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

 6 months to
11 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 287 364
Rank change year-on-year -96 +77 -56
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 208 188 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.77% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.34% 4.04% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 140 137
10th Percentile £388 £413 £404
25th Percentile £413 £463 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £648 £753 £709
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% -14.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £71.90 - -
25th Percentile £73.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 6,226 4,651 6,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.31% 19.00% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,281 3,259 4,477
10th Percentile £350 £361 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £776 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 88 131
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £46.90 £32.05 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.33% -20.37% -31.30%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.15 £60.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.15% -17.23% -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -63 113 £503 -16.25% 30
Midlands -25 53 £475 -9.52% 5
West Midlands -26 46 £475 -13.64% 5
North of England -53 22 £425 -15.00% 22
South East -61 11 £530 -7.83% 17
South West -33 9 £591 +1.16% 16
North West -40 8 £445 -2.41% 12
Yorkshire -45 8 £400 -20.00% 5
East Midlands -27 7 £519 +66.88%
North East - 6 £425 - 5
East of England -32 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 23 (11.06%) Confluence
2 6 (2.88%) SAS
3 4 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 206 (99.04%) AWS
2 135 (64.90%) Amazon S3
3 104 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 104 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 104 (50.00%) Serverless
4 76 (36.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 56 (26.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 51 (24.52%) Amazon ECS
7 46 (22.12%) Amazon EKS
8 38 (18.27%) GitHub
9 36 (17.31%) Azure
10 35 (16.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (13.94%) Amazon SQS
12 27 (12.98%) Route 53
13 26 (12.50%) AWS KMS
14 25 (12.02%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (8.17%) Amazon Kinesis
16 15 (7.21%) Power Platform
17 11 (5.29%) AWS CodePipeline
17 11 (5.29%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.85%) DNS
2 6 (2.88%) Network Security
3 5 (2.40%) VPN
4 4 (1.92%) Firewall
5 3 (1.44%) HTTP
5 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.96%) DHCP
6 2 (0.96%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.96%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.48%) AMQP
7 1 (0.48%) Internet
7 1 (0.48%) LAN
7 1 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.48%) SMTP
7 1 (0.48%) SSL
7 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (27.40%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (25.48%) DynamoDB
3 40 (19.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 21 (10.10%) MySQL
5 17 (8.17%) SQL Server
6 15 (7.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (7.21%) Power BI
7 14 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (6.73%) NoSQL
8 13 (6.25%) MongoDB
8 13 (6.25%) Pentaho
9 11 (5.29%) Relational Database
10 10 (4.81%) Redis
11 8 (3.85%) Data Lake
11 8 (3.85%) Oracle Database
11 8 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (3.85%) Tableau
12 7 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.40%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (2.40%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 72 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 49 (23.56%) Git
3 34 (16.35%) GitLab
4 25 (12.02%) JIRA
5 22 (10.58%) JUnit
6 18 (8.65%) Maven
6 18 (8.65%) Mockito
7 16 (7.69%) SonarQube
8 11 (5.29%) DbUnit
8 11 (5.29%) jMock
9 9 (4.33%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.40%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.40%) git-flow
10 5 (2.40%) Snyk
11 4 (1.92%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (1.44%) Flyway
12 3 (1.44%) Gradle
12 3 (1.44%) Postman
13 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.96%) Storybook
General
1 44 (21.15%) Public Sector
1 44 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.06%) Finance
4 10 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (3.85%) Banking
6 5 (2.40%) Legal
7 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.96%) Front Office
9 2 (0.96%) Local Government
10 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.48%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (18.75%) Developer
2 34 (16.35%) Senior
3 30 (14.42%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (12.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (10.58%) DBA
6 20 (9.62%) Data Engineer
7 19 (9.13%) Java Developer
8 15 (7.21%) Architect
9 14 (6.73%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (6.73%) Site Engineer
9 14 (6.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 14 (6.73%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.77%) AWS Developer
10 12 (5.77%) Lead
10 12 (5.77%) Oracle DBA
11 11 (5.29%) Analyst
11 11 (5.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.81%) AWS Architect
12 10 (4.81%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.27%) Spring
1 38 (18.27%) Spring Boot
2 28 (13.46%) Kafka
2 28 (13.46%) Node.js
2 28 (13.46%) RESTful
3 26 (12.50%) React
4 21 (10.10%) REST
5 20 (9.62%) AngularJS
6 19 (9.13%) Hibernate
6 19 (9.13%) JPA
6 19 (9.13%) Spring Cloud
7 18 (8.65%) SOAP
8 15 (7.21%) ActiveMQ
8 15 (7.21%) Spring Batch
8 15 (7.21%) Web Services
9 14 (6.73%) Spring Integration
10 11 (5.29%) PowerMock
11 10 (4.81%) Django
11 10 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (4.81%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.63%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.29%) Replication
4 6 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.92%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.44%) Clustering
6 3 (1.44%) NHS
7 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.48%) Life Science
8 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.48%) PMI
8 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (25.48%) Linux
2 8 (3.85%) Unix
3 5 (2.40%) Windows
4 4 (1.92%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 90 (43.27%) Agile
3 88 (42.31%) DevOps
4 67 (32.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (27.88%) Containerisation
6 43 (20.67%) Microservices
7 34 (16.35%) Performance Tuning
7 34 (16.35%) Scrum
8 31 (14.90%) ETL
8 31 (14.90%) Observability
8 31 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (14.42%) Software Engineering
10 26 (12.50%) TDD
11 25 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (11.54%) Migration
13 23 (11.06%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (11.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 22 (10.58%) Data Modelling
14 22 (10.58%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 88 (42.31%) SQL
2 81 (38.94%) Python
3 69 (33.17%) Java
4 23 (11.06%) Bash
5 18 (8.65%) Shell Script
6 13 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.77%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.33%) Go
8 9 (4.33%) Groovy
9 8 (3.85%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.37%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.88%) C#
12 5 (2.40%) Scala
13 4 (1.92%) Perl
14 3 (1.44%) Ruby
14 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (49.04%) Security Cleared
2 84 (40.38%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.46%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.73%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.81%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.85%) Degree
8 7 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.44%) OCP
11 3 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.96%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.48%) CEH
13 1 (0.48%) CISSP
13 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.48%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.81%) NIST
2 9 (4.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.33%) QA
3 7 (3.37%) GDPR
3 7 (3.37%) PCI DSS
3 7 (3.37%) PMO
4 2 (0.96%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.48%) HL7
System Software
1 89 (42.79%) Docker
2 10 (4.81%) Postfix
3 4 (1.92%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.44%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.96%) HDFS
6 1 (0.48%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (43.27%) Terraform
2 54 (25.96%) Kubernetes
3 53 (25.48%) Grafana
4 32 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 18 (8.65%) Ansible
6 12 (5.77%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.85%) Data Guard
8 7 (3.37%) Puppet
9 4 (1.92%) Argo
9 4 (1.92%) Kibana
9 4 (1.92%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.92%) Rancher
10 3 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.44%) Foglight
10 3 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.96%) Istio
11 2 (0.96%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.96%) systemd
12 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (15.38%) Oracle
2 21 (10.10%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.73%) Jaspersoft
3 14 (6.73%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.77%) Atlassian
4 12 (5.77%) Informatica
5 11 (5.29%) Dynatrace
6 9 (4.33%) Talend
7 8 (3.85%) Databricks
8 7 (3.37%) Splunk
9 6 (2.88%) Denodo
10 5 (2.40%) PagerDuty
10 5 (2.40%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.40%) Sybase
11 4 (1.92%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.92%) Qualys
11 4 (1.92%) Tenable
12 2 (0.96%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.96%) Google
12 2 (0.96%) Netlify
90 Amazon RDS jobs in England