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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 221 257
Rank change year-on-year -58 +36 -28
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 114 137 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 1.05% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.71% 4.74% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 93 106
10th Percentile £361 £425 £400
25th Percentile £427 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £584 £788 £612
90th Percentile £689 - £738
England median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £83.25 - -
25th Percentile £84.38 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £89.38 - -
90th Percentile £89.75 - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 3,076 2,893 3,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.18% 22.16% 19.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,115 2,054 2,707
10th Percentile £361 £375 £381
25th Percentile £420 £455 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +2.95% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £745 £834 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 41
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.23 £28.60 £26.24
Median hourly rate £48.25 £40.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.14% -10.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65.31 £57.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £89.25 £77.50 £64.53
England median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% -13.58% -32.50%

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 March 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 March 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 +2 19 £469 -1.32% 3
Central London -16 8 £520 -9.96% 7
West London - 3 - - 1
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 6 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 114 (100.00%) AWS
2 83 (72.81%) Amazon S3
3 70 (61.40%) AWS Lambda
3 70 (61.40%) Serverless
4 62 (54.39%) Amazon EC2
5 44 (38.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 42 (36.84%) Amazon EKS
7 41 (35.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 39 (34.21%) Amazon ECS
9 35 (30.70%) GitHub
10 32 (28.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (21.93%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (14.04%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (12.28%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (11.40%) Amazon Cognito
14 13 (11.40%) Datadog
14 13 (11.40%) Route 53
15 11 (9.65%) Amazon MSK
16 8 (7.02%) AWS Fargate
16 8 (7.02%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) DNS
2 2 (1.75%) Firewall
2 2 (1.75%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.88%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (28.95%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 17 (14.91%) MySQL
4 16 (14.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (10.53%) SQL Server
6 11 (9.65%) NoSQL
7 10 (8.77%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (7.89%) Redis
9 8 (7.02%) Relational Database
10 7 (6.14%) DB2
10 7 (6.14%) Power BI
11 6 (5.26%) Hadoop
11 6 (5.26%) Tableau
12 5 (4.39%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (4.39%) DocumentDB
13 4 (3.51%) MongoDB
13 4 (3.51%) RDBMS
14 3 (2.63%) Oracle Database
14 3 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 35 (30.70%) Jenkins
2 30 (26.32%) Git
3 17 (14.91%) GitLab
4 11 (9.65%) JUnit
5 10 (8.77%) JIRA
6 6 (5.26%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.39%) Snyk
8 4 (3.51%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.51%) git-flow
8 4 (3.51%) Maven
8 4 (3.51%) Mockito
9 3 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.63%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.75%) DbUnit
10 2 (1.75%) jMock
10 2 (1.75%) Postman
10 2 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.75%) Storybook
11 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
General
1 30 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.81%) Finance
3 20 (17.54%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.02%) Banking
6 6 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Front Office
7 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.75%) Military
8 1 (0.88%) Games
8 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (20.18%) Developer
2 22 (19.30%) Senior
3 17 (14.91%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.40%) AWS Developer
6 12 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 10 (8.77%) Java Developer
8 8 (7.02%) Architect
8 8 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (7.02%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.02%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (6.14%) Analyst
10 6 (5.26%) AWS Architect
10 6 (5.26%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) Site Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Python Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.44%) Kafka
2 18 (15.79%) RESTful
2 18 (15.79%) Spring
2 18 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 14 (12.28%) Node.js
3 14 (12.28%) React
4 10 (8.77%) CSS
4 10 (8.77%) REST
5 8 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (6.14%) FastAPI
6 7 (6.14%) Jest
6 7 (6.14%) Sass
7 6 (5.26%) AngularJS
7 6 (5.26%) Enzyme
7 6 (5.26%) Hibernate
7 6 (5.26%) JPA
7 6 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
8 5 (4.39%) Flask
8 5 (4.39%) Next.js
8 5 (4.39%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.93%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.14%) Replication
4 5 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.51%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (3.51%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.75%) Derivative
7 2 (1.75%) Equities
7 2 (1.75%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.88%) Clustering
8 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (20.18%) Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Unix
3 2 (1.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (62.28%) CI/CD
2 55 (48.25%) Agile
3 49 (42.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (40.35%) DevOps
5 39 (34.21%) Containerisation
6 31 (27.19%) Microservices
7 28 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (18.42%) Observability
9 17 (14.91%) Design Patterns
10 16 (14.04%) Secrets Management
10 16 (14.04%) Software Engineering
11 15 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (12.28%) ETL
12 14 (12.28%) Event-Driven
12 14 (12.28%) Scrum
13 13 (11.40%) Cost Optimisation
13 13 (11.40%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (10.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 48 (42.11%) Python
2 42 (36.84%) SQL
3 32 (28.07%) Java
4 22 (19.30%) Bash
5 13 (11.40%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.26%) JSX
8 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.51%) C#
9 4 (3.51%) Go
10 3 (2.63%) Groovy
10 3 (2.63%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.63%) Ruby
10 3 (2.63%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.75%) Perl
12 1 (0.88%) Bicep
12 1 (0.88%) PHP
12 1 (0.88%) R
12 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 33 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.91%) AWS Certification
4 7 (6.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.39%) Degree
6 3 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.88%) CEH
8 1 (0.88%) CISSP
8 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.88%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.88%) PMP
8 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) NIST
2 6 (5.26%) QA
3 5 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.51%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.51%) PMO
5 2 (1.75%) GDPR
6 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.88%) GxP
6 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (44.74%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.88%) HDFS
3 1 (0.88%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 54 (47.37%) Terraform
2 35 (30.70%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.28%) Grafana
4 12 (10.53%) Ansible
5 9 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.14%) Puppet
7 3 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (2.63%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.63%) Rancher
8 2 (1.75%) Kibana
9 1 (0.88%) Argo
9 1 (0.88%) Istio
9 1 (0.88%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.88%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 9 (7.89%) ServiceNow
2 8 (7.02%) Sybase
3 7 (6.14%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.14%) Oracle
4 6 (5.26%) PagerDuty
5 5 (4.39%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.51%) Qualys
6 4 (3.51%) Tenable
7 3 (2.63%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.63%) AVEVA
8 2 (1.75%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.75%) Charles River
8 2 (1.75%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.75%) Databricks
8 2 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (1.75%) Murex
9 1 (0.88%) Confluent
9 1 (0.88%) Netlify
9 1 (0.88%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.88%) Virgin Media