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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 231 284
Rank change year-on-year -49 +53 -49
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 140 121 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.97% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.14% 4.43% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 91 87
10th Percentile £355 £419 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £719 £653 £680
England median daily rate £500 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% -14.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
England median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -6.88% - -

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 3,383 2,733 4,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.83% 21.90% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,288 1,918 2,991
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £719
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 30 34
10th Percentile £17.94 £24.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.57 £29.07 £25.63
Median hourly rate £47.25 £39.31 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% -15.02% -13.95%
75th Percentile £61.19 £61.19 £54.03
90th Percentile £82.50 £80.75 £70.85
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.49% -13.75% -31.73%

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 June 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 June 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 +8 22 £463 -5.13%
Central London -18 16 £575 -0.43% 2
West London - 8 £775 - 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 12 (8.57%) Confluence
2 6 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.14%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.71%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 138 (98.57%) AWS
2 99 (70.71%) Amazon S3
3 82 (58.57%) AWS Lambda
4 79 (56.43%) Serverless
5 65 (46.43%) Amazon EC2
6 50 (35.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 45 (32.14%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
8 40 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 30 (21.43%) GitHub
10 21 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (15.00%) Azure
11 18 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (10.71%) Route 53
13 12 (8.57%) AWS KMS
14 11 (7.86%) Power Platform
15 10 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (7.14%) CloudFront
16 9 (6.43%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.43%) DNS
2 7 (5.00%) Firewall
3 5 (3.57%) DHCP
4 4 (2.86%) SMTP
4 4 (2.86%) VPN
5 3 (2.14%) Network Security
6 1 (0.71%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.86%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (20.71%) DynamoDB
3 22 (15.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 11 (7.86%) Power BI
6 10 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (7.14%) Big Data
6 10 (7.14%) MySQL
7 8 (5.71%) Tableau
8 7 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (5.00%) MongoDB
9 6 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.29%) Redis
9 6 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.86%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (2.86%) Db2
10 4 (2.86%) DocumentDB
10 4 (2.86%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.86%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (26.43%) Jenkins
2 27 (19.29%) Git
3 20 (14.29%) GitLab
4 17 (12.14%) JIRA
5 12 (8.57%) JUnit
6 8 (5.71%) Mockito
7 7 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (4.29%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.57%) git-flow
9 5 (3.57%) Postman
9 5 (3.57%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.86%) DbUnit
10 4 (2.86%) jMock
10 4 (2.86%) Maven
10 4 (2.86%) Snyk
11 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.43%) Storybook
12 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
General
1 39 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.71%) Public Sector
3 27 (19.29%) Finance
4 16 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.43%) Banking
5 8 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.14%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.43%) Front Office
7 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.43%) Law
7 2 (1.43%) Local Government
8 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Legal
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (20.00%) Developer
2 21 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (13.57%) Senior
4 17 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (10.71%) Architect
5 15 (10.71%) Lead
6 14 (10.00%) Data Engineer
7 12 (8.57%) AWS Architect
8 10 (7.14%) Analyst
8 10 (7.14%) AWS Developer
8 10 (7.14%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.43%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.43%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (5.71%) DBA
11 7 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.00%) Python Engineer
11 7 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.57%) React
2 22 (15.71%) Spring
2 22 (15.71%) Spring Boot
3 21 (15.00%) Kafka
3 21 (15.00%) REST
4 19 (13.57%) RESTful
5 18 (12.86%) Node.js
6 16 (11.43%) AngularJS
7 14 (10.00%) FastAPI
8 9 (6.43%) JSON
8 9 (6.43%) Next.js
9 8 (5.71%) Hibernate
9 8 (5.71%) JPA
9 8 (5.71%) SOAP
9 8 (5.71%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (4.29%) Django
11 6 (4.29%) Flask
11 6 (4.29%) Gherkin
11 6 (4.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.29%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.86%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.57%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.43%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.57%) Replication
6 4 (2.86%) Clustering
6 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.86%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.86%) NHS
6 4 (2.86%) PKI
7 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.43%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.71%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.14%) Linux
2 6 (4.29%) Windows
3 5 (3.57%) Unix
3 5 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (54.29%) CI/CD
2 71 (50.71%) Agile
3 59 (42.14%) DevOps
4 47 (33.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (29.29%) Microservices
6 38 (27.14%) Containerisation
7 25 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (16.43%) Performance Tuning
8 23 (16.43%) Scrum
9 21 (15.00%) Event-Driven
10 19 (13.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (12.86%) Test Automation
12 17 (12.14%) Decision-Making
12 17 (12.14%) Observability
13 16 (11.43%) Cloud Security
13 16 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
14 15 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 55 (39.29%) Python
2 51 (36.43%) Java
3 43 (30.71%) SQL
4 15 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.86%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.86%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.43%) Bash
7 6 (4.29%) C#
8 5 (3.57%) Scala
9 4 (2.86%) Groovy
9 4 (2.86%) Perl
10 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.14%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.43%) Go
12 1 (0.71%) Bicep
12 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 47 (33.57%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.14%) Degree
4 10 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.43%) PMP
11 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.00%) PMO
3 6 (4.29%) NIST
3 6 (4.29%) QA
4 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) Solvency II
System Software
1 57 (40.71%) Docker
2 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.86%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.86%) Terminal Services
4 4 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.14%) Postfix
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 58 (41.43%) Terraform
2 48 (34.29%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.43%) Grafana
4 14 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.14%) Ansible
6 4 (2.86%) Argo
6 4 (2.86%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.86%) vMotion
7 3 (2.14%) Istio
7 3 (2.14%) Kibana
7 3 (2.14%) Nagios
7 3 (2.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.71%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.71%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 10 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 10 (7.14%) Oracle
2 9 (6.43%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.29%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.57%) Citrix
4 5 (3.57%) Sybase
4 5 (3.57%) VMware
5 4 (2.86%) Amplitude
5 4 (2.86%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.86%) Google
5 4 (2.86%) HP
5 4 (2.86%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (2.86%) Symantec
6 3 (2.14%) AVEVA
6 3 (2.14%) Brio
6 3 (2.14%) Databricks
6 3 (2.14%) Splunk
7 2 (1.43%) Netlify
7 2 (1.43%) Qualys
7 2 (1.43%) Red Hat