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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 174 187
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 17 2 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.40% 0.050% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.23% 0.34% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 20
10th Percentile £410 - £513
25th Percentile £412 £375 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.13% -30.43% +19.79%
75th Percentile £545 £425 £600
90th Percentile £662 - -
England median daily rate £500 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -7.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 526 586 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.32% 14.69% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 386 517
10th Percentile £205 £260 £305
25th Percentile £350 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £638 £636
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 37
10th Percentile £30.10 £20.75 £21.00
25th Percentile - £31.83 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £48.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% -3.64% +124.72%
75th Percentile £52.58 £62.34 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.09 £64.73 £76.53
England median hourly rate £46.50 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.37% -17.71% -9.45%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 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
Thames Valley - 13 £435 - 8
Berkshire - 10 £435 - 5
Hampshire - 3 £530 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 2 £650 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (76.47%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (47.06%) Amazon S3
3 8 (47.06%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (47.06%) Serverless
4 7 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (35.29%) OCI
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (23.53%) GitHub
6 4 (23.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (11.76%) Azure
7 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (11.76%) IaaS
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
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 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
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 Athena
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (5.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Data Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Technical Specialist
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Database Specialist
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Site Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Architect
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Replication
2 4 (23.53%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (11.76%) Clustering
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
5 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) High Availability
3 8 (47.06%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) Security Patching
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Migration
7 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
7 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
7 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
7 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Project Management
7 3 (17.65%) Resilience Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Shell Script
3 4 (23.53%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) AWS Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.76%) OCP
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (17.65%) NIST
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) Grafana
2 3 (17.65%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) IBM
2 6 (35.29%) Confluent
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 2 (11.76%) PagerDuty
5 1 (5.88%) JDA
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.88%) UiPath