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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 298 369
Rank change year-on-year -101 +71 -18
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 232 223 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.81% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.33% 4.45% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 167 121
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £428 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £613
90th Percentile £725 £653 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -1.59% +1.62% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £71.00 £80.25 -
25th Percentile £71.75 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £74.00 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% - -
75th Percentile £86.25 £85.63 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.75 -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -10.30% - -

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 6,961 5,006 6,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.42% 18.27% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,662 3,466 4,522
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -3.55% -2.73%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 80 97
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.72 £14.03
25th Percentile £25.49 £23.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.82 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.77% -9.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.06 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.40 £77.62 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £36.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.24% -3.33% -31.82%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -67 128 £535 -2.82% 30
Midlands -39 49 £475 - 4
West Midlands -42 42 £472 -0.63% 3
North of England -58 34 £500 -3.57% 20
Yorkshire -34 20 £500 - 5
North West -51 10 £600 +9.09% 7
South West -30 9 £538 -7.92% 9
South East -80 9 £440 -23.57% 14
East Midlands -13 6 £519 +36.58% 1
North East -39 4 £425 -5.56% 8
East of England -24 3 £350 -36.36% 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 26 (11.21%) Confluence
2 7 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.59%) SAS
4 4 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.29%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.86%) Apache
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 222 (95.69%) AWS
2 155 (66.81%) Amazon S3
3 124 (53.45%) AWS Lambda
4 123 (53.02%) Serverless
5 106 (45.69%) Amazon EC2
6 86 (37.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 61 (26.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 59 (25.43%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (21.55%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (21.55%) Azure
10 37 (15.95%) Amazon SQS
11 34 (14.66%) GitHub
12 32 (13.79%) AWS KMS
13 28 (12.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (11.21%) Route 53
15 21 (9.05%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (7.76%) Power Platform
17 15 (6.47%) GCP
18 14 (6.03%) AWS Fargate
19 13 (5.60%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.17%) Firewall
2 8 (3.45%) DNS
3 7 (3.02%) DHCP
4 6 (2.59%) VPN
5 4 (1.72%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.72%) Network Security
5 4 (1.72%) SMTP
6 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.86%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.43%) AMQP
8 1 (0.43%) HTTP
8 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (26.72%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (25.86%) DynamoDB
3 44 (18.97%) Amazon Aurora
4 19 (8.19%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (7.76%) Power BI
6 14 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (6.03%) SQL Server
7 12 (5.17%) Big Data
8 11 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.74%) MySQL
9 10 (4.31%) Data Lake
9 10 (4.31%) Pentaho
9 10 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (3.88%) Tableau
11 8 (3.45%) MongoDB
11 8 (3.45%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.45%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.02%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (2.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (27.59%) Jenkins
2 58 (25.00%) Git
3 32 (13.79%) GitLab
3 32 (13.79%) JIRA
4 25 (10.78%) JUnit
5 23 (9.91%) Mockito
6 22 (9.48%) Maven
7 21 (9.05%) SonarQube
8 14 (6.03%) DbUnit
9 13 (5.60%) jMock
10 11 (4.74%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (3.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.59%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (2.16%) Postman
14 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket
14 4 (1.72%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.72%) Flyway
15 3 (1.29%) Artifactory
15 3 (1.29%) Gradle
16 2 (0.86%) git-flow
General
1 61 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.98%) Public Sector
3 33 (14.22%) Finance
4 28 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.19%) Banking
6 9 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.59%) Front Office
7 6 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.59%) Legal
8 4 (1.72%) Back Office
9 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.86%) Law
10 2 (0.86%) Local Government
10 2 (0.86%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Games
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (17.24%) Developer
2 37 (15.95%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (14.22%) Senior
4 31 (13.36%) Data Engineer
5 29 (12.50%) Architect
6 26 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (10.34%) Java Developer
8 20 (8.62%) Lead
9 18 (7.76%) DBA
10 16 (6.90%) AWS Architect
11 15 (6.47%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (5.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (5.17%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.74%) Technical Leader
14 10 (4.31%) Analyst
14 10 (4.31%) Delivery Manager
15 9 (3.88%) Software Engineer
15 9 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (3.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.38%) Spring
1 38 (16.38%) Spring Boot
2 35 (15.09%) React
3 33 (14.22%) REST
4 31 (13.36%) Node.js
5 28 (12.07%) AngularJS
5 28 (12.07%) RESTful
6 23 (9.91%) SOAP
7 21 (9.05%) ActiveMQ
8 19 (8.19%) Hibernate
8 19 (8.19%) JPA
8 19 (8.19%) Kafka
8 19 (8.19%) Web Services
9 18 (7.76%) Spring Batch
9 18 (7.76%) Spring Integration
10 17 (7.33%) Spring Cloud
11 14 (6.03%) GraphQL
12 13 (5.60%) FastAPI
12 13 (5.60%) PowerMock
13 11 (4.74%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 55 (23.71%) Cloud Native
2 27 (11.64%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.74%) Replication
5 8 (3.45%) NHS
5 8 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.59%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.59%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.16%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.16%) Clustering
8 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.72%) PKI
9 3 (1.29%) Derivative
9 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.29%) Equities
9 3 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.84%) Linux
2 20 (8.62%) Windows
3 13 (5.60%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.45%) Unix
5 7 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.16%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.72%) AIX
8 3 (1.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.43%) CentOS
9 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (53.45%) CI/CD
2 109 (46.98%) Agile
3 100 (43.10%) DevOps
4 68 (29.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (21.98%) Microservices
6 48 (20.69%) Containerisation
7 41 (17.67%) Performance Tuning
8 38 (16.38%) Scrum
9 35 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (14.66%) ETL
11 32 (13.79%) Observability
12 31 (13.36%) Data Modelling
12 31 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (12.93%) Migration
14 29 (12.50%) Kanban
14 29 (12.50%) TDD
15 28 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
16 27 (11.64%) Test Automation
17 25 (10.78%) Event-Driven
17 25 (10.78%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 96 (41.38%) Python
2 78 (33.62%) SQL
3 69 (29.74%) Java
4 25 (10.78%) Bash
5 23 (9.91%) TypeScript
6 21 (9.05%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.03%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.88%) Groovy
9 8 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.16%) C#
10 5 (2.16%) Perl
11 4 (1.72%) Scala
11 4 (1.72%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.29%) Go
13 2 (0.86%) Ruby
14 1 (0.43%) Bicep
14 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (42.67%) Security Cleared
2 84 (36.21%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.07%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.90%) Degree
5 13 (5.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.88%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.86%) CISM
10 2 (0.86%) CISSP
10 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMP
11 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.02%) PMO
3 5 (2.16%) QA
4 4 (1.72%) NIST
4 4 (1.72%) SLA
5 3 (1.29%) HL7
5 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.86%) GDPR
6 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
7 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 79 (34.05%) Docker
2 12 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.74%) Postfix
4 6 (2.59%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.72%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.72%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 84 (36.21%) Terraform
2 53 (22.84%) Kubernetes
3 47 (20.26%) Grafana
4 30 (12.93%) Prometheus
5 21 (9.05%) Ansible
6 8 (3.45%) Argo
7 6 (2.59%) Istio
8 5 (2.16%) Puppet
9 4 (1.72%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.72%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.72%) vMotion
10 3 (1.29%) Foglight
10 3 (1.29%) Kibana
10 3 (1.29%) Nagios
10 3 (1.29%) Rancher
11 2 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.86%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.43%) Consul
12 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (11.64%) ServiceNow
2 24 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.19%) Oracle
4 17 (7.33%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (6.47%) Atlassian
6 13 (5.60%) Dynatrace
7 10 (4.31%) Informatica
8 9 (3.88%) VMware
9 8 (3.45%) Databricks
10 7 (3.02%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.59%) Denodo
11 6 (2.59%) Talend
12 5 (2.16%) Amplitude
12 5 (2.16%) Citrix
12 5 (2.16%) Google
12 5 (2.16%) Splunk
13 4 (1.72%) Brio
13 4 (1.72%) Cisco
13 4 (1.72%) HP
13 4 (1.72%) Symantec
69 Amazon RDS jobs in England