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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 227 257
Rank change year-on-year -38 +30 -11
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 119 134 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 0.96% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.02% 4.46% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 83 103
10th Percentile £363 £438 £405
25th Percentile £417 £503 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% +6.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £600 £788 £613
90th Percentile £675 - £774
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £89.00 - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 2,961 3,004 3,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.99% 21.63% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,041 2,045 2,609
10th Percentile £353 £369 £381
25th Percentile £415 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -8.26% +0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 31 43
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.41 £28.60 £26.02
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -2.35% -22.73%
75th Percentile £74.25 £58.25 £53.94
90th Percentile £89.25 £78.75 £64.35
England median hourly rate £46.50 £39.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year +19.23% -7.90% -27.53%

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 30 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon RDS in London over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 January 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 -5 16 £500 -7.06% 3
Central London -7 7 £448 -22.17% 12
West London - 3 - - 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 (10.08%) Confluence
2 8 (6.72%) nginx
3 1 (0.84%) Apache
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.84%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (6.72%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 81 (68.07%) Amazon S3
3 65 (54.62%) AWS Lambda
3 65 (54.62%) Serverless
4 60 (50.42%) Amazon EC2
5 48 (40.34%) Amazon ECS
6 45 (37.82%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (36.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 39 (32.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 36 (30.25%) GitHub
10 34 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (22.69%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (18.49%) Amazon Kinesis
13 20 (16.81%) Route 53
14 14 (11.76%) Azure
14 14 (11.76%) Datadog
15 13 (10.92%) AWS Step Functions
16 11 (9.24%) Amazon Cognito
16 11 (9.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 11 (9.24%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.92%) DNS
2 10 (8.40%) Firewall
3 8 (6.72%) FTP
3 8 (6.72%) HTTP
3 8 (6.72%) IMAP
3 8 (6.72%) OpenLDAP
3 8 (6.72%) SMTP
3 8 (6.72%) SSH
4 2 (1.68%) VPN
5 1 (0.84%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (34.45%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (21.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 21 (17.65%) MySQL
4 17 (14.29%) DynamoDB
5 14 (11.76%) SQL Server
6 12 (10.08%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (10.08%) NoSQL
7 11 (9.24%) Redis
8 10 (8.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (7.56%) Hadoop
10 8 (6.72%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (5.04%) Relational Database
12 5 (4.20%) DB2
12 5 (4.20%) DocumentDB
12 5 (4.20%) MongoDB
13 4 (3.36%) RDBMS
14 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (2.52%) Oracle Database
14 3 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
15 2 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (34.45%) Jenkins
2 33 (27.73%) Git
3 20 (16.81%) GitLab
4 15 (12.61%) JIRA
5 8 (6.72%) Vagrant
6 6 (5.04%) Cypress.io
6 6 (5.04%) JUnit
7 4 (3.36%) Maven
7 4 (3.36%) Snyk
8 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.52%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.52%) git-flow
9 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.68%) Storybook
10 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.84%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.84%) Mockito
10 1 (0.84%) Postman
10 1 (0.84%) RStudio
10 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.49%) Finance
3 18 (15.13%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.40%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (6.72%) Banking
6 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Military
8 1 (0.84%) Front Office
8 1 (0.84%) Games
8 1 (0.84%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.84%) Legal
8 1 (0.84%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (24.37%) AWS Engineer
2 26 (21.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (18.49%) Developer
4 20 (16.81%) Senior
5 17 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (10.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) Software Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (9.24%) Architect
8 11 (9.24%) AWS Developer
9 9 (7.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 9 (7.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.72%) Java Engineer
11 7 (5.88%) AWS Architect
11 7 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.88%) Java Developer
11 7 (5.88%) Senior Developer
12 6 (5.04%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (5.04%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (5.04%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (27.73%) Kafka
2 15 (12.61%) React
2 15 (12.61%) RESTful
3 14 (11.76%) Spring
4 13 (10.92%) Spring Boot
5 12 (10.08%) Node.js
6 10 (8.40%) CSS
7 8 (6.72%) LDAP
7 8 (6.72%) REST
8 7 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (5.88%) FastAPI
8 7 (5.88%) Jest
8 7 (5.88%) Sass
9 6 (5.04%) Enzyme
9 6 (5.04%) Next.js
10 5 (4.20%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.20%) Flask
10 5 (4.20%) OAuth2
10 5 (4.20%) OpenID
10 5 (4.20%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.17%) Cloud Native
2 18 (15.13%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (13.45%) Replication
4 7 (5.88%) Virtual Team
5 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.36%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.68%) Derivative
8 2 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.84%) Clustering
9 1 (0.84%) Equities
9 1 (0.84%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.84%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.85%) Linux
2 10 (8.40%) Windows
3 9 (7.56%) VMS
4 8 (6.72%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (6.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.84%) Android
5 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (66.39%) CI/CD
2 60 (50.42%) DevOps
3 52 (43.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (35.29%) Agile
5 37 (31.09%) Containerisation
6 34 (28.57%) Microservices
7 23 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.49%) Observability
9 20 (16.81%) Software Engineering
10 19 (15.97%) Configuration Management
11 18 (15.13%) Cloud Security
12 17 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (13.45%) Event-Driven
13 16 (13.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 15 (12.61%) Change Management
14 15 (12.61%) Design Patterns
14 15 (12.61%) Fintech
14 15 (12.61%) Secrets Management
15 14 (11.76%) Analytics
16 13 (10.92%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (52.10%) Python
2 43 (36.13%) SQL
3 31 (26.05%) Java
4 23 (19.33%) Bash
5 14 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 13 (10.92%) Groovy
7 12 (10.08%) JavaScript
8 9 (7.56%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.04%) JSX
10 5 (4.20%) Go
11 3 (2.52%) C#
11 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.52%) Ruby
12 2 (1.68%) Perl
12 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.84%) Bicep
13 1 (0.84%) PHP
13 1 (0.84%) R
13 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (30.25%) Security Cleared
2 32 (26.89%) SC Cleared
3 24 (20.17%) AWS Certification
4 14 (11.76%) Degree
5 8 (6.72%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.68%) PMP
10 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.84%) CEH
10 1 (0.84%) CISSP
10 1 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.84%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) NIST
2 5 (4.20%) GDPR
2 5 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.20%) QA
3 4 (3.36%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.84%) GxP
5 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.84%) NCSC
5 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (45.38%) Docker
2 8 (6.72%) DFS Replication
2 8 (6.72%) Dovecot
2 8 (6.72%) Postfix
2 8 (6.72%) Squid
3 2 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 66 (55.46%) Terraform
2 37 (31.09%) Kubernetes
3 22 (18.49%) Grafana
4 17 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.08%) Ansible
6 8 (6.72%) Nessus
6 8 (6.72%) Proxmox
7 7 (5.88%) Puppet
8 4 (3.36%) Rancher
9 3 (2.52%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (2.52%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.68%) Kibana
11 1 (0.84%) Argo
11 1 (0.84%) Istio
11 1 (0.84%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) ServiceNow
2 8 (6.72%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.88%) Oracle
4 6 (5.04%) Dynatrace
4 6 (5.04%) PagerDuty
4 6 (5.04%) Sybase
5 3 (2.52%) AVEVA
5 3 (2.52%) Qualys
5 3 (2.52%) Tenable
6 2 (1.68%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.68%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.68%) Databricks
6 2 (1.68%) Splunk
7 1 (0.84%) Confluent
7 1 (0.84%) Netlify
7 1 (0.84%) Percona
7 1 (0.84%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.84%) Talend
7 1 (0.84%) Virgin Media