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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 209 247
Rank change year-on-year -83 +38 -17
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 125 152 139
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 1.20% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.82% 5.41% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 109 103
10th Percentile £365 £425 £400
25th Percentile £442 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £625
90th Percentile £703 £788 £738
England median daily rate £509 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -11.52% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
England median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 3,274 2,809 3,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.93% 22.18% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,252 1,989 2,758
10th Percentile £363 £375 £379
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £560 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% - -2.61%
75th Percentile £630 £713 £699
90th Percentile £749 £834 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 38
10th Percentile £21.39 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £30.74 £28.60 £25.48
Median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -6.65% +4.35%
75th Percentile £61.13 £60.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £85.50 £78.50 £63.98
England median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -28.19%

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 April 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 April 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 -2.63%
Central London -19 11 £550 -4.35% 14
West London - 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 5 (4.00%) Confluence
2 2 (1.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (7.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 124 (99.20%) AWS
2 88 (70.40%) Amazon S3
3 76 (60.80%) AWS Lambda
3 76 (60.80%) Serverless
4 64 (51.20%) Amazon EC2
5 49 (39.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 44 (35.20%) Amazon EKS
7 42 (33.60%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (32.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 33 (26.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (25.60%) GitHub
11 21 (16.80%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (12.80%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (12.00%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (10.40%) Route 53
15 12 (9.60%) Amazon MSK
16 11 (8.80%) Amazon Cognito
16 11 (8.80%) Azure
17 10 (8.00%) CloudFront
17 10 (8.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.00%) DNS
2 3 (2.40%) Firewall
2 3 (2.40%) VPN
3 1 (0.80%) DHCP
3 1 (0.80%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.80%) Network Security
3 1 (0.80%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.80%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (27.20%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (16.80%) DynamoDB
3 15 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (11.20%) MySQL
5 11 (8.80%) SQL Server
6 10 (8.00%) NoSQL
7 9 (7.20%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (7.20%) Power BI
7 9 (7.20%) Redis
8 8 (6.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.40%) Relational Database
8 8 (6.40%) Tableau
9 7 (5.60%) DB2
10 5 (4.00%) DocumentDB
10 5 (4.00%) Hadoop
11 4 (3.20%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (3.20%) MongoDB
11 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
12 3 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 35 (28.00%) Jenkins
2 25 (20.00%) Git
3 19 (15.20%) GitLab
4 12 (9.60%) JUnit
5 11 (8.80%) JIRA
6 5 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.00%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.00%) git-flow
6 5 (4.00%) Mockito
6 5 (4.00%) Snyk
7 3 (2.40%) Maven
7 3 (2.40%) Postman
7 3 (2.40%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.60%) DbUnit
8 2 (1.60%) jMock
8 2 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.60%) Storybook
9 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
General
1 29 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.80%) Finance
3 23 (18.40%) Public Sector
4 16 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.80%) Banking
6 6 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.40%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.60%) Front Office
9 1 (0.80%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Legal
9 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (20.00%) Developer
2 24 (19.20%) Senior
3 17 (13.60%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Architect
5 13 (10.40%) AWS Developer
6 11 (8.80%) Analyst
7 10 (8.00%) Java Developer
7 10 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 9 (7.20%) AWS Architect
9 8 (6.40%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (6.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (6.40%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.40%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (5.60%) Lead
10 7 (5.60%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (5.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Java Architect
11 6 (4.80%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.00%) Kafka
2 22 (17.60%) Spring
2 22 (17.60%) Spring Boot
3 20 (16.00%) Node.js
4 19 (15.20%) React
5 16 (12.80%) RESTful
6 9 (7.20%) REST
7 7 (5.60%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.60%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (5.60%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (4.80%) CSS
8 6 (4.80%) FastAPI
8 6 (4.80%) Hibernate
8 6 (4.80%) JPA
8 6 (4.80%) JSON
8 6 (4.80%) Next.js
8 6 (4.80%) OAuth
8 6 (4.80%) SOAP
8 6 (4.80%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (4.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.20%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.80%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.00%) Replication
4 4 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.20%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.60%) Clustering
5 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.80%) Derivative
6 1 (0.80%) Equities
6 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.80%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.80%) NHS
6 1 (0.80%) PKI
6 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.60%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Unix
2 3 (2.40%) Windows
3 1 (0.80%) VMS
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (58.40%) CI/CD
2 58 (46.40%) Agile
3 49 (39.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (37.60%) DevOps
5 38 (30.40%) Containerisation
6 34 (27.20%) Microservices
7 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (15.20%) Observability
9 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (12.80%) Data Modelling
10 16 (12.80%) Design Patterns
11 15 (12.00%) ETL
11 15 (12.00%) Event-Driven
11 15 (12.00%) Migration
11 15 (12.00%) Secrets Management
12 14 (11.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (11.20%) Software Engineering
13 13 (10.40%) Cost Management
13 13 (10.40%) Decision-Making
13 13 (10.40%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.60%) Python
2 41 (32.80%) Java
2 41 (32.80%) SQL
3 19 (15.20%) Bash
4 12 (9.60%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.80%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.80%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.00%) C#
7 3 (2.40%) Go
7 3 (2.40%) Groovy
7 3 (2.40%) JSX
7 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.40%) Ruby
7 3 (2.40%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.60%) Perl
8 2 (1.60%) Scala
9 1 (0.80%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 48 (38.40%) Security Cleared
2 39 (31.20%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.40%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.80%) Degree
6 5 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.80%) CEH
9 1 (0.80%) CISSP
9 1 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.80%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) Data Quality
1 8 (6.40%) NIST
2 7 (5.60%) PMO
2 7 (5.60%) QA
3 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.80%) GxP
5 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (41.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.80%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.80%) HDFS
3 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.80%) Postfix
3 1 (0.80%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (46.40%) Terraform
2 40 (32.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.60%) Grafana
4 10 (8.00%) Ansible
5 8 (6.40%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.80%) Puppet
7 4 (3.20%) Argo
8 3 (2.40%) Istio
8 3 (2.40%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (2.40%) Rancher
9 2 (1.60%) Kibana
10 1 (0.80%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.80%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.80%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (7.20%) Oracle
1 9 (7.20%) ServiceNow
2 8 (6.40%) Sybase
3 7 (5.60%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.80%) PagerDuty
5 5 (4.00%) Databricks
5 5 (4.00%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.20%) Qualys
6 4 (3.20%) Tenable
7 3 (2.40%) AVEVA
8 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.60%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.60%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.60%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (1.60%) Netlify
9 1 (0.80%) Google
9 1 (0.80%) Murex
9 1 (0.80%) Percona
9 1 (0.80%) Splunk
9 1 (0.80%) Talend