Amazon RDS Contracts in England

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Amazon RDS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 367 341
Rank change year-on-year +73 -26 +59
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 209 189 322
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.81% 0.51% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.40% 2.89% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 137 243
10th Percentile £413 £380 £450
25th Percentile £463 £417 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £503 £600
% change year-on-year +9.45% -16.25% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £60.45
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +43.13%

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 4,750 6,536 8,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.38% 17.51% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,292 4,711 5,815
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 139 151
10th Percentile £19.15 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.76 £32.30
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -30.43% +46.44%
75th Percentile £62.00 £51.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £71.70 £83.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -12.50% -29.76% +45.04%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in England

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in England

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in England

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 July 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 +38 122 £563 +7.14% 429
Midlands +25 27 £475 +5.56% 74
West Midlands +31 26 £475 +5.56% 45
South East +62 17 £575 +19.79% 120
North of England -3 13 £537 +19.33% 107
South West +37 11 £543 -9.58% 69
East of England +26 8 £550 -12.00% 63
North West +8 8 £550 +22.91% 67
Yorkshire -13 4 £500 -1.38% 34
East Midlands +1 1 £311 -30.89% 29
North East - 1 £450 - 6
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (7.66%) Apache
2 15 (7.18%) Confluence
3 12 (5.74%) Apache Spark
4 10 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (2.87%) IIS
6 6 (2.87%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.91%) nginx
8 2 (0.96%) Camunda
9 1 (0.48%) CMS
9 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Maximo
2 2 (0.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 202 (96.65%) AWS
2 116 (55.50%) Amazon S3
3 97 (46.41%) Amazon EC2
4 94 (44.98%) Serverless
5 92 (44.02%) AWS Lambda
6 62 (29.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (23.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 43 (20.57%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (17.70%) Amazon SQS
10 35 (16.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 29 (13.88%) GitHub
12 25 (11.96%) Route 53
13 23 (11.00%) AWS KMS
14 22 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (8.61%) Azure
16 16 (7.66%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (7.66%) GCP
17 14 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (6.22%) AWS CodePipeline
18 13 (6.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (18.66%) DNS
2 29 (13.88%) VPN
3 24 (11.48%) Firewall
4 18 (8.61%) TCP/IP
5 17 (8.13%) DHCP
6 16 (7.66%) SMTP
7 15 (7.18%) HTTP
8 8 (3.83%) Internet
9 5 (2.39%) FTP
9 5 (2.39%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (2.39%) SSH
10 3 (1.44%) SSL
11 2 (0.96%) IMAP
11 2 (0.96%) Network Security
11 2 (0.96%) OpenLDAP
12 1 (0.48%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.48%) NAS
12 1 (0.48%) SAN
12 1 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (35.41%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (20.10%) Amazon Aurora
2 42 (20.10%) DynamoDB
3 23 (11.00%) Relational Database
4 21 (10.05%) Big Data
5 18 (8.61%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (8.13%) MySQL
7 16 (7.66%) SQL Server
8 12 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (5.74%) NoSQL
9 9 (4.31%) DB2
9 9 (4.31%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.87%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.39%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.39%) Power BI
12 4 (1.91%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 54 (25.84%) Jenkins
2 36 (17.22%) Git
3 20 (9.57%) GitLab
3 20 (9.57%) JUnit
3 20 (9.57%) Maven
4 15 (7.18%) JIRA
5 14 (6.70%) SonarQube
6 12 (5.74%) Mockito
7 8 (3.83%) Bitbucket Server
7 8 (3.83%) DbUnit
7 8 (3.83%) jMock
8 7 (3.35%) Vagrant
9 4 (1.91%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.96%) Postman
11 2 (0.96%) Selenium
11 2 (0.96%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.48%) Storybook
General
1 58 (27.75%) Public Sector
2 48 (22.97%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.35%) Finance
4 23 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.39%) Billing
6 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.44%) Military
7 2 (0.96%) Banking
7 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.48%) Aviation
8 1 (0.48%) Local Government
8 1 (0.48%) Marketing
8 1 (0.48%) Police
8 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (28.71%) Developer
2 37 (17.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (17.22%) Senior
4 28 (13.40%) Architect
4 28 (13.40%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (11.96%) Lead
6 24 (11.48%) Java Developer
7 22 (10.53%) AWS Architect
8 20 (9.57%) AWS Developer
9 18 (8.61%) AWS DevOps
9 18 (8.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 17 (8.13%) Data Engineer
11 16 (7.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (6.22%) Senior Developer
13 12 (5.74%) .NET Developer
13 12 (5.74%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 9 (4.31%) Cloud Developer
16 8 (3.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 8 (3.83%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.92%) Spring
2 26 (12.44%) Spring Boot
3 23 (11.00%) REST
4 22 (10.53%) SOAP
5 21 (10.05%) Web Services
6 19 (9.09%) RESTful
7 18 (8.61%) Node.js
8 16 (7.66%) AngularJS
8 16 (7.66%) Hibernate
9 15 (7.18%) ActiveMQ
9 15 (7.18%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (6.70%) .NET
10 14 (6.70%) JPA
11 12 (5.74%) .NET Framework
11 12 (5.74%) Entity Framework
12 11 (5.26%) Spring Batch
12 11 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
12 11 (5.26%) Spring Integration
13 10 (4.78%) Bootstrap
14 8 (3.83%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.70%) PKI
2 12 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.78%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.78%) Clustering
5 9 (4.31%) Replication
6 5 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.48%) Derivative
10 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.48%) IoT
10 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.48%) NHS
10 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (24.40%) Linux
2 34 (16.27%) Windows
3 20 (9.57%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.35%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (3.35%) VMS
5 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.44%) Unix
7 2 (0.96%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.48%) SUSE
8 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (47.37%) DevOps
2 81 (38.76%) CI/CD
3 79 (37.80%) Containerisation
4 58 (27.75%) Agile
5 57 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (24.88%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (16.27%) Microservices
8 33 (15.79%) High Availability
9 31 (14.83%) Continuous Integration
9 31 (14.83%) Open Source
10 30 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (12.92%) Migration
12 26 (12.44%) Cloud Security
13 24 (11.48%) ETL
13 24 (11.48%) Mentoring
14 23 (11.00%) Configuration Management
15 20 (9.57%) Artificial Intelligence
15 20 (9.57%) Scrum
15 20 (9.57%) TDD
16 19 (9.09%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (38.76%) Python
2 71 (33.97%) SQL
3 58 (27.75%) Java
4 34 (16.27%) PowerShell
5 23 (11.00%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.70%) C#
6 14 (6.70%) PL/SQL
7 12 (5.74%) Bash
8 11 (5.26%) RPG
8 11 (5.26%) RPG IV
9 10 (4.78%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.83%) Perl
10 8 (3.83%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.35%) Groovy
12 4 (1.91%) R
12 4 (1.91%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.96%) C++
13 2 (0.96%) Go
13 2 (0.96%) Rust
13 2 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 100 (47.85%) Security Cleared
2 85 (40.67%) SC Cleared
3 40 (19.14%) AWS Certification
4 31 (14.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 23 (11.00%) Degree
6 12 (5.74%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.96%) MCSE
10 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.48%) OCP
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.48%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.78%) QA
2 8 (3.83%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.83%) GDPR
3 6 (2.87%) NCSC
4 4 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.44%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.44%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.96%) NIST
7 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (43.54%) Docker
2 22 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.26%) Postfix
4 10 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (4.31%) BitLocker
5 9 (4.31%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.31%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (4.31%) Terminal Services
5 9 (4.31%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.39%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.96%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.96%) Squid
8 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.48%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (35.89%) Terraform
2 69 (33.01%) Kubernetes
3 38 (18.18%) Ansible
4 31 (14.83%) Grafana
4 31 (14.83%) Prometheus
5 28 (13.40%) Puppet
6 18 (8.61%) Progress Chef
7 10 (4.78%) Nagios
7 10 (4.78%) vCenter Server
8 9 (4.31%) vMotion
9 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.96%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.96%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.96%) Nessus
12 1 (0.48%) Apache Ranger
12 1 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.48%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.48%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 26 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.00%) Oracle
3 16 (7.66%) Google
4 12 (5.74%) Atlassian
4 12 (5.74%) VMware
5 11 (5.26%) IBM
5 11 (5.26%) Jaspersoft
5 11 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.31%) Citrix
6 9 (4.31%) HP
6 9 (4.31%) Symantec
7 8 (3.83%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.91%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.91%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.91%) Solace
8 4 (1.91%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.44%) Databricks
9 3 (1.44%) Splunk
10 2 (0.96%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.96%) QAD