Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh 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 70 57 51
Rank change year-on-year -13 -6 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 5 10 22
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.68% 1.61% 2.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.13% 6.62% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 14
10th Percentile £402 £495 £404
25th Percentile £405 £496 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £497 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.71% +10.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £499 £470
90th Percentile - £499 £491
Scotland median daily rate £425 £497 £458
% change year-on-year -14.59% +8.63% -12.86%

All Database & BI Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 121 151 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 16.37% 24.32% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 79 76
10th Percentile £317 £420 £363
25th Percentile £405 £450 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +11.11% -6.05%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £531
90th Percentile £575 £600 £644
Scotland median daily rate £425 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -13.09% +8.67% -6.25%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeCommit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Data Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) FinOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle