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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 233 274
Rank change year-on-year -75 +41 -6
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 137 133 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.98% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.82% 4.64% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 93 77
10th Percentile £413 £419 £421
25th Percentile £450 £481 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +7.81% -10.33%
75th Percentile £654 £630 £663
90th Percentile £775 £656 £700
England median daily rate £503 £537 £538
% change year-on-year -6.42% -0.14% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 3,586 2,869 3,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.82% 21.16% 23.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,426 2,016 2,818
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £437 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £543
% change year-on-year -2.91% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 34 25
10th Percentile £17.21 £24.65 £32.85
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.54 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -15.83%
75th Percentile £55.63 £63.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.25 £85.25 £77.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +10.87% -8.00% -31.82%

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 August 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 August 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 +4 22 £518 -16.80% 3
Central London -19 17 £625 +7.76% 3
West London - 10 £763 - 1
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 9 (6.57%) Confluence
2 6 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.65%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.19%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.73%) Apache
6 1 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 135 (98.54%) AWS
2 99 (72.26%) Amazon S3
3 83 (60.58%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (58.39%) Serverless
5 58 (42.34%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (39.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 42 (30.66%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (29.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 36 (26.28%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (16.79%) Azure
11 22 (16.06%) GitHub
12 21 (15.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (14.60%) AWS KMS
14 15 (10.95%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (10.22%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (8.03%) AWS Step Functions
16 11 (8.03%) GCP
17 10 (7.30%) Amazon Bedrock
17 10 (7.30%) Amazon EventBridge
17 10 (7.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.57%) Firewall
2 5 (3.65%) DHCP
2 5 (3.65%) DNS
3 4 (2.92%) SMTP
3 4 (2.92%) VPN
4 3 (2.19%) Network Security
5 1 (0.73%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (28.47%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (21.17%) Amazon Aurora
2 29 (21.17%) DynamoDB
3 13 (9.49%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (9.49%) MongoDB
4 11 (8.03%) Big Data
5 9 (6.57%) MySQL
6 8 (5.84%) Redis
6 8 (5.84%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.11%) Power BI
8 6 (4.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.65%) Tableau
10 4 (2.92%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.19%) Db2
11 3 (2.19%) Presto
12 2 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (25.55%) Jenkins
2 24 (17.52%) Git
3 20 (14.60%) GitLab
4 15 (10.95%) JIRA
5 10 (7.30%) JUnit
6 8 (5.84%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.84%) Mockito
7 7 (5.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (3.65%) Postman
8 5 (3.65%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (2.92%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (2.92%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.92%) DbUnit
9 4 (2.92%) jMock
9 4 (2.92%) Maven
10 2 (1.46%) git-flow
11 1 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.73%) Selenium
11 1 (0.73%) Snyk
General
1 43 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.36%) Public Sector
3 29 (21.17%) Finance
4 20 (14.60%) Banking
5 14 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Back Office
6 5 (3.65%) Front Office
7 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.46%) Law
8 2 (1.46%) Local Government
8 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (18.25%) AWS Engineer
2 21 (15.33%) Developer
2 21 (15.33%) Senior
3 20 (14.60%) Data Engineer
4 18 (13.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) Lead
6 16 (11.68%) DBA
7 12 (8.76%) Architect
8 11 (8.03%) Technical Leader
9 10 (7.30%) Administrator
9 10 (7.30%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (6.57%) AWS Architect
10 9 (6.57%) Java Developer
11 8 (5.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) AWS Data Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) AWS Developer
13 6 (4.38%) Analyst
13 6 (4.38%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.25%) React
2 18 (13.14%) REST
3 17 (12.41%) Node.js
4 15 (10.95%) Spring
4 15 (10.95%) Spring Boot
5 14 (10.22%) AngularJS
6 13 (9.49%) FastAPI
6 13 (9.49%) RESTful
7 12 (8.76%) Kafka
8 8 (5.84%) JSON
8 8 (5.84%) SOAP
9 7 (5.11%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (3.65%) Langfuse
10 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (2.92%) Hibernate
11 4 (2.92%) Next.js
11 4 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (2.92%) Spring Cloud
11 4 (2.92%) Web Services
11 4 (2.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 36 (26.28%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.95%) Replication
3 13 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (8.76%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.84%) Virtual Team
6 7 (5.11%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.38%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (4.38%) Fixed Income
8 5 (3.65%) PKI
9 4 (2.92%) Clustering
9 4 (2.92%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.92%) NHS
10 3 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.46%) Derivative
11 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.46%) Equities
11 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.17%) Linux
2 6 (4.38%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.65%) Windows
3 5 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.19%) Unix
5 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (58.39%) CI/CD
2 58 (42.34%) Agile
3 57 (41.61%) DevOps
4 53 (38.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (21.90%) Microservices
6 29 (21.17%) Data Modelling
7 28 (20.44%) Performance Tuning
8 26 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (18.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (18.25%) Containerisation
10 20 (14.60%) Event-Driven
10 20 (14.60%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (13.87%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (13.14%) Data Engineering
12 18 (13.14%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (13.14%) Observability
12 18 (13.14%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (13.14%) Secrets Management
12 18 (13.14%) Test Automation
13 17 (12.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 65 (47.45%) Python
2 44 (32.12%) Java
3 42 (30.66%) SQL
4 15 (10.95%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.22%) Bash
5 14 (10.22%) PowerShell
6 12 (8.76%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.38%) Groovy
7 6 (4.38%) Perl
8 5 (3.65%) C#
8 5 (3.65%) Scala
9 1 (0.73%) Bicep
9 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (43.07%) Security Cleared
2 50 (36.50%) SC Cleared
3 32 (23.36%) AWS Certification
4 19 (13.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (10.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (7.30%) Degree
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.11%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.19%) CISM
9 3 (2.19%) CISSP
10 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.46%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.46%) PMP
11 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.95%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.92%) NIST
2 4 (2.92%) PMO
3 2 (1.46%) QA
4 1 (0.73%) SLA
4 1 (0.73%) Solvency II
System Software
1 45 (32.85%) Docker
2 8 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.65%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.92%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.92%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.92%) Terminal Services
4 4 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.19%) Postfix
6 1 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 62 (45.26%) Terraform
2 43 (31.39%) Kubernetes
3 22 (16.06%) Grafana
4 18 (13.14%) Prometheus
5 13 (9.49%) Ansible
6 6 (4.38%) Argo
6 6 (4.38%) Kibana
7 5 (3.65%) Istio
8 4 (2.92%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.92%) vMotion
9 3 (2.19%) Nagios
9 3 (2.19%) Puppet
10 1 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.73%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (8.03%) ServiceNow
2 10 (7.30%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.11%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.38%) Oracle
5 5 (3.65%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.65%) Citrix
5 5 (3.65%) VMware
6 4 (2.92%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.92%) Google
6 4 (2.92%) HP
6 4 (2.92%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.92%) Symantec
7 3 (2.19%) Brio
7 3 (2.19%) Databricks
7 3 (2.19%) Splunk
8 2 (1.46%) Charles River
8 2 (1.46%) Murex
8 2 (1.46%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.46%) Sybase
9 1 (0.73%) Dell