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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 289 375
Rank change year-on-year -114 +86 -14
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 221 222 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.81% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.21% 4.43% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 166 116
10th Percentile £391 £400 £409
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £536
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -0.51% -10.63%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £730 £653 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £541 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £80.25 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -
75th Percentile £73.50 £85.63 -
90th Percentile £73.80 £86.75 -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -12.73% - -

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 6,883 5,011 6,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.35% 18.22% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,604 3,470 4,436
10th Percentile £356 £344 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £701 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 78 93
10th Percentile £16.07 £18.67 £13.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.58 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.24% -10.19% -30.00%
75th Percentile £63.31 £63.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £76.95 £77.86 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -31.82%

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 29 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
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 29 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 -67 124 £550 -5.17% 32
Midlands -47 47 £475 - 5
West Midlands -49 40 £469 -1.26% 3
North of England -58 29 £500 -3.57% 19
Yorkshire -29 19 £500 - 4
South West -37 9 £538 -7.92% 9
South East -76 9 £440 -23.57% 16
East Midlands -11 6 £519 +36.58% 2
North West -52 6 £600 +9.09% 7
North East -43 4 £425 -5.56% 8
East of England -24 3 £350 -36.36% 3
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 (11.76%) Confluence
2 7 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.71%) SAS
4 4 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.90%) Apache
7 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 211 (95.48%) AWS
2 149 (67.42%) Amazon S3
3 117 (52.94%) AWS Lambda
4 116 (52.49%) Serverless
5 100 (45.25%) Amazon EC2
6 83 (37.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 59 (26.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 52 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (22.62%) Azure
10 47 (21.27%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (16.29%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (14.93%) GitHub
13 32 (14.48%) AWS KMS
14 25 (11.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (11.31%) Route 53
15 20 (9.05%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (8.14%) Power Platform
17 15 (6.79%) GCP
18 13 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
19 12 (5.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.43%) Firewall
2 8 (3.62%) DNS
3 7 (3.17%) DHCP
4 6 (2.71%) VPN
5 4 (1.81%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.81%) Network Security
5 4 (1.81%) SMTP
6 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.90%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.45%) AMQP
8 1 (0.45%) HTTP
8 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (27.60%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (25.34%) DynamoDB
3 43 (19.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 19 (8.60%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (8.14%) Power BI
6 14 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (5.88%) SQL Server
8 12 (5.43%) Big Data
9 11 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (4.52%) Data Lake
10 10 (4.52%) MySQL
10 10 (4.52%) Pentaho
10 10 (4.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (4.07%) Tableau
12 8 (3.62%) MongoDB
12 8 (3.62%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.62%) Relational Database
13 7 (3.17%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (2.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 61 (27.60%) Jenkins
2 55 (24.89%) Git
3 32 (14.48%) JIRA
4 31 (14.03%) GitLab
5 25 (11.31%) JUnit
6 23 (10.41%) Mockito
7 21 (9.50%) SonarQube
8 19 (8.60%) Maven
9 14 (6.33%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.88%) jMock
11 11 (4.98%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (3.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.71%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (2.26%) Postman
15 4 (1.81%) Bitbucket
15 4 (1.81%) Cucumber
15 4 (1.81%) Flyway
16 3 (1.36%) Artifactory
17 2 (0.90%) git-flow
17 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.62%) Public Sector
3 33 (14.93%) Finance
4 28 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.60%) Banking
6 9 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.71%) Front Office
7 6 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.71%) Legal
8 4 (1.81%) Back Office
9 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.90%) Law
10 2 (0.90%) Local Government
10 2 (0.90%) Marketing
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (18.10%) Developer
2 36 (16.29%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (14.03%) Data Engineer
4 29 (13.12%) Senior
5 27 (12.22%) Architect
6 25 (11.31%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (10.86%) Java Developer
8 20 (9.05%) Lead
9 17 (7.69%) DBA
10 15 (6.79%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (6.33%) AWS Architect
12 12 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (5.43%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.98%) Technical Leader
14 10 (4.52%) Analyst
14 10 (4.52%) Delivery Manager
15 9 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (4.07%) Technical Architect
15 9 (4.07%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.93%) REST
1 33 (14.93%) Spring
1 33 (14.93%) Spring Boot
2 30 (13.57%) Node.js
2 30 (13.57%) React
3 28 (12.67%) AngularJS
3 28 (12.67%) RESTful
4 23 (10.41%) SOAP
5 21 (9.50%) ActiveMQ
6 19 (8.60%) Hibernate
6 19 (8.60%) JPA
6 19 (8.60%) Web Services
7 18 (8.14%) Kafka
7 18 (8.14%) Spring Batch
7 18 (8.14%) Spring Integration
8 17 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (5.88%) FastAPI
9 13 (5.88%) PowerMock
10 11 (4.98%) Bootstrap
11 10 (4.52%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.22%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.98%) Replication
5 8 (3.62%) NHS
5 8 (3.62%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.71%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.71%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.26%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.26%) Clustering
8 4 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.81%) PKI
9 3 (1.36%) Derivative
9 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.36%) Equities
9 3 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.62%) Linux
2 19 (8.60%) Windows
3 13 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.62%) Unix
5 7 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.26%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.81%) AIX
8 3 (1.36%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.45%) CentOS
9 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (52.49%) CI/CD
2 108 (48.87%) Agile
3 94 (42.53%) DevOps
4 64 (28.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (22.62%) Microservices
6 47 (21.27%) Containerisation
7 38 (17.19%) Scrum
8 37 (16.74%) Performance Tuning
9 35 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (15.38%) ETL
11 32 (14.48%) Observability
12 31 (14.03%) Data Modelling
12 31 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (13.12%) Kanban
13 29 (13.12%) TDD
14 28 (12.67%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (12.67%) Migration
15 25 (11.31%) High Availability
15 25 (11.31%) Test Automation
16 24 (10.86%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 95 (42.99%) Python
2 76 (34.39%) SQL
3 64 (28.96%) Java
4 25 (11.31%) Bash
5 23 (10.41%) TypeScript
6 20 (9.05%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.33%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.07%) Groovy
9 6 (2.71%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.26%) C#
10 5 (2.26%) Perl
11 4 (1.81%) Scala
11 4 (1.81%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.36%) Go
13 2 (0.90%) Ruby
14 1 (0.45%) Bicep
14 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (43.89%) Security Cleared
2 82 (37.10%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.67%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.24%) Degree
5 13 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.07%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.07%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.90%) CISM
10 2 (0.90%) CISSP
10 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.45%) PMP
11 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.17%) PMO
3 5 (2.26%) QA
4 4 (1.81%) NIST
4 4 (1.81%) SLA
5 3 (1.36%) HL7
5 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) GDPR
6 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) NCSC
7 1 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 73 (33.03%) Docker
2 12 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.98%) Postfix
4 6 (2.71%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.81%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.81%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.81%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.81%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 79 (35.75%) Terraform
2 52 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 46 (20.81%) Grafana
4 28 (12.67%) Prometheus
5 19 (8.60%) Ansible
6 8 (3.62%) Argo
7 6 (2.71%) Istio
8 5 (2.26%) Puppet
9 4 (1.81%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.81%) vMotion
10 3 (1.36%) Foglight
10 3 (1.36%) Kibana
10 3 (1.36%) Nagios
10 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.36%) Rancher
11 2 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.90%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.45%) Consul
12 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (12.22%) ServiceNow
2 23 (10.41%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.60%) Oracle
4 17 (7.69%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (6.79%) Atlassian
6 13 (5.88%) Dynatrace
7 10 (4.52%) Informatica
8 9 (4.07%) VMware
9 8 (3.62%) Databricks
10 7 (3.17%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.71%) Denodo
11 6 (2.71%) Talend
12 5 (2.26%) Amplitude
12 5 (2.26%) Citrix
12 5 (2.26%) Google
12 5 (2.26%) Splunk
13 4 (1.81%) Brio
13 4 (1.81%) Cisco
13 4 (1.81%) HP
13 4 (1.81%) Symantec