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

 6 months to
22 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 286 357
Rank change year-on-year -85 +71 -44
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 216 183 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.76% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.45% 4.02% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 133 138
10th Percentile £395 £413 £408
25th Percentile £417 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £516
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.54% -13.96%
75th Percentile £569 £611 £575
90th Percentile £650 £653 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £71.90 - -
25th Percentile £73.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 6,253 4,555 6,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.14% 18.99% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,283 3,174 4,497
10th Percentile £350 £363 £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 £653 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 86 134
10th Percentile £14.77 £21.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.45 £23.69 £20.82
Median hourly rate £43.75 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.91% -18.93% -28.19%
75th Percentile £73.94 £65.46 £58.44
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.88 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £45.90 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +32.75% -13.56% -30.43%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -57 121 £503 -12.61% 34
Midlands -31 52 £469 -6.20% 6
West Midlands -26 44 £469 -10.67% 6
North of England -57 23 £425 -15.00% 20
South East -59 12 £531 -7.61% 14
Yorkshire -46 10 £400 -20.00% 6
South West -26 9 £591 +1.16% 15
North West -41 8 £445 -2.41% 12
East Midlands -18 7 £519 +66.88%
North East - 5 £425 - 2
East of England -30 2 - - 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 24 (11.11%) Confluence
2 6 (2.78%) SAS
3 4 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.39%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 213 (98.61%) AWS
2 138 (63.89%) Amazon S3
3 108 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 108 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 108 (50.00%) Serverless
4 79 (36.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 53 (24.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 49 (22.69%) Amazon ECS
7 45 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
8 40 (18.52%) GitHub
9 38 (17.59%) Azure
10 35 (16.20%) Amazon SQS
11 31 (14.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (13.89%) Route 53
13 29 (13.43%) AWS KMS
14 25 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (7.41%) AWS Fargate
16 15 (6.94%) Amazon Kinesis
16 15 (6.94%) Power Platform
17 11 (5.09%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.17%) DNS
2 4 (1.85%) Firewall
2 4 (1.85%) VPN
3 3 (1.39%) DHCP
3 3 (1.39%) HTTP
3 3 (1.39%) Network Security
3 3 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.93%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.46%) AMQP
5 1 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.46%) LAN
5 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.46%) SMTP
5 1 (0.46%) SSL
5 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (28.24%) DynamoDB
2 59 (27.31%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (20.83%) Amazon Aurora
4 20 (9.26%) MySQL
5 16 (7.41%) SQL Server
6 15 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (6.94%) Power BI
7 14 (6.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (6.48%) NoSQL
8 13 (6.02%) MongoDB
8 13 (6.02%) Pentaho
9 9 (4.17%) Redis
10 8 (3.70%) Oracle Database
10 8 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (3.70%) Tableau
11 7 (3.24%) Data Lake
11 7 (3.24%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (3.24%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.31%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 73 (33.80%) Jenkins
2 58 (26.85%) Git
3 31 (14.35%) GitLab
4 28 (12.96%) JIRA
5 27 (12.50%) JUnit
6 23 (10.65%) Mockito
7 22 (10.19%) Maven
8 20 (9.26%) SonarQube
9 14 (6.48%) DbUnit
10 13 (6.02%) jMock
11 11 (5.09%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.78%) Cucumber
13 5 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (2.31%) git-flow
13 5 (2.31%) Postman
13 5 (2.31%) Snyk
13 5 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (1.85%) Flyway
14 4 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
15 3 (1.39%) Gradle
General
1 51 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.15%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.26%) Finance
5 11 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.17%) Banking
7 6 (2.78%) Legal
8 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.93%) Front Office
10 2 (0.93%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
11 1 (0.46%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (23.15%) Developer
2 36 (16.67%) Senior
3 30 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (11.57%) Java Developer
5 23 (10.65%) DBA
5 23 (10.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (9.26%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.87%) Software Engineer
8 15 (6.94%) Architect
8 15 (6.94%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.48%) AWS Developer
10 13 (6.02%) Lead
11 12 (5.56%) AWS Architect
11 12 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
11 12 (5.56%) Python Developer
12 11 (5.09%) Analyst
12 11 (5.09%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (4.63%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (4.63%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (4.17%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (19.44%) Spring
1 42 (19.44%) Spring Boot
2 34 (15.74%) RESTful
3 32 (14.81%) Node.js
3 32 (14.81%) React
3 32 (14.81%) REST
4 30 (13.89%) AngularJS
5 27 (12.50%) Kafka
6 23 (10.65%) Hibernate
6 23 (10.65%) JPA
6 23 (10.65%) SOAP
7 21 (9.72%) Spring Cloud
8 19 (8.80%) ActiveMQ
8 19 (8.80%) Web Services
9 18 (8.33%) Spring Batch
9 18 (8.33%) Spring Integration
10 14 (6.48%) GraphQL
11 13 (6.02%) PowerMock
12 12 (5.56%) Django
13 11 (5.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.61%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.57%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.17%) Replication
5 7 (3.24%) NHS
6 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.93%) Clustering
8 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.46%) Derivative
9 1 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.46%) Equities
9 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.46%) PKI
9 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (22.22%) Linux
2 8 (3.70%) Unix
3 6 (2.78%) Windows
4 4 (1.85%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.46%) CentOS
6 1 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (56.94%) CI/CD
2 104 (48.15%) Agile
3 87 (40.28%) DevOps
4 61 (28.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 51 (23.61%) Microservices
7 43 (19.91%) Scrum
8 37 (17.13%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (15.28%) TDD
10 31 (14.35%) ETL
10 31 (14.35%) Software Engineering
11 29 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (12.50%) Kanban
12 27 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (12.04%) Event-Driven
14 25 (11.57%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (11.11%) Migration
16 22 (10.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 22 (10.19%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 92 (42.59%) SQL
2 75 (34.72%) Java
2 75 (34.72%) Python
3 17 (7.87%) JavaScript
4 16 (7.41%) Bash
4 16 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 14 (6.48%) Shell Script
6 13 (6.02%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.70%) Groovy
8 7 (3.24%) C#
8 7 (3.24%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.31%) Go
9 5 (2.31%) Scala
10 4 (1.85%) Perl
11 3 (1.39%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.93%) Ruby
13 1 (0.46%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 103 (47.69%) Security Cleared
2 87 (40.28%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.57%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.09%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.17%) Degree
7 8 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.39%) OCP
9 3 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.93%) PMP
11 1 (0.46%) CEH
11 1 (0.46%) CISSP
11 1 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.63%) NIST
2 9 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.70%) QA
4 7 (3.24%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.24%) PMO
5 6 (2.78%) GDPR
6 3 (1.39%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.46%) HL7
7 1 (0.46%) Solvency II
System Software
1 91 (42.13%) Docker
2 11 (5.09%) Postfix
3 4 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.85%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.46%) HDFS
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 80 (37.04%) Terraform
2 55 (25.46%) Kubernetes
3 49 (22.69%) Grafana
4 28 (12.96%) Prometheus
5 13 (6.02%) Ansible
6 8 (3.70%) Data Guard
7 7 (3.24%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.31%) Puppet
9 4 (1.85%) Argo
9 4 (1.85%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.39%) Foglight
10 3 (1.39%) Kibana
10 3 (1.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.39%) Rancher
11 2 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.93%) Istio
11 2 (0.93%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.93%) systemd
12 1 (0.46%) Packer
12 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (14.35%) Oracle
2 21 (9.72%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.87%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (6.94%) Atlassian
5 12 (5.56%) Informatica
5 12 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.17%) Dynatrace
6 9 (4.17%) Talend
7 8 (3.70%) Databricks
8 6 (2.78%) Denodo
9 5 (2.31%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.31%) Splunk
9 5 (2.31%) Sybase
10 4 (1.85%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.85%) Brio
10 4 (1.85%) Qualys
10 4 (1.85%) Tenable
11 2 (0.93%) Google
11 2 (0.93%) Netlify
11 2 (0.93%) PagerDuty
87 Amazon RDS jobs in England