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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 339 348
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 228 173 240
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.56% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.32% 3.16% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 111 183
10th Percentile £380 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £650
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% -2.23% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,279 5,478 6,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.67% 17.73% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,665 3,671 4,710
10th Percentile £328 £345 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £532
% change year-on-year -5.12% -0.94% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 77 139
10th Percentile £20.75 £17.80 £19.11
25th Percentile £29.25 £22.40 £24.97
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% -28.57% +4.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.00 £67.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +47.50% -35.95% +4.09%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 -25 105 £513 -6.82% 75
Midlands +9 48 £475 -3.06% 12
West Midlands +5 41 £475 -3.06% 10
North of England -17 32 £500 -23.08% 27
North West -10 18 £475 -29.63% 21
South East +12 16 £446 +11.50% 24
East of England - 12 £550 - 7
Yorkshire -28 10 £509 -13.40% 3
South West +10 9 £525 -12.50% 11
East Midlands -9 7 £380 -24.00% 2
North East -6 4 £438 - 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 32 (14.04%) Confluence
2 12 (5.26%) nginx
3 10 (4.39%) Apache
4 7 (3.07%) IIS
4 7 (3.07%) WebSphere
5 6 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.44%) CICS
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (5.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (2.63%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.07%) Maximo
2 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 218 (95.61%) AWS
2 148 (64.91%) Amazon S3
3 127 (55.70%) Amazon EC2
4 114 (50.00%) Serverless
5 113 (49.56%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (36.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 74 (32.46%) Amazon ECS
8 66 (28.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 65 (28.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 65 (28.51%) GitHub
10 40 (17.54%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (16.23%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (15.79%) Azure
13 34 (14.91%) Route 53
14 33 (14.47%) AWS KMS
15 26 (11.40%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (10.53%) Amazon ELB
16 24 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
17 22 (9.65%) Amazon Kinesis
17 22 (9.65%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (15.35%) DNS
2 34 (14.91%) Firewall
3 24 (10.53%) SMTP
4 23 (10.09%) HTTP
5 22 (9.65%) FTP
5 22 (9.65%) SSH
6 12 (5.26%) IMAP
6 12 (5.26%) OpenLDAP
7 9 (3.95%) VPN
8 4 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.88%) Network Security
9 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.44%) DHCP
10 1 (0.44%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.44%) LAN
10 1 (0.44%) NAS
10 1 (0.44%) SSL
10 1 (0.44%) VLAN
10 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (36.84%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (21.93%) DynamoDB
3 44 (19.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 31 (13.60%) MySQL
5 27 (11.84%) SQL Server
6 25 (10.96%) NoSQL
7 24 (10.53%) Relational Database
8 18 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (7.02%) MongoDB
10 15 (6.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (5.26%) RDBMS
12 11 (4.82%) DB2
12 11 (4.82%) Redis
13 10 (4.39%) Apache Cassandra
14 8 (3.51%) Hadoop
15 7 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (3.07%) BigQuery
16 6 (2.63%) Couchbase
16 6 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (2.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 95 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 69 (30.26%) Git
3 42 (18.42%) GitLab
4 36 (15.79%) JIRA
5 24 (10.53%) Vagrant
6 20 (8.77%) Maven
7 16 (7.02%) JUnit
8 14 (6.14%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.63%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.19%) Gradle
10 5 (2.19%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.75%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.75%) DbUnit
11 4 (1.75%) jMock
11 4 (1.75%) Mockito
11 4 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.75%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.88%) CircleCI
General
1 76 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.11%) Public Sector
3 26 (11.40%) Finance
4 13 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.39%) Banking
7 7 (3.07%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Legal
9 2 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (27.63%) AWS Engineer
2 57 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (19.74%) AWS DevOps
4 44 (19.30%) Developer
5 39 (17.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 31 (13.60%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (13.16%) Senior
8 25 (10.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 23 (10.09%) Lead
10 20 (8.77%) AWS Developer
10 20 (8.77%) Java Developer
11 18 (7.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 14 (6.14%) Architect
12 14 (6.14%) Data Engineer
12 14 (6.14%) Software Engineer
13 11 (4.82%) Senior Developer
14 10 (4.39%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 10 (4.39%) Site Engineer
15 9 (3.95%) Consultant
15 9 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.91%) Kafka
1 34 (14.91%) RESTful
2 30 (13.16%) Node.js
3 25 (10.96%) Spring Boot
4 24 (10.53%) Spring
5 16 (7.02%) React
6 15 (6.58%) REST
6 15 (6.58%) SOAP
7 14 (6.14%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (6.14%) Web Services
8 13 (5.70%) LDAP
9 12 (5.26%) Jest
10 9 (3.95%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.95%) AWS CDK
10 9 (3.95%) CSS
10 9 (3.95%) Spring Batch
10 9 (3.95%) XML
11 8 (3.51%) Hibernate
11 8 (3.51%) Sass
12 7 (3.07%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.42%) Replication
2 24 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 19 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.14%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.07%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.19%) N-Tier
7 5 (2.19%) PKI
8 4 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.32%) Clustering
10 2 (0.88%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.88%) Derivative
10 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.88%) NHS
11 1 (0.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 64 (28.07%) Linux
2 34 (14.91%) Windows
3 27 (11.84%) Amazon Linux
4 25 (10.96%) VMS
5 11 (4.82%) Ubuntu
5 11 (4.82%) Unix
6 10 (4.39%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.75%) CentOS
8 4 (1.75%) Solaris
9 1 (0.44%) AIX
9 1 (0.44%) Android
9 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.44%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (57.02%) CI/CD
2 124 (54.39%) DevOps
3 73 (32.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (30.70%) Agile
5 68 (29.82%) Containerisation
6 53 (23.25%) Microservices
7 45 (19.74%) Configuration Management
8 40 (17.54%) Cloud Security
8 40 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (17.11%) Migration
10 37 (16.23%) Platform Engineering
11 32 (14.04%) Change Management
12 31 (13.60%) Performance Tuning
13 27 (11.84%) Event-Driven
14 25 (10.96%) Mentoring
14 25 (10.96%) Observability
14 25 (10.96%) Software Engineering
14 25 (10.96%) TDD
15 22 (9.65%) Patch Management
16 20 (8.77%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 126 (55.26%) Python
2 78 (34.21%) SQL
3 72 (31.58%) Java
4 45 (19.74%) PowerShell
5 30 (13.16%) Bash
6 28 (12.28%) Groovy
6 28 (12.28%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.46%) Shell Script
8 16 (7.02%) Perl
9 15 (6.58%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.39%) Go
11 7 (3.07%) Ruby
12 6 (2.63%) JSX
13 4 (1.75%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.88%) C
14 2 (0.88%) C#
14 2 (0.88%) PHP
15 1 (0.44%) COBOL
15 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (35.96%) Security Cleared
2 71 (31.14%) SC Cleared
3 46 (20.18%) AWS Certification
4 27 (11.84%) Degree
5 16 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.14%) Azure Certification
6 14 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.88%) MCSE
11 2 (0.88%) OCP
11 2 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.77%) QA
2 9 (3.95%) GDPR
3 6 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.19%) NCSC
5 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.32%) NIST
6 3 (1.32%) SLA
7 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.44%) GxP
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (44.30%) Docker
2 22 (9.65%) DFS Replication
3 16 (7.02%) Postfix
4 14 (6.14%) Active Directory
5 12 (5.26%) Dovecot
5 12 (5.26%) Squid
6 4 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.32%) NFS
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 117 (51.32%) Terraform
2 61 (26.75%) Kubernetes
3 58 (25.44%) Grafana
4 49 (21.49%) Prometheus
5 29 (12.72%) Ansible
6 13 (5.70%) Progress Chef
6 13 (5.70%) Puppet
7 12 (5.26%) Nessus
8 10 (4.39%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.07%) Packer
10 4 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.75%) Kibana
11 3 (1.32%) Argo
11 3 (1.32%) Rancher
12 1 (0.44%) Istio
12 1 (0.44%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.44%) Nagios
12 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (13.60%) ServiceNow
2 22 (9.65%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.21%) IBM
4 20 (8.77%) Oracle
5 16 (7.02%) Jaspersoft
6 13 (5.70%) Splunk
7 7 (3.07%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.07%) Confluent
7 7 (3.07%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.07%) PagerDuty
8 6 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (2.19%) Gigya
10 4 (1.75%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.75%) Okta
10 4 (1.75%) Sybase
11 3 (1.32%) Google
12 2 (0.88%) Databricks
12 2 (0.88%) Pega
13 1 (0.44%) UiPath
13 1 (0.44%) Veeam