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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.87% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile £610 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +14.58%

All Database & BI 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 201 243 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.53% 16.98% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 148 157
10th Percentile £410 £384 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +19.79%
75th Percentile £602 £656 £675
90th Percentile £664 £675 £718
South East median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 12
10th Percentile - £34.67 £56.44
25th Percentile - £41.25 £60.13
Median hourly rate - £63.15 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year - -3.22% -13.58%
75th Percentile - £64.95 £73.94
90th Percentile - £65.62 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £44.36 £63.15 £57.32
% change year-on-year -29.75% +10.17% +91.07%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in Berkshire

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 2 January 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
Bracknell - 8 £423 -
Reading - 5 £563 -
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 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
3 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (46.15%) OCI
3 6 (46.15%) Serverless
4 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (30.77%) Azure
6 3 (23.08%) Azure Storage
7 2 (15.38%) GitHub
7 2 (15.38%) IaaS
7 2 (15.38%) PaaS
7 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) NoSQL
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (46.15%) Couchbase
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.69%) MySQL
5 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Data Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) DBA
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Replication
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (15.38%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Unix
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) High Availability
1 10 (76.92%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (46.15%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Security Patching
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Task Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (23.08%) Runbook
5 3 (23.08%) Statistics
6 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) Resilience Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Shell Script
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) AWS Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
2 4 (30.77%) OCP
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) GDPR
2 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (15.38%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Data Guard
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (15.38%) systemd
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) IBM
2 6 (46.15%) Confluent
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle
4 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft