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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 245 264
Rank change year-on-year -22 +19 -21
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 123 119 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 0.88% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.05% 4.03% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 77 103
10th Percentile £364 £432 £400
25th Percentile £435 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £788 £619
90th Percentile £684 £808 £748
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £89.00 - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 - -

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 3,037 2,953 3,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.92% 21.72% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,075 2,025 2,649
10th Percentile £356 £363 £385
25th Percentile £419 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -0.45% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £686
90th Percentile £738 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 30 40
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.88 £28.60 £25.69
Median hourly rate £54.00 £42.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -4.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.25 £53.84
90th Percentile £89.50 £78.88 £63.83
England median hourly rate £54.25 £41.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +32.32% -3.53% -25.26%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +6 21 £475 -1.30% 4
Central London -7 8 £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 14 (11.38%) Confluence
2 6 (4.88%) nginx
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (68.29%) Amazon S3
3 68 (55.28%) AWS Lambda
3 68 (55.28%) Serverless
4 65 (52.85%) Amazon EC2
5 47 (38.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 46 (37.40%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (36.59%) Amazon ECS
8 44 (35.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 37 (30.08%) GitHub
10 33 (26.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (17.07%) Amazon Kinesis
13 18 (14.63%) Route 53
14 15 (12.20%) Datadog
15 13 (10.57%) Azure
16 12 (9.76%) Amazon Cognito
16 12 (9.76%) AWS KMS
16 12 (9.76%) AWS Step Functions
17 11 (8.94%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.94%) DNS
2 8 (6.50%) Firewall
3 6 (4.88%) FTP
3 6 (4.88%) HTTP
3 6 (4.88%) IMAP
3 6 (4.88%) OpenLDAP
3 6 (4.88%) SMTP
3 6 (4.88%) SSH
4 2 (1.63%) VPN
5 1 (0.81%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (31.71%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (19.51%) Amazon Aurora
3 21 (17.07%) MySQL
4 17 (13.82%) DynamoDB
5 14 (11.38%) SQL Server
6 12 (9.76%) NoSQL
7 11 (8.94%) Redis
8 10 (8.13%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (7.32%) Hadoop
10 8 (6.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (6.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (5.69%) Relational Database
12 5 (4.07%) DB2
12 5 (4.07%) DocumentDB
12 5 (4.07%) MongoDB
12 5 (4.07%) Power BI
13 4 (3.25%) RDBMS
13 4 (3.25%) Tableau
14 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database
14 3 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 38 (30.89%) Jenkins
2 35 (28.46%) Git
3 19 (15.45%) GitLab
4 17 (13.82%) JIRA
5 6 (4.88%) Cypress.io
5 6 (4.88%) JUnit
5 6 (4.88%) Vagrant
6 4 (3.25%) Snyk
7 3 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.44%) git-flow
7 3 (2.44%) Maven
8 2 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.63%) Storybook
9 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.81%) Mockito
9 1 (0.81%) Postman
9 1 (0.81%) RStudio
9 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.14%) Finance
3 21 (17.07%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (6.50%) Banking
6 3 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Military
8 1 (0.81%) Front Office
8 1 (0.81%) Games
8 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (21.14%) AWS Engineer
2 24 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (17.89%) Developer
4 21 (17.07%) Senior
5 14 (11.38%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (10.57%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.94%) AWS Developer
8 10 (8.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.13%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (7.32%) Architect
10 8 (6.50%) Java Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.69%) Java Developer
11 7 (5.69%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.88%) AWS Architect
12 6 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (4.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.20%) Kafka
2 15 (12.20%) React
2 15 (12.20%) RESTful
3 14 (11.38%) Spring
4 13 (10.57%) Spring Boot
5 12 (9.76%) Node.js
6 10 (8.13%) CSS
7 8 (6.50%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (6.50%) REST
8 7 (5.69%) FastAPI
8 7 (5.69%) Jest
8 7 (5.69%) LDAP
8 7 (5.69%) Sass
9 6 (4.88%) Enzyme
9 6 (4.88%) Next.js
10 5 (4.07%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.07%) Flask
10 5 (4.07%) OAuth2
10 5 (4.07%) OpenID
10 5 (4.07%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.70%) Cloud Native
2 18 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (11.38%) Replication
4 7 (5.69%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.88%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.63%) Derivative
8 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.81%) Clustering
9 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.81%) Equities
9 1 (0.81%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.81%) NHS
9 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.14%) Linux
2 8 (6.50%) Windows
3 7 (5.69%) VMS
4 6 (4.88%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (4.88%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.44%) Unix
6 1 (0.81%) Android
6 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (62.60%) CI/CD
2 55 (44.72%) DevOps
3 53 (43.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (41.46%) Agile
5 39 (31.71%) Containerisation
6 33 (26.83%) Microservices
7 25 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (18.70%) Observability
9 19 (15.45%) Software Engineering
10 17 (13.82%) Change Management
10 17 (13.82%) Cloud Security
10 17 (13.82%) Configuration Management
11 16 (13.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (12.20%) Design Patterns
12 15 (12.20%) Event-Driven
12 15 (12.20%) Fintech
12 15 (12.20%) Migration
12 15 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (12.20%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (49.59%) Python
2 43 (34.96%) SQL
3 31 (25.20%) Java
4 24 (19.51%) Bash
5 13 (10.57%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.76%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.94%) Groovy
8 9 (7.32%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.88%) Go
9 6 (4.88%) JSX
10 4 (3.25%) C#
11 3 (2.44%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.44%) Ruby
11 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.63%) Perl
13 1 (0.81%) Bicep
13 1 (0.81%) PHP
13 1 (0.81%) R
13 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 37 (30.08%) SC Cleared
3 22 (17.89%) AWS Certification
4 11 (8.94%) Degree
5 6 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.63%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.63%) PMP
10 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.81%) CEH
10 1 (0.81%) CISSP
10 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.81%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) NIST
2 5 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.07%) QA
3 4 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.25%) GDPR
3 4 (3.25%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.44%) PMO
5 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.81%) GxP
5 1 (0.81%) NCSC
5 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (43.90%) Docker
2 6 (4.88%) DFS Replication
2 6 (4.88%) Dovecot
2 6 (4.88%) Postfix
2 6 (4.88%) Squid
3 2 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 65 (52.85%) Terraform
2 39 (31.71%) Kubernetes
3 19 (15.45%) Grafana
4 15 (12.20%) Prometheus
5 12 (9.76%) Ansible
6 7 (5.69%) Puppet
7 6 (4.88%) Nessus
7 6 (4.88%) Proxmox
8 4 (3.25%) Rancher
9 3 (2.44%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (2.44%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.63%) Kibana
11 1 (0.81%) Argo
11 1 (0.81%) Istio
11 1 (0.81%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 15 (12.20%) ServiceNow
2 7 (5.69%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.69%) Oracle
3 6 (4.88%) Dynatrace
3 6 (4.88%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (4.88%) PagerDuty
3 6 (4.88%) Sybase
4 3 (2.44%) AVEVA
4 3 (2.44%) Qualys
4 3 (2.44%) Tenable
5 2 (1.63%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.63%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.63%) Databricks
6 1 (0.81%) Confluent
6 1 (0.81%) Netlify
6 1 (0.81%) Percona
6 1 (0.81%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.81%) Splunk
6 1 (0.81%) Talend
6 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media