Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 60 79
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 3 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.45% 1.01% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.36% 6.09% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £501 £390 £461
25th Percentile £503 - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -7.46% -11.59%
75th Percentile £528 £475 £503
90th Percentile £534 £513 £510
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £450 £486
% change year-on-year +13.89% -7.46% -18.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 127 115 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 19.18% 16.55% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 73 100
10th Percentile £369 £325 £399
25th Percentile £400 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £616 £569 £644
90th Percentile £700 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - -10.84% +35.30%
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +29.05% +15.44%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon RDS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Leeds

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (33.33%) Database Security
3 1 (33.33%) DDoS Mitigation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
3 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk