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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 230 273
Rank change year-on-year -52 +43 -21
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 140 122 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 0.97% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.10% 4.44% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 92 90
10th Percentile £354 £413 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £729 £653 £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
England median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -6.88% - -

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 3,414 2,745 4,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.85% 21.74% 22.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,315 1,926 3,003
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £449 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £719
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 33
10th Percentile £18.19 £24.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £39.31 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.22% -17.25% -13.64%
75th Percentile £60.88 £61.19 £54.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.75 £71.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £33.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.20% -16.26% -30.43%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 £463 -15.68%
Central London -9 16 £600 +3.90% 2
West London - 9 £775 - 3
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 (8.57%) Confluence
2 6 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.14%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.71%) Apache
6 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 138 (98.57%) AWS
2 99 (70.71%) Amazon S3
3 81 (57.86%) AWS Lambda
4 78 (55.71%) Serverless
5 63 (45.00%) Amazon EC2
6 51 (36.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 45 (32.14%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 39 (27.86%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (22.14%) GitHub
11 22 (15.71%) Amazon SQS
12 21 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (15.00%) Azure
13 18 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (10.71%) Route 53
15 12 (8.57%) AWS KMS
16 11 (7.86%) Power Platform
17 10 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
17 10 (7.14%) CloudFront
18 9 (6.43%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.43%) DNS
2 7 (5.00%) Firewall
3 5 (3.57%) DHCP
4 4 (2.86%) SMTP
4 4 (2.86%) VPN
5 3 (2.14%) Network Security
6 1 (0.71%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (23.57%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (22.14%) DynamoDB
3 21 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 11 (7.86%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (7.86%) Big Data
5 11 (7.86%) Power BI
6 10 (7.14%) MySQL
7 8 (5.71%) Tableau
8 7 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (5.00%) MongoDB
9 6 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.29%) Redis
9 6 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.86%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (2.86%) Db2
10 4 (2.86%) DocumentDB
10 4 (2.86%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.86%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 38 (27.14%) Jenkins
2 28 (20.00%) Git
3 21 (15.00%) GitLab
4 18 (12.86%) JIRA
5 13 (9.29%) JUnit
6 9 (6.43%) Mockito
7 7 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (5.00%) Cucumber
8 6 (4.29%) Postman
9 5 (3.57%) git-flow
9 5 (3.57%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.86%) DbUnit
10 4 (2.86%) jMock
10 4 (2.86%) Maven
10 4 (2.86%) Snyk
11 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.43%) Storybook
12 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
General
1 39 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.71%) Finance
3 27 (19.29%) Public Sector
4 18 (12.86%) Banking
5 16 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Front Office
8 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.43%) Law
8 2 (1.43%) Local Government
9 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (17.86%) Developer
2 19 (13.57%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (13.57%) Senior
3 17 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (11.43%) Lead
5 15 (10.71%) Architect
5 15 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) AWS Architect
7 10 (7.14%) Analyst
7 10 (7.14%) Java Developer
8 8 (5.71%) AWS Developer
8 8 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (5.71%) DBA
8 8 (5.71%) Technical Leader
9 7 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Python Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.14%) React
2 22 (15.71%) Spring
2 22 (15.71%) Spring Boot
3 21 (15.00%) Kafka
3 21 (15.00%) REST
4 19 (13.57%) RESTful
5 18 (12.86%) Node.js
6 14 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 13 (9.29%) FastAPI
8 9 (6.43%) SOAP
9 8 (5.71%) Hibernate
9 8 (5.71%) JPA
9 8 (5.71%) JSON
9 8 (5.71%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (5.00%) Gherkin
10 7 (5.00%) Next.js
10 7 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (4.29%) OAuth
12 5 (3.57%) CSS
12 5 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.57%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.57%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.14%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.57%) Replication
6 4 (2.86%) Clustering
6 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.86%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.86%) NHS
6 4 (2.86%) PKI
7 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.43%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.71%) Derivative
9 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.14%) Linux
2 6 (4.29%) Windows
3 5 (3.57%) Unix
3 5 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 71 (50.71%) Agile
3 59 (42.14%) DevOps
4 45 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (29.29%) Microservices
6 36 (25.71%) Containerisation
7 25 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (16.43%) Performance Tuning
8 23 (16.43%) Scrum
9 20 (14.29%) Event-Driven
10 19 (13.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (13.57%) Test Automation
11 18 (12.86%) Decision-Making
11 18 (12.86%) Observability
12 16 (11.43%) Performance Optimisation
12 16 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (10.71%) Data Modelling
13 15 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 55 (39.29%) Python
2 51 (36.43%) Java
3 42 (30.00%) SQL
4 14 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.86%) PowerShell
7 9 (6.43%) Bash
8 7 (5.00%) C#
9 5 (3.57%) Scala
10 4 (2.86%) Groovy
10 4 (2.86%) Perl
11 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.14%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.43%) Go
13 1 (0.71%) Bicep
13 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (37.86%) Security Cleared
2 44 (31.43%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.14%) Degree
5 9 (6.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.71%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.57%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.43%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.43%) PMP
12 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.00%) PMO
3 6 (4.29%) NIST
3 6 (4.29%) QA
4 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (39.29%) Docker
2 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.86%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.86%) Terminal Services
4 4 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.14%) Postfix
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 56 (40.00%) Terraform
2 47 (33.57%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.43%) Grafana
4 14 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.14%) Ansible
6 4 (2.86%) Argo
6 4 (2.86%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.86%) vMotion
7 3 (2.14%) Istio
7 3 (2.14%) Kibana
7 3 (2.14%) Nagios
7 3 (2.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.71%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.71%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (7.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.14%) Oracle
3 9 (6.43%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.57%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.57%) Citrix
5 5 (3.57%) Sybase
5 5 (3.57%) VMware
6 4 (2.86%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.86%) Google
6 4 (2.86%) HP
6 4 (2.86%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.86%) Symantec
7 3 (2.14%) AVEVA
7 3 (2.14%) Brio
7 3 (2.14%) Databricks
7 3 (2.14%) Splunk
8 2 (1.43%) Netlify
8 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.43%) Tenable