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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 317 348
Rank change year-on-year -20 +31 -35
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 211 163 200
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.61% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.03% 3.33% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 148
10th Percentile £376 £425 £413
25th Percentile £439 £502 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £628
90th Percentile £655 £788 £741
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £543
% change year-on-year -2.33% -1.01% -5.57%
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 & 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 5,236 4,897 5,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.88% 18.33% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,645 3,248 4,274
10th Percentile £326 £351 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £707 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 68 139
10th Percentile £18.93 £20.82 £18.18
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.79 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.70 £74.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -29 111 £520 -9.57% 27
Midlands -20 36 £475 -10.21% 13
West Midlands -15 30 £500 -1.86% 12
North of England -29 28 £500 -4.76% 28
South East -2 17 £475 +11.76% 46
North West -20 15 £425 +13.33% 12
South West -7 11 £566 -5.88% 16
Yorkshire -31 9 £518 -11.91% 10
East Midlands -15 6 £380 -33.91% 1
North East -6 4 £500 - 6
East of England -17 4 £538 +22.86% 28
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 22 (10.43%) Confluence
2 9 (4.27%) nginx
3 5 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 210 (99.53%) AWS
2 137 (64.93%) Amazon S3
3 117 (55.45%) Serverless
4 116 (54.98%) AWS Lambda
5 115 (54.50%) Amazon EC2
6 71 (33.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 69 (32.70%) Amazon ECS
8 64 (30.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 64 (30.33%) GitHub
8 64 (30.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 56 (26.54%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (20.38%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (18.96%) Azure
12 31 (14.69%) Route 53
13 23 (10.90%) Datadog
14 21 (9.95%) Amazon Kinesis
14 21 (9.95%) AWS Step Functions
15 20 (9.48%) AWS Fargate
16 17 (8.06%) Amazon ELB
16 17 (8.06%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.69%) DNS
2 26 (12.32%) Firewall
3 18 (8.53%) HTTP
4 15 (7.11%) FTP
4 15 (7.11%) SMTP
4 15 (7.11%) SSH
5 9 (4.27%) IMAP
5 9 (4.27%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (3.79%) VPN
7 4 (1.90%) Network Security
8 3 (1.42%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.95%) Internet
9 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.47%) LAN
10 1 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (32.23%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (20.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 40 (18.96%) DynamoDB
4 35 (16.59%) MySQL
5 25 (11.85%) NoSQL
6 24 (11.37%) Relational Database
7 21 (9.95%) SQL Server
8 20 (9.48%) MongoDB
9 18 (8.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (7.58%) Redis
11 12 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (5.21%) RDBMS
13 10 (4.74%) Oracle Database
14 9 (4.27%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (4.27%) Hadoop
15 8 (3.79%) Oracle Reports
16 7 (3.32%) BigQuery
17 6 (2.84%) Couchbase
17 6 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
18 5 (2.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 92 (43.60%) Jenkins
2 56 (26.54%) Git
3 45 (21.33%) GitLab
4 27 (12.80%) JIRA
5 15 (7.11%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.27%) Maven
7 6 (2.84%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.84%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.84%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.37%) Gradle
8 5 (2.37%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.90%) JUnit
9 4 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.90%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.42%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (1.42%) Snyk
11 2 (0.95%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.95%) Gatling
11 2 (0.95%) git-flow
11 2 (0.95%) Storybook
General
1 64 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.17%) Public Sector
3 27 (12.80%) Finance
4 15 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.16%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.27%) Banking
7 6 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.42%) Legal
9 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Marketing
9 2 (0.95%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Front Office
10 1 (0.47%) Games
10 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (26.07%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (22.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (18.01%) AWS DevOps
4 31 (14.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 28 (13.27%) Developer
6 27 (12.80%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (11.85%) Senior
8 21 (9.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 19 (9.00%) Software Engineer
10 18 (8.53%) Lead
10 18 (8.53%) Site Engineer
11 17 (8.06%) Architect
11 17 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (7.11%) AWS Developer
12 15 (7.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 14 (6.64%) Data Engineer
13 14 (6.64%) DBA
14 12 (5.69%) Oracle DBA
15 9 (4.27%) Java Architect
16 8 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.43%) Kafka
2 28 (13.27%) RESTful
3 24 (11.37%) Node.js
4 19 (9.00%) React
5 18 (8.53%) Spring Boot
6 15 (7.11%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (6.64%) Spring
8 12 (5.69%) REST
9 11 (5.21%) CSS
10 10 (4.74%) FastAPI
10 10 (4.74%) LDAP
11 9 (4.27%) AWS CDK
11 9 (4.27%) Django
12 8 (3.79%) Flask
12 8 (3.79%) Jest
12 8 (3.79%) Keycloak
13 7 (3.32%) Next.js
13 7 (3.32%) Sass
14 6 (2.84%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.11%) Cloud Native
1 34 (16.11%) Replication
2 21 (9.95%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.32%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.84%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.37%) N-Tier
5 5 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.90%) Clustering
6 4 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.90%) PKI
7 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.95%) Derivative
8 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.95%) NHS
9 1 (0.47%) Equities
9 1 (0.47%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 65 (30.81%) Linux
2 18 (8.53%) Amazon Linux
2 18 (8.53%) Windows
3 16 (7.58%) VMS
4 11 (5.21%) Unix
5 9 (4.27%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.90%) CentOS
8 3 (1.42%) Solaris
9 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.47%) Android
10 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (66.82%) CI/CD
2 110 (52.13%) DevOps
3 87 (41.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (30.33%) Agile
4 64 (30.33%) Containerisation
5 47 (22.27%) Configuration Management
6 46 (21.80%) Microservices
7 38 (18.01%) Observability
7 38 (18.01%) Performance Tuning
8 37 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (16.59%) Software Engineering
10 33 (15.64%) Event-Driven
11 29 (13.74%) Cloud Security
11 29 (13.74%) Platform Engineering
12 28 (13.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 27 (12.80%) Migration
14 26 (12.32%) High Availability
15 23 (10.90%) Change Management
16 22 (10.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 20 (9.48%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 124 (58.77%) Python
2 78 (36.97%) SQL
3 58 (27.49%) Java
4 39 (18.48%) Bash
5 31 (14.69%) PowerShell
6 24 (11.37%) Shell Script
7 20 (9.48%) Groovy
8 18 (8.53%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.64%) Go
10 11 (5.21%) TypeScript
11 10 (4.74%) Perl
12 7 (3.32%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.84%) JSX
14 5 (2.37%) Ruby
15 3 (1.42%) C#
15 3 (1.42%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.95%) C
16 2 (0.95%) PHP
17 1 (0.47%) Bicep
17 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 74 (35.07%) Security Cleared
2 58 (27.49%) SC Cleared
3 38 (18.01%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.48%) Degree
5 15 (7.11%) DV Cleared
6 14 (6.64%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.37%) OCP
10 5 (2.37%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.47%) CEH
13 1 (0.47%) CISSP
13 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.47%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) QA
2 11 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.74%) GDPR
4 9 (4.27%) NIST
5 5 (2.37%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.37%) NCSC
5 5 (2.37%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.42%) SLA
8 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.47%) GxP
8 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 98 (46.45%) Docker
2 15 (7.11%) DFS Replication
3 9 (4.27%) Dovecot
3 9 (4.27%) Postfix
3 9 (4.27%) Squid
4 7 (3.32%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.42%) NFS
6 3 (1.42%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.95%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 125 (59.24%) Terraform
2 72 (34.12%) Kubernetes
3 56 (26.54%) Grafana
4 43 (20.38%) Prometheus
5 37 (17.54%) Ansible
6 20 (9.48%) Progress Chef
7 18 (8.53%) Puppet
8 9 (4.27%) Nessus
8 9 (4.27%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.32%) Packer
10 6 (2.84%) Data Guard
11 4 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.90%) Kibana
11 4 (1.90%) Rancher
12 3 (1.42%) Argo
12 3 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.42%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.95%) systemd
Vendors
1 27 (12.80%) Oracle
2 20 (9.48%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.11%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.69%) Splunk
5 10 (4.74%) PagerDuty
6 9 (4.27%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.79%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.32%) Confluent
9 6 (2.84%) IBM
10 5 (2.37%) Gigya
10 5 (2.37%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.90%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.90%) Okta
12 3 (1.42%) Cloudera
12 3 (1.42%) Google
12 3 (1.42%) Sybase
13 2 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
13 2 (0.95%) Databricks
13 2 (0.95%) Qualys
13 2 (0.95%) Tenable