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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 274 281
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 163 100 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 0.75% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.55% 3.56% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 55 75
10th Percentile £418 £400 £438
25th Percentile £456 £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -5.38%
75th Percentile £734 £628 £645
90th Percentile £775 £653 £723
England median daily rate £534 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +6.75% -7.41% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -12.73% - -

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 3,581 2,809 3,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.58% 21.13% 22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 1,947 2,547
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £806 £850
England median daily rate £510 £510 £550
% change year-on-year - -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 38 22
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.63 £27.81
25th Percentile £24.79 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +22.86% -13.37%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £62.21
90th Percentile £68.63 £87.50 £78.75
England median hourly rate £41.36 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.52% +19.99% -33.33%

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 13 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 13 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 -10 20 £536 -2.28% 2
West London - 19 £725 -
Central London -12 17 £700 +86.67% 13
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 14 (8.59%) Confluence
2 12 (7.36%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.68%) nginx
4 5 (3.07%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.84%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.23%) Camunda
6 2 (1.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.61%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (0.61%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 157 (96.32%) AWS
2 109 (66.87%) Amazon S3
3 86 (52.76%) AWS Lambda
4 83 (50.92%) Serverless
5 67 (41.10%) Amazon EC2
6 60 (36.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 49 (30.06%) Amazon ECS
7 49 (30.06%) Amazon EKS
8 46 (28.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 40 (24.54%) Azure
10 26 (15.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (14.72%) AWS KMS
11 24 (14.72%) GitHub
12 18 (11.04%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (9.82%) GCP
14 14 (8.59%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (7.98%) AWS Step Functions
16 11 (6.75%) Amazon Bedrock
16 11 (6.75%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (6.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.98%) Firewall
2 9 (5.52%) DNS
3 8 (4.91%) VPN
4 6 (3.68%) Network Security
5 5 (3.07%) SMTP
6 4 (2.45%) DHCP
7 3 (1.84%) OpenVPN
7 3 (1.84%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.23%) FTP
8 2 (1.23%) HTTP
8 2 (1.23%) IMAP
8 2 (1.23%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (1.23%) SSH
8 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (34.36%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (26.99%) Amazon Aurora
3 35 (21.47%) DynamoDB
4 22 (13.50%) MongoDB
5 20 (12.27%) SQL Server
6 14 (8.59%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (8.59%) MySQL
7 12 (7.36%) Redis
8 11 (6.75%) Big Data
8 11 (6.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (6.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (6.13%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.91%) NoSQL
11 7 (4.29%) Metadata
12 4 (2.45%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.45%) Power BI
12 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.84%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.84%) Presto
Development Applications
1 43 (26.38%) Jenkins
2 36 (22.09%) Git
3 27 (16.56%) GitLab
4 19 (11.66%) JIRA
5 12 (7.36%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (4.29%) JUnit
7 7 (4.29%) Mockito
8 6 (3.68%) Maven
9 5 (3.07%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.07%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (2.45%) Gradle
10 4 (2.45%) Postman
11 3 (1.84%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (1.23%) DbUnit
12 2 (1.23%) jMock
12 2 (1.23%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.61%) Flyway
13 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 59 (36.20%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.25%) Finance
3 31 (19.02%) Public Sector
4 23 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (11.66%) Banking
6 10 (6.13%) Back Office
7 8 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.29%) Front Office
9 5 (3.07%) Law
10 4 (2.45%) Local Government
11 3 (1.84%) Billing
11 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.84%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.23%) Police
12 2 (1.23%) Retail
13 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Marketing
13 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (19.02%) AWS Engineer
2 29 (17.79%) Senior
3 27 (16.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (15.34%) Data Engineer
5 24 (14.72%) DBA
6 20 (12.27%) Lead
7 19 (11.66%) Architect
8 17 (10.43%) Developer
8 17 (10.43%) Technical Leader
9 15 (9.20%) Administrator
9 15 (9.20%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (7.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.36%) AWS Architect
12 11 (6.75%) AWS Data Engineer
13 9 (5.52%) Consultant
13 9 (5.52%) Java Developer
14 8 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (4.91%) Senior DBA
15 7 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 7 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (53.37%) Terraform
2 24 (14.72%) REST
3 22 (13.50%) React
4 18 (11.04%) FastAPI
5 15 (9.20%) Spring
5 15 (9.20%) Spring Boot
6 13 (7.98%) Kafka
7 11 (6.75%) AngularJS
8 10 (6.13%) RESTful
9 9 (5.52%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (4.91%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (4.29%) .NET
11 7 (4.29%) JSON
12 6 (3.68%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.68%) Hibernate
12 6 (3.68%) JPA
12 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (3.07%) Keycloak
13 5 (3.07%) Langfuse
13 5 (3.07%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 48 (29.45%) Cloud Native
2 28 (17.18%) Replication
3 14 (8.59%) Product Ownership
4 12 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.52%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.29%) PKI
6 7 (4.29%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.68%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (3.07%) Reinsurance
9 4 (2.45%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.45%) Clustering
9 4 (2.45%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.45%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.45%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.84%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.84%) NHS
10 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.09%) Linux
2 14 (8.59%) Windows
3 9 (5.52%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.07%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.07%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.45%) Unix
5 4 (2.45%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (63.80%) CI/CD
2 85 (52.15%) DevOps
2 85 (52.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 69 (42.33%) Agile
4 42 (25.77%) Observability
4 42 (25.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 40 (24.54%) Containerisation
5 40 (24.54%) Performance Tuning
6 38 (23.31%) Data Modelling
7 35 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (20.86%) Microservices
9 33 (20.25%) Disaster Recovery
9 33 (20.25%) Technical Leadership
10 31 (19.02%) Event-Driven
10 31 (19.02%) Root Cause Analysis
11 29 (17.79%) Migration
12 28 (17.18%) AI
12 28 (17.18%) Data Integration
13 27 (16.56%) Data Engineering
14 26 (15.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 84 (51.53%) Python
2 54 (33.13%) SQL
3 38 (23.31%) Java
4 23 (14.11%) PowerShell
5 21 (12.88%) TypeScript
6 19 (11.66%) Bash
7 15 (9.20%) Groovy
8 14 (8.59%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.29%) Perl
9 7 (4.29%) Scala
10 6 (3.68%) C#
11 4 (2.45%) Bicep
12 3 (1.84%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (39.88%) Security Cleared
2 58 (35.58%) SC Cleared
3 41 (25.15%) AWS Certification
4 25 (15.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (7.98%) Degree
6 11 (6.75%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.29%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.68%) CISM
8 6 (3.68%) CISSP
8 6 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.84%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.84%) PMP
11 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.68%) NIST
3 3 (1.84%) QA
4 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 64 (39.26%) Docker
2 11 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.45%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.45%) Postfix
4 4 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.84%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.84%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.84%) Terminal Services
5 3 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.23%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.23%) Dovecot
6 2 (1.23%) Squid
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 47 (28.83%) Kubernetes
2 33 (20.25%) Grafana
3 29 (17.79%) Prometheus
4 17 (10.43%) Ansible
5 9 (5.52%) Kibana
6 6 (3.68%) Puppet
7 5 (3.07%) Istio
8 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.84%) Argo
9 3 (1.84%) Nagios
9 3 (1.84%) Rancher
9 3 (1.84%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.84%) vMotion
10 2 (1.23%) Nessus
10 2 (1.23%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.04%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.13%) Oracle
4 7 (4.29%) Databricks
4 7 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.68%) Google
5 6 (3.68%) Informatica
6 5 (3.07%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.07%) Citrix
7 4 (2.45%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.45%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.45%) Talend
7 4 (2.45%) VMware
8 3 (1.84%) Brio
8 3 (1.84%) HP
8 3 (1.84%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.84%) Splunk
8 3 (1.84%) Symantec
9 2 (1.23%) GoldenSource
9 2 (1.23%) Zscaler