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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 291 359
Rank change year-on-year -89 +68 -44
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 225 192 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.80% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.56% 4.18% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 136 143
10th Percentile £385 £413 £385
25th Percentile £413 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -14.58%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £651 £673
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 6,314 4,591 6,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.15% 19.07% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,293 3,189 4,518
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 91 138
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.80 £22.94 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.36 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -19.88% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.36% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -62 126 £505 -12.17% 36
Midlands -26 52 £469 -1.26% 7
West Midlands -36 44 £469 -3.79% 6
North of England -63 25 £406 -18.75% 23
Yorkshire -53 12 £400 -20.00% 5
South East -64 12 £533 -7.39% 14
South West -28 10 £575 +5.99% 20
North West -38 9 £445 -17.13% 15
East Midlands -22 7 £519 +66.88% 1
North East - 4 £425 - 3
East of England -38 2 - - 4
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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 6 (2.67%) SAS
3 4 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 221 (98.22%) AWS
2 142 (63.11%) Amazon S3
3 118 (52.44%) AWS Lambda
3 118 (52.44%) Serverless
4 110 (48.89%) Amazon EC2
5 83 (36.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 59 (26.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 54 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
8 50 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
9 43 (19.11%) Azure
10 41 (18.22%) GitHub
11 35 (15.56%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (14.22%) Route 53
13 31 (13.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (12.89%) AWS KMS
15 25 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (7.56%) Power Platform
17 16 (7.11%) AWS Fargate
18 15 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
19 11 (4.89%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.00%) DNS
2 5 (2.22%) Firewall
2 5 (2.22%) VPN
3 4 (1.78%) DHCP
4 3 (1.33%) Network Security
4 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.89%) HTTP
5 2 (0.89%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.44%) AMQP
6 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.44%) LAN
6 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.44%) SMTP
6 1 (0.44%) SSL
6 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (27.56%) DynamoDB
2 59 (26.22%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 20 (8.89%) MySQL
5 17 (7.56%) Power BI
6 16 (7.11%) SQL Server
7 14 (6.22%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (6.22%) MongoDB
7 14 (6.22%) NoSQL
8 13 (5.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (5.78%) Pentaho
9 10 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (4.00%) Redis
10 9 (4.00%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.00%) Tableau
11 8 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (3.56%) Oracle Database
12 7 (3.11%) Data Lake
12 7 (3.11%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 74 (32.89%) Jenkins
2 56 (24.89%) Git
3 34 (15.11%) GitLab
4 30 (13.33%) JIRA
5 27 (12.00%) JUnit
6 23 (10.22%) Mockito
7 22 (9.78%) Maven
8 21 (9.33%) SonarQube
9 14 (6.22%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.78%) jMock
11 11 (4.89%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.67%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.67%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (2.22%) git-flow
13 5 (2.22%) Postman
13 5 (2.22%) Snyk
14 4 (1.78%) Flyway
14 4 (1.78%) Oracle APEX
15 3 (1.33%) Gradle
General
1 56 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 27 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.33%) Finance
5 11 (4.89%) Banking
5 11 (4.89%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.11%) Legal
7 5 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Front Office
10 2 (0.89%) Local Government
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Military
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (21.78%) Developer
2 36 (16.00%) Senior
3 35 (15.56%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 22 (9.78%) Data Engineer
5 22 (9.78%) DBA
6 18 (8.00%) Architect
6 18 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 15 (6.67%) AWS Architect
7 15 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 14 (6.22%) Lead
9 13 (5.78%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (5.33%) AWS Developer
10 12 (5.33%) Oracle DBA
10 12 (5.33%) Python Developer
11 11 (4.89%) Analyst
11 11 (4.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
12 10 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (19.56%) Spring
1 44 (19.56%) Spring Boot
2 35 (15.56%) RESTful
3 34 (15.11%) React
4 32 (14.22%) REST
5 31 (13.78%) Node.js
6 30 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 26 (11.56%) Kafka
8 23 (10.22%) Hibernate
8 23 (10.22%) JPA
8 23 (10.22%) SOAP
9 21 (9.33%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (8.44%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (8.44%) Web Services
11 18 (8.00%) Spring Batch
11 18 (8.00%) Spring Integration
12 15 (6.67%) GraphQL
13 13 (5.78%) PowerMock
14 12 (5.33%) Django
14 12 (5.33%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.44%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.00%) Replication
5 7 (3.11%) NHS
6 5 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.33%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.89%) Clustering
8 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.44%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.44%) Life Science
9 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.44%) PKI
9 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (21.33%) Linux
2 8 (3.56%) Unix
3 7 (3.11%) Windows
4 6 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.78%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.44%) CentOS
7 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (56.89%) CI/CD
2 108 (48.00%) Agile
3 96 (42.67%) DevOps
4 65 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (25.78%) Microservices
6 54 (24.00%) Containerisation
7 44 (19.56%) Scrum
8 41 (18.22%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (14.67%) TDD
10 32 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (13.78%) ETL
12 30 (13.33%) Software Engineering
13 28 (12.44%) Kanban
13 28 (12.44%) Observability
14 27 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (11.56%) Event-Driven
15 26 (11.56%) Migration
15 26 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (10.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 92 (40.89%) SQL
2 79 (35.11%) Java
3 78 (34.67%) Python
4 18 (8.00%) TypeScript
5 17 (7.56%) Bash
6 16 (7.11%) JavaScript
6 16 (7.11%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.22%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.56%) Groovy
9 7 (3.11%) C#
9 7 (3.11%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.22%) Go
10 5 (2.22%) Scala
10 5 (2.22%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.78%) Perl
12 2 (0.89%) Ruby
13 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 103 (45.78%) Security Cleared
2 88 (39.11%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.00%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.89%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (4.00%) Degree
8 8 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.33%) OCP
11 3 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.33%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.89%) PMP
13 1 (0.44%) CEH
13 1 (0.44%) CISSP
13 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.00%) NIST
1 9 (4.00%) QA
2 8 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.11%) PMO
4 6 (2.67%) GDPR
4 6 (2.67%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) HL7
6 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 91 (40.44%) Docker
2 11 (4.89%) Postfix
3 5 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.78%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.44%) HDFS
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 85 (37.78%) Terraform
2 59 (26.22%) Kubernetes
3 47 (20.89%) Grafana
4 29 (12.89%) Prometheus
5 14 (6.22%) Ansible
6 8 (3.56%) Data Guard
7 7 (3.11%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.67%) Argo
9 4 (1.78%) Istio
9 4 (1.78%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.33%) Foglight
10 3 (1.33%) Kibana
10 3 (1.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.33%) Puppet
10 3 (1.33%) Rancher
11 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.89%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.89%) systemd
12 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (14.22%) Oracle
2 22 (9.78%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.56%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (6.67%) Atlassian
5 12 (5.33%) Informatica
6 11 (4.89%) Dynatrace
7 10 (4.44%) Microsoft
8 9 (4.00%) Talend
9 8 (3.56%) Databricks
10 6 (2.67%) Denodo
11 5 (2.22%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.22%) Splunk
11 5 (2.22%) Sybase
12 4 (1.78%) AVEVA
12 4 (1.78%) Brio
12 4 (1.78%) Qualys
12 4 (1.78%) Tenable
13 2 (0.89%) Google
13 2 (0.89%) Netlify
13 2 (0.89%) VMware