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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 296 368
Rank change year-on-year -114 +72 -13
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 230 225 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.82% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.31% 4.55% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 163 116
10th Percentile £390 £413 £411
25th Percentile £431 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -2.42% -6.43%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £609
90th Percentile £760 £652 £694
UK median daily rate £527 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +0.38% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £70.60 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £74.13 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 6,955 4,948 6,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 17.94% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,636 3,408 4,285
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £702 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 80 91
10th Percentile £14.96 £21.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.62 £29.05 £19.92
Median hourly rate £38.38 £38.23 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +12.67% -38.31%
75th Percentile £62.44 £65.00 £58.73
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.88 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%

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 1 September 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
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 September 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 -63 143 £550 -6.38% 116
North of England -52 33 £481 -3.75% 32
Midlands -71 26 £469 -1.26% 14
West Midlands -64 23 £469 -1.26% 5
Yorkshire -22 19 £500 - 8
South West -37 10 £542 -0.14% 17
South East -71 8 £460 -20.00% 19
North East -40 7 £425 -2.86% 12
North West -58 7 £525 -4.55% 12
East of England -28 4 £348 -36.82% 11
East Midlands -17 2 £449 +18.16% 9
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 20 (8.70%) Confluence
2 14 (6.09%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.04%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.61%) Apache
4 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.61%) SAS
5 3 (1.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.30%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.87%) Camunda
6 2 (0.87%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 219 (95.22%) AWS
2 154 (66.96%) Amazon S3
3 121 (52.61%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (52.17%) Serverless
5 92 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
6 86 (37.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 66 (28.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 58 (25.22%) Amazon ECS
9 53 (23.04%) Amazon EKS
10 49 (21.30%) Azure
11 37 (16.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (13.04%) AWS KMS
13 29 (12.61%) GitHub
14 27 (11.74%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (8.70%) Route 53
16 19 (8.26%) GCP
16 19 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (6.96%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (6.52%) Snowflake
19 12 (5.22%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.96%) Firewall
2 11 (4.78%) DNS
3 7 (3.04%) DHCP
4 6 (2.61%) SMTP
4 6 (2.61%) VPN
5 4 (1.74%) HTTP
5 4 (1.74%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.74%) Network Security
5 4 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.87%) FTP
6 2 (0.87%) IMAP
6 2 (0.87%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.87%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.87%) SSH
6 2 (0.87%) SSL
7 1 (0.43%) AMQP
7 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (30.87%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (23.48%) Amazon Aurora
3 48 (20.87%) DynamoDB
4 24 (10.43%) SQL Server
5 20 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (8.70%) MySQL
6 19 (8.26%) MongoDB
7 18 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (7.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (6.09%) Redis
10 13 (5.65%) Data Lake
10 13 (5.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (5.22%) Big Data
11 12 (5.22%) Power BI
12 8 (3.48%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.48%) Relational Database
13 7 (3.04%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (3.04%) Pentaho
14 5 (2.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 60 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 41 (17.83%) Git
3 39 (16.96%) GitLab
4 26 (11.30%) JIRA
5 12 (5.22%) JUnit
5 12 (5.22%) Mockito
5 12 (5.22%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.91%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.91%) Maven
7 8 (3.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (3.04%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.61%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (2.61%) jMock
9 6 (2.61%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.74%) Postman
11 3 (1.30%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.30%) Flyway
11 3 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.87%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.61%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.48%) Finance
4 25 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.70%) Banking
6 7 (3.04%) Front Office
6 7 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.61%) Back Office
7 6 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.17%) Legal
9 3 (1.30%) Billing
9 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
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%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (20.87%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (15.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (15.65%) Senior
3 35 (15.22%) Data Engineer
4 33 (14.35%) Architect
5 32 (13.91%) Developer
6 28 (12.17%) DBA
7 23 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
8 20 (8.70%) Lead
9 19 (8.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 17 (7.39%) AWS Architect
11 15 (6.52%) Administrator
11 15 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
11 15 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (5.65%) Java Developer
12 13 (5.65%) Technical Leader
13 10 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (4.35%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (48.26%) Terraform
2 31 (13.48%) React
3 24 (10.43%) REST
4 23 (10.00%) Spring
4 23 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 21 (9.13%) Node.js
6 20 (8.70%) AngularJS
7 19 (8.26%) RESTful
8 17 (7.39%) Kafka
9 15 (6.52%) FastAPI
10 12 (5.22%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (5.22%) SOAP
11 10 (4.35%) JSON
12 9 (3.91%) Hibernate
12 9 (3.91%) JPA
12 9 (3.91%) Spring Batch
12 9 (3.91%) Spring Integration
12 9 (3.91%) Web Services
13 8 (3.48%) AWS CDK
14 7 (3.04%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 57 (24.78%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.87%) Replication
3 21 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.96%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.35%) NHS
6 8 (3.48%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.04%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.04%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.61%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.61%) PKI
9 5 (2.17%) Clustering
10 4 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.74%) Reinsurance
11 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.30%) Derivative
11 3 (1.30%) Equities
11 3 (1.30%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.87%) Linux
2 20 (8.70%) Windows
3 13 (5.65%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.91%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.61%) Unix
7 4 (1.74%) AIX
7 4 (1.74%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.30%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.43%) CentOS
9 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.43%) VMS
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 110 (47.83%) DevOps
3 100 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (40.00%) Agile
5 48 (20.87%) Performance Tuning
6 44 (19.13%) Data Modelling
7 43 (18.70%) Containerisation
7 43 (18.70%) Microservices
8 42 (18.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 40 (17.39%) Observability
10 38 (16.52%) High Availability
11 35 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (14.35%) Migration
14 30 (13.04%) ETL
15 29 (12.61%) Event-Driven
16 28 (12.17%) Data Integration
16 28 (12.17%) Disaster Recovery
16 28 (12.17%) Scrum
16 28 (12.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 106 (46.09%) Python
2 77 (33.48%) SQL
3 57 (24.78%) Java
4 25 (10.87%) TypeScript
5 23 (10.00%) Bash
6 22 (9.57%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.09%) Groovy
8 11 (4.78%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.04%) Perl
10 6 (2.61%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.17%) Scala
12 4 (1.74%) C#
13 3 (1.30%) Go
13 3 (1.30%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.87%) Ruby
15 1 (0.43%) Bicep
15 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 97 (42.17%) Security Cleared
2 81 (35.22%) SC Cleared
3 41 (17.83%) AWS Certification
4 26 (11.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (6.96%) Degree
6 11 (4.78%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.35%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.61%) CISM
8 6 (2.61%) CISSP
8 6 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.87%) PMP
12 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.04%) NIST
3 5 (2.17%) QA
4 3 (1.30%) HL7
4 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.30%) PMO
4 3 (1.30%) SLA
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 76 (33.04%) Docker
2 14 (6.09%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.04%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.87%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.87%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.87%) Squid
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (24.78%) Kubernetes
2 46 (20.00%) Grafana
3 35 (15.22%) Prometheus
4 22 (9.57%) Ansible
5 9 (3.91%) Istio
6 7 (3.04%) Argo
7 6 (2.61%) Kibana
8 5 (2.17%) Puppet
9 4 (1.74%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.74%) vMotion
10 3 (1.30%) Nagios
10 3 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.30%) Rancher
11 2 (0.87%) Consul
11 2 (0.87%) Foglight
11 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.87%) Nessus
11 2 (0.87%) Packer
11 2 (0.87%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.13%) ServiceNow
3 16 (6.96%) Oracle
4 14 (6.09%) Dynatrace
5 10 (4.35%) Databricks
5 10 (4.35%) Informatica
5 10 (4.35%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (3.91%) VMware
7 8 (3.48%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.04%) Google
8 7 (3.04%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.61%) Denodo
9 6 (2.61%) Splunk
9 6 (2.61%) Talend
10 5 (2.17%) Amplitude
10 5 (2.17%) Citrix
11 4 (1.74%) Brio
11 4 (1.74%) Cisco
11 4 (1.74%) HP
11 4 (1.74%) Symantec