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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 307 368
Rank change year-on-year -84 +61 -26
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 239 221 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.79% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.47% 4.39% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 158 107
10th Percentile £382 £407 £409
25th Percentile £434 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £523 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% -2.88% -6.43%
75th Percentile £665 £600 £617
90th Percentile £753 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £529 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 6,891 5,032 6,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.93% 18.09% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,604 3,464 4,155
10th Percentile £356 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 76 84
10th Percentile £15.61 £21.11 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.35 £29.21 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £44.25 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.99% +22.07% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £73.08
UK median hourly rate £39.84 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.41% +24.29% -36.36%

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 18 September 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
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 18 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
London -46 150 £550 -8.33% 124
North of England -53 30 £500 -2.44% 32
Midlands -66 25 £453 -4.63% 17
West Midlands -61 23 £459 -3.37% 11
Yorkshire -26 17 £500 - 7
South West -31 12 £488 -10.14% 15
South East -73 11 £460 -20.00% 19
North East -41 7 £425 -2.86% 8
North West -54 6 £600 +9.09% 17
East of England -34 5 £345 -37.27% 11
East Midlands -19 1 £358 -5.79% 6
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 19 (7.95%) Confluence
2 16 (6.69%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.93%) Apache
3 7 (2.93%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.51%) SAS
5 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.67%) nginx
7 3 (1.26%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.26%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.84%) Camunda
8 2 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.84%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.84%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 226 (94.56%) AWS
2 156 (65.27%) Amazon S3
3 127 (53.14%) AWS Lambda
4 126 (52.72%) Serverless
5 94 (39.33%) Amazon EC2
6 88 (36.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 62 (25.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 61 (25.52%) Amazon ECS
9 58 (24.27%) Amazon EKS
10 51 (21.34%) Azure
11 37 (15.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 34 (14.23%) GitHub
13 30 (12.55%) Amazon SQS
13 30 (12.55%) AWS KMS
14 23 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (8.37%) Route 53
16 19 (7.95%) GCP
17 18 (7.53%) AWS Step Functions
18 16 (6.69%) Amazon EventBridge
19 15 (6.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.11%) Firewall
2 14 (5.86%) DNS
3 9 (3.77%) VPN
4 7 (2.93%) DHCP
5 6 (2.51%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.09%) Network Security
6 5 (2.09%) SMTP
7 4 (1.67%) HTTP
7 4 (1.67%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.84%) FTP
8 2 (0.84%) IMAP
8 2 (0.84%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.84%) SSH
8 2 (0.84%) SSL
9 1 (0.42%) AMQP
9 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.42%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (33.47%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (23.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 54 (22.59%) DynamoDB
4 24 (10.04%) SQL Server
5 22 (9.21%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (8.79%) MySQL
7 19 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (7.95%) MongoDB
8 18 (7.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (6.69%) Redis
10 13 (5.44%) Data Lake
11 12 (5.02%) Big Data
11 12 (5.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (4.18%) NoSQL
13 10 (4.18%) Power BI
14 8 (3.35%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.93%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (2.93%) Pentaho
16 6 (2.51%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 60 (25.10%) Jenkins
2 46 (19.25%) Git
3 42 (17.57%) GitLab
4 28 (11.72%) JIRA
5 13 (5.44%) JUnit
5 13 (5.44%) Mockito
6 12 (5.02%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.02%) Maven
6 12 (5.02%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (2.93%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.51%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (2.51%) jMock
9 6 (2.51%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.67%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.67%) Postman
11 3 (1.26%) Flyway
11 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.84%) Gradle
12 2 (0.84%) Vagrant
General
1 66 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.76%) Public Sector
3 34 (14.23%) Finance
4 26 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.79%) Banking
6 10 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.77%) Back Office
7 9 (3.77%) Front Office
8 7 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.67%) Local Government
10 3 (1.26%) Billing
10 3 (1.26%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.26%) Law
10 3 (1.26%) Legal
10 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Marketing
11 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Military
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (20.92%) AWS Engineer
2 42 (17.57%) Senior
3 38 (15.90%) Data Engineer
4 36 (15.06%) Architect
4 36 (15.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 35 (14.64%) Developer
6 27 (11.30%) DBA
7 22 (9.21%) Lead
8 21 (8.79%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (7.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 18 (7.53%) AWS Architect
11 17 (7.11%) AWS Data Engineer
11 17 (7.11%) Java Developer
12 16 (6.69%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (6.28%) Technical Leader
14 14 (5.86%) Administrator
15 13 (5.44%) Senior Data Engineer
16 12 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
17 10 (4.18%) Technical Architect
18 9 (3.77%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (48.54%) Terraform
2 32 (13.39%) React
3 30 (12.55%) REST
4 25 (10.46%) Spring
4 25 (10.46%) Spring Boot
5 21 (8.79%) AngularJS
5 21 (8.79%) RESTful
6 18 (7.53%) Kafka
6 18 (7.53%) Node.js
7 16 (6.69%) FastAPI
8 15 (6.28%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (5.44%) SOAP
10 12 (5.02%) Hibernate
10 12 (5.02%) JPA
11 10 (4.18%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (3.77%) GraphQL
12 9 (3.77%) Spring Batch
12 9 (3.77%) Spring Integration
12 9 (3.77%) Web Services
13 8 (3.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 61 (25.52%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.88%) Replication
3 21 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.86%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.18%) NHS
6 8 (3.35%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.93%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.51%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.51%) Clustering
8 6 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.51%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.09%) PKI
9 5 (2.09%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.26%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.08%) Linux
2 23 (9.62%) Windows
3 12 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.77%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.35%) Unix
6 5 (2.09%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.67%) AIX
7 4 (1.67%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) VMS
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (60.67%) CI/CD
2 116 (48.54%) DevOps
3 109 (45.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (39.33%) Agile
5 51 (21.34%) Performance Tuning
6 49 (20.50%) Containerisation
7 48 (20.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 47 (19.67%) Data Modelling
9 46 (19.25%) Observability
10 45 (18.83%) Microservices
11 40 (16.74%) Migration
12 38 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (15.48%) Event-Driven
14 34 (14.23%) Data Integration
14 34 (14.23%) Data Pipeline
14 34 (14.23%) High Availability
15 32 (13.39%) Scrum
16 31 (12.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 31 (12.97%) Software Engineering
17 30 (12.55%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 112 (46.86%) Python
2 82 (34.31%) SQL
3 56 (23.43%) Java
4 26 (10.88%) TypeScript
5 24 (10.04%) Bash
6 23 (9.62%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.69%) Groovy
8 15 (6.28%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.93%) Perl
9 7 (2.93%) Scala
10 4 (1.67%) C#
10 4 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.26%) Go
11 3 (1.26%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.84%) Bicep
12 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.84%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 93 (38.91%) Security Cleared
2 79 (33.05%) SC Cleared
3 46 (19.25%) AWS Certification
4 29 (12.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (7.11%) Degree
6 16 (6.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.60%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.77%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.93%) CISM
9 7 (2.93%) CISSP
9 7 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.93%) NIST
2 7 (2.93%) QA
3 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) HL7
4 3 (1.26%) SLA
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) PMO
6 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 80 (33.47%) Docker
2 16 (6.69%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.93%) Postfix
4 6 (2.51%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.26%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.26%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.84%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.84%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.84%) Squid
7 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 56 (23.43%) Kubernetes
2 49 (20.50%) Grafana
3 37 (15.48%) Prometheus
4 21 (8.79%) Ansible
5 8 (3.35%) Istio
6 7 (2.93%) Kibana
7 6 (2.51%) Argo
8 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.09%) Puppet
9 4 (1.67%) Rancher
10 3 (1.26%) Nagios
10 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.26%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.26%) vMotion
11 2 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.84%) Nessus
11 2 (0.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.84%) Packer
11 2 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.21%) Oracle
3 20 (8.37%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.28%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.60%) Informatica
6 10 (4.18%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.35%) Atlassian
7 8 (3.35%) VMware
8 7 (2.93%) Databricks
8 7 (2.93%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.93%) Talend
9 6 (2.51%) Denodo
9 6 (2.51%) Splunk
10 5 (2.09%) Amplitude
10 5 (2.09%) Google
11 4 (1.67%) Brio
11 4 (1.67%) Cisco
11 4 (1.67%) Citrix
12 3 (1.26%) HP
12 3 (1.26%) Symantec