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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 283 359
Rank change year-on-year -118 +76 -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 230 236 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.86% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.29% 4.74% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 171 115
10th Percentile £388 £413 £410
25th Percentile £425 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% -1.49% -10.33%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £609
90th Percentile £738 £653 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £546 £535
% change year-on-year -3.89% +2.10% -5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £70.60 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £74.13 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
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 6,986 4,983 6,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.28% 18.07% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,688 3,440 4,355
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £547
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.31% -0.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 80 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.48 £24.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.82 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.87% -0.53% -36.36%
75th Percentile £61.75 £63.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.40 £78.71 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.55% -37.34%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -77 138 £550 -5.17% 62
Midlands -45 34 £469 -1.26% 5
North of England -63 32 £450 -14.29% 17
West Midlands -62 28 £469 -1.26% 3
Yorkshire -30 18 £500 - 5
South West -44 9 £538 -7.92% 11
South East -80 9 £459 -20.17% 14
North East -32 7 £425 -5.56% 3
North West -56 7 £525 -6.67% 9
East Midlands -14 5 £449 +18.16% 2
East of England -33 4 £348 -36.82% 7
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 18 (7.83%) Confluence
2 9 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.04%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.61%) SAS
5 4 (1.74%) Apache
6 3 (1.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.87%) Camunda
7 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 219 (95.22%) AWS
2 149 (64.78%) Amazon S3
3 124 (53.91%) AWS Lambda
4 123 (53.48%) Serverless
5 92 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
6 85 (36.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 62 (26.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 56 (24.35%) Amazon ECS
9 53 (23.04%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (20.43%) Azure
11 39 (16.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (14.35%) GitHub
13 32 (13.91%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (13.04%) AWS KMS
15 21 (9.13%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (9.13%) Route 53
16 17 (7.39%) GCP
17 15 (6.52%) AWS Step Functions
18 13 (5.65%) Power Platform
19 12 (5.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.65%) Firewall
2 9 (3.91%) DNS
3 7 (3.04%) DHCP
4 6 (2.61%) VPN
5 4 (1.74%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.74%) Network Security
5 4 (1.74%) SMTP
5 4 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.87%) HTTP
6 2 (0.87%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.87%) SSL
7 1 (0.43%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (29.57%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (22.61%) Amazon Aurora
3 51 (22.17%) DynamoDB
4 23 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 20 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (8.70%) MySQL
6 18 (7.83%) MongoDB
7 15 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (6.09%) Redis
9 13 (5.65%) Power BI
10 12 (5.22%) Big Data
10 12 (5.22%) Data Lake
11 11 (4.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (4.35%) NoSQL
13 8 (3.48%) Pentaho
14 7 (3.04%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (2.61%) Relational Database
16 5 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 64 (27.83%) Jenkins
2 43 (18.70%) Git
3 38 (16.52%) GitLab
4 24 (10.43%) JIRA
5 19 (8.26%) JUnit
6 17 (7.39%) Mockito
7 16 (6.96%) SonarQube
8 13 (5.65%) Maven
9 10 (4.35%) DbUnit
10 9 (3.91%) Bitbucket
10 9 (3.91%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (3.91%) jMock
11 8 (3.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.61%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (2.17%) Postman
14 4 (1.74%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.74%) Flyway
15 3 (1.30%) Artifactory
15 3 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
16 2 (0.87%) git-flow
General
1 63 (27.39%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.48%) Public Sector
3 32 (13.91%) Finance
4 25 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.70%) Banking
6 7 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.61%) Front Office
7 6 (2.61%) Legal
8 5 (2.17%) Back Office
9 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Law
10 2 (0.87%) Local Government
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Games
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (18.70%) AWS Engineer
2 38 (16.52%) Developer
3 36 (15.65%) Senior
4 34 (14.78%) Data Engineer
5 30 (13.04%) Architect
5 30 (13.04%) DBA
5 30 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (8.26%) AWS DevOps
6 19 (8.26%) Java Developer
7 18 (7.83%) Lead
8 17 (7.39%) AWS Architect
9 16 (6.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (6.52%) Administrator
11 14 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (5.65%) AWS Data Engineer
13 12 (5.22%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.78%) Technical Leader
15 10 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (4.35%) Technical Architect
16 9 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.48%) React
2 30 (13.04%) Spring
2 30 (13.04%) Spring Boot
3 28 (12.17%) REST
4 27 (11.74%) RESTful
5 25 (10.87%) Node.js
6 24 (10.43%) AngularJS
7 20 (8.70%) Kafka
8 17 (7.39%) SOAP
9 16 (6.96%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (5.65%) FastAPI
10 13 (5.65%) Hibernate
10 13 (5.65%) JPA
10 13 (5.65%) Spring Batch
10 13 (5.65%) Spring Integration
10 13 (5.65%) Web Services
11 11 (4.78%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (3.91%) AWS CDK
12 9 (3.91%) Bootstrap
12 9 (3.91%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 55 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.43%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (9.13%) Replication
4 12 (5.22%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.48%) NHS
5 8 (3.48%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.04%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.04%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.61%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (2.61%) Clustering
8 5 (2.17%) PKI
9 4 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.30%) Derivative
10 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.30%) Equities
10 3 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.30%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.87%) Linux
2 19 (8.26%) Windows
3 13 (5.65%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.04%) Unix
5 6 (2.61%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.74%) AIX
7 3 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.43%) CentOS
8 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (57.83%) CI/CD
2 101 (43.91%) DevOps
3 98 (42.61%) Agile
4 87 (37.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (20.87%) Microservices
6 45 (19.57%) Containerisation
6 45 (19.57%) Performance Tuning
7 40 (17.39%) Data Modelling
8 39 (16.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (16.09%) High Availability
10 35 (15.22%) Observability
11 33 (14.35%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (14.35%) Scrum
12 32 (13.91%) Migration
13 30 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (12.61%) ETL
15 28 (12.17%) Event-Driven
16 27 (11.74%) Disaster Recovery
16 27 (11.74%) Test Automation
17 26 (11.30%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (43.91%) Python
2 80 (34.78%) SQL
3 64 (27.83%) Java
4 25 (10.87%) Bash
5 24 (10.43%) TypeScript
6 21 (9.13%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.22%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.78%) Groovy
9 6 (2.61%) Perl
9 6 (2.61%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.17%) C#
10 5 (2.17%) Scala
11 4 (1.74%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.30%) Go
13 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.87%) Ruby
14 1 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 102 (44.35%) Security Cleared
2 84 (36.52%) SC Cleared
3 39 (16.96%) AWS Certification
4 25 (10.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (6.96%) Degree
6 11 (4.78%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.48%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.74%) CISM
9 4 (1.74%) CISSP
10 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.87%) PMP
12 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.26%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.61%) NIST
3 5 (2.17%) QA
4 3 (1.30%) HL7
4 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.30%) PMO
4 3 (1.30%) SLA
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 76 (33.04%) Docker
2 13 (5.65%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.48%) Postfix
4 6 (2.61%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.74%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.74%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 103 (44.78%) Terraform
2 59 (25.65%) Kubernetes
3 46 (20.00%) Grafana
4 32 (13.91%) Prometheus
5 20 (8.70%) Ansible
6 9 (3.91%) Istio
7 7 (3.04%) Argo
8 6 (2.61%) Kibana
9 5 (2.17%) Puppet
10 4 (1.74%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.74%) vMotion
11 3 (1.30%) Foglight
11 3 (1.30%) Nagios
11 3 (1.30%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.30%) Rancher
12 2 (0.87%) Consul
12 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.87%) Packer
12 2 (0.87%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 18 (7.83%) Oracle
4 14 (6.09%) Dynatrace
5 12 (5.22%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (4.78%) Atlassian
7 9 (3.91%) VMware
8 8 (3.48%) Databricks
8 8 (3.48%) Informatica
9 7 (3.04%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.61%) Denodo
10 6 (2.61%) Splunk
11 5 (2.17%) Amplitude
11 5 (2.17%) Citrix
11 5 (2.17%) Google
12 4 (1.74%) Brio
12 4 (1.74%) Cisco
12 4 (1.74%) HP
12 4 (1.74%) Symantec
12 4 (1.74%) Talend