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 requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 159 185
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 17 3 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.39% 0.090% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.21% 0.61% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 13
10th Percentile £410 £380 £513
25th Percentile £413 £388 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +14.58%
75th Percentile £569 £463 £588
90th Percentile £621 £470 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

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 requiring database or business intelligence skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 529 494 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.02% 14.80% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 322 463
10th Percentile £205 £313 £300
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +3.45%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £630
90th Percentile £660 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 45
10th Percentile £12.29 £34.67 £20.34
25th Percentile £30.82 £41.25 £24.43
Median hourly rate £38.50 £63.15 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.03% +15.87% +25.29%
75th Percentile £43.15 £64.95 £72.00
90th Percentile £63.83 £65.62 £79.91
England median hourly rate £43.50 £39.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -18.18%

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 job vacancy trend 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.

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 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the South East

Amazon RDS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon RDS.

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 18 January 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
Thames Valley - 13 £445 - 20
Berkshire - 12 £460 - 13
Hampshire - 4 £578 - 7
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 - 2
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (64.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (52.94%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (47.06%) Amazon S3
5 6 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (35.29%) OCI
5 6 (35.29%) Serverless
6 5 (29.41%) Azure
7 4 (23.53%) IaaS
8 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (17.65%) Azure Storage
8 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (11.76%) GitHub
9 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (11.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) Internet
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) NoSQL
2 6 (35.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (35.29%) Couchbase
3 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (11.76%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
5 2 (11.76%) MySQL
5 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
5 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Data Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Technical Specialist
3 3 (17.65%) DBA
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Database Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Site Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Replication
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (11.76%) Clustering
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Unix
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
1 12 (70.59%) High Availability
1 12 (70.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (64.71%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) Security Patching
4 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
6 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
6 3 (17.65%) Project Management
6 3 (17.65%) Resilience Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Runbook
6 3 (17.65%) Statistics
6 3 (17.65%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) Shell Script
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) Bash
5 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) AWS Certification
2 5 (29.41%) Azure Certification
2 5 (29.41%) OCP
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) GDPR
1 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (17.65%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
1 3 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) Data Guard
2 3 (17.65%) Grafana
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (17.65%) Puppet
3 2 (11.76%) systemd
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Confluent
1 6 (35.29%) IBM
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) PagerDuty