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

 6 months to
14 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 294 380
Rank change year-on-year -64 +86 -71
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 232 196 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.79% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.92% 4.16% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 131 145
10th Percentile £368 £413 £402
25th Percentile £413 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £625
90th Percentile £641 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £509 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% +4.76% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £73.40 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 5,920 4,717 6,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.08% 19.09% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,108 3,296 4,418
10th Percentile £346 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £662
90th Percentile £700 £775 £758
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 88 157
10th Percentile £18.18 £20.37 £14.22
25th Percentile £26.31 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £49.36 £34.06 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +44.94% -15.39% -32.92%
75th Percentile £74.92 £65.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £85.08 £71.13 £75.61
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.47% -32.92%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -74 121 £513 -10.87% 39
Midlands -26 47 £500 -5.48% 5
West Midlands -39 39 £506 -4.30% 5
North of England -51 29 £453 -13.81% 13
South East -41 15 £503 -1.95% 22
North West -28 13 £389 -14.75% 5
Yorkshire -47 12 £500 -4.76% 6
South West -23 10 £538 -12.30% 13
East Midlands -24 8 £390 -11.96%
North East -12 4 £500 - 2
East of England -26 3 £538 +8.86% 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 17 (7.33%) Confluence
2 4 (1.72%) Apache
2 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 231 (99.57%) AWS
2 151 (65.09%) Amazon S3
3 132 (56.90%) Amazon EC2
4 120 (51.72%) Serverless
5 119 (51.29%) AWS Lambda
6 77 (33.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 71 (30.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 63 (27.16%) Amazon ECS
9 61 (26.29%) Amazon EKS
10 59 (25.43%) GitHub
11 58 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (18.10%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (15.09%) Azure
14 28 (12.07%) Route 53
15 23 (9.91%) Amazon SQS
16 21 (9.05%) AWS Fargate
17 17 (7.33%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (7.33%) AWS KMS
18 16 (6.90%) Datadog
19 14 (6.03%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.60%) DNS
2 12 (5.17%) Firewall
3 9 (3.88%) VPN
4 5 (2.16%) Network Security
5 3 (1.29%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.86%) HTTP
6 2 (0.86%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.43%) DHCP
7 1 (0.43%) Internet
7 1 (0.43%) LAN
7 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) SMTP
7 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (25.86%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (22.41%) DynamoDB
3 33 (14.22%) Amazon Aurora
4 28 (12.07%) MySQL
5 23 (9.91%) SQL Server
6 20 (8.62%) Relational Database
7 19 (8.19%) MongoDB
8 16 (6.90%) NoSQL
9 14 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (4.74%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (4.31%) Oracle Database
11 10 (4.31%) Power BI
11 10 (4.31%) Redis
12 9 (3.88%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (3.45%) Hadoop
14 7 (3.02%) DB2
14 7 (3.02%) Tableau
15 6 (2.59%) Pentaho
15 6 (2.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 88 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 59 (25.43%) Git
3 43 (18.53%) GitLab
4 21 (9.05%) JIRA
4 21 (9.05%) JUnit
5 15 (6.47%) Maven
6 13 (5.60%) Mockito
7 11 (4.74%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.02%) DbUnit
8 7 (3.02%) jMock
9 6 (2.59%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.16%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.16%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.16%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.16%) Snyk
11 4 (1.72%) git-flow
11 4 (1.72%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.29%) Flyway
12 3 (1.29%) Gradle
General
1 57 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.81%) Public Sector
3 35 (15.09%) Finance
4 26 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.17%) Banking
6 11 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.59%) Legal
8 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.86%) Front Office
9 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.86%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (15.52%) Developer
2 33 (14.22%) AWS Engineer
2 33 (14.22%) Senior
3 28 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (9.05%) Site Engineer
4 21 (9.05%) Software Engineer
5 20 (8.62%) DBA
5 20 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 19 (8.19%) Java Developer
7 18 (7.76%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (6.90%) Data Engineer
8 16 (6.90%) Lead
9 15 (6.47%) AWS Developer
10 13 (5.60%) Oracle DBA
11 11 (4.74%) Architect
11 11 (4.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.31%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.31%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.88%) Analyst
13 9 (3.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.95%) Kafka
2 35 (15.09%) Spring
2 35 (15.09%) Spring Boot
3 31 (13.36%) RESTful
4 29 (12.50%) Node.js
5 25 (10.78%) React
6 21 (9.05%) REST
7 14 (6.03%) Hibernate
7 14 (6.03%) JPA
7 14 (6.03%) SOAP
7 14 (6.03%) Spring Cloud
8 13 (5.60%) AngularJS
8 13 (5.60%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (5.17%) Django
10 11 (4.74%) CSS
10 11 (4.74%) GraphQL
10 11 (4.74%) Spring Batch
11 10 (4.31%) ActiveMQ
11 10 (4.31%) Web Services
12 9 (3.88%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.03%) Replication
4 7 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.59%) Clustering
6 5 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.29%) PKI
9 2 (0.86%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.86%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.86%) Derivative
9 2 (0.86%) Equities
9 2 (0.86%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 61 (26.29%) Linux
2 7 (3.02%) Unix
3 5 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.16%) Windows
4 3 (1.29%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.86%) CentOS
5 2 (0.86%) Solaris
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (59.48%) CI/CD
2 99 (42.67%) DevOps
3 92 (39.66%) Agile
4 84 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (29.31%) Containerisation
6 49 (21.12%) Microservices
7 41 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (14.66%) Observability
8 34 (14.66%) Performance Tuning
8 34 (14.66%) Software Engineering
9 32 (13.79%) ETL
10 31 (13.36%) Configuration Management
10 31 (13.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 30 (12.93%) Migration
12 28 (12.07%) TDD
13 24 (10.34%) High Availability
14 23 (9.91%) Scrum
15 22 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (9.48%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (9.48%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 96 (41.38%) SQL
2 95 (40.95%) Python
3 63 (27.16%) Java
4 34 (14.66%) Bash
5 22 (9.48%) Shell Script
6 17 (7.33%) JavaScript
7 16 (6.90%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.60%) TypeScript
9 11 (4.74%) Go
10 8 (3.45%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.59%) C#
11 6 (2.59%) JSX
12 5 (2.16%) Ruby
13 4 (1.72%) Groovy
13 4 (1.72%) Perl
14 2 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.43%) Bicep
15 1 (0.43%) PHP
15 1 (0.43%) R
15 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 95 (40.95%) Security Cleared
2 77 (33.19%) SC Cleared
3 35 (15.09%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.17%) Degree
6 10 (4.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.16%) OCP
9 5 (2.16%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.43%) CEH
11 1 (0.43%) CISSP
11 1 (0.43%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.17%) NIST
2 11 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.31%) QA
4 7 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.02%) GDPR
5 5 (2.16%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.16%) PMO
6 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.86%) NCSC
7 2 (0.86%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.43%) GxP
System Software
1 101 (43.53%) Docker
2 6 (2.59%) Postfix
3 4 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.86%) HDFS
5 2 (0.86%) NFS
6 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 104 (44.83%) Terraform
2 69 (29.74%) Kubernetes
3 47 (20.26%) Grafana
4 34 (14.66%) Ansible
5 32 (13.79%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.76%) Progress Chef
7 13 (5.60%) Puppet
8 8 (3.45%) Data Guard
9 5 (2.16%) Packer
10 4 (1.72%) Argo
10 4 (1.72%) Kibana
10 4 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.72%) Rancher
11 3 (1.29%) Foglight
11 3 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.86%) Istio
12 2 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.86%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.86%) systemd
Vendors
1 33 (14.22%) Oracle
2 17 (7.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.33%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.31%) PagerDuty
4 9 (3.88%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 8 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.45%) Splunk
5 8 (3.45%) Sybase
5 8 (3.45%) Talend
6 7 (3.02%) Databricks
7 6 (2.59%) Informatica
8 5 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.72%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.72%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.72%) Qualys
9 4 (1.72%) Tenable
10 3 (1.29%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.86%) Google
88 Amazon RDS jobs in England