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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 302 355
Rank change year-on-year -43 +53 -46
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 229 181 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.71% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.03% 3.78% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 119 147
10th Percentile £368 £413 £403
25th Percentile £428 £473 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £600
90th Percentile £633 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £71.65 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 5,689 4,783 6,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.11% 18.89% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,966 3,274 4,359
10th Percentile £343 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 86 155
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.71
25th Percentile £26.50 £24.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £50.00 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.53% -9.87% -25.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.63
90th Percentile £85.40 £71.88 £77.11
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £33.91 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.84% -20.22% -22.73%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -54 117 £513 -10.87% 44
Midlands -27 47 £500 -5.48% 20
West Midlands -26 40 £500 -5.48% 14
North of England -46 27 £500 -4.76% 34
South East -22 18 £461 -10.05% 43
North West -28 13 £394 -13.65% 18
Yorkshire -53 11 £518 -1.43% 13
South West -15 10 £538 -12.30% 26
East Midlands -27 7 £390 -11.96% 6
North East -11 3 £575 - 3
East of England -27 3 £538 +8.86% 24
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 (8.30%) Confluence
2 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 229 (100.00%) AWS
2 146 (63.76%) Amazon S3
3 133 (58.08%) Amazon EC2
4 116 (50.66%) Serverless
5 115 (50.22%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (34.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 69 (30.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 65 (28.38%) Amazon ECS
9 63 (27.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 58 (25.33%) Amazon EKS
10 58 (25.33%) GitHub
11 42 (18.34%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (14.41%) Azure
13 29 (12.66%) Route 53
14 22 (9.61%) AWS Fargate
15 21 (9.17%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (8.73%) Amazon Kinesis
17 19 (8.30%) AWS KMS
18 17 (7.42%) Datadog
19 14 (6.11%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.55%) DNS
2 13 (5.68%) Firewall
3 8 (3.49%) VPN
4 4 (1.75%) HTTP
4 4 (1.75%) Network Security
5 3 (1.31%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.87%) FTP
6 2 (0.87%) SMTP
6 2 (0.87%) SSH
7 1 (0.44%) IMAP
7 1 (0.44%) Internet
7 1 (0.44%) LAN
7 1 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (26.20%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (22.27%) DynamoDB
3 33 (14.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 33 (14.41%) MySQL
4 22 (9.61%) SQL Server
5 21 (9.17%) MongoDB
5 21 (9.17%) Relational Database
6 20 (8.73%) NoSQL
7 16 (6.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (4.80%) Oracle Database
9 10 (4.37%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (4.37%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (4.37%) Hadoop
9 10 (4.37%) Redis
10 9 (3.93%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (3.93%) Power BI
11 7 (3.06%) DB2
12 6 (2.62%) Pentaho
12 6 (2.62%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (39.30%) Jenkins
2 59 (25.76%) Git
3 42 (18.34%) GitLab
4 23 (10.04%) JIRA
5 20 (8.73%) JUnit
6 16 (6.99%) Maven
7 12 (5.24%) Mockito
8 10 (4.37%) SonarQube
9 7 (3.06%) DbUnit
9 7 (3.06%) jMock
10 6 (2.62%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.18%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.18%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.18%) Snyk
12 4 (1.75%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (1.31%) git-flow
13 3 (1.31%) Gradle
13 3 (1.31%) Terragrunt
General
1 57 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.16%) Public Sector
3 34 (14.85%) Finance
4 23 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.37%) Banking
7 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.75%) Legal
8 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.87%) Military
9 1 (0.44%) Front Office
9 1 (0.44%) Games
9 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (16.16%) Developer
2 36 (15.72%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (13.97%) Senior
4 31 (13.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (9.61%) Software Engineer
6 21 (9.17%) Site Engineer
7 20 (8.73%) AWS DevOps
7 20 (8.73%) Java Developer
7 20 (8.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (8.30%) DBA
9 18 (7.86%) Lead
10 17 (7.42%) Data Engineer
11 15 (6.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (6.11%) AWS Developer
12 14 (6.11%) Oracle DBA
13 13 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (5.24%) Java Engineer
15 11 (4.80%) Architect
16 10 (4.37%) Senior Developer
17 9 (3.93%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (17.03%) Kafka
2 34 (14.85%) Spring
3 33 (14.41%) Spring Boot
4 31 (13.54%) RESTful
5 26 (11.35%) Node.js
6 23 (10.04%) React
7 21 (9.17%) REST
8 14 (6.11%) AngularJS
8 14 (6.11%) Hibernate
8 14 (6.11%) JPA
8 14 (6.11%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (5.68%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (5.68%) SOAP
10 11 (4.80%) CSS
10 11 (4.80%) Django
10 11 (4.80%) Spring Batch
11 10 (4.37%) ActiveMQ
11 10 (4.37%) GraphQL
11 10 (4.37%) Web Services
12 9 (3.93%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 39 (17.03%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.35%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (8.30%) Replication
4 7 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.62%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.18%) Clustering
6 5 (2.18%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.31%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.31%) NHS
8 3 (1.31%) PKI
9 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.87%) Derivative
9 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.87%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.44%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 66 (28.82%) Linux
2 11 (4.80%) Unix
3 6 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.62%) Windows
4 5 (2.18%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.31%) CentOS
5 3 (1.31%) Solaris
5 3 (1.31%) VMS
6 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (61.14%) CI/CD
2 99 (43.23%) DevOps
3 86 (37.55%) Agile
3 86 (37.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (31.44%) Containerisation
5 54 (23.58%) Microservices
6 40 (17.47%) Performance Tuning
7 37 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (15.72%) Observability
8 36 (15.72%) Software Engineering
9 35 (15.28%) Configuration Management
10 32 (13.97%) Migration
11 31 (13.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 27 (11.79%) ETL
12 27 (11.79%) TDD
13 24 (10.48%) Event-Driven
13 24 (10.48%) High Availability
14 23 (10.04%) Cost Optimisation
15 22 (9.61%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (9.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 98 (42.79%) Python
2 93 (40.61%) SQL
3 65 (28.38%) Java
4 37 (16.16%) Bash
5 24 (10.48%) Shell Script
6 19 (8.30%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.42%) JavaScript
8 12 (5.24%) Go
9 11 (4.80%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.49%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.62%) C#
11 6 (2.62%) Groovy
11 6 (2.62%) JSX
12 5 (2.18%) Perl
12 5 (2.18%) Ruby
13 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.44%) Bicep
14 1 (0.44%) PHP
14 1 (0.44%) R
14 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (38.86%) Security Cleared
2 74 (32.31%) SC Cleared
3 37 (16.16%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.11%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.93%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.93%) Degree
6 7 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.18%) OCP
7 5 (2.18%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) CEH
10 1 (0.44%) CISSP
10 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.44%) MySQL Certification
10 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (4.80%) NIST
2 9 (3.93%) QA
3 8 (3.49%) GDPR
4 5 (2.18%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.75%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.75%) NCSC
5 4 (1.75%) PMO
6 3 (1.31%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) GxP
System Software
1 101 (44.10%) Docker
2 7 (3.06%) Postfix
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.31%) NFS
4 3 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.87%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.87%) HDFS
6 1 (0.44%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.44%) Squid
Systems Management
1 105 (45.85%) Terraform
2 68 (29.69%) Kubernetes
3 49 (21.40%) Grafana
4 37 (16.16%) Ansible
5 33 (14.41%) Prometheus
6 20 (8.73%) Progress Chef
7 15 (6.55%) Puppet
8 8 (3.49%) Data Guard
9 6 (2.62%) Packer
10 4 (1.75%) Argo
10 4 (1.75%) Kibana
10 4 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.31%) Rancher
12 2 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.87%) systemd
13 1 (0.44%) Istio
13 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 33 (14.41%) Oracle
2 16 (6.99%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.55%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.37%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (4.37%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.93%) Splunk
6 8 (3.49%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.49%) Sybase
6 8 (3.49%) Talend
7 7 (3.06%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.62%) Informatica
9 5 (2.18%) Confluent
10 4 (1.75%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.75%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.75%) IBM
10 4 (1.75%) Qualys
10 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.75%) Tenable
11 3 (1.31%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.31%) Databricks