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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 336 353
Rank change year-on-year +18 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 224 178 232
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.21% 3.20% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 116 177
10th Percentile £380 £431 £413
25th Percentile £446 £489 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £576 £638 £638
90th Percentile £641 £769 £700
UK median daily rate £508 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -4.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,326 5,564 6,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.91% 17.80% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,676 3,746 4,701
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 81 141
10th Percentile £19.94 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.40 £25.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -26.92% -4.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £47.50
% change year-on-year +42.20% -35.60% -4.90%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 -25 105 £513 -6.82% 134
Midlands +14 47 £475 -3.06% 23
West Midlands 0 40 £475 -3.06% 11
North of England -19 33 £500 -3.85% 31
North West -11 18 £475 -29.63% 21
South East +16 15 £445 +11.25% 122
Yorkshire -28 12 £509 -0.93% 3
East of England - 11 £550 - 9
South West +8 9 £525 -12.50% 23
East Midlands -13 7 £380 -24.00% 10
North East -9 3 £425 - 7
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 32 (14.29%) Confluence
2 12 (5.36%) nginx
3 8 (3.57%) Apache
4 7 (3.13%) IIS
4 7 (3.13%) WebSphere
5 5 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.45%) CICS
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (5.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (2.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.13%) Maximo
2 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 214 (95.54%) AWS
2 141 (62.95%) Amazon S3
3 123 (54.91%) Amazon EC2
4 115 (51.34%) Serverless
5 114 (50.89%) AWS Lambda
6 84 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 70 (31.25%) Amazon ECS
8 66 (29.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 65 (29.02%) GitHub
10 60 (26.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (16.52%) GitHub Actions
12 34 (15.18%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (15.18%) AWS KMS
12 34 (15.18%) Azure
13 33 (14.73%) Route 53
14 31 (13.84%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (10.71%) Amazon ELB
15 24 (10.71%) AWS Fargate
16 22 (9.82%) AWS Step Functions
17 21 (9.38%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 37 (16.52%) DNS
2 35 (15.63%) Firewall
3 24 (10.71%) SMTP
4 23 (10.27%) HTTP
5 22 (9.82%) FTP
5 22 (9.82%) SSH
6 12 (5.36%) IMAP
6 12 (5.36%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (4.46%) VPN
8 4 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.34%) SSL
10 2 (0.89%) Network Security
11 1 (0.45%) DHCP
11 1 (0.45%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.45%) LAN
11 1 (0.45%) NAS
11 1 (0.45%) VLAN
11 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (37.05%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (23.21%) DynamoDB
3 46 (20.54%) Amazon Aurora
4 31 (13.84%) MySQL
5 24 (10.71%) NoSQL
6 23 (10.27%) Relational Database
7 22 (9.82%) SQL Server
8 18 (8.04%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (6.70%) MongoDB
10 12 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (5.36%) RDBMS
11 11 (4.91%) DB2
11 11 (4.91%) Redis
12 10 (4.46%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (3.57%) Hadoop
14 7 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (3.13%) BigQuery
15 6 (2.68%) Couchbase
15 6 (2.68%) Oracle Database
16 5 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 101 (45.09%) Jenkins
2 73 (32.59%) Git
3 42 (18.75%) GitLab
4 36 (16.07%) JIRA
5 24 (10.71%) Vagrant
6 23 (10.27%) Maven
7 18 (8.04%) JUnit
8 16 (7.14%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.68%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.68%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.68%) Mockito
10 5 (2.23%) Gradle
10 5 (2.23%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.79%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.79%) DbUnit
11 4 (1.79%) jMock
11 4 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.79%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
General
1 74 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.30%) Public Sector
3 26 (11.61%) Finance
4 12 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.46%) Banking
5 10 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.13%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Marketing
9 1 (0.45%) Front Office
9 1 (0.45%) Games
9 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Military
9 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (27.68%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (26.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (20.98%) Developer
4 44 (19.64%) AWS DevOps
5 38 (16.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 30 (13.39%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (12.05%) Senior
8 25 (11.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 24 (10.71%) Lead
10 23 (10.27%) Java Developer
11 20 (8.93%) AWS Developer
12 18 (8.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 14 (6.25%) Architect
13 14 (6.25%) Software Engineer
14 13 (5.80%) Data Engineer
15 11 (4.91%) Senior Developer
16 10 (4.46%) DevOps Platform Engineer
17 9 (4.02%) Consultant
18 8 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
18 8 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.73%) RESTful
2 31 (13.84%) Kafka
3 30 (13.39%) Node.js
4 27 (12.05%) Spring
4 27 (12.05%) Spring Boot
5 18 (8.04%) REST
5 18 (8.04%) SOAP
6 16 (7.14%) React
7 15 (6.70%) Web Services
8 14 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (5.80%) LDAP
10 12 (5.36%) Jest
11 11 (4.91%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.46%) ActiveMQ
13 9 (4.02%) AWS CDK
13 9 (4.02%) CSS
13 9 (4.02%) Hibernate
13 9 (4.02%) JPA
13 9 (4.02%) XML
14 8 (3.57%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.75%) Replication
2 22 (9.82%) Cloud Native
3 20 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.80%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.13%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.23%) N-Tier
8 5 (2.23%) PKI
9 4 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.34%) Clustering
11 2 (0.89%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.89%) Derivative
11 2 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.89%) NHS
12 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 59 (26.34%) Linux
2 34 (15.18%) Windows
3 27 (12.05%) Amazon Linux
4 25 (11.16%) VMS
5 11 (4.91%) Ubuntu
5 11 (4.91%) Unix
6 10 (4.46%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.79%) CentOS
8 4 (1.79%) Solaris
9 1 (0.45%) AIX
9 1 (0.45%) Android
9 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.45%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (56.70%) CI/CD
1 127 (56.70%) DevOps
2 68 (30.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (29.91%) Agile
4 63 (28.13%) Containerisation
5 57 (25.45%) Microservices
6 43 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (18.30%) Cloud Security
8 40 (17.86%) Configuration Management
9 37 (16.52%) Migration
10 36 (16.07%) Platform Engineering
11 32 (14.29%) Change Management
12 30 (13.39%) TDD
13 29 (12.95%) Performance Tuning
14 27 (12.05%) Event-Driven
15 26 (11.61%) Mentoring
15 26 (11.61%) Observability
16 22 (9.82%) Patch Management
17 21 (9.38%) Software Engineering
18 19 (8.48%) AI
Programming Languages
1 117 (52.23%) Python
2 73 (32.59%) SQL
3 72 (32.14%) Java
4 44 (19.64%) PowerShell
5 28 (12.50%) Groovy
6 27 (12.05%) JavaScript
7 25 (11.16%) Bash
8 17 (7.59%) Shell Script
9 16 (7.14%) Perl
10 15 (6.70%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.57%) Go
12 6 (2.68%) JSX
12 6 (2.68%) Ruby
13 4 (1.79%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.89%) C
14 2 (0.89%) C#
14 2 (0.89%) PHP
15 1 (0.45%) COBOL
15 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 87 (38.84%) Security Cleared
2 76 (33.93%) SC Cleared
3 44 (19.64%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.71%) Degree
5 17 (7.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.89%) MCSE
11 2 (0.89%) OCP
11 2 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.48%) QA
2 10 (4.46%) GDPR
3 7 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.23%) NCSC
5 4 (1.79%) NIST
6 3 (1.34%) SLA
7 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.45%) GxP
8 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (45.09%) Docker
2 22 (9.82%) DFS Replication
3 16 (7.14%) Postfix
4 14 (6.25%) Active Directory
5 12 (5.36%) Dovecot
5 12 (5.36%) Squid
6 4 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.34%) NFS
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 112 (50.00%) Terraform
2 60 (26.79%) Kubernetes
3 55 (24.55%) Grafana
4 51 (22.77%) Prometheus
5 27 (12.05%) Ansible
6 12 (5.36%) Nessus
6 12 (5.36%) Progress Chef
7 10 (4.46%) Proxmox
8 9 (4.02%) Puppet
9 7 (3.13%) Packer
10 4 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.34%) Argo
11 3 (1.34%) Kibana
11 3 (1.34%) Rancher
12 2 (0.89%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.45%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.45%) Istio
13 1 (0.45%) Nagios
13 1 (0.45%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (13.84%) ServiceNow
2 21 (9.38%) IBM
3 20 (8.93%) Oracle
4 19 (8.48%) Microsoft
5 16 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
6 13 (5.80%) Splunk
7 7 (3.13%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.68%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (2.68%) Confluent
8 6 (2.68%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.23%) Gigya
10 4 (1.79%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.79%) Okta
10 4 (1.79%) Sybase
11 3 (1.34%) Google
12 2 (0.89%) Pega
13 1 (0.45%) JDA
13 1 (0.45%) Murex
13 1 (0.45%) SAP
13 1 (0.45%) Veeam