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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 325 371
Rank change year-on-year -79 +46 -13
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 238 210 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.75% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.46% 4.10% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 143 106
10th Percentile £358 £400 £414
25th Percentile £430 £450 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -7.06% -6.43%
75th Percentile £673 £594 £621
90th Percentile £763 £648 £700
UK median daily rate £526 £510 £527
% change year-on-year +3.14% -3.13% -4.27%
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 6,877 5,123 5,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.77% 18.34% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,571 3,509 4,006
10th Percentile £350 £337 £350
25th Percentile £418 £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 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 76 83
10th Percentile £16.14 £20.89 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £22.20
Median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +11.99% -28.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.38 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £38.96 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.15% +11.31% -33.33%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -34 155 £550 +4.76% 131
North of England -66 30 £500 - 38
Midlands -72 22 £459 -3.37% 17
West Midlands -58 20 £464 -2.32% 9
Yorkshire -28 18 £500 - 5
South West -32 11 £438 -15.87% 29
South East -67 11 £460 -3.16% 17
North East -34 6 £419 -1.47% 7
North West -56 6 £600 +9.09% 26
East of England -32 3 £345 -37.27% 12
East Midlands -19 1 £358 -5.79% 8
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 8 (3.36%) Apache
4 6 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.52%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.10%) SAS
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 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
2 159 (66.81%) Amazon S3
3 125 (52.52%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (51.26%) Serverless
5 98 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
6 89 (37.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 65 (27.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 64 (26.89%) Amazon EKS
9 63 (26.47%) Amazon ECS
10 55 (23.11%) Azure
11 38 (15.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (13.45%) GitHub
13 30 (12.61%) AWS KMS
14 28 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (8.40%) GCP
16 20 (8.40%) Route 53
17 17 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
18 16 (6.72%) Amazon EventBridge
19 15 (6.30%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.14%) Firewall
2 14 (5.88%) DNS
3 9 (3.78%) VPN
4 7 (2.94%) DHCP
4 7 (2.94%) Network Security
5 6 (2.52%) TCP/IP
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 77 (32.35%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (23.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 53 (22.27%) DynamoDB
4 26 (10.92%) SQL Server
5 23 (9.66%) Amazon Athena
5 23 (9.66%) MongoDB
6 19 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (7.98%) MySQL
7 17 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (6.72%) Redis
9 13 (5.46%) Data Lake
10 12 (5.04%) Big Data
10 12 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (5.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (4.20%) Power BI
12 9 (3.78%) NoSQL
13 8 (3.36%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.94%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (2.94%) Metadata
15 6 (2.52%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 61 (25.63%) Jenkins
2 50 (21.01%) Git
3 44 (18.49%) GitLab
4 26 (10.92%) JIRA
5 13 (5.46%) JUnit
5 13 (5.46%) Mockito
6 12 (5.04%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.04%) Maven
7 11 (4.62%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.52%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.52%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (2.10%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.10%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.10%) jMock
11 4 (1.68%) Postman
12 3 (1.26%) Flyway
12 3 (1.26%) Gradle
12 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.84%) Vagrant
General
1 68 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.01%) Public Sector
3 35 (14.71%) Finance
4 24 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.24%) Banking
6 11 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.78%) Back Office
7 9 (3.78%) Front Office
8 6 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.68%) Local Government
10 3 (1.26%) Billing
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%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (21.01%) AWS Engineer
2 41 (17.23%) Senior
3 38 (15.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (15.55%) Architect
4 37 (15.55%) Data Engineer
5 32 (13.45%) Developer
6 28 (11.76%) DBA
7 22 (9.24%) Lead
8 21 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (7.98%) AWS Architect
9 19 (7.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 17 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
10 17 (7.14%) Java Developer
11 16 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (6.72%) Technical Leader
12 15 (6.30%) Administrator
13 13 (5.46%) Senior Data Engineer
13 13 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (4.20%) Technical Architect
15 9 (3.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (50.42%) Terraform
2 31 (13.03%) REST
3 29 (12.18%) React
4 25 (10.50%) Spring
4 25 (10.50%) Spring Boot
5 22 (9.24%) Kafka
6 20 (8.40%) RESTful
7 19 (7.98%) AngularJS
8 17 (7.14%) FastAPI
9 14 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (5.04%) Hibernate
10 12 (5.04%) JPA
10 12 (5.04%) Node.js
10 12 (5.04%) SOAP
11 11 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (4.20%) GraphQL
13 8 (3.36%) JSON
13 8 (3.36%) Spring Batch
13 8 (3.36%) Spring Integration
13 8 (3.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 27 (11.34%) Replication
3 21 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.72%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.20%) NHS
6 8 (3.36%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.94%) PKI
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%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.68%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.26%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 49 (20.59%) Linux
2 23 (9.66%) Windows
3 12 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.78%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (2.94%) Unix
7 6 (2.52%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.10%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.68%) AIX
10 1 (0.42%) CentOS
10 1 (0.42%) VMS
10 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (63.87%) CI/CD
2 122 (51.26%) DevOps
3 115 (48.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (41.18%) Agile
5 54 (22.69%) Containerisation
6 52 (21.85%) Performance Tuning
7 50 (21.01%) Observability
7 50 (21.01%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (20.17%) Microservices
9 46 (19.33%) Data Modelling
10 41 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (16.81%) Migration
12 38 (15.97%) Event-Driven
13 36 (15.13%) Data Integration
14 34 (14.29%) High Availability
15 32 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (13.45%) Disaster Recovery
15 32 (13.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 32 (13.45%) Scrum
16 31 (13.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 112 (47.06%) Python
2 80 (33.61%) SQL
3 53 (22.27%) Java
4 24 (10.08%) Bash
4 24 (10.08%) TypeScript
5 23 (9.66%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.72%) Groovy
7 14 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.94%) Perl
8 7 (2.94%) Scala
9 4 (1.68%) Bicep
9 4 (1.68%) C#
9 4 (1.68%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.68%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.26%) Go
10 3 (1.26%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 92 (38.66%) Security Cleared
2 79 (33.19%) SC Cleared
3 44 (18.49%) AWS Certification
4 27 (11.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.56%) Degree
6 15 (6.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.62%) Azure Certification
8 10 (4.20%) 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%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.84%) PMP
14 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.94%) NIST
3 6 (2.52%) QA
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%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 85 (35.71%) Docker
2 16 (6.72%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.52%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.52%) Postfix
3 6 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.26%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.26%) Terminal Services
5 3 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.84%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.84%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.84%) Squid
6 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 62 (26.05%) Kubernetes
2 52 (21.85%) Grafana
3 41 (17.23%) Prometheus
4 23 (9.66%) Ansible
5 8 (3.36%) Istio
6 7 (2.94%) Kibana
6 7 (2.94%) Puppet
7 6 (2.52%) Argo
8 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
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%) Nessus
11 2 (0.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.84%) Packer
11 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.40%) Oracle
2 20 (8.40%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.30%) Dynatrace
4 11 (4.62%) Informatica
5 9 (3.78%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.36%) Databricks
6 8 (3.36%) VMware
7 7 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.52%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.52%) Splunk
8 6 (2.52%) Talend
9 5 (2.10%) Amplitude
9 5 (2.10%) Denodo
9 5 (2.10%) Google
10 4 (1.68%) Brio
10 4 (1.68%) Cisco
10 4 (1.68%) Citrix
11 3 (1.26%) HP
11 3 (1.26%) Symantec