Amazon RDS Contracts in London

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Amazon RDS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 283 264
Rank change year-on-year +47 -19 +100
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 125 122 234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.94% 0.69% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.38% 2.99% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 90 173
10th Percentile £414 £363 £450
25th Percentile £463 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £584 £663
90th Percentile £653 £689 £785
England median daily rate £543 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.33% -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £60.45
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +52.89%

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 2,855 4,078 5,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.50% 23.14% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,996 3,040 3,732
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 33 46
10th Percentile £25.40 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £29.07 £27.50 £35.44
Median hourly rate £42.00 £47.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -22.76% +11.82%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £82.88
90th Percentile £79.25 £71.40 £90.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £39.25 £58.05
% change year-on-year -13.38% -32.38% +53.56%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in London

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in London

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in London

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 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
Central London +6 14 £578 +10.00% 34
South London -8 6 £549 +22.23%
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.20%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.60%) Apache
2 7 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.80%) CMS
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 123 (98.40%) AWS
2 65 (52.00%) Amazon S3
3 60 (48.00%) Serverless
4 58 (46.40%) AWS Lambda
5 55 (44.00%) Amazon EC2
6 47 (37.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 39 (31.20%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (12.80%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (10.40%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (10.40%) AWS Step Functions
11 11 (8.80%) GitHub
12 10 (8.00%) Azure
13 8 (6.40%) AWS Fargate
14 7 (5.60%) GCP
14 7 (5.60%) Route 53
15 6 (4.80%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (4.80%) AWS CodePipeline
16 4 (3.20%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.40%) DNS
2 13 (10.40%) TCP/IP
3 12 (9.60%) VPN
4 9 (7.20%) HTTP
5 8 (6.40%) Internet
6 6 (4.80%) DHCP
6 6 (4.80%) Firewall
7 2 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.80%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.80%) NAS
8 1 (0.80%) SAN
8 1 (0.80%) SMS
8 1 (0.80%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (34.40%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (18.40%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (15.20%) DynamoDB
4 14 (11.20%) Relational Database
5 9 (7.20%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (7.20%) Big Data
5 9 (7.20%) NoSQL
6 8 (6.40%) MySQL
6 8 (6.40%) Oracle Database
7 7 (5.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (4.00%) Hadoop
10 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
10 4 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.40%) DB2
11 3 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (1.60%) DataStage
12 2 (1.60%) Metadata
12 2 (1.60%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 23 (18.40%) Jenkins
2 14 (11.20%) GitLab
3 13 (10.40%) Git
4 9 (7.20%) JUnit
5 8 (6.40%) Maven
6 5 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.20%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.40%) Mockito
9 2 (1.60%) JIRA
9 2 (1.60%) Postman
9 2 (1.60%) Selenium
10 1 (0.80%) Ant
10 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.80%) DbUnit
10 1 (0.80%) ERwin
10 1 (0.80%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.80%) jMock
10 1 (0.80%) Storybook
General
1 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 30 (24.00%) Public Sector
3 25 (20.00%) Finance
4 19 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.00%) Billing
6 3 (2.40%) Banking
7 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.80%) Local Government
7 1 (0.80%) Marketing
7 1 (0.80%) Police
7 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (26.40%) Developer
2 27 (21.60%) Senior
3 25 (20.00%) Architect
4 22 (17.60%) AWS Architect
5 21 (16.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (13.60%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (10.40%) Data Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) .NET Developer
9 11 (8.80%) Java Developer
10 10 (8.00%) AWS Developer
10 10 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Lead
11 9 (7.20%) Cloud Developer
11 9 (7.20%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (6.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (5.60%) Senior Developer
14 6 (4.80%) AWS Data Engineer
14 6 (4.80%) C# Developer
14 6 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.20%) .NET
2 13 (10.40%) Spring
3 12 (9.60%) .NET Framework
3 12 (9.60%) Entity Framework
4 11 (8.80%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (8.80%) REST
5 10 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 7 (5.60%) Node.js
7 6 (4.80%) Jest
7 6 (4.80%) Kafka
7 6 (4.80%) RESTful
8 5 (4.00%) React
8 5 (4.00%) SOAP
9 4 (3.20%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (3.20%) AWS CDK
9 4 (3.20%) Hibernate
9 4 (3.20%) JPA
9 4 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.40%) GraphQL
10 3 (2.40%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.20%) PKI
3 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.60%) Clustering
4 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.80%) Derivative
5 1 (0.80%) Replication
5 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.20%) Linux
2 10 (8.00%) Windows
3 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.60%) Unix
4 2 (1.60%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (46.40%) Containerisation
2 47 (37.60%) DevOps
3 45 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 40 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (24.80%) High Availability
6 25 (20.00%) Agile
7 24 (19.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (16.00%) Open Source
9 16 (12.80%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (12.80%) Microservices
9 16 (12.80%) Migration
10 15 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (12.00%) Mentoring
11 14 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (10.40%) Data Engineering
12 13 (10.40%) ETL
13 12 (9.60%) Analytics
14 11 (8.80%) Data Modelling
14 11 (8.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (32.00%) Python
2 33 (26.40%) SQL
3 28 (22.40%) Java
4 14 (11.20%) C#
5 13 (10.40%) PowerShell
6 12 (9.60%) PL/SQL
7 11 (8.80%) RPG
7 11 (8.80%) RPG IV
8 10 (8.00%) Bash
8 10 (8.00%) TypeScript
9 8 (6.40%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.40%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.60%) C++
11 2 (1.60%) Go
11 2 (1.60%) Perl
11 2 (1.60%) Rust
11 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (42.40%) Security Cleared
2 49 (39.20%) SC Cleared
3 32 (25.60%) AWS Certification
4 25 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.60%) Degree
6 6 (4.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.80%) OCP
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.80%) VCAP
9 1 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.00%) GDPR
2 4 (3.20%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.20%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.20%) QA
3 3 (2.40%) NCSC
4 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (40.80%) Docker
2 6 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.80%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.80%) Postfix
5 1 (0.80%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.80%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (38.40%) Kubernetes
2 40 (32.00%) Terraform
3 21 (16.80%) Ansible
4 16 (12.80%) Puppet
5 15 (12.00%) Progress Chef
6 12 (9.60%) Grafana
6 12 (9.60%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.60%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.60%) Nagios
10 1 (0.80%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.80%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.80%) vMotion
Vendors
1 14 (11.20%) Oracle
2 8 (6.40%) Red Hat
3 7 (5.60%) Google
3 7 (5.60%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.20%) CA Agile Central
4 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.20%) Solace
4 4 (3.20%) TIBCO
5 3 (2.40%) IBM
5 3 (2.40%) VMware
6 2 (1.60%) Databricks
6 2 (1.60%) Informatica
6 2 (1.60%) Pega
6 2 (1.60%) QAD
7 1 (0.80%) Citrix
7 1 (0.80%) HP
7 1 (0.80%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.80%) Sybase
7 1 (0.80%) Symantec
7 1 (0.80%) Virgin Media