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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 93 126
Rank change year-on-year -24 +33 -26
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 7 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.38% 0.085% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.82% 0.61% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £431 - £419
25th Percentile £463 - £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £453
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.73%
75th Percentile £606 - £469
90th Percentile £618 - £476
South East median daily rate £530 £575 £505
% change year-on-year -7.83% +13.86% +1.00%

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 248 165 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.42% 14.02% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 105 145
10th Percentile £310 £364 £316
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -2.44% +5.67%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £675
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 14
10th Percentile £39.00 - £19.45
25th Percentile £61.11 £41.25 £51.94
Median hourly rate £79.15 £63.15 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.34% +1.85% -17.88%
75th Percentile £82.63 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £83.30 - £79.78
South East median hourly rate £36.86 £42.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year -13.28% -27.85% +7.10%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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
Reading -18 3 £588 -
Bracknell - 3 £475 -
Wokingham - 1 £420 -
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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 3 (42.86%) Azure Storage
5 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (28.57%) IaaS
5 2 (28.57%) OCI
5 2 (28.57%) PaaS
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Database
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Couchbase
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DBA
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Unix
4 1 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Runbook
2 3 (42.86%) Statistics
2 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Resilience Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Chaos Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
1 3 (42.86%) OCP
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Data Guard
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (28.57%) systemd
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Confluent
3 1 (14.29%) IBM