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

 6 months to
18 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 281 368
Rank change year-on-year -83 +87 -53
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 241 206 183
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.83% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.68% 4.42% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 152 133
10th Percentile £360 £419 £378
25th Percentile £415 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -15.00%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £661
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +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 6,552 4,658 6,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 18.78% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,440 3,242 4,648
10th Percentile £350 £359 £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% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 89 143
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £33.88 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -15.30% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.38 £64.50 £52.83
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.74 £72.30
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.17% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -36 139 £525 -8.70% 20
Midlands -31 49 £469 -1.26% 8
West Midlands -34 42 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -55 30 £425 -18.03% 11
Yorkshire -47 18 £500 - 3
South West -23 12 £580 +6.91% 8
South East -64 9 £440 -23.57% 9
North West -37 8 £390 -29.09% 5
East Midlands -17 6 £519 +66.88% 2
North East -33 4 £425 -5.56% 3
East of England -31 3 £350 -36.36% 2
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 26 (10.79%) Confluence
2 6 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.49%) SAS
2 6 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 232 (96.27%) AWS
2 150 (62.24%) Amazon S3
3 121 (50.21%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (49.79%) Serverless
5 107 (44.40%) Amazon EC2
6 86 (35.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 61 (25.31%) Amazon ECS
8 59 (24.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 54 (22.41%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (19.09%) Azure
11 42 (17.43%) GitHub
12 40 (16.60%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (13.69%) Route 53
14 29 (12.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (12.03%) AWS KMS
15 26 (10.79%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (7.47%) Power Platform
17 15 (6.22%) Amazon Kinesis
17 15 (6.22%) AWS Fargate
18 12 (4.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.98%) DNS
2 11 (4.56%) Firewall
3 7 (2.90%) DHCP
4 6 (2.49%) VPN
5 4 (1.66%) Network Security
5 4 (1.66%) SMTP
6 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.83%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.41%) AMQP
8 1 (0.41%) HTTP
8 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (27.80%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (25.73%) DynamoDB
3 51 (21.16%) Amazon Aurora
4 22 (9.13%) MySQL
5 18 (7.47%) Power BI
6 16 (6.64%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (6.22%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (5.81%) NoSQL
9 13 (5.39%) MongoDB
9 13 (5.39%) Pentaho
10 10 (4.15%) Big Data
10 10 (4.15%) Redis
10 10 (4.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.73%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.73%) Tableau
12 8 (3.32%) Data Lake
13 6 (2.49%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 75 (31.12%) Jenkins
2 59 (24.48%) Git
3 35 (14.52%) GitLab
4 31 (12.86%) JIRA
5 27 (11.20%) JUnit
6 23 (9.54%) Mockito
7 22 (9.13%) Maven
8 21 (8.71%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.81%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.39%) jMock
11 11 (4.56%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.49%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.49%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (2.07%) git-flow
14 5 (2.07%) Postman
15 4 (1.66%) Flyway
15 4 (1.66%) Oracle APEX
15 4 (1.66%) Snyk
16 3 (1.24%) Gradle
General
1 58 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.58%) Public Sector
3 29 (12.03%) Finance
4 28 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.64%) Banking
6 11 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.90%) Legal
8 6 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.83%) Front Office
10 2 (0.83%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (20.33%) Developer
2 36 (14.94%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (14.94%) Senior
3 29 (12.03%) Data Engineer
4 28 (11.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (10.79%) Java Developer
6 23 (9.54%) Architect
6 23 (9.54%) DBA
7 18 (7.47%) Software Engineer
8 17 (7.05%) Lead
9 15 (6.22%) AWS Architect
9 15 (6.22%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (5.81%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.56%) AWS Developer
12 11 (4.56%) Python Developer
13 10 (4.15%) Analyst
13 10 (4.15%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (4.15%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (4.15%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.67%) Spring
1 45 (18.67%) Spring Boot
2 37 (15.35%) REST
3 35 (14.52%) React
4 34 (14.11%) RESTful
5 31 (12.86%) AngularJS
5 31 (12.86%) Node.js
6 26 (10.79%) Kafka
7 23 (9.54%) Hibernate
7 23 (9.54%) JPA
7 23 (9.54%) SOAP
8 21 (8.71%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (7.88%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (7.88%) Web Services
10 18 (7.47%) Spring Batch
10 18 (7.47%) Spring Integration
11 14 (5.81%) FastAPI
11 14 (5.81%) GraphQL
12 13 (5.39%) PowerMock
13 11 (4.56%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 59 (24.48%) Cloud Native
2 32 (13.28%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.15%) Replication
5 9 (3.73%) Virtual Team
6 8 (3.32%) NHS
7 5 (2.07%) Clustering
7 5 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.66%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.66%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.66%) PKI
9 2 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.50%) Linux
2 15 (6.22%) Windows
3 12 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.32%) Unix
5 4 (1.66%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.24%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.41%) CentOS
7 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (52.70%) CI/CD
2 110 (45.64%) Agile
3 101 (41.91%) DevOps
4 67 (27.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (26.56%) Microservices
6 59 (24.48%) Containerisation
7 44 (18.26%) Performance Tuning
8 43 (17.84%) Scrum
9 33 (13.69%) ETL
9 33 (13.69%) Observability
10 32 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (12.86%) TDD
12 30 (12.45%) Software Engineering
13 28 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (11.20%) Event-Driven
14 27 (11.20%) Kanban
15 26 (10.79%) Migration
16 25 (10.37%) High Availability
16 25 (10.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (37.76%) SQL
2 87 (36.10%) Python
3 79 (32.78%) Java
4 19 (7.88%) Bash
4 19 (7.88%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.47%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.22%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.15%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.32%) Groovy
8 8 (3.32%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.49%) C#
10 5 (2.07%) Scala
11 4 (1.66%) Go
11 4 (1.66%) Perl
11 4 (1.66%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Ruby
13 1 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 108 (44.81%) Security Cleared
2 89 (36.93%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.79%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.64%) Degree
5 15 (6.22%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.32%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.24%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.83%) PMP
12 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.56%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.73%) QA
3 7 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.90%) NIST
3 7 (2.90%) PMO
4 6 (2.49%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.66%) SLA
6 2 (0.83%) GDPR
6 2 (0.83%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 96 (39.83%) Docker
2 11 (4.56%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.56%) Postfix
3 6 (2.49%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.66%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.66%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.66%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.66%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 87 (36.10%) Terraform
2 63 (26.14%) Kubernetes
3 47 (19.50%) Grafana
4 31 (12.86%) Prometheus
5 19 (7.88%) Ansible
6 6 (2.49%) Argo
6 6 (2.49%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.07%) Data Guard
7 5 (2.07%) Puppet
8 4 (1.66%) Istio
8 4 (1.66%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.66%) vMotion
9 3 (1.24%) Foglight
9 3 (1.24%) Kibana
9 3 (1.24%) Nagios
9 3 (1.24%) Rancher
10 2 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.83%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.41%) Consul
Vendors
1 30 (12.45%) Oracle
2 22 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.13%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.05%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (6.22%) Atlassian
5 13 (5.39%) Dynatrace
6 12 (4.98%) Informatica
7 9 (3.73%) Talend
8 8 (3.32%) Databricks
9 6 (2.49%) Denodo
9 6 (2.49%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.07%) Citrix
10 5 (2.07%) Google
10 5 (2.07%) Splunk
10 5 (2.07%) Sybase
10 5 (2.07%) VMware
11 4 (1.66%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.66%) Brio
11 4 (1.66%) HP
11 4 (1.66%) Symantec
51 Amazon RDS jobs in England