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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 320 353
Rank change year-on-year -7 +33 -35
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 218 169 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.62% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.10% 3.40% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 104 144
10th Percentile £378 £427 £413
25th Percentile £441 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £600 £741 £638
90th Percentile £664 £788 £746
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £543
% change year-on-year -2.42% -0.92% -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 5,322 4,965 5,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.96% 18.33% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,708 3,296 4,220
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
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 £713 £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 70 130
10th Percentile £18.93 £19.78 £19.18
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.25 £25.20
Median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.93 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.70 £74.00 £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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -25 114 £520 -8.77% 30
Midlands -12 39 £475 -10.21% 27
West Midlands -13 32 £500 -1.86% 14
North of England -29 28 £500 -4.76% 41
South East -3 18 £463 +8.82% 64
North West -20 15 £425 +13.33% 16
South West -1 11 £566 -5.88% 27
Yorkshire -38 9 £518 -11.91% 17
East Midlands -16 7 £380 -33.91% 12
East of England -20 5 £475 +8.57% 39
North East -10 4 £500 - 8
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 23 (10.55%) Confluence
2 10 (4.59%) nginx
3 5 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) CICS
5 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (4.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 216 (99.08%) AWS
2 143 (65.60%) Amazon S3
3 118 (54.13%) Serverless
4 117 (53.67%) Amazon EC2
4 117 (53.67%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (33.94%) Amazon ECS
6 71 (32.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 67 (30.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 67 (30.73%) GitHub
8 64 (29.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 56 (25.69%) Amazon EKS
10 42 (19.27%) Azure
10 42 (19.27%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (14.22%) Route 53
12 23 (10.55%) Datadog
13 21 (9.63%) AWS Step Functions
14 20 (9.17%) Amazon Kinesis
14 20 (9.17%) AWS Fargate
15 18 (8.26%) Amazon ELB
15 18 (8.26%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.22%) DNS
2 27 (12.39%) Firewall
3 19 (8.72%) HTTP
4 16 (7.34%) FTP
4 16 (7.34%) SMTP
4 16 (7.34%) SSH
5 10 (4.59%) IMAP
5 10 (4.59%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (3.67%) VPN
7 4 (1.83%) Network Security
8 3 (1.38%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.92%) Internet
9 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.46%) LAN
10 1 (0.46%) NAS
10 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (33.49%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (20.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 40 (18.35%) DynamoDB
4 34 (15.60%) MySQL
5 25 (11.47%) NoSQL
5 25 (11.47%) Relational Database
6 22 (10.09%) SQL Server
7 20 (9.17%) MongoDB
8 18 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (7.34%) Amazon Athena
10 15 (6.88%) Redis
11 11 (5.05%) RDBMS
12 10 (4.59%) Oracle Database
13 9 (4.13%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (4.13%) Hadoop
14 8 (3.67%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (3.21%) BigQuery
16 6 (2.75%) Couchbase
16 6 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 92 (42.20%) Jenkins
2 57 (26.15%) Git
3 48 (22.02%) GitLab
4 28 (12.84%) JIRA
5 16 (7.34%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.13%) Maven
7 6 (2.75%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.75%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.75%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.29%) Gradle
8 5 (2.29%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.83%) JUnit
9 4 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.83%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.38%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (1.38%) Snyk
11 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.92%) Gatling
11 2 (0.92%) git-flow
11 2 (0.92%) Storybook
General
1 71 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.14%) Public Sector
3 28 (12.84%) Finance
4 16 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.13%) Banking
7 6 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.38%) Legal
10 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Marketing
10 2 (0.92%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Front Office
11 1 (0.46%) Games
11 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (27.52%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (22.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (17.89%) AWS DevOps
4 32 (14.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.84%) Developer
5 28 (12.84%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (11.93%) Senior
7 22 (10.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 19 (8.72%) Lead
8 19 (8.72%) Software Engineer
9 18 (8.26%) Site Engineer
10 17 (7.80%) Architect
10 17 (7.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 16 (7.34%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 15 (6.88%) AWS Developer
13 14 (6.42%) Data Engineer
13 14 (6.42%) DBA
14 12 (5.50%) Oracle DBA
15 8 (3.67%) Java Architect
15 8 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.35%) Kafka
2 28 (12.84%) RESTful
3 24 (11.01%) Node.js
4 19 (8.72%) React
5 17 (7.80%) Spring Boot
6 15 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (5.96%) Spring
8 11 (5.05%) CSS
8 11 (5.05%) LDAP
8 11 (5.05%) REST
9 10 (4.59%) Django
9 10 (4.59%) FastAPI
10 9 (4.13%) AWS CDK
11 8 (3.67%) Flask
11 8 (3.67%) Jest
11 8 (3.67%) Keycloak
12 7 (3.21%) GraphQL
12 7 (3.21%) Next.js
12 7 (3.21%) Sass
13 6 (2.75%) Enzyme
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.06%) Replication
2 34 (15.60%) Cloud Native
3 20 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.05%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.75%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.29%) N-Tier
6 5 (2.29%) Onboarding
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
9 2 (0.92%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.92%) Derivative
9 2 (0.92%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.92%) NHS
10 1 (0.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 67 (30.73%) Linux
2 20 (9.17%) Windows
3 19 (8.72%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (7.80%) VMS
5 11 (5.05%) Unix
6 10 (4.59%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.83%) CentOS
8 4 (1.83%) Solaris
9 2 (0.92%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.46%) AIX
10 1 (0.46%) Android
10 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (64.68%) CI/CD
2 114 (52.29%) DevOps
3 90 (41.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (31.65%) Containerisation
5 65 (29.82%) Agile
6 48 (22.02%) Configuration Management
7 45 (20.64%) Microservices
8 42 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (17.43%) Performance Tuning
10 37 (16.97%) Observability
11 35 (16.06%) Software Engineering
12 32 (14.68%) Event-Driven
12 32 (14.68%) Migration
13 30 (13.76%) Cloud Security
13 30 (13.76%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (12.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (11.93%) High Availability
16 24 (11.01%) Change Management
17 21 (9.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 19 (8.72%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 126 (57.80%) Python
2 80 (36.70%) SQL
3 57 (26.15%) Java
4 39 (17.89%) Bash
5 32 (14.68%) PowerShell
6 24 (11.01%) Shell Script
7 21 (9.63%) Groovy
8 18 (8.26%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.42%) Go
10 11 (5.05%) TypeScript
11 10 (4.59%) Perl
12 7 (3.21%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.75%) JSX
14 5 (2.29%) Ruby
15 3 (1.38%) C#
15 3 (1.38%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.92%) C
16 2 (0.92%) PHP
17 1 (0.46%) COBOL
17 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (34.40%) Security Cleared
2 59 (27.06%) SC Cleared
3 43 (19.72%) AWS Certification
4 25 (11.47%) Degree
5 15 (6.88%) Azure Certification
5 15 (6.88%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.29%) OCP
9 5 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.46%) CEH
12 1 (0.46%) CISSP
12 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.46%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.05%) QA
2 10 (4.59%) GDPR
2 10 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.67%) NIST
4 6 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.29%) NCSC
6 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.38%) SLA
8 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.46%) GxP
8 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 98 (44.95%) Docker
2 16 (7.34%) DFS Replication
3 10 (4.59%) Dovecot
3 10 (4.59%) Postfix
3 10 (4.59%) Squid
4 7 (3.21%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.38%) NFS
6 3 (1.38%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 129 (59.17%) Terraform
2 71 (32.57%) Kubernetes
3 57 (26.15%) Grafana
4 44 (20.18%) Prometheus
5 37 (16.97%) Ansible
6 20 (9.17%) Progress Chef
7 18 (8.26%) Puppet
8 10 (4.59%) Nessus
8 10 (4.59%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.21%) Packer
10 6 (2.75%) Data Guard
11 4 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.83%) Kibana
11 4 (1.83%) Rancher
12 3 (1.38%) Argo
12 3 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.92%) systemd
Vendors
1 28 (12.84%) Oracle
2 21 (9.63%) ServiceNow
3 16 (7.34%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.50%) Splunk
5 10 (4.59%) IBM
5 10 (4.59%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (4.59%) PagerDuty
6 8 (3.67%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.21%) Confluent
8 5 (2.29%) Gigya
8 5 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.83%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.83%) Okta
10 3 (1.38%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.38%) Google
10 3 (1.38%) Sybase
11 2 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.92%) Databricks
11 2 (0.92%) Qualys
11 2 (0.92%) Tenable