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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 295 378
Rank change year-on-year -111 +83 -29
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 234 222 156
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.80% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.37% 4.39% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 158 105
10th Percentile £370 £400 £413
25th Percentile £431 £461 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £516 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -4.40% -6.09%
75th Percentile £672 £600 £625
90th Percentile £758 £641 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £533
% change year-on-year +2.44% -3.76% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 6,936 5,059 5,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.90% 18.16% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,631 3,488 4,093
10th Percentile £352 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £532
% change year-on-year - -6.02% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 75 84
10th Percentile £15.95 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.04 £21.81
Median hourly rate £39.50 £43.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +20.00% -34.09%
75th Percentile £58.13 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.49 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.77% +15.69% -36.36%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -64 149 £550 +1.15% 141
North of England -52 29 £500 -2.44% 39
Midlands -66 24 £453 -4.63% 18
West Midlands -57 22 £459 -3.37% 9
Yorkshire -26 17 £500 - 6
South East -82 11 £460 -20.00% 26
South West -36 10 £431 -18.82% 27
North East -40 6 £419 -1.47% 8
North West -59 6 £600 +9.09% 25
East of England -38 5 £345 -37.27% 15
East Midlands -15 1 £358 -5.79% 9
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 19 (8.12%) Confluence
2 16 (6.84%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.99%) Apache
4 6 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.56%) SAS
4 6 (2.56%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.71%) nginx
7 3 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.28%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.85%) Camunda
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.85%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.85%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 221 (94.44%) AWS
2 151 (64.53%) Amazon S3
3 123 (52.56%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (52.14%) Serverless
5 92 (39.32%) Amazon EC2
6 85 (36.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 61 (26.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 60 (25.64%) Amazon ECS
9 59 (25.21%) Amazon EKS
10 51 (21.79%) Azure
11 37 (15.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 34 (14.53%) GitHub
13 29 (12.39%) AWS KMS
14 28 (11.97%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (8.12%) GCP
16 19 (8.12%) Route 53
17 17 (7.26%) AWS Step Functions
18 16 (6.84%) Amazon EventBridge
19 15 (6.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.26%) Firewall
2 14 (5.98%) DNS
3 9 (3.85%) VPN
4 7 (2.99%) DHCP
5 6 (2.56%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.14%) SMTP
7 4 (1.71%) HTTP
7 4 (1.71%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.71%) Network Security
7 4 (1.71%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.85%) FTP
8 2 (0.85%) IMAP
8 2 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.85%) SSH
8 2 (0.85%) SSL
9 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.43%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (23.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 51 (21.79%) DynamoDB
4 24 (10.26%) SQL Server
5 22 (9.40%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (8.55%) MongoDB
6 20 (8.55%) MySQL
7 19 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (6.84%) Redis
10 13 (5.56%) Data Lake
11 12 (5.13%) Big Data
11 12 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (4.70%) NoSQL
13 8 (3.42%) Power BI
14 7 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (2.99%) Pentaho
14 7 (2.99%) Relational Database
15 5 (2.14%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 59 (25.21%) Jenkins
2 46 (19.66%) Git
3 42 (17.95%) GitLab
4 27 (11.54%) JIRA
5 13 (5.56%) JUnit
5 13 (5.56%) Mockito
6 12 (5.13%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.13%) Maven
7 11 (4.70%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.56%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (2.14%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.14%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.14%) jMock
11 4 (1.71%) Postman
12 3 (1.28%) Flyway
12 3 (1.28%) Gradle
12 3 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.37%) Public Sector
3 33 (14.10%) Finance
4 24 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.97%) Banking
6 11 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.85%) Back Office
7 9 (3.85%) Front Office
8 6 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.71%) Local Government
10 3 (1.28%) Billing
10 3 (1.28%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Law
10 3 (1.28%) Legal
10 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Marketing
11 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (21.37%) AWS Engineer
2 41 (17.52%) Senior
3 37 (15.81%) Data Engineer
4 36 (15.38%) Architect
5 35 (14.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (14.10%) Developer
7 27 (11.54%) DBA
8 21 (8.97%) AWS DevOps
8 21 (8.97%) Lead
9 19 (8.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 18 (7.69%) AWS Architect
11 17 (7.26%) AWS Data Engineer
11 17 (7.26%) Java Developer
12 16 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (6.41%) Technical Leader
14 14 (5.98%) Administrator
15 13 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
16 12 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
17 10 (4.27%) Technical Architect
18 9 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (48.72%) Terraform
2 32 (13.68%) React
3 30 (12.82%) REST
4 25 (10.68%) Spring
4 25 (10.68%) Spring Boot
5 20 (8.55%) RESTful
6 19 (8.12%) AngularJS
6 19 (8.12%) Kafka
7 16 (6.84%) FastAPI
8 15 (6.41%) Node.js
9 14 (5.98%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (5.13%) Hibernate
10 12 (5.13%) JPA
10 12 (5.13%) SOAP
11 10 (4.27%) GraphQL
11 10 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (3.42%) JSON
12 8 (3.42%) Spring Batch
12 8 (3.42%) Spring Integration
12 8 (3.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.11%) Replication
3 20 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.98%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.27%) NHS
6 8 (3.42%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.56%) Clustering
8 6 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.56%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.14%) PKI
9 5 (2.14%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.71%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.28%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.66%) Linux
2 23 (9.83%) Windows
3 12 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.85%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.42%) Unix
6 5 (2.14%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.71%) AIX
7 4 (1.71%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.43%) CentOS
8 1 (0.43%) VMS
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 115 (49.15%) DevOps
3 108 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (39.74%) Agile
5 51 (21.79%) Performance Tuning
6 49 (20.94%) Containerisation
7 47 (20.09%) Data Modelling
7 47 (20.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (19.66%) Observability
9 44 (18.80%) Microservices
10 39 (16.67%) Migration
11 37 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (15.38%) Event-Driven
13 34 (14.53%) Data Integration
14 33 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
14 33 (14.10%) High Availability
15 32 (13.68%) Scrum
16 31 (13.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 30 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
17 30 (12.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 110 (47.01%) Python
2 79 (33.76%) SQL
3 53 (22.65%) Java
4 25 (10.68%) TypeScript
5 24 (10.26%) Bash
6 23 (9.83%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.84%) Groovy
8 15 (6.41%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.99%) Perl
9 7 (2.99%) Scala
10 4 (1.71%) C#
10 4 (1.71%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.28%) Go
11 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.85%) Bicep
12 2 (0.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 91 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 78 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 45 (19.23%) AWS Certification
4 28 (11.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.69%) Degree
6 16 (6.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.70%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.85%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.99%) CISM
10 7 (2.99%) CISSP
11 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.85%) PMP
14 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.83%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.99%) NIST
2 7 (2.99%) QA
3 4 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.28%) HL7
4 3 (1.28%) SLA
5 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 79 (33.76%) Docker
2 16 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.56%) Postfix
3 6 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.28%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.28%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.28%) Terminal Services
5 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.85%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.85%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.85%) Squid
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 56 (23.93%) Kubernetes
2 48 (20.51%) Grafana
3 36 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 20 (8.55%) Ansible
5 8 (3.42%) Istio
6 7 (2.99%) Kibana
7 6 (2.56%) Argo
8 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.14%) Puppet
9 4 (1.71%) Rancher
10 3 (1.28%) Nagios
10 3 (1.28%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.28%) vMotion
11 2 (0.85%) Consul
11 2 (0.85%) Nessus
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.85%) Packer
11 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.83%) Oracle
3 20 (8.55%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.41%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.70%) Informatica
6 9 (3.85%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.42%) VMware
8 7 (2.99%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.99%) Databricks
8 7 (2.99%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.99%) Talend
9 6 (2.56%) Denodo
9 6 (2.56%) Splunk
10 5 (2.14%) Amplitude
10 5 (2.14%) Google
11 4 (1.71%) Brio
11 4 (1.71%) Cisco
11 4 (1.71%) Citrix
12 3 (1.28%) HP
12 3 (1.28%) Symantec