Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in South London

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 26 43
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 15 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 8.06% 5.24% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.33% 39.29% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £489 - -
25th Percentile £509 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £539 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% +7.80% -22.96%
75th Percentile £594 £556 -
90th Percentile £617 £563 -
London median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -9.31%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 45 28 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 24.19% 13.33% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 28
10th Percentile £406 £411 £231
25th Percentile £465 £425 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +26.59% -20.93%
75th Percentile £630 £562 £503
90th Percentile £654 £596 £610
London median daily rate £528 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.26% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.89
25th Percentile - - £17.29
Median hourly rate - - £19.07
75th Percentile - - £20.97
90th Percentile - - £21.44
London median hourly rate £48.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -18.18%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon RDS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in South London

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in South London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in South London

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Croydon +2 15 £549 +1.76%
Amazon RDS
London

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 10 (66.67%) Confluence
1 10 (66.67%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (86.67%) Amazon EC2
2 13 (86.67%) Amazon S3
3 11 (73.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (73.33%) AWS KMS
3 11 (73.33%) Route 53
4 10 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
4 10 (66.67%) Azure
4 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DNS
1 10 (66.67%) Firewall
1 10 (66.67%) FTP
1 10 (66.67%) HTTP
1 10 (66.67%) IMAP
1 10 (66.67%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (66.67%) SMTP
1 10 (66.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (93.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) Git
1 15 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (66.67%) JIRA
2 10 (66.67%) Vagrant
3 4 (26.67%) SonarQube
4 3 (20.00%) JUnit
4 3 (20.00%) Maven
4 3 (20.00%) Mockito
5 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (6.67%) DbUnit
5 1 (6.67%) jMock
5 1 (6.67%) Storybook
General
1 13 (86.67%) Public Sector
2 10 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
2 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (53.33%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) LDAP
2 5 (33.33%) Spring
3 4 (26.67%) REST
3 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (20.00%) Bootstrap
4 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (20.00%) JPA
4 3 (20.00%) SOAP
4 3 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
5 1 (6.67%) PowerMock
5 1 (6.67%) React
5 1 (6.67%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Batch
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Replication
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Linux
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 10 (66.67%) VMS
2 10 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) DevOps
2 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (66.67%) Change Management
3 10 (66.67%) Cloud Security
3 10 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 10 (66.67%) Patch Management
3 10 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Microservices
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) TDD
6 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (20.00%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (6.67%) Biometrics
7 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (6.67%) Kanban
7 1 (6.67%) Pair Programming
7 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) SQL
2 10 (66.67%) Groovy
2 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 10 (66.67%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) SC Cleared
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) Docker
2 11 (73.33%) Postfix
3 10 (66.67%) DFS Replication
3 10 (66.67%) Dovecot
3 10 (66.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Grafana
1 13 (86.67%) Prometheus
2 10 (66.67%) Nessus
2 10 (66.67%) Proxmox
2 10 (66.67%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (66.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft