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

 6 months to
3 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 293 370
Rank change year-on-year -93 +77 -26
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 235 211 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.81% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.51% 4.39% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 159 136
10th Percentile £365 £413 £379
25th Percentile £414 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £578
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -8.64% +8.91% -15.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -6.88% - -

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 6,690 4,803 6,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 18.41% 17.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,500 3,325 4,727
10th Percentile £352 £357 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £675
90th Percentile £710 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 90 139
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £23.88 £20.62
Median hourly rate £38.25 £33.94 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% -15.15% -30.43%
75th Percentile £69.72 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.75 £71.70
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £34.99 £39.25
% change year-on-year +10.03% -10.85% -31.08%

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 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -58 131 £525 -6.67% 36
Midlands -39 51 £472 -0.63% 5
West Midlands -45 44 £469 -1.26% 5
North of England -54 30 £425 -20.86% 15
Yorkshire -38 18 £500 - 5
South West -25 12 £580 +6.91% 15
South East -68 9 £440 -23.57% 18
North West -42 8 £390 -29.09% 6
East Midlands -10 6 £519 +50.22%
North East -34 4 £425 -5.56% 4
East of England -27 3 £350 -36.36% 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 26 (11.06%) Confluence
2 7 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.55%) SAS
4 4 (1.70%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 226 (96.17%) AWS
2 146 (62.13%) Amazon S3
3 118 (50.21%) AWS Lambda
4 117 (49.79%) Serverless
5 106 (45.11%) Amazon EC2
6 84 (35.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 61 (25.96%) Amazon ECS
8 60 (25.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 50 (21.28%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (19.57%) Azure
11 38 (16.17%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (15.32%) GitHub
13 30 (12.77%) Route 53
14 29 (12.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (12.34%) AWS KMS
15 21 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (7.66%) Power Platform
17 15 (6.38%) AWS Fargate
18 12 (5.11%) Amazon Kinesis
18 12 (5.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.68%) Firewall
2 9 (3.83%) DNS
3 7 (2.98%) DHCP
4 6 (2.55%) VPN
5 4 (1.70%) Network Security
5 4 (1.70%) SMTP
6 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.85%) NetScaler
7 2 (0.85%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.43%) AMQP
8 1 (0.43%) HTTP
8 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (27.66%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (26.38%) DynamoDB
3 47 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 19 (8.09%) MySQL
5 18 (7.66%) Power BI
6 17 (7.23%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (6.38%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (5.53%) MongoDB
9 13 (5.53%) Pentaho
10 11 (4.68%) Big Data
10 11 (4.68%) NoSQL
11 10 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.83%) Relational Database
12 9 (3.83%) Tableau
13 8 (3.40%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.98%) Redis
15 6 (2.55%) Apache Iceberg
15 6 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 73 (31.06%) Jenkins
2 58 (24.68%) Git
3 33 (14.04%) GitLab
4 32 (13.62%) JIRA
5 28 (11.91%) JUnit
6 24 (10.21%) Mockito
7 22 (9.36%) Maven
8 21 (8.94%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.96%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.53%) jMock
11 11 (4.68%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.55%) Postman
13 6 (2.55%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (2.13%) Cucumber
15 4 (1.70%) Flyway
15 4 (1.70%) Oracle APEX
16 3 (1.28%) Artifactory
16 3 (1.28%) git-flow
16 3 (1.28%) Gradle
General
1 54 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.85%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.19%) Finance
4 26 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.66%) Banking
6 9 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.55%) Legal
8 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.28%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.85%) Front Office
9 2 (0.85%) Law
9 2 (0.85%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (18.30%) Developer
2 35 (14.89%) Senior
3 33 (14.04%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (12.77%) Data Engineer
5 26 (11.06%) Java Developer
6 25 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (9.79%) Architect
8 20 (8.51%) DBA
9 19 (8.09%) Lead
10 15 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (6.38%) Software Engineer
11 14 (5.96%) AWS Architect
11 14 (5.96%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.26%) Analyst
13 10 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (3.83%) SQL DBA
14 9 (3.83%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.87%) Spring
1 42 (17.87%) Spring Boot
2 34 (14.47%) REST
3 33 (14.04%) React
4 31 (13.19%) Node.js
4 31 (13.19%) RESTful
5 28 (11.91%) AngularJS
6 24 (10.21%) SOAP
7 23 (9.79%) Kafka
8 20 (8.51%) Hibernate
8 20 (8.51%) JPA
9 19 (8.09%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (8.09%) Web Services
10 18 (7.66%) Spring Batch
10 18 (7.66%) Spring Cloud
10 18 (7.66%) Spring Integration
11 14 (5.96%) GraphQL
12 13 (5.53%) PowerMock
13 11 (4.68%) Bootstrap
13 11 (4.68%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.98%) Cloud Native
2 30 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.26%) Replication
4 10 (4.26%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.40%) NHS
6 5 (2.13%) Clustering
6 5 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.70%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.70%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.70%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.70%) PKI
7 4 (1.70%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 51 (21.70%) Linux
2 17 (7.23%) Windows
3 12 (5.11%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.40%) Unix
5 5 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.70%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.85%) AIX
9 1 (0.43%) CentOS
9 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (51.91%) CI/CD
2 106 (45.11%) Agile
3 96 (40.85%) DevOps
4 63 (26.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (25.96%) Microservices
6 53 (22.55%) Containerisation
7 39 (16.60%) Scrum
8 38 (16.17%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (14.04%) ETL
10 32 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (13.19%) Observability
11 31 (13.19%) TDD
12 30 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (11.49%) Kanban
13 27 (11.49%) Software Engineering
14 26 (11.06%) Migration
14 26 (11.06%) Test Automation
15 24 (10.21%) Event-Driven
16 23 (9.79%) Decision-Making
16 23 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 87 (37.02%) Python
2 84 (35.74%) SQL
3 76 (32.34%) Java
4 21 (8.94%) Bash
4 21 (8.94%) TypeScript
5 19 (8.09%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.96%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.40%) Groovy
9 7 (2.98%) C#
10 5 (2.13%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.13%) Scala
11 4 (1.70%) Go
11 4 (1.70%) Perl
11 4 (1.70%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 104 (44.26%) Security Cleared
2 86 (36.60%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.06%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.81%) Degree
5 12 (5.11%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.40%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.85%) PMP
12 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.98%) PMO
3 6 (2.55%) QA
4 4 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.70%) NIST
4 4 (1.70%) SLA
5 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.85%) GDPR
6 2 (0.85%) HL7
7 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 87 (37.02%) Docker
2 11 (4.68%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.68%) Postfix
3 6 (2.55%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.70%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.70%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.70%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.70%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 82 (34.89%) Terraform
2 57 (24.26%) Kubernetes
3 47 (20.00%) Grafana
4 31 (13.19%) Prometheus
5 21 (8.94%) Ansible
6 6 (2.55%) Argo
6 6 (2.55%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.13%) Data Guard
7 5 (2.13%) Puppet
8 4 (1.70%) Istio
8 4 (1.70%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.70%) vMotion
9 3 (1.28%) Foglight
9 3 (1.28%) Kibana
9 3 (1.28%) Nagios
9 3 (1.28%) Rancher
10 2 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.85%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (11.49%) Oracle
2 24 (10.21%) ServiceNow
3 23 (9.79%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.23%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (6.38%) Atlassian
6 13 (5.53%) Dynatrace
7 12 (5.11%) Informatica
8 9 (3.83%) Talend
9 8 (3.40%) Databricks
10 7 (2.98%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.98%) VMware
11 6 (2.55%) Denodo
12 5 (2.13%) Amplitude
12 5 (2.13%) Citrix
12 5 (2.13%) Google
12 5 (2.13%) Splunk
12 5 (2.13%) Sybase
13 4 (1.70%) AVEVA
13 4 (1.70%) Brio
13 4 (1.70%) HP
86 Amazon RDS jobs in England