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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 319 363
Rank change year-on-year -25 +44 -41
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 229 170 199
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.66% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.09% 3.55% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 112 149
10th Percentile £368 £413 £404
25th Percentile £413 £467 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £575 £651 £613
90th Percentile £630 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -4.61% +2.33% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £71.65 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
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 5,593 4,792 6,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 18.67% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,892 3,240 4,379
10th Percentile £341 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.47% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £660
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 85 155
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.71
25th Percentile £26.69 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.75 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% -4.71% -25.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.63
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.25 £77.11
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.66% -10.33% -22.73%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -37 117 £513 -10.87% 34
Midlands -23 45 £500 -5.48% 13
West Midlands -30 39 £500 -5.48% 12
North of England -36 28 £500 -5.84% 20
South East -13 20 £447 -0.67% 18
North West -25 13 £394 -13.65% 10
Yorkshire -47 11 £518 -11.91% 8
South West -14 10 £538 -12.30% 9
East Midlands -22 6 £383 -13.66% 1
North East -15 4 £500 - 2
East of England -28 3 £538 +8.86% 2
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 22 (9.61%) Confluence
2 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.31%) Apache
3 3 (1.31%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 229 (100.00%) AWS
2 147 (64.19%) Amazon S3
3 132 (57.64%) Amazon EC2
4 116 (50.66%) Serverless
5 115 (50.22%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (34.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 71 (31.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 67 (29.26%) Amazon ECS
9 65 (28.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 59 (25.76%) Amazon EKS
11 57 (24.89%) GitHub
12 42 (18.34%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (15.72%) Azure
14 29 (12.66%) Route 53
15 22 (9.61%) AWS Fargate
16 20 (8.73%) Amazon Kinesis
17 19 (8.30%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (8.30%) AWS KMS
18 17 (7.42%) Datadog
19 14 (6.11%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.42%) DNS
2 15 (6.55%) Firewall
3 8 (3.49%) VPN
4 6 (2.62%) HTTP
5 4 (1.75%) FTP
5 4 (1.75%) Network Security
5 4 (1.75%) SMTP
5 4 (1.75%) SSH
6 3 (1.31%) IMAP
6 3 (1.31%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.31%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.44%) Internet
7 1 (0.44%) LAN
7 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (26.20%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (20.52%) DynamoDB
3 33 (14.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 33 (14.41%) MySQL
4 22 (9.61%) NoSQL
4 22 (9.61%) SQL Server
5 21 (9.17%) MongoDB
5 21 (9.17%) Relational Database
6 18 (7.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (4.80%) Oracle Database
8 10 (4.37%) Apache Cassandra
8 10 (4.37%) Hadoop
8 10 (4.37%) Redis
9 9 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (3.93%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (3.93%) Power BI
10 7 (3.06%) DB2
11 6 (2.62%) Couchbase
11 6 (2.62%) RDBMS
11 6 (2.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (39.74%) Jenkins
2 58 (25.33%) Git
3 42 (18.34%) GitLab
4 25 (10.92%) JIRA
5 17 (7.42%) JUnit
6 14 (6.11%) Maven
7 9 (3.93%) Mockito
8 8 (3.49%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.62%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.62%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.62%) jMock
10 5 (2.18%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.18%) Snyk
11 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.75%) Vagrant
12 3 (1.31%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.31%) git-flow
12 3 (1.31%) Gradle
General
1 59 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.72%) Public Sector
3 33 (14.41%) Finance
4 22 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.93%) Banking
7 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.75%) Legal
8 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.87%) Military
9 1 (0.44%) Front Office
9 1 (0.44%) Games
9 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (17.03%) AWS Engineer
2 35 (15.28%) Developer
3 32 (13.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (13.54%) Senior
5 22 (9.61%) Software Engineer
6 21 (9.17%) AWS DevOps
6 21 (9.17%) Site Engineer
7 20 (8.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (8.30%) DBA
9 18 (7.86%) Data Engineer
9 18 (7.86%) Java Developer
9 18 (7.86%) Lead
10 17 (7.42%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (6.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (6.11%) AWS Developer
12 14 (6.11%) Oracle DBA
13 12 (5.24%) Java Engineer
14 11 (4.80%) Architect
15 10 (4.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 9 (3.93%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (17.47%) Kafka
2 31 (13.54%) Spring
3 30 (13.10%) Spring Boot
4 28 (12.23%) RESTful
5 25 (10.92%) Node.js
6 23 (10.04%) React
7 20 (8.73%) REST
8 13 (5.68%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (5.24%) AngularJS
9 12 (5.24%) Hibernate
9 12 (5.24%) JPA
9 12 (5.24%) Spring Cloud
10 11 (4.80%) CSS
11 10 (4.37%) FastAPI
11 10 (4.37%) SOAP
12 9 (3.93%) Django
12 9 (3.93%) Spring Batch
13 8 (3.49%) Flask
13 8 (3.49%) GraphQL
13 8 (3.49%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 39 (17.03%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.35%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (10.04%) Replication
4 7 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.62%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.62%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.18%) Clustering
7 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.31%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.31%) NHS
8 3 (1.31%) PKI
9 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.87%) Derivative
9 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.87%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.44%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 69 (30.13%) Linux
2 13 (5.68%) Unix
3 8 (3.49%) Windows
4 7 (3.06%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.18%) VMS
7 3 (1.31%) CentOS
7 3 (1.31%) Solaris
7 3 (1.31%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (62.88%) CI/CD
2 101 (44.10%) DevOps
3 89 (38.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (35.81%) Agile
5 70 (30.57%) Containerisation
6 52 (22.71%) Microservices
7 43 (18.78%) Performance Tuning
8 37 (16.16%) Configuration Management
8 37 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (15.72%) Observability
9 36 (15.72%) Software Engineering
10 32 (13.97%) Migration
11 31 (13.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 26 (11.35%) ETL
12 26 (11.35%) High Availability
13 25 (10.92%) Event-Driven
14 23 (10.04%) Cost Optimisation
14 23 (10.04%) TDD
15 21 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (8.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 102 (44.54%) Python
2 92 (40.17%) SQL
3 62 (27.07%) Java
4 38 (16.59%) Bash
5 26 (11.35%) Shell Script
6 21 (9.17%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.42%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.68%) Go
9 11 (4.80%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.49%) Groovy
10 8 (3.49%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.62%) JSX
12 5 (2.18%) C#
12 5 (2.18%) Perl
12 5 (2.18%) Ruby
13 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.44%) Bicep
14 1 (0.44%) PHP
14 1 (0.44%) R
14 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 87 (37.99%) Security Cleared
2 73 (31.88%) SC Cleared
3 40 (17.47%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.11%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.80%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.80%) Degree
6 9 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.18%) OCP
8 5 (2.18%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.44%) CEH
11 1 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.44%) PMP
11 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (4.80%) NIST
2 10 (4.37%) QA
3 8 (3.49%) GDPR
4 5 (2.18%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.75%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.75%) NCSC
5 4 (1.75%) PMO
6 3 (1.31%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) GxP
System Software
1 101 (44.10%) Docker
2 8 (3.49%) Postfix
3 4 (1.75%) DFS Replication
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.31%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.31%) NFS
4 3 (1.31%) Squid
4 3 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.87%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 110 (48.03%) Terraform
2 68 (29.69%) Kubernetes
3 50 (21.83%) Grafana
4 37 (16.16%) Ansible
5 35 (15.28%) Prometheus
6 20 (8.73%) Progress Chef
7 15 (6.55%) Puppet
8 8 (3.49%) Data Guard
9 6 (2.62%) Packer
10 4 (1.75%) Argo
10 4 (1.75%) Kibana
10 4 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.31%) Nessus
11 3 (1.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.31%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.31%) Rancher
12 2 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.87%) systemd
Vendors
1 32 (13.97%) Oracle
2 18 (7.86%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.55%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.37%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (4.37%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.93%) Splunk
6 8 (3.49%) Sybase
7 7 (3.06%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.06%) Confluent
7 7 (3.06%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.06%) Talend
8 6 (2.62%) IBM
9 5 (2.18%) Informatica
10 4 (1.75%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.75%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.75%) Qualys
10 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.75%) Tenable
11 3 (1.31%) Databricks
11 3 (1.31%) Okta