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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 317 374
Rank change year-on-year -89 +57 -11
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 249 211 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.75% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.65% 4.14% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 145 105
10th Percentile £400 £381 £430
25th Percentile £442 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -7.41% -6.09%
75th Percentile £672 £588 £609
90th Percentile £750 £641 £700
UK median daily rate £533 £509 £535
% change year-on-year +4.67% -4.91% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile - £68.25 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £71.19 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -12.73% - -

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 6,821 5,100 5,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.56% 18.12% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,518 3,505 3,939
10th Percentile £353 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £663
90th Percentile £717 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 72 83
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.67 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.17 £29.00 £22.20
Median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.13 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.15
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £33.93
% change year-on-year +1.77% +16.36% -33.54%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -21 162 £550 +5.77% 23
North of England -66 31 £500 - 9
Midlands -72 20 £459 -3.37% 2
Yorkshire -29 18 £500 - 3
West Midlands -65 17 £464 -2.32% 2
South East -71 14 £533 +18.33% 9
South West -32 12 £488 -6.25% 8
North West -58 7 £525 -2.33% 5
North East -33 6 £419 -1.47% 1
East of England -35 3 £345 -37.27% 1
East Midlands -15 2 £358 -5.79%
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 20 (8.03%) Confluence
2 13 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.21%) Apache
4 7 (2.81%) nginx
5 6 (2.41%) SAS
5 6 (2.41%) SharePoint
6 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.20%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.80%) Camunda
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.80%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Aladdin
1 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 233 (93.57%) AWS
2 161 (64.66%) Amazon S3
3 131 (52.61%) AWS Lambda
3 131 (52.61%) Serverless
4 103 (41.37%) Amazon EC2
5 93 (37.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 71 (28.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 67 (26.91%) Amazon ECS
7 67 (26.91%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (24.10%) Azure
9 43 (17.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (12.85%) GitHub
11 28 (11.24%) AWS KMS
12 27 (10.84%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (8.84%) GCP
15 20 (8.03%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (7.63%) Amazon EventBridge
16 19 (7.63%) Route 53
17 18 (7.23%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.83%) Firewall
2 14 (5.62%) DNS
3 12 (4.82%) VPN
4 8 (3.21%) Network Security
5 7 (2.81%) DHCP
6 6 (2.41%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.01%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (2.01%) SMTP
8 4 (1.61%) HTTP
8 4 (1.61%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.61%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.80%) FTP
9 2 (0.80%) IMAP
9 2 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.80%) SSH
9 2 (0.80%) SSL
10 1 (0.40%) AMQP
10 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (30.92%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (21.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 54 (21.69%) DynamoDB
3 28 (11.24%) SQL Server
4 26 (10.44%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (8.43%) MongoDB
6 20 (8.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (7.63%) MySQL
8 16 (6.43%) Data Lake
8 16 (6.43%) Redis
9 12 (4.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (4.02%) Power BI
10 10 (4.02%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.61%) Big Data
12 7 (2.81%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (2.81%) Metadata
13 6 (2.41%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.41%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 62 (24.90%) Jenkins
2 49 (19.68%) Git
2 49 (19.68%) GitLab
3 28 (11.24%) JIRA
4 12 (4.82%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.02%) JUnit
5 10 (4.02%) Maven
5 10 (4.02%) Mockito
6 8 (3.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (3.21%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.41%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.41%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.61%) DbUnit
8 4 (1.61%) Gradle
8 4 (1.61%) Postman
9 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.20%) Flyway
9 3 (1.20%) jMock
9 3 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
General
1 74 (29.72%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.48%) Public Sector
3 39 (15.66%) Finance
4 25 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.84%) Banking
6 11 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.02%) Back Office
8 8 (3.21%) Front Office
9 7 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.01%) Law
11 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.20%) Billing
12 3 (1.20%) Legal
12 3 (1.20%) Police
12 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Local Government
13 2 (0.80%) Marketing
13 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.80%) Retail
14 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (19.68%) AWS Engineer
2 44 (17.67%) Senior
3 39 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (15.26%) Architect
5 37 (14.86%) Data Engineer
6 32 (12.85%) DBA
7 30 (12.05%) Developer
8 21 (8.43%) AWS Architect
8 21 (8.43%) AWS DevOps
8 21 (8.43%) Lead
9 19 (7.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 18 (7.23%) Administrator
11 17 (6.83%) AWS Data Engineer
11 17 (6.83%) Technical Leader
12 16 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (6.43%) Java Developer
13 15 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (4.02%) Consultant
16 9 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (51.81%) Terraform
2 31 (12.45%) REST
3 28 (11.24%) React
4 23 (9.24%) Spring
4 23 (9.24%) Spring Boot
5 20 (8.03%) Kafka
6 18 (7.23%) FastAPI
7 17 (6.83%) RESTful
8 16 (6.43%) AngularJS
9 11 (4.42%) ActiveMQ
9 11 (4.42%) GraphQL
9 11 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (4.02%) Hibernate
10 10 (4.02%) JPA
11 9 (3.61%) SOAP
12 8 (3.21%) .NET
12 8 (3.21%) JSON
13 7 (2.81%) Node.js
14 6 (2.41%) Keycloak
14 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 66 (26.51%) Cloud Native
2 31 (12.45%) Replication
3 20 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.61%) NHS
5 9 (3.61%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.81%) PKI
6 7 (2.81%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.41%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (2.41%) Clustering
7 6 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.01%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.01%) Reference Data
8 5 (2.01%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.28%) Linux
2 29 (11.65%) Windows
3 12 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.61%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (2.41%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.41%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.61%) AIX
7 4 (1.61%) Unix
8 1 (0.40%) CentOS
8 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.40%) VMS
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (63.05%) CI/CD
2 128 (51.41%) DevOps
3 121 (48.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (39.36%) Agile
5 58 (23.29%) Observability
6 55 (22.09%) Containerisation
6 55 (22.09%) Performance Tuning
7 52 (20.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (20.08%) Microservices
9 49 (19.68%) Data Modelling
10 47 (18.88%) Migration
11 45 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (16.47%) Disaster Recovery
13 40 (16.06%) Data Integration
14 38 (15.26%) Event-Driven
15 37 (14.86%) High Availability
16 36 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (14.06%) Analytics
17 35 (14.06%) Root Cause Analysis
18 33 (13.25%) AI
Programming Languages
1 117 (46.99%) Python
2 77 (30.92%) SQL
3 47 (18.88%) Java
4 27 (10.84%) PowerShell
4 27 (10.84%) TypeScript
5 24 (9.64%) Bash
6 19 (7.63%) Groovy
7 13 (5.22%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.81%) C#
8 7 (2.81%) Perl
9 4 (1.61%) Bicep
9 4 (1.61%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.61%) Scala
9 4 (1.61%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.20%) Go
10 3 (1.20%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 98 (39.36%) Security Cleared
2 85 (34.14%) SC Cleared
3 48 (19.28%) AWS Certification
4 29 (11.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.23%) Degree
6 12 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.42%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.42%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.81%) CISM
8 7 (2.81%) CISSP
8 7 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.20%) PMP
11 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.64%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.81%) NIST
2 7 (2.81%) QA
3 3 (1.20%) HL7
3 3 (1.20%) SLA
4 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 88 (35.34%) Docker
2 17 (6.83%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.41%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.61%) Postfix
5 4 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.20%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.20%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.20%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.80%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.80%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.80%) Squid
7 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 62 (24.90%) Kubernetes
2 46 (18.47%) Grafana
3 39 (15.66%) Prometheus
4 26 (10.44%) Ansible
5 8 (3.21%) Puppet
6 7 (2.81%) Istio
6 7 (2.81%) Kibana
7 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.01%) Argo
9 4 (1.61%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.61%) Rancher
10 3 (1.20%) Nagios
10 3 (1.20%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.20%) vMotion
11 2 (0.80%) Nessus
11 2 (0.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.80%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.80%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.24%) ServiceNow
3 20 (8.03%) Oracle
4 15 (6.02%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.42%) Informatica
6 8 (3.21%) Databricks
6 8 (3.21%) VMware
7 7 (2.81%) Google
7 7 (2.81%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.41%) Citrix
8 6 (2.41%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (2.41%) Talend
9 5 (2.01%) Amplitude
9 5 (2.01%) Denodo
10 4 (1.61%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.61%) Brio
10 4 (1.61%) Cisco
11 3 (1.20%) HP
11 3 (1.20%) Splunk
11 3 (1.20%) Symantec