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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 284 364
Rank change year-on-year -124 +80 -16
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 227 235 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.85% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.25% 4.71% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 171 114
10th Percentile £387 £413 £410
25th Percentile £430 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.84% -10.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £610
90th Percentile £738 £653 £696
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £70.60 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £74.13 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
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 6,977 4,993 6,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.28% 18.12% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,669 3,438 4,352
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 82 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.35 £25.34 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.58 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -1.21% -36.36%
75th Percentile £61.31 £61.25 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.58 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £34.47
% change year-on-year +9.32% +1.52% -37.34%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -83 138 £550 -8.33% 19
Midlands -56 32 £464 -2.32% 6
North of England -62 32 £463 -7.50% 14
West Midlands -60 26 £464 -2.32% 4
Yorkshire -29 18 £500 - 5
South West -49 9 £538 -7.92% 8
North East -30 7 £425 -5.56% 3
North West -46 7 £525 -6.67% 6
South East -75 7 £460 -20.00% 11
East Midlands -17 5 £449 +18.16% 2
East of England -20 4 £348 -36.82% 4
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 18 (7.93%) Confluence
2 12 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.64%) SAS
5 5 (2.20%) Apache
6 3 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.88%) Camunda
7 2 (0.88%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 216 (95.15%) AWS
2 148 (65.20%) Amazon S3
3 122 (53.74%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (53.30%) Serverless
5 90 (39.65%) Amazon EC2
6 82 (36.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 62 (27.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 54 (23.79%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (22.91%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (20.26%) Azure
11 37 (16.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (13.66%) GitHub
13 30 (13.22%) AWS KMS
14 29 (12.78%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (8.81%) Route 53
16 19 (8.37%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (7.93%) GCP
18 15 (6.61%) AWS Step Functions
19 14 (6.17%) Snowflake
20 12 (5.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.17%) Firewall
2 9 (3.96%) DNS
3 7 (3.08%) DHCP
4 6 (2.64%) VPN
5 4 (1.76%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.76%) Network Security
5 4 (1.76%) SMTP
5 4 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.88%) HTTP
6 2 (0.88%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.88%) SSL
7 1 (0.44%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (29.96%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (23.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 50 (22.03%) DynamoDB
4 22 (9.69%) SQL Server
5 20 (8.81%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (8.37%) MySQL
7 18 (7.93%) MongoDB
8 16 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (7.05%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (6.17%) Redis
10 13 (5.73%) Data Lake
11 12 (5.29%) Big Data
11 12 (5.29%) Power BI
11 12 (5.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (3.52%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.52%) Pentaho
13 7 (3.08%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (3.08%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 60 (26.43%) Jenkins
2 41 (18.06%) Git
3 38 (16.74%) GitLab
4 25 (11.01%) JIRA
5 15 (6.61%) JUnit
5 15 (6.61%) Mockito
6 14 (6.17%) SonarQube
7 11 (4.85%) Maven
8 9 (3.96%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (3.52%) DbUnit
10 7 (3.08%) Bitbucket Server
10 7 (3.08%) jMock
11 6 (2.64%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (2.20%) Postman
13 4 (1.76%) Cucumber
14 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
14 3 (1.32%) Flyway
14 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
15 2 (0.88%) git-flow
General
1 63 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 53 (23.35%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.66%) Finance
4 24 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.81%) Banking
6 7 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.64%) Front Office
8 5 (2.20%) Back Office
8 5 (2.20%) Legal
9 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.88%) Billing
10 2 (0.88%) Law
10 2 (0.88%) Local Government
10 2 (0.88%) Marketing
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (18.50%) AWS Engineer
2 35 (15.42%) Developer
2 35 (15.42%) Senior
3 34 (14.98%) Data Engineer
4 32 (14.10%) Architect
4 32 (14.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.33%) DBA
6 19 (8.37%) AWS DevOps
7 18 (7.93%) Lead
8 17 (7.49%) AWS Architect
9 16 (7.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (6.61%) Administrator
10 15 (6.61%) Java Developer
11 14 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (5.73%) AWS Data Engineer
13 11 (4.85%) Technical Leader
14 10 (4.41%) Senior Developer
14 10 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (4.41%) Technical Architect
15 9 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (46.70%) Terraform
2 31 (13.66%) React
3 26 (11.45%) REST
3 26 (11.45%) Spring
3 26 (11.45%) Spring Boot
4 23 (10.13%) Node.js
4 23 (10.13%) RESTful
5 22 (9.69%) AngularJS
6 17 (7.49%) Kafka
7 15 (6.61%) SOAP
8 14 (6.17%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (5.73%) FastAPI
10 11 (4.85%) Hibernate
10 11 (4.85%) JPA
10 11 (4.85%) Spring Batch
10 11 (4.85%) Spring Integration
10 11 (4.85%) Web Services
11 9 (3.96%) GraphQL
11 9 (3.96%) JSON
11 9 (3.96%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 54 (23.79%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.69%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (9.69%) Replication
3 15 (6.61%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.96%) NHS
5 8 (3.52%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.08%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.08%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.64%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.20%) Clustering
8 5 (2.20%) PKI
9 4 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.32%) Derivative
10 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.32%) Equities
10 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.26%) Linux
2 18 (7.93%) Windows
3 12 (5.29%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.08%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.64%) Unix
6 4 (1.76%) AIX
7 3 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.44%) CentOS
8 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (58.59%) CI/CD
2 104 (45.81%) DevOps
3 94 (41.41%) Agile
4 90 (39.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (19.82%) Performance Tuning
6 44 (19.38%) Microservices
7 42 (18.50%) Containerisation
7 42 (18.50%) Data Modelling
8 41 (18.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (16.30%) High Availability
10 36 (15.86%) Observability
11 33 (14.54%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (14.10%) Migration
13 31 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (13.22%) Scrum
15 28 (12.33%) ETL
15 28 (12.33%) Test Automation
16 27 (11.89%) Disaster Recovery
17 26 (11.45%) Event-Driven
17 26 (11.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 102 (44.93%) Python
2 75 (33.04%) SQL
3 60 (26.43%) Java
4 24 (10.57%) TypeScript
5 23 (10.13%) Bash
6 21 (9.25%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.29%) Groovy
7 12 (5.29%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.08%) Perl
9 6 (2.64%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.20%) C#
10 5 (2.20%) Scala
11 3 (1.32%) Go
11 3 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.88%) Ruby
13 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 99 (43.61%) Security Cleared
2 81 (35.68%) SC Cleared
3 38 (16.74%) AWS Certification
4 25 (11.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (6.61%) Degree
7 11 (4.85%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.52%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.20%) CISM
10 5 (2.20%) CISSP
11 4 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.32%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.88%) PMP
14 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.64%) NIST
3 5 (2.20%) QA
4 3 (1.32%) HL7
4 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.32%) PMO
4 3 (1.32%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) GDPR
5 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 74 (32.60%) Docker
2 14 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.64%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.64%) Postfix
4 5 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.76%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.76%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.76%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (25.11%) Kubernetes
2 45 (19.82%) Grafana
3 33 (14.54%) Prometheus
4 21 (9.25%) Ansible
5 9 (3.96%) Istio
6 7 (3.08%) Argo
7 6 (2.64%) Kibana
8 5 (2.20%) Puppet
9 4 (1.76%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.76%) vMotion
10 3 (1.32%) Nagios
10 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.32%) Rancher
11 2 (0.88%) Consul
11 2 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.88%) Foglight
11 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.88%) Packer
11 2 (0.88%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.37%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.49%) Oracle
4 14 (6.17%) Dynatrace
5 10 (4.41%) Informatica
5 10 (4.41%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (3.96%) Atlassian
6 9 (3.96%) Databricks
6 9 (3.96%) VMware
7 7 (3.08%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.64%) Denodo
8 6 (2.64%) Google
8 6 (2.64%) Splunk
8 6 (2.64%) Talend
9 5 (2.20%) Amplitude
9 5 (2.20%) Citrix
10 4 (1.76%) Brio
10 4 (1.76%) Cisco
10 4 (1.76%) HP
10 4 (1.76%) Symantec