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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 280 354
Rank change year-on-year -75 +74 -44
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 230 200 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.82% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.85% 4.32% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 140 147
10th Percentile £387 £424 £403
25th Percentile £431 £475 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £551 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +4.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £641 £644
90th Percentile £648 £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 5,975 4,632 6,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.91% 19.09% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,145 3,253 4,427
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £663 £669
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 91 150
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.85 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +51.01% -17.48% -28.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.61 £54.78
90th Percentile £85.15 £70.00 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +61.19% -20.90% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -59 124 £513 -11.26% 38
Midlands -29 49 £500 -1.86% 2
West Midlands -37 40 £506 -4.30% 2
North of England -50 26 £480 -8.57% 16
Yorkshire -44 12 £500 -4.76% 4
South East -49 12 £530 -7.83% 18
South West -21 11 £561 -8.55% 8
North West -34 10 £390 -14.47% 11
East Midlands -25 9 £444 +42.77%
North East -11 4 £500 - 1
East of England -27 4 £538 +8.86% 5
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 (7.39%) Confluence
2 3 (1.30%) Apache
2 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 229 (99.57%) AWS
2 152 (66.09%) Amazon S3
3 130 (56.52%) Amazon EC2
4 122 (53.04%) Serverless
5 120 (52.17%) AWS Lambda
6 80 (34.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 67 (29.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 61 (26.52%) Amazon ECS
9 58 (25.22%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (24.35%) GitHub
11 53 (23.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (15.22%) Azure
14 29 (12.61%) Route 53
15 25 (10.87%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (8.26%) AWS Fargate
17 18 (7.83%) AWS KMS
18 17 (7.39%) Amazon Kinesis
19 15 (6.52%) AWS CodePipeline
19 15 (6.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.22%) DNS
2 10 (4.35%) Firewall
3 9 (3.91%) VPN
4 6 (2.61%) Network Security
5 3 (1.30%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.87%) HTTP
6 2 (0.87%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.43%) AMQP
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 61 (26.52%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (22.17%) DynamoDB
3 34 (14.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 27 (11.74%) MySQL
5 20 (8.70%) SQL Server
6 18 (7.83%) Relational Database
7 15 (6.52%) MongoDB
8 14 (6.09%) NoSQL
9 13 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (4.78%) Power BI
10 11 (4.78%) Redis
11 10 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (3.91%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (3.48%) Hadoop
13 8 (3.48%) Tableau
14 7 (3.04%) DB2
14 7 (3.04%) Oracle Database
15 6 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (2.61%) Pentaho
16 5 (2.17%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 88 (38.26%) Jenkins
2 57 (24.78%) Git
3 40 (17.39%) GitLab
4 22 (9.57%) JUnit
5 20 (8.70%) JIRA
6 16 (6.96%) Maven
7 14 (6.09%) Mockito
8 12 (5.22%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.48%) DbUnit
9 8 (3.48%) jMock
10 6 (2.61%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.17%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.17%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.17%) Snyk
12 4 (1.74%) git-flow
12 4 (1.74%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.30%) Flyway
13 3 (1.30%) Gradle
13 3 (1.30%) Postman
General
1 54 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 41 (17.83%) Public Sector
3 33 (14.35%) Finance
4 27 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.35%) Banking
7 6 (2.61%) Legal
8 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Front Office
9 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (16.96%) Developer
2 33 (14.35%) Senior
3 31 (13.48%) AWS Engineer
4 28 (12.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (9.57%) Site Engineer
6 21 (9.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 21 (9.13%) Software Engineer
7 20 (8.70%) Java Developer
8 19 (8.26%) DBA
9 17 (7.39%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (7.39%) Data Engineer
10 16 (6.96%) AWS Developer
11 14 (6.09%) Lead
12 12 (5.22%) Analyst
13 11 (4.78%) Architect
13 11 (4.78%) Oracle DBA
13 11 (4.78%) Senior Developer
14 10 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.35%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.65%) Kafka
1 36 (15.65%) Spring
1 36 (15.65%) Spring Boot
2 31 (13.48%) RESTful
3 29 (12.61%) Node.js
4 26 (11.30%) React
5 22 (9.57%) REST
6 16 (6.96%) AngularJS
7 15 (6.52%) Hibernate
7 15 (6.52%) JPA
7 15 (6.52%) SOAP
7 15 (6.52%) Spring Cloud
8 14 (6.09%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (5.65%) Django
10 12 (5.22%) Spring Batch
11 11 (4.78%) ActiveMQ
11 11 (4.78%) GraphQL
11 11 (4.78%) Web Services
12 10 (4.35%) CSS
12 10 (4.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.26%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.65%) Replication
4 5 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.74%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.30%) Clustering
6 3 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.87%) Derivative
7 2 (0.87%) Equities
7 2 (0.87%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.87%) NHS
7 2 (0.87%) PKI
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 61 (26.52%) Linux
2 6 (2.61%) Unix
2 6 (2.61%) Windows
3 4 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.30%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) CentOS
5 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (59.13%) CI/CD
2 94 (40.87%) Agile
2 94 (40.87%) DevOps
3 83 (36.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (29.13%) Containerisation
5 47 (20.43%) Microservices
6 37 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (14.35%) Observability
7 33 (14.35%) Software Engineering
8 32 (13.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 31 (13.48%) Configuration Management
9 31 (13.48%) ETL
10 30 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
11 27 (11.74%) TDD
12 26 (11.30%) Migration
13 24 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.43%) High Availability
13 24 (10.43%) Scrum
14 22 (9.57%) Continuous Integration
14 22 (9.57%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 96 (41.74%) SQL
2 92 (40.00%) Python
3 66 (28.70%) Java
4 32 (13.91%) Bash
5 22 (9.57%) Shell Script
6 16 (6.96%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.65%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.22%) PowerShell
9 10 (4.35%) Go
10 8 (3.48%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.61%) C#
12 5 (2.17%) Groovy
12 5 (2.17%) JSX
13 4 (1.74%) Ruby
14 2 (0.87%) Perl
14 2 (0.87%) Scala
14 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.43%) Bicep
15 1 (0.43%) PHP
15 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 100 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 82 (35.65%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.96%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (4.78%) Degree
7 10 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.61%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.30%) OCP
10 3 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.43%) CEH
12 1 (0.43%) CISSP
12 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.43%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.78%) NIST
1 11 (4.78%) QA
2 9 (3.91%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.04%) PMO
4 6 (2.61%) GDPR
4 6 (2.61%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.87%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.43%) GxP
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 102 (44.35%) Docker
2 7 (3.04%) Postfix
3 4 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.87%) HDFS
5 2 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
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 (45.22%) Terraform
2 66 (28.70%) Kubernetes
3 50 (21.74%) Grafana
4 35 (15.22%) Prometheus
5 33 (14.35%) Ansible
6 18 (7.83%) Progress Chef
7 12 (5.22%) Puppet
8 8 (3.48%) Data Guard
9 5 (2.17%) Rancher
10 4 (1.74%) Argo
10 4 (1.74%) Kibana
10 4 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.74%) Packer
11 3 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.30%) Foglight
11 3 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.87%) Istio
12 2 (0.87%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.87%) systemd
Vendors
1 28 (12.17%) Oracle
2 18 (7.83%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.35%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (4.35%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.91%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.91%) Databricks
5 9 (3.91%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.48%) Sybase
6 8 (3.48%) Talend
7 7 (3.04%) Splunk
8 6 (2.61%) Informatica
9 5 (2.17%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.74%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.74%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.74%) Qualys
10 4 (1.74%) Tenable
11 3 (1.30%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.30%) Google
12 2 (0.87%) NetApp