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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 304 371
Rank change year-on-year -105 +67 -19
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 236 224 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.81% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.36% 4.49% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 158 108
10th Percentile £400 £407 £409
25th Percentile £431 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -2.60% -6.26%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £613
90th Percentile £760 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £527 £525 £531
% change year-on-year +0.38% -1.08% -3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 7,018 4,993 5,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.16% 17.96% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,678 3,432 4,157
10th Percentile £358 £334 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £703 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 80 80
10th Percentile £15.93 £21.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.21 £31.45 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +19.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £60.36
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £71.85
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £39.48 £34.47
% change year-on-year +0.05% +14.55% -35.58%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -54 148 £550 -4.35% 72
North of England -55 32 £500 - 20
Midlands -73 26 £469 -1.26% 13
West Midlands -60 23 £469 -1.26% 7
Yorkshire -31 18 £500 - 4
South West -40 10 £542 -0.14% 11
South East -76 10 £460 -20.00% 17
North East -41 7 £425 -2.86% 7
North West -57 7 £525 -4.55% 9
East of England -34 4 £348 -36.82% 6
East Midlands -20 2 £449 +18.16% 6
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 (8.05%) Confluence
2 16 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.97%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.54%) SAS
5 5 (2.12%) Apache
6 3 (1.27%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.27%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.85%) Camunda
7 2 (0.85%) nginx
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.85%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.85%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 224 (94.92%) AWS
2 157 (66.53%) Amazon S3
3 127 (53.81%) AWS Lambda
4 126 (53.39%) Serverless
5 96 (40.68%) Amazon EC2
6 89 (37.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 64 (27.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 59 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (23.73%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (22.88%) Azure
11 38 (16.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (13.98%) GitHub
13 30 (12.71%) AWS KMS
14 25 (10.59%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (8.90%) Route 53
17 19 (8.05%) GCP
18 16 (6.78%) AWS Step Functions
19 15 (6.36%) Snowflake
20 13 (5.51%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.78%) Firewall
2 13 (5.51%) DNS
3 8 (3.39%) DHCP
4 7 (2.97%) VPN
5 6 (2.54%) SMTP
6 4 (1.69%) HTTP
6 4 (1.69%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.69%) Network Security
6 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.85%) FTP
7 2 (0.85%) IMAP
7 2 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.85%) SSH
7 2 (0.85%) SSL
8 1 (0.42%) AMQP
8 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (32.20%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (23.31%) Amazon Aurora
3 52 (22.03%) DynamoDB
4 24 (10.17%) SQL Server
5 21 (8.90%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (8.90%) MongoDB
6 20 (8.47%) MySQL
7 18 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (7.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (5.93%) Redis
10 13 (5.51%) Data Lake
10 13 (5.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (5.08%) Big Data
11 12 (5.08%) Power BI
12 10 (4.24%) NoSQL
13 9 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (3.39%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.97%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (2.97%) Pentaho
16 6 (2.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 60 (25.42%) Jenkins
2 46 (19.49%) Git
3 42 (17.80%) GitLab
4 26 (11.02%) JIRA
5 14 (5.93%) JUnit
5 14 (5.93%) Mockito
6 11 (4.66%) Maven
6 11 (4.66%) SonarQube
7 10 (4.24%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (2.97%) DbUnit
10 6 (2.54%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (2.54%) jMock
10 6 (2.54%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (2.12%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.69%) Flyway
12 4 (1.69%) Postman
13 3 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.85%) Gradle
14 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
General
1 66 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.61%) Public Sector
3 32 (13.56%) Finance
4 25 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.47%) Banking
6 9 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.39%) Front Office
8 7 (2.97%) Back Office
9 6 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.69%) Legal
11 3 (1.27%) Billing
11 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Law
12 2 (0.85%) Local Government
12 2 (0.85%) Marketing
13 1 (0.42%) Games
13 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.42%) Military
13 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (21.19%) AWS Engineer
2 39 (16.53%) Senior
3 36 (15.25%) Data Engineer
4 35 (14.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (14.41%) Architect
5 34 (14.41%) Developer
6 29 (12.29%) DBA
7 21 (8.90%) Lead
8 20 (8.47%) AWS DevOps
9 18 (7.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 17 (7.20%) AWS Architect
11 16 (6.78%) AWS Data Engineer
11 16 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (6.36%) Administrator
12 15 (6.36%) Java Developer
13 14 (5.93%) Technical Leader
14 12 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (4.24%) Technical Architect
16 9 (3.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (47.88%) Terraform
2 30 (12.71%) React
3 26 (11.02%) REST
4 25 (10.59%) Spring
4 25 (10.59%) Spring Boot
5 20 (8.47%) AngularJS
5 20 (8.47%) Node.js
6 19 (8.05%) RESTful
7 17 (7.20%) Kafka
8 16 (6.78%) FastAPI
9 13 (5.51%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (5.08%) SOAP
11 11 (4.66%) Hibernate
11 11 (4.66%) JPA
12 9 (3.81%) JSON
12 9 (3.81%) Spring Batch
12 9 (3.81%) Spring Integration
12 9 (3.81%) Web Services
13 8 (3.39%) GraphQL
13 8 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (24.15%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.02%) Replication
3 21 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.36%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.24%) NHS
6 8 (3.39%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.97%) Clustering
7 7 (2.97%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.54%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.54%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.54%) PKI
9 5 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.12%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.34%) Linux
2 22 (9.32%) Windows
3 13 (5.51%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.81%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.39%) Unix
6 4 (1.69%) AIX
6 4 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.27%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.42%) VMS
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (59.75%) CI/CD
2 115 (48.73%) DevOps
3 103 (43.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (39.83%) Agile
5 49 (20.76%) Data Modelling
5 49 (20.76%) Performance Tuning
6 45 (19.07%) Containerisation
7 43 (18.22%) Microservices
7 43 (18.22%) Observability
7 43 (18.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (15.25%) High Availability
10 34 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
10 34 (14.41%) Event-Driven
10 34 (14.41%) Migration
11 32 (13.56%) Data Integration
12 30 (12.71%) Disaster Recovery
12 30 (12.71%) Scrum
12 30 (12.71%) Software Engineering
13 29 (12.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 108 (45.76%) Python
2 80 (33.90%) SQL
3 58 (24.58%) Java
4 24 (10.17%) TypeScript
5 23 (9.75%) Bash
5 23 (9.75%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.93%) Groovy
7 11 (4.66%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.97%) Perl
8 7 (2.97%) Scala
9 4 (1.69%) C#
9 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.69%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.27%) Go
10 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.85%) Bicep
11 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.85%) Ruby
12 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 97 (41.10%) Security Cleared
2 81 (34.32%) SC Cleared
3 42 (17.80%) AWS Certification
4 27 (11.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (6.78%) Degree
6 11 (4.66%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.66%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.97%) CISM
7 7 (2.97%) CISSP
8 6 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.85%) PMP
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.39%) NIST
3 6 (2.54%) QA
4 3 (1.27%) HL7
4 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.27%) PMO
4 3 (1.27%) SLA
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 76 (32.20%) Docker
2 15 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.97%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.97%) Postfix
4 5 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.69%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.69%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.85%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.85%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.85%) Squid
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 56 (23.73%) Kubernetes
2 48 (20.34%) Grafana
3 36 (15.25%) Prometheus
4 22 (9.32%) Ansible
5 9 (3.81%) Istio
6 7 (2.97%) Argo
7 6 (2.54%) Kibana
8 5 (2.12%) Puppet
9 4 (1.69%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.69%) vMotion
10 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.27%) Nagios
10 3 (1.27%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.27%) Rancher
11 2 (0.85%) Consul
11 2 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.85%) Nessus
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.47%) Oracle
2 20 (8.47%) ServiceNow
3 14 (5.93%) Dynatrace
4 11 (4.66%) Informatica
5 10 (4.24%) Databricks
5 10 (4.24%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (3.81%) VMware
7 8 (3.39%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.97%) Google
8 7 (2.97%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.97%) Talend
9 6 (2.54%) Denodo
9 6 (2.54%) Splunk
10 5 (2.12%) Amplitude
10 5 (2.12%) Citrix
11 4 (1.69%) Brio
11 4 (1.69%) Cisco
11 4 (1.69%) HP
11 4 (1.69%) Symantec