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

 6 months to
22 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 328 353
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 -41
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 224 173 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.64% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.18% 3.50% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 107 152
10th Percentile £374 £429 £409
25th Percentile £441 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.80% -9.96%
75th Percentile £600 £706 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £538 £528
% change year-on-year -3.26% +1.90% -10.59%
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 £89.00 - -
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 5,356 4,942 5,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.54% 18.42% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,737 3,281 4,274
10th Percentile £331 £355 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £650
90th Percentile £709 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 77 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £16.18
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.50 £22.61
Median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% -25.26%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year +45.56% -28.47% -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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -33 122 £516 -8.63% 30
Midlands -24 38 £475 -10.29% 14
West Midlands -23 33 £500 -5.48% 8
North of England -42 28 £500 -4.76% 25
South East -18 17 £475 +11.76% 34
North West -19 14 £450 +20.00% 7
South West -4 12 £606 +7.66% 16
Yorkshire -43 10 £509 -13.40% 15
East Midlands -18 5 £378 -34.35% 6
North East -11 4 £500 - 3
East of England -15 4 £538 +22.86% 14
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 21 (9.38%) Confluence
2 9 (4.02%) nginx
3 5 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (4.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.89%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 224 (100.00%) AWS
2 143 (63.84%) Amazon S3
3 122 (54.46%) Amazon EC2
4 121 (54.02%) Serverless
5 120 (53.57%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (33.48%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (33.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 67 (29.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 67 (29.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 65 (29.02%) GitHub
10 59 (26.34%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (19.20%) GitHub Actions
12 40 (17.86%) Azure
13 33 (14.73%) Route 53
14 23 (10.27%) Amazon Kinesis
14 23 (10.27%) Datadog
15 22 (9.82%) AWS Fargate
15 22 (9.82%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (7.14%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.95%) DNS
2 25 (11.16%) Firewall
3 16 (7.14%) HTTP
4 14 (6.25%) FTP
4 14 (6.25%) SMTP
4 14 (6.25%) SSH
5 9 (4.02%) IMAP
5 9 (4.02%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (3.57%) VPN
7 4 (1.79%) Network Security
8 3 (1.34%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.45%) Internet
9 1 (0.45%) LAN
9 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (29.46%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (19.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 42 (18.75%) DynamoDB
4 37 (16.52%) MySQL
5 27 (12.05%) NoSQL
6 24 (10.71%) Relational Database
7 22 (9.82%) MongoDB
8 21 (9.38%) SQL Server
9 19 (8.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (7.14%) Redis
11 14 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (4.91%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (4.91%) Hadoop
12 11 (4.91%) RDBMS
13 10 (4.46%) Oracle Database
14 8 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (2.68%) BigQuery
15 6 (2.68%) Couchbase
15 6 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (2.23%) DB2
Development Applications
1 97 (43.30%) Jenkins
2 54 (24.11%) Git
3 46 (20.54%) GitLab
4 26 (11.61%) JIRA
5 14 (6.25%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.02%) Maven
7 7 (3.13%) JUnit
8 6 (2.68%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.68%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.23%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.23%) Gradle
9 5 (2.23%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (1.79%) Snyk
10 4 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.79%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.34%) git-flow
12 2 (0.89%) Gatling
12 2 (0.89%) Storybook
General
1 64 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.39%) Finance
4 15 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.46%) Banking
7 6 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.34%) Legal
9 2 (0.89%) Military
10 1 (0.45%) Front Office
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (24.55%) AWS Engineer
2 46 (20.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (15.63%) AWS DevOps
4 29 (12.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 29 (12.95%) Developer
5 27 (12.05%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (11.16%) Senior
7 21 (9.38%) Software Engineer
8 20 (8.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 20 (8.93%) Site Engineer
9 19 (8.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 18 (8.04%) Data Engineer
10 18 (8.04%) Lead
11 17 (7.59%) Architect
12 15 (6.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 15 (6.70%) DBA
13 14 (6.25%) AWS Developer
14 13 (5.80%) Oracle DBA
15 9 (4.02%) Java Architect
16 8 (3.57%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (20.09%) Kafka
2 28 (12.50%) RESTful
3 21 (9.38%) Node.js
4 20 (8.93%) Spring Boot
5 19 (8.48%) React
6 16 (7.14%) Spring
7 14 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (5.36%) REST
9 11 (4.91%) CSS
10 10 (4.46%) FastAPI
10 10 (4.46%) LDAP
11 9 (4.02%) AWS CDK
12 8 (3.57%) Django
12 8 (3.57%) Flask
12 8 (3.57%) Jest
12 8 (3.57%) Keycloak
13 7 (3.13%) Next.js
13 7 (3.13%) Sass
14 6 (2.68%) Enzyme
14 6 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.96%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.73%) Replication
3 22 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.23%) N-Tier
7 4 (1.79%) Clustering
7 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.79%) PKI
8 3 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.34%) NHS
9 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.89%) Derivative
9 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 66 (29.46%) Linux
2 17 (7.59%) Amazon Linux
2 17 (7.59%) Windows
3 15 (6.70%) VMS
4 11 (4.91%) Unix
5 9 (4.02%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.79%) CentOS
8 3 (1.34%) Solaris
9 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.45%) Android
10 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (66.52%) CI/CD
2 109 (48.66%) DevOps
3 91 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (30.36%) Containerisation
5 66 (29.46%) Agile
6 52 (23.21%) Microservices
7 46 (20.54%) Configuration Management
8 39 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (16.96%) Observability
9 38 (16.96%) Performance Tuning
10 37 (16.52%) Software Engineering
11 35 (15.63%) Event-Driven
12 30 (13.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 29 (12.95%) Cloud Security
13 29 (12.95%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (12.50%) Migration
15 26 (11.61%) High Availability
16 24 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 22 (9.82%) Analytics
17 22 (9.82%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (56.25%) Python
2 84 (37.50%) SQL
3 61 (27.23%) Java
4 39 (17.41%) Bash
5 30 (13.39%) PowerShell
6 25 (11.16%) Shell Script
7 19 (8.48%) Groovy
8 16 (7.14%) JavaScript
9 15 (6.70%) Go
10 11 (4.91%) TypeScript
11 9 (4.02%) Perl
12 8 (3.57%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.68%) JSX
14 5 (2.23%) C#
14 5 (2.23%) Ruby
15 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.89%) C
17 1 (0.45%) PHP
17 1 (0.45%) R
17 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 63 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 42 (18.75%) AWS Certification
4 19 (8.48%) Degree
5 16 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 14 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.23%) OCP
9 5 (2.23%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.89%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.89%) PMP
12 1 (0.45%) CEH
12 1 (0.45%) CISSP
12 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.45%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.46%) GDPR
2 10 (4.46%) NIST
2 10 (4.46%) QA
3 5 (2.23%) NCSC
3 5 (2.23%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) GxP
6 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 103 (45.98%) Docker
2 14 (6.25%) DFS Replication
3 9 (4.02%) Dovecot
3 9 (4.02%) Postfix
3 9 (4.02%) Squid
4 6 (2.68%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.34%) NFS
6 3 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 131 (58.48%) Terraform
2 76 (33.93%) Kubernetes
3 55 (24.55%) Grafana
4 45 (20.09%) Prometheus
5 37 (16.52%) Ansible
6 20 (8.93%) Progress Chef
7 16 (7.14%) Puppet
8 9 (4.02%) Nessus
8 9 (4.02%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.13%) Data Guard
9 7 (3.13%) Packer
10 4 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.79%) Kibana
10 4 (1.79%) Rancher
11 3 (1.34%) Argo
11 3 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.34%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.89%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (13.39%) Oracle
2 19 (8.48%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.91%) Splunk
5 10 (4.46%) PagerDuty
6 9 (4.02%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.57%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.13%) Confluent
9 6 (2.68%) IBM
10 5 (2.23%) Gigya
10 5 (2.23%) Sybase
10 5 (2.23%) Talend
11 4 (1.79%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.79%) Okta
11 4 (1.79%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.34%) AVEVA
12 3 (1.34%) Cloudera
12 3 (1.34%) Informatica
12 3 (1.34%) Qualys
12 3 (1.34%) Tenable
129 Amazon RDS jobs in England