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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 354 345
Rank change year-on-year +37 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 237 173 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.56% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.40% 3.15% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 110 181
10th Percentile £380 £435 £413
25th Percentile £450 £502 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £650
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £511 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.97% -2.18% -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 5,381 5,498 6,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.62% 17.70% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,732 3,684 4,643
10th Percentile £326 £340 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £533
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.56% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 75 138
10th Percentile £20.73 £17.70 £19.05
25th Percentile £29.13 £22.20 £24.86
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £48.45
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% -29.97% -3.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.38 £68.31
90th Percentile £85.20 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £47.70
% change year-on-year +47.50% -37.10% +5.99%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -31 112 £513 -6.82% 81
Midlands +12 51 £475 -3.06% 13
West Midlands +13 44 £475 -3.06% 10
North of England -23 31 £500 -23.08% 41
North West -2 18 £475 -29.63% 32
South East +15 16 £446 +11.50% 30
East of England - 12 £550 - 8
South West +5 9 £525 -12.50% 14
Yorkshire -34 9 £518 -11.91% 4
East Midlands -8 7 £380 -24.00% 3
North East -7 4 £438 - 5
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 (13.50%) Confluence
2 12 (5.06%) nginx
3 10 (4.22%) Apache
4 7 (2.95%) IIS
4 7 (2.95%) WebSphere
5 6 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) CICS
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (5.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (2.53%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.95%) Maximo
2 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 227 (95.78%) AWS
2 157 (66.24%) Amazon S3
3 135 (56.96%) Amazon EC2
4 121 (51.05%) Serverless
5 120 (50.63%) AWS Lambda
6 86 (36.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 78 (32.91%) Amazon ECS
8 70 (29.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 66 (27.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 65 (27.43%) GitHub
11 45 (18.99%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (16.46%) Azure
13 37 (15.61%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (15.19%) Route 53
15 32 (13.50%) AWS KMS
16 25 (10.55%) Amazon ELB
16 25 (10.55%) Amazon SQS
17 23 (9.70%) AWS Fargate
17 23 (9.70%) Datadog
18 22 (9.28%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (14.35%) DNS
2 33 (13.92%) Firewall
3 24 (10.13%) SMTP
4 23 (9.70%) HTTP
5 22 (9.28%) FTP
5 22 (9.28%) SSH
6 12 (5.06%) IMAP
6 12 (5.06%) OpenLDAP
7 9 (3.80%) VPN
8 4 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.27%) Network Security
10 2 (0.84%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.42%) DHCP
11 1 (0.42%) Internet
11 1 (0.42%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.42%) LAN
11 1 (0.42%) NAS
11 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.42%) VLAN
11 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (36.71%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (21.10%) DynamoDB
3 46 (19.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 31 (13.08%) MySQL
5 28 (11.81%) SQL Server
6 27 (11.39%) Relational Database
7 25 (10.55%) NoSQL
8 18 (7.59%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (6.75%) MongoDB
10 15 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (5.06%) RDBMS
11 12 (5.06%) Redis
12 11 (4.64%) DB2
13 10 (4.22%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (3.80%) Hadoop
15 7 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (2.95%) BigQuery
16 6 (2.53%) Couchbase
16 6 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (2.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 102 (43.04%) Jenkins
2 70 (29.54%) Git
3 46 (19.41%) GitLab
4 36 (15.19%) JIRA
5 24 (10.13%) Vagrant
6 20 (8.44%) Maven
7 16 (6.75%) JUnit
8 14 (5.91%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.53%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.53%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.11%) Gradle
10 5 (2.11%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.69%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.69%) DbUnit
11 4 (1.69%) jMock
11 4 (1.69%) Mockito
11 4 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.69%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.84%) Gatling
General
1 76 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.46%) Public Sector
3 30 (12.66%) Finance
4 13 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.22%) Banking
7 7 (2.95%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Legal
9 2 (0.84%) Marketing
10 1 (0.42%) Front Office
10 1 (0.42%) Games
10 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (26.58%) AWS Engineer
2 57 (24.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (19.41%) AWS DevOps
4 44 (18.57%) Developer
5 39 (16.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 31 (13.08%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (12.66%) Senior
8 25 (10.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 24 (10.13%) Lead
10 20 (8.44%) AWS Developer
10 20 (8.44%) Java Developer
11 18 (7.59%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 15 (6.33%) Architect
13 14 (5.91%) Data Engineer
13 14 (5.91%) Site Engineer
13 14 (5.91%) Software Engineer
14 13 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 11 (4.64%) Senior Developer
16 10 (4.22%) DevOps Platform Engineer
17 9 (3.80%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.77%) Kafka
2 34 (14.35%) RESTful
3 30 (12.66%) Node.js
4 25 (10.55%) Spring Boot
5 24 (10.13%) Spring
6 16 (6.75%) React
7 15 (6.33%) REST
7 15 (6.33%) SOAP
8 14 (5.91%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (5.91%) Web Services
9 13 (5.49%) LDAP
10 12 (5.06%) Jest
11 9 (3.80%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.80%) AWS CDK
11 9 (3.80%) CSS
11 9 (3.80%) Spring Batch
11 9 (3.80%) XML
12 8 (3.38%) Hibernate
12 8 (3.38%) Keycloak
12 8 (3.38%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.14%) Replication
2 25 (10.55%) Cloud Native
3 22 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.33%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.95%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.11%) N-Tier
7 5 (2.11%) PKI
8 4 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.27%) Clustering
10 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.84%) Derivative
10 2 (0.84%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.84%) NHS
11 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 71 (29.96%) Linux
2 34 (14.35%) Windows
3 27 (11.39%) Amazon Linux
4 25 (10.55%) VMS
5 11 (4.64%) Ubuntu
5 11 (4.64%) Unix
6 10 (4.22%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.69%) CentOS
8 4 (1.69%) Solaris
9 1 (0.42%) AIX
9 1 (0.42%) Android
9 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.42%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (58.65%) CI/CD
2 128 (54.01%) DevOps
3 80 (33.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (31.22%) Containerisation
5 72 (30.38%) Agile
6 56 (23.63%) Microservices
7 50 (21.10%) Configuration Management
8 42 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (16.46%) Cloud Security
9 39 (16.46%) Migration
10 38 (16.03%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (13.92%) Change Management
12 32 (13.50%) Observability
13 31 (13.08%) Performance Tuning
14 28 (11.81%) Event-Driven
15 27 (11.39%) Software Engineering
16 25 (10.55%) Mentoring
16 25 (10.55%) TDD
17 22 (9.28%) High Availability
17 22 (9.28%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (56.54%) Python
2 81 (34.18%) SQL
3 77 (32.49%) Java
4 45 (18.99%) PowerShell
5 35 (14.77%) Bash
6 29 (12.24%) Groovy
7 28 (11.81%) JavaScript
8 19 (8.02%) Shell Script
9 16 (6.75%) Perl
10 15 (6.33%) TypeScript
11 12 (5.06%) Go
12 7 (2.95%) Ruby
13 6 (2.53%) JSX
14 4 (1.69%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.84%) C
15 2 (0.84%) C#
15 2 (0.84%) PHP
16 1 (0.42%) COBOL
16 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 85 (35.86%) Security Cleared
2 72 (30.38%) SC Cleared
3 48 (20.25%) AWS Certification
4 28 (11.81%) Degree
5 18 (7.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (5.91%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.80%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.84%) MCSE
12 2 (0.84%) OCP
12 2 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.44%) QA
2 8 (3.38%) GDPR
3 5 (2.11%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.11%) NCSC
4 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.27%) SLA
6 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.84%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) GxP
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (45.57%) Docker
2 22 (9.28%) DFS Replication
3 16 (6.75%) Postfix
4 14 (5.91%) Active Directory
5 12 (5.06%) Dovecot
5 12 (5.06%) Squid
6 4 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.27%) NFS
8 1 (0.42%) HDFS
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 126 (53.16%) Terraform
2 67 (28.27%) Kubernetes
3 62 (26.16%) Grafana
4 52 (21.94%) Prometheus
5 32 (13.50%) Ansible
6 17 (7.17%) Progress Chef
7 14 (5.91%) Puppet
8 12 (5.06%) Nessus
9 10 (4.22%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.95%) Packer
11 4 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.69%) Kibana
11 4 (1.69%) Rancher
12 3 (1.27%) Argo
12 3 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.42%) Istio
13 1 (0.42%) Nagios
13 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (13.50%) ServiceNow
2 24 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.86%) IBM
4 20 (8.44%) Oracle
5 16 (6.75%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (5.06%) Splunk
7 8 (3.38%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.38%) PagerDuty
8 7 (2.95%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.95%) Confluent
9 6 (2.53%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (2.11%) Gigya
11 4 (1.69%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.69%) Okta
11 4 (1.69%) Sybase
12 3 (1.27%) Google
13 2 (0.84%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.84%) Databricks
13 2 (0.84%) Pega
14 1 (0.42%) UiPath