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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 235 272
Rank change year-on-year -32 +37 -18
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 110 139 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 0.94% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.70% 4.37% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 86 97
10th Percentile £388 £444 £413
25th Percentile £441 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £788 £638
90th Percentile £675 - £788
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.86% +0.05% -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 2,970 3,184 3,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.56% 21.44% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,068 2,196 2,600
10th Percentile £361 £363 £382
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.13
25th Percentile £30.42 £27.67 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.50 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.38 £58.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.25 £69.00
England median hourly rate £54.35 £38.50 £46.84
% change year-on-year +41.17% -17.81% -14.84%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +3 17 £525 -2.42% 3
Central London -5 8 £520 -6.52% 28
West London - 2 - - 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 (11.82%) Confluence
2 10 (9.09%) nginx
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) CICS
4 1 (0.91%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (9.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 107 (97.27%) AWS
2 80 (72.73%) Amazon S3
3 61 (55.45%) AWS Lambda
3 61 (55.45%) Serverless
4 57 (51.82%) Amazon EC2
5 42 (38.18%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (33.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 37 (33.64%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (30.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 31 (28.18%) GitHub
9 27 (24.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (20.91%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (14.55%) Amazon Kinesis
11 16 (14.55%) Azure
12 15 (13.64%) Route 53
13 14 (12.73%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (11.82%) Datadog
15 12 (10.91%) AWS KMS
16 11 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
17 10 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.82%) DNS
2 12 (10.91%) Firewall
3 11 (10.00%) HTTP
4 10 (9.09%) FTP
4 10 (9.09%) IMAP
4 10 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (9.09%) SMTP
4 10 (9.09%) SSH
5 3 (2.73%) VPN
6 1 (0.91%) Internet
6 1 (0.91%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.91%) NAS
6 1 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (39.09%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (23.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (12.73%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (12.73%) MySQL
4 13 (11.82%) DynamoDB
4 13 (11.82%) SQL Server
5 10 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (7.27%) NoSQL
7 7 (6.36%) Hadoop
8 6 (5.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (5.45%) Redis
8 6 (5.45%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (4.55%) Metadata
10 4 (3.64%) MongoDB
10 4 (3.64%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.73%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.73%) DB2
12 2 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 34 (30.91%) Jenkins
2 33 (30.00%) Git
3 16 (14.55%) JIRA
4 15 (13.64%) GitLab
5 10 (9.09%) Vagrant
6 6 (5.45%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.64%) Maven
8 3 (2.73%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.73%) JUnit
9 2 (1.82%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.82%) Snyk
9 2 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.91%) ERwin
10 1 (0.91%) git-flow
10 1 (0.91%) RStudio
10 1 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.91%) Storybook
General
1 41 (37.27%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.00%) Finance
3 18 (16.36%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.27%) Banking
7 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Marketing
9 1 (0.91%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.91%) Front Office
9 1 (0.91%) Games
9 1 (0.91%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (25.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (19.09%) AWS DevOps
3 21 (19.09%) Developer
4 19 (17.27%) Senior
5 17 (15.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 13 (11.82%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (10.91%) AWS Developer
8 11 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 11 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (10.00%) Software Engineer
9 8 (7.27%) Architect
9 8 (7.27%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Site Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.73%) Kafka
2 15 (13.64%) Node.js
3 13 (11.82%) React
4 11 (10.00%) RESTful
5 10 (9.09%) LDAP
6 9 (8.18%) CSS
7 7 (6.36%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.36%) Jest
7 7 (6.36%) Sass
7 7 (6.36%) Spring
8 6 (5.45%) Enzyme
8 6 (5.45%) Spring Boot
9 5 (4.55%) FastAPI
10 4 (3.64%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.64%) Flask
10 4 (3.64%) Keycloak
10 4 (3.64%) Next.js
10 4 (3.64%) REST
11 3 (2.73%) Django
11 3 (2.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Cloud Native
1 18 (16.36%) Replication
2 13 (11.82%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.45%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.64%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.82%) Derivative
6 2 (1.82%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.91%) Clustering
7 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.91%) Equities
7 1 (0.91%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.91%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.91%) NHS
7 1 (0.91%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 27 (24.55%) Linux
2 12 (10.91%) Windows
3 11 (10.00%) VMS
4 10 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (9.09%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.91%) AIX
5 1 (0.91%) Android
5 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.91%) Solaris
5 1 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (65.45%) CI/CD
2 57 (51.82%) DevOps
3 43 (39.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (30.00%) Agile
4 33 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 24 (21.82%) Microservices
6 22 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 20 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (17.27%) Cloud Security
9 18 (16.36%) Observability
9 18 (16.36%) Software Engineering
10 17 (15.45%) Change Management
11 15 (13.64%) Analytics
12 14 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (11.82%) Fintech
14 12 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (10.91%) Event-Driven
14 12 (10.91%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (10.91%) Secrets Management
14 12 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (58.18%) Python
2 41 (37.27%) SQL
3 24 (21.82%) Java
4 23 (20.91%) Bash
5 15 (13.64%) Groovy
5 15 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 14 (12.73%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.18%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.45%) JSX
9 4 (3.64%) Go
10 3 (2.73%) Ruby
11 2 (1.82%) Perl
11 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.91%) Bicep
12 1 (0.91%) C#
12 1 (0.91%) COBOL
12 1 (0.91%) PHP
12 1 (0.91%) R
12 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (30.91%) Security Cleared
2 31 (28.18%) SC Cleared
3 25 (22.73%) AWS Certification
4 17 (15.45%) Degree
5 10 (9.09%) Azure Certification
6 8 (7.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.91%) CEH
10 1 (0.91%) CISSP
10 1 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.91%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.91%) PMP
10 1 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.45%) GDPR
3 2 (1.82%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.82%) NIST
4 1 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.91%) GxP
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) NCSC
4 1 (0.91%) QA
4 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (42.73%) Docker
2 10 (9.09%) DFS Replication
2 10 (9.09%) Dovecot
2 10 (9.09%) Postfix
2 10 (9.09%) Squid
3 2 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 61 (55.45%) Terraform
2 30 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 26 (23.64%) Grafana
4 18 (16.36%) Prometheus
5 13 (11.82%) Ansible
6 10 (9.09%) Nessus
6 10 (9.09%) Proxmox
7 9 (8.18%) Puppet
8 5 (4.55%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.64%) Rancher
10 3 (2.73%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.82%) Kibana
12 1 (0.91%) Argo
12 1 (0.91%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (13.64%) ServiceNow
2 10 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (8.18%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.27%) Oracle
5 6 (5.45%) Dynatrace
5 6 (5.45%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.73%) Splunk
6 3 (2.73%) Sybase
7 2 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.82%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.82%) Databricks
7 2 (1.82%) Qualys
7 2 (1.82%) Tenable
8 1 (0.91%) Confluent
8 1 (0.91%) IBM
8 1 (0.91%) Murex
8 1 (0.91%) NetApp
8 1 (0.91%) Percona
8 1 (0.91%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.91%) Red Hat