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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 308 369
Rank change year-on-year -102 +61 -24
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 238 222 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.80% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.45% 4.40% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 159 110
10th Percentile £379 £408 £409
25th Percentile £433 £463 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% -3.35% -6.43%
75th Percentile £668 £600 £608
90th Percentile £754 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 6,898 5,046 5,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.89% 18.17% 18.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,613 3,465 4,141
10th Percentile £356 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 76 82
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.11 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.16 £29.21 £21.44
Median hourly rate £38.50 £44.25 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.99% +22.07% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.63% +24.29% -36.36%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -47 151 £550 -8.33% 136
North of England -57 29 £500 -4.76% 34
Midlands -71 25 £453 -4.63% 16
West Midlands -65 23 £459 -3.37% 9
Yorkshire -34 17 £500 - 6
South West -33 11 £438 -17.65% 20
South East -72 11 £460 -20.00% 23
North East -38 6 £419 -4.29% 9
North West -53 6 £600 +9.09% 19
East of England -32 5 £345 -37.27% 13
East Midlands -22 1 £358 -5.79% 7
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 19 (7.98%) Confluence
2 16 (6.72%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.94%) Apache
4 6 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.52%) SAS
4 6 (2.52%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.68%) nginx
7 3 (1.26%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.26%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.84%) Camunda
8 2 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.84%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.84%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 225 (94.54%) AWS
2 155 (65.13%) Amazon S3
3 126 (52.94%) AWS Lambda
4 125 (52.52%) Serverless
5 95 (39.92%) Amazon EC2
6 87 (36.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 62 (26.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 61 (25.63%) Amazon ECS
9 59 (24.79%) Amazon EKS
10 52 (21.85%) Azure
11 37 (15.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 34 (14.29%) GitHub
13 30 (12.61%) AWS KMS
14 29 (12.18%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (8.40%) Route 53
17 19 (7.98%) GCP
18 18 (7.56%) AWS Step Functions
19 16 (6.72%) Amazon EventBridge
20 15 (6.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.14%) Firewall
2 14 (5.88%) DNS
3 9 (3.78%) VPN
4 7 (2.94%) DHCP
5 6 (2.52%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.10%) Network Security
6 5 (2.10%) SMTP
7 4 (1.68%) HTTP
7 4 (1.68%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.68%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.84%) FTP
8 2 (0.84%) IMAP
8 2 (0.84%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.84%) SSH
8 2 (0.84%) SSL
9 1 (0.42%) AMQP
9 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.42%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (33.19%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (23.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 53 (22.27%) DynamoDB
4 24 (10.08%) SQL Server
5 22 (9.24%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (8.40%) MongoDB
6 20 (8.40%) MySQL
7 19 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (7.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (6.72%) Redis
10 13 (5.46%) Data Lake
11 12 (5.04%) Big Data
11 12 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (5.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (4.62%) NoSQL
13 9 (3.78%) Power BI
14 8 (3.36%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.94%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (2.94%) Pentaho
16 6 (2.52%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 61 (25.63%) Jenkins
2 47 (19.75%) Git
3 42 (17.65%) GitLab
4 27 (11.34%) JIRA
5 14 (5.88%) JUnit
5 14 (5.88%) Mockito
6 13 (5.46%) Maven
7 12 (5.04%) Bitbucket
7 12 (5.04%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (2.94%) DbUnit
10 6 (2.52%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (2.52%) jMock
10 6 (2.52%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (2.10%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.68%) Postman
13 3 (1.26%) Flyway
13 3 (1.26%) Gradle
13 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.84%) Vagrant
General
1 67 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.85%) Public Sector
3 34 (14.29%) Finance
4 26 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.82%) Banking
6 11 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.78%) Back Office
7 9 (3.78%) Front Office
8 7 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.68%) Local Government
10 3 (1.26%) Billing
10 3 (1.26%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.26%) Law
10 3 (1.26%) Legal
10 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Marketing
11 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Military
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (21.01%) AWS Engineer
2 42 (17.65%) Senior
3 37 (15.55%) Data Engineer
4 36 (15.13%) Architect
4 36 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 35 (14.71%) Developer
6 27 (11.34%) DBA
7 21 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
7 21 (8.82%) Lead
8 19 (7.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 18 (7.56%) AWS Architect
9 18 (7.56%) Java Developer
10 17 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
11 16 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (6.30%) Technical Leader
13 14 (5.88%) Administrator
14 13 (5.46%) Senior Data Engineer
15 12 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (4.20%) Technical Architect
17 9 (3.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (48.32%) Terraform
2 32 (13.45%) React
3 31 (13.03%) REST
4 26 (10.92%) Spring
4 26 (10.92%) Spring Boot
5 21 (8.82%) RESTful
6 20 (8.40%) AngularJS
7 19 (7.98%) Kafka
8 16 (6.72%) FastAPI
8 16 (6.72%) Node.js
9 15 (6.30%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (5.46%) Hibernate
10 13 (5.46%) JPA
10 13 (5.46%) SOAP
11 11 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (4.20%) GraphQL
13 9 (3.78%) Spring Batch
13 9 (3.78%) Spring Integration
13 9 (3.78%) Web Services
14 8 (3.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.21%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.92%) Replication
3 21 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.20%) NHS
6 8 (3.36%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.94%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.52%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.52%) Clustering
8 6 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.52%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.10%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.10%) PKI
9 5 (2.10%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.17%) Linux
2 23 (9.66%) Windows
3 12 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.78%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.36%) Unix
6 5 (2.10%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.68%) AIX
7 4 (1.68%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) VMS
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (60.92%) CI/CD
2 117 (49.16%) DevOps
3 109 (45.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (39.92%) Agile
5 51 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
6 50 (21.01%) Containerisation
7 48 (20.17%) Data Modelling
7 48 (20.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 47 (19.75%) Observability
9 45 (18.91%) Microservices
10 40 (16.81%) Migration
11 38 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (15.97%) Event-Driven
12 34 (14.29%) Data Integration
13 33 (13.87%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (13.87%) High Availability
13 33 (13.87%) Scrum
14 32 (13.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 31 (13.03%) Software Engineering
16 30 (12.61%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 111 (46.64%) Python
2 82 (34.45%) SQL
3 55 (23.11%) Java
4 25 (10.50%) TypeScript
5 24 (10.08%) Bash
6 23 (9.66%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.72%) Groovy
8 15 (6.30%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.94%) Perl
9 7 (2.94%) Scala
10 4 (1.68%) C#
10 4 (1.68%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.26%) Go
11 3 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.26%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.84%) Bicep
12 2 (0.84%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 94 (39.50%) Security Cleared
2 80 (33.61%) SC Cleared
3 46 (19.33%) AWS Certification
4 29 (12.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.56%) Degree
6 16 (6.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.62%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.78%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.94%) CISM
10 7 (2.94%) CISSP
11 4 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.94%) NIST
2 7 (2.94%) QA
3 4 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) HL7
4 3 (1.26%) SLA
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) PMO
6 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 81 (34.03%) Docker
2 16 (6.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.94%) Postfix
4 6 (2.52%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.26%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.26%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.84%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.84%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.84%) Squid
7 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (23.95%) Kubernetes
2 50 (21.01%) Grafana
3 38 (15.97%) Prometheus
4 21 (8.82%) Ansible
5 8 (3.36%) Istio
6 7 (2.94%) Kibana
7 6 (2.52%) Argo
8 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.10%) Puppet
9 4 (1.68%) Rancher
10 3 (1.26%) Nagios
10 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.26%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.26%) vMotion
11 2 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.84%) Nessus
11 2 (0.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.84%) Packer
11 2 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.66%) Oracle
3 20 (8.40%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.30%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.62%) Informatica
6 10 (4.20%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.36%) Atlassian
7 8 (3.36%) VMware
8 7 (2.94%) Databricks
8 7 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.94%) Talend
9 6 (2.52%) Denodo
9 6 (2.52%) Splunk
10 5 (2.10%) Amplitude
10 5 (2.10%) Google
11 4 (1.68%) Brio
11 4 (1.68%) Cisco
11 4 (1.68%) Citrix
12 3 (1.26%) HP
12 3 (1.26%) Symantec