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

 6 months to
17 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 276 350
Rank change year-on-year -98 +74 -48
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 224 212 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.87% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.59% 4.54% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 153 145
10th Percentile £385 £420 £400
25th Percentile £413 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £569 £632 £610
90th Percentile £645 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
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 6,245 4,670 6,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.87% 19.11% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,340 3,267 4,431
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 95 137
10th Percentile £17.55 £20.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.85 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.31 £52.50
90th Percentile £83.55 £70.00 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +55.30% -15.49% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -93 126 £509 -15.21% 22
Midlands -38 52 £500 -1.86% 8
West Midlands -31 44 £500 -5.48% 5
North of England -54 23 £425 -15.00% 16
South East -54 12 £530 -7.83% 8
South West -28 10 £575 -1.50% 6
North West -31 9 £395 -13.38% 10
Yorkshire -45 9 £480 -4.00% 5
East Midlands -25 8 £498 +60.13% 3
North East - 5 £425 - 1
East of England -29 3 - - 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 14 (6.25%) Confluence
2 6 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) SAS
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
2 149 (66.52%) Amazon S3
3 119 (53.13%) Amazon EC2
4 115 (51.34%) AWS Lambda
4 115 (51.34%) Serverless
5 77 (34.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 61 (27.23%) Amazon ECS
7 59 (26.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 58 (25.89%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (21.43%) GitHub
10 34 (15.18%) Azure
11 31 (13.84%) Amazon SQS
11 31 (13.84%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (13.84%) Route 53
12 22 (9.82%) AWS KMS
13 14 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
14 13 (5.80%) Amazon MSK
15 12 (5.36%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.02%) DNS
2 6 (2.68%) Firewall
2 6 (2.68%) Network Security
3 5 (2.23%) VPN
4 2 (0.89%) HTTP
4 2 (0.89%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.89%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.45%) AMQP
5 1 (0.45%) DHCP
5 1 (0.45%) Internet
5 1 (0.45%) LAN
5 1 (0.45%) SMTP
5 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (24.55%) DynamoDB
3 40 (17.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 25 (11.16%) MySQL
5 21 (9.38%) SQL Server
6 18 (8.04%) Relational Database
7 16 (7.14%) NoSQL
8 15 (6.70%) MongoDB
9 12 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (4.91%) Power BI
10 11 (4.91%) Redis
11 9 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (3.57%) Tableau
13 7 (3.13%) DB2
13 7 (3.13%) Oracle Database
13 7 (3.13%) Pentaho
14 5 (2.23%) DocumentDB
14 5 (2.23%) Hadoop
14 5 (2.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 82 (36.61%) Jenkins
2 54 (24.11%) Git
3 33 (14.73%) GitLab
4 25 (11.16%) JUnit
5 19 (8.48%) Maven
6 18 (8.04%) JIRA
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
13 2 (0.89%) Storybook
General
1 49 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.20%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.50%) Finance
5 12 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.91%) Banking
7 6 (2.68%) Legal
8 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.34%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.89%) Front Office
9 2 (0.89%) Local Government
10 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Military
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (18.75%) Developer
2 35 (15.63%) Senior
3 30 (13.39%) AWS Engineer
4 24 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (10.27%) Java Developer
6 20 (8.93%) DBA
6 20 (8.93%) Site Engineer
7 19 (8.48%) Data Engineer
7 19 (8.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 16 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.70%) AWS Developer
10 14 (6.25%) Architect
10 14 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (6.25%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.80%) Lead
12 12 (5.36%) Analyst
12 12 (5.36%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (4.91%) Oracle DBA
14 10 (4.46%) AWS Architect
14 10 (4.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (18.30%) Spring
1 41 (18.30%) Spring Boot
2 35 (15.63%) Node.js
2 35 (15.63%) RESTful
3 33 (14.73%) Kafka
4 27 (12.05%) React
5 24 (10.71%) 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 12 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (4.91%) Django
11 11 (4.91%) GraphQL
11 11 (4.91%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.02%) Replication
4 7 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.34%) Clustering
7 3 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.34%) NHS
7 3 (1.34%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.34%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.89%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 60 (26.79%) Linux
2 8 (3.57%) Unix
3 5 (2.23%) Windows
4 3 (1.34%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (56.70%) CI/CD
2 98 (43.75%) Agile
3 85 (37.95%) DevOps
4 77 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (29.02%) Containerisation
6 48 (21.43%) Microservices
7 35 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (13.84%) ETL
8 31 (13.84%) Software Engineering
9 30 (13.39%) Performance Tuning
9 30 (13.39%) Scrum
10 29 (12.95%) Observability
10 29 (12.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 29 (12.95%) TDD
11 26 (11.61%) Continuous Integration
12 25 (11.16%) Configuration Management
13 24 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (10.27%) High Availability
15 22 (9.82%) Migration
16 21 (9.38%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 99 (44.20%) SQL
2 88 (39.29%) Python
3 72 (32.14%) Java
4 29 (12.95%) Bash
5 19 (8.48%) Shell Script
6 18 (8.04%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.36%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.36%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.57%) Go
8 8 (3.57%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.68%) C#
10 5 (2.23%) Groovy
10 5 (2.23%) Ruby
10 5 (2.23%) Scala
11 3 (1.34%) JSX
11 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.89%) Perl
13 1 (0.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 102 (45.54%) Security Cleared
2 83 (37.05%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.95%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.70%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.91%) Degree
6 10 (4.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.13%) 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 11 (4.91%) NIST
2 10 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.46%) QA
3 9 (4.02%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.13%) GDPR
4 7 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.13%) PMO
5 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) GxP
6 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 96 (42.86%) Terraform
2 62 (27.68%) Kubernetes
3 52 (23.21%) Grafana
4 32 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 25 (11.16%) Ansible
6 14 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.91%) Puppet
8 8 (3.57%) Data Guard
9 5 (2.23%) Argo
9 5 (2.23%) Kibana
9 5 (2.23%) Rancher
10 4 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.34%) Foglight
11 3 (1.34%) Istio
11 3 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.34%) Packer
12 2 (0.89%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.89%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (13.39%) Oracle
2 18 (8.04%) ServiceNow
3 16 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 14 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
5 12 (5.36%) Atlassian
6 9 (4.02%) Databricks
6 9 (4.02%) PagerDuty
6 9 (4.02%) Talend
7 8 (3.57%) Splunk
7 8 (3.57%) Sybase
8 7 (3.13%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.13%) Informatica
9 5 (2.23%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.79%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.79%) Qualys
10 4 (1.79%) Tenable
11 3 (1.34%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.89%) Google
12 2 (0.89%) Netlify
64 Amazon RDS jobs in England