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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 341 342
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 234 179 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.57% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.34% 3.22% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 117 179
10th Percentile £380 £432 £413
25th Percentile £450 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £644
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -3.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

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 5,387 5,559 6,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.82% 17.80% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,739 3,741 4,686
10th Percentile £328 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £727 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 80 139
10th Percentile £20.67 £17.50 £19.11
25th Percentile £29.06 £22.30 £24.97
Median hourly rate £44.25 £34.47 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +28.39% -25.37% -3.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.19 £67.88
90th Percentile £84.65 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +45.00% -35.04% +2.62%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -8 108 £513 -6.82% 83
Midlands +11 51 £475 -3.06% 13
West Midlands +4 44 £475 -3.06% 10
North of England -27 34 £500 -2.63% 27
North West -6 18 £475 -29.63% 21
South East +13 16 £446 +11.50% 25
Yorkshire -35 12 £509 +0.35% 3
East of England - 12 £550 - 6
South West +3 9 £525 -12.50% 8
East Midlands -8 7 £380 -24.00% 3
North East -9 4 £438 - 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 32 (13.68%) Confluence
2 12 (5.13%) nginx
3 10 (4.27%) Apache
4 7 (2.99%) IIS
4 7 (2.99%) WebSphere
5 6 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) CICS
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (5.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (2.56%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.99%) Maximo
2 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 224 (95.73%) AWS
2 151 (64.53%) Amazon S3
3 131 (55.98%) Amazon EC2
4 117 (50.00%) Serverless
5 116 (49.57%) AWS Lambda
6 85 (36.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 76 (32.48%) Amazon ECS
8 67 (28.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 67 (28.63%) GitHub
8 67 (28.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 41 (17.52%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (15.38%) Azure
12 34 (14.53%) AWS KMS
12 34 (14.53%) Route 53
13 30 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (10.68%) AWS Fargate
15 24 (10.26%) Amazon ELB
16 22 (9.40%) Amazon Kinesis
16 22 (9.40%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 37 (15.81%) DNS
2 35 (14.96%) Firewall
3 24 (10.26%) SMTP
4 23 (9.83%) HTTP
5 22 (9.40%) FTP
5 22 (9.40%) SSH
6 12 (5.13%) IMAP
6 12 (5.13%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (4.27%) VPN
8 4 (1.71%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (1.71%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.28%) Network Security
9 3 (1.28%) SSL
10 1 (0.43%) DHCP
10 1 (0.43%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.43%) LAN
10 1 (0.43%) NAS
10 1 (0.43%) VLAN
10 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (37.18%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (22.65%) DynamoDB
3 47 (20.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 31 (13.25%) MySQL
5 27 (11.54%) SQL Server
6 25 (10.68%) NoSQL
7 24 (10.26%) Relational Database
8 18 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (6.84%) MongoDB
10 15 (6.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (5.13%) RDBMS
12 11 (4.70%) DB2
12 11 (4.70%) Redis
13 10 (4.27%) Apache Cassandra
14 8 (3.42%) Hadoop
15 7 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (2.99%) BigQuery
16 6 (2.56%) Couchbase
16 6 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (2.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 101 (43.16%) Jenkins
2 74 (31.62%) Git
3 44 (18.80%) GitLab
4 36 (15.38%) JIRA
5 24 (10.26%) Vagrant
6 23 (9.83%) Maven
7 18 (7.69%) JUnit
8 16 (6.84%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.56%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.56%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.56%) Mockito
10 5 (2.14%) Gradle
10 5 (2.14%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.71%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.71%) DbUnit
11 4 (1.71%) jMock
11 4 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.71%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
General
1 76 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.54%) Finance
4 13 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.27%) Banking
7 7 (2.99%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Legal
9 2 (0.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (27.35%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (25.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (20.09%) Developer
4 45 (19.23%) AWS DevOps
5 39 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 32 (13.68%) Senior
7 31 (13.25%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (11.11%) Lead
9 25 (10.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (9.83%) Java Developer
11 20 (8.55%) AWS Developer
12 18 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 14 (5.98%) Architect
13 14 (5.98%) Data Engineer
13 14 (5.98%) Software Engineer
14 11 (4.70%) Senior Developer
15 10 (4.27%) DevOps Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.27%) Site Engineer
16 9 (3.85%) Consultant
16 9 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.53%) Kafka
1 34 (14.53%) RESTful
2 30 (12.82%) Node.js
3 28 (11.97%) Spring Boot
4 27 (11.54%) Spring
5 18 (7.69%) REST
5 18 (7.69%) SOAP
6 16 (6.84%) React
7 15 (6.41%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (6.41%) Web Services
8 13 (5.56%) LDAP
9 12 (5.13%) Jest
10 11 (4.70%) AngularJS
11 10 (4.27%) ActiveMQ
12 9 (3.85%) AWS CDK
12 9 (3.85%) CSS
12 9 (3.85%) JPA
12 9 (3.85%) Spring Batch
12 9 (3.85%) XML
13 8 (3.42%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.95%) Replication
2 24 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 20 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.98%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.99%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.14%) N-Tier
7 5 (2.14%) PKI
8 4 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.28%) Clustering
10 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.85%) Derivative
10 2 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.85%) NHS
11 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 64 (27.35%) Linux
2 34 (14.53%) Windows
3 27 (11.54%) Amazon Linux
4 25 (10.68%) VMS
5 11 (4.70%) Ubuntu
5 11 (4.70%) Unix
6 10 (4.27%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.71%) CentOS
8 4 (1.71%) Solaris
9 1 (0.43%) AIX
9 1 (0.43%) Android
9 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.43%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 129 (55.13%) DevOps
3 76 (32.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (31.62%) Agile
5 71 (30.34%) Containerisation
6 56 (23.93%) Microservices
7 46 (19.66%) Configuration Management
8 43 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (17.95%) Cloud Security
10 39 (16.67%) Migration
11 37 (15.81%) Platform Engineering
12 32 (13.68%) Change Management
13 31 (13.25%) Performance Tuning
14 28 (11.97%) Observability
14 28 (11.97%) TDD
15 27 (11.54%) Event-Driven
16 25 (10.68%) Mentoring
16 25 (10.68%) Software Engineering
17 22 (9.40%) Patch Management
18 21 (8.97%) AI
Programming Languages
1 128 (54.70%) Python
2 78 (33.33%) SQL
3 75 (32.05%) Java
4 45 (19.23%) PowerShell
5 31 (13.25%) Bash
6 28 (11.97%) Groovy
6 28 (11.97%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 16 (6.84%) Perl
9 15 (6.41%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.27%) Go
11 7 (2.99%) Ruby
12 6 (2.56%) JSX
13 4 (1.71%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.85%) C
14 2 (0.85%) C#
14 2 (0.85%) PHP
15 1 (0.43%) COBOL
15 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 87 (37.18%) Security Cleared
2 76 (32.48%) SC Cleared
3 47 (20.09%) AWS Certification
4 27 (11.54%) Degree
5 17 (7.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.98%) Azure Certification
6 14 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.85%) MCSE
10 2 (0.85%) OCP
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.55%) QA
2 10 (4.27%) GDPR
3 7 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.14%) NCSC
5 4 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.71%) NIST
6 3 (1.28%) SLA
7 2 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.43%) GxP
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (45.30%) Docker
2 22 (9.40%) DFS Replication
3 16 (6.84%) Postfix
4 14 (5.98%) Active Directory
5 12 (5.13%) Dovecot
5 12 (5.13%) Squid
6 4 (1.71%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.28%) NFS
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 120 (51.28%) Terraform
2 63 (26.92%) Grafana
2 63 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 53 (22.65%) Prometheus
4 32 (13.68%) Ansible
5 14 (5.98%) Puppet
6 13 (5.56%) Progress Chef
7 12 (5.13%) Nessus
8 10 (4.27%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.99%) Packer
10 4 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.71%) Kibana
11 3 (1.28%) Argo
11 3 (1.28%) Rancher
12 2 (0.85%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.43%) Istio
13 1 (0.43%) Nagios
13 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (13.25%) ServiceNow
2 22 (9.40%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.97%) IBM
4 20 (8.55%) Oracle
5 16 (6.84%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (6.41%) Splunk
7 7 (2.99%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.99%) Confluent
7 7 (2.99%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.99%) PagerDuty
8 6 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (2.14%) Gigya
10 4 (1.71%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.71%) Okta
10 4 (1.71%) Sybase
11 3 (1.28%) Google
12 2 (0.85%) Databricks
12 2 (0.85%) Pega
13 1 (0.43%) UiPath
13 1 (0.43%) Veeam