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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 244 274
Rank change year-on-year -30 +30 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 105 131 149
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 0.84% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.63% 3.86% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 84 115
10th Percentile £388 £422 £425
25th Percentile £459 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -9.31%
75th Percentile £617 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £788 £715
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,891 3,390 3,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.98% 21.71% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,010 2,384 2,760
10th Percentile £367 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £688
90th Percentile £789 £850 £788
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.14% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 23 35
10th Percentile £18.25 £28.12 £19.75
25th Percentile £30.69 £36.25 £35.13
Median hourly rate £48.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £66.56 £58.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.75 £81.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £47.70
% change year-on-year +24.29% -26.62% -4.61%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 0 15 £549 +1.76% 2
Central London -3 7 £475 -13.64% 52
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 (12.38%) Confluence
2 10 (9.52%) nginx
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) CICS
4 1 (0.95%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (9.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 102 (97.14%) AWS
2 72 (68.57%) Amazon S3
3 57 (54.29%) Serverless
4 56 (53.33%) Amazon EC2
4 56 (53.33%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (36.19%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (34.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (27.62%) GitHub
8 27 (25.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 24 (22.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (19.05%) Amazon Kinesis
12 19 (18.10%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (15.24%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (14.29%) Azure
15 14 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (13.33%) Route 53
16 12 (11.43%) AWS KMS
17 10 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
17 10 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.38%) DNS
2 12 (11.43%) Firewall
3 11 (10.48%) HTTP
4 10 (9.52%) FTP
4 10 (9.52%) IMAP
4 10 (9.52%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (9.52%) SMTP
4 10 (9.52%) SSH
5 2 (1.90%) VPN
6 1 (0.95%) Internet
6 1 (0.95%) NAS
6 1 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (25.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (19.05%) DynamoDB
4 17 (16.19%) MySQL
5 13 (12.38%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (7.62%) NoSQL
7 7 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (6.67%) Hadoop
8 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
8 6 (5.71%) SQL Server
9 5 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.76%) RDBMS
9 5 (4.76%) Redis
10 4 (3.81%) DB2
10 4 (3.81%) Metadata
10 4 (3.81%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.90%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 38 (36.19%) Jenkins
2 35 (33.33%) Git
3 16 (15.24%) JIRA
4 14 (13.33%) GitLab
5 12 (11.43%) JUnit
5 12 (11.43%) Maven
6 10 (9.52%) Vagrant
7 6 (5.71%) Cypress.io
7 6 (5.71%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.81%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.86%) Mockito
10 2 (1.90%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.95%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.95%) DbUnit
11 1 (0.95%) jMock
11 1 (0.95%) RStudio
11 1 (0.95%) Storybook
General
1 43 (40.95%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Public Sector
3 18 (17.14%) Finance
4 10 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.62%) Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.95%) Front Office
9 1 (0.95%) Games
9 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 29 (27.62%) Developer
3 28 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (19.05%) AWS DevOps
4 20 (19.05%) Senior
5 17 (16.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 15 (14.29%) Java Developer
7 13 (12.38%) AWS Developer
8 12 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (10.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 11 (10.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (9.52%) Software Engineer
11 8 (7.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 8 (7.62%) Senior Developer
12 7 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (5.71%) Architect
13 6 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (5.71%) Java Engineer
14 5 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
14 5 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.14%) Kafka
1 18 (17.14%) Spring
2 17 (16.19%) Node.js
3 14 (13.33%) RESTful
4 13 (12.38%) Spring Boot
5 11 (10.48%) Jest
5 11 (10.48%) React
6 10 (9.52%) LDAP
7 9 (8.57%) REST
8 8 (7.62%) CSS
9 7 (6.67%) Sass
10 6 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (5.71%) Enzyme
11 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
11 5 (4.76%) SOAP
12 4 (3.81%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (3.81%) Hibernate
12 4 (3.81%) JPA
13 3 (2.86%) Bootstrap
13 3 (2.86%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Replication
2 14 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 12 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.67%) Virtual Team
5 6 (5.71%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.81%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.90%) Derivative
7 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.95%) Equities
8 1 (0.95%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.95%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.95%) NHS
8 1 (0.95%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.10%) Linux
2 12 (11.43%) Windows
3 11 (10.48%) VMS
4 10 (9.52%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (9.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.95%) AIX
5 1 (0.95%) Android
5 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.95%) Solaris
5 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (58.10%) CI/CD
2 54 (51.43%) DevOps
3 35 (33.33%) Agile
4 31 (29.52%) Microservices
5 29 (27.62%) Containerisation
6 27 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (16.19%) Cloud Security
9 16 (15.24%) Change Management
10 15 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 14 (13.33%) Configuration Management
11 14 (13.33%) Migration
11 14 (13.33%) Test Automation
12 13 (12.38%) Clean Code
12 13 (12.38%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.38%) Secrets Management
13 12 (11.43%) Analytics
13 12 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (11.43%) Observability
13 12 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (46.67%) Python
2 38 (36.19%) SQL
3 34 (32.38%) Java
4 17 (16.19%) PowerShell
5 14 (13.33%) Groovy
5 14 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.38%) JavaScript
7 12 (11.43%) Bash
8 6 (5.71%) JSX
9 3 (2.86%) Go
10 2 (1.90%) Perl
10 2 (1.90%) Ruby
11 1 (0.95%) Bicep
11 1 (0.95%) C#
11 1 (0.95%) COBOL
11 1 (0.95%) PHP
11 1 (0.95%) R
11 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 31 (29.52%) SC Cleared
3 24 (22.86%) AWS Certification
4 16 (15.24%) Degree
5 10 (9.52%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.76%) QA
2 4 (3.81%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.95%) GxP
4 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.95%) NCSC
4 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (41.90%) Docker
2 11 (10.48%) Postfix
3 10 (9.52%) DFS Replication
3 10 (9.52%) Dovecot
3 10 (9.52%) Squid
4 2 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (43.81%) Terraform
2 28 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 23 (21.90%) Grafana
4 20 (19.05%) Prometheus
5 10 (9.52%) Nessus
5 10 (9.52%) Proxmox
6 9 (8.57%) Ansible
7 4 (3.81%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.86%) Puppet
8 3 (2.86%) Rancher
9 2 (1.90%) Kibana
10 1 (0.95%) Argo
10 1 (0.95%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.95%) Istio
10 1 (0.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 17 (16.19%) ServiceNow
2 11 (10.48%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (7.62%) Oracle
4 6 (5.71%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.81%) Sybase
7 3 (2.86%) IBM
8 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.90%) Pega
8 2 (1.90%) Splunk
9 1 (0.95%) Charles River
9 1 (0.95%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.95%) Databricks
9 1 (0.95%) Murex
9 1 (0.95%) NetApp
9 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.95%) Sage