Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 40 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.28% 0.59% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.56% 8.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - -
East of England median daily rate £348 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -36.82% -12.00% +21.95%

All Database & BI Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 39 23 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.86% 6.74% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 14
10th Percentile £405 £379 £335
25th Percentile £410 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £603 £677 £525
90th Percentile £625 £744 £620
East of England median daily rate £510 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +2.00% +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.83
25th Percentile £20.44 £53.55 £20.06
Median hourly rate £23.72 £54.70 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -56.64% +140.44% +42.19%
75th Percentile £29.60 £55.85 £26.06
90th Percentile £33.39 - £27.68
East of England median hourly rate £54.25 £31.64 £15.49
% change year-on-year +71.46% +104.26% -75.22%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Cambridge 0 1 £345 -23.33% 4
Amazon RDS
East of England

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) CQRS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Trade-off Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd