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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 276 359
Rank change year-on-year -92 +83 -59
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 228 209 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.86% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.74% 4.55% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 151 147
10th Percentile £387 £425 £403
25th Percentile £425 £477 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £611
90th Percentile £649 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £73.40 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 6,095 4,595 6,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.97% 18.95% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,246 3,243 4,420
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £665
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 89 146
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.53 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.88 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.44% -17.98% -31.91%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £84.80 £71.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.56% -20.90% -33.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -89 122 £513 -14.58% 38
Midlands -38 50 £500 -1.86% 2
West Midlands -33 41 £500 -5.48% 2
North of England -51 26 £480 -7.43% 16
Yorkshire -44 12 £500 -13.04% 4
South West -21 11 £561 -3.98% 8
South East -51 11 £530 -7.83% 18
North West -37 10 £390 -14.47% 11
East Midlands -24 9 £444 +42.77%
East of England -27 5 £538 +7.50% 5
North East - 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 16 (7.02%) Confluence
2 3 (1.32%) Apache
2 3 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.44%) SAS
3 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 227 (99.56%) AWS
2 149 (65.35%) Amazon S3
3 127 (55.70%) Amazon EC2
4 121 (53.07%) Serverless
5 118 (51.75%) AWS Lambda
6 80 (35.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 67 (29.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 59 (25.88%) Amazon ECS
9 57 (25.00%) GitHub
10 56 (24.56%) Amazon EKS
11 52 (22.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (17.11%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (14.91%) Azure
14 29 (12.72%) Route 53
15 26 (11.40%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
17 18 (7.89%) AWS KMS
18 17 (7.46%) Amazon Kinesis
19 15 (6.58%) AWS CodePipeline
20 14 (6.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.82%) DNS
2 10 (4.39%) Firewall
3 9 (3.95%) VPN
4 6 (2.63%) Network Security
5 3 (1.32%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.88%) HTTP
6 2 (0.88%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.44%) AMQP
7 1 (0.44%) DHCP
7 1 (0.44%) Internet
7 1 (0.44%) LAN
7 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) SMTP
7 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (27.63%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (21.93%) DynamoDB
3 33 (14.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 27 (11.84%) MySQL
5 20 (8.77%) SQL Server
6 19 (8.33%) Relational Database
7 14 (6.14%) MongoDB
8 13 (5.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (5.70%) NoSQL
9 11 (4.82%) Power BI
10 10 (4.39%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (4.39%) Redis
11 8 (3.51%) Hadoop
11 8 (3.51%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (3.51%) Tableau
12 7 (3.07%) DB2
12 7 (3.07%) Oracle Database
12 7 (3.07%) Pentaho
13 6 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (2.19%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 87 (38.16%) Jenkins
2 58 (25.44%) Git
3 39 (17.11%) GitLab
4 21 (9.21%) JUnit
5 20 (8.77%) JIRA
6 16 (7.02%) Maven
7 14 (6.14%) Mockito
8 12 (5.26%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.51%) DbUnit
9 8 (3.51%) jMock
10 6 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.19%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.19%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.19%) git-flow
11 5 (2.19%) Snyk
12 4 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (1.32%) Flyway
13 3 (1.32%) Gradle
13 3 (1.32%) Postman
14 2 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 52 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 41 (17.98%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.60%) Finance
4 26 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.39%) Banking
7 6 (2.63%) Legal
8 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (16.67%) Developer
2 33 (14.47%) Senior
3 29 (12.72%) AWS Engineer
4 28 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (9.65%) Site Engineer
6 21 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 21 (9.21%) Software Engineer
7 19 (8.33%) DBA
7 19 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 17 (7.46%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (7.02%) Data Engineer
10 15 (6.58%) AWS Developer
11 13 (5.70%) Lead
12 12 (5.26%) Analyst
12 12 (5.26%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.82%) Architect
13 11 (4.82%) Oracle DBA
14 10 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.39%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.39%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.91%) Kafka
1 34 (14.91%) Spring
1 34 (14.91%) Spring Boot
2 31 (13.60%) Node.js
3 30 (13.16%) RESTful
4 26 (11.40%) React
5 22 (9.65%) REST
6 15 (6.58%) AngularJS
6 15 (6.58%) Hibernate
6 15 (6.58%) JPA
6 15 (6.58%) SOAP
6 15 (6.58%) Spring Cloud
7 14 (6.14%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (5.26%) Django
9 11 (4.82%) ActiveMQ
9 11 (4.82%) GraphQL
9 11 (4.82%) Spring Batch
9 11 (4.82%) Web Services
10 10 (4.39%) Spring Integration
11 9 (3.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.82%) Replication
4 5 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.75%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.32%) Clustering
6 3 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.88%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.88%) NHS
7 2 (0.88%) PKI
8 1 (0.44%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.44%) Life Science
8 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 60 (26.32%) Linux
2 6 (2.63%) Unix
2 6 (2.63%) Windows
3 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.32%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.44%) CentOS
5 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 94 (41.23%) Agile
3 91 (39.91%) DevOps
4 81 (35.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (28.07%) Containerisation
6 45 (19.74%) Microservices
7 35 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (14.91%) Observability
9 33 (14.47%) Software Engineering
10 32 (14.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 31 (13.60%) ETL
12 30 (13.16%) Configuration Management
13 29 (12.72%) Performance Tuning
14 27 (11.84%) TDD
15 25 (10.96%) Migration
16 24 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (10.09%) Event-Driven
17 23 (10.09%) Scrum
18 22 (9.65%) High Availability
19 21 (9.21%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 95 (41.67%) SQL
2 91 (39.91%) Python
3 64 (28.07%) Java
4 32 (14.04%) Bash
5 22 (9.65%) Shell Script
6 15 (6.58%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.14%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.70%) PowerShell
9 10 (4.39%) Go
10 8 (3.51%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.63%) C#
12 5 (2.19%) Groovy
12 5 (2.19%) JSX
12 5 (2.19%) Ruby
13 2 (0.88%) Perl
13 2 (0.88%) Scala
13 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.44%) Bicep
14 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (44.74%) Security Cleared
2 82 (35.96%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.16%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.02%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (4.82%) Degree
7 10 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.63%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.32%) OCP
10 3 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.44%) CEH
12 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.44%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.82%) NIST
1 11 (4.82%) QA
2 10 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.07%) GDPR
4 7 (3.07%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.07%) PMO
5 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.88%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) GxP
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 100 (43.86%) Docker
2 7 (3.07%) Postfix
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.88%) HDFS
5 2 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 103 (45.18%) Terraform
2 65 (28.51%) Kubernetes
3 50 (21.93%) Grafana
4 35 (15.35%) Prometheus
5 32 (14.04%) Ansible
6 18 (7.89%) Progress Chef
7 12 (5.26%) Puppet
8 8 (3.51%) Data Guard
9 5 (2.19%) Rancher
10 4 (1.75%) Argo
10 4 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.75%) Packer
11 3 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.32%) Foglight
11 3 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.32%) Kibana
11 3 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.88%) Istio
12 2 (0.88%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.88%) systemd
Vendors
1 29 (12.72%) Oracle
2 18 (7.89%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.58%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.39%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (3.95%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.95%) Databricks
5 9 (3.95%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.95%) Talend
6 8 (3.51%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.51%) Sybase
7 7 (3.07%) Informatica
8 6 (2.63%) Splunk
9 5 (2.19%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.75%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.75%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.75%) Qualys
10 4 (1.75%) Tenable
11 3 (1.32%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.32%) Google
12 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central