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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 273 261
Rank change year-on-year +30 -12 +79
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 119 112 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.88% 0.69% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.15% 3.00% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 75 140
10th Percentile £419 £414 £450
25th Percentile £494 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% -10.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £653 £650
90th Percentile £655 £700 £726
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.42% -6.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,868 3,730 4,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.33% 22.90% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,002 2,679 3,018
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 38
10th Percentile £28.66 £25.70 £19.05
25th Percentile £34.09 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £53.75 £47.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.63 £55.00 £71.99
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS 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 18 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon RDS in London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon RDS in London

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 18 September 2025. 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 -5 15 £549 +1.95%
Central London -5 8 £600 +9.09% 8
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (10.08%) Confluence
2 10 (8.40%) nginx
3 4 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) CICS
4 1 (0.84%) CMS
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (8.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.84%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 116 (97.48%) AWS
2 74 (62.18%) Amazon S3
3 61 (51.26%) Serverless
4 59 (49.58%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (45.38%) Amazon EC2
6 39 (32.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 35 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (26.05%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (15.97%) Azure
10 19 (15.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (15.13%) AWS Step Functions
11 18 (15.13%) GitHub
12 15 (12.61%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (12.61%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (10.92%) AWS KMS
14 12 (10.08%) Route 53
15 10 (8.40%) Amazon ELB
15 10 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.65%) DNS
2 16 (13.45%) HTTP
3 12 (10.08%) Firewall
4 11 (9.24%) SMTP
5 10 (8.40%) FTP
5 10 (8.40%) IMAP
5 10 (8.40%) OpenLDAP
5 10 (8.40%) SSH
6 9 (7.56%) TCP/IP
7 6 (5.04%) Internet
8 5 (4.20%) VPN
9 4 (3.36%) DHCP
10 1 (0.84%) NAS
10 1 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.84%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (36.13%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (26.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (15.13%) DynamoDB
4 15 (12.61%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (8.40%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.56%) MySQL
7 6 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (5.04%) Metadata
7 6 (5.04%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.20%) Hadoop
8 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.36%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.68%) Big Data
11 2 (1.68%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.68%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 31 (26.05%) Jenkins
2 22 (18.49%) Git
3 12 (10.08%) GitLab
3 12 (10.08%) JIRA
4 10 (8.40%) Maven
4 10 (8.40%) Vagrant
5 9 (7.56%) JUnit
6 6 (5.04%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.36%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.52%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.52%) Mockito
9 2 (1.68%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.84%) Ant
10 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.84%) DbUnit
10 1 (0.84%) ERwin
10 1 (0.84%) jMock
10 1 (0.84%) Storybook
General
1 52 (43.70%) Social Skills
2 35 (29.41%) Public Sector
3 19 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.29%) Finance
5 10 (8.40%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.52%) Banking
7 2 (1.68%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Marketing
8 1 (0.84%) Billing
8 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (24.37%) AWS Engineer
2 27 (22.69%) Developer
2 27 (22.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (21.01%) Architect
3 25 (21.01%) Senior
4 19 (15.97%) AWS Architect
4 19 (15.97%) AWS DevOps
5 18 (15.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.24%) Java Developer
7 10 (8.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 10 (8.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.56%) AWS Developer
9 8 (6.72%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.20%) Lead
11 5 (4.20%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.36%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.76%) Spring
2 13 (10.92%) Kafka
3 10 (8.40%) LDAP
3 10 (8.40%) REST
4 9 (7.56%) Node.js
4 9 (7.56%) Spring Boot
5 7 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (5.88%) RESTful
6 5 (4.20%) Jest
7 4 (3.36%) .NET
7 4 (3.36%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (3.36%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.36%) Hibernate
7 4 (3.36%) JPA
7 4 (3.36%) React
7 4 (3.36%) SOAP
8 3 (2.52%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.52%) Bootstrap
8 3 (2.52%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.61%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.24%) Replication
3 9 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.20%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.36%) PKI
6 3 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.84%) Clustering
8 1 (0.84%) Derivative
8 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.84%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.84%) NHS
8 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.84%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.65%) Linux
2 15 (12.61%) Windows
3 10 (8.40%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (8.40%) Ubuntu
3 10 (8.40%) VMS
4 4 (3.36%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.84%) AIX
5 1 (0.84%) Android
5 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.84%) Solaris
5 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (43.70%) DevOps
2 48 (40.34%) Containerisation
3 44 (36.97%) CI/CD
4 33 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (25.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (19.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (18.49%) High Availability
7 22 (18.49%) Microservices
8 20 (16.81%) Agile
9 17 (14.29%) Cloud Security
9 17 (14.29%) Configuration Management
9 17 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 17 (14.29%) Migration
9 17 (14.29%) Open Source
10 14 (11.76%) Test Automation
11 13 (10.92%) Change Management
12 12 (10.08%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (9.24%) Analytics
13 11 (9.24%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (8.40%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (36.97%) Python
2 32 (26.89%) SQL
3 30 (25.21%) Java
4 18 (15.13%) PowerShell
5 12 (10.08%) Groovy
6 9 (7.56%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.72%) Bash
7 8 (6.72%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.04%) C#
9 3 (2.52%) Go
9 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.68%) RPG
10 2 (1.68%) RPG IV
10 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.84%) COBOL
11 1 (0.84%) Rust
11 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (42.02%) Security Cleared
2 48 (40.34%) SC Cleared
3 43 (36.13%) AWS Certification
4 27 (22.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (15.13%) Degree
6 10 (8.40%) Azure Certification
7 6 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.04%) Data Quality
1 6 (5.04%) GDPR
2 4 (3.36%) NCSC
2 4 (3.36%) QA
3 3 (2.52%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (38.66%) Docker
2 11 (9.24%) Postfix
3 10 (8.40%) DFS Replication
3 10 (8.40%) Dovecot
3 10 (8.40%) Squid
4 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.84%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.84%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (39.50%) Terraform
2 31 (26.05%) Kubernetes
3 24 (20.17%) Grafana
4 21 (17.65%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.08%) Ansible
6 10 (8.40%) Nessus
6 10 (8.40%) Proxmox
7 9 (7.56%) Puppet
8 8 (6.72%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.84%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.84%) Nagios
10 1 (0.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.84%) Rancher
10 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.84%) vMotion
Vendors
1 14 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 11 (9.24%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (7.56%) Oracle
4 6 (5.04%) Google
4 6 (5.04%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.04%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.36%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.52%) IBM
7 2 (1.68%) Pega
7 2 (1.68%) QAD
7 2 (1.68%) Solace
7 2 (1.68%) Splunk
7 2 (1.68%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.68%) VMware
8 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.84%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.84%) Talend
8 1 (0.84%) TSYS
8 1 (0.84%) Virgin Media