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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 242 268
Rank change year-on-year -59 +26 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 149 121 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.91% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.09% 4.29% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 77 75
10th Percentile £413 £419 £414
25th Percentile £456 £494 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.52% -10.33%
75th Percentile £731 £625 £653
90th Percentile £788 £654 £700
England median daily rate £533 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +1.43% -2.42% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 3,645 2,819 3,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.00% 21.29% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,488 1,957 2,651
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £435 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £501 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.86% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 24
10th Percentile £18.48 £28.26 £25.40
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +7.14% -14.78%
75th Percentile £54.69 £69.75 £57.51
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.63
England median hourly rate £38.50 £43.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -11.49% +20.00% -34.09%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -4 21 £535 -2.46% 4
Central London -11 17 £700 +16.67% 14
West London - 14 £738 - 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 13 (8.72%) Confluence
2 12 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.36%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.01%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.01%) nginx
5 2 (1.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.67%) SAS
6 1 (0.67%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.67%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.67%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 147 (98.66%) AWS
2 102 (68.46%) Amazon S3
3 84 (56.38%) AWS Lambda
4 81 (54.36%) Serverless
5 58 (38.93%) Amazon EC2
6 55 (36.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 44 (29.53%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (28.19%) Amazon EKS
9 38 (25.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 30 (20.13%) Azure
11 23 (15.44%) GitHub
12 22 (14.77%) AWS KMS
13 21 (14.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (10.74%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (9.40%) GCP
16 13 (8.72%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (8.72%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (8.72%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (8.05%) Snowflake
18 10 (6.71%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.38%) Firewall
2 7 (4.70%) DNS
3 5 (3.36%) SMTP
4 4 (2.68%) DHCP
5 3 (2.01%) VPN
6 2 (1.34%) FTP
6 2 (1.34%) HTTP
6 2 (1.34%) IMAP
6 2 (1.34%) Network Security
6 2 (1.34%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.34%) SSH
7 1 (0.67%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (32.21%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (24.83%) Amazon Aurora
3 33 (22.15%) DynamoDB
4 18 (12.08%) MongoDB
5 16 (10.74%) SQL Server
6 13 (8.72%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (8.05%) MySQL
8 11 (7.38%) Big Data
8 11 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (7.38%) Redis
8 11 (7.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (6.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (4.70%) NoSQL
12 6 (4.03%) Metadata
13 4 (2.68%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.68%) Power BI
14 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
14 3 (2.01%) Presto
14 3 (2.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (22.15%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.12%) Git
3 20 (13.42%) GitLab
4 18 (12.08%) JIRA
5 11 (7.38%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (4.03%) JUnit
7 6 (4.03%) Mockito
8 5 (3.36%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.68%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.68%) Maven
9 4 (2.68%) Postman
10 3 (2.01%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.34%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (1.34%) DbUnit
11 2 (1.34%) Gradle
11 2 (1.34%) jMock
11 2 (1.34%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 53 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.13%) Public Sector
3 29 (19.46%) Finance
4 18 (12.08%) Banking
5 17 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.37%) Back Office
6 8 (5.37%) Front Office
7 6 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.01%) Billing
8 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.01%) Law
8 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.34%) Local Government
9 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.67%) Marketing
10 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (20.81%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (16.78%) Data Engineer
3 24 (16.11%) Senior
4 22 (14.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (14.09%) Lead
6 20 (13.42%) Developer
7 19 (12.75%) DBA
8 17 (11.41%) Architect
9 15 (10.07%) Technical Leader
10 14 (9.40%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (8.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (7.38%) Administrator
13 10 (6.71%) AWS Data Engineer
14 9 (6.04%) AWS Architect
15 8 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
16 7 (4.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 7 (4.70%) Java Developer
16 7 (4.70%) Senior Data Engineer
17 6 (4.03%) Consultant
17 6 (4.03%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (48.32%) Terraform
2 27 (18.12%) React
3 18 (12.08%) REST
4 17 (11.41%) FastAPI
5 14 (9.40%) Node.js
6 13 (8.72%) Spring
6 13 (8.72%) Spring Boot
7 12 (8.05%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.38%) Kafka
8 11 (7.38%) RESTful
9 8 (5.37%) JSON
10 7 (4.70%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (4.70%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.36%) .NET
11 5 (3.36%) GraphQL
11 5 (3.36%) Langfuse
11 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (2.68%) Next.js
12 4 (2.68%) OpenAPI
12 4 (2.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.86%) Cloud Native
2 23 (15.44%) Replication
3 13 (8.72%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.37%) Virtual Team
6 7 (4.70%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.03%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (3.36%) Fixed Income
8 5 (3.36%) PKI
8 5 (3.36%) Reinsurance
9 4 (2.68%) Clustering
9 4 (2.68%) NHS
10 3 (2.01%) AI Agents
10 3 (2.01%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (2.01%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.34%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.81%) Linux
2 9 (6.04%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.70%) Windows
4 5 (3.36%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.68%) Unix
6 3 (2.01%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.67%) VMS
7 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (60.40%) CI/CD
2 70 (46.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 69 (46.31%) DevOps
4 63 (42.28%) Agile
5 37 (24.83%) Data Modelling
6 35 (23.49%) Performance Tuning
6 35 (23.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (20.81%) Containerisation
8 30 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (19.46%) Event-Driven
9 29 (19.46%) Observability
10 28 (18.79%) Technical Leadership
11 27 (18.12%) Microservices
12 26 (17.45%) Data Integration
13 24 (16.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 23 (15.44%) Data Engineering
14 23 (15.44%) Disaster Recovery
15 22 (14.77%) Migration
15 22 (14.77%) Root Cause Analysis
16 21 (14.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 76 (51.01%) Python
2 49 (32.89%) SQL
3 41 (27.52%) Java
4 19 (12.75%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.74%) PowerShell
6 15 (10.07%) Bash
7 13 (8.72%) JavaScript
8 11 (7.38%) Groovy
9 7 (4.70%) Perl
9 7 (4.70%) Scala
10 3 (2.01%) C#
11 2 (1.34%) Bicep
11 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (40.94%) Security Cleared
2 54 (36.24%) SC Cleared
3 38 (25.50%) AWS Certification
4 23 (15.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (9.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (8.05%) Degree
7 11 (7.38%) Azure Certification
8 8 (5.37%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.03%) CISM
9 6 (4.03%) CISSP
9 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.34%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.34%) PMP
12 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.09%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.03%) NIST
3 3 (2.01%) QA
4 2 (1.34%) PMO
5 1 (0.67%) SLA
5 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 52 (34.90%) Docker
2 8 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.68%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.68%) Postfix
3 4 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.01%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.01%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.01%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.34%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.34%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.34%) Squid
5 2 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 42 (28.19%) Kubernetes
2 28 (18.79%) Grafana
3 24 (16.11%) Prometheus
4 14 (9.40%) Ansible
5 6 (4.03%) Istio
5 6 (4.03%) Kibana
6 5 (3.36%) Argo
7 3 (2.01%) Nagios
7 3 (2.01%) Puppet
7 3 (2.01%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.01%) vMotion
8 2 (1.34%) Nessus
8 2 (1.34%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.34%) Rancher
9 1 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.07%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.71%) Oracle
4 7 (4.70%) Databricks
4 7 (4.70%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.36%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.36%) Google
5 5 (3.36%) Informatica
6 4 (2.68%) Citrix
6 4 (2.68%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.68%) Talend
6 4 (2.68%) VMware
7 3 (2.01%) Brio
7 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.01%) HP
7 3 (2.01%) Splunk
7 3 (2.01%) Symantec
8 2 (1.34%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.34%) GoldenSource
8 2 (1.34%) WSO2