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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 328 365
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 -60
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 218 171 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.62% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.07% 3.40% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 105 147
10th Percentile £378 £433 £413
25th Percentile £437 £506 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £638
90th Percentile £675 £788 £743
UK median daily rate £523 £538 £548
% change year-on-year -2.88% -1.74% -4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 5,360 5,026 5,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.04% 18.29% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,745 3,338 4,290
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
25th Percentile £410 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 71 127
10th Percentile £20.66 £19.30 £18.98
25th Percentile £29.56 £24.25 £25.22
Median hourly rate £54.70 £41.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +31.81% -10.13% -16.04%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.86 £64.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.75 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +48.57% -24.21% -16.04%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -29 114 £520 -9.57% 31
Midlands -15 39 £475 -10.21% 33
West Midlands -21 32 £500 -1.86% 19
North of England -29 29 £500 -14.89% 42
South East -3 19 £475 +11.76% 48
North West -9 16 £413 -19.51% 18
Yorkshire -38 9 £518 -11.91% 20
South West 0 8 £525 -12.62% 25
East Midlands -17 7 £380 -33.91% 12
East of England -9 6 £513 +17.14% 28
North East -10 4 £500 - 4
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 23 (10.55%) Confluence
2 10 (4.59%) nginx
3 5 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) CICS
5 1 (0.46%) IIS
5 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (4.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.46%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 215 (98.62%) AWS
2 144 (66.06%) Amazon S3
3 120 (55.05%) Serverless
4 119 (54.59%) AWS Lambda
5 118 (54.13%) Amazon EC2
6 75 (34.40%) Amazon ECS
7 71 (32.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 69 (31.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 67 (30.73%) GitHub
10 64 (29.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 57 (26.15%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (19.27%) Azure
12 42 (19.27%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (14.22%) Route 53
14 23 (10.55%) Datadog
15 21 (9.63%) AWS Step Functions
16 20 (9.17%) Amazon Kinesis
16 20 (9.17%) AWS Fargate
17 18 (8.26%) Amazon ELB
17 18 (8.26%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.22%) DNS
2 27 (12.39%) Firewall
3 19 (8.72%) HTTP
4 16 (7.34%) FTP
4 16 (7.34%) SMTP
4 16 (7.34%) SSH
5 10 (4.59%) IMAP
5 10 (4.59%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (3.67%) VPN
7 4 (1.83%) Network Security
8 3 (1.38%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.92%) Internet
9 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.46%) LAN
10 1 (0.46%) NAS
10 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (32.57%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (19.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 38 (17.43%) DynamoDB
4 31 (14.22%) MySQL
5 25 (11.47%) NoSQL
5 25 (11.47%) Relational Database
6 23 (10.55%) SQL Server
7 18 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (7.80%) MongoDB
9 16 (7.34%) Amazon Athena
10 15 (6.88%) Redis
11 11 (5.05%) RDBMS
12 10 (4.59%) Oracle Database
13 9 (4.13%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (4.13%) Hadoop
14 8 (3.67%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (3.21%) BigQuery
16 6 (2.75%) Couchbase
16 6 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 92 (42.20%) Jenkins
2 57 (26.15%) Git
3 48 (22.02%) GitLab
4 28 (12.84%) JIRA
5 16 (7.34%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.13%) Maven
7 6 (2.75%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.75%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.75%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.29%) Gradle
8 5 (2.29%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.83%) JUnit
9 4 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.83%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.38%) Snyk
11 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.92%) Gatling
11 2 (0.92%) git-flow
11 2 (0.92%) Storybook
General
1 72 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.14%) Public Sector
3 28 (12.84%) Finance
4 16 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.13%) Banking
7 6 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.38%) Legal
10 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Marketing
10 2 (0.92%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Front Office
11 1 (0.46%) Games
11 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (27.52%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (22.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (17.89%) AWS DevOps
4 32 (14.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 29 (13.30%) Developer
6 28 (12.84%) Platform Engineer
7 26 (11.93%) Senior
8 22 (10.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 19 (8.72%) Lead
10 18 (8.26%) Architect
10 18 (8.26%) Site Engineer
11 17 (7.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 16 (7.34%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 16 (7.34%) Software Engineer
13 15 (6.88%) AWS Developer
14 14 (6.42%) Data Engineer
15 11 (5.05%) DBA
16 9 (4.13%) Oracle DBA
17 8 (3.67%) Java Architect
17 8 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.35%) Kafka
2 28 (12.84%) RESTful
3 25 (11.47%) Node.js
4 19 (8.72%) React
5 17 (7.80%) Spring Boot
6 15 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (5.96%) Spring
8 11 (5.05%) CSS
8 11 (5.05%) LDAP
8 11 (5.05%) REST
9 10 (4.59%) AWS CDK
9 10 (4.59%) Django
9 10 (4.59%) FastAPI
10 8 (3.67%) Flask
10 8 (3.67%) Jest
10 8 (3.67%) Keycloak
11 7 (3.21%) GraphQL
11 7 (3.21%) Next.js
11 7 (3.21%) Sass
12 6 (2.75%) Enzyme
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.06%) Cloud Native
1 35 (16.06%) Replication
2 20 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.05%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.75%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.29%) N-Tier
6 4 (1.83%) Clustering
6 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.83%) PKI
7 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.92%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.92%) Derivative
8 2 (0.92%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.92%) NHS
9 1 (0.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 67 (30.73%) Linux
2 21 (9.63%) Windows
3 19 (8.72%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (7.80%) VMS
5 11 (5.05%) Unix
6 10 (4.59%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.83%) CentOS
8 4 (1.83%) Solaris
9 3 (1.38%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.46%) AIX
10 1 (0.46%) Android
10 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (65.60%) CI/CD
2 116 (53.21%) DevOps
3 91 (41.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (32.11%) Containerisation
5 65 (29.82%) Agile
6 48 (22.02%) Configuration Management
7 46 (21.10%) Microservices
8 42 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (17.43%) Performance Tuning
10 37 (16.97%) Observability
11 33 (15.14%) Event-Driven
11 33 (15.14%) Migration
12 32 (14.68%) Software Engineering
13 30 (13.76%) Cloud Security
13 30 (13.76%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (12.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (11.93%) High Availability
16 24 (11.01%) Change Management
17 22 (10.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 19 (8.72%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 127 (58.26%) Python
2 78 (35.78%) SQL
3 57 (26.15%) Java
4 39 (17.89%) Bash
5 32 (14.68%) PowerShell
6 24 (11.01%) Shell Script
7 21 (9.63%) Groovy
8 20 (9.17%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.42%) Go
10 12 (5.50%) TypeScript
11 10 (4.59%) Perl
12 6 (2.75%) JSX
13 5 (2.29%) Ruby
14 4 (1.83%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.38%) C#
15 3 (1.38%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.92%) C
16 2 (0.92%) PHP
17 1 (0.46%) COBOL
17 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 74 (33.94%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.52%) SC Cleared
3 43 (19.72%) AWS Certification
4 25 (11.47%) Degree
5 15 (6.88%) Azure Certification
6 13 (5.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.50%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.29%) OCP
9 5 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.46%) CEH
12 1 (0.46%) CISSP
12 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.46%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.96%) QA
2 10 (4.59%) GDPR
2 10 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.67%) NIST
4 6 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.29%) NCSC
6 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.38%) SLA
8 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.46%) GxP
8 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (45.41%) Docker
2 16 (7.34%) DFS Replication
3 10 (4.59%) Dovecot
3 10 (4.59%) Postfix
3 10 (4.59%) Squid
4 7 (3.21%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.38%) NFS
6 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 130 (59.63%) Terraform
2 71 (32.57%) Kubernetes
3 57 (26.15%) Grafana
4 44 (20.18%) Prometheus
5 37 (16.97%) Ansible
6 20 (9.17%) Progress Chef
7 18 (8.26%) Puppet
8 10 (4.59%) Nessus
8 10 (4.59%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.21%) Packer
10 4 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.83%) Kibana
10 4 (1.83%) Rancher
11 3 (1.38%) Argo
11 3 (1.38%) Data Guard
11 3 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.92%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (11.47%) Oracle
2 21 (9.63%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.80%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.50%) Splunk
5 11 (5.05%) IBM
6 10 (4.59%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (4.59%) PagerDuty
7 8 (3.67%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.21%) Confluent
9 5 (2.29%) Gigya
9 5 (2.29%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.83%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.83%) Okta
11 3 (1.38%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.38%) Google
11 3 (1.38%) Sybase
12 2 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.92%) Databricks
12 2 (0.92%) Qualys
12 2 (0.92%) Tenable