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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 226 266
Rank change year-on-year -67 +40 -26
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 124 117 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.97% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.72% 4.39% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 86 95
10th Percentile £396 £416 £368
25th Percentile £449 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £563 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +9.76% -14.58%
75th Percentile £603 £622 £575
90th Percentile £713 £653 £695
England median daily rate £500 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
England median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 3,329 2,663 3,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.10% 21.98% 22.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,273 1,862 2,899
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 30 34
10th Percentile £17.94 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.34 £25.31
Median hourly rate £47.25 £34.83 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year +35.68% -29.29% -6.19%
75th Percentile £61.19 £53.75 £54.78
90th Percentile £82.50 £68.50 £70.85
England median hourly rate £41.71 £31.85 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.98% -20.39% -31.73%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +3 22 £463 -3.90%
Central London -16 12 £544 -5.80% 5
West London - 7 £775 -
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 11 (8.87%) Confluence
2 4 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.42%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.81%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (7.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 122 (98.39%) AWS
2 88 (70.97%) Amazon S3
3 75 (60.48%) AWS Lambda
4 72 (58.06%) Serverless
5 62 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
6 46 (37.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (29.84%) Amazon ECS
7 37 (29.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 33 (26.61%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (23.39%) GitHub
10 21 (16.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (15.32%) Azure
12 17 (13.71%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (13.71%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (10.48%) Route 53
14 12 (9.68%) AWS KMS
15 10 (8.06%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (8.06%) Amazon MSK
15 10 (8.06%) CloudFront
15 10 (8.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.84%) DNS
2 4 (3.23%) Firewall
3 2 (1.61%) DHCP
4 1 (0.81%) Network Security
4 1 (0.81%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.81%) SMTP
4 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.77%) DynamoDB
1 27 (21.77%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (9.68%) NoSQL
4 10 (8.06%) Power BI
5 9 (7.26%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (7.26%) MySQL
6 8 (6.45%) Tableau
7 7 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.65%) MongoDB
8 6 (4.84%) Redis
9 5 (4.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.23%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (3.23%) DB2
10 4 (3.23%) DocumentDB
10 4 (3.23%) Oracle Database
11 3 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (2.42%) Presto
11 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (26.61%) Jenkins
2 24 (19.35%) Git
3 16 (12.90%) GitLab
3 16 (12.90%) JIRA
4 12 (9.68%) JUnit
5 8 (6.45%) Mockito
6 6 (4.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (4.84%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.03%) git-flow
7 5 (4.03%) Postman
7 5 (4.03%) Snyk
7 5 (4.03%) SonarQube
7 5 (4.03%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (3.23%) DbUnit
8 4 (3.23%) jMock
8 4 (3.23%) Maven
9 2 (1.61%) Storybook
10 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 37 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 20 (16.13%) Finance
4 15 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.06%) Banking
6 8 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.61%) Front Office
8 2 (1.61%) Local Government
9 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (22.58%) Developer
2 19 (15.32%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (15.32%) Senior
3 14 (11.29%) Architect
4 13 (10.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Analyst
5 11 (8.87%) AWS Architect
5 11 (8.87%) Lead
6 10 (8.06%) AWS Developer
6 10 (8.06%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.26%) Python Developer
7 9 (7.26%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (6.45%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.65%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.65%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.84%) DBA
10 6 (4.84%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.35%) React
2 22 (17.74%) Kafka
2 22 (17.74%) Spring
2 22 (17.74%) Spring Boot
3 19 (15.32%) RESTful
4 18 (14.52%) Node.js
5 17 (13.71%) REST
6 16 (12.90%) AngularJS
7 12 (9.68%) FastAPI
8 9 (7.26%) JSON
8 9 (7.26%) Next.js
9 8 (6.45%) Hibernate
9 8 (6.45%) JPA
9 8 (6.45%) SOAP
9 8 (6.45%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (5.65%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (4.84%) Django
11 6 (4.84%) Flask
11 6 (4.84%) Gherkin
11 6 (4.84%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 34 (27.42%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.68%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.03%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.23%) NHS
5 4 (3.23%) Replication
6 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.61%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.81%) Clustering
8 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Equities
8 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.94%) Linux
2 5 (4.03%) Unix
3 4 (3.23%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.42%) Windows
5 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.61%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (56.45%) CI/CD
2 68 (54.84%) Agile
3 48 (38.71%) DevOps
4 41 (33.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (28.23%) Microservices
6 30 (24.19%) Containerisation
7 24 (19.35%) Scrum
8 20 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (16.13%) Event-Driven
8 20 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
9 18 (14.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 18 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (12.10%) Data Modelling
11 15 (12.10%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (12.10%) Software Engineering
11 15 (12.10%) Test Automation
12 14 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (10.48%) ETL
13 13 (10.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 50 (40.32%) Java
2 43 (34.68%) Python
3 41 (33.06%) SQL
4 15 (12.10%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.26%) PowerShell
5 9 (7.26%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.84%) Bash
6 6 (4.84%) C#
7 5 (4.03%) Scala
8 4 (3.23%) Groovy
8 4 (3.23%) Perl
9 3 (2.42%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.61%) Go
11 1 (0.81%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 50 (40.32%) Security Cleared
2 44 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 20 (16.13%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.65%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.03%) Degree
6 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.61%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.61%) PMP
8 1 (0.81%) CEH
8 1 (0.81%) CISSP
8 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) NIST
2 7 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.65%) PMO
3 6 (4.84%) QA
4 4 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.61%) SLA
6 1 (0.81%) GDPR
6 1 (0.81%) Solvency II
System Software
1 50 (40.32%) Docker
2 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.42%) Postfix
3 2 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.81%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 53 (42.74%) Terraform
2 42 (33.87%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.29%) Grafana
4 10 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.23%) Argo
6 3 (2.42%) Ansible
6 3 (2.42%) Istio
6 3 (2.42%) Kibana
7 1 (0.81%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.81%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.81%) vMotion
Vendors
1 10 (8.06%) Oracle
2 9 (7.26%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.03%) Sybase
4 4 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.23%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (3.23%) Qualys
4 4 (3.23%) Tenable
5 3 (2.42%) AVEVA
5 3 (2.42%) Brio
5 3 (2.42%) Databricks
5 3 (2.42%) Splunk
6 2 (1.61%) Citrix
6 2 (1.61%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.61%) Netlify
6 2 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.61%) VMware
7 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.81%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media