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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 237 283
Rank change year-on-year -68 +46 -19
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 133 125 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.94% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.88% 4.38% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 94 90
10th Percentile £352 £414 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £584
90th Percentile £738 £653 £689
England median daily rate £500 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -7.83% +3.33% -12.50%
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 3,426 2,854 4,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.66% 21.49% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,314 1,995 3,040
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
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 28 34 33
10th Percentile £18.44 £25.40 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £27.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -11.58% -22.76%
75th Percentile £60.56 £61.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.25 £71.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.38% -32.38%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +9 19 £463 -15.68%
Central London -12 17 £625 +8.23% 4
West London - 8 £775 - 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 12 (9.02%) Confluence
2 6 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.76%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.26%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.75%) Apache
6 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 131 (98.50%) AWS
2 94 (70.68%) Amazon S3
3 80 (60.15%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (57.89%) Serverless
5 62 (46.62%) Amazon EC2
6 49 (36.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 45 (33.83%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 36 (27.07%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (18.80%) GitHub
11 21 (15.79%) Azure
12 18 (13.53%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (13.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (9.02%) AWS KMS
14 12 (9.02%) Route 53
15 11 (8.27%) Power Platform
16 10 (7.52%) Amazon Bedrock
16 10 (7.52%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (7.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.26%) Firewall
2 6 (4.51%) DNS
3 5 (3.76%) DHCP
4 4 (3.01%) SMTP
4 4 (3.01%) VPN
5 3 (2.26%) Network Security
6 1 (0.75%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.56%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (21.80%) DynamoDB
3 18 (13.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (9.02%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (8.27%) Big Data
5 11 (8.27%) Power BI
6 9 (6.77%) NoSQL
7 8 (6.02%) Tableau
8 7 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (5.26%) MongoDB
8 7 (5.26%) MySQL
9 6 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.01%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (3.01%) Db2
10 4 (3.01%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.26%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 26 (19.55%) Git
3 19 (14.29%) GitLab
4 18 (13.53%) JIRA
5 13 (9.77%) JUnit
6 9 (6.77%) Mockito
7 7 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (4.51%) Postman
9 5 (3.76%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.76%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.76%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (3.01%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (3.01%) DbUnit
10 4 (3.01%) jMock
10 4 (3.01%) Maven
11 3 (2.26%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.26%) git-flow
12 2 (1.50%) Snyk
13 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
General
1 35 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.56%) Finance
3 25 (18.80%) Public Sector
4 18 (13.53%) Banking
5 14 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Front Office
8 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.50%) Law
8 2 (1.50%) Local Government
9 1 (0.75%) Back Office
9 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (16.54%) Developer
2 19 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (14.29%) Senior
3 17 (12.78%) Lead
4 15 (11.28%) Data Engineer
5 14 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.02%) Architect
7 10 (7.52%) Analyst
7 10 (7.52%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.77%) AWS Architect
8 9 (6.77%) Technical Leader
9 8 (6.02%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (6.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (5.26%) AWS Developer
10 7 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.05%) React
2 19 (14.29%) Spring
2 19 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 18 (13.53%) Kafka
3 18 (13.53%) Node.js
3 18 (13.53%) REST
4 16 (12.03%) RESTful
5 13 (9.77%) AngularJS
6 11 (8.27%) FastAPI
7 9 (6.77%) SOAP
8 8 (6.02%) JSON
9 5 (3.76%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (3.76%) Gherkin
9 5 (3.76%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.76%) JPA
9 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (3.76%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (3.76%) WireMock
9 5 (3.76%) YAML
10 4 (3.01%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (27.82%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.03%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.02%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.52%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.76%) Cloud Security Posture
5 5 (3.76%) Replication
5 5 (3.76%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.01%) Clustering
6 4 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.01%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.01%) NHS
6 4 (3.01%) PKI
7 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.30%) Linux
2 6 (4.51%) Windows
3 5 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.76%) Unix
3 5 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.01%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (53.38%) CI/CD
2 66 (49.62%) Agile
3 51 (38.35%) DevOps
4 41 (30.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (28.57%) Microservices
6 32 (24.06%) Containerisation
7 26 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 19 (14.29%) Scrum
8 19 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 18 (13.53%) Decision-Making
9 18 (13.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 17 (12.78%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (12.03%) AI
11 16 (12.03%) Cloud Security
11 16 (12.03%) Data Modelling
11 16 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (11.28%) Observability
13 14 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 57 (42.86%) Python
2 48 (36.09%) Java
3 37 (27.82%) SQL
4 14 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.77%) TypeScript
6 12 (9.02%) Bash
6 12 (9.02%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.26%) C#
8 5 (3.76%) Scala
9 4 (3.01%) Groovy
9 4 (3.01%) Perl
10 3 (2.26%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.50%) Go
12 1 (0.75%) Bicep
12 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (39.10%) Security Cleared
2 44 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.04%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.52%) Degree
5 9 (6.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (5.26%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.76%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.50%) PMP
11 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.26%) PMO
3 3 (2.26%) NIST
3 3 (2.26%) QA
4 2 (1.50%) SLA
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.75%) Solvency II
System Software
1 48 (36.09%) Docker
2 6 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.76%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.01%) BitLocker
4 4 (3.01%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (3.01%) Terminal Services
4 4 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.26%) Postfix
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 51 (38.35%) Terraform
2 42 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 16 (12.03%) Grafana
4 14 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 13 (9.77%) Ansible
6 4 (3.01%) Argo
6 4 (3.01%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.01%) vMotion
7 3 (2.26%) Istio
7 3 (2.26%) Kibana
7 3 (2.26%) Nagios
7 3 (2.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.75%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.75%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 12 (9.02%) ServiceNow
2 11 (8.27%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.26%) Oracle
3 7 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.76%) Amplitude
4 5 (3.76%) Citrix
4 5 (3.76%) Sybase
4 5 (3.76%) VMware
5 4 (3.01%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.01%) Google
5 4 (3.01%) HP
5 4 (3.01%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (3.01%) Symantec
6 3 (2.26%) AVEVA
6 3 (2.26%) Brio
6 3 (2.26%) Databricks
6 3 (2.26%) Splunk
7 2 (1.50%) Netlify
7 2 (1.50%) Qualys
7 2 (1.50%) Red Hat