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

 6 months to
3 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 272 356
Rank change year-on-year -83 +84 -44
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 231 213 196
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.88% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.76% 4.62% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 152 146
10th Percentile £386 £425 £403
25th Percentile £422 £477 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £612
90th Percentile £675 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.64% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £73.25 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 6,149 4,607 6,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.03% 19.00% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,290 3,241 4,404
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £670
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 88 140
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.72 £24.25 £20.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -30.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £51.79
90th Percentile £83.95 £71.88 £68.88
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £32.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.26% -19.44% -33.33%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -89 125 £509 -15.21% 38
Midlands -30 51 £500 -1.86% 2
West Midlands -38 42 £500 -5.48% 2
North of England -49 25 £480 -7.43% 16
Yorkshire -51 12 £500 -13.04% 4
South West -24 11 £561 -3.98% 8
South East -53 11 £530 -7.83% 18
East Midlands -22 9 £444 +42.77%
North West -42 9 £390 -14.47% 11
East of England -35 5 £538 +7.50% 5
North East - 4 £500 - 1
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 16 (6.93%) Confluence
2 3 (1.30%) Apache
2 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) SAS
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 230 (99.57%) AWS
2 153 (66.23%) Amazon S3
3 126 (54.55%) Amazon EC2
4 125 (54.11%) Serverless
5 122 (52.81%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (35.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 66 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 63 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
9 58 (25.11%) Amazon EKS
10 57 (24.68%) GitHub
11 55 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (16.88%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (14.72%) Azure
14 30 (12.99%) Route 53
15 27 (11.69%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (8.23%) AWS Fargate
16 19 (8.23%) AWS KMS
17 15 (6.49%) Amazon Kinesis
17 15 (6.49%) AWS CodePipeline
18 14 (6.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.76%) DNS
2 10 (4.33%) Firewall
3 9 (3.90%) VPN
4 6 (2.60%) Network Security
5 3 (1.30%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.87%) HTTP
6 2 (0.87%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.43%) AMQP
7 1 (0.43%) DHCP
7 1 (0.43%) Internet
7 1 (0.43%) LAN
7 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) SMTP
7 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (28.14%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (22.51%) DynamoDB
3 34 (14.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 25 (10.82%) MySQL
5 20 (8.66%) SQL Server
6 19 (8.23%) Relational Database
7 13 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (5.63%) MongoDB
7 13 (5.63%) NoSQL
8 11 (4.76%) Power BI
8 11 (4.76%) Redis
9 10 (4.33%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (3.46%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (3.46%) Tableau
11 7 (3.03%) DB2
11 7 (3.03%) Oracle Database
11 7 (3.03%) Pentaho
12 6 (2.60%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.16%) InfluxDB
13 5 (2.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 88 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 59 (25.54%) Git
3 38 (16.45%) GitLab
4 22 (9.52%) JUnit
5 20 (8.66%) JIRA
6 17 (7.36%) Maven
7 15 (6.49%) Mockito
8 13 (5.63%) SonarQube
9 9 (3.90%) DbUnit
9 9 (3.90%) jMock
10 7 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (2.60%) Cypress.io
12 5 (2.16%) Cucumber
12 5 (2.16%) git-flow
12 5 (2.16%) Snyk
13 4 (1.73%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (1.30%) Flyway
14 3 (1.30%) Gradle
14 3 (1.30%) Postman
15 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.61%) Public Sector
3 30 (12.99%) Finance
4 27 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.76%) Banking
5 11 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.60%) Legal
7 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.87%) Front Office
8 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.43%) Games
9 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.43%) Military
9 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (17.32%) Developer
2 34 (14.72%) Senior
3 30 (12.99%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (11.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (9.52%) Site Engineer
6 21 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 20 (8.66%) Java Developer
8 19 (8.23%) DBA
8 19 (8.23%) Software Engineer
9 17 (7.36%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (6.93%) Data Engineer
11 15 (6.49%) AWS Developer
12 14 (6.06%) Architect
12 14 (6.06%) Lead
13 13 (5.63%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.19%) Analyst
15 11 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
15 11 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
16 10 (4.33%) AWS Architect
16 10 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.02%) Spring
1 37 (16.02%) Spring Boot
2 34 (14.72%) Kafka
3 33 (14.29%) Node.js
3 33 (14.29%) RESTful
4 28 (12.12%) React
5 23 (9.96%) REST
6 17 (7.36%) AngularJS
7 16 (6.93%) Hibernate
7 16 (6.93%) JPA
7 16 (6.93%) SOAP
7 16 (6.93%) Spring Cloud
8 13 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (5.19%) ActiveMQ
9 12 (5.19%) Django
9 12 (5.19%) Spring Batch
9 12 (5.19%) Web Services
10 11 (4.76%) GraphQL
10 11 (4.76%) Spring Integration
11 9 (3.90%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.96%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.33%) Replication
4 5 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.16%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.73%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.73%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.30%) Clustering
6 3 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.30%) NHS
7 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.87%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.87%) PKI
8 1 (0.43%) Derivative
8 1 (0.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 60 (25.97%) Linux
2 6 (2.60%) Unix
2 6 (2.60%) Windows
3 4 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.30%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) CentOS
5 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (59.31%) CI/CD
2 98 (42.42%) Agile
3 95 (41.13%) DevOps
4 83 (35.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 47 (20.35%) Microservices
7 35 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.29%) Observability
9 32 (13.85%) Software Engineering
10 31 (13.42%) ETL
10 31 (13.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 30 (12.99%) Configuration Management
12 29 (12.55%) Performance Tuning
13 28 (12.12%) TDD
14 25 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (10.82%) Migration
15 24 (10.39%) Scrum
16 23 (9.96%) Event-Driven
17 22 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
17 22 (9.52%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 97 (41.99%) SQL
2 92 (39.83%) Python
3 67 (29.00%) Java
4 32 (13.85%) Bash
5 22 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 17 (7.36%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.06%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.63%) PowerShell
9 10 (4.33%) Go
10 8 (3.46%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.60%) C#
12 5 (2.16%) Groovy
12 5 (2.16%) JSX
12 5 (2.16%) Ruby
13 2 (0.87%) Perl
13 2 (0.87%) Scala
13 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.43%) Bicep
14 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (44.59%) Security Cleared
2 83 (35.93%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.99%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.93%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (5.19%) Degree
6 11 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.60%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.30%) OCP
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.43%) CEH
11 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.43%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.76%) NIST
1 11 (4.76%) QA
2 10 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.03%) GDPR
4 7 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.03%) PMO
5 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) GxP
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 102 (44.16%) Docker
2 8 (3.46%) Postfix
3 4 (1.73%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.87%) HDFS
5 2 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 105 (45.45%) Terraform
2 67 (29.00%) Kubernetes
3 50 (21.65%) Grafana
4 35 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 32 (13.85%) Ansible
6 18 (7.79%) Progress Chef
7 12 (5.19%) Puppet
8 8 (3.46%) Data Guard
9 5 (2.16%) Argo
9 5 (2.16%) Rancher
10 4 (1.73%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.73%) Packer
11 3 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.30%) Foglight
11 3 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.30%) Kibana
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.87%) Istio
12 2 (0.87%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.87%) systemd
Vendors
1 29 (12.55%) Oracle
2 18 (7.79%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.49%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.76%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (4.33%) Atlassian
6 9 (3.90%) Databricks
6 9 (3.90%) PagerDuty
6 9 (3.90%) Talend
7 8 (3.46%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.46%) Sybase
8 7 (3.03%) Informatica
9 6 (2.60%) Splunk
10 5 (2.16%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.73%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.73%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.73%) Qualys
11 4 (1.73%) Tenable
12 3 (1.30%) Cloudera
12 3 (1.30%) Google
13 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
80 Amazon RDS jobs in England