Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.70% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile £469 - -
South East median daily rate £445 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +11.25% -30.43% +19.79%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 212 272 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.43% 16.86% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 166 162
10th Percentile £410 £388 £350
25th Percentile £436 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +0.87% +19.79%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £650 £663 £725
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.32% +7.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 7
10th Percentile - £24.85 £54.71
25th Percentile - £41.25 £59.50
Median hourly rate - £58.30 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.46% +2.44%
75th Percentile - £61.60 £75.89
90th Percentile - £64.73 £83.97
South East median hourly rate £18.75 £48.18 £49.00
% change year-on-year -61.08% -1.67% +130.05%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Bracknell - 7 £423 -
Reading - 2 £448 - 1
Amazon RDS
South East

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (66.67%) OCI
3 6 (66.67%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) NoSQL
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (66.67%) Couchbase
3 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Replication
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (77.78%) High Availability
2 7 (77.78%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) Security Patching
4 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
6 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (22.22%) Migration
7 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 1 (11.11%) Data Security
7 1 (11.11%) Database Tuning
7 1 (11.11%) DevOps
7 1 (11.11%) Project Management
7 1 (11.11%) Resilience Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (11.11%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) OCP
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) IBM
2 6 (66.67%) Confluent
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle