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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 317 350
Rank change year-on-year -22 +33 -32
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 229 168 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.64% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.10% 3.47% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 109 153
10th Percentile £368 £413 £405
25th Percentile £440 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £600
90th Percentile £641 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -1.89% +0.95% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.88 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £89.38 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - -

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 5,581 4,845 6,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.35% 18.59% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,865 3,247 4,421
10th Percentile £337 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 82 161
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.59
25th Percentile £27.41 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.25 £41.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.32% -3.53% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.63 £73.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £38.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +41.63% -9.87% -25.26%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -22 123 £513 -10.87% 40
Midlands -29 42 £500 -5.48% 12
West Midlands -25 37 £513 -3.12% 10
North of England -39 28 £500 +11.11% 21
South East -24 18 £475 +5.56% 19
North West -25 13 £394 +5.00% 12
Yorkshire -53 11 £518 -11.91% 7
South West -9 10 £538 -10.54% 8
East Midlands -27 5 £375 -15.35% 2
North East -12 4 £500 - 2
East of England -21 3 £538 +8.86% 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 24 (10.48%) Confluence
2 6 (2.62%) nginx
3 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 229 (100.00%) AWS
2 147 (64.19%) Amazon S3
3 129 (56.33%) Amazon EC2
4 117 (51.09%) Serverless
5 116 (50.66%) AWS Lambda
6 77 (33.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 73 (31.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 69 (30.13%) Amazon ECS
9 66 (28.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 62 (27.07%) Amazon EKS
11 61 (26.64%) GitHub
12 43 (18.78%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (15.28%) Azure
14 29 (12.66%) Route 53
15 22 (9.61%) Amazon Kinesis
16 21 (9.17%) AWS Fargate
17 20 (8.73%) AWS KMS
18 19 (8.30%) Datadog
19 17 (7.42%) Amazon ELB
20 15 (6.55%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.61%) DNS
2 19 (8.30%) Firewall
3 10 (4.37%) HTTP
4 8 (3.49%) FTP
4 8 (3.49%) SMTP
4 8 (3.49%) SSH
4 8 (3.49%) VPN
5 6 (2.62%) IMAP
5 6 (2.62%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.75%) Network Security
7 3 (1.31%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.44%) Internet
8 1 (0.44%) LAN
8 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (27.51%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (19.21%) DynamoDB
3 38 (16.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 33 (14.41%) MySQL
5 22 (9.61%) MongoDB
5 22 (9.61%) NoSQL
6 21 (9.17%) SQL Server
7 20 (8.73%) Relational Database
8 17 (7.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (4.80%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (4.80%) Hadoop
9 11 (4.80%) Redis
10 10 (4.37%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (4.37%) Oracle Database
11 8 (3.49%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (3.06%) Power BI
13 6 (2.62%) Couchbase
13 6 (2.62%) RDBMS
14 5 (2.18%) DB2
14 5 (2.18%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 91 (39.74%) Jenkins
2 58 (25.33%) Git
3 44 (19.21%) GitLab
4 29 (12.66%) JIRA
5 12 (5.24%) JUnit
6 11 (4.80%) Maven
7 8 (3.49%) Vagrant
8 6 (2.62%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.62%) Mockito
9 5 (2.18%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.18%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (1.75%) Snyk
10 4 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.75%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.31%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.31%) DbUnit
11 3 (1.31%) git-flow
11 3 (1.31%) Gradle
11 3 (1.31%) jMock
General
1 61 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.85%) Public Sector
3 33 (14.41%) Finance
4 17 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.55%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.37%) Banking
7 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.31%) Legal
9 2 (0.87%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (19.65%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (17.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (13.97%) Developer
4 30 (13.10%) Senior
5 26 (11.35%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (9.61%) Software Engineer
7 21 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (9.17%) Site Engineer
8 20 (8.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 20 (8.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 19 (8.30%) Lead
10 18 (7.86%) Data Engineer
11 16 (6.99%) DBA
12 14 (6.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 13 (5.68%) AWS Developer
13 13 (5.68%) Java Developer
13 13 (5.68%) Oracle DBA
14 12 (5.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 12 (5.24%) Java Engineer
15 11 (4.80%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (19.21%) Kafka
2 26 (11.35%) Spring
3 25 (10.92%) Spring Boot
4 24 (10.48%) React
5 22 (9.61%) Node.js
5 22 (9.61%) RESTful
6 17 (7.42%) REST
7 14 (6.11%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (4.80%) CSS
9 10 (4.37%) FastAPI
10 9 (3.93%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.93%) Hibernate
10 9 (3.93%) JPA
10 9 (3.93%) Spring Cloud
11 8 (3.49%) AWS CDK
11 8 (3.49%) Django
11 8 (3.49%) Flask
11 8 (3.49%) Jest
11 8 (3.49%) Keycloak
11 8 (3.49%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 27 (11.79%) Replication
3 24 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.06%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.62%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.62%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.75%) Clustering
6 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.75%) PKI
7 3 (1.31%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.31%) NHS
8 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.87%) Derivative
8 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.87%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.44%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 70 (30.57%) Linux
2 13 (5.68%) Unix
3 11 (4.80%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (4.80%) Windows
4 9 (3.93%) VMS
5 7 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.62%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.75%) CentOS
8 3 (1.31%) Solaris
9 1 (0.44%) Android
9 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (64.63%) CI/CD
2 108 (47.16%) DevOps
3 94 (41.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (32.75%) Agile
5 68 (29.69%) Containerisation
6 49 (21.40%) Microservices
7 41 (17.90%) Configuration Management
7 41 (17.90%) Performance Tuning
8 39 (17.03%) Observability
9 37 (16.16%) Software Engineering
10 35 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (13.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 31 (13.54%) Migration
13 26 (11.35%) Event-Driven
14 25 (10.92%) High Availability
15 23 (10.04%) Cloud Security
15 23 (10.04%) Cost Optimisation
15 23 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (9.17%) Change Management
16 21 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 111 (48.47%) Python
2 86 (37.55%) SQL
3 58 (25.33%) Java
4 39 (17.03%) Bash
5 28 (12.23%) Shell Script
6 24 (10.48%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.42%) JavaScript
8 16 (6.99%) Go
9 13 (5.68%) Groovy
10 11 (4.80%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.49%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.62%) C#
12 6 (2.62%) JSX
12 6 (2.62%) Perl
13 5 (2.18%) Ruby
14 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.44%) Bicep
15 1 (0.44%) PHP
15 1 (0.44%) R
15 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (37.12%) Security Cleared
2 72 (31.44%) SC Cleared
3 40 (17.47%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.11%) Degree
4 14 (6.11%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.68%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.18%) OCP
9 5 (2.18%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.87%) PMP
11 1 (0.44%) CEH
11 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.44%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.37%) NIST
2 10 (4.37%) QA
3 9 (3.93%) GDPR
4 5 (2.18%) NCSC
4 5 (2.18%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.31%) PMO
6 3 (1.31%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) GxP
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 101 (44.10%) Docker
2 9 (3.93%) Postfix
3 8 (3.49%) DFS Replication
4 6 (2.62%) Dovecot
4 6 (2.62%) Squid
5 4 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.31%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.31%) NFS
6 3 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.87%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 121 (52.84%) Terraform
2 73 (31.88%) Kubernetes
3 52 (22.71%) Grafana
4 40 (17.47%) Prometheus
5 38 (16.59%) Ansible
6 20 (8.73%) Progress Chef
7 15 (6.55%) Puppet
8 7 (3.06%) Data Guard
8 7 (3.06%) Packer
9 6 (2.62%) Nessus
9 6 (2.62%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.75%) Argo
10 4 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.75%) Kibana
10 4 (1.75%) Rancher
11 3 (1.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.31%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.87%) systemd
Vendors
1 29 (12.66%) Oracle
2 20 (8.73%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.11%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.37%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (4.37%) PagerDuty
4 10 (4.37%) Splunk
5 8 (3.49%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.06%) Confluent
7 6 (2.62%) IBM
7 6 (2.62%) Sybase
8 5 (2.18%) Talend
9 4 (1.75%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.75%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.75%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.75%) Okta
9 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.31%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.31%) Informatica
10 3 (1.31%) Qualys
10 3 (1.31%) Tenable