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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 291 361
Rank change year-on-year -121 +70 -13
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 227 236 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.86% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.27% 4.75% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 171 114
10th Percentile £387 £413 £410
25th Percentile £430 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -1.49% -10.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £610
90th Percentile £738 £653 £696
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £535
% change year-on-year -2.78% +0.93% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £70.60 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £74.13 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 6,938 4,967 6,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.19% 18.03% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,636 3,420 4,323
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -5.96% -0.91%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £675
90th Percentile £705 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 82 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.21 £25.34 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -0.03% -36.36%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.58 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £35.50 £33.22
% change year-on-year +7.75% +6.88% -39.61%

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 25 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 25 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 -76 138 £550 -5.17% 24
North of England -49 32 £463 -7.50% 15
Midlands -73 30 £464 -2.32% 6
West Midlands -58 24 £464 -2.32% 4
Yorkshire -25 18 £500 - 5
South West -42 9 £538 -0.92% 9
South East -74 8 £460 -20.00% 11
North East -33 7 £425 -5.56% 3
North West -41 7 £525 -4.55% 7
East Midlands -17 5 £449 +18.16% 2
East of England -27 4 £348 -36.82% 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 20 (8.81%) Confluence
2 12 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.64%) SAS
5 5 (2.20%) Apache
6 3 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.88%) Camunda
7 2 (0.88%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.88%) nginx
8 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 216 (95.15%) AWS
2 147 (64.76%) Amazon S3
3 122 (53.74%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (53.30%) Serverless
5 89 (39.21%) Amazon EC2
6 82 (36.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 64 (28.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 56 (24.67%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (22.91%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (21.15%) Azure
11 37 (16.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (13.22%) AWS KMS
12 30 (13.22%) GitHub
13 27 (11.89%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (8.81%) Route 53
15 19 (8.37%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (7.93%) GCP
17 15 (6.61%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (6.17%) Snowflake
19 12 (5.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.05%) Firewall
2 11 (4.85%) DNS
3 7 (3.08%) DHCP
4 6 (2.64%) SMTP
4 6 (2.64%) VPN
5 4 (1.76%) HTTP
5 4 (1.76%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.76%) Network Security
5 4 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.88%) FTP
6 2 (0.88%) IMAP
6 2 (0.88%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.88%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.88%) SSH
6 2 (0.88%) SSL
7 1 (0.44%) AMQP
7 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (30.40%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (23.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 48 (21.15%) DynamoDB
4 22 (9.69%) SQL Server
5 19 (8.37%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (8.37%) MySQL
6 18 (7.93%) MongoDB
7 16 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (7.05%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (6.17%) Redis
9 13 (5.73%) Data Lake
10 12 (5.29%) Big Data
10 12 (5.29%) Power BI
10 12 (5.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (3.52%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.52%) Pentaho
12 7 (3.08%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (3.08%) Relational Database
13 5 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 60 (26.43%) Jenkins
2 41 (18.06%) Git
3 38 (16.74%) GitLab
4 26 (11.45%) JIRA
5 12 (5.29%) JUnit
5 12 (5.29%) Mockito
5 12 (5.29%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.96%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.96%) Maven
7 8 (3.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (3.08%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.64%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (2.64%) jMock
9 6 (2.64%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.76%) Postman
11 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.32%) Flyway
11 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.88%) git-flow
General
1 64 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.47%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.22%) Finance
4 23 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.37%) Banking
6 7 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.64%) Front Office
8 5 (2.20%) Back Office
8 5 (2.20%) Legal
9 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Billing
10 2 (0.88%) Law
10 2 (0.88%) Local Government
10 2 (0.88%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (19.82%) AWS Engineer
2 34 (14.98%) Data Engineer
2 34 (14.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (14.98%) Senior
3 33 (14.54%) Developer
4 32 (14.10%) Architect
5 28 (12.33%) DBA
6 21 (9.25%) AWS DevOps
7 18 (7.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 18 (7.93%) Lead
8 17 (7.49%) AWS Architect
9 15 (6.61%) Administrator
9 15 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (5.73%) AWS Data Engineer
10 13 (5.73%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.85%) Technical Leader
12 10 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.41%) Technical Architect
13 9 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (3.96%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (48.02%) Terraform
2 31 (13.66%) React
3 24 (10.57%) REST
4 23 (10.13%) Spring
4 23 (10.13%) Spring Boot
5 22 (9.69%) Node.js
5 22 (9.69%) RESTful
6 20 (8.81%) AngularJS
7 16 (7.05%) Kafka
8 13 (5.73%) FastAPI
9 12 (5.29%) ActiveMQ
9 12 (5.29%) SOAP
10 9 (3.96%) GraphQL
10 9 (3.96%) Hibernate
10 9 (3.96%) JPA
10 9 (3.96%) JSON
10 9 (3.96%) Spring Batch
10 9 (3.96%) Spring Integration
10 9 (3.96%) Web Services
11 8 (3.52%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 54 (23.79%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.57%) Replication
3 21 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.61%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.96%) NHS
6 8 (3.52%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.08%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.08%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.64%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.20%) Clustering
9 5 (2.20%) PKI
10 4 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.32%) Derivative
11 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.32%) Equities
11 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 47 (20.70%) Linux
2 20 (8.81%) Windows
3 13 (5.73%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.96%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.64%) Unix
7 4 (1.76%) AIX
8 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.32%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.44%) CentOS
9 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.44%) VMS
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (59.03%) CI/CD
2 105 (46.26%) DevOps
3 93 (40.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (40.53%) Agile
5 46 (20.26%) Performance Tuning
6 42 (18.50%) Data Modelling
6 42 (18.50%) Microservices
7 41 (18.06%) Containerisation
8 40 (17.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (16.30%) High Availability
9 37 (16.30%) Observability
10 33 (14.54%) Data Pipeline
11 32 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (14.10%) Migration
12 28 (12.33%) ETL
12 28 (12.33%) Scrum
13 27 (11.89%) Disaster Recovery
13 27 (11.89%) Software Engineering
13 27 (11.89%) Test Automation
14 26 (11.45%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 104 (45.81%) Python
2 75 (33.04%) SQL
3 57 (25.11%) Java
4 24 (10.57%) TypeScript
5 23 (10.13%) Bash
6 22 (9.69%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.17%) Groovy
8 12 (5.29%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.08%) Perl
10 6 (2.64%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.20%) Scala
12 4 (1.76%) C#
13 3 (1.32%) Go
13 3 (1.32%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.88%) Ruby
15 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 97 (42.73%) Security Cleared
2 80 (35.24%) SC Cleared
3 40 (17.62%) AWS Certification
4 25 (11.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (7.05%) Degree
6 11 (4.85%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.41%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.20%) CISM
9 5 (2.20%) CISSP
10 4 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.32%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.88%) PMP
13 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.64%) NIST
3 5 (2.20%) QA
4 3 (1.32%) HL7
4 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.32%) PMO
4 3 (1.32%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) GDPR
5 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 73 (32.16%) Docker
2 14 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.08%) Postfix
4 6 (2.64%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.76%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.76%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.76%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.88%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.88%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.88%) Squid
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 56 (24.67%) Kubernetes
2 45 (19.82%) Grafana
3 34 (14.98%) Prometheus
4 21 (9.25%) Ansible
5 9 (3.96%) Istio
6 7 (3.08%) Argo
7 6 (2.64%) Kibana
8 5 (2.20%) Puppet
9 4 (1.76%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.76%) vMotion
10 3 (1.32%) Nagios
10 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.32%) Rancher
11 2 (0.88%) Consul
11 2 (0.88%) Foglight
11 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.88%) Nessus
11 2 (0.88%) Packer
11 2 (0.88%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.25%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.49%) Oracle
4 14 (6.17%) Dynatrace
5 10 (4.41%) Informatica
5 10 (4.41%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (3.96%) Databricks
6 9 (3.96%) VMware
7 8 (3.52%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.08%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.64%) Denodo
9 6 (2.64%) Google
9 6 (2.64%) Splunk
9 6 (2.64%) Talend
10 5 (2.20%) Amplitude
10 5 (2.20%) Citrix
11 4 (1.76%) Brio
11 4 (1.76%) Cisco
11 4 (1.76%) HP
11 4 (1.76%) Symantec