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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 16 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 405 | 312 | 378 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -93 | +66 | -7 |
| Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS | 253 | 211 | 158 |
| As % of all contract jobs in England | 0.54% | 0.75% | 0.49% |
| As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category | 3.73% | 4.13% | 2.73% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 196 | 146 | 105 |
| 10th Percentile | £400 | £381 | £430 |
| 25th Percentile | £447 | £450 | £488 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £536 | £500 | £540 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +7.20% | -7.41% | -6.09% |
| 75th Percentile | £673 | £586 | £609 |
| 90th Percentile | £750 | £638 | £700 |
| UK median daily rate | £534 | £511 | £535 |
| % change year-on-year | +4.40% | -4.44% | -2.73% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £68.25 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £71.00 | £71.19 | - |
| Median hourly rate | £72.00 | £82.50 | - |
| Median % change year-on-year | -12.73% | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £73.00 | £87.50 | - |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| UK median hourly rate | £72.00 | £82.50 | - |
| % change year-on-year | -12.73% | - | - |
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.
| 6 months to 16 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills | 6,790 | 5,108 | 5,793 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England | 14.50% | 18.11% | 18.07% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 4,498 | 3,504 | 3,929 |
| 10th Percentile | £350 | £338 | £350 |
| 25th Percentile | £419 | £413 | £425 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £513 | £510 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +0.49% | -7.27% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £625 | £633 | £663 |
| 90th Percentile | £721 | £750 | £813 |
| UK median daily rate | £505 | £500 | £528 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.00% | -5.21% | -2.31% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 274 | 72 | 83 |
| 10th Percentile | £16.70 | £20.67 | £17.50 |
| 25th Percentile | £21.25 | £29.00 | £22.20 |
| Median hourly rate | £41.36 | £42.00 | £35.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -1.52% | +19.99% | -33.33% |
| 75th Percentile | £58.44 | £65.00 | £61.60 |
| 90th Percentile | £74.68 | £80.00 | £71.15 |
| UK median hourly rate | £40.18 | £39.48 | £33.22 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.77% | +18.86% | -34.94% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in England
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 16 October 2026.
Amazon RDS Hourly Rate Trend in England
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 16 October 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 | -24 | 164 | £550 | +6.54% | 130 |
| North of England | -61 | 30 | £500 | - | 27 |
| Midlands | -74 | 20 | £459 | -3.37% | 16 |
| Yorkshire | -22 | 18 | £500 | - | 7 |
| West Midlands | -68 | 17 | £464 | -2.32% | 8 |
| South East | -62 | 14 | £533 | +18.33% | 22 |
| South West | -30 | 13 | £538 | +2.87% | 10 |
| North East | -35 | 6 | £419 | -1.47% | 3 |
| North West | -55 | 6 | £525 | -2.33% | 17 |
| East of England | -35 | 3 | £345 | -37.27% | 13 |
| East Midlands | -10 | 2 | £358 | -5.79% | 8 |
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Amazon RDS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Database & Business Intelligence
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PostgreSQL | 30.8% | 78 |
| 2 | Amazon Aurora | 21.7% | 55 |
| 3 | DynamoDB | 21.3% | 54 |
| 4 | SQL Server | 11.1% | 28 |
| 5 | Amazon Athena | 10.3% | 26 |
| 6 | MongoDB | 8.3% | 21 |
| 7 | Amazon Redshift | 7.9% | 20 |
| 8 | Data Warehouse | 7.5% | 19 |
| 8 | MySQL | 7.5% | 19 |
| 10 | Data Lake | 6.3% | 16 |
| 10 | Redis | 6.3% | 16 |
| 12 | SQL Server Integration Services | 4.7% | 12 |
| 13 | Relational Database | 4.3% | 11 |
| 14 | Elasticsearch | 4.0% | 10 |
| 14 | Power BI | 4.0% | 10 |
| 16 | Big Data | 3.6% | 9 |
| 17 | Apache Iceberg | 2.8% | 7 |
| 17 | Metadata | 2.8% | 7 |
| 19 | NoSQL | 2.4% | 6 |
| 19 | Pentaho | 2.4% | 6 |