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 citing Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 9 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	297	276	242
Rank change year-on-year	-21	-34	+29
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS	170	103	135
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.84%	0.74%	0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	4.74%	3.57%	4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	132	55	87
10^th Percentile	£413	£386	£428
25^th Percentile	£477	£456	£503
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£513	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+7.32%	-6.82%	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£728	£606	£700
90^th Percentile	£775	£675	£788
England median daily rate	£538	£500	£550
% change year-on-year	+7.60%	-9.09%	-4.35%
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 citing database or business intelligence skills in London.

	6 months to 9 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills	3,586	2,889	3,378
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	17.72%	20.88%	21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted	2,471	2,008	2,376
10^th Percentile	£363	£366	£363
25^th Percentile	£435	£425	£456
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£538	£525	£575
Median % change year-on-year	+2.48%	-8.70%	-
75^th Percentile	£650	£669	£700
90^th Percentile	£738	£788	£838
England median daily rate	£515	£506	£550
% change year-on-year	+1.78%	-8.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	42	40	22
10^th Percentile	£23.59	£18.25	£27.81
25^th Percentile	£26.51	£30.69	£36.25
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£48.00	£43.75
Median % change year-on-year	-11.46%	+9.71%	-2.78%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£66.56	£53.75
90^th Percentile	£67.50	£87.50	£76.95
England median hourly rate	£41.71	£43.50	£34.47
% change year-on-year	-4.11%	+26.22%	-28.04%

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 9 November 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 9 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Central London	-6	21	£675	+42.11%	17
West London	-	18	£725	-	3
South London	-2	16	£537	+13.05%
Amazon RDS England

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

For the 6 months to 9 November 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 citing Amazon RDS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	96.5%	164
2	Amazon S3	64.1%	109
3	CI/CD	63.5%	108
4	Infrastructure as Code	57.1%	97
5	Terraform	55.9%	95
6	AWS Lambda	53.5%	91
6	Serverless	53.5%	91
8	DevOps	49.4%	84
9	Python	45.3%	77
10	Security Cleared	42.4%	72
11	Amazon EC2	40.0%	68
12	Agile	38.8%	66
13	Docker	38.2%	65
13	SC Cleared	38.2%	65
15	Amazon CloudWatch	35.9%	61
16	PostgreSQL	33.5%	57
17	SQL	32.9%	56
18	Amazon ECS	30.6%	52
18	Amazon EKS	30.6%	52
20	Kubernetes	29.4%	50
21	Containerisation	27.1%	46
21	Virtual Private Cloud	27.1%	46
23	Observability	25.3%	43
24	Amazon Aurora	24.7%	42
24	Data Modelling	24.7%	42
26	Performance Tuning	23.5%	40
27	Stakeholder Management	22.9%	39
28	Disaster Recovery	21.8%	37
28	DynamoDB	21.8%	37
30	AWS Certification	21.2%	36

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	33.5%	57
2	Amazon Aurora	24.7%	42
3	DynamoDB	21.8%	37
4	SQL Server	12.9%	22
5	MongoDB	11.2%	19
5	MySQL	11.2%	19
7	Amazon Athena	8.2%	14
8	Redis	7.6%	13
9	SQL Server Integration Services	6.5%	11
10	Data Warehouse	5.9%	10
10	Elasticsearch	5.9%	10
12	Amazon Redshift	5.3%	9
13	Big Data	4.7%	8
14	Metadata	4.1%	7
14	Relational Database	4.1%	7
16	NoSQL	2.9%	5
17	BigQuery	2.4%	4
18	Pinecone	1.8%	3
18	Power BI	1.8%	3
18	Weaviate	1.8%	3