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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 235 272
Rank change year-on-year -59 +37 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 135 122 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.94% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.95% 4.37% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 92 91
10th Percentile £353 £413 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £581
90th Percentile £738 £653 £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -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 3,419 2,790 4,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.72% 21.49% 23.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,315 1,954 3,033
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £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 33 34
10th Percentile £18.44 £25.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £29.69
Median hourly rate £43.50 £40.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -15.63% -20.00%
75th Percentile £60.56 £59.00 £54.03
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.50 £70.85
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -30.43%

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 2 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 2 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 20 £463 -15.68%
Central London -15 16 £600 +3.90% 5
West London - 9 £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 (8.89%) Confluence
2 6 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.22%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.74%) Apache
6 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 133 (98.52%) AWS
2 95 (70.37%) Amazon S3
3 80 (59.26%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (57.04%) Serverless
5 63 (46.67%) Amazon EC2
6 48 (35.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 45 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (28.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 36 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (19.26%) GitHub
11 21 (15.56%) Azure
12 18 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (10.37%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (8.89%) AWS KMS
14 12 (8.89%) Route 53
15 11 (8.15%) Power Platform
16 9 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
16 9 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (6.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.19%) Firewall
2 6 (4.44%) DNS
3 5 (3.70%) DHCP
4 4 (2.96%) SMTP
4 4 (2.96%) VPN
5 3 (2.22%) Network Security
6 1 (0.74%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (21.48%) DynamoDB
3 18 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (8.15%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (8.15%) Big Data
4 11 (8.15%) Power BI
5 9 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 8 (5.93%) Tableau
7 7 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.19%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.19%) MySQL
8 6 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.96%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (2.96%) Db2
9 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.22%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 27 (20.00%) Git
3 18 (13.33%) GitLab
3 18 (13.33%) JIRA
4 13 (9.63%) JUnit
5 9 (6.67%) Mockito
6 7 (5.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (4.44%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.44%) Postman
8 5 (3.70%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.96%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (2.96%) DbUnit
9 4 (2.96%) git-flow
9 4 (2.96%) jMock
9 4 (2.96%) Maven
10 3 (2.22%) Snyk
11 2 (1.48%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.74%) Storybook
General
1 37 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.48%) Finance
3 26 (19.26%) Public Sector
4 18 (13.33%) Banking
5 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Front Office
8 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.48%) Law
8 2 (1.48%) Local Government
9 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (17.78%) Developer
2 19 (14.07%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (13.33%) Senior
4 17 (12.59%) Lead
5 15 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 15 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (8.89%) Architect
7 10 (7.41%) Analyst
7 10 (7.41%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.67%) AWS Architect
8 9 (6.67%) Technical Leader
9 8 (5.93%) AWS Developer
9 8 (5.93%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (5.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Python Developer
10 7 (5.19%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.19%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) DBA
11 6 (4.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.52%) React
2 19 (14.07%) Spring
2 19 (14.07%) Spring Boot
3 18 (13.33%) Kafka
3 18 (13.33%) Node.js
3 18 (13.33%) REST
4 16 (11.85%) RESTful
5 14 (10.37%) AngularJS
6 13 (9.63%) FastAPI
7 9 (6.67%) SOAP
8 8 (5.93%) JSON
9 6 (4.44%) Gherkin
9 6 (4.44%) Next.js
10 5 (3.70%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.70%) JPA
10 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (3.70%) Spring Cloud
10 5 (3.70%) WireMock
10 5 (3.70%) YAML
11 4 (2.96%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (27.41%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.85%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.41%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.70%) Replication
6 4 (2.96%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (2.96%) Clustering
6 4 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.96%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.96%) NHS
6 4 (2.96%) PKI
6 4 (2.96%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.26%) Linux
2 6 (4.44%) Windows
3 5 (3.70%) Unix
3 5 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.96%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (52.59%) CI/CD
2 69 (51.11%) Agile
3 53 (39.26%) DevOps
4 41 (30.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (28.15%) Microservices
6 34 (25.19%) Containerisation
7 26 (19.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (15.56%) Scrum
9 19 (14.07%) Test Automation
10 18 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 18 (13.33%) Event-Driven
10 18 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (12.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 17 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (11.85%) Cloud Security
12 16 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (11.11%) AI
13 15 (11.11%) Data Modelling
13 15 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 57 (42.22%) Python
2 48 (35.56%) Java
3 37 (27.41%) SQL
4 14 (10.37%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.63%) TypeScript
6 12 (8.89%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.15%) Bash
8 7 (5.19%) C#
9 5 (3.70%) Scala
10 4 (2.96%) Groovy
10 4 (2.96%) Perl
11 3 (2.22%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.48%) Go
13 1 (0.74%) Bicep
13 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (39.26%) Security Cleared
2 45 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.81%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.41%) Degree
5 9 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.93%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.70%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.48%) PMP
12 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.19%) PMO
3 3 (2.22%) NIST
3 3 (2.22%) QA
4 2 (1.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.74%) Solvency II
System Software
1 50 (37.04%) Docker
2 6 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.70%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.96%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.96%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.96%) Terminal Services
4 4 (2.96%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.22%) Postfix
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 52 (38.52%) Terraform
2 43 (31.85%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.85%) Grafana
4 14 (10.37%) Prometheus
5 12 (8.89%) Ansible
6 4 (2.96%) Argo
6 4 (2.96%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.96%) vMotion
7 3 (2.22%) Istio
7 3 (2.22%) Kibana
7 3 (2.22%) Nagios
7 3 (2.22%) Puppet
8 1 (0.74%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.74%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (8.15%) Microsoft
1 11 (8.15%) ServiceNow
2 8 (5.93%) Oracle
3 7 (5.19%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.70%) Amplitude
4 5 (3.70%) Citrix
4 5 (3.70%) Sybase
4 5 (3.70%) VMware
5 4 (2.96%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.96%) Google
5 4 (2.96%) HP
5 4 (2.96%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (2.96%) Symantec
6 3 (2.22%) AVEVA
6 3 (2.22%) Brio
6 3 (2.22%) Databricks
6 3 (2.22%) Splunk
7 2 (1.48%) Netlify
7 2 (1.48%) Qualys
7 2 (1.48%) Red Hat