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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 244 274
Rank change year-on-year -30 +30 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 107 139 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.91% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.65% 4.22% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 97
10th Percentile £400 £450 £413
25th Percentile £437 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £788 £650
90th Percentile £668 - £788
England median daily rate £508 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -10.18% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 2,934 3,296 3,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.57% 21.58% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,053 2,283 2,650
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £688
90th Percentile £770 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 35
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.61 £19.75
25th Percentile £30.42 £35.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £43.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -4.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £67.38 £58.25 £62.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.25 £70.99
England median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -10.76%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 14 December 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 0 15 £530 -1.67% 1
Central London -5 7 £475 -12.64% 2
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 13 (12.15%) Confluence
2 10 (9.35%) nginx
3 2 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) CICS
4 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 104 (97.20%) AWS
2 78 (72.90%) Amazon S3
3 61 (57.01%) Serverless
4 60 (56.07%) AWS Lambda
5 56 (52.34%) Amazon EC2
6 43 (40.19%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (35.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 34 (31.78%) Amazon EKS
9 33 (30.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 29 (27.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (27.10%) GitHub
11 22 (20.56%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (16.82%) Amazon Kinesis
13 16 (14.95%) Azure
14 15 (14.02%) Route 53
15 14 (13.08%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (12.15%) Datadog
17 12 (11.21%) AWS KMS
18 11 (10.28%) Amazon ELB
19 10 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.15%) DNS
2 12 (11.21%) Firewall
3 11 (10.28%) HTTP
4 10 (9.35%) FTP
4 10 (9.35%) IMAP
4 10 (9.35%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (9.35%) SMTP
4 10 (9.35%) SSH
5 3 (2.80%) VPN
6 1 (0.93%) Internet
6 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.93%) NAS
6 1 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (41.12%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (23.36%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (14.95%) DynamoDB
4 14 (13.08%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (13.08%) MySQL
5 13 (12.15%) SQL Server
6 10 (9.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (7.48%) NoSQL
8 7 (6.54%) Hadoop
8 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
9 6 (5.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (5.61%) Redis
10 5 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (4.67%) Metadata
10 5 (4.67%) RDBMS
11 4 (3.74%) DB2
11 4 (3.74%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 35 (32.71%) Jenkins
2 33 (30.84%) Git
3 16 (14.95%) JIRA
4 15 (14.02%) GitLab
5 10 (9.35%) Vagrant
6 6 (5.61%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.67%) JUnit
7 5 (4.67%) Maven
8 3 (2.80%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.87%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.93%) Ant
10 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.93%) ERwin
10 1 (0.93%) RStudio
10 1 (0.93%) Snyk
10 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (36.45%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.56%) Finance
3 16 (14.95%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.35%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (7.48%) Banking
6 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.93%) Front Office
8 1 (0.93%) Games
8 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (28.97%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (26.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (20.56%) AWS DevOps
4 21 (19.63%) Developer
4 21 (19.63%) Senior
5 18 (16.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 13 (12.15%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (10.28%) AWS Developer
7 11 (10.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 11 (10.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.41%) Java Developer
8 9 (8.41%) Software Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Architect
9 8 (7.48%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Senior Developer
11 6 (5.61%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (5.61%) Site Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Java Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (23.36%) Kafka
2 15 (14.02%) Node.js
3 11 (10.28%) RESTful
4 10 (9.35%) LDAP
4 10 (9.35%) React
5 9 (8.41%) Spring
6 8 (7.48%) CSS
6 8 (7.48%) Jest
6 8 (7.48%) Spring Boot
7 7 (6.54%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.54%) Sass
8 6 (5.61%) Enzyme
9 4 (3.74%) Keycloak
9 4 (3.74%) REST
10 2 (1.87%) .NET
10 2 (1.87%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.87%) AWS CDK
10 2 (1.87%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.87%) JSON
10 2 (1.87%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.82%) Replication
2 17 (15.89%) Cloud Native
3 13 (12.15%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.61%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.74%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) Derivative
7 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.93%) Clustering
8 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.93%) Equities
8 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.93%) NHS
8 1 (0.93%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (24.30%) Linux
2 12 (11.21%) Windows
3 11 (10.28%) VMS
4 10 (9.35%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (9.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.93%) AIX
5 1 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Solaris
5 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (67.29%) CI/CD
2 55 (51.40%) DevOps
3 41 (38.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (30.84%) Agile
5 31 (28.97%) Containerisation
6 26 (24.30%) Microservices
7 22 (20.56%) Configuration Management
8 19 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (16.82%) Observability
10 17 (15.89%) Change Management
11 16 (14.95%) Cloud Security
11 16 (14.95%) Software Engineering
12 15 (14.02%) Analytics
13 14 (13.08%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (12.15%) Fintech
14 13 (12.15%) Migration
14 13 (12.15%) Secrets Management
15 12 (11.21%) Event-Driven
15 12 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (57.01%) Python
2 39 (36.45%) SQL
3 27 (25.23%) Java
4 22 (20.56%) Bash
5 15 (14.02%) Groovy
6 14 (13.08%) PowerShell
7 13 (12.15%) JavaScript
8 11 (10.28%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.61%) JSX
10 4 (3.74%) Go
11 3 (2.80%) Ruby
12 2 (1.87%) Perl
13 1 (0.93%) Bicep
13 1 (0.93%) C#
13 1 (0.93%) COBOL
13 1 (0.93%) PHP
13 1 (0.93%) R
13 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 28 (26.17%) SC Cleared
3 26 (24.30%) AWS Certification
4 17 (15.89%) Degree
5 10 (9.35%) Azure Certification
6 8 (7.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.80%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.93%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.93%) PMP
10 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.61%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.87%) QA
4 1 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.93%) GxP
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) NCSC
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (42.99%) Docker
2 10 (9.35%) DFS Replication
2 10 (9.35%) Dovecot
2 10 (9.35%) Postfix
2 10 (9.35%) Squid
3 2 (1.87%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 58 (54.21%) Terraform
2 29 (27.10%) Kubernetes
3 26 (24.30%) Grafana
4 18 (16.82%) Prometheus
5 13 (12.15%) Ansible
6 10 (9.35%) Nessus
6 10 (9.35%) Proxmox
7 9 (8.41%) Puppet
8 5 (4.67%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.74%) Rancher
10 3 (2.80%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.87%) Kibana
12 1 (0.93%) Argo
12 1 (0.93%) Istio
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) ServiceNow
2 10 (9.35%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (8.41%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.54%) Oracle
5 6 (5.61%) Dynatrace
5 6 (5.61%) PagerDuty
6 4 (3.74%) Sybase
7 3 (2.80%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.80%) Splunk
8 2 (1.87%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.87%) Databricks
9 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.93%) IBM
9 1 (0.93%) Murex
9 1 (0.93%) NetApp
9 1 (0.93%) Pega
9 1 (0.93%) Percona
9 1 (0.93%) Qualys
9 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.93%) Sage