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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 229 280
Rank change year-on-year -77 +51 -9
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 138 141 114
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.05% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.82% 4.94% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 97 78
10th Percentile £413 £419 £414
25th Percentile £456 £475 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +7.86% -10.38%
75th Percentile £658 £630 £655
90th Percentile £775 £664 £700
England median daily rate £523 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -1.42% -1.49% -10.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 3,614 2,856 3,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.00% 21.24% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,446 1,999 2,817
10th Percentile £364 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £513 £547
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.31% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 34 24
10th Percentile £17.72 £25.40 £32.29
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.22 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £48.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.48% -16.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £85.25 £77.63
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.87% -0.53% -36.36%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 21 £530 -3.37% 3
Central London -6 18 £625 +7.76%
West London - 10 £763 - 1
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 10 (7.25%) Confluence
2 7 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.62%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.17%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.45%) Camunda
7 1 (0.72%) Apache
7 1 (0.72%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 136 (98.55%) AWS
2 98 (71.01%) Amazon S3
3 83 (60.14%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (57.97%) Serverless
5 56 (40.58%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (38.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 42 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (28.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 38 (27.54%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (16.67%) GitHub
11 22 (15.94%) Azure
12 20 (14.49%) AWS KMS
13 15 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (10.14%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (8.70%) GCP
16 11 (7.97%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (7.25%) Amazon Bedrock
17 10 (7.25%) Amazon EventBridge
17 10 (7.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.52%) Firewall
2 5 (3.62%) DHCP
2 5 (3.62%) DNS
3 4 (2.90%) SMTP
3 4 (2.90%) VPN
4 3 (2.17%) Network Security
5 1 (0.72%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.54%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (21.01%) Amazon Aurora
3 28 (20.29%) DynamoDB
4 16 (11.59%) MongoDB
5 13 (9.42%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (7.97%) Big Data
6 11 (7.97%) SQL Server
7 10 (7.25%) MySQL
8 9 (6.52%) Redis
9 7 (5.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (5.07%) NoSQL
9 7 (5.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (4.35%) Power BI
11 4 (2.90%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.90%) Tableau
12 3 (2.17%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.17%) Db2
12 3 (2.17%) Presto
Development Applications
1 34 (24.64%) Jenkins
2 22 (15.94%) Git
3 20 (14.49%) GitLab
4 16 (11.59%) JIRA
5 9 (6.52%) Bitbucket
5 9 (6.52%) JUnit
6 8 (5.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (5.07%) Mockito
8 5 (3.62%) Postman
8 5 (3.62%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.90%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.90%) SonarQube
10 3 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (2.17%) DbUnit
10 3 (2.17%) jMock
10 3 (2.17%) Maven
11 2 (1.45%) git-flow
12 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.72%) Selenium
12 1 (0.72%) Snyk
General
1 46 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.46%) Public Sector
3 29 (21.01%) Finance
4 20 (14.49%) Banking
5 13 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.62%) Back Office
6 5 (3.62%) Front Office
7 3 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.45%) Law
8 2 (1.45%) Local Government
8 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (18.84%) AWS Engineer
2 21 (15.22%) Data Engineer
2 21 (15.22%) Developer
2 21 (15.22%) Senior
3 18 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (12.32%) DBA
4 17 (12.32%) Lead
5 12 (8.70%) Architect
6 11 (7.97%) Administrator
6 11 (7.97%) Technical Leader
7 10 (7.25%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (6.52%) AWS Architect
9 8 (5.80%) AWS Data Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Java Developer
10 7 (5.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) AWS Developer
11 6 (4.35%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.84%) React
2 17 (12.32%) REST
3 16 (11.59%) Node.js
3 16 (11.59%) Spring
3 16 (11.59%) Spring Boot
4 14 (10.14%) RESTful
5 13 (9.42%) AngularJS
5 13 (9.42%) FastAPI
6 12 (8.70%) Kafka
7 8 (5.80%) JSON
8 7 (5.07%) SOAP
9 6 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (3.62%) Langfuse
10 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (2.90%) Django
11 4 (2.90%) Gherkin
11 4 (2.90%) Next.js
11 4 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (2.90%) WireMock
11 4 (2.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (27.54%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.59%) Replication
3 12 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.80%) Virtual Team
5 7 (5.07%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
6 6 (4.35%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.62%) PKI
8 4 (2.90%) Clustering
8 4 (2.90%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.90%) NHS
9 3 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.45%) Derivative
10 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.45%) Equities
10 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.29%) Linux
2 6 (4.35%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.62%) Windows
3 5 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 59 (42.75%) Agile
3 57 (41.30%) DevOps
4 55 (39.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (21.74%) Data Modelling
5 30 (21.74%) Microservices
6 28 (20.29%) Performance Tuning
6 28 (20.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (18.84%) Containerisation
7 26 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (15.94%) Event-Driven
9 20 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (14.49%) Root Cause Analysis
9 20 (14.49%) Technical Leadership
9 20 (14.49%) Test Automation
10 19 (13.77%) Data Engineering
10 19 (13.77%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (13.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 19 (13.77%) Secrets Management
11 18 (13.04%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 66 (47.83%) Python
2 45 (32.61%) Java
3 43 (31.16%) SQL
4 16 (11.59%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.14%) Bash
5 14 (10.14%) PowerShell
6 12 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.35%) Groovy
7 6 (4.35%) Perl
8 5 (3.62%) C#
8 5 (3.62%) Scala
9 1 (0.72%) Bicep
9 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (44.20%) Security Cleared
2 50 (36.23%) SC Cleared
3 33 (23.91%) AWS Certification
4 20 (14.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (10.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (7.25%) Degree
7 9 (6.52%) DV Cleared
8 7 (5.07%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.17%) CISM
10 3 (2.17%) CISSP
11 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.45%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.45%) PMP
12 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.59%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.90%) NIST
3 3 (2.17%) PMO
4 2 (1.45%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) SLA
5 1 (0.72%) Solvency II
System Software
1 46 (33.33%) Docker
2 8 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.62%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.90%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.90%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.90%) Terminal Services
4 4 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.17%) Postfix
6 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 64 (46.38%) Terraform
2 45 (32.61%) Kubernetes
3 21 (15.22%) Grafana
4 18 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 13 (9.42%) Ansible
6 7 (5.07%) Istio
7 6 (4.35%) Argo
7 6 (4.35%) Kibana
8 4 (2.90%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.90%) vMotion
9 3 (2.17%) Nagios
9 3 (2.17%) Puppet
10 1 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.72%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 13 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.97%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.07%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.35%) Oracle
5 5 (3.62%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.62%) Citrix
5 5 (3.62%) VMware
6 4 (2.90%) Google
6 4 (2.90%) HP
6 4 (2.90%) Symantec
7 3 (2.17%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.17%) Brio
7 3 (2.17%) Databricks
7 3 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (2.17%) Splunk
8 2 (1.45%) Charles River
8 2 (1.45%) Murex
8 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.45%) Sybase
9 1 (0.72%) Dell