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

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 274 353
Rank change year-on-year -134 +79 -7
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 225 237 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.86% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.22% 4.74% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 172 114
10th Percentile £387 £413 £410
25th Percentile £425 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -0.33% -10.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £610
90th Percentile £738 £652 £696
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% -5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £70.60 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £74.13 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
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 6,983 4,995 6,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.30% 18.10% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,684 3,444 4,346
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £614 £638 £675
90th Percentile £710 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 82 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.34 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.58 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -1.21% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.31 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.58 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £34.47
% change year-on-year +9.32% +1.52% -37.34%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -81 135 £550 -5.17% 20
Midlands -61 33 £464 -2.32% 5
North of England -41 32 £450 -14.29% 12
West Midlands -62 27 £464 -2.32% 4
Yorkshire -27 18 £500 - 4
South West -39 9 £538 -7.92% 6
South East -67 8 £460 -20.09% 11
North East -32 7 £425 -5.56% 2
North West -40 7 £525 -6.67% 6
East Midlands -16 5 £449 +18.16% 1
East of England -25 4 £348 -36.82% 3
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 18 (8.00%) Confluence
2 9 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.11%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.67%) SAS
5 4 (1.78%) Apache
6 3 (1.33%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.89%) Camunda
7 2 (0.89%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 214 (95.11%) AWS
2 146 (64.89%) Amazon S3
3 120 (53.33%) AWS Lambda
4 119 (52.89%) Serverless
5 89 (39.56%) Amazon EC2
6 81 (36.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 60 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 53 (23.56%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (23.11%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (20.00%) Azure
11 37 (16.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (13.78%) GitHub
13 30 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (12.89%) AWS KMS
15 20 (8.89%) Route 53
16 19 (8.44%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (7.56%) GCP
18 15 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
19 12 (5.33%) Power Platform
19 12 (5.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.78%) Firewall
2 9 (4.00%) DNS
3 7 (3.11%) DHCP
4 6 (2.67%) VPN
5 4 (1.78%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.78%) Network Security
5 4 (1.78%) SMTP
5 4 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.89%) HTTP
6 2 (0.89%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.89%) SSL
7 1 (0.44%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (29.78%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (22.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 50 (22.22%) DynamoDB
4 22 (9.78%) SQL Server
5 20 (8.89%) MySQL
6 19 (8.44%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (8.00%) MongoDB
8 14 (6.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (6.22%) Redis
9 12 (5.33%) Big Data
9 12 (5.33%) Data Lake
9 12 (5.33%) Power BI
10 11 (4.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (3.56%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.56%) Pentaho
12 7 (3.11%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.67%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 61 (27.11%) Jenkins
2 42 (18.67%) Git
3 38 (16.89%) GitLab
4 24 (10.67%) JIRA
5 16 (7.11%) JUnit
5 16 (7.11%) Mockito
6 15 (6.67%) SonarQube
7 12 (5.33%) Maven
8 9 (4.00%) Bitbucket
8 9 (4.00%) DbUnit
9 8 (3.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (3.56%) Bitbucket Server
9 8 (3.56%) jMock
10 6 (2.67%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (2.22%) Postman
12 4 (1.78%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.78%) Flyway
13 3 (1.33%) Artifactory
13 3 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.89%) git-flow
General
1 62 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.67%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.78%) Finance
4 24 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.89%) Banking
6 7 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.67%) Front Office
7 6 (2.67%) Legal
8 5 (2.22%) Back Office
9 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.89%) Law
10 2 (0.89%) Local Government
10 2 (0.89%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (18.67%) AWS Engineer
2 35 (15.56%) Developer
3 34 (15.11%) Data Engineer
3 34 (15.11%) Senior
4 30 (13.33%) Architect
4 30 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (12.89%) DBA
6 19 (8.44%) AWS DevOps
7 18 (8.00%) Lead
8 17 (7.56%) AWS Architect
9 16 (7.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 16 (7.11%) Java Developer
10 15 (6.67%) Administrator
11 14 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (5.78%) AWS Data Engineer
13 11 (4.89%) Technical Leader
14 10 (4.44%) Senior Developer
14 10 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (4.44%) Technical Architect
15 9 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (45.78%) Terraform
2 31 (13.78%) React
3 27 (12.00%) REST
3 27 (12.00%) Spring
3 27 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 24 (10.67%) Node.js
4 24 (10.67%) RESTful
5 23 (10.22%) AngularJS
6 17 (7.56%) Kafka
7 16 (7.11%) SOAP
8 15 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (5.78%) FastAPI
10 12 (5.33%) Hibernate
10 12 (5.33%) JPA
10 12 (5.33%) Spring Batch
10 12 (5.33%) Spring Integration
10 12 (5.33%) Web Services
11 10 (4.44%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (4.00%) AWS CDK
12 9 (4.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 53 (23.56%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.22%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (9.33%) Replication
4 12 (5.33%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.56%) NHS
5 8 (3.56%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.11%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.11%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.67%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (2.67%) Clustering
8 5 (2.22%) PKI
9 4 (1.78%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.33%) Derivative
10 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.33%) Equities
10 3 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.44%) Linux
2 18 (8.00%) Windows
3 12 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.67%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.67%) Unix
6 4 (1.78%) AIX
7 3 (1.33%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.44%) CentOS
8 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (57.33%) CI/CD
2 100 (44.44%) DevOps
3 95 (42.22%) Agile
4 87 (38.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (20.00%) Microservices
6 43 (19.11%) Performance Tuning
7 42 (18.67%) Containerisation
8 40 (17.78%) Data Modelling
9 39 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (16.44%) High Availability
11 35 (15.56%) Observability
12 33 (14.67%) Data Pipeline
13 31 (13.78%) Migration
13 31 (13.78%) Scrum
14 30 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (12.44%) ETL
16 27 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
16 27 (12.00%) Test Automation
17 26 (11.56%) Event-Driven
18 25 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 100 (44.44%) Python
2 75 (33.33%) SQL
3 60 (26.67%) Java
4 24 (10.67%) Bash
4 24 (10.67%) TypeScript
5 21 (9.33%) PowerShell
6 12 (5.33%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.89%) Groovy
8 6 (2.67%) Perl
8 6 (2.67%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.22%) C#
9 5 (2.22%) Scala
10 4 (1.78%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.33%) Go
12 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.89%) Ruby
13 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 99 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 81 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 38 (16.89%) AWS Certification
4 25 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (7.11%) Degree
6 11 (4.89%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.56%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.22%) CISM
9 5 (2.22%) CISSP
10 4 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.33%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.89%) PMP
13 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.44%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.67%) NIST
3 5 (2.22%) QA
4 3 (1.33%) HL7
4 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.33%) PMO
4 3 (1.33%) SLA
5 2 (0.89%) GDPR
5 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 73 (32.44%) Docker
2 13 (5.78%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.11%) Postfix
4 6 (2.67%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.78%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.78%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.78%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (25.33%) Kubernetes
2 45 (20.00%) Grafana
3 32 (14.22%) Prometheus
4 20 (8.89%) Ansible
5 9 (4.00%) Istio
6 7 (3.11%) Argo
7 6 (2.67%) Kibana
8 5 (2.22%) Puppet
9 4 (1.78%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.78%) vMotion
10 3 (1.33%) Foglight
10 3 (1.33%) Nagios
10 3 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.33%) Rancher
11 2 (0.89%) Consul
11 2 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.89%) Packer
11 2 (0.89%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.44%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.56%) Oracle
4 14 (6.22%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.89%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (4.44%) Atlassian
7 9 (4.00%) VMware
8 8 (3.56%) Databricks
8 8 (3.56%) Informatica
9 7 (3.11%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.67%) Denodo
10 6 (2.67%) Splunk
11 5 (2.22%) Amplitude
11 5 (2.22%) Citrix
11 5 (2.22%) Google
12 4 (1.78%) Brio
12 4 (1.78%) Cisco
12 4 (1.78%) HP
12 4 (1.78%) Symantec
12 4 (1.78%) Talend
46 Amazon RDS jobs in England