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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 285 368
Rank change year-on-year -103 +83 -22
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 238 231 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.83% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.41% 4.61% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 170 116
10th Percentile £387 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -0.79% -10.38%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £725 £653 £688
UK median daily rate £509 £543 £535
% change year-on-year -6.22% +1.40% -6.96%
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 6,978 5,009 6,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.31% 18.10% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,683 3,469 4,359
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 80 93
10th Percentile £15.07 £20.55 £14.40
25th Percentile £23.48 £24.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.58 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -7.80% -31.82%
75th Percentile £65.61 £62.44 £59.95
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.62 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +11.43% +1.55% -34.35%

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 12 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 12 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 -64 141 £535 -7.36% 92
Midlands -43 45 £472 -0.63% 12
West Midlands -41 38 £469 -1.26% 8
North of England -60 31 £456 -16.05% 28
Yorkshire -30 18 £500 - 7
South West -43 8 £542 -7.19% 12
South East -77 8 £440 -23.57% 14
North West -52 7 £525 -4.63% 14
East Midlands -5 6 £498 +31.05% 4
North East -37 6 £425 -5.56% 7
East of England -24 4 £348 -36.82% 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 25 (10.50%) Confluence
2 7 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.52%) SAS
4 5 (2.10%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.26%) Apache
5 3 (1.26%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 227 (95.38%) AWS
2 158 (66.39%) Amazon S3
3 124 (52.10%) AWS Lambda
4 123 (51.68%) Serverless
5 104 (43.70%) Amazon EC2
6 96 (40.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 73 (30.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 56 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (21.01%) Amazon EKS
10 49 (20.59%) Azure
11 39 (16.39%) AWS KMS
12 35 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
13 34 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (13.03%) GitHub
15 23 (9.66%) Route 53
16 19 (7.98%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (7.56%) Power Platform
18 16 (6.72%) GCP
19 14 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
20 12 (5.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.46%) Firewall
2 9 (3.78%) DNS
3 7 (2.94%) DHCP
4 6 (2.52%) VPN
5 4 (1.68%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.68%) Network Security
5 4 (1.68%) SMTP
5 4 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.84%) HTTP
6 2 (0.84%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.84%) SSL
7 1 (0.42%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (21.85%) Amazon Aurora
2 52 (21.85%) DynamoDB
3 19 (7.98%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (7.98%) SQL Server
4 18 (7.56%) Power BI
5 17 (7.14%) MySQL
6 15 (6.30%) MongoDB
7 14 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (5.46%) Redis
9 12 (5.04%) Big Data
9 12 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (4.62%) Data Lake
11 10 (4.20%) Pentaho
11 10 (4.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (3.78%) Tableau
13 8 (3.36%) NoSQL
14 7 (2.94%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (2.94%) Relational Database
15 5 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 66 (27.73%) Jenkins
2 54 (22.69%) Git
3 36 (15.13%) GitLab
4 31 (13.03%) JIRA
5 22 (9.24%) JUnit
6 20 (8.40%) Mockito
7 19 (7.98%) SonarQube
8 16 (6.72%) Maven
9 12 (5.04%) DbUnit
10 11 (4.62%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (4.62%) jMock
11 8 (3.36%) Bitbucket
12 7 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.52%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (2.10%) Postman
15 4 (1.68%) Cucumber
15 4 (1.68%) Flyway
16 3 (1.26%) Artifactory
16 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
17 2 (0.84%) git-flow
General
1 68 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 63 (26.47%) Public Sector
3 36 (15.13%) Finance
4 28 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.40%) Banking
6 9 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.52%) Front Office
8 6 (2.52%) Legal
9 5 (2.10%) Back Office
10 4 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.26%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.84%) Law
12 2 (0.84%) Local Government
12 2 (0.84%) Marketing
13 1 (0.42%) Games
13 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (16.81%) AWS Engineer
2 39 (16.39%) Developer
3 36 (15.13%) Senior
4 33 (13.87%) Data Engineer
5 30 (12.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 29 (12.18%) Architect
7 28 (11.76%) DBA
8 22 (9.24%) Java Developer
9 19 (7.98%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (7.98%) Lead
10 16 (6.72%) AWS Architect
10 16 (6.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (5.88%) Administrator
12 13 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (5.04%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.62%) AWS Data Engineer
14 11 (4.62%) Technical Leader
15 10 (4.20%) Analyst
15 10 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
15 10 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.03%) REST
1 31 (13.03%) Spring
1 31 (13.03%) Spring Boot
2 30 (12.61%) React
3 28 (11.76%) Node.js
3 28 (11.76%) RESTful
4 27 (11.34%) AngularJS
5 20 (8.40%) Kafka
5 20 (8.40%) SOAP
6 19 (7.98%) ActiveMQ
7 16 (6.72%) Hibernate
7 16 (6.72%) JPA
7 16 (6.72%) Spring Batch
7 16 (6.72%) Spring Integration
7 16 (6.72%) Web Services
8 14 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (5.46%) FastAPI
10 11 (4.62%) Bootstrap
10 11 (4.62%) PowerMock
11 10 (4.20%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.85%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (8.40%) Replication
4 12 (5.04%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.36%) NHS
5 8 (3.36%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.94%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.94%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.52%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.10%) Clustering
8 5 (2.10%) PKI
9 4 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.26%) Derivative
10 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.26%) Equities
10 3 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.01%) Linux
2 19 (7.98%) Windows
3 13 (5.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.94%) Unix
5 6 (2.52%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.68%) AIX
7 3 (1.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (53.36%) CI/CD
2 106 (44.54%) Agile
3 100 (42.02%) DevOps
4 79 (33.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (21.01%) Microservices
6 45 (18.91%) Containerisation
6 45 (18.91%) Performance Tuning
7 41 (17.23%) Data Modelling
8 38 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (15.13%) High Availability
10 35 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (14.71%) Observability
10 35 (14.71%) Scrum
11 34 (14.29%) ETL
11 34 (14.29%) Migration
12 30 (12.61%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (10.92%) Event-Driven
13 26 (10.92%) Kanban
14 25 (10.50%) TDD
14 25 (10.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 97 (40.76%) Python
2 86 (36.13%) SQL
3 65 (27.31%) Java
4 25 (10.50%) Bash
5 23 (9.66%) TypeScript
6 21 (8.82%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.04%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.62%) Groovy
9 6 (2.52%) Perl
9 6 (2.52%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.10%) C#
10 5 (2.10%) Scala
11 4 (1.68%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.26%) Go
13 2 (0.84%) Ruby
14 1 (0.42%) Bicep
14 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 96 (40.34%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.71%) AWS Certification
4 21 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.72%) Degree
6 15 (6.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.78%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.36%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.26%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.84%) CISM
12 2 (0.84%) CISSP
12 2 (0.84%) PMP
13 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.40%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.94%) PMO
3 5 (2.10%) QA
4 4 (1.68%) NIST
4 4 (1.68%) SLA
5 3 (1.26%) HL7
5 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.84%) GDPR
6 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
7 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 76 (31.93%) Docker
2 13 (5.46%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.78%) Postfix
4 6 (2.52%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.68%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.68%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.68%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 94 (39.50%) Terraform
2 57 (23.95%) Kubernetes
3 49 (20.59%) Grafana
4 32 (13.45%) Prometheus
5 20 (8.40%) Ansible
6 7 (2.94%) Argo
6 7 (2.94%) Istio
7 6 (2.52%) Kibana
8 5 (2.10%) Puppet
9 4 (1.68%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.68%) vMotion
10 3 (1.26%) Foglight
10 3 (1.26%) Nagios
10 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.26%) Rancher
11 2 (0.84%) Consul
11 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.84%) Packer
11 2 (0.84%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 23 (9.66%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.98%) Oracle
4 15 (6.30%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (5.88%) Dynatrace
6 13 (5.46%) Atlassian
7 10 (4.20%) Informatica
8 9 (3.78%) VMware
9 8 (3.36%) Databricks
10 7 (2.94%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.52%) Denodo
11 6 (2.52%) Splunk
11 6 (2.52%) Talend
12 5 (2.10%) Amplitude
12 5 (2.10%) Citrix
12 5 (2.10%) Google
13 4 (1.68%) Brio
13 4 (1.68%) Cisco
13 4 (1.68%) HP
13 4 (1.68%) Symantec