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

 6 months to
30 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 296 372
Rank change year-on-year -82 +76 -32
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 242 207 184
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.81% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.61% 4.41% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 155 135
10th Percentile £359 £415 £379
25th Percentile £414 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -13.33%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £670
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -6.88% - -

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 6,696 4,693 6,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.30% 18.40% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,510 3,250 4,681
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £418 £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 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 87 139
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £25.01 £20.76
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -29.76%
75th Percentile £69.86 £62.88 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.00 £71.70
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -29.08%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -68 138 £525 -6.67% 22
Midlands -36 51 £472 -0.63% 6
West Midlands -37 44 £469 -1.26% 5
North of England -59 30 £425 -20.86% 12
Yorkshire -38 18 £500 - 5
South West -28 12 £580 +6.91% 9
South East -74 9 £440 -23.57% 15
North West -46 8 £390 -29.09% 3
East Midlands -11 6 £519 +66.88% 1
North East -31 4 £425 -5.56% 4
East of England -31 3 £350 -36.36% 1
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 26 (10.74%) Confluence
2 7 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.48%) SAS
4 4 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 233 (96.28%) AWS
2 152 (62.81%) Amazon S3
3 122 (50.41%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (50.00%) Serverless
5 108 (44.63%) Amazon EC2
6 87 (35.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 64 (26.45%) Amazon ECS
8 63 (26.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 54 (22.31%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (19.01%) Azure
11 42 (17.36%) Amazon SQS
12 41 (16.94%) GitHub
13 33 (13.64%) Route 53
14 32 (13.22%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (11.98%) AWS KMS
16 25 (10.33%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (7.44%) Power Platform
18 15 (6.20%) Amazon Kinesis
18 15 (6.20%) AWS Fargate
19 12 (4.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.96%) DNS
2 11 (4.55%) Firewall
3 7 (2.89%) DHCP
4 6 (2.48%) VPN
5 4 (1.65%) Network Security
5 4 (1.65%) SMTP
6 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.83%) NetScaler
7 2 (0.83%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.41%) AMQP
8 1 (0.41%) HTTP
8 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (28.10%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (26.45%) DynamoDB
3 50 (20.66%) Amazon Aurora
4 22 (9.09%) MySQL
5 18 (7.44%) Power BI
6 17 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (6.20%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (5.79%) NoSQL
9 13 (5.37%) MongoDB
9 13 (5.37%) Pentaho
10 11 (4.55%) Big Data
11 10 (4.13%) Redis
11 10 (4.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.72%) Relational Database
12 9 (3.72%) Tableau
13 8 (3.31%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.48%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 76 (31.40%) Jenkins
2 59 (24.38%) Git
3 36 (14.88%) GitLab
4 32 (13.22%) JIRA
5 28 (11.57%) JUnit
6 24 (9.92%) Mockito
7 22 (9.09%) Maven
8 21 (8.68%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.79%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.37%) jMock
11 11 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.48%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.48%) Postman
13 6 (2.48%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (1.65%) Flyway
14 4 (1.65%) git-flow
14 4 (1.65%) Oracle APEX
15 3 (1.24%) Artifactory
15 3 (1.24%) Gradle
General
1 55 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.07%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.81%) Finance
4 27 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.44%) Banking
6 10 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.89%) Legal
8 6 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.83%) Front Office
10 2 (0.83%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (18.60%) Developer
2 36 (14.88%) Senior
3 34 (14.05%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (12.40%) Data Engineer
5 27 (11.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (10.74%) Architect
6 26 (10.74%) Java Developer
7 21 (8.68%) DBA
8 18 (7.44%) Lead
9 17 (7.02%) AWS Architect
10 16 (6.61%) Software Engineer
11 15 (6.20%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (5.79%) Senior Developer
13 12 (4.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.13%) Analyst
14 10 (4.13%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (4.13%) Delivery Manager
14 10 (4.13%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (3.72%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.60%) Spring
1 45 (18.60%) Spring Boot
2 37 (15.29%) REST
3 34 (14.05%) RESTful
4 33 (13.64%) React
5 31 (12.81%) Node.js
6 29 (11.98%) AngularJS
7 26 (10.74%) Kafka
8 24 (9.92%) SOAP
9 23 (9.50%) Hibernate
9 23 (9.50%) JPA
10 21 (8.68%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (7.85%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (7.85%) Web Services
12 18 (7.44%) Spring Batch
12 18 (7.44%) Spring Integration
13 14 (5.79%) GraphQL
14 13 (5.37%) PowerMock
15 12 (4.96%) FastAPI
16 11 (4.55%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 58 (23.97%) Cloud Native
2 33 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.13%) Replication
4 10 (4.13%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.31%) NHS
6 5 (2.07%) Clustering
6 5 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.65%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.65%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.65%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.65%) PKI
7 4 (1.65%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.41%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 51 (21.07%) Linux
2 17 (7.02%) Windows
3 12 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.31%) Unix
5 5 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.65%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.24%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.83%) AIX
9 1 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (52.89%) CI/CD
2 109 (45.04%) Agile
3 101 (41.74%) DevOps
4 68 (28.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (26.45%) Microservices
6 56 (23.14%) Containerisation
7 42 (17.36%) Performance Tuning
8 41 (16.94%) Scrum
9 35 (14.46%) Observability
10 33 (13.64%) ETL
10 33 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (12.81%) TDD
13 28 (11.57%) Software Engineering
14 27 (11.16%) Event-Driven
14 27 (11.16%) Kanban
15 26 (10.74%) Migration
15 26 (10.74%) Test Automation
16 25 (10.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 25 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 88 (36.36%) Python
1 88 (36.36%) SQL
2 79 (32.64%) Java
3 21 (8.68%) Bash
4 20 (8.26%) TypeScript
5 19 (7.85%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.79%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.13%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.31%) Groovy
9 7 (2.89%) C#
10 6 (2.48%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.07%) Scala
12 4 (1.65%) Go
12 4 (1.65%) Perl
12 4 (1.65%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.83%) Ruby
14 1 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 107 (44.21%) Security Cleared
2 88 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.74%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.61%) Degree
5 13 (5.37%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.24%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.83%) PMP
12 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.72%) QA
3 7 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.89%) NIST
3 7 (2.89%) PMO
4 6 (2.48%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.65%) SLA
6 2 (0.83%) GDPR
6 2 (0.83%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 93 (38.43%) Docker
2 11 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.55%) Postfix
3 6 (2.48%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.65%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.65%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.65%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.65%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 87 (35.95%) Terraform
2 62 (25.62%) Kubernetes
3 47 (19.42%) Grafana
4 31 (12.81%) Prometheus
5 21 (8.68%) Ansible
6 6 (2.48%) Argo
6 6 (2.48%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.07%) Data Guard
7 5 (2.07%) Puppet
8 4 (1.65%) Istio
8 4 (1.65%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.65%) vMotion
9 3 (1.24%) Foglight
9 3 (1.24%) Kibana
9 3 (1.24%) Nagios
9 3 (1.24%) Rancher
10 2 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.83%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.41%) Consul
Vendors
1 28 (11.57%) Oracle
2 24 (9.92%) ServiceNow
3 23 (9.50%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.02%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (6.20%) Atlassian
6 13 (5.37%) Dynatrace
7 12 (4.96%) Informatica
8 9 (3.72%) Talend
9 8 (3.31%) Databricks
10 7 (2.89%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.89%) VMware
11 6 (2.48%) Denodo
12 5 (2.07%) Amplitude
12 5 (2.07%) Citrix
12 5 (2.07%) Google
12 5 (2.07%) Splunk
12 5 (2.07%) Sybase
13 4 (1.65%) AVEVA
13 4 (1.65%) Brio
13 4 (1.65%) HP
57 Amazon RDS jobs in England