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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 280 349
Rank change year-on-year -72 +69 -37
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 234 197 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.81% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.92% 4.25% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 137 146
10th Percentile £376 £420 £403
25th Percentile £413 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £622
90th Percentile £646 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -8.18% +7.32% -12.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £73.40 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 5,966 4,635 6,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.93% 19.06% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,143 3,251 4,412
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £663 £665
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 90 155
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.69 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.19 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £48.72 £33.81 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +44.12% -16.01% -29.32%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.67 £53.94
90th Percentile £85.20 £70.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.13
% change year-on-year +58.03% -21.15% -29.54%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -69 125 £513 -10.87% 33
Midlands -34 48 £500 -1.86% 2
West Midlands -36 39 £506 -4.30% 2
North of England -53 28 £425 -19.05% 13
South East -43 13 £530 -7.83% 17
North West -29 12 £388 -15.02% 10
Yorkshire -51 12 £500 -4.76% 3
South West -24 11 £561 -8.55% 10
East Midlands -24 9 £444 +42.77%
North East -16 4 £500 -
East of England -27 3 £538 +8.86% 6
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 17 (7.26%) Confluence
2 3 (1.28%) Apache
2 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 233 (99.57%) AWS
2 154 (65.81%) Amazon S3
3 132 (56.41%) Amazon EC2
4 125 (53.42%) Serverless
5 124 (52.99%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (33.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 70 (29.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 63 (26.92%) Amazon ECS
9 60 (25.64%) Amazon EKS
10 57 (24.36%) GitHub
11 54 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (17.52%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (15.38%) Azure
14 28 (11.97%) Route 53
15 24 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (8.12%) AWS Fargate
17 17 (7.26%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (7.26%) AWS KMS
18 15 (6.41%) AWS CodePipeline
18 15 (6.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.13%) DNS
1 12 (5.13%) Firewall
2 9 (3.85%) VPN
3 6 (2.56%) Network Security
4 3 (1.28%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.85%) HTTP
5 2 (0.85%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.43%) AMQP
6 1 (0.43%) DHCP
6 1 (0.43%) Internet
6 1 (0.43%) LAN
6 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.43%) SMTP
6 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (21.37%) DynamoDB
3 32 (13.68%) Amazon Aurora
4 26 (11.11%) MySQL
5 20 (8.55%) Relational Database
5 20 (8.55%) SQL Server
6 15 (6.41%) MongoDB
7 13 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (5.56%) NoSQL
8 12 (5.13%) Power BI
9 11 (4.70%) Redis
10 10 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (3.85%) Oracle Database
11 9 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (3.85%) Tableau
12 8 (3.42%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.99%) DB2
14 6 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (2.56%) Pentaho
15 5 (2.14%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 89 (38.03%) Jenkins
2 60 (25.64%) Git
3 42 (17.95%) GitLab
4 22 (9.40%) JIRA
5 21 (8.97%) JUnit
6 15 (6.41%) Maven
7 13 (5.56%) Mockito
8 11 (4.70%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.99%) DbUnit
9 7 (2.99%) jMock
10 6 (2.56%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.14%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.14%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.14%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.14%) Snyk
12 4 (1.71%) git-flow
12 4 (1.71%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (1.28%) Flyway
13 3 (1.28%) Gradle
General
1 56 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 35 (14.96%) Finance
4 28 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.13%) Banking
6 11 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.56%) Legal
8 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Front Office
9 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.85%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (16.67%) Developer
2 32 (13.68%) Senior
3 31 (13.25%) AWS Engineer
4 28 (11.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (9.40%) Site Engineer
5 22 (9.40%) Software Engineer
6 21 (8.97%) DBA
6 21 (8.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (8.12%) Java Developer
8 17 (7.26%) AWS Developer
8 17 (7.26%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (7.26%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.98%) Lead
10 13 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
11 11 (4.70%) Analyst
11 11 (4.70%) Architect
12 10 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.27%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.27%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.85%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.38%) Kafka
2 35 (14.96%) Spring
2 35 (14.96%) Spring Boot
3 32 (13.68%) Node.js
4 31 (13.25%) RESTful
5 26 (11.11%) React
6 21 (8.97%) REST
7 15 (6.41%) AngularJS
8 14 (5.98%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (5.98%) Hibernate
8 14 (5.98%) JPA
8 14 (5.98%) SOAP
8 14 (5.98%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (5.56%) Django
10 11 (4.70%) CSS
10 11 (4.70%) GraphQL
10 11 (4.70%) Spring Batch
11 10 (4.27%) ActiveMQ
11 10 (4.27%) FastAPI
11 10 (4.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.52%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.56%) Replication
4 6 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (1.71%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.28%) Clustering
7 3 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.85%) Derivative
8 2 (0.85%) Equities
8 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.85%) NHS
8 2 (0.85%) PKI
9 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 62 (26.50%) Linux
2 6 (2.56%) Unix
2 6 (2.56%) Windows
3 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.28%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.85%) Solaris
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (59.40%) CI/CD
2 97 (41.45%) DevOps
3 95 (40.60%) Agile
4 83 (35.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (28.21%) Containerisation
6 48 (20.51%) Microservices
7 39 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (14.96%) Observability
9 34 (14.53%) Software Engineering
10 32 (13.68%) ETL
10 32 (13.68%) Performance Tuning
10 32 (13.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 31 (13.25%) Configuration Management
12 28 (11.97%) Migration
12 28 (11.97%) TDD
13 24 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.26%) High Availability
14 23 (9.83%) Scrum
15 22 (9.40%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (9.40%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 96 (41.03%) SQL
2 93 (39.74%) Python
3 67 (28.63%) Java
4 31 (13.25%) Bash
5 22 (9.40%) Shell Script
6 17 (7.26%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.41%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.98%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.27%) Go
10 8 (3.42%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.56%) C#
11 6 (2.56%) JSX
12 5 (2.14%) Groovy
12 5 (2.14%) Ruby
13 4 (1.71%) Perl
14 2 (0.85%) Scala
14 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.43%) Bicep
15 1 (0.43%) PHP
15 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 100 (42.74%) Security Cleared
2 81 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 33 (14.10%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.84%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (4.70%) Degree
6 10 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.28%) OCP
9 3 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.43%) CEH
11 1 (0.43%) CISSP
11 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.43%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) NIST
2 11 (4.70%) QA
3 9 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.42%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.99%) PMO
6 5 (2.14%) GDPR
6 5 (2.14%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.85%) SLA
9 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.43%) GxP
9 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 103 (44.02%) Docker
2 6 (2.56%) Postfix
3 4 (1.71%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.71%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.85%) HDFS
5 2 (0.85%) NFS
6 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 103 (44.02%) Terraform
2 68 (29.06%) Kubernetes
3 49 (20.94%) Grafana
4 34 (14.53%) Prometheus
5 33 (14.10%) Ansible
6 18 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 12 (5.13%) Puppet
8 8 (3.42%) Data Guard
9 5 (2.14%) Rancher
10 4 (1.71%) Argo
10 4 (1.71%) Kibana
10 4 (1.71%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.71%) Packer
11 3 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.28%) Foglight
11 3 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.85%) Istio
12 2 (0.85%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.85%) systemd
Vendors
1 31 (13.25%) Oracle
2 18 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 16 (6.84%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.27%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.85%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.85%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.42%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.42%) Databricks
6 8 (3.42%) Sybase
6 8 (3.42%) Talend
7 7 (2.99%) Splunk
8 6 (2.56%) Informatica
9 5 (2.14%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.71%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.71%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.71%) Qualys
10 4 (1.71%) Tenable
11 3 (1.28%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.28%) Google
12 2 (0.85%) NetApp