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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 319 347
Rank change year-on-year -23 +28 -36
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 226 176 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.66% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.17% 3.57% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 110 159
10th Percentile £368 £425 £408
25th Percentile £434 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -2.58% +1.67% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 5,420 4,924 6,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.41% 18.53% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,780 3,260 4,396
10th Percentile £330 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £606 £663 £650
90th Percentile £710 £775 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 80 170
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.17 £15.58
25th Percentile £28.13 £24.94 £21.64
Median hourly rate £46.50 £39.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -7.90% -27.53%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £61.69
90th Percentile £85.20 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year +42.86% -17.35% -25.53%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -38 119 £513 -8.07% 38
Midlands -28 37 £500 -5.57% 11
West Midlands -17 33 £513 -3.12% 9
North of England -37 33 £500 -4.76% 20
North West -7 18 £450 +20.00% 8
South East -11 17 £475 +11.76% 35
South West -11 12 £606 +7.66% 13
Yorkshire -45 11 £509 -13.40% 10
North East -11 4 £500 - 2
East of England -17 4 £538 +8.86% 15
East Midlands -24 4 £375 -34.78% 2
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 (8.41%) Confluence
2 8 (3.54%) nginx
3 5 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (3.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 226 (100.00%) AWS
2 141 (62.39%) Amazon S3
3 124 (54.87%) Amazon EC2
4 121 (53.54%) Serverless
5 120 (53.10%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (34.96%) Amazon ECS
7 73 (32.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 69 (30.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (29.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 65 (28.76%) GitHub
11 62 (27.43%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (19.03%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (17.26%) Azure
14 33 (14.60%) Route 53
15 26 (11.50%) AWS Fargate
16 23 (10.18%) Amazon Kinesis
16 23 (10.18%) Datadog
17 20 (8.85%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (6.64%) Amazon SQS
19 14 (6.19%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.50%) DNS
2 23 (10.18%) Firewall
3 14 (6.19%) HTTP
4 12 (5.31%) FTP
4 12 (5.31%) SMTP
4 12 (5.31%) SSH
5 8 (3.54%) IMAP
5 8 (3.54%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (3.54%) VPN
6 4 (1.77%) Network Security
7 3 (1.33%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.44%) Internet
8 1 (0.44%) LAN
8 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (29.20%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (19.03%) DynamoDB
3 42 (18.58%) Amazon Aurora
4 38 (16.81%) MySQL
5 27 (11.95%) NoSQL
6 24 (10.62%) Relational Database
7 22 (9.73%) MongoDB
7 22 (9.73%) SQL Server
8 19 (8.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (7.08%) Redis
10 12 (5.31%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (4.87%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (4.87%) Hadoop
11 11 (4.87%) RDBMS
12 10 (4.42%) Oracle Database
13 8 (3.54%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (2.65%) BigQuery
14 6 (2.65%) Couchbase
15 5 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (2.21%) DB2
Development Applications
1 98 (43.36%) Jenkins
2 55 (24.34%) Git
3 47 (20.80%) GitLab
4 24 (10.62%) JIRA
5 12 (5.31%) Maven
5 12 (5.31%) Vagrant
6 8 (3.54%) Gradle
7 7 (3.10%) JUnit
8 6 (2.65%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.65%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.21%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.21%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.77%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (1.77%) Snyk
10 4 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.77%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.33%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.33%) git-flow
12 2 (0.88%) Gatling
12 2 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 59 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 29 (12.83%) Finance
4 15 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.42%) Banking
7 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.33%) Legal
9 2 (0.88%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 51 (22.57%) AWS Engineer
2 44 (19.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (14.16%) AWS DevOps
4 29 (12.83%) Senior
5 27 (11.95%) Developer
6 26 (11.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 25 (11.06%) Platform Engineer
8 24 (10.62%) Software Engineer
9 21 (9.29%) Site Engineer
10 20 (8.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 18 (7.96%) Architect
11 18 (7.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 18 (7.96%) Data Engineer
12 17 (7.52%) Lead
13 16 (7.08%) DBA
14 14 (6.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 13 (5.75%) AWS Developer
15 13 (5.75%) Oracle DBA
16 12 (5.31%) Java Engineer
17 9 (3.98%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (20.35%) Kafka
2 25 (11.06%) RESTful
2 25 (11.06%) Spring Boot
3 24 (10.62%) React
4 21 (9.29%) Spring
5 20 (8.85%) Node.js
6 14 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (5.31%) REST
8 11 (4.87%) CSS
9 10 (4.42%) FastAPI
10 9 (3.98%) AWS CDK
10 9 (3.98%) LDAP
11 8 (3.54%) Flask
11 8 (3.54%) GraphQL
11 8 (3.54%) Jest
11 8 (3.54%) Keycloak
12 7 (3.10%) Django
12 7 (3.10%) Next.js
12 7 (3.10%) Sass
13 6 (2.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 31 (13.72%) Replication
3 21 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.10%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.10%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.21%) N-Tier
7 4 (1.77%) Clustering
7 4 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.77%) PKI
8 3 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.33%) NHS
9 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.88%) Derivative
9 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.44%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (29.65%) Linux
2 16 (7.08%) Windows
3 15 (6.64%) Amazon Linux
4 13 (5.75%) VMS
5 11 (4.87%) Unix
6 8 (3.54%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.77%) CentOS
9 3 (1.33%) Solaris
10 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.44%) Android
11 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (67.26%) CI/CD
2 111 (49.12%) DevOps
3 94 (41.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (30.53%) Containerisation
5 66 (29.20%) Agile
6 52 (23.01%) Microservices
7 45 (19.91%) Configuration Management
8 41 (18.14%) Performance Tuning
9 40 (17.70%) Software Engineering
10 38 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (16.37%) Observability
12 34 (15.04%) Event-Driven
13 31 (13.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 30 (13.27%) Migration
15 27 (11.95%) Cloud Security
15 27 (11.95%) Platform Engineering
16 26 (11.50%) High Availability
17 23 (10.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 21 (9.29%) Cost Optimisation
18 21 (9.29%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 118 (52.21%) Python
2 85 (37.61%) SQL
3 63 (27.88%) Java
4 38 (16.81%) Bash
5 29 (12.83%) PowerShell
6 27 (11.95%) Shell Script
7 17 (7.52%) Groovy
8 16 (7.08%) JavaScript
9 15 (6.64%) Go
10 11 (4.87%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.54%) Perl
11 8 (3.54%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.65%) JSX
13 5 (2.21%) C#
13 5 (2.21%) Ruby
14 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.88%) C
16 1 (0.44%) PHP
16 1 (0.44%) R
16 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 79 (34.96%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 39 (17.26%) AWS Certification
4 18 (7.96%) Degree
5 16 (7.08%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.75%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.21%) OCP
9 5 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.88%) PMP
11 1 (0.44%) CEH
11 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.44%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.42%) GDPR
2 10 (4.42%) NIST
2 10 (4.42%) QA
3 5 (2.21%) NCSC
3 5 (2.21%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.33%) SLA
6 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) GxP
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 105 (46.46%) Docker
2 12 (5.31%) DFS Replication
3 8 (3.54%) Dovecot
3 8 (3.54%) Postfix
3 8 (3.54%) Squid
4 5 (2.21%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.77%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.77%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.33%) NFS
6 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 130 (57.52%) Terraform
2 76 (33.63%) Kubernetes
3 53 (23.45%) Grafana
4 44 (19.47%) Prometheus
5 38 (16.81%) Ansible
6 20 (8.85%) Progress Chef
7 15 (6.64%) Puppet
8 8 (3.54%) Nessus
8 8 (3.54%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.10%) Data Guard
9 7 (3.10%) Packer
10 4 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.77%) Kibana
10 4 (1.77%) Rancher
11 3 (1.33%) Argo
11 3 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.88%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (13.27%) Oracle
2 17 (7.52%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.64%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.87%) Splunk
5 10 (4.42%) PagerDuty
6 8 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.54%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (3.10%) Confluent
8 6 (2.65%) IBM
8 6 (2.65%) Sybase
9 5 (2.21%) Gigya
9 5 (2.21%) Talend
10 4 (1.77%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.77%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.77%) Okta
10 4 (1.77%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.33%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.33%) Informatica
11 3 (1.33%) Qualys
11 3 (1.33%) Tenable