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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 - 112
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.60% - 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.80% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile £480 - -
South East median daily rate £575 £595 £600
% change year-on-year -3.36% -0.83% +25.00%

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 184 278 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.69% 16.38% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 168 164
10th Percentile £406 £376 £350
25th Percentile £436 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £653
90th Percentile £664 £663 £713
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £544
% change year-on-year -10.00% -8.05% +8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 4
10th Percentile - £26.24 £54.70
25th Percentile - £48.18 £56.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% -6.67% +57.14%
75th Percentile - - £73.80
90th Percentile - £64.10 £77.03
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £51.59 £52.25
% change year-on-year -37.88% -1.26% +134.83%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS 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 17 September 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 - 5 £420 - 2
Reading - 2 £475 -
Amazon RDS
South East

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (71.43%) OCI
3 5 (71.43%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (71.43%) Couchbase
1 5 (71.43%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (14.29%) DbUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) jMock
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) JPA
2 1 (14.29%) PowerMock
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Batch
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Replication
2 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Security Patching
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
2 5 (71.43%) Confluent
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) Jaspersoft