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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 336 369
Rank change year-on-year +3 +33 -39
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 222 171 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.59% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.12% 3.24% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 110 152
10th Percentile £380 £438 £413
25th Percentile £434 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +2.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £709 £638
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -6.82% +1.80% -3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 5,385 5,273 6,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.19% 18.16% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,762 3,518 4,457
10th Percentile £325 £350 £361
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £656
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 74 128
10th Percentile £20.68 £18.15 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.10 £24.70
Median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -9.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £64.51
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £46.18
% change year-on-year +43.09% -34.17% -7.64%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -31 106 £513 -14.58% 33
Midlands -2 45 £475 -6.77% 9
West Midlands -1 37 £475 -6.77% 8
North of England -23 29 £500 -23.08% 24
South East -1 19 £475 +11.76% 18
North West -21 16 £413 -38.89% 15
East of England -15 9 £550 - 1
Yorkshire -36 9 £518 -11.91% 8
South West 0 8 £525 -12.62% 17
East Midlands -9 8 £380 -24.00% 1
North East -8 4 £500 - 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 27 (12.16%) Confluence
2 11 (4.95%) nginx
3 7 (3.15%) Apache
4 6 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.80%) IIS
5 4 (1.80%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.45%) CICS
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (4.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Maximo
2 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 215 (96.85%) AWS
2 146 (65.77%) Amazon S3
3 124 (55.86%) Amazon EC2
4 120 (54.05%) Serverless
5 119 (53.60%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (35.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 74 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
8 69 (31.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 67 (30.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (28.38%) GitHub
11 51 (22.97%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (19.37%) Azure
13 40 (18.02%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (13.51%) Route 53
15 23 (10.36%) AWS KMS
15 23 (10.36%) Datadog
16 22 (9.91%) Amazon ELB
16 22 (9.91%) AWS Fargate
17 21 (9.46%) AWS Step Functions
18 19 (8.56%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.41%) DNS
2 30 (13.51%) Firewall
3 22 (9.91%) HTTP
4 20 (9.01%) SMTP
5 19 (8.56%) FTP
5 19 (8.56%) SSH
6 11 (4.95%) IMAP
6 11 (4.95%) OpenLDAP
6 11 (4.95%) VPN
7 4 (1.80%) Network Security
7 4 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (1.35%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.90%) Internet
9 2 (0.90%) LAN
9 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.90%) WAN
10 1 (0.45%) DHCP
10 1 (0.45%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.45%) NAS
10 1 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (32.43%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (18.02%) DynamoDB
3 39 (17.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 28 (12.61%) MySQL
5 27 (12.16%) SQL Server
6 26 (11.71%) Relational Database
7 23 (10.36%) NoSQL
8 19 (8.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (7.66%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (7.66%) MongoDB
10 12 (5.41%) RDBMS
10 12 (5.41%) Redis
11 9 (4.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (4.05%) Hadoop
12 8 (3.60%) DB2
12 8 (3.60%) Oracle Database
13 7 (3.15%) BigQuery
13 7 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (2.70%) Couchbase
14 6 (2.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 94 (42.34%) Jenkins
2 59 (26.58%) Git
3 45 (20.27%) GitLab
4 32 (14.41%) JIRA
5 20 (9.01%) Vagrant
6 10 (4.50%) Maven
7 6 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.70%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.70%) JUnit
7 6 (2.70%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.25%) Gradle
8 5 (2.25%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.80%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.90%) Gatling
11 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.45%) RStudio
General
1 69 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 29 (13.06%) Finance
4 15 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.50%) Banking
7 6 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.80%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Legal
9 2 (0.90%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Front Office
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (27.93%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (24.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (20.27%) AWS DevOps
4 38 (17.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 30 (13.51%) Platform Engineer
6 28 (12.61%) Developer
7 27 (12.16%) Senior
8 24 (10.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 21 (9.46%) Lead
10 18 (8.11%) Site Engineer
11 17 (7.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 17 (7.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 16 (7.21%) Architect
13 14 (6.31%) AWS Developer
13 14 (6.31%) Data Engineer
14 13 (5.86%) Software Engineer
15 11 (4.95%) Java Developer
16 9 (4.05%) DevOps Platform Engineer
17 8 (3.60%) DBA
17 8 (3.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.12%) Kafka
2 27 (12.16%) Node.js
3 26 (11.71%) RESTful
4 17 (7.66%) Spring Boot
5 15 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (6.76%) React
6 13 (5.86%) Spring
7 12 (5.41%) LDAP
8 10 (4.50%) AWS CDK
9 9 (4.05%) CSS
9 9 (4.05%) Jest
10 8 (3.60%) Django
10 8 (3.60%) GraphQL
10 8 (3.60%) Keycloak
10 8 (3.60%) REST
10 8 (3.60%) Sass
11 6 (2.70%) Enzyme
11 6 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.70%) XML
12 5 (2.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (17.57%) Replication
2 31 (13.96%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.25%) N-Tier
6 5 (2.25%) PKI
7 4 (1.80%) Clustering
7 4 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.90%) Derivative
8 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.90%) NHS
9 1 (0.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 71 (31.98%) Linux
2 28 (12.61%) Windows
3 23 (10.36%) Amazon Linux
4 21 (9.46%) VMS
5 11 (4.95%) Ubuntu
5 11 (4.95%) Unix
6 8 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (3.15%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.80%) CentOS
8 4 (1.80%) Solaris
9 1 (0.45%) AIX
9 1 (0.45%) Android
9 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.45%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 119 (53.60%) DevOps
3 87 (39.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (29.73%) Containerisation
5 64 (28.83%) Agile
6 52 (23.42%) Configuration Management
7 46 (20.72%) Microservices
8 39 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (16.22%) Migration
10 34 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (14.86%) Cloud Security
11 33 (14.86%) Observability
11 33 (14.86%) Performance Tuning
12 30 (13.51%) Event-Driven
13 29 (13.06%) Change Management
13 29 (13.06%) Software Engineering
14 24 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (10.36%) High Availability
16 20 (9.01%) Analytics
16 20 (9.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 130 (58.56%) Python
2 77 (34.68%) SQL
3 62 (27.93%) Java
4 38 (17.12%) Bash
5 36 (16.22%) PowerShell
6 25 (11.26%) Groovy
7 24 (10.81%) Shell Script
8 22 (9.91%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.31%) Go
10 13 (5.86%) Perl
10 13 (5.86%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.70%) JSX
12 5 (2.25%) Ruby
13 3 (1.35%) C#
13 3 (1.35%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.90%) C
14 2 (0.90%) PHP
15 1 (0.45%) COBOL
15 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 79 (35.59%) Security Cleared
2 65 (29.28%) SC Cleared
3 45 (20.27%) AWS Certification
4 25 (11.26%) Degree
5 15 (6.76%) Azure Certification
6 14 (6.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (4.05%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.25%) OCP
10 5 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.45%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.45%) PMP
13 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.31%) QA
2 11 (4.95%) GDPR
3 7 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.25%) NCSC
5 4 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.80%) NIST
6 3 (1.35%) SLA
7 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.45%) GxP
8 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (43.69%) Docker
2 19 (8.56%) DFS Replication
3 11 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.95%) Dovecot
3 11 (4.95%) Postfix
3 11 (4.95%) Squid
4 4 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.35%) NFS
6 2 (0.90%) HDFS
7 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 129 (58.11%) Terraform
2 65 (29.28%) Kubernetes
3 61 (27.48%) Grafana
4 48 (21.62%) Prometheus
5 37 (16.67%) Ansible
6 20 (9.01%) Progress Chef
7 18 (8.11%) Puppet
8 11 (4.95%) Nessus
9 10 (4.50%) Proxmox
10 7 (3.15%) Packer
11 4 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.80%) Kibana
11 4 (1.80%) Rancher
12 3 (1.35%) Argo
12 3 (1.35%) Data Guard
12 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.90%) systemd
Vendors
1 26 (11.71%) ServiceNow
2 24 (10.81%) Oracle
3 22 (9.91%) Microsoft
4 14 (6.31%) IBM
5 12 (5.41%) Splunk
6 11 (4.95%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (4.50%) PagerDuty
8 8 (3.60%) Dynatrace
9 7 (3.15%) Confluent
10 5 (2.25%) Gigya
10 5 (2.25%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.80%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.80%) Okta
11 4 (1.80%) Sybase
12 3 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (1.35%) Cloudera
12 3 (1.35%) Google
13 2 (0.90%) Databricks
14 1 (0.45%) Tenable
14 1 (0.45%) UiPath