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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 281 355
Rank change year-on-year -95 +74 -28
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 235 200 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.82% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.65% 4.32% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 144 140
10th Percentile £386 £414 £381
25th Percentile £417 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £507
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.48% -15.50%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £664
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 6,439 4,626 6,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 18.98% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,379 3,196 4,561
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 91 140
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.91 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -32.54%
75th Percentile £73.88 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.77% -14.53% -33.33%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -62 135 £523 -9.13% 23
Midlands -33 51 £469 -1.26% 8
West Midlands -37 44 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -57 27 £419 -19.24% 17
Yorkshire -49 14 £400 -20.00% 5
South West -27 11 £580 +6.91% 15
South East -65 10 £459 -20.17% 12
North West -34 9 £445 -18.12% 9
East Midlands -23 6 £519 +66.88% 2
North East - 4 £425 - 3
East of England -34 2 - - 1
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 25 (10.64%) Confluence
2 6 (2.55%) SAS
3 5 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 229 (97.45%) AWS
2 147 (62.55%) Amazon S3
3 122 (51.91%) AWS Lambda
3 122 (51.91%) Serverless
4 110 (46.81%) Amazon EC2
5 85 (36.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 61 (25.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 58 (24.68%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (22.98%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (19.15%) Azure
10 41 (17.45%) GitHub
11 37 (15.74%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (14.04%) Route 53
13 32 (13.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (12.34%) AWS KMS
15 25 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (7.23%) Power Platform
17 16 (6.81%) AWS Fargate
18 15 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
19 12 (5.11%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.68%) DNS
2 8 (3.40%) Firewall
3 7 (2.98%) VPN
4 6 (2.55%) DHCP
5 4 (1.70%) Network Security
6 3 (1.28%) SMTP
6 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.85%) HTTP
7 2 (0.85%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.43%) AMQP
8 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.43%) LAN
8 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) SSL
8 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.23%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (26.38%) DynamoDB
3 48 (20.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 21 (8.94%) MySQL
5 17 (7.23%) Power BI
6 16 (6.81%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (6.81%) SQL Server
7 14 (5.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (5.96%) MongoDB
7 14 (5.96%) NoSQL
8 13 (5.53%) Pentaho
9 10 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.83%) Redis
10 9 (3.83%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.83%) Tableau
11 8 (3.40%) Big Data
11 8 (3.40%) Data Lake
12 6 (2.55%) Oracle Database
13 5 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 76 (32.34%) Jenkins
2 58 (24.68%) Git
3 36 (15.32%) GitLab
4 30 (12.77%) JIRA
5 27 (11.49%) JUnit
6 23 (9.79%) Mockito
7 22 (9.36%) Maven
8 21 (8.94%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.96%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.53%) jMock
11 11 (4.68%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.55%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.55%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (2.13%) git-flow
13 5 (2.13%) Postman
13 5 (2.13%) Snyk
14 4 (1.70%) Flyway
14 4 (1.70%) Oracle APEX
15 3 (1.28%) Gradle
General
1 56 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.70%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.64%) Finance
5 14 (5.96%) Banking
6 11 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.98%) Legal
8 6 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Front Office
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Local Government
12 1 (0.43%) Games
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Military
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (20.85%) Developer
2 37 (15.74%) AWS Engineer
3 36 (15.32%) Senior
4 27 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (10.64%) Data Engineer
5 25 (10.64%) Java Developer
6 22 (9.36%) DBA
7 20 (8.51%) Architect
8 18 (7.66%) Software Engineer
9 16 (6.81%) Lead
10 15 (6.38%) AWS Architect
10 15 (6.38%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.96%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (5.11%) AWS Developer
12 12 (5.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.11%) Python Developer
13 11 (4.68%) Analyst
14 10 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
14 10 (4.26%) Oracle DBA
14 10 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (18.72%) Spring
1 44 (18.72%) Spring Boot
2 35 (14.89%) React
3 34 (14.47%) REST
3 34 (14.47%) RESTful
4 31 (13.19%) Node.js
5 30 (12.77%) AngularJS
6 26 (11.06%) Kafka
7 23 (9.79%) Hibernate
7 23 (9.79%) JPA
7 23 (9.79%) SOAP
8 21 (8.94%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (8.09%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (8.09%) Web Services
10 18 (7.66%) Spring Batch
10 18 (7.66%) Spring Integration
11 14 (5.96%) GraphQL
12 13 (5.53%) FastAPI
12 13 (5.53%) PowerMock
13 11 (4.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 57 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 29 (12.34%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.83%) Replication
5 7 (2.98%) NHS
5 7 (2.98%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.70%) Clustering
7 4 (1.70%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.28%) PKI
9 2 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.43%) Linux
2 11 (4.68%) Windows
3 8 (3.40%) Unix
3 8 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.70%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (54.89%) CI/CD
2 109 (46.38%) Agile
3 99 (42.13%) DevOps
4 68 (28.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (25.96%) Microservices
6 58 (24.68%) Containerisation
7 44 (18.72%) Scrum
8 41 (17.45%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (14.04%) ETL
10 32 (13.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (13.62%) TDD
11 31 (13.19%) Observability
11 31 (13.19%) Software Engineering
12 29 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (11.91%) Kanban
14 27 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (11.06%) Event-Driven
15 26 (11.06%) Migration
16 24 (10.21%) Test Automation
17 23 (9.79%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 93 (39.57%) SQL
2 84 (35.74%) Python
3 80 (34.04%) Java
4 19 (8.09%) Bash
4 19 (8.09%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.66%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.81%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.11%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.40%) Groovy
8 8 (3.40%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.98%) C#
10 5 (2.13%) Go
10 5 (2.13%) Scala
10 5 (2.13%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.70%) Perl
12 2 (0.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 108 (45.96%) Security Cleared
2 90 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.91%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.96%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.53%) Degree
6 11 (4.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (3.83%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.85%) PMP
13 1 (0.43%) CEH
13 1 (0.43%) CISSP
13 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.43%) OCP
13 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.83%) Data Quality
1 9 (3.83%) NIST
1 9 (3.83%) QA
2 8 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.98%) PMO
4 6 (2.55%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.70%) GDPR
5 4 (1.70%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) HL7
6 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 95 (40.43%) Docker
2 11 (4.68%) Postfix
3 8 (3.40%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.70%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.28%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.28%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.28%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.43%) HDFS
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 89 (37.87%) Terraform
2 63 (26.81%) Kubernetes
3 48 (20.43%) Grafana
4 31 (13.19%) Prometheus
5 18 (7.66%) Ansible
6 7 (2.98%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.55%) Argo
7 6 (2.55%) Data Guard
8 5 (2.13%) Puppet
9 4 (1.70%) Istio
10 3 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.28%) Foglight
10 3 (1.28%) Kibana
10 3 (1.28%) Rancher
10 3 (1.28%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.28%) vMotion
11 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.85%) Nagios
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.85%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 31 (13.19%) Oracle
2 22 (9.36%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.23%) Jaspersoft
4 16 (6.81%) Microsoft
5 15 (6.38%) Atlassian
6 12 (5.11%) Dynatrace
6 12 (5.11%) Informatica
7 9 (3.83%) Talend
8 8 (3.40%) Databricks
9 6 (2.55%) Denodo
10 5 (2.13%) Splunk
10 5 (2.13%) Sybase
11 4 (1.70%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.70%) Brio
11 4 (1.70%) Citrix
11 4 (1.70%) Google
11 4 (1.70%) Qualys
11 4 (1.70%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.70%) Tenable
11 4 (1.70%) VMware
72 Amazon RDS jobs in England