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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 247 274
Rank change year-on-year -25 +27 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 108 133 151
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 0.85% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.69% 3.93% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 86 117
10th Percentile £398 £426 £425
25th Percentile £461 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -6.38% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £788 £738
England median daily rate £500 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -8.26% -5.22% -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 2,928 3,384 3,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.82% 21.63% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,039 2,383 2,752
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £838 £788
England median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 23 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £28.12 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £43.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -4.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.15 £79.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +24.29% -24.21% -3.68%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 13 November 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 +1 17 £528 -2.13% 1
Central London +5 7 £475 -12.64% 31
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 (12.04%) Confluence
2 10 (9.26%) nginx
3 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) CICS
4 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 105 (97.22%) AWS
2 76 (70.37%) Amazon S3
3 60 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
4 56 (51.85%) Serverless
5 55 (50.93%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (38.89%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (26.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (26.85%) GitHub
9 27 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 25 (23.15%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (18.52%) Amazon Kinesis
11 20 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (13.89%) Azure
13 14 (12.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (12.96%) Route 53
14 12 (11.11%) AWS KMS
15 10 (9.26%) Amazon ELB
15 10 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.04%) DNS
2 12 (11.11%) Firewall
3 11 (10.19%) HTTP
4 10 (9.26%) FTP
4 10 (9.26%) IMAP
4 10 (9.26%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (9.26%) SMTP
4 10 (9.26%) SSH
5 2 (1.85%) VPN
6 1 (0.93%) Internet
6 1 (0.93%) NAS
6 1 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (47.22%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (18.52%) DynamoDB
4 16 (14.81%) MySQL
5 13 (12.04%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (9.26%) SQL Server
7 8 (7.41%) NoSQL
8 7 (6.48%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (6.48%) Hadoop
9 6 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (5.56%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.63%) RDBMS
10 5 (4.63%) Redis
11 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.70%) DB2
11 4 (3.70%) Metadata
11 4 (3.70%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (34.26%) Jenkins
2 35 (32.41%) Git
3 16 (14.81%) JIRA
4 14 (12.96%) GitLab
5 12 (11.11%) JUnit
5 12 (11.11%) Maven
6 10 (9.26%) Vagrant
7 6 (5.56%) Cypress.io
7 6 (5.56%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.70%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.78%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.78%) Mockito
10 2 (1.85%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.93%) DbUnit
11 1 (0.93%) ERwin
11 1 (0.93%) jMock
11 1 (0.93%) RStudio
General
1 43 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.59%) Public Sector
3 18 (16.67%) Finance
4 10 (9.26%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.41%) Banking
7 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Front Office
9 1 (0.93%) Games
9 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (28.70%) AWS Engineer
2 29 (26.85%) Developer
3 27 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (20.37%) Senior
5 20 (18.52%) AWS DevOps
6 17 (15.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 15 (13.89%) Java Developer
8 13 (12.04%) AWS Developer
9 12 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (10.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 11 (10.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (9.26%) Software Engineer
12 8 (7.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 8 (7.41%) Senior Developer
13 7 (6.48%) Senior Java Developer
14 6 (5.56%) Architect
14 6 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (5.56%) Java Engineer
15 5 (4.63%) Senior DevOps
15 5 (4.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.44%) Kafka
2 17 (15.74%) Spring
3 16 (14.81%) Node.js
4 13 (12.04%) RESTful
4 13 (12.04%) Spring Boot
5 11 (10.19%) Jest
6 10 (9.26%) LDAP
6 10 (9.26%) React
7 8 (7.41%) CSS
7 8 (7.41%) REST
8 7 (6.48%) Sass
9 6 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (5.56%) Enzyme
10 5 (4.63%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.63%) SOAP
11 4 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (3.70%) JPA
12 3 (2.78%) Bootstrap
12 3 (2.78%) Hibernate
12 3 (2.78%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.81%) Replication
2 15 (13.89%) Cloud Native
3 12 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.48%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.63%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.85%) Derivative
7 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.93%) Equities
8 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.93%) NHS
8 1 (0.93%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 23 (21.30%) Linux
2 12 (11.11%) Windows
3 11 (10.19%) VMS
4 10 (9.26%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (9.26%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.93%) AIX
5 1 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Solaris
5 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (59.26%) CI/CD
2 53 (49.07%) DevOps
3 37 (34.26%) Agile
4 33 (30.56%) Containerisation
5 32 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (27.78%) Microservices
7 18 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 18 (16.67%) Configuration Management
8 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (14.81%) Change Management
9 16 (14.81%) Software Engineering
10 14 (12.96%) Analytics
10 14 (12.96%) Migration
10 14 (12.96%) Test Automation
11 13 (12.04%) Clean Code
11 13 (12.04%) Observability
11 13 (12.04%) Secrets Management
12 12 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 12 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (49.07%) Python
2 38 (35.19%) SQL
3 33 (30.56%) Java
4 17 (15.74%) PowerShell
5 16 (14.81%) Bash
6 14 (12.96%) Groovy
6 14 (12.96%) TypeScript
7 13 (12.04%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.56%) JSX
9 3 (2.78%) Go
10 2 (1.85%) Perl
10 2 (1.85%) Ruby
11 1 (0.93%) Bicep
11 1 (0.93%) C#
11 1 (0.93%) COBOL
11 1 (0.93%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) R
11 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 30 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 24 (22.22%) AWS Certification
4 18 (16.67%) Degree
5 10 (9.26%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.63%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) GDPR
3 2 (1.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.93%) GxP
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) NCSC
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (43.52%) Docker
2 11 (10.19%) Postfix
3 10 (9.26%) DFS Replication
3 10 (9.26%) Dovecot
3 10 (9.26%) Squid
4 2 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (47.22%) Terraform
2 27 (25.00%) Grafana
2 27 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 20 (18.52%) Prometheus
4 13 (12.04%) Ansible
5 10 (9.26%) Nessus
5 10 (9.26%) Proxmox
6 7 (6.48%) Puppet
7 4 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.78%) Rancher
9 2 (1.85%) Kibana
10 1 (0.93%) Argo
10 1 (0.93%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.93%) Istio
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 17 (15.74%) ServiceNow
2 11 (10.19%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (7.41%) Oracle
4 7 (6.48%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (4.63%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.70%) PagerDuty
7 4 (3.70%) Sybase
8 3 (2.78%) IBM
8 3 (2.78%) Splunk
9 2 (1.85%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.85%) Pega
10 1 (0.93%) Charles River
10 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.93%) Confluent
10 1 (0.93%) Databricks
10 1 (0.93%) Murex
10 1 (0.93%) NetApp
10 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.93%) Sage