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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 292 355
Rank change year-on-year -88 +63 -31
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 222 188 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.79% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.49% 4.15% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 136 141
10th Percentile £388 £413 £381
25th Percentile £413 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -14.58%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £653 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 6,359 4,530 6,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 19.01% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,347 3,149 4,518
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 86 137
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.36 £31.85 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.86% -20.39% -31.09%
75th Percentile £73.19 £63.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.13 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.46% -17.60% -31.73%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -62 123 £505 -12.17% 29
Midlands -30 52 £469 -1.26% 7
West Midlands -35 44 £469 -1.26% 7
North of England -59 25 £406 -18.75% 18
Yorkshire -50 12 £400 -20.00% 4
South West -21 11 £561 -3.98% 13
South East -59 11 £531 -7.61% 11
North West -36 9 £445 -17.13% 11
East Midlands -20 7 £519 +66.88%
North East - 4 £425 - 3
East of England -33 2 - - 2
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 24 (10.81%) Confluence
2 6 (2.70%) SAS
3 4 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.35%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.45%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 218 (98.20%) AWS
2 139 (62.61%) Amazon S3
3 112 (50.45%) AWS Lambda
3 112 (50.45%) Serverless
4 108 (48.65%) Amazon EC2
5 79 (35.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 55 (24.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 52 (23.42%) Amazon ECS
8 47 (21.17%) Amazon EKS
9 41 (18.47%) Azure
10 39 (17.57%) GitHub
11 35 (15.77%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (13.96%) Route 53
13 29 (13.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 29 (13.06%) AWS KMS
14 23 (10.36%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (7.21%) AWS Fargate
15 16 (7.21%) Power Platform
16 15 (6.76%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (4.95%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.05%) DNS
2 5 (2.25%) Firewall
2 5 (2.25%) VPN
3 4 (1.80%) DHCP
4 3 (1.35%) Network Security
4 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.90%) HTTP
5 2 (0.90%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.45%) AMQP
6 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.45%) LAN
6 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.45%) SMTP
6 1 (0.45%) SSL
6 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (27.93%) DynamoDB
2 60 (27.03%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (20.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 20 (9.01%) MySQL
5 16 (7.21%) Power BI
5 16 (7.21%) SQL Server
6 14 (6.31%) MongoDB
6 14 (6.31%) NoSQL
7 13 (5.86%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (5.86%) Pentaho
8 12 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (4.05%) Redis
9 9 (4.05%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (4.05%) Tableau
10 8 (3.60%) Oracle Database
11 7 (3.15%) Data Lake
11 7 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (3.15%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (2.25%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 73 (32.88%) Jenkins
2 57 (25.68%) Git
3 32 (14.41%) GitLab
4 29 (13.06%) JIRA
5 27 (12.16%) JUnit
6 23 (10.36%) Mockito
7 22 (9.91%) Maven
8 20 (9.01%) SonarQube
9 14 (6.31%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.86%) jMock
11 11 (4.95%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.70%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (2.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (2.25%) git-flow
13 5 (2.25%) Postman
13 5 (2.25%) Snyk
14 4 (1.80%) Flyway
14 4 (1.80%) Oracle APEX
15 3 (1.35%) Gradle
General
1 54 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.52%) Public Sector
3 27 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.01%) Finance
5 11 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.50%) Banking
7 7 (3.15%) Legal
8 4 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.35%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.90%) Front Office
10 2 (0.90%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Marketing
11 1 (0.45%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (22.07%) Developer
2 35 (15.77%) Senior
3 33 (14.86%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (11.26%) Java Developer
5 23 (10.36%) DBA
5 23 (10.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (9.01%) Data Engineer
7 18 (8.11%) Architect
7 18 (8.11%) Software Engineer
8 15 (6.76%) AWS Architect
8 15 (6.76%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.86%) Lead
10 12 (5.41%) AWS Developer
10 12 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (5.41%) Oracle DBA
10 12 (5.41%) Python Developer
11 11 (4.95%) Analyst
12 10 (4.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.50%) Delivery Manager
12 10 (4.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (19.82%) Spring
1 44 (19.82%) Spring Boot
2 35 (15.77%) RESTful
3 34 (15.32%) React
4 32 (14.41%) REST
5 31 (13.96%) Node.js
6 30 (13.51%) AngularJS
7 26 (11.71%) Kafka
8 23 (10.36%) Hibernate
8 23 (10.36%) JPA
8 23 (10.36%) SOAP
9 21 (9.46%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (8.56%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (8.56%) Web Services
11 18 (8.11%) Spring Batch
11 18 (8.11%) Spring Integration
12 15 (6.76%) GraphQL
13 13 (5.86%) PowerMock
14 12 (5.41%) Django
14 12 (5.41%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 53 (23.87%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.26%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.05%) Replication
5 7 (3.15%) NHS
6 5 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.90%) Clustering
7 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.45%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Life Science
8 1 (0.45%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (22.07%) Linux
2 8 (3.60%) Unix
3 7 (3.15%) Windows
4 6 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.80%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.35%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.45%) CentOS
7 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (56.31%) CI/CD
2 108 (48.65%) Agile
3 93 (41.89%) DevOps
4 61 (27.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (24.32%) Microservices
6 51 (22.97%) Containerisation
7 43 (19.37%) Scrum
8 40 (18.02%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (14.86%) TDD
10 32 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (13.96%) Software Engineering
12 30 (13.51%) ETL
13 28 (12.61%) Kanban
14 26 (11.71%) Event-Driven
15 25 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (11.26%) Migration
15 25 (11.26%) Observability
15 25 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (10.36%) Continuous Integration
16 23 (10.36%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 91 (40.99%) SQL
2 78 (35.14%) Java
3 75 (33.78%) Python
4 18 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 16 (7.21%) Bash
5 16 (7.21%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.76%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.76%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.60%) Groovy
8 7 (3.15%) C#
8 7 (3.15%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.25%) Go
9 5 (2.25%) Scala
10 4 (1.80%) Perl
10 4 (1.80%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.90%) Ruby
12 1 (0.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 104 (46.85%) Security Cleared
2 88 (39.64%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.26%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.86%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.95%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.05%) Degree
7 8 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.35%) OCP
9 3 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.35%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.90%) PMP
11 1 (0.45%) CEH
11 1 (0.45%) CISSP
11 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.05%) NIST
2 8 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.60%) QA
3 7 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.15%) PCI DSS
3 7 (3.15%) PMO
4 6 (2.70%) GDPR
5 4 (1.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) HL7
6 1 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 90 (40.54%) Docker
2 11 (4.95%) Postfix
3 5 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.45%) HDFS
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 82 (36.94%) Terraform
2 58 (26.13%) Kubernetes
3 48 (21.62%) Grafana
4 28 (12.61%) Prometheus
5 14 (6.31%) Ansible
6 8 (3.60%) Data Guard
7 7 (3.15%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.25%) Argo
9 4 (1.80%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.35%) Foglight
10 3 (1.35%) Istio
10 3 (1.35%) Kibana
10 3 (1.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.35%) Puppet
10 3 (1.35%) Rancher
11 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.90%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.90%) systemd
12 1 (0.45%) vMotion
Vendors
1 33 (14.86%) Oracle
2 22 (9.91%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.66%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (6.76%) Atlassian
5 12 (5.41%) Informatica
6 11 (4.95%) Microsoft
7 9 (4.05%) Dynatrace
7 9 (4.05%) Talend
8 8 (3.60%) Databricks
9 6 (2.70%) Denodo
10 5 (2.25%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.25%) Splunk
10 5 (2.25%) Sybase
11 4 (1.80%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.80%) Brio
11 4 (1.80%) Qualys
11 4 (1.80%) Tenable
12 2 (0.90%) Google
12 2 (0.90%) NetApp
12 2 (0.90%) VMware
75 Amazon RDS jobs in England