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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 339 351
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 235 172 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.55% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.38% 3.07% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 110 185
10th Percentile £380 £438 £413
25th Percentile £446 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -3.65% -4.17%
75th Percentile £581 £700 £650
90th Percentile £650 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 5,369 5,601 6,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.46% 17.99% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,732 3,741 4,594
10th Percentile £326 £350 £353
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £533
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.56% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 80 134
10th Percentile £21.07 £18.00 £18.77
25th Percentile £29.88 £24.69 £24.86
Median hourly rate £54.70 £38.00 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +43.95% -20.33% -4.61%
75th Percentile £69.25 £60.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.80 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.70 £31.55 £46.84
% change year-on-year +73.40% -32.65% -2.30%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -10 115 £513 -10.09% 34
Midlands +11 46 £475 -6.77% 10
West Midlands -7 39 £475 -6.77% 9
North of England -22 31 £500 -23.08% 17
South East +15 17 £447 +11.75% 25
North West -7 17 £425 -37.04% 13
East of England - 10 £550 - 1
South West +7 9 £525 -12.50% 11
Yorkshire -35 9 £518 -11.91% 2
East Midlands -6 7 £380 -24.00% 1
North East -4 5 £450 - 2
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 31 (13.19%) Confluence
2 12 (5.11%) nginx
3 7 (2.98%) Apache
4 6 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.70%) IIS
5 4 (1.70%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.43%) CICS
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (5.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (2.55%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Maximo
2 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 228 (97.02%) AWS
2 157 (66.81%) Amazon S3
3 133 (56.60%) Amazon EC2
4 123 (52.34%) Serverless
5 122 (51.91%) AWS Lambda
6 86 (36.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 80 (34.04%) Amazon ECS
8 71 (30.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 69 (29.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 67 (28.51%) GitHub
11 48 (20.43%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (16.60%) Azure
12 39 (16.60%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (13.62%) Route 53
14 28 (11.91%) AWS KMS
15 24 (10.21%) Amazon ELB
15 24 (10.21%) AWS Fargate
15 24 (10.21%) AWS Step Functions
16 23 (9.79%) Amazon Kinesis
16 23 (9.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 34 (14.47%) DNS
2 32 (13.62%) Firewall
3 23 (9.79%) HTTP
3 23 (9.79%) SMTP
4 21 (8.94%) FTP
4 21 (8.94%) SSH
5 12 (5.11%) IMAP
5 12 (5.11%) OpenLDAP
6 9 (3.83%) VPN
7 4 (1.70%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (1.28%) Network Security
9 2 (0.85%) Internet
9 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.43%) DHCP
10 1 (0.43%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.43%) NAS
10 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.43%) VLAN
10 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (35.32%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (19.57%) DynamoDB
3 44 (18.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 31 (13.19%) MySQL
5 27 (11.49%) SQL Server
6 26 (11.06%) Relational Database
7 25 (10.64%) NoSQL
8 20 (8.51%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (7.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (6.81%) MongoDB
11 12 (5.11%) RDBMS
11 12 (5.11%) Redis
12 10 (4.26%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (3.83%) Hadoop
14 8 (3.40%) DB2
15 7 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (2.98%) BigQuery
16 6 (2.55%) Couchbase
16 6 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (2.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 100 (42.55%) Jenkins
2 67 (28.51%) Git
3 47 (20.00%) GitLab
4 35 (14.89%) JIRA
5 23 (9.79%) Vagrant
6 16 (6.81%) Maven
7 12 (5.11%) JUnit
8 10 (4.26%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.55%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.55%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.13%) Gradle
10 5 (2.13%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.70%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.70%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.85%) DbUnit
12 2 (0.85%) Gatling
12 2 (0.85%) jMock
General
1 77 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.17%) Public Sector
3 30 (12.77%) Finance
4 15 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.26%) Banking
7 7 (2.98%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Legal
9 2 (0.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (26.81%) AWS Engineer
2 57 (24.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (19.57%) AWS DevOps
4 41 (17.45%) Developer
5 39 (16.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 31 (13.19%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (12.77%) Senior
8 25 (10.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 23 (9.79%) Lead
10 20 (8.51%) AWS Developer
11 18 (7.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 16 (6.81%) Architect
12 16 (6.81%) Java Developer
13 15 (6.38%) Site Engineer
14 14 (5.96%) Data Engineer
14 14 (5.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (5.96%) Software Engineer
15 10 (4.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
16 9 (3.83%) Senior Developer
17 8 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.74%) Kafka
2 30 (12.77%) Node.js
3 29 (12.34%) RESTful
4 21 (8.94%) Spring Boot
5 20 (8.51%) Spring
6 15 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (6.38%) React
7 13 (5.53%) LDAP
8 12 (5.11%) Jest
9 11 (4.68%) REST
10 10 (4.26%) AWS CDK
11 9 (3.83%) CSS
12 8 (3.40%) Keycloak
12 8 (3.40%) Sass
12 8 (3.40%) SOAP
13 7 (2.98%) Django
13 7 (2.98%) GraphQL
13 7 (2.98%) Web Services
14 6 (2.55%) Enzyme
14 6 (2.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.30%) Replication
2 27 (11.49%) Cloud Native
3 20 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.81%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.98%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.13%) N-Tier
7 5 (2.13%) PKI
8 4 (1.70%) Clustering
8 4 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.85%) Derivative
9 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.85%) NHS
10 1 (0.43%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 70 (29.79%) Linux
2 30 (12.77%) Windows
3 26 (11.06%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (10.21%) VMS
5 11 (4.68%) Ubuntu
5 11 (4.68%) Unix
6 7 (2.98%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.70%) CentOS
8 4 (1.70%) Solaris
9 1 (0.43%) AIX
9 1 (0.43%) Android
9 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.43%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (59.57%) CI/CD
2 124 (52.77%) DevOps
3 84 (35.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (31.49%) Containerisation
5 69 (29.36%) Agile
6 52 (22.13%) Microservices
7 51 (21.70%) Configuration Management
8 45 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (17.02%) Migration
10 38 (16.17%) Cloud Security
11 37 (15.74%) Platform Engineering
12 33 (14.04%) Observability
13 32 (13.62%) Change Management
14 31 (13.19%) Performance Tuning
15 29 (12.34%) Event-Driven
16 28 (11.91%) Software Engineering
17 24 (10.21%) Mentoring
18 23 (9.79%) High Availability
19 21 (8.94%) Analytics
19 21 (8.94%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (57.02%) Python
2 77 (32.77%) SQL
3 73 (31.06%) Java
4 44 (18.72%) PowerShell
5 36 (15.32%) Bash
6 28 (11.91%) Groovy
7 25 (10.64%) JavaScript
8 19 (8.09%) Shell Script
9 16 (6.81%) TypeScript
10 15 (6.38%) Perl
11 13 (5.53%) Go
12 6 (2.55%) JSX
12 6 (2.55%) Ruby
13 4 (1.70%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.85%) C
14 2 (0.85%) C#
14 2 (0.85%) PHP
15 1 (0.43%) Bicep
15 1 (0.43%) COBOL
15 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (35.32%) Security Cleared
2 69 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 50 (21.28%) AWS Certification
4 28 (11.91%) Degree
5 18 (7.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (5.96%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.83%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.85%) MCSE
12 2 (0.85%) OCP
12 2 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.43%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.23%) QA
2 9 (3.83%) GDPR
3 7 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.13%) NCSC
6 4 (1.70%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.28%) NIST
7 3 (1.28%) SLA
8 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.43%) GxP
9 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (44.68%) Docker
2 21 (8.94%) DFS Replication
3 14 (5.96%) Postfix
4 13 (5.53%) Active Directory
5 12 (5.11%) Dovecot
5 12 (5.11%) Squid
6 4 (1.70%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.28%) NFS
8 1 (0.43%) HDFS
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 129 (54.89%) Terraform
2 67 (28.51%) Kubernetes
3 62 (26.38%) Grafana
4 51 (21.70%) Prometheus
5 34 (14.47%) Ansible
6 18 (7.66%) Progress Chef
7 16 (6.81%) Puppet
8 12 (5.11%) Nessus
9 10 (4.26%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.98%) Packer
11 4 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.70%) Kibana
11 4 (1.70%) Rancher
12 3 (1.28%) Argo
12 3 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.43%) Istio
13 1 (0.43%) Nagios
13 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (13.19%) ServiceNow
2 23 (9.79%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.51%) Oracle
4 18 (7.66%) IBM
5 14 (5.96%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (5.11%) Splunk
7 9 (3.83%) PagerDuty
8 8 (3.40%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.98%) Confluent
10 6 (2.55%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (2.13%) Gigya
12 4 (1.70%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.70%) CloudEndure
12 4 (1.70%) Okta
12 4 (1.70%) Sybase
13 3 (1.28%) Google
14 2 (0.85%) Cloudera
14 2 (0.85%) Pega
14 2 (0.85%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.85%) UiPath