Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > England

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

 6 months to
5 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 292 352
Rank change year-on-year -73 +60 -31
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 230 196 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.81% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.62% 4.27% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 141 140
10th Percentile £386 £413 £381
25th Percentile £415 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £507
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.48% -15.50%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £664
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 - -

All Database & BI Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,351 4,595 6,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.14% 19.08% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,319 3,181 4,506
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 91 138
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.79 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.88 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +23.15% -14.53% -33.33%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in England

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in England over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in England

Amazon RDS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon RDS in England over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon RDS in England

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
London -53 131 £516 -10.22% 32
Midlands -24 51 £469 -1.26% 10
West Midlands -34 44 £469 -1.26% 8
North of England -65 25 £406 -21.65% 21
Yorkshire -43 12 £400 -20.00% 4
South East -70 12 £533 -7.39% 15
South West -28 11 £580 -0.64% 17
North West -35 9 £445 -18.12% 13
East Midlands -19 6 £519 +66.88% 2
North East - 4 £425 - 4
East of England -32 2 - - 3
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 25 (10.87%) Confluence
2 6 (2.61%) SAS
3 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 226 (98.26%) AWS
2 144 (62.61%) Amazon S3
3 118 (51.30%) AWS Lambda
3 118 (51.30%) Serverless
4 111 (48.26%) Amazon EC2
5 84 (36.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 60 (26.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 55 (23.91%) Amazon ECS
8 52 (22.61%) Amazon EKS
9 44 (19.13%) Azure
10 41 (17.83%) GitHub
11 36 (15.65%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (14.35%) Route 53
13 31 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (12.61%) AWS KMS
15 25 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (7.39%) Power Platform
17 16 (6.96%) AWS Fargate
18 15 (6.52%) Amazon Kinesis
19 11 (4.78%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.78%) DNS
2 7 (3.04%) Firewall
2 7 (3.04%) VPN
3 6 (2.61%) DHCP
4 4 (1.74%) Network Security
5 3 (1.30%) SMTP
5 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.87%) HTTP
6 2 (0.87%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.43%) AMQP
7 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.43%) LAN
7 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) SSL
7 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (26.96%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (26.52%) DynamoDB
3 47 (20.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 20 (8.70%) MySQL
5 17 (7.39%) Power BI
6 16 (6.96%) SQL Server
7 14 (6.09%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (6.09%) MongoDB
7 14 (6.09%) NoSQL
8 13 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (5.65%) Pentaho
9 10 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (3.91%) Redis
10 9 (3.91%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.91%) Tableau
11 8 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (3.48%) Oracle Database
12 7 (3.04%) Big Data
12 7 (3.04%) Data Lake
12 7 (3.04%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 75 (32.61%) Jenkins
2 57 (24.78%) Git
3 35 (15.22%) GitLab
4 30 (13.04%) JIRA
5 27 (11.74%) JUnit
6 23 (10.00%) Mockito
7 22 (9.57%) Maven
8 21 (9.13%) SonarQube
9 14 (6.09%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.65%) jMock
11 11 (4.78%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.61%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.61%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (2.17%) git-flow
13 5 (2.17%) Postman
13 5 (2.17%) Snyk
14 4 (1.74%) Flyway
14 4 (1.74%) Oracle APEX
15 3 (1.30%) Gradle
General
1 55 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.00%) Finance
5 12 (5.22%) Banking
6 11 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.04%) Legal
8 5 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Front Office
11 2 (0.87%) Local Government
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Military
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (21.30%) Developer
2 36 (15.65%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (15.65%) Senior
3 26 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (10.87%) Java Developer
5 24 (10.43%) DBA
6 23 (10.00%) Data Engineer
7 18 (7.83%) Architect
7 18 (7.83%) Software Engineer
8 15 (6.52%) AWS Architect
8 15 (6.52%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.09%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (6.09%) Lead
10 12 (5.22%) AWS Developer
10 12 (5.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.22%) Oracle DBA
10 12 (5.22%) Python Developer
11 11 (4.78%) Analyst
12 10 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
12 10 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (19.13%) Spring
1 44 (19.13%) Spring Boot
2 34 (14.78%) React
2 34 (14.78%) RESTful
3 33 (14.35%) REST
4 31 (13.48%) Node.js
5 30 (13.04%) AngularJS
6 26 (11.30%) Kafka
7 23 (10.00%) Hibernate
7 23 (10.00%) JPA
7 23 (10.00%) SOAP
8 21 (9.13%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (8.26%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (8.26%) Web Services
10 18 (7.83%) Spring Batch
10 18 (7.83%) Spring Integration
11 14 (6.09%) GraphQL
12 13 (5.65%) PowerMock
13 12 (5.22%) FastAPI
14 11 (4.78%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 56 (24.35%) Cloud Native
2 28 (12.17%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.91%) Replication
5 7 (3.04%) NHS
6 6 (2.61%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.74%) Clustering
9 3 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.30%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.30%) PKI
10 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.43%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.74%) Linux
2 9 (3.91%) Windows
3 8 (3.48%) Unix
4 6 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.74%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.43%) CentOS
7 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (56.09%) CI/CD
2 107 (46.52%) Agile
3 99 (43.04%) DevOps
4 66 (28.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (25.65%) Microservices
6 56 (24.35%) Containerisation
7 44 (19.13%) Scrum
8 43 (18.70%) Performance Tuning
9 32 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (13.91%) TDD
10 31 (13.48%) ETL
11 30 (13.04%) Software Engineering
12 29 (12.61%) Observability
13 28 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (12.17%) Kanban
14 26 (11.30%) Event-Driven
14 26 (11.30%) Migration
14 26 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (10.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 93 (40.43%) SQL
2 79 (34.35%) Java
2 79 (34.35%) Python
3 18 (7.83%) Bash
3 18 (7.83%) PowerShell
3 18 (7.83%) TypeScript
4 16 (6.96%) JavaScript
5 14 (6.09%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.48%) Groovy
7 7 (3.04%) C#
7 7 (3.04%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.17%) Go
8 5 (2.17%) Scala
8 5 (2.17%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.74%) Perl
10 2 (0.87%) Ruby
11 1 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 107 (46.52%) Security Cleared
2 90 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.74%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.78%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.78%) Degree
6 10 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.30%) OCP
10 3 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.87%) PMP
12 1 (0.43%) CEH
12 1 (0.43%) CISSP
12 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.91%) NIST
1 9 (3.91%) QA
2 8 (3.48%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.04%) PMO
4 6 (2.61%) GDPR
4 6 (2.61%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) HL7
6 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 94 (40.87%) Docker
2 11 (4.78%) Postfix
3 7 (3.04%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.30%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.30%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.30%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.43%) HDFS
7 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 86 (37.39%) Terraform
2 62 (26.96%) Kubernetes
3 48 (20.87%) Grafana
4 30 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 17 (7.39%) Ansible
6 8 (3.48%) Data Guard
7 7 (3.04%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.61%) Argo
9 5 (2.17%) Puppet
10 4 (1.74%) Istio
10 4 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.30%) Foglight
11 3 (1.30%) Kibana
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.30%) Rancher
11 3 (1.30%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.30%) vMotion
12 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.87%) systemd
Vendors
1 32 (13.91%) Oracle
2 22 (9.57%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.39%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (6.52%) Atlassian
5 13 (5.65%) Microsoft
6 12 (5.22%) Dynatrace
6 12 (5.22%) Informatica
7 9 (3.91%) Talend
8 8 (3.48%) Databricks
9 6 (2.61%) Denodo
10 5 (2.17%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.17%) Splunk
10 5 (2.17%) Sybase
11 4 (1.74%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.74%) Brio
11 4 (1.74%) Citrix
11 4 (1.74%) Google
11 4 (1.74%) Qualys
11 4 (1.74%) Tenable
11 4 (1.74%) VMware
94 Amazon RDS jobs in England