (32.00%) SQL
3 43 (28.67%) Java
4 17 (11.33%) PowerShell
4 17 (11.33%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.33%) Bash
6 11 (7.33%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.67%) Groovy
8 7 (4.67%) Perl
8 7 (4.67%) Scala
9 4 (2.67%) C#
10 2 (1.33%) Bicep
10 2 (1.33%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (42.00%) Security Cleared
2 54 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 37 (24.67%) AWS Certification
4 22 (14.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (9.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (8.00%) Degree
7 11 (7.33%) Azure Certification
8 9 (6.00%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.00%) CISM
9 6 (4.00%) CISSP
10 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (1.33%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.33%) PMP
13 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.00%) NIST
3 3 (2.00%) PMO
3 3 (2.00%) QA
4 1 (0.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (34.00%) Docker
2 9 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.67%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.67%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.67%) Postfix
4 4 (2.67%) Terminal Services
4 4 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.33%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.33%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.33%) Squid
5 2 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 45 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 27 (18.00%) Grafana
3 24 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 14 (9.33%) Ansible
5 7 (4.67%) Istio
6 6 (4.00%) Argo
6 6 (4.00%) Kibana
7 4 (2.67%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.67%) vMotion
8 3 (2.00%) Nagios
8 3 (2.00%) Puppet
9 2 (1.33%) Nessus
9 2 (1.33%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.67%) Rancher
10 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.33%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.00%) Oracle
4 8 (5.33%) Databricks
5 7 (4.67%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.00%) Google
7 5 (3.33%) Amplitude
7 5 (3.33%) Citrix
7 5 (3.33%) Informatica
7 5 (3.33%) VMware
8 4 (2.67%) HP
8 4 (2.67%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (2.67%) Symantec
8 4 (2.67%) Talend
9 3 (2.00%) Brio
9 3 (2.00%) Splunk
10 2 (1.33%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.33%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.33%) GoldenSource
10 2 (1.33%) Red Hat