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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 248 289
Rank change year-on-year -50 +41 -13
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 148 126 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 0.94% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.03% 4.46% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 80 76
10th Percentile £415 £419 £414
25th Percentile £456 £491 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +7.80% -9.17%
75th Percentile £725 £606 £652
90th Percentile £788 £653 £700
England median daily rate £527 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.38% -4.55% -4.35%
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 3,672 2,826 3,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.19% 21.11% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,499 1,960 2,708
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £437 £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 £505 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £28.26 £25.10
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +3.96% -15.83%
75th Percentile £54.69 £69.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.75
England median hourly rate £38.50 £40.25 £34.47
% change year-on-year -4.34% +16.77% -37.34%

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 6 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 6 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 -1 22 £535 -2.46% 5
Central London -10 17 £663 +10.42% 8
West London - 13 £750 - 5
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 (8.78%) Confluence
2 12 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.38%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.03%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.35%) Camunda
6 2 (1.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.68%) SAS
7 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.68%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.68%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 145 (97.97%) AWS
2 103 (69.59%) Amazon S3
3 82 (55.41%) AWS Lambda
4 79 (53.38%) Serverless
5 59 (39.86%) Amazon EC2
6 55 (37.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 44 (29.73%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (27.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 40 (27.03%) Amazon EKS
10 32 (21.62%) Azure
11 22 (14.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (14.86%) AWS KMS
11 22 (14.86%) GitHub
12 15 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (9.46%) GCP
14 12 (8.11%) Snowflake
15 11 (7.43%) Amazon EventBridge
15 11 (7.43%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (7.43%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (6.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.11%) Firewall
2 8 (5.41%) DNS
3 6 (4.05%) SMTP
4 5 (3.38%) DHCP
5 4 (2.70%) VPN
6 3 (2.03%) Network Security
7 2 (1.35%) FTP
7 2 (1.35%) HTTP
7 2 (1.35%) IMAP
7 2 (1.35%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.35%) SSH
8 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (31.08%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (24.32%) Amazon Aurora
3 31 (20.95%) DynamoDB
4 18 (12.16%) MongoDB
5 15 (10.14%) SQL Server
6 12 (8.11%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (7.43%) Big Data
7 11 (7.43%) MySQL
7 11 (7.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (6.76%) Redis
9 9 (6.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (4.05%) Metadata
12 6 (4.05%) NoSQL
13 5 (3.38%) Power BI
14 3 (2.03%) BigQuery
14 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
14 3 (2.03%) Presto
14 3 (2.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (22.97%) Jenkins
2 26 (17.57%) Git
3 21 (14.19%) GitLab
4 18 (12.16%) JIRA
5 9 (6.08%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (4.05%) JUnit
7 6 (4.05%) Mockito
8 5 (3.38%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.70%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.70%) Postman
10 3 (2.03%) Maven
10 3 (2.03%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (1.35%) DbUnit
11 2 (1.35%) jMock
11 2 (1.35%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.68%) git-flow
12 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 52 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.27%) Public Sector
3 28 (18.92%) Finance
4 20 (13.51%) Banking
5 16 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.05%) Back Office
6 6 (4.05%) Front Office
7 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.03%) Billing
8 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.35%) Law
9 2 (1.35%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (20.27%) AWS Engineer
2 23 (15.54%) Data Engineer
2 23 (15.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (14.86%) Senior
4 20 (13.51%) Lead
5 19 (12.84%) DBA
5 19 (12.84%) Developer
6 16 (10.81%) Architect
7 14 (9.46%) AWS DevOps
7 14 (9.46%) Technical Leader
8 12 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 11 (7.43%) Administrator
10 9 (6.08%) AWS Architect
10 9 (6.08%) AWS Data Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Consultant
12 6 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.05%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (47.30%) Terraform
2 26 (17.57%) React
3 17 (11.49%) REST
4 16 (10.81%) FastAPI
5 15 (10.14%) Node.js
6 13 (8.78%) Spring
6 13 (8.78%) Spring Boot
7 12 (8.11%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.43%) RESTful
9 10 (6.76%) Kafka
10 8 (5.41%) JSON
11 5 (3.38%) ActiveMQ
11 5 (3.38%) Langfuse
11 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (3.38%) SOAP
12 4 (2.70%) GraphQL
12 4 (2.70%) Next.js
12 4 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (2.70%) pytest
12 4 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (25.68%) Cloud Native
2 22 (14.86%) Replication
3 14 (9.46%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.41%) Virtual Team
6 7 (4.73%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.05%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (4.05%) PKI
8 5 (3.38%) Clustering
8 5 (3.38%) Fixed Income
8 5 (3.38%) Reinsurance
9 4 (2.70%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.70%) NHS
10 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (2.03%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.95%) Linux
2 9 (6.08%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (5.41%) Windows
4 7 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.05%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.70%) Unix
7 3 (2.03%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.68%) VMS
8 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 69 (46.62%) DevOps
3 66 (44.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (41.89%) Agile
5 36 (24.32%) Data Modelling
6 33 (22.30%) Performance Tuning
6 33 (22.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (18.92%) Containerisation
8 28 (18.92%) Microservices
9 27 (18.24%) Technical Leadership
10 26 (17.57%) Event-Driven
10 26 (17.57%) Observability
11 23 (15.54%) Data Integration
11 23 (15.54%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (14.86%) Root Cause Analysis
13 21 (14.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 21 (14.19%) High Availability
14 20 (13.51%) Data Engineering
14 20 (13.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (47.97%) Python
2 47 (31.76%) SQL
3 42 (28.38%) Java
4 17 (11.49%) PowerShell
4 17 (11.49%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.46%) Bash
6 11 (7.43%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.76%) Groovy
8 7 (4.73%) Perl
9 6 (4.05%) Scala
10 4 (2.70%) C#
11 2 (1.35%) Bicep
12 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (41.89%) Security Cleared
2 53 (35.81%) SC Cleared
3 37 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 22 (14.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (9.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (7.43%) Azure Certification
6 11 (7.43%) Degree
7 9 (6.08%) DV Cleared
8 6 (4.05%) CISM
8 6 (4.05%) CISSP
9 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.35%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.35%) PMP
12 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.84%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.05%) NIST
3 3 (2.03%) PMO
4 2 (1.35%) QA
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 50 (33.78%) Docker
2 9 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.38%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.70%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.70%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.70%) Postfix
4 4 (2.70%) Terminal Services
4 4 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.35%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.35%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.35%) Squid
5 2 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 44 (29.73%) Kubernetes
2 26 (17.57%) Grafana
3 23 (15.54%) Prometheus
4 14 (9.46%) Ansible
5 7 (4.73%) Istio
6 6 (4.05%) Argo
6 6 (4.05%) Kibana
7 4 (2.70%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.70%) vMotion
8 3 (2.03%) Nagios
8 3 (2.03%) Puppet
9 2 (1.35%) Nessus
9 2 (1.35%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.68%) Rancher
10 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.46%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.41%) Databricks
3 8 (5.41%) Oracle
4 7 (4.73%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.05%) Google
6 5 (3.38%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.38%) Citrix
6 5 (3.38%) Informatica
6 5 (3.38%) VMware
7 4 (2.70%) HP
7 4 (2.70%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.70%) Symantec
7 4 (2.70%) Talend
8 3 (2.03%) Brio
8 3 (2.03%) Splunk
9 2 (1.35%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.35%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.35%) GoldenSource
9 2 (1.35%) Red Hat