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

 6 months to
15 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 297 369
Rank change year-on-year -110 +72 -31
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 236 222 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.81% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.40% 4.51% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 159 108
10th Percentile £400 £408 £409
25th Percentile £437 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -2.42% -6.43%
75th Percentile £661 £600 £613
90th Percentile £756 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.43% - -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 6,944 4,924 5,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.02% 18.00% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,642 3,377 4,123
10th Percentile £358 £333 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £622 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 79 80
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.24 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.72 £31.29 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £43.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% +20.00% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £75.10 £80.00 £71.85
UK median hourly rate £39.84 £40.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.01% +14.99% -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 15 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 15 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 -59 149 £550 -8.33% 163
North of England -59 30 £500 -2.44% 38
Midlands -63 26 £459 -3.37% 20
West Midlands -68 23 £459 -3.37% 11
Yorkshire -21 17 £500 - 9
South West -46 11 £538 -0.92% 24
South East -75 10 £460 -20.00% 20
North East -33 7 £425 -2.86% 8
North West -50 6 £600 +9.09% 21
East of England -35 4 £348 -36.82% 16
East Midlands -14 2 £449 +18.16% 9
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 (8.05%) Confluence
2 16 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.97%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.54%) Apache
4 6 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.54%) SAS
5 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.27%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.27%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.27%) nginx
7 2 (0.85%) Camunda
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.85%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.85%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.85%) 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 (95.34%) AWS
2 154 (65.25%) Amazon S3
3 126 (53.39%) AWS Lambda
4 125 (52.97%) Serverless
5 93 (39.41%) Amazon EC2
6 88 (37.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 62 (26.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 59 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (23.73%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (21.19%) Azure
11 37 (15.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (13.98%) GitHub
13 30 (12.71%) AWS KMS
14 28 (11.86%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (8.47%) Route 53
17 19 (8.05%) GCP
18 17 (7.20%) AWS Step Functions
19 15 (6.36%) Snowflake
20 14 (5.93%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.36%) Firewall
2 12 (5.08%) DNS
3 7 (2.97%) DHCP
4 6 (2.54%) VPN
5 5 (2.12%) SMTP
6 4 (1.69%) HTTP
6 4 (1.69%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.27%) Network Security
8 2 (0.85%) FTP
8 2 (0.85%) IMAP
8 2 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.85%) SSH
8 2 (0.85%) SSL
9 1 (0.42%) AMQP
9 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (33.47%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (23.73%) Amazon Aurora
3 53 (22.46%) DynamoDB
4 25 (10.59%) SQL Server
5 22 (9.32%) MySQL
6 21 (8.90%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (8.47%) MongoDB
8 19 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (7.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (6.36%) Redis
11 13 (5.51%) Data Lake
12 12 (5.08%) Big Data
12 12 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (4.66%) Power BI
14 10 (4.24%) NoSQL
15 9 (3.81%) Relational Database
16 7 (2.97%) Apache Iceberg
16 7 (2.97%) Pentaho
17 6 (2.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 58 (24.58%) Jenkins
2 45 (19.07%) Git
3 39 (16.53%) GitLab
4 28 (11.86%) JIRA
5 13 (5.51%) JUnit
5 13 (5.51%) Mockito
6 12 (5.08%) Maven
6 12 (5.08%) SonarQube
7 11 (4.66%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (2.97%) DbUnit
10 6 (2.54%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (2.54%) jMock
10 6 (2.54%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.69%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.69%) Postman
12 3 (1.27%) Flyway
12 3 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.85%) Gradle
13 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
General
1 67 (28.39%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.03%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.98%) Finance
4 25 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.05%) Banking
6 10 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.81%) Front Office
8 8 (3.39%) Back Office
9 7 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Billing
10 3 (1.27%) Law
10 3 (1.27%) Legal
10 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Local Government
11 2 (0.85%) Marketing
11 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (21.19%) AWS Engineer
2 41 (17.37%) Senior
3 38 (16.10%) Data Engineer
4 35 (14.83%) Architect
4 35 (14.83%) Developer
4 35 (14.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (11.86%) DBA
6 22 (9.32%) Lead
7 21 (8.90%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (8.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 17 (7.20%) AWS Architect
10 16 (6.78%) AWS Data Engineer
10 16 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (6.78%) Java Developer
11 15 (6.36%) Administrator
11 15 (6.36%) Technical Leader
12 13 (5.51%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (4.24%) Technical Architect
15 9 (3.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (47.88%) Terraform
2 32 (13.56%) React
3 27 (11.44%) REST
4 24 (10.17%) Spring
4 24 (10.17%) Spring Boot
5 21 (8.90%) AngularJS
6 20 (8.47%) RESTful
7 19 (8.05%) Node.js
8 17 (7.20%) FastAPI
8 17 (7.20%) Kafka
9 14 (5.93%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (5.08%) Hibernate
10 12 (5.08%) JPA
10 12 (5.08%) SOAP
11 9 (3.81%) JSON
11 9 (3.81%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (3.81%) Spring Batch
11 9 (3.81%) Spring Integration
11 9 (3.81%) Web Services
12 8 (3.39%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 61 (25.85%) Cloud Native
2 27 (11.44%) Replication
3 21 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.93%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.24%) NHS
6 8 (3.39%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.97%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.54%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.54%) Clustering
8 6 (2.54%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.12%) PKI
9 5 (2.12%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.27%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.34%) Linux
2 21 (8.90%) Windows
3 12 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.81%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.39%) Unix
6 4 (1.69%) AIX
6 4 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.27%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.42%) VMS
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (60.17%) CI/CD
2 114 (48.31%) DevOps
3 106 (44.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (40.25%) Agile
5 51 (21.61%) Performance Tuning
6 48 (20.34%) Containerisation
6 48 (20.34%) Data Modelling
7 47 (19.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 45 (19.07%) Observability
9 42 (17.80%) Microservices
10 38 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (16.10%) Migration
11 35 (14.83%) Event-Driven
11 35 (14.83%) High Availability
12 34 (14.41%) Data Integration
12 34 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (13.56%) Software Engineering
14 31 (13.14%) Scrum
15 30 (12.71%) Disaster Recovery
15 30 (12.71%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 111 (47.03%) Python
2 82 (34.75%) SQL
3 56 (23.73%) Java
4 26 (11.02%) TypeScript
5 24 (10.17%) Bash
6 22 (9.32%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.36%) Groovy
8 14 (5.93%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.97%) Perl
9 7 (2.97%) Scala
10 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.27%) C#
11 3 (1.27%) Go
11 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.85%) Bicep
12 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 97 (41.10%) Security Cleared
2 83 (35.17%) SC Cleared
3 44 (18.64%) AWS Certification
4 28 (11.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (6.78%) Degree
6 11 (4.66%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.24%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.97%) CISM
8 7 (2.97%) CISSP
8 7 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.85%) PMP
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.17%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.97%) NIST
3 6 (2.54%) QA
4 3 (1.27%) HL7
4 3 (1.27%) SLA
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.85%) PMO
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 78 (33.05%) Docker
2 14 (5.93%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.97%) Postfix
4 6 (2.54%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.27%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (1.27%) Terminal Services
7 3 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.85%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.85%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.85%) Squid
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 55 (23.31%) Kubernetes
2 49 (20.76%) Grafana
3 37 (15.68%) Prometheus
4 22 (9.32%) Ansible
5 8 (3.39%) Istio
6 6 (2.54%) Argo
6 6 (2.54%) Kibana
7 5 (2.12%) Puppet
8 4 (1.69%) Rancher
9 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.27%) Nagios
9 3 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.27%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.27%) vMotion
10 2 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.85%) Nessus
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.85%) Packer
10 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.75%) Oracle
3 20 (8.47%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.36%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.66%) Informatica
6 10 (4.24%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.39%) Atlassian
7 8 (3.39%) Databricks
7 8 (3.39%) VMware
8 7 (2.97%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.97%) Talend
9 6 (2.54%) Denodo
9 6 (2.54%) Google
9 6 (2.54%) Splunk
10 5 (2.12%) Amplitude
11 4 (1.69%) Brio
11 4 (1.69%) Cisco
11 4 (1.69%) Citrix
12 3 (1.27%) HP
12 3 (1.27%) Symantec
273 Amazon RDS jobs in England