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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 292 366
Rank change year-on-year -64 +74 -44
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 226 198 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.80% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.87% 4.19% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 132 147
10th Percentile £368 £413 £403
25th Percentile £429 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £576 £651 £611
90th Percentile £636 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £73.40 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 5,841 4,723 6,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.03% 19.17% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,050 3,296 4,409
10th Percentile £345 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +1.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £661
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 87 160
10th Percentile £18.13 £20.21 £14.32
25th Percentile £26.12 £24.25 £20.81
Median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -13.58% -32.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.86 £60.38
90th Percentile £85.13 £70.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.93% -29.57%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -65 117 £513 -10.87% 37
Midlands -31 46 £500 -5.48% 10
West Midlands -38 38 £500 -5.48% 9
North of England -49 27 £490 -6.67% 15
South East -36 15 £503 -1.95% 19
North West -31 12 £388 -15.02% 8
Yorkshire -55 11 £500 -4.76% 6
South West -17 10 £538 -12.30% 10
East Midlands -26 8 £390 -11.96% 1
North East -12 4 £500 - 1
East of England -25 3 £538 +8.86% 4
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 16 (7.08%) Confluence
2 4 (1.77%) Apache
2 4 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 226 (100.00%) AWS
2 147 (65.04%) Amazon S3
3 129 (57.08%) Amazon EC2
4 116 (51.33%) Serverless
5 115 (50.88%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (33.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 71 (31.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 62 (27.43%) Amazon ECS
9 59 (26.11%) GitHub
10 58 (25.66%) Amazon EKS
10 58 (25.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (18.58%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (13.72%) Azure
13 27 (11.95%) Route 53
14 23 (10.18%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (9.73%) AWS Fargate
16 17 (7.52%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (7.52%) AWS KMS
16 17 (7.52%) Datadog
17 14 (6.19%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.75%) DNS
2 11 (4.87%) Firewall
3 8 (3.54%) VPN
4 4 (1.77%) Network Security
5 3 (1.33%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.88%) HTTP
6 2 (0.88%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.44%) Internet
7 1 (0.44%) LAN
7 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (26.11%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (22.12%) DynamoDB
3 33 (14.60%) Amazon Aurora
4 28 (12.39%) MySQL
5 22 (9.73%) SQL Server
6 20 (8.85%) MongoDB
6 20 (8.85%) Relational Database
7 16 (7.08%) NoSQL
8 14 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (4.42%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (4.42%) Oracle Database
9 10 (4.42%) Power BI
9 10 (4.42%) Redis
10 9 (3.98%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (3.54%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (3.54%) Hadoop
12 7 (3.10%) DB2
12 7 (3.10%) Tableau
13 6 (2.65%) Pentaho
13 6 (2.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 86 (38.05%) Jenkins
2 56 (24.78%) Git
3 41 (18.14%) GitLab
4 20 (8.85%) JIRA
4 20 (8.85%) JUnit
5 15 (6.64%) Maven
6 12 (5.31%) Mockito
7 11 (4.87%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.10%) DbUnit
8 7 (3.10%) jMock
9 6 (2.65%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.21%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.21%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.21%) Snyk
11 4 (1.77%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.77%) git-flow
11 4 (1.77%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.33%) Gradle
12 3 (1.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 57 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.81%) Public Sector
3 34 (15.04%) Finance
4 25 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.87%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.42%) Banking
7 5 (2.21%) Legal
8 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Front Office
9 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.88%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (15.93%) Developer
2 33 (14.60%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (14.16%) Senior
4 28 (12.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (9.29%) Site Engineer
5 21 (9.29%) Software Engineer
6 20 (8.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (8.41%) AWS DevOps
7 19 (8.41%) DBA
7 19 (8.41%) Java Developer
8 18 (7.96%) Lead
9 15 (6.64%) AWS Developer
9 15 (6.64%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.75%) Oracle DBA
11 12 (5.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.42%) Architect
12 10 (4.42%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.42%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.98%) Analyst
13 9 (3.98%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.81%) Kafka
2 33 (14.60%) Spring
2 33 (14.60%) Spring Boot
3 31 (13.72%) RESTful
4 28 (12.39%) Node.js
5 24 (10.62%) React
6 21 (9.29%) REST
7 14 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (6.19%) Hibernate
7 14 (6.19%) JPA
7 14 (6.19%) Spring Cloud
8 13 (5.75%) AngularJS
8 13 (5.75%) SOAP
9 12 (5.31%) Django
10 11 (4.87%) CSS
10 11 (4.87%) GraphQL
10 11 (4.87%) Spring Batch
11 10 (4.42%) ActiveMQ
11 10 (4.42%) Web Services
12 9 (3.98%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 39 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.64%) Replication
4 7 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.21%) Clustering
5 5 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.33%) PKI
7 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.88%) Derivative
8 2 (0.88%) Equities
8 2 (0.88%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.88%) NHS
9 1 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 63 (27.88%) Linux
2 8 (3.54%) Unix
3 6 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.77%) Windows
5 3 (1.33%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.33%) CentOS
6 2 (0.88%) Solaris
6 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (60.62%) CI/CD
2 97 (42.92%) DevOps
3 89 (39.38%) Agile
4 84 (37.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (30.53%) Containerisation
6 49 (21.68%) Microservices
7 40 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (15.93%) Observability
9 35 (15.49%) Performance Tuning
10 34 (15.04%) Software Engineering
11 31 (13.72%) Configuration Management
11 31 (13.72%) ETL
11 31 (13.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 29 (12.83%) Migration
13 28 (12.39%) TDD
14 23 (10.18%) Event-Driven
14 23 (10.18%) High Availability
15 22 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (9.73%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 95 (42.04%) SQL
2 93 (41.15%) Python
3 61 (26.99%) Java
4 35 (15.49%) Bash
5 23 (10.18%) Shell Script
6 17 (7.52%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.64%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.31%) Go
8 12 (5.31%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.54%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.65%) JSX
11 5 (2.21%) C#
11 5 (2.21%) Ruby
12 4 (1.77%) Groovy
12 4 (1.77%) Perl
13 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.44%) Bicep
14 1 (0.44%) PHP
14 1 (0.44%) R
14 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (41.59%) Security Cleared
2 78 (34.51%) SC Cleared
3 34 (15.04%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.42%) Degree
6 9 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.54%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.21%) OCP
9 5 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.44%) CEH
11 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.44%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.44%) PMP
11 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.87%) NIST
2 10 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.42%) QA
3 7 (3.10%) GDPR
4 6 (2.65%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.21%) PMO
6 4 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.33%) NCSC
7 3 (1.33%) SLA
8 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.44%) GxP
System Software
1 99 (43.81%) Docker
2 6 (2.65%) Postfix
3 4 (1.77%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.77%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.88%) HDFS
5 2 (0.88%) NFS
6 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 102 (45.13%) Terraform
2 68 (30.09%) Kubernetes
3 48 (21.24%) Grafana
4 35 (15.49%) Ansible
5 33 (14.60%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.96%) Progress Chef
7 13 (5.75%) Puppet
8 8 (3.54%) Data Guard
9 6 (2.65%) Packer
10 4 (1.77%) Argo
10 4 (1.77%) Kibana
10 4 (1.77%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.77%) Rancher
11 3 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.88%) Foglight
12 2 (0.88%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.88%) systemd
Vendors
1 32 (14.16%) Oracle
2 16 (7.08%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.64%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.42%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.98%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (3.98%) Splunk
6 8 (3.54%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.54%) Sybase
6 8 (3.54%) Talend
7 6 (2.65%) Informatica
8 5 (2.21%) Databricks
9 4 (1.77%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.77%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.77%) Qualys
9 4 (1.77%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.77%) Tenable
10 3 (1.33%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.33%) Okta
11 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central