Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 63 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.71% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.88% 1.42% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £349 £428 £263
25th Percentile £376 £450 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +6.67% -33.04%
75th Percentile - £550 £600
90th Percentile - £573 £645
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -7.06% -6.43% -4.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 102 141 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.03% 18.68% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 96 84
10th Percentile £313 £316 £297
25th Percentile £369 £357 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.93% -15.74% -
75th Percentile £475 £479 £538
90th Percentile £537 £579 £684
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £11.33
25th Percentile - £21.25 £11.52
Median hourly rate £38.96 £22.50 £11.83
Median % change year-on-year +73.16% +90.19% -53.61%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £17.78
90th Percentile - - £21.35
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -30.00% -

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Nottinghamshire - 4 £380 - 2
Northamptonshire - 2 £349 -
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Django
1 4 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 2 (33.33%) Flask
2 2 (33.33%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Pair Programming
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) SDLC
1 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 2 (33.33%) LLM
2 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (33.33%) Use Case
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google