Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in the South East
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > South East
The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East citing Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 27 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 221 | 156 | 174 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -65 | +18 | +12 |
| Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS | 15 | 15 | 2 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the South East | 0.23% | 0.41% | 0.048% |
| As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category | 2.21% | 3.02% | 0.34% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 13 | 8 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £410 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £455 | £412 | £375 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £533 | £446 | £400 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +19.39% | +11.50% | -30.43% |
| 75th Percentile | £600 | £459 | £425 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £544 | - |
| England median daily rate | £540 | £500 | £538 |
| % change year-on-year | +8.00% | -7.02% | -6.48% |
All Database & BI Skills
South East
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 citing database or business intelligence skills in the South East.
| 6 months to 27 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills | 680 | 496 | 589 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East | 10.30% | 13.50% | 14.03% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 438 | 365 | 382 |
| 10th Percentile | £318 | £205 | £244 |
| 25th Percentile | £411 | £330 | £400 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £450 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +11.11% | -10.00% | -9.09% |
| 75th Percentile | £600 | £550 | £625 |
| 90th Percentile | £653 | £638 | £660 |
| England median daily rate | £514 | £510 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +0.78% | -7.27% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 54 | 4 | 19 |
| 10th Percentile | £14.09 | - | £22.07 |
| 25th Percentile | £22.94 | £13.25 | £30.00 |
| Median hourly rate | £29.07 | £18.75 | £48.18 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +55.04% | -61.08% | -1.67% |
| 75th Percentile | £55.00 | £40.90 | £61.60 |
| 90th Percentile | £84.76 | £70.41 | £64.73 |
| England median hourly rate | £41.00 | £43.50 | £33.22 |
| % change year-on-year | -5.75% | +30.96% | -33.24% |
Amazon RDS Job Vacancy Trend in the South East
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon RDS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.
Amazon RDS Daily Rate Trend in the South East
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon RDS.
Amazon RDS Daily Rate Histogram in the South East
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in the South East over the 6 months to 27 October 2026.
Amazon RDS Hourly Rate Trend in the South East
Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon RDS.
Amazon RDS Contract Job Locations in the South East
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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 October 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampshire | -26 | 9 | £600 | +34.23% | 1 |
| Surrey | - | 5 | £460 | - | 1 |
| East Sussex | +3 | 1 | £459 | - | |
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Amazon RDS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Database & Business Intelligence
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PostgreSQL | 53.3% | 8 |
| 2 | Amazon Athena | 33.3% | 5 |
| 2 | Amazon Redshift | 33.3% | 5 |
| 2 | Data Lake | 33.3% | 5 |
| 2 | DynamoDB | 33.3% | 5 |
| 6 | Amazon Aurora | 13.3% | 2 |
| 7 | Apache Iceberg | 6.7% | 1 |
| 7 | Azure SQL Database | 6.7% | 1 |
| 7 | BusinessObjects | 6.7% | 1 |
| 7 | Data Warehouse | 6.7% | 1 |
| 7 | MongoDB | 6.7% | 1 |
| 7 | MySQL | 6.7% | 1 |
| 7 | Pentaho | 6.7% | 1 |
| 7 | Power BI | 6.7% | 1 |
| 7 | Redis | 6.7% | 1 |
| 7 | SQL Server | 6.7% | 1 |