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

 6 months to
27 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 292 357
Rank change year-on-year -76 +65 -55
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 224 193 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.79% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.59% 4.14% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 144 141
10th Percentile £386 £421 £405
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £566 £625 £609
90th Percentile £631 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -13.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £73.25 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 6,248 4,663 6,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.61% 19.06% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,326 3,276 4,454
10th Percentile £349 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 95 133
10th Percentile £16.71 £19.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.41 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.11 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +43.58% -17.74% -31.30%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -78 123 £505 -15.83% 25
Midlands -18 53 £500 -4.76% 10
West Midlands -24 45 £500 -9.09% 7
North of England -46 24 £425 -15.00% 18
South East -64 12 £530 -7.83% 10
South West -26 10 £575 -1.50% 9
Yorkshire -54 10 £440 -12.00% 5
East Midlands -30 8 £498 +60.13% 3
North West -35 8 £400 -12.28% 9
North East - 6 £425 - 4
East of England -34 3 - - 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 19 (8.48%) Confluence
2 5 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.34%) Apache
4 3 (1.34%) SAS
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 223 (99.55%) AWS
2 150 (66.96%) Amazon S3
3 118 (52.68%) Amazon EC2
4 112 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 112 (50.00%) Serverless
5 77 (34.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 63 (28.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 60 (26.79%) Amazon ECS
8 56 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (21.43%) GitHub
10 44 (19.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (15.63%) Azure
12 31 (13.84%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (13.84%) Route 53
13 29 (12.95%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (11.16%) AWS KMS
15 14 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
16 13 (5.80%) Amazon MSK
16 13 (5.80%) Power Platform
17 12 (5.36%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.46%) DNS
2 8 (3.57%) Firewall
3 6 (2.68%) Network Security
4 5 (2.23%) VPN
5 3 (1.34%) HTTP
6 2 (0.89%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.89%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.45%) AMQP
7 1 (0.45%) DHCP
7 1 (0.45%) Internet
7 1 (0.45%) LAN
7 1 (0.45%) SMTP
7 1 (0.45%) SSL
7 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (24.11%) DynamoDB
3 41 (18.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 24 (10.71%) MySQL
5 21 (9.38%) SQL Server
6 16 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 14 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (6.25%) MongoDB
7 14 (6.25%) Relational Database
8 13 (5.80%) Power BI
9 11 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (4.46%) Redis
11 9 (4.02%) Pentaho
12 8 (3.57%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (3.57%) Tableau
13 6 (2.68%) Data Lake
14 5 (2.23%) Big Data
14 5 (2.23%) DocumentDB
14 5 (2.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 82 (36.61%) Jenkins
2 56 (25.00%) Git
3 35 (15.63%) GitLab
4 22 (9.82%) JIRA
4 22 (9.82%) JUnit
5 18 (8.04%) Maven
5 18 (8.04%) Mockito
6 16 (7.14%) SonarQube
7 11 (4.91%) DbUnit
7 11 (4.91%) jMock
8 9 (4.02%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (2.23%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.23%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.23%) git-flow
9 5 (2.23%) Snyk
10 4 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (1.34%) Flyway
11 3 (1.34%) Gradle
11 3 (1.34%) Postman
11 3 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.20%) Public Sector
3 28 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.05%) Finance
5 12 (5.36%) Banking
5 12 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.13%) Legal
7 4 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Front Office
8 2 (0.89%) Local Government
9 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Military
9 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (16.96%) Developer
2 34 (15.18%) AWS Engineer
2 34 (15.18%) Senior
3 27 (12.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (9.82%) DBA
5 20 (8.93%) Site Engineer
6 19 (8.48%) Data Engineer
6 19 (8.48%) Java Developer
7 18 (8.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 16 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.70%) Architect
9 15 (6.70%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (5.80%) Lead
11 12 (5.36%) Analyst
11 12 (5.36%) AWS Developer
11 12 (5.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.36%) Oracle DBA
12 10 (4.46%) AWS Architect
12 10 (4.46%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.02%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.52%) Spring
1 37 (16.52%) Spring Boot
2 35 (15.63%) Node.js
2 35 (15.63%) RESTful
3 29 (12.95%) Kafka
4 28 (12.50%) React
5 23 (10.27%) REST
6 20 (8.93%) AngularJS
7 19 (8.48%) Hibernate
7 19 (8.48%) JPA
7 19 (8.48%) SOAP
7 19 (8.48%) Spring Cloud
8 15 (6.70%) ActiveMQ
8 15 (6.70%) Spring Batch
8 15 (6.70%) Web Services
9 14 (6.25%) Spring Integration
10 11 (4.91%) Django
10 11 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (4.91%) GraphQL
10 11 (4.91%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.54%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.91%) Replication
4 7 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.34%) Clustering
7 3 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.34%) NHS
7 3 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.89%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.45%) PMI
9 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (28.13%) Linux
2 8 (3.57%) Unix
3 6 (2.68%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.79%) Windows
5 3 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 97 (43.30%) Agile
3 89 (39.73%) DevOps
4 75 (33.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (29.02%) Containerisation
6 46 (20.54%) Microservices
7 34 (15.18%) Performance Tuning
7 34 (15.18%) Software Engineering
8 32 (14.29%) ETL
8 32 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (14.29%) Scrum
9 29 (12.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 29 (12.95%) TDD
10 28 (12.50%) Observability
11 27 (12.05%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (11.61%) Configuration Management
12 26 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (10.27%) Migration
13 23 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (9.82%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 95 (42.41%) SQL
2 91 (40.63%) Python
3 71 (31.70%) Java
4 28 (12.50%) Bash
5 20 (8.93%) Shell Script
6 17 (7.59%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.91%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.02%) Go
10 8 (3.57%) Groovy
11 7 (3.13%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.68%) C#
13 5 (2.23%) Perl
13 5 (2.23%) Ruby
13 5 (2.23%) Scala
14 3 (1.34%) JSX
14 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 87 (38.84%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.70%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (4.91%) Degree
6 10 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (4.02%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.34%) OCP
10 3 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.89%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.45%) CEH
12 1 (0.45%) CISSP
12 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.45%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.91%) NIST
2 10 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.02%) QA
4 7 (3.13%) GDPR
4 7 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.13%) PMO
5 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 101 (45.09%) Docker
2 10 (4.46%) Postfix
3 4 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.89%) HDFS
5 2 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 99 (44.20%) Terraform
2 60 (26.79%) Kubernetes
3 56 (25.00%) Grafana
4 34 (15.18%) Prometheus
5 25 (11.16%) Ansible
6 14 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.91%) Puppet
8 8 (3.57%) Data Guard
9 5 (2.23%) Argo
10 4 (1.79%) Kibana
10 4 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.79%) Packer
10 4 (1.79%) Rancher
11 3 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.34%) Foglight
11 3 (1.34%) Istio
11 3 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.89%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.89%) systemd
Vendors
1 32 (14.29%) Oracle
2 19 (8.48%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.70%) Microsoft
4 14 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
5 12 (5.36%) Atlassian
6 10 (4.46%) Splunk
7 9 (4.02%) Informatica
7 9 (4.02%) PagerDuty
8 8 (3.57%) Databricks
8 8 (3.57%) Dynatrace
8 8 (3.57%) Talend
9 5 (2.23%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.23%) Sybase
10 4 (1.79%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.79%) Qualys
10 4 (1.79%) Tenable
11 3 (1.34%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.34%) Denodo
12 2 (0.89%) Google
12 2 (0.89%) Netlify
75 Amazon RDS jobs in England