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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 351 301
Rank change year-on-year +55 -50 +115
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 193 193 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.52% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.17% 3.10% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 140 295
10th Percentile £415 £406 £450
25th Percentile £463 £416 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +4.80%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £688
90th Percentile £788 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £589
% change year-on-year +7.32% -12.95% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £52.50
25th Percentile - - £59.35
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +52.89%

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 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +35 135 £600 +14.29% 234
South East +50 15 £575 +8.49% 51
Midlands +28 12 £525 +5.00% 30
West Midlands +23 11 £550 +22.22% 17
South West +45 8 £584 +6.14% 21
North of England +9 7 £500 +11.11% 64
North West +9 6 £456 +1.62% 41
East of England +32 4 £500 -23.08% 23
Yorkshire +7 1 £500 - 16
East Midlands +7 1 £311 -48.17% 10
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 15 (7.77%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.74%) Apache
3 11 (5.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (4.66%) Confluence
5 7 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.04%) Camunda
7 2 (1.04%) nginx
8 1 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.52%) CMS
8 1 (0.52%) IIS
8 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 192 (99.48%) AWS
2 104 (53.89%) Amazon S3
3 94 (48.70%) Serverless
4 92 (47.67%) AWS Lambda
5 83 (43.01%) Amazon EC2
6 67 (34.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 41 (21.24%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (18.65%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (16.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (12.95%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (11.40%) Route 53
12 21 (10.88%) Azure
12 21 (10.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (8.81%) GitHub
14 16 (8.29%) GCP
14 16 (8.29%) OpenShift
15 15 (7.77%) PaaS
16 14 (7.25%) AWS Step Functions
17 11 (5.70%) AWS KMS
17 11 (5.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (15.03%) DNS
2 24 (12.44%) VPN
3 17 (8.81%) Firewall
4 16 (8.29%) DHCP
5 14 (7.25%) TCP/IP
6 9 (4.66%) HTTP
6 9 (4.66%) SMTP
7 8 (4.15%) Internet
8 3 (1.55%) Kerberos
9 2 (1.04%) IPsec
9 2 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.04%) SSL
10 1 (0.52%) NAS
10 1 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (28.50%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (17.62%) Amazon Aurora
3 29 (15.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 28 (14.51%) DynamoDB
5 24 (12.44%) Big Data
6 23 (11.92%) Relational Database
7 20 (10.36%) NoSQL
8 17 (8.81%) MySQL
9 16 (8.29%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (8.29%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (4.66%) Data Lake
11 9 (4.66%) Hadoop
12 8 (4.15%) Oracle Database
12 8 (4.15%) Power BI
13 7 (3.63%) SQL Server
13 7 (3.63%) Tableau
14 6 (3.11%) MongoDB
15 5 (2.59%) Amazon QuickSight
16 4 (2.07%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 35 (18.13%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.81%) GitLab
3 14 (7.25%) Git
4 10 (5.18%) JIRA
5 8 (4.15%) JUnit
5 8 (4.15%) Maven
5 8 (4.15%) Mockito
6 6 (3.11%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.07%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (2.07%) DbUnit
7 4 (2.07%) jMock
7 4 (2.07%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.55%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.55%) ERwin
9 2 (1.04%) Postman
9 2 (1.04%) Selenium
9 2 (1.04%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
General
1 46 (23.83%) Public Sector
2 44 (22.80%) Finance
3 40 (20.73%) Social Skills
4 25 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.25%) Front Office
6 12 (6.22%) Banking
7 5 (2.59%) Billing
8 3 (1.55%) Military
8 3 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.04%) Marketing
9 2 (1.04%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Aviation
10 1 (0.52%) German Language
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (20.21%) AWS Engineer
1 39 (20.21%) Developer
2 38 (19.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (17.10%) Architect
4 31 (16.06%) Senior
5 28 (14.51%) AWS DevOps
5 28 (14.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 24 (12.44%) Data Engineer
7 22 (11.40%) AWS Architect
8 16 (8.29%) Lead
9 15 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (7.77%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (7.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.22%) .NET Developer
11 12 (6.22%) Java Developer
12 11 (5.70%) AWS Data Engineer
12 11 (5.70%) DBA
12 11 (5.70%) Python Engineer
13 10 (5.18%) AWS Developer
14 9 (4.66%) DevOps Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.81%) Spring Boot
2 16 (8.29%) .NET
3 15 (7.77%) REST
4 13 (6.74%) .NET Framework
4 13 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (6.74%) Kafka
4 13 (6.74%) Spring
5 12 (6.22%) Entity Framework
5 12 (6.22%) Node.js
6 11 (5.70%) RESTful
6 11 (5.70%) Web Services
7 9 (4.66%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.66%) Hibernate
8 6 (3.11%) SOAP
9 5 (2.59%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (2.59%) J2EE
9 5 (2.59%) JPA
9 5 (2.59%) JSON
9 5 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.59%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.74%) PKI
2 11 (5.70%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.18%) Clustering
4 7 (3.63%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.11%) Replication
6 5 (2.59%) Tandem
7 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.55%) Derivative
7 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.55%) iPad
7 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (19.69%) Linux
2 23 (11.92%) Windows
3 13 (6.74%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.59%) Unix
5 4 (2.07%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (42.49%) DevOps
2 76 (39.38%) CI/CD
3 64 (33.16%) Containerisation
4 58 (30.05%) Agile
5 51 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (17.10%) ETL
8 32 (16.58%) Open Source
9 31 (16.06%) High Availability
10 30 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (13.99%) Continuous Integration
12 25 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (12.95%) Migration
13 24 (12.44%) Microservices
14 23 (11.92%) Software Engineering
15 21 (10.88%) Data Modelling
15 21 (10.88%) Deployment Automation
16 19 (9.84%) Analytics
16 19 (9.84%) Data Engineering
17 18 (9.33%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (43.01%) Python
2 63 (32.64%) SQL
3 45 (23.32%) Java
4 29 (15.03%) JavaScript
5 23 (11.92%) PowerShell
6 16 (8.29%) C#
7 15 (7.77%) Bash
8 14 (7.25%) PL/SQL
9 11 (5.70%) RPG
9 11 (5.70%) RPG IV
10 7 (3.63%) Go
11 6 (3.11%) Scala
11 6 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 6 (3.11%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.59%) Perl
13 4 (2.07%) R
14 2 (1.04%) C++
14 2 (1.04%) PHP
14 2 (1.04%) Rust
14 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (38.86%) Security Cleared
2 62 (32.12%) SC Cleared
3 33 (17.10%) AWS Certification
4 26 (13.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (10.36%) Degree
6 11 (5.70%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.52%) OCP
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.52%) VCAP
8 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.11%) NCSC
3 4 (2.07%) GDPR
4 3 (1.55%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 86 (44.56%) Docker
2 17 (8.81%) Active Directory
3 14 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.66%) BitLocker
4 9 (4.66%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.66%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (4.66%) Terminal Services
4 9 (4.66%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.59%) Postfix
5 5 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.04%) RACF
6 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.52%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (41.97%) Kubernetes
2 75 (38.86%) Terraform
3 35 (18.13%) Ansible
4 25 (12.95%) Puppet
5 17 (8.81%) Progress Chef
5 17 (8.81%) Prometheus
6 14 (7.25%) Grafana
7 10 (5.18%) Nagios
8 9 (4.66%) vCenter Server
8 9 (4.66%) vMotion
9 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (1.04%) Packer
10 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.52%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 24 (12.44%) Oracle
2 17 (8.81%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.29%) Google
4 15 (7.77%) VMware
5 9 (4.66%) Citrix
5 9 (4.66%) HP
5 9 (4.66%) Symantec
6 7 (3.63%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.11%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.11%) Informatica
8 5 (2.59%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (2.07%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.07%) Solace
9 4 (2.07%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.55%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.55%) Talend
11 2 (1.04%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.04%) Databricks
11 2 (1.04%) QAD
11 2 (1.04%) Salesforce