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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 329 354
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 -31
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 221 165 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.64% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.02% 3.44% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 106 151
10th Percentile £368 £419 £405
25th Percentile £435 £471 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £597 £716 £606
90th Percentile £647 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £71.65 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 5,501 4,796 6,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.17% 18.59% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,816 3,218 4,418
10th Percentile £338 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £537
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.09% -2.36%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £782 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 82 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.62
25th Percentile £27.06 £25.06 £21.66
Median hourly rate £52.00 £41.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -3.53% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.69
90th Percentile £85.78 £73.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £38.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.02% -9.87% -25.26%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -41 115 £513 -10.87% 35
Midlands -27 40 £500 -5.48% 13
West Midlands -25 35 £519 -1.94% 11
North of England -41 28 £500 +33.33% 22
South East -17 18 £475 +5.56% 19
North West -20 13 £394 +5.00% 11
Yorkshire -48 11 £518 -11.91% 9
South West -17 10 £538 -10.54% 8
East Midlands -18 5 £375 -15.35% 2
North East -11 4 £500 - 2
East of England -21 3 £538 +8.86% 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 22 (9.95%) Confluence
2 4 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.81%) nginx
3 3 (1.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 221 (100.00%) AWS
2 143 (64.71%) Amazon S3
3 126 (57.01%) Amazon EC2
4 115 (52.04%) Serverless
5 114 (51.58%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (33.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 71 (32.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 67 (30.32%) Amazon ECS
9 64 (28.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 59 (26.70%) Amazon EKS
10 59 (26.70%) GitHub
11 43 (19.46%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (14.48%) Azure
13 27 (12.22%) Route 53
14 21 (9.50%) AWS Fargate
15 19 (8.60%) Amazon Kinesis
16 18 (8.14%) AWS KMS
17 17 (7.69%) Datadog
18 15 (6.79%) Amazon ELB
18 15 (6.79%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.05%) DNS
2 17 (7.69%) Firewall
3 8 (3.62%) HTTP
3 8 (3.62%) VPN
4 6 (2.71%) FTP
4 6 (2.71%) SMTP
4 6 (2.71%) SSH
5 4 (1.81%) IMAP
5 4 (1.81%) Network Security
5 4 (1.81%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.36%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.45%) Internet
7 1 (0.45%) LAN
7 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (26.24%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (19.00%) DynamoDB
3 33 (14.93%) Amazon Aurora
4 32 (14.48%) MySQL
5 22 (9.95%) MongoDB
6 20 (9.05%) NoSQL
6 20 (9.05%) Relational Database
6 20 (9.05%) SQL Server
7 17 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (4.52%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (4.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 10 (4.52%) Hadoop
8 10 (4.52%) Oracle Database
8 10 (4.52%) Redis
9 8 (3.62%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (3.17%) Power BI
11 6 (2.71%) Couchbase
11 6 (2.71%) RDBMS
12 5 (2.26%) DB2
12 5 (2.26%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 88 (39.82%) Jenkins
2 55 (24.89%) Git
3 44 (19.91%) GitLab
4 26 (11.76%) JIRA
5 12 (5.43%) JUnit
6 11 (4.98%) Maven
7 6 (2.71%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.71%) Mockito
7 6 (2.71%) Vagrant
8 5 (2.26%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.26%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.81%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (1.81%) Snyk
9 4 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.81%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.36%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.36%) git-flow
10 3 (1.36%) Gradle
10 3 (1.36%) jMock
General
1 58 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.48%) Public Sector
3 31 (14.03%) Finance
4 17 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.07%) Banking
7 4 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Legal
9 2 (0.90%) Military
10 1 (0.45%) Front Office
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (18.55%) AWS Engineer
2 39 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (13.57%) Developer
4 29 (13.12%) Senior
5 24 (10.86%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (9.95%) Software Engineer
7 21 (9.50%) Site Engineer
8 20 (9.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 19 (8.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 19 (8.60%) Lead
9 19 (8.60%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (7.24%) Data Engineer
10 16 (7.24%) DBA
11 13 (5.88%) AWS Developer
11 13 (5.88%) Java Developer
11 13 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
12 12 (5.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (5.43%) Java Engineer
13 11 (4.98%) Architect
14 10 (4.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.10%) Kafka
2 26 (11.76%) Spring
3 25 (11.31%) Spring Boot
4 23 (10.41%) React
5 22 (9.95%) Node.js
5 22 (9.95%) RESTful
6 17 (7.69%) REST
7 13 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (4.98%) CSS
9 10 (4.52%) FastAPI
10 9 (4.07%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.07%) Hibernate
10 9 (4.07%) JPA
10 9 (4.07%) Spring Cloud
11 8 (3.62%) AWS CDK
11 8 (3.62%) Django
11 8 (3.62%) Flask
11 8 (3.62%) Jest
12 7 (3.17%) Keycloak
12 7 (3.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.74%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.86%) Replication
3 23 (10.41%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.71%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.71%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.81%) Clustering
6 4 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.81%) PKI
7 3 (1.36%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.36%) NHS
8 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.90%) Derivative
8 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.45%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 68 (30.77%) Linux
2 13 (5.88%) Unix
3 9 (4.07%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (4.07%) Windows
4 7 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.17%) VMS
5 4 (1.81%) CentOS
5 4 (1.81%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.36%) Solaris
7 1 (0.45%) Android
7 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (65.16%) CI/CD
2 105 (47.51%) DevOps
3 91 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (33.48%) Agile
5 66 (29.86%) Containerisation
6 48 (21.72%) Microservices
7 39 (17.65%) Configuration Management
7 39 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
8 38 (17.19%) Observability
9 36 (16.29%) Software Engineering
10 35 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (14.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 30 (13.57%) Migration
13 25 (11.31%) Event-Driven
13 25 (11.31%) High Availability
14 23 (10.41%) Cost Optimisation
15 21 (9.50%) Cloud Security
15 21 (9.50%) ETL
16 20 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (9.05%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 105 (47.51%) Python
2 81 (36.65%) SQL
3 57 (25.79%) Java
4 38 (17.19%) Bash
5 28 (12.67%) Shell Script
6 22 (9.95%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 14 (6.33%) Go
9 10 (4.52%) Groovy
9 10 (4.52%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.62%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.71%) C#
11 6 (2.71%) JSX
11 6 (2.71%) Perl
12 5 (2.26%) Ruby
13 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.45%) Bicep
14 1 (0.45%) PHP
14 1 (0.45%) R
14 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 83 (37.56%) Security Cleared
2 70 (31.67%) SC Cleared
3 38 (17.19%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.33%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.98%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.98%) Degree
6 8 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.26%) OCP
9 5 (2.26%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CEH
11 1 (0.45%) CISSP
11 1 (0.45%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.45%) PMP
11 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.52%) NIST
2 10 (4.52%) QA
3 8 (3.62%) GDPR
4 5 (2.26%) NCSC
4 5 (2.26%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.81%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.36%) PMO
6 3 (1.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.45%) GxP
System Software
1 98 (44.34%) Docker
2 7 (3.17%) Postfix
3 6 (2.71%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.81%) Dovecot
4 4 (1.81%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (1.81%) Squid
4 4 (1.81%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.36%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.36%) NFS
5 3 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 116 (52.49%) Terraform
2 70 (31.67%) Kubernetes
3 49 (22.17%) Grafana
4 38 (17.19%) Ansible
5 37 (16.74%) Prometheus
6 20 (9.05%) Progress Chef
7 15 (6.79%) Puppet
8 7 (3.17%) Data Guard
8 7 (3.17%) Packer
9 4 (1.81%) Argo
9 4 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.81%) Kibana
9 4 (1.81%) Nessus
9 4 (1.81%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.36%) Rancher
11 2 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.90%) systemd
Vendors
1 29 (13.12%) Oracle
2 17 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.33%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.52%) PagerDuty
4 10 (4.52%) Splunk
5 8 (3.62%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (3.17%) Confluent
6 7 (3.17%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.71%) IBM
7 6 (2.71%) Sybase
8 5 (2.26%) Talend
9 4 (1.81%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.81%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.81%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.81%) Okta
9 4 (1.81%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.36%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.36%) Informatica
10 3 (1.36%) Qualys
10 3 (1.36%) Tenable