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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 292 364
Rank change year-on-year -115 +72 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 235 220 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.80% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.37% 4.49% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 155 111
10th Percentile £400 £411 £409
25th Percentile £431 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £609
90th Percentile £763 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 6,983 4,905 5,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.22% 17.90% 18.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,675 3,368 4,176
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £705 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 80 82
10th Percentile £15.28 £21.18 £16.13
25th Percentile £23.48 £30.55 £20.19
Median hourly rate £38.50 £40.25 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% +16.77% -37.34%
75th Percentile £61.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £38.90 £33.22
% change year-on-year +1.54% +17.12% -39.06%

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 5 September 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
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 5 September 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 -59 148 £550 -8.33% 132
North of England -52 32 £500 - 33
Midlands -72 26 £469 -1.26% 15
West Midlands -64 23 £469 -1.26% 7
Yorkshire -31 18 £500 - 8
South West -35 10 £542 -0.14% 17
South East -78 10 £460 -20.00% 22
North East -34 7 £425 -2.86% 11
North West -61 7 £525 -4.55% 14
East of England -28 4 £348 -36.82% 11
East Midlands -21 2 £449 +18.16% 8
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 (8.09%) Confluence
2 16 (6.81%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.98%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.55%) SAS
5 5 (2.13%) Apache
6 3 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.28%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.85%) Camunda
7 2 (0.85%) nginx
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.43%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 223 (94.89%) AWS
2 154 (65.53%) Amazon S3
3 125 (53.19%) AWS Lambda
4 124 (52.77%) Serverless
5 93 (39.57%) Amazon EC2
6 89 (37.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 64 (27.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 59 (25.11%) Amazon ECS
9 55 (23.40%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (22.55%) Azure
11 38 (16.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (13.62%) GitHub
13 30 (12.77%) AWS KMS
14 25 (10.64%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (8.51%) Route 53
17 19 (8.09%) GCP
18 15 (6.38%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (6.38%) Snowflake
19 12 (5.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.81%) Firewall
2 12 (5.11%) DNS
3 7 (2.98%) DHCP
4 6 (2.55%) SMTP
4 6 (2.55%) VPN
5 4 (1.70%) HTTP
5 4 (1.70%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.70%) Network Security
5 4 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.85%) FTP
6 2 (0.85%) IMAP
6 2 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.85%) SSH
6 2 (0.85%) SSL
7 1 (0.43%) AMQP
7 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (32.34%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (23.83%) Amazon Aurora
3 52 (22.13%) DynamoDB
4 24 (10.21%) SQL Server
5 20 (8.51%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (8.51%) MongoDB
5 20 (8.51%) MySQL
6 18 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (7.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (6.38%) Redis
9 13 (5.53%) Data Lake
9 13 (5.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (5.11%) Big Data
10 12 (5.11%) Power BI
11 9 (3.83%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (3.40%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.98%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (2.98%) Pentaho
14 6 (2.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 61 (25.96%) Jenkins
2 45 (19.15%) Git
3 41 (17.45%) GitLab
4 26 (11.06%) JIRA
5 13 (5.53%) JUnit
5 13 (5.53%) Mockito
6 11 (4.68%) SonarQube
7 10 (4.26%) Maven
8 9 (3.83%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (2.98%) DbUnit
11 6 (2.55%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (2.55%) jMock
11 6 (2.55%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (1.70%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.70%) Postman
13 3 (1.28%) Flyway
13 3 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.43%) RStudio
General
1 65 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.70%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.19%) Finance
4 24 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.51%) Banking
6 9 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.98%) Front Office
8 6 (2.55%) Back Office
8 6 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.70%) Legal
10 3 (1.28%) Billing
10 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Local Government
11 2 (0.85%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (21.70%) AWS Engineer
2 38 (16.17%) Senior
3 37 (15.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (15.32%) Data Engineer
5 34 (14.47%) Architect
6 33 (14.04%) Developer
7 28 (11.91%) DBA
8 22 (9.36%) AWS DevOps
9 21 (8.94%) Lead
10 20 (8.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (7.23%) AWS Architect
12 16 (6.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (6.38%) Administrator
13 15 (6.38%) AWS Data Engineer
14 14 (5.96%) Java Developer
14 14 (5.96%) Technical Leader
15 11 (4.68%) Senior Data Engineer
16 10 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (4.26%) Technical Architect
17 9 (3.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (48.51%) Terraform
2 31 (13.19%) React
3 25 (10.64%) REST
4 24 (10.21%) Spring
4 24 (10.21%) Spring Boot
5 21 (8.94%) Node.js
6 20 (8.51%) AngularJS
7 19 (8.09%) RESTful
8 17 (7.23%) Kafka
9 16 (6.81%) FastAPI
10 12 (5.11%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (5.11%) SOAP
11 10 (4.26%) Hibernate
11 10 (4.26%) JPA
11 10 (4.26%) JSON
12 9 (3.83%) Spring Batch
12 9 (3.83%) Spring Integration
12 9 (3.83%) Web Services
13 7 (2.98%) AWS CDK
13 7 (2.98%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.83%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.06%) Replication
3 21 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.26%) NHS
6 8 (3.40%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.98%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.55%) Clustering
8 6 (2.55%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.55%) PKI
9 5 (2.13%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.70%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.70%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.28%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 47 (20.00%) Linux
2 21 (8.94%) Windows
3 13 (5.53%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.83%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.98%) Unix
7 4 (1.70%) AIX
7 4 (1.70%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.43%) CentOS
9 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.43%) VMS
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 115 (48.94%) DevOps
3 104 (44.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (40.00%) Agile
5 48 (20.43%) Performance Tuning
6 47 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 45 (19.15%) Containerisation
8 43 (18.30%) Microservices
8 43 (18.30%) Observability
8 43 (18.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (15.74%) High Availability
10 36 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (14.47%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (14.47%) Migration
12 32 (13.62%) Event-Driven
13 31 (13.19%) Data Integration
14 30 (12.77%) Software Engineering
15 29 (12.34%) Disaster Recovery
15 29 (12.34%) Scrum
15 29 (12.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 109 (46.38%) Python
2 78 (33.19%) SQL
3 58 (24.68%) Java
4 24 (10.21%) Bash
4 24 (10.21%) TypeScript
5 23 (9.79%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.38%) Groovy
7 11 (4.68%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.98%) Perl
9 6 (2.55%) Scala
10 4 (1.70%) C#
10 4 (1.70%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.28%) Go
11 3 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.85%) Bicep
12 2 (0.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 98 (41.70%) Security Cleared
2 82 (34.89%) SC Cleared
3 42 (17.87%) AWS Certification
4 27 (11.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (6.38%) Degree
7 11 (4.68%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.68%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.98%) CISM
8 7 (2.98%) CISSP
9 5 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.85%) PMP
13 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.36%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.40%) NIST
3 5 (2.13%) QA
4 3 (1.28%) HL7
4 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.28%) PMO
4 3 (1.28%) SLA
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 77 (32.77%) Docker
2 14 (5.96%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.98%) Postfix
4 6 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.70%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.70%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.85%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.85%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.85%) Squid
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (24.26%) Kubernetes
2 48 (20.43%) Grafana
3 37 (15.74%) Prometheus
4 22 (9.36%) Ansible
5 9 (3.83%) Istio
6 7 (2.98%) Argo
7 6 (2.55%) Kibana
8 5 (2.13%) Puppet
9 4 (1.70%) Rancher
9 4 (1.70%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.70%) vMotion
10 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.28%) Nagios
10 3 (1.28%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.85%) Consul
11 2 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.85%) Nessus
11 2 (0.85%) Packer
11 2 (0.85%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.94%) ServiceNow
3 18 (7.66%) Oracle
4 15 (6.38%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.68%) Databricks
5 11 (4.68%) Informatica
6 10 (4.26%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (3.83%) VMware
8 8 (3.40%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.98%) Google
9 7 (2.98%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.98%) Talend
10 6 (2.55%) Denodo
10 6 (2.55%) Splunk
11 5 (2.13%) Amplitude
11 5 (2.13%) Citrix
12 4 (1.70%) Brio
12 4 (1.70%) Cisco
12 4 (1.70%) HP
12 4 (1.70%) Symantec