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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 290 359
Rank change year-on-year -83 +69 -49
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 239 204 184
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.83% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.66% 4.40% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 148 134
10th Percentile £358 £417 £378
25th Percentile £413 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% -14.79%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £651 £661
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
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 6,529 4,640 6,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 18.79% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,432 3,213 4,612
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £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 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 90 141
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.69 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £33.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.93% -16.26% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.34 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.84 £77.62 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £34.99 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.21% -12.53% -31.73%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -64 138 £525 -8.70% 31
Midlands -33 49 £469 -1.26% 9
West Midlands -40 42 £469 -1.26% 7
North of England -55 29 £425 -15.00% 17
Yorkshire -42 16 £450 -10.00% 3
South West -26 12 £580 +6.91% 10
North West -39 9 £445 -18.12% 10
South East -66 9 £440 -23.57% 12
East Midlands -18 6 £519 +66.88% 2
North East -30 4 £425 -5.56% 4
East of England -33 3 £350 -36.36% 2
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 (10.46%) Confluence
2 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.51%) SAS
3 5 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.26%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 231 (96.65%) AWS
2 148 (61.92%) Amazon S3
3 120 (50.21%) AWS Lambda
3 120 (50.21%) Serverless
4 107 (44.77%) Amazon EC2
5 86 (35.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 60 (25.10%) Amazon ECS
6 60 (25.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 54 (22.59%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (18.83%) Azure
9 40 (16.74%) GitHub
10 39 (16.32%) Amazon SQS
11 33 (13.81%) Route 53
12 30 (12.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 29 (12.13%) AWS KMS
14 24 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (7.53%) Power Platform
16 15 (6.28%) Amazon Kinesis
16 15 (6.28%) AWS Fargate
17 12 (5.02%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.02%) DNS
2 10 (4.18%) Firewall
3 7 (2.93%) DHCP
4 6 (2.51%) VPN
5 4 (1.67%) Network Security
5 4 (1.67%) SMTP
6 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.84%) 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 66 (27.62%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (25.94%) DynamoDB
3 51 (21.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 22 (9.21%) MySQL
5 18 (7.53%) Power BI
6 16 (6.69%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (6.28%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.86%) NoSQL
9 13 (5.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (5.44%) MongoDB
9 13 (5.44%) Pentaho
10 10 (4.18%) Redis
10 10 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (3.77%) Big Data
11 9 (3.77%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.77%) Tableau
12 8 (3.35%) Data Lake
12 8 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (2.51%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 75 (31.38%) Jenkins
2 59 (24.69%) Git
3 35 (14.64%) GitLab
4 30 (12.55%) JIRA
5 27 (11.30%) JUnit
6 23 (9.62%) Mockito
7 22 (9.21%) Maven
8 21 (8.79%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.86%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.44%) jMock
11 11 (4.60%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.51%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.51%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (2.09%) git-flow
13 5 (2.09%) Postman
14 4 (1.67%) Flyway
14 4 (1.67%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (1.67%) Snyk
15 3 (1.26%) Gradle
General
1 57 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.34%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.30%) Finance
4 15 (6.28%) Banking
5 11 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (2.93%) Legal
7 6 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.26%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Front Office
9 2 (0.84%) Law
9 2 (0.84%) Local Government
10 1 (0.42%) Games
10 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
10 1 (0.42%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (20.92%) Developer
2 37 (15.48%) Senior
3 36 (15.06%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (11.30%) Data Engineer
4 27 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (10.88%) Java Developer
6 23 (9.62%) DBA
7 22 (9.21%) Architect
8 18 (7.53%) Software Engineer
9 17 (7.11%) Lead
10 15 (6.28%) AWS Architect
10 15 (6.28%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (6.28%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.02%) AWS Developer
11 12 (5.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Python Developer
12 10 (4.18%) Analyst
12 10 (4.18%) Delivery Manager
12 10 (4.18%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.77%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.83%) Spring
1 45 (18.83%) Spring Boot
2 36 (15.06%) REST
3 35 (14.64%) React
4 34 (14.23%) RESTful
5 31 (12.97%) AngularJS
5 31 (12.97%) Node.js
6 26 (10.88%) Kafka
7 23 (9.62%) Hibernate
7 23 (9.62%) JPA
7 23 (9.62%) SOAP
8 21 (8.79%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (7.95%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (7.95%) Web Services
10 18 (7.53%) Spring Batch
10 18 (7.53%) Spring Integration
11 14 (5.86%) FastAPI
11 14 (5.86%) GraphQL
12 13 (5.44%) PowerMock
13 11 (4.60%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.85%) Cloud Native
2 31 (12.97%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.18%) Replication
5 8 (3.35%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.93%) NHS
7 5 (2.09%) Clustering
7 5 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.67%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.67%) PKI
9 2 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.84%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.08%) Linux
2 14 (5.86%) Windows
3 11 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.35%) Unix
5 4 (1.67%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.42%) CentOS
7 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (53.14%) CI/CD
2 108 (45.19%) Agile
3 100 (41.84%) DevOps
4 67 (28.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (26.36%) Microservices
6 58 (24.27%) Containerisation
7 43 (17.99%) Performance Tuning
7 43 (17.99%) Scrum
8 33 (13.81%) ETL
9 32 (13.39%) Observability
10 31 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (12.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (12.97%) TDD
11 30 (12.55%) Software Engineering
12 27 (11.30%) Event-Driven
12 27 (11.30%) Kanban
12 27 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (10.88%) Migration
14 25 (10.46%) High Availability
15 24 (10.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (38.08%) SQL
2 86 (35.98%) Python
3 79 (33.05%) Java
4 20 (8.37%) Bash
4 20 (8.37%) TypeScript
5 19 (7.95%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.69%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.18%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.35%) Groovy
8 8 (3.35%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.51%) C#
10 5 (2.09%) Scala
11 4 (1.67%) Go
11 4 (1.67%) Perl
11 4 (1.67%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.84%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 108 (45.19%) Security Cleared
2 89 (37.24%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.30%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.28%) Degree
4 15 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.26%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.84%) PMP
11 1 (0.42%) CEH
11 1 (0.42%) CISSP
11 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.18%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.77%) QA
3 8 (3.35%) NIST
4 7 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.93%) PMO
5 6 (2.51%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.67%) SLA
7 2 (0.84%) GDPR
8 1 (0.42%) HL7
8 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 96 (40.17%) Docker
2 11 (4.60%) Postfix
3 10 (4.18%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.51%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.67%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.67%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (1.67%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 86 (35.98%) Terraform
2 64 (26.78%) Kubernetes
3 47 (19.67%) Grafana
4 31 (12.97%) Prometheus
5 19 (7.95%) Ansible
6 6 (2.51%) Argo
6 6 (2.51%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.09%) Data Guard
7 5 (2.09%) Puppet
8 4 (1.67%) Istio
8 4 (1.67%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.67%) vMotion
9 3 (1.26%) Foglight
9 3 (1.26%) Kibana
9 3 (1.26%) Nagios
9 3 (1.26%) Rancher
10 2 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.84%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.42%) Consul
Vendors
1 30 (12.55%) Oracle
2 22 (9.21%) ServiceNow
3 19 (7.95%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.11%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (6.28%) Atlassian
6 13 (5.44%) Dynatrace
7 12 (5.02%) Informatica
8 9 (3.77%) Talend
9 8 (3.35%) Databricks
10 6 (2.51%) Denodo
11 5 (2.09%) Citrix
11 5 (2.09%) Google
11 5 (2.09%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.09%) Splunk
11 5 (2.09%) Sybase
11 5 (2.09%) VMware
12 4 (1.67%) AVEVA
12 4 (1.67%) Brio
12 4 (1.67%) HP
12 4 (1.67%) Symantec