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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 264 289
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 102 116 145
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 0.73% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.61% 3.30% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 79 114
10th Percentile £400 £438 £433
25th Percentile £466 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £650
90th Percentile £666 £758 £734
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -7.06% -6.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,823 3,515 3,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.10% 22.12% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 2,499 2,836
10th Percentile £375 £363 £385
25th Percentile £431 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £850 £788
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 23 39
10th Percentile £18.25 £28.12 £19.11
25th Percentile £30.69 £36.25 £35.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -9.09% -10.00%
75th Percentile £66.56 £59.39 £64.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £34.47 £50.50
% change year-on-year +21.85% -31.75% +1.00%

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 2025. 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 0 15 £549 +1.76%
Central London +1 6 £375 -29.51% 26
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 (12.75%) Confluence
2 10 (9.80%) nginx
3 3 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.98%) CICS
4 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (9.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 99 (97.06%) AWS
2 68 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 56 (54.90%) Amazon EC2
4 54 (52.94%) Serverless
5 53 (51.96%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (36.27%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (35.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (23.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 23 (22.55%) GitHub
10 20 (19.61%) Amazon Kinesis
11 18 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (13.73%) Azure
13 14 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (12.75%) AWS KMS
14 13 (12.75%) Route 53
15 11 (10.78%) AWS Fargate
16 10 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.73%) DNS
2 12 (11.76%) HTTP
3 10 (9.80%) Firewall
3 10 (9.80%) FTP
3 10 (9.80%) IMAP
3 10 (9.80%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (9.80%) SMTP
3 10 (9.80%) SSH
4 2 (1.96%) Internet
4 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.98%) NAS
5 1 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.98%) SMS
5 1 (0.98%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (43.14%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (26.47%) Amazon Aurora
3 22 (21.57%) DynamoDB
4 16 (15.69%) MySQL
5 14 (13.73%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (8.82%) NoSQL
7 7 (6.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (6.86%) Hadoop
7 7 (6.86%) Relational Database
8 6 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.90%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.92%) DB2
10 4 (3.92%) Metadata
10 4 (3.92%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.92%) Redis
11 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 34 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 28 (27.45%) Git
3 14 (13.73%) JIRA
4 12 (11.76%) GitLab
4 12 (11.76%) JUnit
5 11 (10.78%) Maven
6 10 (9.80%) Vagrant
7 6 (5.88%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.92%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.92%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.94%) Mockito
10 2 (1.96%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.98%) Ant
11 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.98%) DbUnit
11 1 (0.98%) jMock
11 1 (0.98%) RStudio
11 1 (0.98%) Storybook
General
1 43 (42.16%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Public Sector
3 17 (16.67%) Finance
4 10 (9.80%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.92%) Banking
7 3 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.98%) Front Office
9 1 (0.98%) Games
9 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (29.41%) Developer
2 28 (27.45%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (25.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (22.55%) Senior
5 18 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
6 16 (15.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (13.73%) AWS Developer
7 14 (13.73%) Java Developer
8 11 (10.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 11 (10.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (10.78%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.84%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) Architect
10 7 (6.86%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.86%) Software Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.88%) Java Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.65%) Kafka
2 17 (16.67%) Spring
3 12 (11.76%) Node.js
3 12 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 10 (9.80%) LDAP
4 10 (9.80%) RESTful
5 9 (8.82%) REST
6 7 (6.86%) Jest
6 7 (6.86%) React
7 5 (4.90%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.92%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (3.92%) CSS
8 4 (3.92%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.92%) JPA
8 4 (3.92%) SOAP
9 3 (2.94%) .NET
9 3 (2.94%) Bootstrap
9 3 (2.94%) Sass
9 3 (2.94%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.73%) Replication
3 11 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.86%) Virtual Team
5 6 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.96%) Derivative
7 2 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.98%) Equities
8 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.98%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.98%) NHS
8 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.98%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.65%) Linux
2 12 (11.76%) Windows
3 11 (10.78%) VMS
4 10 (9.80%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (9.80%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.98%) AIX
5 1 (0.98%) Android
5 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.98%) Solaris
5 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (53.92%) CI/CD
2 53 (51.96%) DevOps
3 32 (31.37%) Containerisation
4 30 (29.41%) Agile
4 30 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (27.45%) Microservices
6 19 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 17 (16.67%) Migration
8 15 (14.71%) Change Management
8 15 (14.71%) Configuration Management
8 15 (14.71%) Mentoring
9 14 (13.73%) Test Automation
10 13 (12.75%) Analytics
11 12 (11.76%) Clean Code
11 12 (11.76%) Fintech
11 12 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (11.76%) Secrets Management
11 12 (11.76%) Software Engineering
12 11 (10.78%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (45.10%) Python
2 34 (33.33%) Java
2 34 (33.33%) SQL
3 15 (14.71%) PowerShell
4 13 (12.75%) Groovy
5 11 (10.78%) Bash
5 11 (10.78%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.94%) C#
7 3 (2.94%) Go
7 3 (2.94%) JSX
8 1 (0.98%) Bicep
8 1 (0.98%) COBOL
8 1 (0.98%) PHP
8 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.98%) R
8 1 (0.98%) RPG
8 1 (0.98%) RPG IV
8 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 30 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 25 (24.51%) AWS Certification
4 17 (16.67%) Degree
5 10 (9.80%) Azure Certification
6 9 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.90%) GDPR
1 5 (4.90%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.98%) GxP
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.98%) NCSC
3 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (43.14%) Docker
2 11 (10.78%) Postfix
3 10 (9.80%) DFS Replication
3 10 (9.80%) Dovecot
3 10 (9.80%) Squid
Systems Management
1 46 (45.10%) Terraform
2 28 (27.45%) Kubernetes
3 23 (22.55%) Grafana
4 20 (19.61%) Prometheus
5 10 (9.80%) Ansible
5 10 (9.80%) Nessus
5 10 (9.80%) Proxmox
6 6 (5.88%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.90%) Puppet
8 2 (1.96%) Kibana
8 2 (1.96%) Rancher
9 1 (0.98%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 16 (15.69%) ServiceNow
2 11 (10.78%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
3 6 (5.88%) Oracle
4 5 (4.90%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.92%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.92%) Sybase
6 3 (2.94%) IBM
7 2 (1.96%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.96%) Pega
7 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.96%) Splunk
8 1 (0.98%) Charles River
8 1 (0.98%) Databricks
8 1 (0.98%) Murex
8 1 (0.98%) NetApp
8 1 (0.98%) Sage
8 1 (0.98%) Solace
8 1 (0.98%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.98%) Virgin Media