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

 6 months to
20 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 286 344
Rank change year-on-year -87 +58 -32
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 217 187 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.77% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.48% 4.04% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 136 141
10th Percentile £396 £413 £406
25th Percentile £418 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £520
Median % change year-on-year -11.19% +8.27% -13.33%
75th Percentile £569 £613 £575
90th Percentile £650 £654 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £71.90 - -
25th Percentile £73.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 6,236 4,624 6,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.17% 19.04% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,279 3,227 4,502
10th Percentile £350 £363 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £527
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
75th Percentile £600 £653 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 88 134
10th Percentile £14.51 £20.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.73 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.43 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +38.76% -19.18% -30.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £58.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.63 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £47.27 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +36.72% -13.56% -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -59 121 £503 -13.36% 35
Midlands -27 54 £475 -5.00% 6
West Midlands -21 46 £469 -10.67% 6
North of England -51 22 £419 -16.25% 19
South East -67 12 £531 -7.61% 12
South West -36 9 £591 +1.16% 17
Yorkshire -51 9 £400 -20.00% 5
North West -38 8 £445 -2.41% 12
East Midlands -23 7 £519 +66.88%
North East - 5 £425 - 2
East of England -31 2 - - 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 (11.06%) Confluence
2 6 (2.76%) SAS
3 4 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.38%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 214 (98.62%) AWS
2 139 (64.06%) Amazon S3
3 108 (49.77%) Amazon EC2
3 108 (49.77%) AWS Lambda
3 108 (49.77%) Serverless
4 77 (35.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 52 (23.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 49 (22.58%) Amazon ECS
7 45 (20.74%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (17.97%) Azure
8 39 (17.97%) GitHub
9 35 (16.13%) Amazon SQS
10 31 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (13.82%) AWS KMS
11 30 (13.82%) Route 53
12 25 (11.52%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (7.37%) Amazon Kinesis
13 16 (7.37%) AWS Fargate
14 15 (6.91%) Power Platform
15 11 (5.07%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.15%) DNS
2 4 (1.84%) Firewall
2 4 (1.84%) Network Security
2 4 (1.84%) VPN
3 3 (1.38%) DHCP
3 3 (1.38%) HTTP
3 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.92%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.46%) AMQP
5 1 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.46%) LAN
5 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.46%) SMTP
5 1 (0.46%) SSL
5 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (27.65%) DynamoDB
2 59 (27.19%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (21.20%) Amazon Aurora
4 21 (9.68%) MySQL
5 16 (7.37%) SQL Server
6 15 (6.91%) Power BI
7 14 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (6.45%) NoSQL
8 13 (5.99%) MongoDB
8 13 (5.99%) Pentaho
9 9 (4.15%) Redis
10 8 (3.69%) Oracle Database
10 8 (3.69%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (3.69%) Tableau
11 7 (3.23%) Data Lake
11 7 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.30%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 73 (33.64%) Jenkins
2 57 (26.27%) Git
3 29 (13.36%) GitLab
4 27 (12.44%) JIRA
5 26 (11.98%) JUnit
6 22 (10.14%) Maven
6 22 (10.14%) Mockito
7 20 (9.22%) SonarQube
8 14 (6.45%) DbUnit
9 13 (5.99%) jMock
10 11 (5.07%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (2.30%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.30%) git-flow
11 5 (2.30%) Snyk
11 5 (2.30%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (1.84%) Flyway
12 4 (1.84%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (1.84%) Postman
13 3 (1.38%) Gradle
General
1 51 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 49 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.76%) Finance
5 11 (5.07%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.69%) Banking
7 6 (2.76%) Legal
8 4 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.92%) Front Office
10 2 (0.92%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
11 1 (0.46%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (23.04%) Developer
2 36 (16.59%) Senior
3 29 (13.36%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (11.52%) Java Developer
5 23 (10.60%) DBA
5 23 (10.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (9.22%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.83%) Software Engineer
8 16 (7.37%) Architect
9 15 (6.91%) Senior Developer
10 14 (6.45%) AWS Developer
11 13 (5.99%) Lead
12 12 (5.53%) AWS Architect
12 12 (5.53%) Oracle DBA
12 12 (5.53%) Python Developer
13 11 (5.07%) Analyst
13 11 (5.07%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (4.61%) Delivery Manager
14 10 (4.61%) Site Engineer
14 10 (4.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (18.89%) Spring
1 41 (18.89%) Spring Boot
2 34 (15.67%) RESTful
3 32 (14.75%) Node.js
3 32 (14.75%) React
3 32 (14.75%) REST
4 30 (13.82%) AngularJS
5 27 (12.44%) Kafka
6 23 (10.60%) Hibernate
6 23 (10.60%) JPA
7 22 (10.14%) SOAP
8 21 (9.68%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (8.76%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (8.76%) Web Services
10 18 (8.29%) Spring Batch
10 18 (8.29%) Spring Integration
11 14 (6.45%) GraphQL
12 13 (5.99%) PowerMock
13 12 (5.53%) Django
14 11 (5.07%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.52%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.61%) Replication
5 6 (2.76%) NHS
6 4 (1.84%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.84%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.38%) Clustering
7 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.92%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.46%) Life Science
9 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (22.58%) Linux
2 8 (3.69%) Unix
3 6 (2.76%) Windows
4 4 (1.84%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (56.68%) CI/CD
2 103 (47.47%) Agile
3 87 (40.09%) DevOps
4 60 (27.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (25.35%) Containerisation
6 51 (23.50%) Microservices
7 43 (19.82%) Scrum
8 37 (17.05%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (15.21%) TDD
10 32 (14.75%) Software Engineering
11 31 (14.29%) ETL
12 29 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (12.44%) Event-Driven
13 27 (12.44%) Kanban
13 27 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (11.52%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (11.06%) Migration
15 24 (11.06%) Observability
16 23 (10.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 94 (43.32%) SQL
2 76 (35.02%) Python
3 75 (34.56%) Java
4 17 (7.83%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.37%) Bash
5 16 (7.37%) Shell Script
5 16 (7.37%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.99%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.69%) Groovy
8 7 (3.23%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.76%) C#
9 6 (2.76%) Go
10 5 (2.30%) Scala
11 4 (1.84%) Perl
12 3 (1.38%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.92%) Ruby
14 1 (0.46%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 105 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 88 (40.55%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.98%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.07%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.15%) Degree
7 8 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.38%) OCP
9 3 (1.38%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.38%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.92%) PMP
10 2 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.46%) CEH
11 1 (0.46%) CISSP
11 1 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.46%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.61%) NIST
2 9 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.69%) QA
4 7 (3.23%) GDPR
4 7 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.23%) PMO
5 3 (1.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.46%) HL7
6 1 (0.46%) Solvency II
System Software
1 91 (41.94%) Docker
2 11 (5.07%) Postfix
3 4 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.84%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.46%) HDFS
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 81 (37.33%) Terraform
2 56 (25.81%) Kubernetes
3 51 (23.50%) Grafana
4 30 (13.82%) Prometheus
5 14 (6.45%) Ansible
6 9 (4.15%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.69%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.84%) Argo
8 4 (1.84%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.84%) Puppet
9 3 (1.38%) Foglight
9 3 (1.38%) Kibana
9 3 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (1.38%) Rancher
10 2 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.92%) Istio
10 2 (0.92%) Sysdig
10 2 (0.92%) systemd
11 1 (0.46%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.46%) vMotion
Vendors
1 31 (14.29%) Oracle
2 21 (9.68%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.83%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (6.91%) Atlassian
5 12 (5.53%) Informatica
5 12 (5.53%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.15%) Dynatrace
6 9 (4.15%) Talend
7 8 (3.69%) Databricks
8 6 (2.76%) Denodo
9 5 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.30%) Splunk
9 5 (2.30%) Sybase
10 4 (1.84%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.84%) Brio
10 4 (1.84%) Qualys
10 4 (1.84%) Tenable
11 2 (0.92%) Google
11 2 (0.92%) Netlify
11 2 (0.92%) PagerDuty
89 Amazon RDS jobs in England