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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 263 282
Rank change year-on-year -33 +19 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 154 99 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 0.73% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.32% 3.44% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 54 78
10th Percentile £409 £400 £434
25th Percentile £450 £463 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.38%
75th Percentile £725 £629 £655
90th Percentile £779 £653 £700
England median daily rate £533 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +6.50% -7.06% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 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 3,564 2,878 3,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.59% 21.32% 22.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,453 1,990 2,603
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £713
90th Percentile £738 £815 £850
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £24.18 £28.12
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.28 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.32% +22.22% -12.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.38 £54.38
90th Percentile £69.13 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -4.11% +16.00% -29.91%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -2 20 £536 -2.28% 3
Central London -11 17 £700 +72.31% 14
West London - 17 £725 - 3
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 (8.44%) Confluence
2 12 (7.79%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.25%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.60%) nginx
5 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.95%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.30%) Camunda
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.65%) SAS
7 1 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.65%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (0.65%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 150 (97.40%) AWS
2 103 (66.88%) Amazon S3
3 80 (51.95%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (50.00%) Serverless
5 61 (39.61%) Amazon EC2
6 56 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 46 (29.87%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 41 (26.62%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (23.38%) Azure
11 24 (15.58%) AWS KMS
12 23 (14.94%) GitHub
13 22 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (11.04%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (9.74%) GCP
16 14 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
17 13 (8.44%) AWS Step Functions
18 12 (7.79%) Amazon SQS
19 11 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
19 11 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.44%) Firewall
2 9 (5.84%) DNS
3 6 (3.90%) VPN
4 5 (3.25%) Network Security
4 5 (3.25%) SMTP
5 4 (2.60%) DHCP
6 2 (1.30%) FTP
6 2 (1.30%) HTTP
6 2 (1.30%) IMAP
6 2 (1.30%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (1.30%) SSH
6 2 (1.30%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.65%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (27.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 31 (20.13%) DynamoDB
4 23 (14.94%) MongoDB
5 20 (12.99%) SQL Server
6 15 (9.74%) MySQL
7 14 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (7.79%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (7.79%) Redis
9 11 (7.14%) Big Data
9 11 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (5.19%) NoSQL
12 7 (4.55%) Metadata
13 4 (2.60%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.60%) Power BI
13 4 (2.60%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.95%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.95%) Presto
Development Applications
1 37 (24.03%) Jenkins
2 35 (22.73%) Git
3 25 (16.23%) GitLab
4 18 (11.69%) JIRA
5 12 (7.79%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (4.55%) JUnit
7 7 (4.55%) Mockito
8 6 (3.90%) Maven
9 5 (3.25%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.25%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.60%) Gradle
10 4 (2.60%) Postman
11 3 (1.95%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (1.30%) DbUnit
12 2 (1.30%) jMock
12 2 (1.30%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.65%) Flyway
13 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 56 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.48%) Finance
2 30 (19.48%) Public Sector
3 19 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (12.34%) Banking
4 10 (6.49%) Back Office
5 8 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.55%) Front Office
7 4 (2.60%) Local Government
8 3 (1.95%) Billing
8 3 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.95%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.95%) Law
8 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (20.13%) AWS Engineer
2 27 (17.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (17.53%) Senior
3 25 (16.23%) Data Engineer
4 23 (14.94%) DBA
5 20 (12.99%) Lead
6 18 (11.69%) Developer
7 16 (10.39%) Technical Leader
8 15 (9.74%) Architect
8 15 (9.74%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (9.09%) Administrator
10 13 (8.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (5.84%) Java Developer
13 8 (5.19%) AWS Architect
13 8 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (4.55%) Consultant
14 7 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
14 7 (4.55%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (51.30%) Terraform
2 22 (14.29%) React
2 22 (14.29%) REST
3 17 (11.04%) FastAPI
4 14 (9.09%) Kafka
5 13 (8.44%) Spring
5 13 (8.44%) Spring Boot
6 11 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 10 (6.49%) RESTful
8 9 (5.84%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (5.19%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (4.55%) JSON
10 7 (4.55%) Node.js
11 6 (3.90%) GraphQL
11 6 (3.90%) Hibernate
11 6 (3.90%) JPA
11 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (3.25%) .NET
12 5 (3.25%) OpenAPI
12 5 (3.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 27 (17.53%) Replication
3 14 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.55%) PKI
5 7 (4.55%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.55%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.90%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (3.25%) Reinsurance
8 4 (2.60%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.60%) Clustering
8 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.60%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.60%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.95%) NHS
9 3 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.30%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.08%) Linux
2 10 (6.49%) Windows
3 9 (5.84%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.25%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.60%) Unix
6 3 (1.95%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.65%) VMS
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 79 (51.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 76 (49.35%) DevOps
4 65 (42.21%) Agile
5 39 (25.32%) Performance Tuning
6 38 (24.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (24.03%) Data Modelling
8 36 (23.38%) Containerisation
8 36 (23.38%) Observability
9 32 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (19.48%) Event-Driven
11 29 (18.83%) Disaster Recovery
11 29 (18.83%) Root Cause Analysis
12 28 (18.18%) Microservices
12 28 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
13 27 (17.53%) Data Integration
14 26 (16.88%) Data Engineering
15 25 (16.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 25 (16.23%) Secrets Management
16 24 (15.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 80 (51.95%) Python
2 53 (34.42%) SQL
3 36 (23.38%) Java
4 20 (12.99%) PowerShell
5 18 (11.69%) Bash
5 18 (11.69%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.44%) Groovy
7 12 (7.79%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.55%) Perl
8 7 (4.55%) Scala
9 4 (2.60%) Bicep
9 4 (2.60%) C#
10 3 (1.95%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (41.56%) Security Cleared
2 57 (37.01%) SC Cleared
3 39 (25.32%) AWS Certification
4 24 (15.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (8.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (7.79%) Degree
7 11 (7.14%) Azure Certification
8 7 (4.55%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.90%) CISM
9 6 (3.90%) CISSP
9 6 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.30%) PMP
12 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.90%) NIST
3 3 (1.95%) QA
4 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) Solvency II
System Software
1 58 (37.66%) Docker
2 10 (6.49%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.60%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.60%) Postfix
3 4 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.95%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.95%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.95%) Terminal Services
4 3 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.30%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.30%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.30%) Squid
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 45 (29.22%) Kubernetes
2 33 (21.43%) Grafana
3 29 (18.83%) Prometheus
4 16 (10.39%) Ansible
5 7 (4.55%) Kibana
6 6 (3.90%) Istio
7 5 (3.25%) Puppet
8 4 (2.60%) Argo
9 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.95%) Nagios
9 3 (1.95%) Rancher
9 3 (1.95%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.95%) vMotion
10 2 (1.30%) Nessus
10 2 (1.30%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.39%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.14%) Oracle
4 7 (4.55%) Databricks
4 7 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.90%) Informatica
6 5 (3.25%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.25%) Google
7 4 (2.60%) Citrix
7 4 (2.60%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.60%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.60%) Talend
7 4 (2.60%) VMware
8 3 (1.95%) Brio
8 3 (1.95%) HP
8 3 (1.95%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.95%) Splunk
8 3 (1.95%) Symantec
9 2 (1.30%) GoldenSource
9 2 (1.30%) Zscaler