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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 314 369
Rank change year-on-year -27 +55 -53
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 233 170 199
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.66% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.12% 3.54% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 111 149
10th Percentile £368 £413 £404
25th Percentile £422 £466 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £575 £651 £613
90th Percentile £626 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -4.56% +2.29% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £71.65 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 5,657 4,807 6,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.19% 18.59% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,931 3,255 4,386
10th Percentile £341 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.47% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £660
90th Percentile £700 £779 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 84 159
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.83
25th Percentile £27.06 £25.19 £21.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £41.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -3.53% -25.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.63 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £38.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.58% -9.87% -24.01%

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 21 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 6 months to 21 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 6 months to 21 February 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 -40 120 £513 -10.87% 32
Midlands -22 47 £500 -5.48% 14
West Midlands -26 41 £500 -5.48% 13
North of England -44 28 £500 -4.76% 20
South East -15 20 £447 -0.67% 18
North West -26 13 £394 +5.00% 10
Yorkshire -52 11 £518 -11.91% 8
South West -15 10 £538 -10.54% 8
East Midlands -20 6 £383 -13.66% 1
North East -18 4 £500 - 2
East of England -21 3 £538 +8.86% 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 24 (10.30%) Confluence
2 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.72%) nginx
3 3 (1.29%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.72%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 233 (100.00%) AWS
2 151 (64.81%) Amazon S3
3 134 (57.51%) Amazon EC2
4 118 (50.64%) Serverless
5 117 (50.21%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (35.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 74 (31.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 68 (29.18%) Amazon ECS
9 65 (27.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 59 (25.32%) Amazon EKS
10 59 (25.32%) GitHub
11 44 (18.88%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (15.88%) Azure
13 30 (12.88%) Route 53
14 22 (9.44%) AWS Fargate
15 21 (9.01%) AWS KMS
16 20 (8.58%) Amazon Kinesis
17 19 (8.15%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (7.30%) Datadog
19 16 (6.87%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.15%) DNS
2 17 (7.30%) Firewall
3 8 (3.43%) HTTP
3 8 (3.43%) VPN
4 6 (2.58%) FTP
4 6 (2.58%) SMTP
4 6 (2.58%) SSH
5 4 (1.72%) IMAP
5 4 (1.72%) Network Security
5 4 (1.72%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.29%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.43%) Internet
7 1 (0.43%) LAN
7 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (26.18%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (20.17%) DynamoDB
3 34 (14.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 33 (14.16%) MySQL
5 22 (9.44%) NoSQL
5 22 (9.44%) SQL Server
6 21 (9.01%) MongoDB
6 21 (9.01%) Relational Database
7 18 (7.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (4.72%) Oracle Database
9 10 (4.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (4.29%) Hadoop
9 10 (4.29%) Redis
10 9 (3.86%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (3.86%) Power BI
11 7 (3.00%) DB2
12 6 (2.58%) Couchbase
12 6 (2.58%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (39.91%) Jenkins
2 60 (25.75%) Git
3 44 (18.88%) GitLab
4 27 (11.59%) JIRA
5 17 (7.30%) JUnit
6 14 (6.01%) Maven
7 9 (3.86%) Mockito
8 8 (3.43%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.58%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.58%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.58%) jMock
9 6 (2.58%) Vagrant
10 5 (2.15%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.15%) Snyk
11 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.72%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.29%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.29%) git-flow
12 3 (1.29%) Gradle
General
1 62 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.74%) Public Sector
3 33 (14.16%) Finance
4 22 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.44%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.86%) Banking
7 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.72%) Legal
8 3 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.86%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (18.03%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (15.02%) Developer
4 31 (13.30%) Senior
5 24 (10.30%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (9.44%) Software Engineer
7 21 (9.01%) Site Engineer
8 20 (8.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 19 (8.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 19 (8.15%) DBA
9 19 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (7.73%) Data Engineer
10 18 (7.73%) Java Developer
10 18 (7.73%) Lead
11 14 (6.01%) AWS Developer
11 14 (6.01%) Oracle DBA
12 12 (5.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (5.15%) Java Engineer
13 11 (4.72%) Architect
14 10 (4.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.03%) Kafka
2 31 (13.30%) Spring
3 30 (12.88%) Spring Boot
4 28 (12.02%) RESTful
5 25 (10.73%) Node.js
6 23 (9.87%) React
7 20 (8.58%) REST
8 13 (5.58%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (5.15%) AngularJS
9 12 (5.15%) Hibernate
9 12 (5.15%) JPA
9 12 (5.15%) Spring Cloud
10 11 (4.72%) CSS
11 10 (4.29%) FastAPI
11 10 (4.29%) SOAP
12 9 (3.86%) Django
12 9 (3.86%) Spring Batch
13 8 (3.43%) ActiveMQ
13 8 (3.43%) Flask
13 8 (3.43%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.74%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (10.73%) Replication
4 7 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.58%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.58%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.15%) Clustering
7 4 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.29%) NHS
8 3 (1.29%) PKI
9 2 (0.86%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.86%) Derivative
9 2 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.86%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.43%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 71 (30.47%) Linux
2 13 (5.58%) Unix
3 10 (4.29%) Windows
4 9 (3.86%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (3.00%) VMS
6 6 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.72%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.29%) CentOS
8 3 (1.29%) Solaris
9 2 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (63.09%) CI/CD
2 105 (45.06%) DevOps
3 90 (38.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (35.19%) Agile
5 70 (30.04%) Containerisation
6 52 (22.32%) Microservices
7 44 (18.88%) Performance Tuning
8 39 (16.74%) Configuration Management
9 37 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (15.45%) Observability
10 36 (15.45%) Software Engineering
11 34 (14.59%) Migration
12 31 (13.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 26 (11.16%) ETL
13 26 (11.16%) Event-Driven
13 26 (11.16%) High Availability
14 23 (9.87%) Cost Optimisation
14 23 (9.87%) TDD
15 21 (9.01%) Cloud Security
15 21 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 105 (45.06%) Python
2 93 (39.91%) SQL
3 63 (27.04%) Java
4 38 (16.31%) Bash
5 26 (11.16%) Shell Script
6 23 (9.87%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.30%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.58%) Go
9 11 (4.72%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.29%) Groovy
11 8 (3.43%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.58%) JSX
12 6 (2.58%) Perl
13 5 (2.15%) C#
13 5 (2.15%) Ruby
14 2 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.43%) Bicep
15 1 (0.43%) PHP
15 1 (0.43%) R
15 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 91 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 77 (33.05%) SC Cleared
3 41 (17.60%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.01%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.15%) Degree
6 9 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.15%) OCP
8 5 (2.15%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) CEH
11 1 (0.43%) CISSP
11 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.43%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (4.72%) NIST
2 10 (4.29%) QA
3 8 (3.43%) GDPR
4 5 (2.15%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.72%) NCSC
5 4 (1.72%) PMO
6 3 (1.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.43%) GxP
System Software
1 103 (44.21%) Docker
2 9 (3.86%) Postfix
3 6 (2.58%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.72%) Dovecot
4 4 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (1.72%) Squid
4 4 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.29%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.29%) NFS
5 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 114 (48.93%) Terraform
2 70 (30.04%) Kubernetes
3 52 (22.32%) Grafana
4 37 (15.88%) Ansible
4 37 (15.88%) Prometheus
5 20 (8.58%) Progress Chef
6 15 (6.44%) Puppet
7 8 (3.43%) Data Guard
8 6 (2.58%) Packer
9 4 (1.72%) Argo
9 4 (1.72%) Kibana
9 4 (1.72%) Nessus
9 4 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.72%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.29%) Rancher
11 2 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.86%) systemd
Vendors
1 32 (13.73%) Oracle
2 20 (8.58%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.44%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.72%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (4.29%) PagerDuty
6 9 (3.86%) Splunk
7 8 (3.43%) Sybase
8 7 (3.00%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.00%) Confluent
8 7 (3.00%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.00%) Talend
9 6 (2.58%) IBM
10 5 (2.15%) Informatica
11 4 (1.72%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.72%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.72%) Qualys
11 4 (1.72%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.72%) Tenable
12 3 (1.29%) Databricks
12 3 (1.29%) Okta
83 Amazon RDS jobs in England