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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 178 172
Rank change year-on-year +38 -6 +63
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 22 4 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.087% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.86% 0.65% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 31
10th Percentile £411 £580 £513
25th Percentile £449 £581 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -0.83% +25.00%
75th Percentile £591 £608 -
90th Percentile £610 £609 -
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.42% -6.43% -4.17%

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 453 619 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.99% 13.39% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 411 520
10th Percentile £205 £263 £320
25th Percentile £325 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £660 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 44
10th Percentile £13.25 £22.24 £21.05
25th Percentile £15.81 £30.00 £31.91
Median hourly rate £28.03 £51.59 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% -5.77% +146.07%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.60 £70.47
90th Percentile £42.90 £61.91 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS 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 September 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 18 September 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
Hampshire +21 12 £575 -3.36% 5
Thames Valley - 9 £438 - 5
Berkshire - 7 £425 - 5
Buckinghamshire - 2 £650 -
East Sussex 0 1 - - 3
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (45.45%) Serverless
3 8 (36.36%) GCP
3 8 (36.36%) IaaS
3 8 (36.36%) OpenShift
3 8 (36.36%) PaaS
4 7 (31.82%) Amazon S3
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (22.73%) OCI
6 3 (13.64%) GitHub
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (9.09%) Route 53
7 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (4.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) DHCP
1 8 (36.36%) DNS
1 8 (36.36%) Firewall
1 8 (36.36%) SMTP
1 8 (36.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Big Data
1 8 (36.36%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (22.73%) Couchbase
3 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (13.64%) MySQL
4 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.55%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (4.55%) DbUnit
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) jMock
2 1 (4.55%) JUnit
2 1 (4.55%) Maven
2 1 (4.55%) Mockito
2 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (31.82%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (36.36%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (36.36%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Data Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Ruby Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Kafka
2 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
2 3 (13.64%) Node.js
2 3 (13.64%) RESTful
3 2 (9.09%) React
3 2 (9.09%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (9.09%) Vue
4 1 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.55%) Bootstrap
4 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.55%) JPA
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) SOAP
4 1 (4.55%) Spring
4 1 (4.55%) Spring Batch
4 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.55%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Spring Integration
4 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Clustering
2 8 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 8 (36.36%) PKI
3 6 (27.27%) Replication
4 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
6 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Linux
2 8 (36.36%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 5 (22.73%) Unix
4 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) DevOps
2 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (36.36%) Machine Learning
3 8 (36.36%) Software Deployment
4 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 6 (27.27%) High Availability
4 6 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Security Patching
6 4 (18.18%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (9.09%) API Development
8 2 (9.09%) Data Modelling
8 2 (9.09%) Front End Development
8 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 2 (9.09%) Microservices
8 2 (9.09%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
2 8 (36.36%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Ruby
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) Degree
3 8 (36.36%) DV Cleared
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.55%) OCP
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Docker
2 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 8 (36.36%) BitLocker
2 8 (36.36%) Hyper-V
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (36.36%) Terminal Services
2 8 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (45.45%) Terraform
3 8 (36.36%) Ansible
3 8 (36.36%) Nagios
3 8 (36.36%) Puppet
3 8 (36.36%) vCenter Server
3 8 (36.36%) vMotion
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (36.36%) Citrix
2 8 (36.36%) Google
2 8 (36.36%) HP
2 8 (36.36%) Symantec
2 8 (36.36%) VMware
3 6 (27.27%) IBM
4 5 (22.73%) Confluent
5 3 (13.64%) Atlassian
6 1 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (4.55%) JDA
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle
6 1 (4.55%) UiPath