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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 350 361
Rank change year-on-year +32 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 217 161 230
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.51% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.17% 2.84% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 106 176
10th Percentile £380 £431 £413
25th Percentile £450 £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% -6.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £582 £630 £638
90th Percentile £644 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £508 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -4.25% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,200 5,677 6,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.23% 17.98% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,580 3,844 4,835
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 81 147
10th Percentile £19.46 £17.50 £18.98
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.40 £25.32
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £69.75 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £30.59 £50.00
% change year-on-year +37.28% -38.82% +0.11%

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 24 October 2025.

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 24 October 2025.

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 24 October 2025. 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 -4 103 £516 -6.14% 65
Midlands +12 46 £475 -5.00% 10
West Midlands +24 40 £475 - 5
North of England -28 29 £500 -1.38% 18
North West -7 17 £525 -22.22% 13
South East +19 16 £447 +11.75% 46
East of England +7 11 £550 -8.33% 9
Yorkshire -31 9 £500 -1.38% 2
South West +14 8 £523 -12.92% 24
East Midlands -4 6 £380 -24.00% 5
North East -6 3 £425 - 3
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 32 (14.75%) Confluence
2 12 (5.53%) nginx
3 9 (4.15%) Apache
4 7 (3.23%) IIS
4 7 (3.23%) WebSphere
5 5 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) CICS
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (5.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (2.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.23%) Maximo
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 207 (95.39%) AWS
2 133 (61.29%) Amazon S3
3 120 (55.30%) Amazon EC2
4 108 (49.77%) Serverless
5 107 (49.31%) AWS Lambda
6 84 (38.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 66 (30.41%) Amazon ECS
8 61 (28.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 58 (26.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 55 (25.35%) GitHub
11 37 (17.05%) AWS KMS
12 34 (15.67%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (15.21%) Azure
14 32 (14.75%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (14.75%) Route 53
15 31 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (11.98%) AWS Fargate
17 25 (11.52%) Amazon ELB
17 25 (11.52%) AWS Step Functions
18 21 (9.68%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 35 (16.13%) DNS
2 30 (13.82%) Firewall
3 24 (11.06%) HTTP
3 24 (11.06%) SMTP
4 22 (10.14%) FTP
4 22 (10.14%) SSH
5 12 (5.53%) IMAP
5 12 (5.53%) OpenLDAP
6 9 (4.15%) VPN
7 5 (2.30%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.84%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.38%) SSL
10 2 (0.92%) Internet
10 2 (0.92%) Network Security
11 1 (0.46%) DHCP
11 1 (0.46%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.46%) LAN
11 1 (0.46%) NAS
11 1 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (35.94%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (23.96%) DynamoDB
3 49 (22.58%) Amazon Aurora
4 30 (13.82%) MySQL
5 25 (11.52%) NoSQL
6 22 (10.14%) Relational Database
6 22 (10.14%) SQL Server
7 19 (8.76%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (5.99%) MongoDB
9 12 (5.53%) RDBMS
10 11 (5.07%) DB2
11 10 (4.61%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (4.61%) Redis
12 8 (3.69%) Hadoop
13 7 (3.23%) BigQuery
14 6 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (2.76%) Couchbase
14 6 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (2.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 95 (43.78%) Jenkins
2 69 (31.80%) Git
3 39 (17.97%) GitLab
4 34 (15.67%) JIRA
5 25 (11.52%) Maven
6 24 (11.06%) Vagrant
7 20 (9.22%) JUnit
8 18 (8.29%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.69%) Mockito
10 6 (2.76%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (2.76%) DbUnit
10 6 (2.76%) jMock
11 5 (2.30%) Gradle
11 5 (2.30%) SonarLint
12 4 (1.84%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.84%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.84%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.84%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 73 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 24 (11.06%) Finance
4 13 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.23%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.76%) Banking
8 5 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.92%) Marketing
10 1 (0.46%) Front Office
10 1 (0.46%) Games
10 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.46%) Military
10 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (26.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (26.27%) AWS Engineer
3 51 (23.50%) Developer
4 43 (19.82%) AWS DevOps
5 38 (17.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 31 (14.29%) Senior
7 27 (12.44%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (11.52%) Java Developer
9 23 (10.60%) AWS Developer
9 23 (10.60%) Lead
10 22 (10.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 15 (6.91%) Architect
11 15 (6.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.07%) Data Engineer
12 11 (5.07%) Senior Developer
12 11 (5.07%) Software Engineer
13 10 (4.61%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 9 (4.15%) Senior DevOps
15 8 (3.69%) Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (3.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.29%) Kafka
2 30 (13.82%) RESTful
3 29 (13.36%) Spring
3 29 (13.36%) Spring Boot
4 26 (11.98%) Node.js
5 21 (9.68%) REST
6 19 (8.76%) SOAP
7 17 (7.83%) Web Services
8 13 (5.99%) AngularJS
8 13 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (5.99%) LDAP
9 12 (5.53%) ActiveMQ
9 12 (5.53%) React
10 11 (5.07%) Hibernate
10 11 (5.07%) JPA
11 10 (4.61%) AWS CDK
11 10 (4.61%) Spring Batch
12 9 (4.15%) Bootstrap
12 9 (4.15%) Spring Integration
13 8 (3.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (18.43%) Replication
2 26 (11.98%) Cloud Native
3 21 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.53%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.23%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.30%) N-Tier
7 5 (2.30%) PKI
7 5 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.84%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.38%) Clustering
9 3 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.92%) Derivative
10 2 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.92%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.92%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.46%) Equities
11 1 (0.46%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 55 (25.35%) Linux
2 34 (15.67%) Windows
3 25 (11.52%) VMS
4 24 (11.06%) Amazon Linux
5 11 (5.07%) Ubuntu
5 11 (5.07%) Unix
6 10 (4.61%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.84%) CentOS
8 4 (1.84%) Solaris
9 1 (0.46%) AIX
9 1 (0.46%) Android
9 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.46%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (59.45%) DevOps
2 119 (54.84%) CI/CD
3 68 (31.34%) Containerisation
4 67 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (29.49%) Agile
6 56 (25.81%) Microservices
7 44 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (18.89%) Cloud Security
9 40 (18.43%) Migration
10 39 (17.97%) Configuration Management
11 35 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
12 32 (14.75%) Change Management
13 30 (13.82%) Performance Tuning
14 29 (13.36%) TDD
15 28 (12.90%) Mentoring
16 27 (12.44%) Event-Driven
17 25 (11.52%) Observability
18 22 (10.14%) Patch Management
19 19 (8.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 19 (8.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 111 (51.15%) Python
2 74 (34.10%) Java
3 69 (31.80%) SQL
4 42 (19.35%) PowerShell
5 27 (12.44%) Groovy
6 25 (11.52%) JavaScript
7 24 (11.06%) Bash
8 15 (6.91%) Shell Script
9 14 (6.45%) Perl
10 11 (5.07%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.69%) Go
12 4 (1.84%) C#
12 4 (1.84%) Ruby
12 4 (1.84%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.38%) JSX
14 2 (0.92%) C
14 2 (0.92%) PHP
15 1 (0.46%) COBOL
15 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.46%) RPG
Qualifications
1 82 (37.79%) Security Cleared
2 72 (33.18%) SC Cleared
3 44 (20.28%) AWS Certification
4 26 (11.98%) Degree
5 19 (8.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.45%) Azure Certification
7 13 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.84%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.92%) MCSE
11 2 (0.92%) OCP
11 2 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.76%) QA
2 11 (5.07%) GDPR
3 6 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.30%) NCSC
5 3 (1.38%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.38%) NIST
5 3 (1.38%) SLA
6 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.92%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.46%) GxP
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (44.70%) Docker
2 22 (10.14%) DFS Replication
3 18 (8.29%) Postfix
4 14 (6.45%) Active Directory
5 12 (5.53%) Dovecot
5 12 (5.53%) Squid
6 3 (1.38%) NFS
7 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (49.31%) Terraform
2 58 (26.73%) Kubernetes
3 54 (24.88%) Grafana
4 50 (23.04%) Prometheus
5 27 (12.44%) Ansible
6 12 (5.53%) Nessus
6 12 (5.53%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.07%) Puppet
8 10 (4.61%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.84%) Packer
10 3 (1.38%) Kibana
11 2 (0.92%) Argo
11 2 (0.92%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.92%) Rancher
12 1 (0.46%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.46%) Nagios
12 1 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (13.82%) ServiceNow
2 21 (9.68%) IBM
3 19 (8.76%) Microsoft
4 18 (8.29%) Jaspersoft
5 17 (7.83%) Oracle
6 10 (4.61%) Splunk
7 9 (4.15%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.76%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (2.76%) Confluent
9 5 (2.30%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.30%) Gigya
10 4 (1.84%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.84%) Okta
10 4 (1.84%) Sybase
11 3 (1.38%) Google
12 2 (0.92%) Databricks
12 2 (0.92%) Pega
12 2 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.46%) Sage
13 1 (0.46%) UiPath