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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 226 270
Rank change year-on-year -61 +44 -32
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 136 123 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 1.00% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.08% 4.53% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 90 95
10th Percentile £378 £418 £368
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +12.20% -14.58%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £713 £653 £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £507
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.48% -15.50%
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 3,336 2,715 3,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.91% 22.18% 22.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,270 1,886 2,946
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £434 £449 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £712
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 25 33 33
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.32 £25.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -27.84% -9.77%
75th Percentile £61.50 £55.00 £54.13
90th Percentile £84.00 £79.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £41.71 £32.43 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.62% -18.93% -32.54%

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 10 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 10 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 +3 22 £463 -3.90%
Central London -11 14 £550 -4.76% 7
West London - 8 £775 - 2
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 11 (8.09%) Confluence
2 5 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.21%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 134 (98.53%) AWS
2 96 (70.59%) Amazon S3
3 81 (59.56%) AWS Lambda
4 78 (57.35%) Serverless
5 65 (47.79%) Amazon EC2
6 49 (36.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 43 (31.62%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (29.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 39 (28.68%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (21.32%) GitHub
11 21 (15.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (15.44%) Azure
12 20 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (10.29%) Route 53
15 12 (8.82%) AWS KMS
16 11 (8.09%) Power Platform
17 10 (7.35%) Amazon Kinesis
17 10 (7.35%) Amazon MSK
17 10 (7.35%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.88%) DNS
2 6 (4.41%) Firewall
3 4 (2.94%) DHCP
4 3 (2.21%) SMTP
4 3 (2.21%) VPN
5 2 (1.47%) Network Security
6 1 (0.74%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (22.79%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (20.59%) DynamoDB
3 21 (15.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 11 (8.09%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (8.09%) Power BI
6 9 (6.62%) MySQL
7 8 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.88%) Big Data
7 8 (5.88%) Tableau
8 7 (5.15%) MongoDB
9 6 (4.41%) Redis
9 6 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.94%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (2.94%) Db2
11 4 (2.94%) DocumentDB
11 4 (2.94%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.94%) SQL Server
12 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (26.47%) Jenkins
2 26 (19.12%) Git
3 19 (13.97%) GitLab
4 16 (11.76%) JIRA
5 12 (8.82%) JUnit
6 8 (5.88%) Mockito
7 6 (4.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (4.41%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.68%) git-flow
8 5 (3.68%) Postman
8 5 (3.68%) Snyk
8 5 (3.68%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (2.94%) DbUnit
9 4 (2.94%) jMock
9 4 (2.94%) Maven
10 2 (1.47%) Storybook
11 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 38 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 25 (18.38%) Finance
4 15 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.03%) Banking
5 8 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.21%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.47%) Front Office
7 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.47%) Law
7 2 (1.47%) Local Government
8 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (20.59%) Developer
2 21 (15.44%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (13.97%) Senior
4 16 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (10.29%) Architect
5 14 (10.29%) Lead
6 12 (8.82%) Data Engineer
7 11 (8.09%) Analyst
7 11 (8.09%) AWS Architect
8 10 (7.35%) AWS Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.62%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.62%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (5.15%) DBA
11 7 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.15%) Python Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.15%) Software Developer
12 6 (4.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.38%) React
2 22 (16.18%) Kafka
2 22 (16.18%) Spring
2 22 (16.18%) Spring Boot
3 20 (14.71%) REST
4 19 (13.97%) RESTful
5 18 (13.24%) Node.js
6 16 (11.76%) AngularJS
7 13 (9.56%) FastAPI
8 9 (6.62%) JSON
8 9 (6.62%) Next.js
9 8 (5.88%) Hibernate
9 8 (5.88%) JPA
9 8 (5.88%) SOAP
9 8 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (5.15%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (4.41%) Django
11 6 (4.41%) Flask
11 6 (4.41%) Gherkin
11 6 (4.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.82%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.88%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.94%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.94%) NHS
5 4 (2.94%) Replication
6 3 (2.21%) Clustering
6 3 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.21%) PKI
7 2 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.47%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.91%) Linux
2 5 (3.68%) Unix
2 5 (3.68%) Windows
3 4 (2.94%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (55.15%) CI/CD
2 69 (50.74%) Agile
3 55 (40.44%) DevOps
4 45 (33.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (29.41%) Microservices
6 36 (26.47%) Containerisation
7 24 (17.65%) Scrum
8 23 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (15.44%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (14.71%) Event-Driven
11 19 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (13.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 18 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 16 (11.76%) Cloud Security
15 15 (11.03%) Data Modelling
15 15 (11.03%) Decision-Making
15 15 (11.03%) ETL
15 15 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
15 15 (11.03%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (38.24%) Java
1 52 (38.24%) Python
2 43 (31.62%) SQL
3 15 (11.03%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.09%) PowerShell
5 10 (7.35%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.62%) Bash
7 6 (4.41%) C#
8 5 (3.68%) Scala
9 4 (2.94%) Groovy
9 4 (2.94%) Perl
10 3 (2.21%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.47%) Go
12 1 (0.74%) Bicep
12 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (39.71%) Security Cleared
2 46 (33.82%) SC Cleared
3 22 (16.18%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (6.62%) Degree
4 9 (6.62%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.47%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.47%) PMP
10 1 (0.74%) CEH
10 1 (0.74%) CISSP
10 1 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 8 (5.88%) NIST
2 7 (5.15%) PMO
3 6 (4.41%) QA
4 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.94%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.47%) SLA
6 1 (0.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.74%) Solvency II
System Software
1 54 (39.71%) Docker
2 5 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.21%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.21%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.21%) Postfix
4 3 (2.21%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (41.91%) Terraform
2 47 (34.56%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.03%) Grafana
4 13 (9.56%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.88%) Ansible
6 4 (2.94%) Argo
7 3 (2.21%) Istio
7 3 (2.21%) Kibana
7 3 (2.21%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.21%) vMotion
8 2 (1.47%) Nagios
8 2 (1.47%) Puppet
9 1 (0.74%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.74%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 10 (7.35%) Oracle
2 9 (6.62%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.15%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.68%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.68%) Sybase
5 4 (2.94%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.94%) Citrix
5 4 (2.94%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (2.94%) Qualys
5 4 (2.94%) Tenable
5 4 (2.94%) VMware
6 3 (2.21%) Amplitude
6 3 (2.21%) AVEVA
6 3 (2.21%) Brio
6 3 (2.21%) Databricks
6 3 (2.21%) Google
6 3 (2.21%) HP
6 3 (2.21%) Splunk
6 3 (2.21%) Symantec
7 2 (1.47%) Red Hat