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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 291 352
Rank change year-on-year -83 +61 -49
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 216 190 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.78% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.46% 4.11% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 143 134
10th Percentile £396 £414 £407
25th Percentile £418 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £600
90th Percentile £636 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -13.14%
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 6,241 4,626 6,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.42% 18.98% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,317 3,254 4,482
10th Percentile £350 £362 £353
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 £777 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 90 131
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.63 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £32.05 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% -20.37% -26.82%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £58.62
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.63 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £32.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +52.39% -17.98% -30.43%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -73 118 £503 -16.25% 25
Midlands -28 55 £500 -4.76% 6
West Midlands -23 48 £500 -9.09% 4
North of England -47 21 £425 -15.00% 19
South East -61 12 £530 -7.83% 10
South West -24 9 £591 +1.16% 12
Yorkshire -43 8 £400 -20.00% 4
East Midlands -27 7 £519 +66.88% 2
North West -36 7 £445 -2.41% 11
North East - 6 £425 - 4
East of England -38 3 - - 3
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 (10.19%) Confluence
2 6 (2.78%) SAS
3 4 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 215 (99.54%) AWS
2 144 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 112 (51.85%) Amazon EC2
4 106 (49.07%) AWS Lambda
4 106 (49.07%) Serverless
5 77 (35.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 59 (27.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 58 (26.85%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
9 41 (18.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 40 (18.52%) GitHub
11 34 (15.74%) Azure
12 29 (13.43%) Amazon SQS
12 29 (13.43%) Route 53
13 25 (11.57%) AWS KMS
13 25 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (7.87%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (7.41%) Power Platform
16 12 (5.56%) Amazon MSK
17 11 (5.09%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.70%) DNS
2 6 (2.78%) Network Security
3 5 (2.31%) Firewall
3 5 (2.31%) VPN
4 3 (1.39%) HTTP
5 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.93%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.46%) AMQP
6 1 (0.46%) DHCP
6 1 (0.46%) Internet
6 1 (0.46%) LAN
6 1 (0.46%) SMTP
6 1 (0.46%) SSL
6 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (25.46%) DynamoDB
3 41 (18.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 24 (11.11%) MySQL
5 21 (9.72%) SQL Server
6 17 (7.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (7.41%) Power BI
8 15 (6.94%) NoSQL
9 14 (6.48%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (6.02%) MongoDB
10 13 (6.02%) Pentaho
11 12 (5.56%) Relational Database
12 10 (4.63%) Redis
13 8 (3.70%) Data Lake
13 8 (3.70%) Oracle Database
13 8 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (3.70%) Tableau
14 7 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (2.31%) BusinessObjects
15 5 (2.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 76 (35.19%) Jenkins
2 51 (23.61%) Git
3 35 (16.20%) GitLab
4 24 (11.11%) JIRA
5 22 (10.19%) JUnit
6 18 (8.33%) Maven
6 18 (8.33%) Mockito
7 16 (7.41%) SonarQube
8 11 (5.09%) DbUnit
8 11 (5.09%) jMock
9 9 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.31%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.31%) git-flow
10 5 (2.31%) Snyk
11 4 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (1.39%) Flyway
12 3 (1.39%) Gradle
12 3 (1.39%) Postman
13 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.93%) Storybook
General
1 46 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.91%) Public Sector
3 27 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.11%) Finance
5 12 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.17%) Banking
7 7 (3.24%) Legal
8 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Front Office
10 2 (0.93%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (18.06%) Developer
2 36 (16.67%) Senior
3 32 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (11.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (9.72%) Data Engineer
5 21 (9.72%) DBA
6 19 (8.80%) Java Developer
6 19 (8.80%) Site Engineer
7 17 (7.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 15 (6.94%) Architect
9 14 (6.48%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (6.02%) Lead
10 13 (6.02%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.56%) Analyst
11 12 (5.56%) AWS Developer
11 12 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
12 11 (5.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.63%) AWS Architect
13 10 (4.63%) Senior Developer
14 9 (4.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.13%) Spring
1 37 (17.13%) Spring Boot
2 30 (13.89%) Node.js
2 30 (13.89%) RESTful
3 29 (13.43%) Kafka
4 25 (11.57%) React
5 23 (10.65%) REST
6 20 (9.26%) AngularJS
7 19 (8.80%) Hibernate
7 19 (8.80%) JPA
7 19 (8.80%) SOAP
7 19 (8.80%) Spring Cloud
8 15 (6.94%) ActiveMQ
8 15 (6.94%) Spring Batch
8 15 (6.94%) Web Services
9 14 (6.48%) Spring Integration
10 11 (5.09%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (5.09%) PowerMock
11 10 (4.63%) Django
11 10 (4.63%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 48 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.09%) Replication
4 6 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.39%) Clustering
7 3 (1.39%) NHS
8 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.46%) Equities
9 1 (0.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.46%) Life Science
9 1 (0.46%) PMI
9 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (27.31%) Linux
2 8 (3.70%) Unix
3 4 (1.85%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (1.85%) Windows
4 3 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (56.02%) CI/CD
2 95 (43.98%) Agile
3 89 (41.20%) DevOps
4 71 (32.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (29.63%) Containerisation
6 44 (20.37%) Microservices
7 34 (15.74%) ETL
7 34 (15.74%) Performance Tuning
7 34 (15.74%) Scrum
8 32 (14.81%) Software Engineering
9 31 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (13.89%) Observability
11 28 (12.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 26 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (12.04%) TDD
13 25 (11.57%) Configuration Management
13 25 (11.57%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (11.11%) Data Modelling
14 24 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 92 (42.59%) SQL
2 90 (41.67%) Python
3 70 (32.41%) Java
4 28 (12.96%) Bash
5 19 (8.80%) Shell Script
6 13 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 13 (6.02%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.17%) Go
8 8 (3.70%) Groovy
8 8 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.24%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.78%) C#
11 5 (2.31%) Scala
12 4 (1.85%) Perl
12 4 (1.85%) Ruby
13 3 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (47.69%) Security Cleared
2 85 (39.35%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.89%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.94%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.09%) Degree
6 10 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (4.17%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.39%) OCP
10 3 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.46%) CEH
12 1 (0.46%) CISSP
12 1 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.46%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.63%) NIST
2 9 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.17%) QA
3 7 (3.24%) GDPR
3 7 (3.24%) PCI DSS
3 7 (3.24%) PMO
4 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (44.44%) Docker
2 10 (4.63%) Postfix
3 4 (1.85%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.93%) HDFS
6 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 96 (44.44%) Terraform
2 57 (26.39%) Grafana
3 56 (25.93%) Kubernetes
4 32 (14.81%) Prometheus
5 24 (11.11%) Ansible
6 13 (6.02%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.09%) Puppet
8 8 (3.70%) Data Guard
9 4 (1.85%) Argo
9 4 (1.85%) Kibana
9 4 (1.85%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.85%) Rancher
10 3 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.39%) Foglight
10 3 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.93%) Istio
11 2 (0.93%) Packer
11 2 (0.93%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.93%) systemd
Vendors
1 33 (15.28%) Oracle
2 19 (8.80%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.94%) Microsoft
4 14 (6.48%) Jaspersoft
5 12 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 12 (5.56%) Informatica
6 11 (5.09%) Dynatrace
7 9 (4.17%) PagerDuty
7 9 (4.17%) Talend
8 8 (3.70%) Databricks
8 8 (3.70%) Splunk
9 6 (2.78%) Denodo
10 5 (2.31%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.31%) Sybase
11 4 (1.85%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.85%) Qualys
11 4 (1.85%) Tenable
12 3 (1.39%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.93%) Google
13 2 (0.93%) NetApp