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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 245 270
Rank change year-on-year -16 +25 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 108 135 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 0.87% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.73% 4.05% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 88 119
10th Percentile £400 £430 £425
25th Percentile £458 £505 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -7.56% -8.32%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £788 £738
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

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 2,894 3,330 3,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.71% 21.48% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,020 2,336 2,761
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £686
90th Percentile £788 £838 £788
England median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 22 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £20.13
25th Percentile £31.12 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £49.50 £42.75 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -6.10% -17.22%
75th Percentile £68.69 £53.75 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £76.95 £78.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £47.90
% change year-on-year +32.63% -29.16% +4.12%

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 18 November 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 November 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 November 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 15 £528 -2.13% 1
Central London -7 7 £475 -12.64% 28
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 (12.04%) Confluence
2 10 (9.26%) nginx
3 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) CICS
4 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (9.26%) 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
1 105 (97.22%) AWS
2 77 (71.30%) Amazon S3
3 60 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
4 58 (53.70%) Serverless
5 57 (52.78%) AWS Lambda
6 44 (40.74%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (35.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (27.78%) GitHub
8 30 (27.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 29 (26.85%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (25.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (19.44%) Amazon Kinesis
11 21 (19.44%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (13.89%) Azure
13 14 (12.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (12.96%) Route 53
14 13 (12.04%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (11.11%) AWS KMS
15 12 (11.11%) Datadog
16 10 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.04%) DNS
2 12 (11.11%) Firewall
3 11 (10.19%) HTTP
4 10 (9.26%) FTP
4 10 (9.26%) IMAP
4 10 (9.26%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (9.26%) SMTP
4 10 (9.26%) SSH
5 2 (1.85%) VPN
6 1 (0.93%) Internet
6 1 (0.93%) NAS
6 1 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (23.15%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (18.52%) DynamoDB
4 15 (13.89%) MySQL
5 13 (12.04%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (9.26%) SQL Server
7 8 (7.41%) NoSQL
8 7 (6.48%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (6.48%) Hadoop
9 6 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (5.56%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.63%) RDBMS
10 5 (4.63%) Redis
11 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.70%) DB2
11 4 (3.70%) Metadata
11 4 (3.70%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.85%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 37 (34.26%) Jenkins
2 33 (30.56%) Git
3 16 (14.81%) GitLab
3 16 (14.81%) JIRA
4 10 (9.26%) JUnit
4 10 (9.26%) Maven
4 10 (9.26%) Vagrant
5 6 (5.56%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.70%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.70%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.78%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.85%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.93%) Ant
9 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.93%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.93%) jMock
9 1 (0.93%) Mockito
9 1 (0.93%) RStudio
General
1 43 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.37%) Finance
3 17 (15.74%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.26%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.41%) Banking
7 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Front Office
9 1 (0.93%) Games
9 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (27.78%) AWS Engineer
2 27 (25.00%) Developer
2 27 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (20.37%) Senior
4 21 (19.44%) AWS DevOps
5 17 (15.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 13 (12.04%) AWS Developer
6 13 (12.04%) Java Developer
6 13 (12.04%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (10.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 11 (10.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (9.26%) Software Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.41%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.48%) Architect
10 7 (6.48%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.56%) Java Engineer
12 5 (4.63%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (4.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.44%) Kafka
2 16 (14.81%) Node.js
3 15 (13.89%) Spring
4 13 (12.04%) RESTful
5 11 (10.19%) Jest
5 11 (10.19%) Spring Boot
6 10 (9.26%) LDAP
6 10 (9.26%) React
7 8 (7.41%) CSS
8 7 (6.48%) Sass
9 6 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (5.56%) Enzyme
9 6 (5.56%) REST
10 3 (2.78%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.78%) Hibernate
10 3 (2.78%) Keycloak
10 3 (2.78%) SOAP
11 2 (1.85%) .NET
11 2 (1.85%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.81%) Replication
2 15 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.48%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) Derivative
7 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
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 25 (23.15%) Linux
2 12 (11.11%) Windows
3 11 (10.19%) VMS
4 10 (9.26%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (9.26%) 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 65 (60.19%) CI/CD
2 54 (50.00%) DevOps
3 35 (32.41%) Agile
3 35 (32.41%) Containerisation
3 35 (32.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (28.70%) Microservices
5 20 (18.52%) Configuration Management
6 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (15.74%) Cloud Security
8 16 (14.81%) Change Management
8 16 (14.81%) Software Engineering
9 15 (13.89%) Fintech
9 15 (13.89%) Observability
10 14 (12.96%) Analytics
10 14 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (12.96%) Migration
10 14 (12.96%) Test Automation
11 13 (12.04%) Clean Code
11 13 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (12.04%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (51.85%) Python
2 38 (35.19%) SQL
3 34 (31.48%) Java
4 18 (16.67%) Bash
5 17 (15.74%) PowerShell
6 14 (12.96%) Groovy
6 14 (12.96%) TypeScript
7 13 (12.04%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.56%) JSX
9 4 (3.70%) Go
10 3 (2.78%) Ruby
11 2 (1.85%) Perl
12 1 (0.93%) Bicep
12 1 (0.93%) C#
12 1 (0.93%) COBOL
12 1 (0.93%) PHP
12 1 (0.93%) R
12 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 27 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 27 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.67%) Degree
4 10 (9.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (9.26%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.63%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) GDPR
3 2 (1.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.93%) GxP
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) NCSC
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (44.44%) Docker
2 11 (10.19%) Postfix
3 10 (9.26%) DFS Replication
3 10 (9.26%) Dovecot
3 10 (9.26%) Squid
4 2 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (49.07%) Terraform
2 30 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 24 (22.22%) Grafana
4 18 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.19%) Ansible
6 10 (9.26%) Nessus
6 10 (9.26%) Proxmox
7 7 (6.48%) Puppet
8 4 (3.70%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.78%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (2.78%) Rancher
10 2 (1.85%) Kibana
11 1 (0.93%) Argo
11 1 (0.93%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (15.74%) ServiceNow
2 11 (10.19%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (6.48%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.48%) Oracle
4 6 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (4.63%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.70%) PagerDuty
6 4 (3.70%) Sybase
7 3 (2.78%) IBM
7 3 (2.78%) Splunk
8 2 (1.85%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.85%) Databricks
8 2 (1.85%) Pega
9 1 (0.93%) Charles River
9 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.93%) Confluent
9 1 (0.93%) Murex
9 1 (0.93%) NetApp
9 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.93%) Sage