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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 302 352
Rank change year-on-year -50 +50 -45
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 230 190 201
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.74% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.92% 3.94% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 127 147
10th Percentile £368 £413 £403
25th Percentile £419 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £600
90th Percentile £633 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £71.23 - -
25th Percentile £73.63 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
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 5,866 4,828 6,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 18.89% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 3,325 4,344
10th Percentile £344 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 85 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.54
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.75 £21.15
Median hourly rate £51.25 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -10.33% -24.95%
75th Percentile £74.92 £65.00 £61.69
90th Percentile £85.03 £70.00 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.81 £42.50
% change year-on-year +60.01% -22.80% -23.70%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -53 117 £513 -10.87% 34
Midlands -26 47 £500 -5.48% 13
West Midlands -26 39 £500 -5.48% 11
North of England -48 28 £500 -4.76% 18
South East -33 17 £475 -7.32% 18
North West -18 13 £394 -13.65% 9
Yorkshire -50 12 £509 -3.10% 7
South West -22 10 £538 -12.30% 9
East Midlands -17 8 £390 -11.96% 2
North East -13 3 £575 - 2
East of England -25 3 £538 +8.86% 4
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 18 (7.83%) Confluence
2 4 (1.74%) Apache
2 4 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 230 (100.00%) AWS
2 147 (63.91%) Amazon S3
3 131 (56.96%) Amazon EC2
4 117 (50.87%) Serverless
5 116 (50.43%) AWS Lambda
6 77 (33.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 70 (30.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 64 (27.83%) Amazon ECS
9 61 (26.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 59 (25.65%) GitHub
11 57 (24.78%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (18.26%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (14.35%) Azure
14 29 (12.61%) Route 53
15 23 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
16 22 (9.57%) AWS Fargate
17 18 (7.83%) Amazon Kinesis
17 18 (7.83%) AWS KMS
18 17 (7.39%) Datadog
19 14 (6.09%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.09%) DNS
2 12 (5.22%) Firewall
3 8 (3.48%) VPN
4 4 (1.74%) Network Security
5 3 (1.30%) HTTP
5 3 (1.30%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.87%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.43%) FTP
7 1 (0.43%) IMAP
7 1 (0.43%) Internet
7 1 (0.43%) LAN
7 1 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) SMTP
7 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.43%) SSH
7 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (26.52%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (22.61%) DynamoDB
3 33 (14.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 31 (13.48%) MySQL
5 23 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 21 (9.13%) MongoDB
6 21 (9.13%) Relational Database
7 19 (8.26%) NoSQL
8 16 (6.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (4.78%) Oracle Database
10 10 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (4.35%) Redis
11 9 (3.91%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (3.91%) Power BI
12 8 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (3.48%) Hadoop
13 7 (3.04%) DB2
14 6 (2.61%) Pentaho
14 6 (2.61%) RDBMS
14 6 (2.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (39.57%) Jenkins
2 59 (25.65%) Git
3 43 (18.70%) GitLab
4 21 (9.13%) JIRA
5 20 (8.70%) JUnit
6 16 (6.96%) Maven
7 12 (5.22%) Mockito
7 12 (5.22%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.04%) DbUnit
8 7 (3.04%) jMock
9 6 (2.61%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.17%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.17%) Snyk
11 4 (1.74%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.74%) git-flow
11 4 (1.74%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.30%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.30%) Gradle
General
1 58 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.52%) Public Sector
3 34 (14.78%) Finance
4 24 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.35%) Banking
7 5 (2.17%) Legal
8 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (16.52%) Developer
2 35 (15.22%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (13.91%) Senior
4 30 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (9.13%) AWS DevOps
5 21 (9.13%) Site Engineer
5 21 (9.13%) Software Engineer
6 20 (8.70%) DBA
6 20 (8.70%) Java Developer
6 20 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 18 (7.83%) Lead
8 16 (6.96%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.52%) AWS Developer
10 14 (6.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.09%) Oracle DBA
11 11 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.35%) Architect
12 10 (4.35%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.35%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.91%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (17.39%) Kafka
2 34 (14.78%) Spring
3 33 (14.35%) Spring Boot
4 32 (13.91%) RESTful
5 27 (11.74%) Node.js
6 24 (10.43%) React
7 21 (9.13%) REST
8 15 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (6.09%) AngularJS
9 14 (6.09%) Hibernate
9 14 (6.09%) JPA
9 14 (6.09%) Spring Cloud
10 13 (5.65%) SOAP
11 12 (5.22%) Django
12 11 (4.78%) CSS
12 11 (4.78%) GraphQL
12 11 (4.78%) Spring Batch
13 10 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (4.35%) Web Services
14 9 (3.91%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.96%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.43%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.39%) Replication
4 7 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.17%) Clustering
5 5 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.17%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.30%) PKI
8 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.87%) Derivative
8 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.87%) NHS
8 2 (0.87%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.43%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 66 (28.70%) Linux
2 10 (4.35%) Unix
3 6 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.17%) Windows
5 4 (1.74%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.30%) CentOS
6 3 (1.30%) Solaris
7 2 (0.87%) VMS
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (61.74%) CI/CD
2 100 (43.48%) DevOps
3 88 (38.26%) Agile
4 87 (37.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 72 (31.30%) Containerisation
6 51 (22.17%) Microservices
7 39 (16.96%) Performance Tuning
8 38 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (15.65%) Observability
10 35 (15.22%) Software Engineering
11 34 (14.78%) Configuration Management
12 32 (13.91%) Migration
13 31 (13.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 29 (12.61%) ETL
15 28 (12.17%) TDD
16 24 (10.43%) High Availability
17 23 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
17 23 (10.00%) Event-Driven
18 22 (9.57%) Continuous Integration
18 22 (9.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 97 (42.17%) Python
2 94 (40.87%) SQL
3 62 (26.96%) Java
4 37 (16.09%) Bash
5 25 (10.87%) Shell Script
6 18 (7.83%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.83%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.22%) Go
7 12 (5.22%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.48%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.61%) C#
9 6 (2.61%) JSX
10 5 (2.17%) Groovy
10 5 (2.17%) Ruby
11 4 (1.74%) Perl
12 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.43%) Bicep
13 1 (0.43%) PHP
13 1 (0.43%) R
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 91 (39.57%) Security Cleared
2 75 (32.61%) SC Cleared
3 37 (16.09%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.35%) Degree
6 9 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.91%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.17%) OCP
9 5 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.43%) CEH
12 1 (0.43%) CISSP
12 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.43%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.78%) NIST
2 10 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.35%) QA
3 7 (3.04%) GDPR
4 5 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.74%) PMO
6 3 (1.30%) NCSC
6 3 (1.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.43%) GxP
System Software
1 102 (44.35%) Docker
2 7 (3.04%) Postfix
3 4 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.30%) NFS
4 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.87%) HDFS
6 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.43%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.43%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.43%) Squid
Systems Management
1 106 (46.09%) Terraform
2 70 (30.43%) Kubernetes
3 48 (20.87%) Grafana
4 37 (16.09%) Ansible
5 32 (13.91%) Prometheus
6 20 (8.70%) Progress Chef
7 15 (6.52%) Puppet
8 8 (3.48%) Data Guard
9 6 (2.61%) Packer
10 4 (1.74%) Argo
10 4 (1.74%) Kibana
10 4 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.30%) Rancher
12 2 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.87%) Foglight
12 2 (0.87%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.87%) systemd
Vendors
1 33 (14.35%) Oracle
2 16 (6.96%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.35%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (4.35%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.91%) Splunk
6 8 (3.48%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.48%) Sybase
6 8 (3.48%) Talend
7 7 (3.04%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.61%) Informatica
9 4 (1.74%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.74%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.74%) Confluent
9 4 (1.74%) Databricks
9 4 (1.74%) Qualys
9 4 (1.74%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.74%) Tenable
10 3 (1.30%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.30%) Okta