Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 94 106
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +43
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 12 21 36
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.75% 1.17% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.41% 6.98% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 25
10th Percentile £329 £415 £463
25th Percentile £358 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £458 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% -12.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £493 £485 £538
90th Percentile £497 £494 £588
UK median daily rate £508 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -3.88% -4.00% -4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 352 301 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.12% 16.75% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 186 285
10th Percentile £313 £342 £375
25th Percentile £407 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% -2.04%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £550
90th Percentile £643 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £534
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.31% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - £17.72 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.92 £18.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% +0.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £20.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £47.50
% change year-on-year +42.20% -35.60% -4.90%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Scotland

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in Scotland

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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
Glasgow 0 6 £379 -21.73% 2
Edinburgh -4 6 £500 +11.11%
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
3 5 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (41.67%) Serverless
3 5 (41.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (25.00%) GitHub
5 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (16.67%) AWS KMS
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (8.33%) Azure
7 1 (8.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (16.67%) MariaDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (16.67%) webpack
4 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (16.67%) Informatica Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Node.js
2 3 (25.00%) React
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) CSS3
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) HTML5
3 2 (16.67%) Redux
3 2 (16.67%) Vue
4 1 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (8.33%) Apache Camel
4 1 (8.33%) J2EE
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) Next.js
4 1 (8.33%) pytest
4 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) SOAP
4 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Microservices
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Data Science
5 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) Batch Processing
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Management
6 2 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 2 (16.67%) Patch Management
6 2 (16.67%) Service Management
6 2 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (16.67%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (25.00%) Perl
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (25.00%) Ruby
3 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 3 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (16.67%) WCAG
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Informatica