Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.30% 0.23% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.00% 1.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £359 - -
25th Percentile £361 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - -
75th Percentile £366 - -
90th Percentile £367 - -
North West median daily rate £394 £456 £450
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% -14.29%

All Database & BI Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 100 74 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.13% 17.05% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 55 52
10th Percentile £329 £314 £265
25th Percentile £378 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £496 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +1.77% +2.63%
75th Percentile £542 £575 £541
90th Percentile £704 £639 £610
North West median daily rate £438 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -11.72% -0.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile - £33.82 £27.63
25th Percentile - £39.85 £41.25
Median hourly rate £86.00 £49.90 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.34% +17.41% -
75th Percentile - £59.95 £43.75
90th Percentile - £65.98 -
North West median hourly rate £72.13 £25.43 £44.74
% change year-on-year +183.64% -43.16% -31.17%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 February 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
Knutsford - 2 £363 -
Amazon RDS
North West

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle