Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 9 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.60% 5.43% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.03% 21.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £390 £477 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £490 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% - -
75th Percentile £424 £529 -
90th Percentile £433 £530 -
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £529 £418
% change year-on-year -4.30% +26.71% -26.43%

All Database & BI Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 179 33 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 31.74% 25.58% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 21 11
10th Percentile £367 £448 -
25th Percentile £425 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £490 £358
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +36.87% -33.70%
75th Percentile £531 £512 £400
90th Percentile £564 £529 £450
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Telford -38 9 £404 -17.65% 2
Amazon RDS
West Midlands

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Pentaho
2 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Gatling
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) QA Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Test Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Batch
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
1 2 (22.22%) WireMock
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ETL
1 6 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Coaching
3 2 (22.22%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) OWASP
3 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (22.22%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Test Management
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Component Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) SFIA
4 1 (11.11%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Kibana
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (77.78%) Talend
3 6 (66.67%) Informatica
4 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
4 2 (22.22%) PagerDuty
4 2 (22.22%) Splunk