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 3 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 245 286
Rank change year-on-year -59 +41 -36
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 100 69 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.62% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.75% 3.19% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 47 80
10th Percentile £386 £410 £363
25th Percentile £450 £443 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -20.83%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £575
90th Percentile £680 £808 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -19.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £73.25 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 2,669 2,164 2,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.81% 19.48% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,868 1,513 2,139
10th Percentile £325 £358 £350
25th Percentile £406 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +0.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £676 £670
90th Percentile £700 £799 £752
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 49 85
10th Percentile £13.90 £22.27 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.57 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.61 £38.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.93% -4.73% -27.27%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £76.50 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +52.14% -12.50% -33.33%

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 3 months to 7 February 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 3 months to 7 February 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 3 months to 7 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -25 56 £523 -9.13% 42
Midlands -32 21 £525 -4.55% 8
West Midlands -25 19 £525 -4.55% 7
North of England -37 10 £538 +43.33% 20
South West -16 6 £606 +3.15% 9
South East -34 6 £588 +14.63% 17
North West -20 5 £500 +33.33% 10
Yorkshire - 3 £500 - 9
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £663 - 1
East of England -24 1 - - 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 17 (8.02%) Confluence
2 6 (2.83%) nginx
3 5 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.83%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 212 (100.00%) AWS
2 133 (62.74%) Amazon S3
3 115 (54.25%) Amazon EC2
4 112 (52.83%) Serverless
5 111 (52.36%) AWS Lambda
6 70 (33.02%) Amazon ECS
7 67 (31.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 64 (30.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 62 (29.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 60 (28.30%) Amazon EKS
11 57 (26.89%) GitHub
12 41 (19.34%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (15.57%) Azure
14 27 (12.74%) Route 53
15 22 (10.38%) Amazon Kinesis
16 21 (9.91%) AWS Fargate
17 18 (8.49%) Datadog
18 15 (7.08%) AWS Step Functions
19 13 (6.13%) Amazon MSK
19 13 (6.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.38%) DNS
2 19 (8.96%) Firewall
3 10 (4.72%) HTTP
4 8 (3.77%) FTP
4 8 (3.77%) SMTP
4 8 (3.77%) SSH
4 8 (3.77%) VPN
5 6 (2.83%) IMAP
5 6 (2.83%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.89%) Network Security
7 3 (1.42%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.47%) Internet
8 1 (0.47%) LAN
8 1 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (27.83%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (18.87%) DynamoDB
3 36 (16.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 33 (15.57%) MySQL
5 22 (10.38%) MongoDB
5 22 (10.38%) NoSQL
6 20 (9.43%) SQL Server
7 19 (8.96%) Relational Database
8 18 (8.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (5.19%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (5.19%) Hadoop
9 11 (5.19%) Redis
10 10 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (4.72%) Oracle Database
11 8 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (2.83%) Couchbase
12 6 (2.83%) RDBMS
13 5 (2.36%) Data Lake
13 5 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.36%) DB2
Development Applications
1 87 (41.04%) Jenkins
2 48 (22.64%) Git
3 43 (20.28%) GitLab
4 22 (10.38%) JIRA
5 9 (4.25%) JUnit
6 8 (3.77%) Maven
6 8 (3.77%) Vagrant
7 6 (2.83%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.36%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.89%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (1.89%) Snyk
9 4 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.89%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.42%) git-flow
10 3 (1.42%) Gradle
10 3 (1.42%) Mockito
10 3 (1.42%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.94%) DbUnit
11 2 (0.94%) jMock
General
1 54 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.68%) Finance
3 26 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.72%) Banking
5 10 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.42%) Legal
8 2 (0.94%) Military
9 1 (0.47%) Front Office
9 1 (0.47%) Games
9 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (20.75%) AWS Engineer
2 39 (18.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (13.68%) Developer
4 28 (13.21%) Senior
5 26 (12.26%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (10.38%) Software Engineer
7 21 (9.91%) Site Engineer
8 20 (9.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 20 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 18 (8.49%) Data Engineer
10 17 (8.02%) Lead
11 16 (7.55%) DBA
12 13 (6.13%) AWS Developer
12 13 (6.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (6.13%) Oracle DBA
13 12 (5.66%) Architect
13 12 (5.66%) Java Engineer
14 11 (5.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.72%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.23%) Kafka
2 24 (11.32%) React
3 23 (10.85%) Spring
4 22 (10.38%) Spring Boot
5 21 (9.91%) RESTful
6 19 (8.96%) Node.js
7 14 (6.60%) REST
8 13 (6.13%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (5.19%) CSS
10 10 (4.72%) FastAPI
11 8 (3.77%) AWS CDK
11 8 (3.77%) Django
11 8 (3.77%) Flask
11 8 (3.77%) Jest
11 8 (3.77%) Keycloak
12 7 (3.30%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.30%) GraphQL
12 7 (3.30%) LDAP
12 7 (3.30%) Next.js
12 7 (3.30%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.74%) Replication
3 23 (10.85%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.30%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.89%) Clustering
6 4 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.89%) PKI
7 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.42%) NHS
8 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.94%) Derivative
8 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.94%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.47%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.47%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 65 (30.66%) Linux
2 11 (5.19%) Amazon Linux
2 11 (5.19%) Unix
2 11 (5.19%) Windows
3 9 (4.25%) VMS
4 7 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.83%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.89%) CentOS
7 3 (1.42%) Solaris
8 1 (0.47%) Android
8 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (66.98%) CI/CD
2 104 (49.06%) DevOps
3 91 (42.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (29.72%) Containerisation
5 61 (28.77%) Agile
6 46 (21.70%) Microservices
7 41 (19.34%) Configuration Management
8 40 (18.87%) Performance Tuning
9 37 (17.45%) Observability
9 37 (17.45%) Software Engineering
10 33 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (14.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 28 (13.21%) Migration
13 26 (12.26%) Event-Driven
14 25 (11.79%) High Availability
15 22 (10.38%) Cloud Security
15 22 (10.38%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (9.91%) Cost Optimisation
17 20 (9.43%) Analytics
18 19 (8.96%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 108 (50.94%) Python
2 80 (37.74%) SQL
3 55 (25.94%) Java
4 37 (17.45%) Bash
5 27 (12.74%) Shell Script
6 24 (11.32%) PowerShell
7 15 (7.08%) Go
7 15 (7.08%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.13%) Groovy
9 11 (5.19%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.77%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.83%) JSX
11 6 (2.83%) Perl
12 5 (2.36%) C#
12 5 (2.36%) Ruby
13 2 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.47%) Bicep
14 1 (0.47%) PHP
14 1 (0.47%) R
14 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 59 (27.83%) SC Cleared
3 39 (18.40%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.60%) Degree
4 14 (6.60%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.13%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.36%) OCP
9 5 (2.36%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.94%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.94%) PMP
11 1 (0.47%) CEH
11 1 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.47%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.72%) GDPR
2 10 (4.72%) NIST
2 10 (4.72%) QA
3 5 (2.36%) NCSC
3 5 (2.36%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.94%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.94%) SLA
6 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.47%) GxP
6 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (44.81%) Docker
2 8 (3.77%) DFS Replication
2 8 (3.77%) Postfix
3 6 (2.83%) Dovecot
3 6 (2.83%) Squid
4 4 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.42%) NFS
5 3 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 118 (55.66%) Terraform
2 69 (32.55%) Kubernetes
3 49 (23.11%) Grafana
4 39 (18.40%) Prometheus
5 38 (17.92%) Ansible
6 20 (9.43%) Progress Chef
7 15 (7.08%) Puppet
8 7 (3.30%) Data Guard
8 7 (3.30%) Packer
9 6 (2.83%) Nessus
9 6 (2.83%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.89%) Kibana
10 4 (1.89%) Rancher
11 3 (1.42%) Argo
11 3 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.42%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.94%) systemd
Vendors
1 29 (13.68%) Oracle
2 14 (6.60%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.13%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.72%) PagerDuty
4 10 (4.72%) Splunk
5 8 (3.77%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.77%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (3.30%) Confluent
7 6 (2.83%) IBM
7 6 (2.83%) Sybase
8 5 (2.36%) Talend
9 4 (1.89%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.89%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.89%) Okta
9 4 (1.89%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.42%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.42%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.42%) Informatica
10 3 (1.42%) Qualys
10 3 (1.42%) Tenable