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

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	304	269	270
Rank change year-on-year	-35	+1	+21
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS	162	101	115
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.79%	0.75%	0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	4.51%	3.59%	3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted	123	55	78
10^th Percentile	£418	£400	£438
25^th Percentile	£463	£466	£508
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£520	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+5.77%	-5.45%	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£731	£615	£650
90^th Percentile	£775	£666	£761
England median daily rate	£538	£500	£539
% change year-on-year	+7.60%	-7.24%	-6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	6	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.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills	3,595	2,814	3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	17.59%	21.03%	22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted	2,479	1,953	2,515
10^th Percentile	£363	£375	£363
25^th Percentile	£434	£431	£459
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£538	£550	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-2.27%	-4.35%	-
75^th Percentile	£650	£675	£700
90^th Percentile	£738	£800	£850
England median daily rate	£513	£510	£550
% change year-on-year	+0.49%	-7.27%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	34	40	23
10^th Percentile	£20.15	£18.25	£28.12
25^th Percentile	£25.25	£30.69	£36.25
Median hourly rate	£43.88	£52.50	£45.00
Median % change year-on-year	-16.43%	+16.67%	-9.09%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£66.56	£59.39
90^th Percentile	£68.38	£87.50	£78.75
England median hourly rate	£40.25	£42.00	£34.47
% change year-on-year	-4.16%	+21.85%	-31.75%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 22 October 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.

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 22 October 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
Central London	-15	19	£675	+80.00%	17
West London	-	19	£725	-	1
South London	-4	17	£537	-2.10%	2
Amazon RDS England

Amazon RDS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Amazon RDS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for Amazon RDS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	96.3%	156
2	CI/CD	64.8%	105
3	Amazon S3	63.6%	103
4	Infrastructure as Code	54.3%	88
4	Terraform	54.3%	88
6	AWS Lambda	52.5%	85
6	Serverless	52.5%	85
8	DevOps	50.6%	82
9	Python	48.1%	78
10	Agile	40.1%	65
10	Amazon EC2	40.1%	65
10	Security Cleared	40.1%	65
13	Docker	38.3%	62
14	SC Cleared	35.8%	58
15	Amazon CloudWatch	34.6%	56
16	PostgreSQL	32.7%	53
16	SQL	32.7%	53
18	Amazon EKS	32.1%	52
19	Amazon ECS	30.2%	49
20	Kubernetes	29.6%	48
21	Virtual Private Cloud	27.2%	44
22	Observability	26.5%	43
23	Containerisation	25.9%	42
24	Amazon Aurora	24.7%	40
24	Data Modelling	24.7%	40
26	Stakeholder Management	24.1%	39
27	Performance Tuning	23.5%	38
28	AWS Certification	22.8%	37
28	Azure	22.8%	37
28	Jenkins	22.8%	37

Amazon RDS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	PostgreSQL	32.7%	53
2	Amazon Aurora	24.7%	40
3	DynamoDB	21.6%	35
4	SQL Server	13.0%	21
5	MongoDB	11.7%	19
6	MySQL	9.3%	15
7	Amazon Athena	8.6%	14
8	Redis	7.4%	12
9	SQL Server Integration Services	6.8%	11
10	Amazon Redshift	6.2%	10
10	Elasticsearch	6.2%	10
12	Data Warehouse	5.6%	9
13	Big Data	4.9%	8
14	Metadata	4.3%	7
15	Relational Database	3.7%	6
16	NoSQL	3.1%	5
17	BigQuery	2.5%	4
17	Power BI	2.5%	4
19	Data Lake	1.9%	3
19	Pinecone	1.9%	3