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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 320 360
Rank change year-on-year -13 +40 -29
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 220 176 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.61% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.06% 3.39% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 110 151
10th Percentile £379 £431 £413
25th Percentile £430 £506 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +0.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £585 £709 £638
90th Percentile £639 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -4.28% +0.09% -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,413 5,192 6,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.03% 18.14% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,770 3,450 4,379
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £614 £663 £662
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 75 131
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.82 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.19 £23.48 £25.22
Median hourly rate £54.35 £38.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +41.17% -16.63% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.50 £72.15 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +58.50% -31.69% -12.04%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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 -27 110 £516 -10.22% 40
Midlands -15 42 £475 -6.77% 56
West Midlands -7 34 £475 -6.77% 29
North of England -40 29 £500 -14.89% 70
South East +4 19 £475 +11.76% 79
North West -17 16 £413 -19.51% 36
Yorkshire -32 9 £518 -11.91% 30
South West 0 8 £525 -12.62% 43
East Midlands -13 8 £380 -24.00% 23
East of England -16 7 £550 +25.71% 50
North East -8 4 £500 - 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 24 (10.91%) Confluence
2 10 (4.55%) nginx
3 6 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.91%) IIS
5 2 (0.91%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.45%) CICS
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (4.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Maximo
2 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 215 (97.73%) AWS
2 144 (65.45%) Amazon S3
3 123 (55.91%) Amazon EC2
4 121 (55.00%) Serverless
5 120 (54.55%) AWS Lambda
6 74 (33.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 72 (32.73%) Amazon ECS
8 67 (30.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 67 (30.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 65 (29.55%) GitHub
10 54 (24.55%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (19.55%) Azure
12 41 (18.64%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (13.18%) Route 53
14 23 (10.45%) Datadog
15 21 (9.55%) AWS Step Functions
16 20 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
16 20 (9.09%) AWS KMS
17 19 (8.64%) Amazon ELB
18 17 (7.73%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 30 (13.64%) DNS
2 28 (12.73%) Firewall
3 20 (9.09%) HTTP
4 17 (7.73%) FTP
4 17 (7.73%) SMTP
4 17 (7.73%) SSH
5 11 (5.00%) VPN
6 10 (4.55%) IMAP
6 10 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (1.82%) Network Security
7 4 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (1.36%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.91%) Internet
9 2 (0.91%) LAN
9 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.91%) WAN
10 1 (0.45%) DHCP
10 1 (0.45%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.45%) NAS
10 1 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (31.36%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (17.73%) Amazon Aurora
3 37 (16.82%) DynamoDB
4 28 (12.73%) MySQL
5 25 (11.36%) Relational Database
5 25 (11.36%) SQL Server
6 23 (10.45%) NoSQL
7 19 (8.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (7.73%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (7.73%) MongoDB
9 12 (5.45%) Redis
10 11 (5.00%) RDBMS
11 9 (4.09%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (4.09%) Hadoop
11 9 (4.09%) Oracle Database
12 7 (3.18%) BigQuery
12 7 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (3.18%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (2.73%) Couchbase
13 6 (2.73%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 91 (41.36%) Jenkins
2 57 (25.91%) Git
3 45 (20.45%) GitLab
4 29 (13.18%) JIRA
5 17 (7.73%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.09%) Maven
7 6 (2.73%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.73%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.73%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.27%) Gradle
8 5 (2.27%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.82%) JUnit
9 4 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.82%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.91%) Gatling
10 2 (0.91%) Snyk
11 1 (0.45%) git-flow
11 1 (0.45%) RStudio
11 1 (0.45%) Storybook
General
1 72 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 29 (13.18%) Finance
4 15 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.91%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.55%) Banking
7 6 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Legal
9 2 (0.91%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Front Office
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (28.64%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (23.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (19.55%) AWS DevOps
4 36 (16.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 29 (13.18%) Platform Engineer
6 28 (12.73%) Developer
7 26 (11.82%) Senior
8 23 (10.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 20 (9.09%) Lead
10 18 (8.18%) Site Engineer
11 17 (7.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 16 (7.27%) Architect
12 16 (7.27%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 15 (6.82%) AWS Developer
13 15 (6.82%) Software Engineer
14 14 (6.36%) Data Engineer
15 10 (4.55%) DBA
16 8 (3.64%) DevOps Platform Engineer
16 8 (3.64%) Java Developer
16 8 (3.64%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.27%) Kafka
2 26 (11.82%) RESTful
3 25 (11.36%) Node.js
4 18 (8.18%) React
5 15 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (6.82%) Spring Boot
6 11 (5.00%) LDAP
6 11 (5.00%) Spring
7 10 (4.55%) AWS CDK
7 10 (4.55%) CSS
7 10 (4.55%) Django
8 8 (3.64%) FastAPI
8 8 (3.64%) GraphQL
8 8 (3.64%) Jest
8 8 (3.64%) Keycloak
8 8 (3.64%) REST
9 7 (3.18%) Flask
9 7 (3.18%) Sass
10 6 (2.73%) JSON
10 6 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.82%) Replication
2 32 (14.55%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.73%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.73%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.27%) N-Tier
6 5 (2.27%) PKI
7 4 (1.82%) Clustering
7 4 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.91%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.91%) Derivative
8 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.91%) NHS
9 1 (0.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 69 (31.36%) Linux
2 24 (10.91%) Windows
3 20 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
4 18 (8.18%) VMS
5 11 (5.00%) Ubuntu
5 11 (5.00%) Unix
6 8 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.27%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.82%) CentOS
8 4 (1.82%) Solaris
9 1 (0.45%) AIX
9 1 (0.45%) Android
9 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.45%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 117 (53.18%) DevOps
3 90 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (30.91%) Containerisation
5 65 (29.55%) Agile
6 49 (22.27%) Configuration Management
7 44 (20.00%) Microservices
8 41 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (15.45%) Migration
9 34 (15.45%) Performance Tuning
10 33 (15.00%) Cloud Security
10 33 (15.00%) Observability
11 31 (14.09%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (14.09%) Software Engineering
12 30 (13.64%) Event-Driven
13 26 (11.82%) Change Management
14 25 (11.36%) High Availability
15 24 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 20 (9.09%) Analytics
16 20 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 128 (58.18%) Python
2 77 (35.00%) SQL
3 56 (25.45%) Java
4 39 (17.73%) Bash
5 34 (15.45%) PowerShell
6 24 (10.91%) Shell Script
7 22 (10.00%) Groovy
8 21 (9.55%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.36%) Go
10 12 (5.45%) TypeScript
11 11 (5.00%) Perl
12 6 (2.73%) JSX
13 5 (2.27%) Ruby
14 3 (1.36%) C#
14 3 (1.36%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.36%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.91%) C
15 2 (0.91%) PHP
16 1 (0.45%) COBOL
16 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (34.55%) Security Cleared
2 62 (28.18%) SC Cleared
3 45 (20.45%) AWS Certification
4 25 (11.36%) Degree
5 15 (6.82%) Azure Certification
6 14 (6.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (5.00%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.27%) OCP
10 5 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.45%) CEH
13 1 (0.45%) CISSP
13 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.45%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.00%) GDPR
1 11 (5.00%) QA
2 7 (3.18%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.27%) NCSC
3 5 (2.27%) NIST
4 4 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.36%) SLA
6 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.45%) GxP
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (43.64%) Docker
2 17 (7.73%) DFS Replication
3 10 (4.55%) Dovecot
3 10 (4.55%) Postfix
3 10 (4.55%) Squid
4 9 (4.09%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.36%) NFS
7 2 (0.91%) HDFS
8 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 130 (59.09%) Terraform
2 67 (30.45%) Kubernetes
3 58 (26.36%) Grafana
4 45 (20.45%) Prometheus
5 37 (16.82%) Ansible
6 20 (9.09%) Progress Chef
7 18 (8.18%) Puppet
8 10 (4.55%) Nessus
8 10 (4.55%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.18%) Packer
10 4 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.82%) Kibana
10 4 (1.82%) Rancher
11 3 (1.36%) Argo
11 3 (1.36%) Data Guard
11 3 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.91%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (11.36%) Oracle
2 22 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 20 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.45%) IBM
4 12 (5.45%) Splunk
5 10 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (4.55%) PagerDuty
6 8 (3.64%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.18%) Confluent
8 5 (2.27%) Gigya
8 5 (2.27%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.82%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.82%) Okta
10 3 (1.36%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.36%) Google
10 3 (1.36%) Sybase
11 2 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.91%) Databricks
11 2 (0.91%) Qualys
11 2 (0.91%) Tenable