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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 282 361
Rank change year-on-year -105 +79 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 227 234 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.85% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.24% 4.65% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 172 118
10th Percentile £387 £413 £411
25th Percentile £424 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -0.74% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £608
90th Percentile £731 £653 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £541 £528
% change year-on-year -4.16% +2.46% -9.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £80.25 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £85.63 -
90th Percentile - £86.75 -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -12.73% - -

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 6,997 5,027 6,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 18.22% 18.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,682 3,483 4,369
10th Percentile £358 £343 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.28% -2.18%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £701 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 79 92
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.69 £14.33
25th Percentile £25.05 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.65 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.41% -34.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.88 £60.36
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.74 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.86% - -36.36%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -78 130 £547 -5.69% 51
Midlands -50 44 £475 - 9
West Midlands -57 38 £469 -1.26% 8
North of England -64 30 £463 -14.90% 24
Yorkshire -27 18 £500 - 6
South West -35 9 £538 -7.92% 8
South East -77 9 £440 -23.57% 12
North East -37 6 £425 -5.56% 6
North West -48 6 £600 +8.99% 12
East Midlands -13 5 £519 +36.58% 1
East of England -27 4 £348 -36.82% 5
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 (10.57%) Confluence
2 7 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.64%) SAS
4 5 (2.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.32%) Apache
5 3 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 217 (95.59%) AWS
2 154 (67.84%) Amazon S3
3 121 (53.30%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (52.86%) Serverless
5 102 (44.93%) Amazon EC2
6 87 (38.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 65 (28.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 54 (23.79%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (22.47%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (21.15%) Azure
11 36 (15.86%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (15.42%) GitHub
13 32 (14.10%) AWS KMS
14 27 (11.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (10.13%) Route 53
16 21 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (7.93%) Power Platform
18 16 (7.05%) GCP
19 14 (6.17%) AWS Step Functions
20 12 (5.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.29%) Firewall
2 9 (3.96%) DNS
3 7 (3.08%) DHCP
4 6 (2.64%) VPN
5 4 (1.76%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.76%) Network Security
5 4 (1.76%) SMTP
5 4 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.88%) HTTP
6 2 (0.88%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.88%) SSL
7 1 (0.44%) AMQP
7 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (27.31%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (24.23%) DynamoDB
3 43 (18.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 20 (8.81%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (7.93%) Power BI
6 15 (6.61%) SQL Server
7 14 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (5.29%) Big Data
8 12 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.29%) MySQL
9 11 (4.85%) Data Lake
10 10 (4.41%) MongoDB
10 10 (4.41%) Pentaho
10 10 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (3.96%) Tableau
12 8 (3.52%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.52%) Redis
12 8 (3.52%) Relational Database
13 7 (3.08%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 61 (26.87%) Jenkins
2 54 (23.79%) Git
3 35 (15.42%) GitLab
4 30 (13.22%) JIRA
5 23 (10.13%) JUnit
6 21 (9.25%) Mockito
7 19 (8.37%) SonarQube
8 17 (7.49%) Maven
9 12 (5.29%) DbUnit
10 11 (4.85%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (4.85%) jMock
11 7 (3.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.64%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (2.20%) Bitbucket
13 5 (2.20%) Postman
14 4 (1.76%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.76%) Flyway
15 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
15 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
16 2 (0.88%) git-flow
General
1 60 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 53 (23.35%) Public Sector
3 35 (15.42%) Finance
4 28 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.81%) Banking
6 9 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.64%) Front Office
8 6 (2.64%) Legal
9 5 (2.20%) Back Office
10 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Law
12 2 (0.88%) Local Government
12 2 (0.88%) Marketing
13 1 (0.44%) Games
13 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (17.62%) Developer
2 38 (16.74%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (14.10%) Data Engineer
3 32 (14.10%) Senior
4 29 (12.78%) Architect
5 25 (11.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (10.13%) Java Developer
7 20 (8.81%) Lead
8 19 (8.37%) DBA
9 16 (7.05%) AWS Architect
9 16 (7.05%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (5.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.29%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.85%) Technical Leader
13 10 (4.41%) Analyst
13 10 (4.41%) AWS Data Engineer
13 10 (4.41%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (4.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.10%) REST
1 32 (14.10%) Spring
1 32 (14.10%) Spring Boot
2 30 (13.22%) React
3 28 (12.33%) Node.js
3 28 (12.33%) RESTful
4 27 (11.89%) AngularJS
5 21 (9.25%) SOAP
6 20 (8.81%) ActiveMQ
6 20 (8.81%) Kafka
7 17 (7.49%) Hibernate
7 17 (7.49%) JPA
7 17 (7.49%) Web Services
8 16 (7.05%) Spring Batch
8 16 (7.05%) Spring Integration
9 15 (6.61%) Spring Cloud
10 13 (5.73%) FastAPI
11 11 (4.85%) Bootstrap
11 11 (4.85%) PowerMock
12 10 (4.41%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 54 (23.79%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.01%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.73%) Replication
4 12 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.52%) NHS
5 8 (3.52%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.08%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.64%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (2.64%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.20%) Clustering
8 5 (2.20%) PKI
9 4 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.32%) Derivative
10 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.32%) Equities
10 3 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (21.59%) Linux
2 19 (8.37%) Windows
3 13 (5.73%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.96%) Unix
5 7 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.20%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.76%) AIX
8 3 (1.32%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.44%) CentOS
9 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (53.30%) CI/CD
2 108 (47.58%) Agile
3 95 (41.85%) DevOps
4 72 (31.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (22.03%) Microservices
6 47 (20.70%) Containerisation
7 37 (16.30%) Performance Tuning
7 37 (16.30%) Scrum
8 34 (14.98%) Data Modelling
8 34 (14.98%) ETL
8 34 (14.98%) Observability
9 33 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (13.66%) Migration
10 31 (13.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (13.22%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (12.33%) High Availability
13 27 (11.89%) Kanban
14 26 (11.45%) Event-Driven
14 26 (11.45%) TDD
14 26 (11.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 97 (42.73%) Python
2 79 (34.80%) SQL
3 63 (27.75%) Java
4 26 (11.45%) Bash
5 23 (10.13%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.81%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.17%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.41%) Groovy
9 7 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.20%) C#
10 5 (2.20%) Perl
11 4 (1.76%) Go
11 4 (1.76%) Scala
11 4 (1.76%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.88%) Ruby
13 1 (0.44%) Bicep
13 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (44.49%) Security Cleared
2 85 (37.44%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.22%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (7.05%) Degree
5 11 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.96%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.32%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.88%) CISM
10 2 (0.88%) CISSP
10 2 (0.88%) PMP
11 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.05%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.08%) PMO
3 5 (2.20%) QA
4 4 (1.76%) NIST
4 4 (1.76%) SLA
5 3 (1.32%) HL7
5 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.88%) GDPR
6 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) NCSC
7 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 75 (33.04%) Docker
2 12 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.96%) Postfix
4 6 (2.64%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.76%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.76%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.76%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 87 (38.33%) Terraform
2 56 (24.67%) Kubernetes
3 45 (19.82%) Grafana
4 29 (12.78%) Prometheus
5 20 (8.81%) Ansible
6 8 (3.52%) Argo
7 7 (3.08%) Istio
8 5 (2.20%) Puppet
9 4 (1.76%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.76%) vMotion
10 3 (1.32%) Foglight
10 3 (1.32%) Kibana
10 3 (1.32%) Nagios
10 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.32%) Rancher
11 2 (0.88%) Consul
11 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.88%) Packer
11 2 (0.88%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (11.89%) ServiceNow
2 23 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.37%) Oracle
4 15 (6.61%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (6.17%) Dynatrace
6 13 (5.73%) Atlassian
7 10 (4.41%) Informatica
8 9 (3.96%) VMware
9 8 (3.52%) Databricks
10 7 (3.08%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.64%) Denodo
11 6 (2.64%) Splunk
11 6 (2.64%) Talend
12 5 (2.20%) Amplitude
12 5 (2.20%) Citrix
12 5 (2.20%) Google
13 4 (1.76%) Brio
13 4 (1.76%) Cisco
13 4 (1.76%) HP
13 4 (1.76%) Symantec