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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 292 357
Rank change year-on-year -97 +65 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 240 223 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.82% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.50% 4.49% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 169 136
10th Percentile £359 £413 £379
25th Percentile £414 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +2.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £600
90th Percentile £707 £651 £681
UK median daily rate £503 £546 £510
% change year-on-year -8.01% +7.11% -13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -6.88% - -

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 6,851 4,972 6,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.28% 18.22% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,598 3,447 4,679
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £416 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £642 £675
90th Percentile £703 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 91 127
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.13 £24.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £38.38 £34.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.87% -11.69% -33.04%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £79.39 £70.00 £69.15
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -31.82%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -59 135 £525 -4.55% 33
Midlands -29 51 £469 -1.26% 2
West Midlands -49 44 £469 -1.26% 1
North of England -56 33 £463 -13.87% 16
Yorkshire -36 20 £500 - 4
South West -34 9 £546 +0.65% 13
North West -51 9 £535 -2.73% 5
South East -84 9 £440 -23.57% 18
East Midlands -11 6 £519 +36.58% 1
North East -31 4 £425 -5.56% 7
East of England -28 3 £350 -36.36%
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 27 (11.25%) Confluence
2 7 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.50%) SAS
4 4 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.25%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.83%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 230 (95.83%) AWS
2 152 (63.33%) Amazon S3
3 123 (51.25%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (50.83%) Serverless
5 107 (44.58%) Amazon EC2
6 86 (35.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 60 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
7 60 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 51 (21.25%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (20.00%) Azure
10 37 (15.42%) GitHub
11 36 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
12 30 (12.50%) AWS KMS
13 29 (12.08%) Route 53
14 27 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (9.17%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (7.50%) Power Platform
17 15 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
18 13 (5.42%) Amazon EMR
18 13 (5.42%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.00%) Firewall
2 8 (3.33%) DNS
3 7 (2.92%) DHCP
4 6 (2.50%) VPN
5 4 (1.67%) Network Security
5 4 (1.67%) SMTP
6 3 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.83%) NetScaler
7 2 (0.83%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.42%) AMQP
8 1 (0.42%) HTTP
8 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (25.83%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (24.17%) DynamoDB
3 44 (18.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 20 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (7.50%) Power BI
6 15 (6.25%) MySQL
6 15 (6.25%) SQL Server
7 14 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (5.42%) Pentaho
9 11 (4.58%) Big Data
10 10 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (4.17%) MongoDB
10 10 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (3.75%) Data Lake
11 9 (3.75%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.75%) Tableau
12 8 (3.33%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.92%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (29.58%) Jenkins
2 59 (24.58%) Git
3 34 (14.17%) GitLab
4 33 (13.75%) JIRA
5 26 (10.83%) JUnit
6 24 (10.00%) Mockito
7 22 (9.17%) Maven
8 21 (8.75%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.83%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.42%) jMock
11 11 (4.58%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.50%) Postman
13 6 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (2.08%) Cucumber
15 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
15 4 (1.67%) Flyway
16 3 (1.25%) Artifactory
16 3 (1.25%) git-flow
16 3 (1.25%) Gradle
General
1 59 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.67%) Public Sector
3 36 (15.00%) Finance
4 27 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.92%) Banking
6 9 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.50%) Legal
8 5 (2.08%) Front Office
9 3 (1.25%) Back Office
9 3 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.25%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.83%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Local Government
10 2 (0.83%) Marketing
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (17.08%) Developer
2 36 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (14.58%) Senior
4 34 (14.17%) Data Engineer
5 27 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (10.00%) Architect
6 24 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 20 (8.33%) Lead
8 19 (7.92%) DBA
9 15 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (5.42%) AWS Architect
11 12 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.00%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.00%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.17%) Analyst
12 10 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
12 10 (4.17%) Technical Leader
13 9 (3.75%) SQL DBA
13 9 (3.75%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (16.25%) Spring
1 39 (16.25%) Spring Boot
2 34 (14.17%) React
3 33 (13.75%) REST
4 31 (12.92%) Node.js
5 29 (12.08%) RESTful
6 28 (11.67%) AngularJS
7 24 (10.00%) SOAP
8 21 (8.75%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (8.75%) Kafka
9 19 (7.92%) Hibernate
9 19 (7.92%) JPA
9 19 (7.92%) Web Services
10 18 (7.50%) Spring Batch
10 18 (7.50%) Spring Integration
11 17 (7.08%) Spring Cloud
12 14 (5.83%) GraphQL
13 13 (5.42%) PowerMock
14 12 (5.00%) FastAPI
15 11 (4.58%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 58 (24.17%) Cloud Native
2 30 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.58%) Replication
5 10 (4.17%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.75%) NHS
7 6 (2.50%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.08%) Clustering
8 5 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.08%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.67%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.67%) PKI
10 3 (1.25%) Derivative
10 3 (1.25%) Equities
11 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.42%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 52 (21.67%) Linux
2 18 (7.50%) Windows
3 13 (5.42%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.33%) Unix
5 6 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.08%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.25%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.83%) AIX
9 1 (0.42%) CentOS
9 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (52.50%) CI/CD
2 110 (45.83%) Agile
3 100 (41.67%) DevOps
4 67 (27.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (24.17%) Microservices
6 52 (21.67%) Containerisation
7 40 (16.67%) Scrum
8 39 (16.25%) Performance Tuning
9 36 (15.00%) ETL
10 34 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (12.92%) Observability
11 31 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (12.08%) Kanban
12 29 (12.08%) TDD
13 28 (11.67%) Data Modelling
13 28 (11.67%) Migration
13 28 (11.67%) Test Automation
14 26 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (10.42%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 96 (40.00%) Python
2 82 (34.17%) SQL
3 74 (30.83%) Java
4 22 (9.17%) Bash
4 22 (9.17%) TypeScript
5 20 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.83%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.75%) Groovy
7 9 (3.75%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.92%) C#
9 5 (2.08%) Perl
9 5 (2.08%) Scala
10 4 (1.67%) Go
10 4 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.83%) Ruby
12 1 (0.42%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 103 (42.92%) Security Cleared
2 88 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.83%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.67%) Degree
5 10 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.25%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.83%) PMP
12 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.92%) PMO
3 5 (2.08%) QA
4 4 (1.67%) SLA
5 3 (1.25%) HL7
5 3 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.25%) NIST
6 2 (0.83%) GDPR
6 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 84 (35.00%) Docker
2 12 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.58%) Postfix
4 6 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.67%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.67%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 84 (35.00%) Terraform
2 53 (22.08%) Kubernetes
3 47 (19.58%) Grafana
4 31 (12.92%) Prometheus
5 21 (8.75%) Ansible
6 6 (2.50%) Argo
7 5 (2.08%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.08%) Puppet
8 4 (1.67%) Istio
8 4 (1.67%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.67%) vMotion
9 3 (1.25%) Foglight
9 3 (1.25%) Kibana
9 3 (1.25%) Nagios
9 3 (1.25%) Rancher
10 2 (0.83%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.83%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.42%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (10.83%) ServiceNow
2 24 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.00%) Oracle
3 17 (7.08%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 13 (5.42%) Dynatrace
6 12 (5.00%) Informatica
7 9 (3.75%) Talend
8 8 (3.33%) Databricks
9 7 (2.92%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.92%) VMware
10 6 (2.50%) Denodo
11 5 (2.08%) Amplitude
11 5 (2.08%) Citrix
11 5 (2.08%) Google
11 5 (2.08%) Splunk
12 4 (1.67%) AVEVA
12 4 (1.67%) Brio
12 4 (1.67%) HP
12 4 (1.67%) Symantec
72 Amazon RDS jobs in England