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

 6 months to
5 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 323 354
Rank change year-on-year -23 +31 -24
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 218 165 209
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.63% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.00% 3.38% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 104 159
10th Percentile £368 £425 £408
25th Percentile £435 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £719 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £523 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -1.42% +0.95% -10.41%
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 5,446 4,884 6,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.30% 18.58% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 3,238 4,381
10th Percentile £331 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £705 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 82 169
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.48
25th Percentile £28.13 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £46.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -5.88% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.93 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.80 £73.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £36.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year +40.20% -13.99% -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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -41 114 £513 -10.87% 45
Midlands -33 36 £500 -5.57% 8
North of England -36 33 £500 +11.11% 17
West Midlands -22 31 £525 -0.76% 8
North West -13 18 £450 +20.00% 9
South East -14 17 £475 +5.56% 16
Yorkshire -46 11 £518 -11.91% 8
South West -9 10 £525 -6.73% 10
East Midlands -19 5 £375 -34.78%
North East -11 4 £500 -
East of England -20 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 17 (7.80%) Confluence
2 7 (3.21%) nginx
3 5 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (3.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 218 (100.00%) AWS
2 134 (61.47%) Amazon S3
3 121 (55.50%) Amazon EC2
4 118 (54.13%) Serverless
5 117 (53.67%) AWS Lambda
6 76 (34.86%) Amazon ECS
7 69 (31.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 68 (31.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (29.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 63 (28.90%) GitHub
11 60 (27.52%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (19.27%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (16.97%) Azure
14 31 (14.22%) Route 53
15 26 (11.93%) AWS Fargate
16 23 (10.55%) Datadog
17 22 (10.09%) Amazon Kinesis
18 19 (8.72%) AWS Step Functions
19 15 (6.88%) Amazon SQS
20 13 (5.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.01%) DNS
2 21 (9.63%) Firewall
3 12 (5.50%) HTTP
4 10 (4.59%) FTP
4 10 (4.59%) SMTP
4 10 (4.59%) SSH
5 8 (3.67%) VPN
6 7 (3.21%) IMAP
6 7 (3.21%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (1.83%) Network Security
8 3 (1.38%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.46%) Internet
9 1 (0.46%) LAN
9 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (28.90%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (19.72%) DynamoDB
3 40 (18.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 38 (17.43%) MySQL
5 27 (12.39%) NoSQL
6 24 (11.01%) Relational Database
7 22 (10.09%) MongoDB
8 20 (9.17%) SQL Server
9 18 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (7.34%) Redis
11 11 (5.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (5.05%) Hadoop
11 11 (5.05%) RDBMS
12 10 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (4.59%) Oracle Database
13 8 (3.67%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (2.75%) Couchbase
15 5 (2.29%) BigQuery
15 5 (2.29%) Data Lake
15 5 (2.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 92 (42.20%) Jenkins
2 53 (24.31%) Git
3 43 (19.72%) GitLab
4 22 (10.09%) JIRA
5 11 (5.05%) Maven
6 10 (4.59%) Vagrant
7 8 (3.67%) Gradle
8 7 (3.21%) JUnit
9 6 (2.75%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.75%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.29%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.29%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.83%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (1.83%) Snyk
11 4 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.83%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.38%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.38%) git-flow
13 2 (0.92%) Gatling
13 2 (0.92%) Storybook
General
1 58 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.30%) Finance
3 28 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.59%) Banking
7 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.38%) Legal
9 2 (0.92%) Military
10 1 (0.46%) Front Office
10 1 (0.46%) Games
10 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (21.56%) AWS Engineer
2 41 (18.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (12.84%) AWS DevOps
3 28 (12.84%) Senior
4 27 (12.39%) Developer
5 23 (10.55%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (10.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 22 (10.09%) Software Engineer
7 21 (9.63%) Site Engineer
8 20 (9.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 18 (8.26%) Data Engineer
10 17 (7.80%) Architect
10 17 (7.80%) Lead
11 16 (7.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 16 (7.34%) DBA
12 13 (5.96%) AWS Developer
12 13 (5.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 13 (5.96%) Oracle DBA
13 12 (5.50%) Java Engineer
14 9 (4.13%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (20.64%) Kafka
2 26 (11.93%) RESTful
3 25 (11.47%) Spring Boot
4 24 (11.01%) React
5 21 (9.63%) Spring
6 17 (7.80%) Node.js
7 13 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (5.50%) REST
9 11 (5.05%) CSS
10 10 (4.59%) FastAPI
11 9 (4.13%) AWS CDK
11 9 (4.13%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.67%) Django
12 8 (3.67%) Flask
12 8 (3.67%) Jest
12 8 (3.67%) Keycloak
12 8 (3.67%) LDAP
13 7 (3.21%) Next.js
13 7 (3.21%) Sass
14 6 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.81%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.30%) Replication
3 21 (9.63%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.21%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.21%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.29%) N-Tier
7 4 (1.83%) Clustering
7 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.83%) PKI
8 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.38%) NHS
9 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.92%) Derivative
9 2 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.46%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 65 (29.82%) Linux
2 13 (5.96%) Amazon Linux
2 13 (5.96%) Windows
3 11 (5.05%) Unix
3 11 (5.05%) VMS
4 7 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.21%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.83%) CentOS
6 3 (1.38%) Solaris
7 1 (0.46%) Android
7 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (67.43%) CI/CD
2 105 (48.17%) DevOps
3 92 (42.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (30.28%) Containerisation
5 64 (29.36%) Agile
6 49 (22.48%) Microservices
7 43 (19.72%) Configuration Management
8 39 (17.89%) Performance Tuning
9 38 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (16.97%) Observability
10 37 (16.97%) Software Engineering
11 31 (14.22%) Event-Driven
11 31 (14.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 29 (13.30%) Migration
13 25 (11.47%) High Availability
13 25 (11.47%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (11.01%) Cloud Security
15 22 (10.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 21 (9.63%) Cost Optimisation
16 21 (9.63%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 115 (52.75%) Python
2 81 (37.16%) SQL
3 60 (27.52%) Java
4 37 (16.97%) Bash
5 27 (12.39%) Shell Script
6 26 (11.93%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.88%) Go
7 15 (6.88%) Groovy
7 15 (6.88%) JavaScript
8 11 (5.05%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.67%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.21%) Perl
11 6 (2.75%) JSX
12 5 (2.29%) C#
12 5 (2.29%) Ruby
13 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.46%) Bicep
14 1 (0.46%) PHP
14 1 (0.46%) R
14 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (33.94%) Security Cleared
2 59 (27.06%) SC Cleared
3 38 (17.43%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.88%) Degree
5 14 (6.42%) DV Cleared
6 12 (5.50%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.29%) OCP
10 5 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.92%) PMP
12 1 (0.46%) CEH
12 1 (0.46%) CISSP
12 1 (0.46%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.59%) GDPR
2 10 (4.59%) NIST
2 10 (4.59%) QA
3 5 (2.29%) NCSC
3 5 (2.29%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.92%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.46%) GxP
6 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (45.87%) Docker
2 10 (4.59%) DFS Replication
3 7 (3.21%) Dovecot
3 7 (3.21%) Postfix
3 7 (3.21%) Squid
4 4 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.83%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.38%) NFS
5 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 126 (57.80%) Terraform
2 74 (33.94%) Kubernetes
3 49 (22.48%) Grafana
4 41 (18.81%) Prometheus
5 38 (17.43%) Ansible
6 20 (9.17%) Progress Chef
7 15 (6.88%) Puppet
8 7 (3.21%) Data Guard
8 7 (3.21%) Nessus
8 7 (3.21%) Packer
8 7 (3.21%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.83%) Kibana
9 4 (1.83%) Rancher
10 3 (1.38%) Argo
10 3 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.92%) systemd
Vendors
1 29 (13.30%) Oracle
2 15 (6.88%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.42%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.59%) PagerDuty
4 10 (4.59%) Splunk
5 8 (3.67%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.21%) Confluent
6 7 (3.21%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (2.75%) IBM
7 6 (2.75%) Sybase
8 5 (2.29%) Gigya
8 5 (2.29%) Talend
9 4 (1.83%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.83%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.83%) Okta
9 4 (1.83%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.38%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.38%) Informatica
10 3 (1.38%) Qualys
10 3 (1.38%) Tenable
86 Amazon RDS jobs in England