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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 228 267
Rank change year-on-year -57 +39 -28
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 121 120 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.98% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.70% 4.42% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 91 92
10th Percentile £396 £419 £401
25th Percentile £437 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £599 £625 £575
90th Percentile £701 £675 £699
England median daily rate £500 £550 £516
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.54% -13.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 3,272 2,717 3,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.08% 22.20% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,232 1,908 2,866
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -1.16% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 35
10th Percentile £18.19 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £27.46 £25.62
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60.88 £56.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.50 £70.30
England median hourly rate £43.75 £32.43 £40.00
% change year-on-year +34.91% -18.93% -28.19%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -1 23 £463 -3.90%
Central London -13 12 £544 -5.80% 11
West London - 6 £775 -
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 10 (8.26%) Confluence
2 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.48%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 119 (98.35%) AWS
2 86 (71.07%) Amazon S3
3 73 (60.33%) AWS Lambda
4 70 (57.85%) Serverless
5 61 (50.41%) Amazon EC2
6 47 (38.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 35 (28.93%) Amazon ECS
7 35 (28.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 31 (25.62%) Amazon EKS
9 28 (23.14%) GitHub
10 21 (17.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (15.70%) Azure
12 17 (14.05%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (13.22%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (10.74%) Route 53
15 12 (9.92%) AWS KMS
16 10 (8.26%) Amazon Kinesis
16 10 (8.26%) Amazon MSK
16 10 (8.26%) Power Platform
17 9 (7.44%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.96%) DNS
2 4 (3.31%) Firewall
3 2 (1.65%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) Network Security
4 1 (0.83%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.83%) SMTP
4 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.31%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (21.49%) DynamoDB
3 20 (16.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (9.92%) NoSQL
5 11 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (8.26%) Power BI
7 9 (7.44%) MySQL
8 8 (6.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.61%) Tableau
9 6 (4.96%) MongoDB
9 6 (4.96%) Redis
10 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
10 5 (4.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (3.31%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (3.31%) DB2
11 4 (3.31%) DocumentDB
11 4 (3.31%) Oracle Database
12 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (2.48%) Presto
12 3 (2.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 26 (21.49%) Git
3 15 (12.40%) GitLab
3 15 (12.40%) JIRA
4 12 (9.92%) JUnit
5 8 (6.61%) Mockito
6 6 (4.96%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (4.13%) git-flow
7 5 (4.13%) Postman
7 5 (4.13%) Snyk
7 5 (4.13%) SonarQube
7 5 (4.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (3.31%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (3.31%) DbUnit
8 4 (3.31%) jMock
8 4 (3.31%) Maven
9 2 (1.65%) Storybook
10 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.83%) Selenium
General
1 35 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.14%) Public Sector
3 19 (15.70%) Finance
4 17 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.44%) Banking
6 8 (6.61%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.65%) Front Office
8 2 (1.65%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Marketing
9 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (24.79%) Developer
2 19 (15.70%) Senior
3 16 (13.22%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (10.74%) Architect
5 12 (9.92%) AWS Developer
5 12 (9.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Analyst
7 10 (8.26%) AWS Architect
7 10 (8.26%) Java Developer
7 10 (8.26%) Lead
8 9 (7.44%) Python Developer
8 9 (7.44%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (5.79%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.79%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.79%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.01%) Kafka
1 23 (19.01%) React
2 21 (17.36%) Spring
2 21 (17.36%) Spring Boot
3 19 (15.70%) RESTful
4 18 (14.88%) Node.js
5 17 (14.05%) REST
6 16 (13.22%) AngularJS
7 11 (9.09%) FastAPI
8 9 (7.44%) JSON
8 9 (7.44%) Next.js
9 8 (6.61%) Hibernate
9 8 (6.61%) JPA
9 8 (6.61%) SOAP
9 8 (6.61%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (4.96%) Django
10 6 (4.96%) Flask
10 6 (4.96%) Gherkin
10 6 (4.96%) OAuth
10 6 (4.96%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.45%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.57%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.92%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.31%) NHS
4 4 (3.31%) Replication
4 4 (3.31%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.65%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.83%) Clustering
7 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.83%) Derivative
7 1 (0.83%) Equities
7 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.83%) PKI
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.53%) Linux
2 5 (4.13%) Unix
3 4 (3.31%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.48%) Windows
5 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (57.85%) CI/CD
2 66 (54.55%) Agile
3 42 (34.71%) DevOps
4 39 (32.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (27.27%) Microservices
6 31 (25.62%) Containerisation
7 24 (19.83%) Scrum
8 20 (16.53%) Event-Driven
9 19 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (15.70%) Performance Tuning
9 19 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (14.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 16 (13.22%) Data Modelling
11 16 (13.22%) Software Engineering
11 16 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (12.40%) ETL
12 15 (12.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (11.57%) Test Automation
14 13 (10.74%) Migration
14 13 (10.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.50%) Java
2 43 (35.54%) Python
3 42 (34.71%) SQL
4 15 (12.40%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.61%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.61%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.96%) Bash
6 6 (4.96%) C#
7 5 (4.13%) Scala
8 4 (3.31%) Groovy
8 4 (3.31%) Perl
9 3 (2.48%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.48%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.65%) Go
11 1 (0.83%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 50 (41.32%) Security Cleared
2 43 (35.54%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.70%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.79%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.13%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.13%) Degree
6 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.65%) PMP
8 1 (0.83%) CEH
8 1 (0.83%) CISSP
8 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) Data Quality
1 8 (6.61%) NIST
2 7 (5.79%) PMO
3 6 (4.96%) QA
4 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.31%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.65%) SLA
6 1 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (42.15%) Docker
2 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.48%) Postfix
3 2 (1.65%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.83%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 49 (40.50%) Terraform
2 40 (33.06%) Kubernetes
3 15 (12.40%) Grafana
4 10 (8.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.48%) Argo
5 3 (2.48%) Kibana
6 2 (1.65%) Ansible
6 2 (1.65%) Istio
7 1 (0.83%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.83%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.83%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (7.44%) ServiceNow
2 8 (6.61%) Oracle
3 5 (4.13%) Sybase
4 4 (3.31%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.31%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (3.31%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.31%) Qualys
4 4 (3.31%) Tenable
5 3 (2.48%) AVEVA
5 3 (2.48%) Brio
5 3 (2.48%) Databricks
5 3 (2.48%) Splunk
6 2 (1.65%) Citrix
6 2 (1.65%) Netlify
6 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.65%) VMware
7 1 (0.83%) Denodo
7 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.83%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.83%) Rapid7