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

 6 months to
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 292 382
Rank change year-on-year -105 +90 -35
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 233 220 179
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.81% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.40% 4.40% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 165 128
10th Percentile £356 £405 £404
25th Percentile £424 £463 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +2.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £607
90th Percentile £721 £653 £691
UK median daily rate £513 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -5.53% +3.33% -12.50%
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 6,844 5,003 6,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.28% 18.39% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,587 3,463 4,647
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.52% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £675
90th Percentile £701 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.39% -2.43% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 88 120
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.20 £24.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.24% -13.56% -30.43%
75th Percentile £71.88 £63.94 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.77 £77.50 £69.93
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £36.25 £38.50
% change year-on-year +15.06% -5.84% -30.00%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -76 131 £525 -8.70% 22
Midlands -40 49 £475 - 5
West Midlands -45 42 £472 -0.63% 2
North of England -55 33 £463 -10.80% 23
Yorkshire -27 20 £500 - 7
North West -48 9 £535 -2.73% 8
South East -74 9 £440 -23.57% 16
South West -42 8 £542 -7.19% 11
East Midlands -12 6 £519 +36.58% 3
North East -34 4 £425 -5.56% 8
East of England -28 3 £350 -36.36% 6
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 (11.16%) Confluence
2 7 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.58%) SAS
4 4 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.29%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.86%) Apache
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 223 (95.71%) AWS
2 155 (66.52%) Amazon S3
3 123 (52.79%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (52.36%) Serverless
5 106 (45.49%) Amazon EC2
6 86 (36.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 61 (26.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 60 (25.75%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (21.89%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (20.17%) Azure
11 37 (15.88%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (15.45%) GitHub
13 30 (12.88%) AWS KMS
14 29 (12.45%) Route 53
15 27 (11.59%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (7.73%) Power Platform
18 14 (6.01%) AWS Fargate
19 12 (5.15%) AWS Step Functions
19 12 (5.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.15%) Firewall
2 8 (3.43%) DNS
3 7 (3.00%) DHCP
4 6 (2.58%) VPN
5 4 (1.72%) Network Security
5 4 (1.72%) SMTP
6 3 (1.29%) NetScaler
6 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.86%) 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 (26.61%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (24.89%) DynamoDB
3 44 (18.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 19 (8.15%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (7.73%) Power BI
6 14 (6.01%) SQL Server
7 13 (5.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (4.72%) Big Data
8 11 (4.72%) MySQL
9 10 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (4.29%) Pentaho
9 10 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (3.86%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.86%) Tableau
11 8 (3.43%) MongoDB
11 8 (3.43%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.00%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (3.00%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (2.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (29.61%) Jenkins
2 59 (25.32%) Git
3 33 (14.16%) GitLab
3 33 (14.16%) JIRA
4 26 (11.16%) JUnit
5 24 (10.30%) Mockito
6 22 (9.44%) Maven
7 21 (9.01%) SonarQube
8 14 (6.01%) DbUnit
9 13 (5.58%) jMock
10 11 (4.72%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (3.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.58%) Postman
12 6 (2.58%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (2.15%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket
14 4 (1.72%) Flyway
15 3 (1.29%) Artifactory
15 3 (1.29%) git-flow
15 3 (1.29%) Gradle
General
1 60 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.89%) Public Sector
3 34 (14.59%) Finance
4 27 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.15%) Banking
6 9 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.58%) Legal
8 5 (2.15%) Front Office
9 3 (1.29%) Back Office
9 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.86%) Law
10 2 (0.86%) Local Government
10 2 (0.86%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Games
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (17.17%) Developer
2 36 (15.45%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (15.02%) Senior
4 30 (12.88%) Data Engineer
5 27 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (10.73%) Architect
7 24 (10.30%) Java Developer
8 20 (8.58%) Lead
9 18 (7.73%) DBA
10 15 (6.44%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (5.58%) AWS Architect
11 13 (5.58%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (5.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.15%) Senior Developer
13 10 (4.29%) Analyst
13 10 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (4.29%) Technical Leader
14 9 (3.86%) SQL DBA
14 9 (3.86%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.86%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (16.74%) Spring
1 39 (16.74%) Spring Boot
2 34 (14.59%) React
3 33 (14.16%) REST
4 31 (13.30%) Node.js
5 28 (12.02%) AngularJS
5 28 (12.02%) RESTful
6 24 (10.30%) SOAP
7 21 (9.01%) ActiveMQ
8 20 (8.58%) Kafka
9 19 (8.15%) Hibernate
9 19 (8.15%) JPA
9 19 (8.15%) Web Services
10 18 (7.73%) Spring Batch
10 18 (7.73%) Spring Integration
11 17 (7.30%) Spring Cloud
12 14 (6.01%) GraphQL
13 13 (5.58%) PowerMock
14 12 (5.15%) FastAPI
15 11 (4.72%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 56 (24.03%) Cloud Native
2 28 (12.02%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.72%) Replication
5 8 (3.43%) NHS
5 8 (3.43%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.58%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.58%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.15%) Clustering
8 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.72%) PKI
9 3 (1.29%) Derivative
9 3 (1.29%) Equities
9 3 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.18%) Linux
2 19 (8.15%) Windows
3 13 (5.58%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.43%) Unix
5 7 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.15%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.29%) AIX
7 3 (1.29%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.43%) CentOS
8 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (53.65%) CI/CD
2 110 (47.21%) Agile
3 100 (42.92%) DevOps
4 67 (28.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (22.75%) Microservices
6 50 (21.46%) Containerisation
7 40 (17.17%) Performance Tuning
8 39 (16.74%) Scrum
9 34 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (14.16%) ETL
11 31 (13.30%) Observability
11 31 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (12.45%) Data Modelling
12 29 (12.45%) Kanban
12 29 (12.45%) Migration
12 29 (12.45%) TDD
13 28 (12.02%) Test Automation
14 26 (11.16%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (10.30%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 93 (39.91%) Python
2 78 (33.48%) SQL
3 70 (30.04%) Java
4 22 (9.44%) Bash
4 22 (9.44%) TypeScript
5 21 (9.01%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.01%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.86%) Groovy
7 9 (3.86%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.58%) C#
9 5 (2.15%) Perl
10 4 (1.72%) Scala
10 4 (1.72%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.29%) Go
12 2 (0.86%) Ruby
13 1 (0.43%) Bicep
13 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (42.49%) Security Cleared
2 85 (36.48%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.59%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.87%) Degree
5 11 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.86%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.43%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.86%) PMP
12 1 (0.43%) CISM
12 1 (0.43%) CISSP
12 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.00%) PMO
3 5 (2.15%) QA
4 4 (1.72%) SLA
5 3 (1.29%) HL7
5 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.29%) NIST
6 2 (0.86%) GDPR
6 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 83 (35.62%) Docker
2 12 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.72%) Postfix
4 6 (2.58%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.72%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.72%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 85 (36.48%) Terraform
2 52 (22.32%) Kubernetes
3 47 (20.17%) Grafana
4 31 (13.30%) Prometheus
5 22 (9.44%) Ansible
6 6 (2.58%) Argo
7 5 (2.15%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.15%) Puppet
8 4 (1.72%) Istio
8 4 (1.72%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.72%) vMotion
9 3 (1.29%) Foglight
9 3 (1.29%) Kibana
9 3 (1.29%) Nagios
9 3 (1.29%) Rancher
10 2 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.86%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.43%) Consul
11 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (11.59%) ServiceNow
2 24 (10.30%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.15%) Oracle
4 17 (7.30%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (6.44%) Atlassian
6 13 (5.58%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.86%) Informatica
8 8 (3.43%) Databricks
8 8 (3.43%) VMware
9 7 (3.00%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.58%) Denodo
11 5 (2.15%) Amplitude
11 5 (2.15%) Citrix
11 5 (2.15%) Google
11 5 (2.15%) Splunk
11 5 (2.15%) Talend
12 4 (1.72%) AVEVA
12 4 (1.72%) Brio
12 4 (1.72%) HP
12 4 (1.72%) Symantec
76 Amazon RDS jobs in England