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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 343 359
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 229 175 226
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.35% 3.16% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 113 176
10th Percentile £380 £440 £413
25th Percentile £439 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £553
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +0.90% -7.92%
75th Percentile £579 £700 £641
90th Percentile £647 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 5,268 5,531 6,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.30% 18.08% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,671 3,699 4,619
10th Percentile £328 £350 £356
25th Percentile £411 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £535
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 78 131
10th Percentile £22.40 £18.35 £18.57
25th Percentile £31.11 £24.88 £22.87
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -17.71% -7.64%
75th Percentile £69.63 £60.55 £64.77
90th Percentile £85.40 £66.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -5.76%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -13 110 £513 -10.87% 24
Midlands 0 46 £475 -6.77% 9
West Midlands +6 39 £475 -6.77% 9
North of England -22 31 £500 -23.08% 18
North West -7 17 £425 -37.04% 15
South East +7 16 £447 +11.75% 14
East of England - 10 £550 -
South West +10 9 £525 -12.56% 8
Yorkshire -33 9 £518 -11.91% 2
East Midlands -6 7 £380 -24.00%
North East -5 5 £450 - 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 31 (13.54%) Confluence
2 12 (5.24%) nginx
3 7 (3.06%) Apache
4 6 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.75%) IIS
5 4 (1.75%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.44%) CICS
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (5.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (2.62%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Maximo
2 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 222 (96.94%) AWS
2 152 (66.38%) Amazon S3
3 128 (55.90%) Amazon EC2
4 119 (51.97%) Serverless
5 118 (51.53%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (35.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 76 (33.19%) Amazon ECS
8 71 (31.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 66 (28.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (28.82%) GitHub
10 48 (20.96%) Amazon EKS
11 39 (17.03%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (16.59%) Azure
13 31 (13.54%) Route 53
14 27 (11.79%) AWS KMS
15 24 (10.48%) Amazon ELB
15 24 (10.48%) AWS Step Functions
16 23 (10.04%) Datadog
17 21 (9.17%) Amazon Kinesis
17 21 (9.17%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 34 (14.85%) DNS
2 32 (13.97%) Firewall
3 23 (10.04%) HTTP
3 23 (10.04%) SMTP
4 21 (9.17%) FTP
4 21 (9.17%) SSH
5 12 (5.24%) IMAP
5 12 (5.24%) OpenLDAP
6 9 (3.93%) VPN
7 4 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (1.31%) Network Security
9 2 (0.87%) Internet
9 2 (0.87%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.44%) DHCP
10 1 (0.44%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.44%) LAN
10 1 (0.44%) NAS
10 1 (0.44%) VLAN
10 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (33.19%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (18.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 41 (17.90%) DynamoDB
4 30 (13.10%) MySQL
5 26 (11.35%) SQL Server
6 25 (10.92%) Relational Database
7 24 (10.48%) NoSQL
8 19 (8.30%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (7.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (6.99%) MongoDB
11 12 (5.24%) RDBMS
11 12 (5.24%) Redis
12 10 (4.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (3.93%) Hadoop
14 8 (3.49%) DB2
15 7 (3.06%) BigQuery
16 6 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (2.62%) Couchbase
16 6 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (2.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 99 (43.23%) Jenkins
2 65 (28.38%) Git
3 46 (20.09%) GitLab
4 35 (15.28%) JIRA
5 23 (10.04%) Vagrant
6 12 (5.24%) Maven
7 8 (3.49%) JUnit
7 8 (3.49%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.62%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.62%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.18%) Gradle
9 5 (2.18%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.75%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.87%) Gatling
12 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.44%) DbUnit
12 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.44%) RStudio
General
1 75 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.72%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.54%) Finance
4 15 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.37%) Banking
7 6 (2.62%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Legal
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing
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%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (27.51%) AWS Engineer
2 57 (24.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (20.09%) AWS DevOps
4 39 (17.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 35 (15.28%) Developer
6 31 (13.54%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (12.66%) Senior
8 25 (10.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 23 (10.04%) Lead
10 18 (7.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 17 (7.42%) AWS Developer
12 16 (6.99%) Architect
12 16 (6.99%) Site Engineer
13 15 (6.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (6.11%) Data Engineer
14 14 (6.11%) Java Developer
14 14 (6.11%) Software Engineer
15 10 (4.37%) DevOps Platform Engineer
16 8 (3.49%) Senior Developer
16 8 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.16%) Kafka
2 28 (12.23%) Node.js
3 27 (11.79%) RESTful
4 19 (8.30%) Spring Boot
5 15 (6.55%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (6.55%) Spring
6 14 (6.11%) React
7 13 (5.68%) LDAP
8 10 (4.37%) AWS CDK
8 10 (4.37%) REST
9 9 (3.93%) CSS
9 9 (3.93%) Jest
10 8 (3.49%) Keycloak
10 8 (3.49%) Sass
11 7 (3.06%) Django
11 7 (3.06%) GraphQL
11 7 (3.06%) SOAP
12 6 (2.62%) Enzyme
12 6 (2.62%) Web Services
12 6 (2.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.34%) Replication
2 27 (11.79%) Cloud Native
3 19 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.55%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.06%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.62%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.62%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.18%) N-Tier
7 5 (2.18%) PKI
8 4 (1.75%) Clustering
8 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.87%) Derivative
9 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.87%) NHS
10 1 (0.44%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 70 (30.57%) Linux
2 30 (13.10%) Windows
3 26 (11.35%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (10.48%) VMS
5 11 (4.80%) Ubuntu
5 11 (4.80%) Unix
6 7 (3.06%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.75%) CentOS
8 4 (1.75%) Solaris
9 1 (0.44%) AIX
9 1 (0.44%) Android
9 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.44%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (61.14%) CI/CD
2 122 (53.28%) DevOps
3 84 (36.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (29.26%) Containerisation
5 65 (28.38%) Agile
6 52 (22.71%) Configuration Management
7 50 (21.83%) Microservices
8 44 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (17.03%) Migration
10 37 (16.16%) Cloud Security
10 37 (16.16%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (14.41%) Observability
12 32 (13.97%) Change Management
13 31 (13.54%) Performance Tuning
14 29 (12.66%) Event-Driven
15 28 (12.23%) Software Engineering
16 22 (9.61%) High Availability
16 22 (9.61%) Mentoring
16 22 (9.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 21 (9.17%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (57.21%) Python
2 76 (33.19%) SQL
3 68 (29.69%) Java
4 40 (17.47%) PowerShell
5 36 (15.72%) Bash
6 28 (12.23%) Groovy
7 24 (10.48%) JavaScript
8 20 (8.73%) Shell Script
9 15 (6.55%) Perl
10 13 (5.68%) Go
10 13 (5.68%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.62%) JSX
12 5 (2.18%) Ruby
13 3 (1.31%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.87%) C
14 2 (0.87%) C#
14 2 (0.87%) PHP
15 1 (0.44%) COBOL
15 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (35.81%) Security Cleared
2 67 (29.26%) SC Cleared
3 49 (21.40%) AWS Certification
4 27 (11.79%) Degree
5 17 (7.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (5.68%) Azure Certification
8 10 (4.37%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.87%) OCP
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.44%) MCSE
12 1 (0.44%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.11%) QA
2 8 (3.49%) GDPR
3 7 (3.06%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.18%) NCSC
6 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.31%) NIST
7 3 (1.31%) SLA
8 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.44%) GxP
9 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (44.10%) Docker
2 21 (9.17%) DFS Replication
3 13 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.68%) Postfix
4 12 (5.24%) Dovecot
4 12 (5.24%) Squid
5 4 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.31%) NFS
7 1 (0.44%) HDFS
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 130 (56.77%) Terraform
2 66 (28.82%) Kubernetes
3 62 (27.07%) Grafana
4 51 (22.27%) Prometheus
5 35 (15.28%) Ansible
6 19 (8.30%) Progress Chef
7 16 (6.99%) Puppet
8 12 (5.24%) Nessus
9 10 (4.37%) Proxmox
10 7 (3.06%) Packer
11 4 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.75%) Kibana
11 4 (1.75%) Rancher
12 3 (1.31%) Argo
12 3 (1.31%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.44%) Istio
13 1 (0.44%) Nagios
13 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (12.66%) ServiceNow
2 21 (9.17%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.17%) Oracle
3 17 (7.42%) IBM
4 13 (5.68%) Jaspersoft
5 12 (5.24%) Splunk
6 9 (3.93%) PagerDuty
7 8 (3.49%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.06%) Confluent
9 5 (2.18%) Gigya
10 4 (1.75%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.75%) Okta
10 4 (1.75%) Sybase
11 3 (1.31%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.31%) Google
12 2 (0.87%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.87%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.87%) Pega
12 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.87%) UiPath