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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 376 346
Rank change year-on-year +85 -30 +39
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 222 158 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.80% 0.48% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.43% 2.65% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 107 203
10th Percentile £408 £409 £420
25th Percentile £463 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -6.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £617 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.04%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,007 5,962 7,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.03% 18.24% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,442 4,132 4,995
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £543
% change year-on-year -6.54% -1.43% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 80 143
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £30.55 £21.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £42.00 £36.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -34.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.85 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -36.36% +22.66%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +36 121 £600 +11.52% 64
Midlands +26 45 £475 +11.76% 1
West Midlands +24 40 £475 +5.56% 1
South East +40 21 £575 -3.36% 32
North of England -15 19 £513 +5.67% 8
North West -11 11 £550 +22.91% 4
East of England +13 10 £550 -12.00% 2
South West +24 8 £543 -9.58% 14
Yorkshire -19 6 £500 -1.38% 2
East Midlands -1 5 £380 -10.59%
North East - 2 £438 - 2
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (13.51%) Confluence
2 12 (5.41%) nginx
3 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.60%) Apache
5 7 (3.15%) IIS
5 7 (3.15%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.45%) CICS
8 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (5.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.15%) Maximo
2 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 211 (95.05%) AWS
2 134 (60.36%) Amazon S3
3 106 (47.75%) Amazon EC2
3 106 (47.75%) Serverless
4 104 (46.85%) AWS Lambda
5 72 (32.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 67 (30.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (23.42%) Amazon ECS
8 49 (22.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 44 (19.82%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (19.37%) GitHub
11 37 (16.67%) AWS KMS
12 35 (15.77%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (14.41%) Azure
13 32 (14.41%) Route 53
14 25 (11.26%) Amazon ELB
14 25 (11.26%) AWS Step Functions
15 23 (10.36%) GCP
16 20 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (7.21%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 49 (22.07%) DNS
2 36 (16.22%) Firewall
3 33 (14.86%) SMTP
4 28 (12.61%) HTTP
5 22 (9.91%) FTP
5 22 (9.91%) SSH
6 19 (8.56%) VPN
7 13 (5.86%) DHCP
8 12 (5.41%) IMAP
8 12 (5.41%) OpenLDAP
8 12 (5.41%) TCP/IP
9 6 (2.70%) Internet
10 4 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.35%) SSL
12 2 (0.90%) Network Security
13 1 (0.45%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.45%) LAN
13 1 (0.45%) SMS
13 1 (0.45%) VLAN
13 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (32.88%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (22.52%) Amazon Aurora
3 45 (20.27%) DynamoDB
4 22 (9.91%) NoSQL
5 20 (9.01%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (8.56%) MySQL
7 18 (8.11%) SQL Server
8 16 (7.21%) Relational Database
9 11 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (4.95%) Big Data
10 10 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (3.60%) DB2
11 8 (3.60%) Redis
12 7 (3.15%) BigQuery
12 7 (3.15%) Metadata
13 6 (2.70%) RDBMS
14 5 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (2.25%) Couchbase
14 5 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 81 (36.49%) Jenkins
2 59 (26.58%) Git
3 29 (13.06%) GitLab
3 29 (13.06%) JIRA
4 24 (10.81%) Vagrant
5 23 (10.36%) Maven
6 18 (8.11%) SonarQube
7 16 (7.21%) JUnit
8 8 (3.60%) Mockito
9 6 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (2.70%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.70%) jMock
10 5 (2.25%) Gradle
10 5 (2.25%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.80%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.35%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.90%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.45%) Storybook
General
1 75 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 64 (28.83%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.01%) Finance
5 10 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.15%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.35%) Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.45%) Aviation
9 1 (0.45%) Billing
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Police
9 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (24.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (23.87%) AWS Engineer
3 50 (22.52%) Developer
4 39 (17.57%) AWS DevOps
5 37 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 33 (14.86%) Architect
7 32 (14.41%) Senior
8 26 (11.71%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (9.91%) AWS Architect
10 21 (9.46%) AWS Developer
10 21 (9.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 20 (9.01%) Java Developer
12 19 (8.56%) Lead
13 14 (6.31%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 12 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (4.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.50%) Senior Developer
16 9 (4.05%) Data Engineer
16 9 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
17 8 (3.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.71%) RESTful
2 23 (10.36%) Spring
2 23 (10.36%) Spring Boot
3 21 (9.46%) Kafka
3 21 (9.46%) Node.js
4 19 (8.56%) REST
4 19 (8.56%) SOAP
5 17 (7.66%) Web Services
6 14 (6.31%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (5.41%) ActiveMQ
7 12 (5.41%) AngularJS
7 12 (5.41%) LDAP
8 11 (4.95%) Hibernate
8 11 (4.95%) JPA
9 9 (4.05%) AWS CDK
9 9 (4.05%) Bootstrap
9 9 (4.05%) Spring Batch
9 9 (4.05%) Spring Integration
10 8 (3.60%) GraphQL
10 8 (3.60%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.41%) Replication
2 21 (9.46%) Cloud Native
3 18 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.76%) PKI
5 11 (4.95%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.05%) Clustering
6 9 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.25%) N-Tier
8 5 (2.25%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.80%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (27.03%) Linux
2 47 (21.17%) Windows
3 24 (10.81%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (10.81%) VMS
4 21 (9.46%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.95%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.15%) Unix
7 4 (1.80%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.90%) CentOS
9 2 (0.90%) Solaris
10 1 (0.45%) AIX
10 1 (0.45%) Android
10 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.45%) SUSE
10 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (53.15%) DevOps
2 96 (43.24%) CI/CD
3 78 (35.14%) Containerisation
4 59 (26.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (22.97%) Agile
7 44 (19.82%) Microservices
8 39 (17.57%) Cloud Security
8 39 (17.57%) Configuration Management
9 34 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (13.51%) Change Management
10 30 (13.51%) High Availability
10 30 (13.51%) Mentoring
10 30 (13.51%) Migration
10 30 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (11.71%) Artificial Intelligence
12 25 (11.26%) TDD
13 23 (10.36%) Performance Tuning
14 22 (9.91%) Open Source
14 22 (9.91%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (45.05%) Python
2 64 (28.83%) Java
3 58 (26.13%) SQL
4 48 (21.62%) PowerShell
5 26 (11.71%) Groovy
6 23 (10.36%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.66%) Bash
8 13 (5.86%) Shell Script
9 12 (5.41%) Perl
10 9 (4.05%) TypeScript
11 7 (3.15%) C#
12 6 (2.70%) Go
13 5 (2.25%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.35%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.90%) C
15 2 (0.90%) RPG
15 2 (0.90%) RPG IV
15 2 (0.90%) Ruby
16 1 (0.45%) R
16 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 105 (47.30%) Security Cleared
2 89 (40.09%) SC Cleared
3 54 (24.32%) AWS Certification
4 35 (15.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (15.32%) Degree
6 13 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.41%) Azure Certification
7 12 (5.41%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.80%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.90%) MCSE
11 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.45%) PMP
12 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.21%) QA
2 10 (4.50%) GDPR
3 6 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.70%) NCSC
4 4 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.35%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.90%) NIST
6 2 (0.90%) SLA
6 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (44.14%) Docker
2 26 (11.71%) Active Directory
3 22 (9.91%) DFS Replication
4 18 (8.11%) Postfix
5 12 (5.41%) Dovecot
5 12 (5.41%) Squid
6 9 (4.05%) BitLocker
6 9 (4.05%) Hyper-V
6 9 (4.05%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (4.05%) Terminal Services
6 9 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.45%) NFS
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 99 (44.59%) Terraform
2 60 (27.03%) Kubernetes
3 51 (22.97%) Grafana
4 48 (21.62%) Prometheus
5 32 (14.41%) Ansible
6 24 (10.81%) Puppet
7 14 (6.31%) Progress Chef
8 12 (5.41%) Nessus
9 10 (4.50%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.50%) vCenter Server
10 9 (4.05%) Nagios
10 9 (4.05%) vMotion
11 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.90%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.90%) Packer
13 1 (0.45%) Argo
13 1 (0.45%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.45%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (12.61%) ServiceNow
2 25 (11.26%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.01%) IBM
4 18 (8.11%) Jaspersoft
5 16 (7.21%) Google
6 13 (5.86%) Oracle
7 11 (4.95%) VMware
8 9 (4.05%) Citrix
8 9 (4.05%) HP
8 9 (4.05%) Symantec
9 8 (3.60%) Atlassian
10 7 (3.15%) Splunk
11 6 (2.70%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.25%) Confluent
12 5 (2.25%) Gigya
13 4 (1.80%) CA Agile Central
14 2 (0.90%) Pega
14 2 (0.90%) QAD
14 2 (0.90%) Solace
14 2 (0.90%) TIBCO
105 Amazon RDS jobs in England