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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 264 281
Rank change year-on-year -34 +17 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 155 105 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 0.78% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.30% 3.64% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 59 75
10th Percentile £406 £400 £419
25th Percentile £450 £466 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £738 £628 £666
90th Percentile £784 £660 £700
England median daily rate £533 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +6.50% -7.06% -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 3,607 2,882 3,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.73% 21.40% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,482 1,994 2,586
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £426 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £649 £675 £724
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
England median daily rate £505 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 38 23
10th Percentile £18.23 £24.02 £28.12
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +19.44% -10.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £54.38
90th Percentile £69.25 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% +11.99% -28.57%

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 1 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 1 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 19 £536 -2.28% 2
Central London -23 17 £700 +60.00% 13
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 (8.39%) Confluence
2 12 (7.74%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.58%) nginx
5 3 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.94%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.29%) 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 2 (1.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.65%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 151 (97.42%) AWS
2 106 (68.39%) Amazon S3
3 83 (53.55%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (51.61%) Serverless
5 62 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
6 57 (36.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 48 (30.97%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (28.39%) Amazon ECS
9 41 (26.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 36 (23.23%) Azure
11 24 (15.48%) GitHub
12 23 (14.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (14.84%) AWS KMS
13 18 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (9.68%) GCP
15 14 (9.03%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (8.39%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (7.74%) Amazon SQS
17 12 (7.74%) Snowflake
18 11 (7.10%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.39%) Firewall
2 9 (5.81%) DNS
3 6 (3.87%) VPN
4 5 (3.23%) Network Security
4 5 (3.23%) SMTP
5 4 (2.58%) DHCP
6 2 (1.29%) FTP
6 2 (1.29%) HTTP
6 2 (1.29%) IMAP
6 2 (1.29%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (1.29%) SSH
6 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.65%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (33.55%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (25.16%) Amazon Aurora
3 32 (20.65%) DynamoDB
4 22 (14.19%) MongoDB
5 18 (11.61%) SQL Server
6 14 (9.03%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (9.03%) MySQL
7 12 (7.74%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (7.74%) Redis
8 11 (7.10%) Big Data
8 11 (7.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (5.16%) NoSQL
11 7 (4.52%) Metadata
12 4 (2.58%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.58%) Power BI
13 3 (1.94%) Presto
13 3 (1.94%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.94%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 37 (23.87%) Jenkins
2 34 (21.94%) Git
3 25 (16.13%) GitLab
4 17 (10.97%) JIRA
5 12 (7.74%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (4.52%) JUnit
7 7 (4.52%) Mockito
8 5 (3.23%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.23%) Maven
8 5 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.58%) Postman
10 3 (1.94%) Gradle
10 3 (1.94%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.29%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (1.29%) DbUnit
11 2 (1.29%) jMock
11 2 (1.29%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.65%) Flyway
General
1 55 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.71%) Finance
2 29 (18.71%) Public Sector
3 19 (12.26%) Banking
4 18 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.81%) Back Office
6 8 (5.16%) Front Office
6 8 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.58%) Local Government
8 3 (1.94%) Billing
8 3 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.94%) Law
8 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (20.65%) AWS Engineer
2 27 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (16.13%) Data Engineer
3 25 (16.13%) Senior
4 21 (13.55%) Lead
5 20 (12.90%) DBA
6 18 (11.61%) Architect
6 18 (11.61%) Developer
7 16 (10.32%) Technical Leader
8 15 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (8.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.74%) Administrator
11 11 (7.10%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (6.45%) AWS Architect
13 8 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (5.16%) Java Developer
14 7 (4.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (4.52%) Consultant
14 7 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (50.97%) Terraform
2 24 (15.48%) React
3 22 (14.19%) REST
4 17 (10.97%) FastAPI
5 15 (9.68%) Kafka
6 14 (9.03%) Spring
6 14 (9.03%) Spring Boot
7 11 (7.10%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.10%) RESTful
8 9 (5.81%) Node.js
8 9 (5.81%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (5.16%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (4.52%) JSON
11 6 (3.87%) .NET
11 6 (3.87%) GraphQL
11 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (3.23%) Hibernate
12 5 (3.23%) JPA
12 5 (3.23%) Keycloak
12 5 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (29.68%) Cloud Native
2 25 (16.13%) Replication
3 15 (9.68%) Product Ownership
4 12 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.16%) Virtual Team
6 7 (4.52%) PKI
6 7 (4.52%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.87%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (3.23%) Fixed Income
8 5 (3.23%) Reinsurance
9 4 (2.58%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.58%) Clustering
9 4 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.58%) NHS
10 3 (1.94%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.94%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.29%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.94%) Linux
2 10 (6.45%) Windows
3 9 (5.81%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (5.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.58%) Unix
6 3 (1.94%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.65%) VMS
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 80 (51.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 79 (50.97%) DevOps
4 67 (43.23%) Agile
5 38 (24.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (23.87%) Containerisation
7 36 (23.23%) Performance Tuning
8 35 (22.58%) Data Modelling
8 35 (22.58%) Observability
9 33 (21.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (20.00%) Event-Driven
10 31 (20.00%) Microservices
11 29 (18.71%) Technical Leadership
12 27 (17.42%) Data Integration
12 27 (17.42%) Root Cause Analysis
13 26 (16.77%) Data Engineering
13 26 (16.77%) Disaster Recovery
13 26 (16.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 24 (15.48%) Secrets Management
15 23 (14.84%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 81 (52.26%) Python
2 51 (32.90%) SQL
3 39 (25.16%) Java
4 20 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 18 (11.61%) Bash
5 18 (11.61%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.39%) Groovy
6 13 (8.39%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.52%) Perl
7 7 (4.52%) Scala
8 4 (2.58%) Bicep
8 4 (2.58%) C#
9 3 (1.94%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 55 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 38 (24.52%) AWS Certification
4 23 (14.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (9.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (8.39%) Degree
7 11 (7.10%) Azure Certification
8 7 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.52%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.87%) CISM
9 6 (3.87%) CISSP
10 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.29%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.29%) PMP
12 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.87%) NIST
3 3 (1.94%) QA
4 2 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) Solvency II
System Software
1 59 (38.06%) Docker
2 10 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.58%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.58%) Postfix
3 4 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.94%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.94%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.94%) Terminal Services
4 3 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.29%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.29%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.29%) Squid
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 48 (30.97%) Kubernetes
2 33 (21.29%) Grafana
3 29 (18.71%) Prometheus
4 16 (10.32%) Ansible
5 7 (4.52%) Kibana
6 6 (3.87%) Istio
7 5 (3.23%) Argo
7 5 (3.23%) Puppet
8 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.94%) Nagios
8 3 (1.94%) Rancher
8 3 (1.94%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.94%) vMotion
9 2 (1.29%) Nessus
9 2 (1.29%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.32%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.10%) Oracle
4 7 (4.52%) Databricks
4 7 (4.52%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.87%) Informatica
6 5 (3.23%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.23%) Google
7 4 (2.58%) Citrix
7 4 (2.58%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.58%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.58%) Talend
7 4 (2.58%) VMware
8 3 (1.94%) Brio
8 3 (1.94%) HP
8 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.94%) Splunk
8 3 (1.94%) Symantec
9 2 (1.29%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.29%) WSO2