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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 287 358
Rank change year-on-year -93 +71 -35
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 236 205 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.83% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.63% 4.43% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 148 140
10th Percentile £365 £417 £381
25th Percentile £414 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £507
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.48% -15.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £651 £664
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -6.88% - -

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 6,508 4,630 6,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 18.82% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,418 3,211 4,613
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 91 143
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.88 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £33.88 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -15.30% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.75 £65.62 £52.83
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.50 £72.30
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.14% -12.50% -31.73%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -49 135 £525 -8.70% 23
Midlands -33 49 £469 -1.26% 8
West Midlands -35 42 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -44 29 £425 -15.00% 10
Yorkshire -41 16 £450 -10.00% 3
South West -19 12 £580 +6.91% 11
North West -35 9 £445 -18.12% 5
South East -70 9 £440 -23.57% 12
East Midlands -14 6 £519 +66.88% 2
North East -31 4 £425 -5.56% 2
East of England -30 3 £350 -36.36% 1
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 25 (10.59%) Confluence
2 6 (2.54%) SAS
3 5 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.27%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 228 (96.61%) AWS
2 147 (62.29%) Amazon S3
3 119 (50.42%) AWS Lambda
3 119 (50.42%) Serverless
4 107 (45.34%) Amazon EC2
5 85 (36.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 60 (25.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 59 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (22.88%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (19.07%) Azure
10 40 (16.95%) GitHub
11 39 (16.53%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (13.98%) Route 53
13 30 (12.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (12.29%) AWS KMS
15 24 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (7.63%) Power Platform
17 15 (6.36%) Amazon Kinesis
17 15 (6.36%) AWS Fargate
18 12 (5.08%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.66%) DNS
2 9 (3.81%) Firewall
3 6 (2.54%) DHCP
4 5 (2.12%) VPN
5 4 (1.69%) Network Security
6 3 (1.27%) SMTP
6 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.85%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.42%) AMQP
8 1 (0.42%) HTTP
8 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (27.97%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (25.85%) DynamoDB
3 50 (21.19%) Amazon Aurora
4 21 (8.90%) MySQL
5 18 (7.63%) Power BI
6 16 (6.78%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (6.36%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.93%) NoSQL
9 13 (5.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (5.51%) MongoDB
9 13 (5.51%) Pentaho
10 10 (4.24%) Redis
10 10 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (3.81%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.81%) Tableau
12 8 (3.39%) Big Data
12 8 (3.39%) Data Lake
12 8 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (2.54%) Apache Iceberg
14 5 (2.12%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 75 (31.78%) Jenkins
2 59 (25.00%) Git
3 35 (14.83%) GitLab
4 30 (12.71%) JIRA
5 27 (11.44%) JUnit
6 23 (9.75%) Mockito
7 22 (9.32%) Maven
8 21 (8.90%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.93%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.51%) jMock
11 11 (4.66%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.54%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.54%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (2.12%) git-flow
13 5 (2.12%) Postman
14 4 (1.69%) Flyway
14 4 (1.69%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (1.69%) Snyk
15 3 (1.27%) Gradle
General
1 57 (24.15%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.61%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.44%) Finance
4 15 (6.36%) Banking
5 11 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (2.97%) Legal
7 6 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.85%) Front Office
9 2 (0.85%) Law
9 2 (0.85%) Local Government
10 1 (0.42%) Games
10 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
10 1 (0.42%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (21.19%) Developer
2 37 (15.68%) Senior
3 36 (15.25%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (11.44%) Data Engineer
4 27 (11.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (11.02%) Java Developer
6 22 (9.32%) Architect
6 22 (9.32%) DBA
7 18 (7.63%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.78%) Lead
9 15 (6.36%) AWS Architect
9 15 (6.36%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.93%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (5.08%) AWS Developer
11 12 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.08%) Python Developer
12 10 (4.24%) Analyst
12 10 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
12 10 (4.24%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.81%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (19.07%) Spring
1 45 (19.07%) Spring Boot
2 36 (15.25%) REST
3 34 (14.41%) React
3 34 (14.41%) RESTful
4 31 (13.14%) AngularJS
4 31 (13.14%) Node.js
5 26 (11.02%) Kafka
6 23 (9.75%) Hibernate
6 23 (9.75%) JPA
6 23 (9.75%) SOAP
7 21 (8.90%) Spring Cloud
8 19 (8.05%) ActiveMQ
8 19 (8.05%) Web Services
9 18 (7.63%) Spring Batch
9 18 (7.63%) Spring Integration
10 14 (5.93%) GraphQL
11 13 (5.51%) FastAPI
11 13 (5.51%) PowerMock
12 11 (4.66%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 57 (24.15%) Cloud Native
2 31 (13.14%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.81%) Replication
5 8 (3.39%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.97%) NHS
7 5 (2.12%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.69%) Clustering
8 4 (1.69%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.27%) PKI
10 2 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.49%) Linux
2 13 (5.51%) Windows
3 10 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.39%) Unix
5 4 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.42%) CentOS
7 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (53.39%) CI/CD
2 107 (45.34%) Agile
3 98 (41.53%) DevOps
4 66 (27.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (26.69%) Microservices
6 58 (24.58%) Containerisation
7 43 (18.22%) Scrum
8 42 (17.80%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (13.98%) ETL
10 31 (13.14%) Observability
10 31 (13.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (13.14%) TDD
11 30 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (12.71%) Software Engineering
12 27 (11.44%) Kanban
12 27 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (11.02%) Event-Driven
13 26 (11.02%) Migration
14 24 (10.17%) High Availability
14 24 (10.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (38.56%) SQL
2 84 (35.59%) Python
3 79 (33.47%) Java
4 19 (8.05%) Bash
4 19 (8.05%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.63%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.78%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.24%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.39%) Groovy
8 8 (3.39%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.54%) C#
10 5 (2.12%) Scala
11 4 (1.69%) Go
11 4 (1.69%) Perl
11 4 (1.69%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 107 (45.34%) Security Cleared
2 89 (37.71%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.44%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.93%) Degree
4 14 (5.93%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.85%) PMP
11 1 (0.42%) CEH
11 1 (0.42%) CISSP
11 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.81%) QA
3 8 (3.39%) NIST
4 7 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.97%) PMO
5 6 (2.54%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.69%) SLA
7 2 (0.85%) GDPR
8 1 (0.42%) HL7
8 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 94 (39.83%) Docker
2 11 (4.66%) Postfix
3 9 (3.81%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.12%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.27%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.27%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 86 (36.44%) Terraform
2 63 (26.69%) Kubernetes
3 47 (19.92%) Grafana
4 31 (13.14%) Prometheus
5 18 (7.63%) Ansible
6 6 (2.54%) Argo
6 6 (2.54%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.12%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.69%) Istio
8 4 (1.69%) Puppet
9 3 (1.27%) Foglight
9 3 (1.27%) Kibana
9 3 (1.27%) Rancher
9 3 (1.27%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.27%) vMotion
10 2 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.85%) Nagios
10 2 (0.85%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.42%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (12.71%) Oracle
2 22 (9.32%) ServiceNow
3 18 (7.63%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.20%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (6.36%) Atlassian
6 13 (5.51%) Dynatrace
7 12 (5.08%) Informatica
8 9 (3.81%) Talend
9 8 (3.39%) Databricks
10 6 (2.54%) Denodo
11 5 (2.12%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.12%) Splunk
11 5 (2.12%) Sybase
12 4 (1.69%) AVEVA
12 4 (1.69%) Brio
12 4 (1.69%) Citrix
12 4 (1.69%) Google
12 4 (1.69%) VMware
13 3 (1.27%) Qualys
13 3 (1.27%) Tenable
59 Amazon RDS jobs in England