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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 246 277
Rank change year-on-year -57 +31 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 144 128 114
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.97% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.95% 4.55% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 83 79
10th Percentile £413 £425 £415
25th Percentile £456 £498 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.52% -10.33%
75th Percentile £725 £628 £653
90th Percentile £788 £656 £700
England median daily rate £533 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +1.43% -2.42% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -12.73% - -

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 3,646 2,812 3,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.18% 21.21% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,478 1,964 2,737
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £503 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.37% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 24
10th Percentile £18.48 £26.06 £25.40
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +4.48% -12.61%
75th Percentile £54.69 £66.13 £57.51
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.63
England median hourly rate £38.38 £38.23 £33.93
% change year-on-year +0.38% +12.67% -38.31%

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 3 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 3 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 22 £535 -2.46% 3
Central London -10 17 £663 +47.22% 10
West London - 12 £763 - 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 (9.03%) Confluence
2 10 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.47%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.08%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.39%) Camunda
6 2 (1.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.69%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 142 (98.61%) AWS
2 102 (70.83%) Amazon S3
3 81 (56.25%) AWS Lambda
4 78 (54.17%) Serverless
5 58 (40.28%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 43 (29.86%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (28.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 40 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (20.14%) Azure
11 22 (15.28%) AWS KMS
12 21 (14.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (13.89%) GitHub
14 14 (9.72%) GCP
14 14 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (8.33%) Snowflake
16 11 (7.64%) Amazon EventBridge
16 11 (7.64%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (7.64%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (6.94%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.33%) Firewall
2 7 (4.86%) DNS
3 6 (4.17%) SMTP
4 5 (3.47%) DHCP
5 4 (2.78%) VPN
6 3 (2.08%) Network Security
7 2 (1.39%) FTP
7 2 (1.39%) HTTP
7 2 (1.39%) IMAP
7 2 (1.39%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.39%) SSH
8 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (24.31%) Amazon Aurora
3 30 (20.83%) DynamoDB
4 18 (12.50%) MongoDB
5 14 (9.72%) SQL Server
6 12 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (7.64%) Big Data
7 11 (7.64%) MySQL
8 10 (6.94%) Redis
8 10 (6.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (4.17%) NoSQL
12 5 (3.47%) Metadata
12 5 (3.47%) Power BI
13 3 (2.08%) Apache Hudi
13 3 (2.08%) BigQuery
13 3 (2.08%) Presto
13 3 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (23.61%) Jenkins
2 25 (17.36%) Git
3 21 (14.58%) GitLab
4 18 (12.50%) JIRA
5 9 (6.25%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (4.17%) JUnit
7 6 (4.17%) Mockito
8 5 (3.47%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.78%) Postman
10 3 (2.08%) Maven
11 2 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (1.39%) DbUnit
11 2 (1.39%) jMock
11 2 (1.39%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.39%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.69%) git-flow
12 1 (0.69%) Gradle
General
1 52 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.14%) Public Sector
3 27 (18.75%) Finance
4 20 (13.89%) Banking
5 16 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.17%) Back Office
6 6 (4.17%) Front Office
7 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.08%) Billing
8 3 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Law
9 2 (1.39%) Local Government
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
2 23 (15.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (15.28%) Data Engineer
4 20 (13.89%) Senior
5 19 (13.19%) Developer
5 19 (13.19%) Lead
6 18 (12.50%) DBA
7 15 (10.42%) Architect
8 14 (9.72%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (9.03%) Technical Leader
10 12 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (7.64%) Administrator
12 9 (6.25%) AWS Architect
12 9 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (4.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 6 (4.17%) Java Developer
15 6 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
15 6 (4.17%) Python Developer
15 6 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (47.92%) Terraform
2 26 (18.06%) React
3 17 (11.81%) REST
4 15 (10.42%) FastAPI
4 15 (10.42%) Node.js
5 13 (9.03%) Spring
5 13 (9.03%) Spring Boot
6 12 (8.33%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.64%) RESTful
8 10 (6.94%) Kafka
9 8 (5.56%) JSON
10 5 (3.47%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (3.47%) Langfuse
10 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (3.47%) SOAP
11 4 (2.78%) Django
11 4 (2.78%) GraphQL
11 4 (2.78%) Next.js
11 4 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (26.39%) Cloud Native
2 22 (15.28%) Replication
3 15 (10.42%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.56%) Virtual Team
6 7 (4.86%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (4.17%) Fixed Income
7 6 (4.17%) PKI
8 4 (2.78%) Clustering
8 4 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.78%) NHS
8 4 (2.78%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.08%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.39%) Derivative
10 2 (1.39%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.83%) Linux
2 9 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (4.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.86%) Windows
4 6 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.08%) Unix
6 1 (0.69%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (61.81%) CI/CD
2 66 (45.83%) DevOps
3 64 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (42.36%) Agile
5 34 (23.61%) Data Modelling
6 33 (22.92%) Performance Tuning
7 31 (21.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (19.44%) Microservices
10 27 (18.75%) Containerisation
11 25 (17.36%) Observability
11 25 (17.36%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (16.67%) Event-Driven
13 23 (15.97%) Disaster Recovery
14 22 (15.28%) Root Cause Analysis
15 21 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (14.58%) High Availability
15 21 (14.58%) Test Automation
16 20 (13.89%) Data Integration
16 20 (13.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 71 (49.31%) Python
2 45 (31.25%) SQL
3 42 (29.17%) Java
4 17 (11.81%) TypeScript
5 16 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 14 (9.72%) Bash
7 11 (7.64%) JavaScript
8 10 (6.94%) Groovy
9 7 (4.86%) Perl
10 6 (4.17%) Scala
11 4 (2.78%) C#
12 1 (0.69%) Bicep
12 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (42.36%) Security Cleared
2 52 (36.11%) SC Cleared
3 37 (25.69%) AWS Certification
4 22 (15.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (9.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (8.33%) Degree
7 10 (6.94%) Azure Certification
8 9 (6.25%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.17%) CISM
9 6 (4.17%) CISSP
10 5 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (1.39%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.39%) PMP
13 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.17%) NIST
3 3 (2.08%) PMO
4 2 (1.39%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) SLA
5 1 (0.69%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (34.03%) Docker
2 9 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.47%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.78%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.78%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.78%) Postfix
4 4 (2.78%) Terminal Services
4 4 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.39%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.39%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.39%) Squid
6 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.69%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 44 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 26 (18.06%) Grafana
3 23 (15.97%) Prometheus
4 14 (9.72%) Ansible
5 7 (4.86%) Istio
6 6 (4.17%) Argo
6 6 (4.17%) Kibana
7 4 (2.78%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.78%) vMotion
8 3 (2.08%) Nagios
8 3 (2.08%) Puppet
9 2 (1.39%) Nessus
9 2 (1.39%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.69%) Rancher
10 1 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.72%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.86%) Oracle
3 7 (4.86%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.17%) Databricks
4 6 (4.17%) Google
5 5 (3.47%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.47%) Citrix
5 5 (3.47%) VMware
6 4 (2.78%) HP
6 4 (2.78%) Informatica
6 4 (2.78%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.78%) Symantec
7 3 (2.08%) Brio
7 3 (2.08%) Splunk
7 3 (2.08%) Talend
8 2 (1.39%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.39%) Charles River
8 2 (1.39%) GoldenSource
8 2 (1.39%) Red Hat