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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 253 265
Rank change year-on-year -46 +12 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 150 120 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.89% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.14% 4.18% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 76 75
10th Percentile £413 £419 £414
25th Percentile £450 £491 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.52% -10.33%
75th Percentile £728 £625 £653
90th Percentile £787 £654 £700
England median daily rate £533 £523 £538
% change year-on-year +1.91% -2.88% -6.43%
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 3,619 2,868 3,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.92% 21.29% 22.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,475 2,000 2,675
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £435 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £641 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 39 26
10th Percentile £18.74 £28.26 £26.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% +18.92% -13.95%
75th Percentile £57.50 £69.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £62.95 £87.50 £79.38
England median hourly rate £38.50 £44.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year -12.99% +22.07% -34.09%

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 18 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 18 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 -3 20 £535 -2.46% 4
Central London -12 18 £700 +16.67% 13
West London - 16 £725 - 2
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 (8.67%) Confluence
2 12 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.67%) nginx
5 3 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.00%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.33%) Camunda
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.67%) SAS
7 1 (0.67%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.67%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.67%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 146 (97.33%) AWS
2 101 (67.33%) Amazon S3
3 83 (55.33%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (53.33%) Serverless
5 58 (38.67%) Amazon EC2
6 55 (36.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 43 (28.67%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (28.00%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (24.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 32 (21.33%) Azure
11 24 (16.00%) GitHub
12 22 (14.67%) AWS KMS
13 21 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (10.00%) GCP
16 14 (9.33%) Amazon EventBridge
16 14 (9.33%) AWS Step Functions
17 13 (8.67%) Amazon SQS
18 12 (8.00%) Snowflake
19 11 (7.33%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.67%) Firewall
2 9 (6.00%) DNS
3 6 (4.00%) VPN
4 5 (3.33%) SMTP
5 4 (2.67%) DHCP
5 4 (2.67%) Network Security
6 2 (1.33%) FTP
6 2 (1.33%) HTTP
6 2 (1.33%) IMAP
6 2 (1.33%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (1.33%) SSH
6 2 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.67%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.67%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (32.67%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (24.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 33 (22.00%) DynamoDB
4 18 (12.00%) MongoDB
5 16 (10.67%) SQL Server
6 14 (9.33%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (8.00%) MySQL
8 11 (7.33%) Big Data
8 11 (7.33%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (7.33%) Redis
8 11 (7.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (4.67%) NoSQL
12 6 (4.00%) Metadata
13 4 (2.67%) BigQuery
14 3 (2.00%) Data Lake
14 3 (2.00%) Power BI
14 3 (2.00%) Presto
14 3 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (22.67%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.00%) Git
3 22 (14.67%) GitLab
4 18 (12.00%) JIRA
5 12 (8.00%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (4.00%) JUnit
7 6 (4.00%) Mockito
8 5 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.67%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.67%) Maven
9 4 (2.67%) Postman
10 3 (2.00%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.33%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (1.33%) DbUnit
11 2 (1.33%) Gradle
11 2 (1.33%) jMock
11 2 (1.33%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 53 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 29 (19.33%) Finance
4 19 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.67%) Banking
5 9 (6.00%) Back Office
6 8 (5.33%) Front Office
7 6 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.67%) Local Government
9 3 (2.00%) Billing
9 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.00%) Law
9 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.67%) Marketing
11 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (20.67%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 24 (16.00%) Senior
4 23 (15.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (14.00%) Lead
6 19 (12.67%) DBA
6 19 (12.67%) Developer
7 17 (11.33%) Architect
8 15 (10.00%) Technical Leader
9 14 (9.33%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (7.33%) Administrator
11 11 (7.33%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (6.00%) AWS Architect
13 8 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (4.67%) Consultant
14 7 (4.67%) Java Developer
14 7 (4.67%) Senior Data Engineer
15 6 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (48.67%) Terraform
2 26 (17.33%) React
3 19 (12.67%) REST
4 16 (10.67%) FastAPI
5 13 (8.67%) Node.js
5 13 (8.67%) Spring
5 13 (8.67%) Spring Boot
6 11 (7.33%) AngularJS
6 11 (7.33%) Kafka
6 11 (7.33%) RESTful
7 8 (5.33%) ActiveMQ
7 8 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (4.67%) JSON
9 6 (4.00%) .NET
10 5 (3.33%) GraphQL
10 5 (3.33%) Langfuse
10 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (2.67%) OpenAPI
11 4 (2.67%) SOAP
11 4 (2.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 23 (15.33%) Replication
3 13 (8.67%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.33%) Virtual Team
6 7 (4.67%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (3.33%) Fixed Income
8 5 (3.33%) PKI
8 5 (3.33%) Reinsurance
9 4 (2.67%) Clustering
9 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.67%) NHS
10 3 (2.00%) AI Agents
10 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (2.00%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.33%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 32 (21.33%) Linux
2 10 (6.67%) Windows
3 9 (6.00%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.33%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.67%) Unix
7 3 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.00%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.67%) VMS
8 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (60.67%) CI/CD
2 71 (47.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 70 (46.67%) DevOps
4 61 (40.67%) Agile
5 36 (24.00%) Data Modelling
5 36 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (23.33%) Performance Tuning
7 32 (21.33%) Containerisation
8 30 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (20.00%) Event-Driven
9 29 (19.33%) Observability
10 28 (18.67%) Microservices
10 28 (18.67%) Technical Leadership
11 26 (17.33%) Data Integration
12 25 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 24 (16.00%) Data Engineering
13 24 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (15.33%) Root Cause Analysis
15 22 (14.67%) Analytics
15 22 (14.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 76 (50.67%) Python
2 49 (32.67%) SQL
3 40 (26.67%) Java
4 19 (12.67%) TypeScript
5 18 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 15 (10.00%) Bash
7 14 (9.33%) JavaScript
8 12 (8.00%) Groovy
9 7 (4.67%) Perl
9 7 (4.67%) Scala
10 4 (2.67%) C#
11 2 (1.33%) Bicep
11 2 (1.33%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (38.67%) Security Cleared
2 51 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 39 (26.00%) AWS Certification
4 24 (16.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (9.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (8.00%) Degree
7 11 (7.33%) Azure Certification
8 7 (4.67%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.00%) CISM
9 6 (4.00%) CISSP
9 6 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.33%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.00%) NIST
3 3 (2.00%) QA
4 2 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) PMO
5 1 (0.67%) SLA
5 1 (0.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 52 (34.67%) Docker
2 10 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.67%) Postfix
3 4 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.00%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.00%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.33%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.33%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.33%) Squid
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 42 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 28 (18.67%) Grafana
3 24 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 14 (9.33%) Ansible
5 7 (4.67%) Kibana
6 6 (4.00%) Istio
7 5 (3.33%) Argo
8 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.00%) Nagios
8 3 (2.00%) Puppet
8 3 (2.00%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.00%) vMotion
9 2 (1.33%) Nessus
9 2 (1.33%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.33%) Rancher
10 1 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.67%) Oracle
4 7 (4.67%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.00%) Databricks
6 5 (3.33%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.33%) Google
6 5 (3.33%) Informatica
7 4 (2.67%) Citrix
7 4 (2.67%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.67%) Talend
7 4 (2.67%) VMware
8 3 (2.00%) Brio
8 3 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.00%) HP
8 3 (2.00%) Splunk
8 3 (2.00%) Symantec
9 2 (1.33%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.33%) GoldenSource
9 2 (1.33%) Palo Alto