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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 291 355
Rank change year-on-year -80 +64 -55
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 224 195 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.80% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.58% 4.22% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 145 139
10th Percentile £388 £415 £405
25th Percentile £415 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £609
90th Percentile £630 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -12.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £73.25 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 6,255 4,623 6,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.51% 19.00% 16.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,330 3,252 4,460
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £781
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 92 131
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.09 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £48.13 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.41% -18.93% -31.09%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £56.74
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.01% -17.23% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -64 122 £500 -16.67% 20
Midlands -25 56 £499 -4.95% 6
West Midlands -22 48 £500 -9.09% 4
North of England -60 23 £425 -15.00% 15
South East -53 12 £530 -7.83% 10
South West -29 10 £575 -1.50% 9
Yorkshire -48 10 £440 -12.00% 4
East Midlands -21 8 £498 +60.13% 2
North West -37 7 £445 -2.41% 7
North East - 6 £425 - 4
East of England -39 3 - - 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 22 (9.82%) Confluence
2 6 (2.68%) SAS
3 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 223 (99.55%) AWS
2 150 (66.96%) Amazon S3
3 116 (51.79%) Amazon EC2
4 113 (50.45%) AWS Lambda
4 113 (50.45%) Serverless
5 79 (35.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 62 (27.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 60 (26.79%) Amazon ECS
8 55 (24.55%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (20.54%) GitHub
10 42 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (15.18%) Azure
12 31 (13.84%) Route 53
13 29 (12.95%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (12.95%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (11.16%) AWS KMS
15 17 (7.59%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (7.14%) Power Platform
17 13 (5.80%) Amazon MSK
18 12 (5.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.46%) DNS
2 8 (3.57%) Firewall
3 6 (2.68%) Network Security
4 5 (2.23%) VPN
5 3 (1.34%) HTTP
6 2 (0.89%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.89%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.45%) AMQP
7 1 (0.45%) DHCP
7 1 (0.45%) Internet
7 1 (0.45%) LAN
7 1 (0.45%) SMTP
7 1 (0.45%) SSL
7 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (30.80%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (25.45%) DynamoDB
3 41 (18.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 24 (10.71%) MySQL
5 21 (9.38%) SQL Server
6 17 (7.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (7.14%) Power BI
8 15 (6.70%) NoSQL
9 14 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (6.25%) Relational Database
10 13 (5.80%) MongoDB
10 13 (5.80%) Pentaho
11 10 (4.46%) Redis
12 8 (3.57%) Data Lake
12 8 (3.57%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (3.57%) Tableau
13 7 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.23%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (2.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 80 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 56 (25.00%) Git
3 36 (16.07%) GitLab
4 25 (11.16%) JIRA
5 22 (9.82%) JUnit
6 18 (8.04%) Maven
6 18 (8.04%) Mockito
7 16 (7.14%) SonarQube
8 11 (4.91%) DbUnit
8 11 (4.91%) jMock
9 9 (4.02%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.23%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.23%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.23%) git-flow
10 5 (2.23%) Snyk
11 4 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (1.34%) Flyway
12 3 (1.34%) Gradle
12 3 (1.34%) Postman
12 3 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.20%) Public Sector
3 27 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.16%) Finance
5 12 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.46%) Banking
7 7 (3.13%) Legal
8 4 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.34%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.89%) Front Office
10 2 (0.89%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (17.41%) Developer
2 36 (16.07%) Senior
3 35 (15.63%) AWS Engineer
4 26 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (9.38%) Data Engineer
5 21 (9.38%) DBA
6 20 (8.93%) Site Engineer
7 19 (8.48%) Java Developer
8 18 (8.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 16 (7.14%) Software Engineer
10 15 (6.70%) Architect
11 14 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (5.80%) Lead
13 12 (5.36%) Analyst
13 12 (5.36%) AWS Developer
13 12 (5.36%) Oracle DBA
14 11 (4.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 10 (4.46%) AWS Architect
15 10 (4.46%) Senior Developer
16 9 (4.02%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.52%) Spring
1 37 (16.52%) Spring Boot
2 35 (15.63%) Node.js
2 35 (15.63%) RESTful
3 29 (12.95%) Kafka
4 28 (12.50%) React
5 23 (10.27%) REST
6 20 (8.93%) AngularJS
7 19 (8.48%) Hibernate
7 19 (8.48%) JPA
7 19 (8.48%) SOAP
7 19 (8.48%) Spring Cloud
8 15 (6.70%) ActiveMQ
8 15 (6.70%) Spring Batch
8 15 (6.70%) Web Services
9 14 (6.25%) Spring Integration
10 11 (4.91%) Django
10 11 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (4.91%) GraphQL
10 11 (4.91%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 48 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.91%) Replication
4 7 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.34%) Clustering
7 3 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.34%) NHS
8 2 (0.89%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Equities
9 1 (0.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.45%) PMI
9 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (28.13%) Linux
2 8 (3.57%) Unix
3 6 (2.68%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.79%) Windows
5 3 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 99 (44.20%) Agile
3 89 (39.73%) DevOps
4 73 (32.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 45 (20.09%) Microservices
7 35 (15.63%) Software Engineering
8 34 (15.18%) ETL
8 34 (15.18%) Performance Tuning
8 34 (15.18%) Scrum
9 31 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (13.39%) Observability
11 29 (12.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 29 (12.95%) TDD
12 28 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
13 26 (11.61%) Configuration Management
13 26 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (11.16%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (10.71%) Data Modelling
15 24 (10.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 97 (43.30%) SQL
2 93 (41.52%) Python
3 71 (31.70%) Java
4 28 (12.50%) Bash
5 20 (8.93%) Shell Script
6 17 (7.59%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.91%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.02%) Go
10 8 (3.57%) Groovy
11 7 (3.13%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.68%) C#
13 5 (2.23%) Perl
13 5 (2.23%) Ruby
13 5 (2.23%) Scala
14 3 (1.34%) JSX
14 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (48.66%) Security Cleared
2 90 (40.18%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.84%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.70%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (4.91%) Degree
6 10 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (4.02%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.34%) OCP
10 3 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.89%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.45%) CEH
12 1 (0.45%) CISSP
12 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.45%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.46%) NIST
2 9 (4.02%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.02%) QA
3 7 (3.13%) GDPR
3 7 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 7 (3.13%) PMO
4 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 100 (44.64%) Docker
2 10 (4.46%) Postfix
3 4 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.89%) HDFS
5 2 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 99 (44.20%) Terraform
2 58 (25.89%) Grafana
2 58 (25.89%) Kubernetes
3 33 (14.73%) Prometheus
4 25 (11.16%) Ansible
5 14 (6.25%) Progress Chef
6 11 (4.91%) Puppet
7 8 (3.57%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.79%) Argo
8 4 (1.79%) Kibana
8 4 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.79%) Packer
8 4 (1.79%) Rancher
9 3 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.34%) Foglight
9 3 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.89%) Istio
10 2 (0.89%) Sysdig
10 2 (0.89%) systemd
Vendors
1 34 (15.18%) Oracle
2 19 (8.48%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.70%) Microsoft
4 14 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
5 12 (5.36%) Atlassian
5 12 (5.36%) Informatica
6 11 (4.91%) Dynatrace
7 10 (4.46%) Splunk
8 9 (4.02%) PagerDuty
8 9 (4.02%) Talend
9 8 (3.57%) Databricks
10 6 (2.68%) Denodo
11 5 (2.23%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.23%) Sybase
12 4 (1.79%) AVEVA
12 4 (1.79%) Qualys
12 4 (1.79%) Tenable
13 3 (1.34%) Cloudera
14 2 (0.89%) Google
14 2 (0.89%) NetApp
60 Amazon RDS jobs in England