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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 320 366
Rank change year-on-year -92 +46 -11
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 241 205 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.73% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.53% 4.02% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 139 107
10th Percentile £365 £396 £414
25th Percentile £430 £450 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -7.06% -6.43%
75th Percentile £672 £588 £617
90th Percentile £759 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £529 £504 £527
% change year-on-year +4.86% -4.27% -4.27%
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 6,834 5,099 5,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.69% 18.20% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,545 3,494 4,037
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £673
90th Percentile £716 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 77 84
10th Percentile £16.42 £20.91 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £22.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +16.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £39.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.75% +12.80% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -21 157 £550 +5.26% 145
North of England -66 31 £500 - 60
Midlands -73 21 £459 -3.37% 29
West Midlands -61 19 £464 -2.32% 15
Yorkshire -25 18 £500 - 11
South East -69 12 £460 -3.16% 36
South West -33 11 £438 -15.87% 35
North West -57 7 £525 -4.55% 35
North East -42 6 £419 -1.47% 14
East of England -30 3 £345 -37.27% 19
East Midlands -21 1 £358 -5.79% 14
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 (7.88%) Confluence
2 16 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.32%) Apache
4 6 (2.49%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.49%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.07%) SAS
6 4 (1.66%) nginx
7 3 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.24%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.83%) Camunda
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.83%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.83%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 228 (94.61%) AWS
2 158 (65.56%) Amazon S3
3 125 (51.87%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (50.62%) Serverless
5 96 (39.83%) Amazon EC2
6 90 (37.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 66 (27.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 64 (26.56%) Amazon EKS
9 63 (26.14%) Amazon ECS
10 56 (23.24%) Azure
11 40 (16.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (13.28%) GitHub
13 30 (12.45%) AWS KMS
14 27 (11.20%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (9.96%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (8.71%) GCP
17 19 (7.88%) Route 53
18 17 (7.05%) AWS Step Functions
19 16 (6.64%) Amazon EventBridge
20 15 (6.22%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.05%) Firewall
2 14 (5.81%) DNS
3 9 (3.73%) VPN
4 7 (2.90%) DHCP
4 7 (2.90%) Network Security
5 6 (2.49%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.07%) SMTP
7 4 (1.66%) HTTP
7 4 (1.66%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.66%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.83%) FTP
8 2 (0.83%) IMAP
8 2 (0.83%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.83%) SSH
8 2 (0.83%) SSL
9 1 (0.41%) AMQP
9 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.41%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (33.61%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (24.07%) Amazon Aurora
3 52 (21.58%) DynamoDB
4 29 (12.03%) SQL Server
5 25 (10.37%) MongoDB
6 23 (9.54%) Amazon Athena
7 21 (8.71%) MySQL
8 19 (7.88%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (7.05%) Redis
10 13 (5.39%) Data Lake
11 12 (4.98%) Big Data
11 12 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (4.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (4.15%) Power BI
13 9 (3.73%) NoSQL
13 9 (3.73%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.90%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (2.90%) Metadata
15 6 (2.49%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 61 (25.31%) Jenkins
2 50 (20.75%) Git
3 44 (18.26%) GitLab
4 27 (11.20%) JIRA
5 12 (4.98%) Bitbucket
5 12 (4.98%) JUnit
5 12 (4.98%) Maven
5 12 (4.98%) Mockito
6 10 (4.15%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (2.49%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.49%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (2.07%) DbUnit
10 4 (1.66%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.66%) Gradle
10 4 (1.66%) jMock
10 4 (1.66%) Postman
11 3 (1.24%) Flyway
11 3 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.83%) Vagrant
General
1 70 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.58%) Public Sector
3 36 (14.94%) Finance
4 24 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.54%) Banking
6 11 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.15%) Back Office
8 9 (3.73%) Front Office
9 7 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.07%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.66%) Local Government
12 3 (1.24%) Billing
12 3 (1.24%) Law
12 3 (1.24%) Legal
12 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Marketing
13 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.41%) Games
14 1 (0.41%) Military
14 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (20.75%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (17.84%) Senior
3 38 (15.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (15.35%) Data Engineer
5 35 (14.52%) Architect
6 33 (13.69%) Developer
7 32 (13.28%) DBA
8 22 (9.13%) Lead
9 21 (8.71%) AWS DevOps
10 19 (7.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 18 (7.47%) AWS Architect
11 18 (7.47%) Java Developer
12 17 (7.05%) Administrator
12 17 (7.05%) AWS Data Engineer
13 16 (6.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (6.64%) Technical Leader
14 13 (5.39%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 8 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (51.04%) Terraform
2 30 (12.45%) REST
3 28 (11.62%) React
4 24 (9.96%) Spring
4 24 (9.96%) Spring Boot
5 22 (9.13%) Kafka
6 20 (8.30%) RESTful
7 19 (7.88%) AngularJS
8 17 (7.05%) FastAPI
9 13 (5.39%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (4.98%) Hibernate
10 12 (4.98%) JPA
11 11 (4.56%) Node.js
11 11 (4.56%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (4.56%) SOAP
12 10 (4.15%) GraphQL
13 8 (3.32%) JSON
14 7 (2.90%) Spring Batch
14 7 (2.90%) Spring Integration
14 7 (2.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (25.73%) Cloud Native
2 30 (12.45%) Replication
3 20 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.22%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.73%) NHS
6 8 (3.32%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.90%) PKI
7 7 (2.90%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.49%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.49%) Clustering
8 6 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.49%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.49%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.07%) Reference Data
9 5 (2.07%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.66%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 49 (20.33%) Linux
2 24 (9.96%) Windows
3 12 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.73%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (2.90%) Unix
7 6 (2.49%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.07%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.66%) AIX
10 1 (0.41%) CentOS
10 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.41%) VMS
10 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (63.90%) CI/CD
2 121 (50.21%) DevOps
3 116 (48.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (40.25%) Agile
5 56 (23.24%) Performance Tuning
6 53 (21.99%) Containerisation
7 51 (21.16%) Observability
8 49 (20.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (19.92%) Data Modelling
10 46 (19.09%) Microservices
11 42 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (17.01%) Migration
13 38 (15.77%) Event-Driven
14 37 (15.35%) High Availability
15 36 (14.94%) Data Integration
15 36 (14.94%) Disaster Recovery
16 33 (13.69%) Root Cause Analysis
17 32 (13.28%) Data Pipeline
17 32 (13.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 32 (13.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 112 (46.47%) Python
2 83 (34.44%) SQL
3 52 (21.58%) Java
4 24 (9.96%) Bash
4 24 (9.96%) PowerShell
4 24 (9.96%) TypeScript
5 16 (6.64%) Groovy
6 14 (5.81%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.90%) Perl
7 7 (2.90%) Scala
8 4 (1.66%) Bicep
8 4 (1.66%) C#
8 4 (1.66%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.66%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.24%) Go
9 3 (1.24%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.24%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 94 (39.00%) Security Cleared
2 81 (33.61%) SC Cleared
3 46 (19.09%) AWS Certification
4 28 (11.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.47%) Degree
6 15 (6.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.56%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.56%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.90%) CISM
9 7 (2.90%) CISSP
10 4 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.83%) PMP
13 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.96%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.90%) NIST
2 7 (2.90%) QA
3 3 (1.24%) HL7
3 3 (1.24%) SLA
4 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 85 (35.27%) Docker
2 16 (6.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.49%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (2.07%) Postfix
5 4 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.24%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.24%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.24%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.83%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.83%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.83%) Squid
7 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 62 (25.73%) Kubernetes
2 51 (21.16%) Grafana
3 40 (16.60%) Prometheus
4 24 (9.96%) Ansible
5 8 (3.32%) Istio
6 7 (2.90%) Kibana
6 7 (2.90%) Puppet
7 6 (2.49%) Argo
8 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.66%) Rancher
10 3 (1.24%) Nagios
10 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.24%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.24%) vMotion
11 2 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.83%) Nessus
11 2 (0.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.83%) Packer
11 2 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.71%) Oracle
3 20 (8.30%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.22%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.56%) Informatica
6 8 (3.32%) Databricks
6 8 (3.32%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.32%) VMware
7 7 (2.90%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.49%) Google
8 6 (2.49%) Splunk
8 6 (2.49%) Talend
9 5 (2.07%) Amplitude
9 5 (2.07%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.07%) Denodo
10 4 (1.66%) Brio
10 4 (1.66%) Cisco
10 4 (1.66%) Citrix
11 3 (1.24%) HP
11 3 (1.24%) Symantec