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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 319 370
Rank change year-on-year -89 +51 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 243 209 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.75% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.54% 4.09% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 142 107
10th Percentile £370 £400 £414
25th Percentile £430 £450 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -7.06% -6.43%
75th Percentile £672 £588 £617
90th Percentile £756 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £527 £506 £528
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.16% -3.95%
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 6,862 5,115 5,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.74% 18.28% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,566 3,499 4,041
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £530
% change year-on-year -0.10% -5.57% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 76 84
10th Percentile £16.14 £20.89 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.82 £29.00 £22.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +11.99% -29.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.38 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.59 £39.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.81% +12.80% -33.33%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -34 158 £550 +4.76% 162
North of England -64 31 £500 - 42
Midlands -76 22 £459 -3.37% 18
West Midlands -60 20 £464 -2.32% 9
Yorkshire -21 18 £500 - 5
South East -71 12 £460 -3.16% 26
South West -32 11 £438 -15.87% 31
North West -57 7 £525 -4.55% 30
North East -39 6 £419 -1.47% 7
East of England -31 3 £345 -37.27% 14
East Midlands -18 1 £358 -5.79% 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 (7.82%) Confluence
2 16 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.29%) Apache
4 6 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.47%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.06%) SAS
6 4 (1.65%) nginx
7 3 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.23%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.82%) Camunda
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.82%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.82%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 230 (94.65%) AWS
2 161 (66.26%) Amazon S3
3 127 (52.26%) AWS Lambda
4 124 (51.03%) Serverless
5 98 (40.33%) Amazon EC2
6 90 (37.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 65 (26.75%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (26.75%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (26.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 56 (23.05%) Azure
9 40 (16.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (13.17%) GitHub
11 30 (12.35%) AWS KMS
12 28 (11.52%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (8.64%) GCP
15 20 (8.23%) Route 53
16 17 (7.00%) AWS Step Functions
17 16 (6.58%) Amazon EventBridge
18 15 (6.17%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.00%) Firewall
2 14 (5.76%) DNS
3 9 (3.70%) VPN
4 7 (2.88%) DHCP
4 7 (2.88%) Network Security
5 6 (2.47%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.06%) SMTP
7 4 (1.65%) HTTP
7 4 (1.65%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.65%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.82%) FTP
8 2 (0.82%) IMAP
8 2 (0.82%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.82%) SSH
8 2 (0.82%) SSL
9 1 (0.41%) AMQP
9 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.41%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (23.87%) Amazon Aurora
3 53 (21.81%) DynamoDB
4 28 (11.52%) SQL Server
5 24 (9.88%) MongoDB
6 23 (9.47%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (8.23%) MySQL
8 19 (7.82%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (7.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (6.58%) Redis
11 13 (5.35%) Data Lake
12 12 (4.94%) Big Data
12 12 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (4.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (4.12%) Power BI
14 9 (3.70%) NoSQL
14 9 (3.70%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.88%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (2.88%) Metadata
16 6 (2.47%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 62 (25.51%) Jenkins
2 51 (20.99%) Git
3 44 (18.11%) GitLab
4 27 (11.11%) JIRA
5 13 (5.35%) JUnit
5 13 (5.35%) Maven
5 13 (5.35%) Mockito
6 12 (4.94%) Bitbucket
7 11 (4.53%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.47%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.47%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (2.06%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.06%) jMock
11 4 (1.65%) Gradle
11 4 (1.65%) Postman
12 3 (1.23%) Flyway
12 3 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.82%) Vagrant
General
1 70 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.40%) Public Sector
3 36 (14.81%) Finance
4 25 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.47%) Banking
6 11 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.12%) Back Office
8 9 (3.70%) Front Office
9 7 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.06%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.65%) Local Government
12 3 (1.23%) Billing
12 3 (1.23%) Law
12 3 (1.23%) Legal
12 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Marketing
13 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.41%) Games
14 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 50 (20.58%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (17.70%) Senior
3 38 (15.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (15.23%) Architect
4 37 (15.23%) Data Engineer
5 34 (13.99%) Developer
6 31 (12.76%) DBA
7 22 (9.05%) Lead
8 21 (8.64%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (7.82%) AWS Architect
9 19 (7.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 19 (7.82%) Java Developer
10 17 (7.00%) AWS Data Engineer
11 16 (6.58%) Administrator
11 16 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (6.58%) Technical Leader
12 13 (5.35%) Senior Data Engineer
12 13 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (4.12%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (50.62%) Terraform
2 31 (12.76%) REST
3 29 (11.93%) React
4 26 (10.70%) Spring
4 26 (10.70%) Spring Boot
5 22 (9.05%) Kafka
5 22 (9.05%) RESTful
6 20 (8.23%) AngularJS
7 17 (7.00%) FastAPI
8 14 (5.76%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (5.35%) Hibernate
9 13 (5.35%) JPA
10 12 (4.94%) Node.js
10 12 (4.94%) SOAP
11 11 (4.53%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (4.12%) GraphQL
13 8 (3.29%) JSON
13 8 (3.29%) Spring Batch
13 8 (3.29%) Spring Integration
13 8 (3.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (26.34%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.93%) Replication
3 22 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.58%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.12%) NHS
6 8 (3.29%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.88%) PKI
7 7 (2.88%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.47%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.47%) Clustering
8 6 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.47%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.06%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.06%) Reference Data
9 5 (2.06%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.65%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.23%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 50 (20.58%) Linux
2 24 (9.88%) Windows
3 12 (4.94%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.70%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (2.88%) Unix
7 6 (2.47%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.06%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.65%) AIX
10 1 (0.41%) CentOS
10 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.41%) VMS
10 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (63.79%) CI/CD
2 124 (51.03%) DevOps
3 117 (48.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (41.15%) Agile
5 55 (22.63%) Containerisation
5 55 (22.63%) Performance Tuning
6 51 (20.99%) Observability
7 50 (20.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 49 (20.16%) Microservices
9 47 (19.34%) Data Modelling
10 42 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (16.87%) Migration
12 38 (15.64%) Event-Driven
13 36 (14.81%) Data Integration
13 36 (14.81%) High Availability
14 35 (14.40%) Disaster Recovery
15 33 (13.58%) Scrum
16 32 (13.17%) Data Pipeline
16 32 (13.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 32 (13.17%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 112 (46.09%) Python
2 83 (34.16%) SQL
3 55 (22.63%) Java
4 24 (9.88%) Bash
4 24 (9.88%) PowerShell
4 24 (9.88%) TypeScript
5 16 (6.58%) Groovy
6 15 (6.17%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.88%) Perl
7 7 (2.88%) Scala
8 4 (1.65%) Bicep
8 4 (1.65%) C#
8 4 (1.65%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.23%) Go
9 3 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.23%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 95 (39.09%) Security Cleared
2 82 (33.74%) SC Cleared
3 45 (18.52%) AWS Certification
4 27 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.41%) Degree
6 15 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.53%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.53%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.88%) CISM
9 7 (2.88%) CISSP
10 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.82%) PMP
13 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.88%) NIST
2 7 (2.88%) QA
3 3 (1.23%) HL7
3 3 (1.23%) SLA
4 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 87 (35.80%) Docker
2 16 (6.58%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.47%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.47%) Postfix
3 6 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.23%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.23%) Terminal Services
5 3 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.82%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.82%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.82%) Squid
6 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 63 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 52 (21.40%) Grafana
3 41 (16.87%) Prometheus
4 24 (9.88%) Ansible
5 8 (3.29%) Istio
6 7 (2.88%) Kibana
6 7 (2.88%) Puppet
7 6 (2.47%) Argo
8 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.65%) Rancher
10 3 (1.23%) Nagios
10 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.23%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.23%) vMotion
11 2 (0.82%) Nessus
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.82%) Packer
11 2 (0.82%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.64%) Oracle
3 20 (8.23%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.17%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.53%) Informatica
6 9 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.29%) Databricks
7 8 (3.29%) VMware
8 7 (2.88%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.47%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.47%) Google
9 6 (2.47%) Splunk
9 6 (2.47%) Talend
10 5 (2.06%) Amplitude
10 5 (2.06%) Denodo
11 4 (1.65%) Brio
11 4 (1.65%) Cisco
11 4 (1.65%) Citrix
12 3 (1.23%) HP
12 3 (1.23%) Symantec