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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 295 375
Rank change year-on-year -101 +80 -16
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 230 222 169
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.81% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.33% 4.43% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 166 123
10th Percentile £379 £400 £402
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -1.40% -10.83%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £611
90th Percentile £725 £653 £698
UK median daily rate £519 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -3.94% +2.86% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £71.00 £80.25 -
25th Percentile £71.75 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% - -
75th Percentile £86.25 £85.63 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.75 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -10.30% - -

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 6,899 5,007 6,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.35% 18.30% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,616 3,470 4,547
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £531
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -2.54% -3.45%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 80 99
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.72 £13.94
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.82 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -9.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.06 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.62 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £36.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +15.06% -3.33% -31.82%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -81 126 £525 -8.70% 29
Midlands -38 49 £475 - 4
West Midlands -49 42 £472 -0.63% 3
North of England -45 34 £500 -3.57% 22
Yorkshire -29 20 £500 - 7
North West -43 10 £600 +9.09% 7
South West -40 9 £538 -7.92% 11
South East -74 9 £440 -23.57% 15
East Midlands -10 6 £519 +36.58% 1
North East -32 4 £425 -5.56% 8
East of England -25 3 £350 -36.36% 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 26 (11.30%) Confluence
2 7 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.61%) SAS
4 4 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.30%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.87%) Apache
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 220 (95.65%) AWS
2 153 (66.52%) Amazon S3
3 122 (53.04%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (52.61%) Serverless
5 105 (45.65%) Amazon EC2
6 84 (36.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 60 (26.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 59 (25.65%) Amazon ECS
9 49 (21.30%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (21.30%) Azure
10 37 (16.09%) Amazon SQS
11 34 (14.78%) GitHub
12 31 (13.48%) AWS KMS
13 27 (11.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (11.30%) Route 53
15 21 (9.13%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (7.83%) Power Platform
17 14 (6.09%) AWS Fargate
17 14 (6.09%) GCP
18 12 (5.22%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.22%) Firewall
2 8 (3.48%) DNS
3 7 (3.04%) DHCP
4 6 (2.61%) VPN
5 4 (1.74%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.74%) Network Security
5 4 (1.74%) SMTP
6 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.87%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.43%) AMQP
8 1 (0.43%) HTTP
8 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (26.96%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (26.09%) DynamoDB
3 44 (19.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (7.83%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (7.83%) Power BI
5 14 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (6.09%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.22%) Big Data
7 11 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.78%) MySQL
8 10 (4.35%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.35%) Pentaho
8 10 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (3.91%) Tableau
10 8 (3.48%) MongoDB
10 8 (3.48%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.48%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.04%) Apache Iceberg
12 6 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (27.83%) Jenkins
2 58 (25.22%) Git
3 32 (13.91%) GitLab
3 32 (13.91%) JIRA
4 25 (10.87%) JUnit
5 23 (10.00%) Mockito
6 22 (9.57%) Maven
7 21 (9.13%) SonarQube
8 14 (6.09%) DbUnit
9 13 (5.65%) jMock
10 11 (4.78%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (3.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.61%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (2.17%) Postman
14 4 (1.74%) Bitbucket
14 4 (1.74%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.74%) Flyway
15 3 (1.30%) Artifactory
15 3 (1.30%) Gradle
16 2 (0.87%) git-flow
General
1 60 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.17%) Public Sector
3 32 (13.91%) Finance
4 27 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.83%) Banking
6 9 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.61%) Legal
8 5 (2.17%) Front Office
9 3 (1.30%) Back Office
9 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.87%) Law
10 2 (0.87%) Local Government
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Games
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (17.39%) Developer
2 36 (15.65%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (14.35%) Senior
4 30 (13.04%) Data Engineer
5 28 (12.17%) Architect
6 26 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (10.43%) Java Developer
8 20 (8.70%) Lead
9 18 (7.83%) DBA
10 15 (6.52%) AWS Architect
10 15 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (5.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.22%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (4.78%) Technical Leader
13 10 (4.35%) Analyst
13 10 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
14 9 (3.91%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (3.91%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.52%) Spring
1 38 (16.52%) Spring Boot
2 35 (15.22%) React
3 33 (14.35%) REST
4 31 (13.48%) Node.js
5 28 (12.17%) AngularJS
5 28 (12.17%) RESTful
6 23 (10.00%) SOAP
7 21 (9.13%) ActiveMQ
8 19 (8.26%) Hibernate
8 19 (8.26%) JPA
8 19 (8.26%) Kafka
8 19 (8.26%) Web Services
9 18 (7.83%) Spring Batch
9 18 (7.83%) Spring Integration
10 17 (7.39%) Spring Cloud
11 14 (6.09%) GraphQL
12 13 (5.65%) FastAPI
12 13 (5.65%) PowerMock
13 11 (4.78%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 54 (23.48%) Cloud Native
2 27 (11.74%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.78%) Replication
5 8 (3.48%) NHS
5 8 (3.48%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.61%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.61%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.17%) Clustering
8 4 (1.74%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.74%) PKI
9 3 (1.30%) Derivative
9 3 (1.30%) Equities
9 3 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (23.04%) Linux
2 20 (8.70%) Windows
3 13 (5.65%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.48%) Unix
5 7 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.74%) AIX
8 3 (1.30%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.43%) CentOS
9 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (53.48%) CI/CD
2 109 (47.39%) Agile
3 100 (43.48%) DevOps
4 66 (28.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (22.17%) Microservices
6 48 (20.87%) Containerisation
7 40 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
8 38 (16.52%) Scrum
9 34 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (14.35%) ETL
11 32 (13.91%) Observability
12 31 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (13.04%) Data Modelling
14 29 (12.61%) Kanban
14 29 (12.61%) Migration
14 29 (12.61%) TDD
15 27 (11.74%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (11.74%) Test Automation
16 25 (10.87%) High Availability
17 24 (10.43%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 94 (40.87%) Python
2 77 (33.48%) SQL
3 69 (30.00%) Java
4 24 (10.43%) Bash
5 23 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 21 (9.13%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.09%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.91%) Groovy
9 8 (3.48%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.17%) C#
10 5 (2.17%) Perl
11 4 (1.74%) Scala
11 4 (1.74%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.30%) Go
13 2 (0.87%) Ruby
14 1 (0.43%) Bicep
14 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (42.61%) Security Cleared
2 83 (36.09%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.74%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.96%) Degree
5 12 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.91%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.87%) CISM
11 2 (0.87%) CISSP
11 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.43%) PMP
12 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.09%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.04%) PMO
3 5 (2.17%) QA
4 4 (1.74%) NIST
4 4 (1.74%) SLA
5 3 (1.30%) HL7
5 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.87%) GDPR
6 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
7 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 79 (34.35%) Docker
2 12 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.78%) Postfix
4 6 (2.61%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.74%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.74%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 83 (36.09%) Terraform
2 52 (22.61%) Kubernetes
3 46 (20.00%) Grafana
4 29 (12.61%) Prometheus
5 21 (9.13%) Ansible
6 7 (3.04%) Argo
7 5 (2.17%) Istio
7 5 (2.17%) Puppet
8 4 (1.74%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.74%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.74%) vMotion
9 3 (1.30%) Foglight
9 3 (1.30%) Kibana
9 3 (1.30%) Nagios
9 3 (1.30%) Rancher
10 2 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.87%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.43%) Consul
11 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (11.74%) ServiceNow
2 24 (10.43%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.26%) Oracle
4 17 (7.39%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (6.52%) Atlassian
6 13 (5.65%) Dynatrace
7 10 (4.35%) Informatica
8 9 (3.91%) VMware
9 8 (3.48%) Databricks
10 7 (3.04%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.61%) Denodo
11 6 (2.61%) Talend
12 5 (2.17%) Amplitude
12 5 (2.17%) Citrix
12 5 (2.17%) Google
12 5 (2.17%) Splunk
13 4 (1.74%) Brio
13 4 (1.74%) Cisco
13 4 (1.74%) HP
13 4 (1.74%) Symantec
73 Amazon RDS jobs in England