Amazon RDS Contracts in the South East

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Amazon RDS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 192 180
Rank change year-on-year +44 -12 +54
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 17 8 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.52% 0.14% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.81% 1.23% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 36
10th Percentile £542 - £513
25th Percentile £563 £413 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £480 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.79% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £591 £606 -
90th Percentile £600 £608 -
England median daily rate £543 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.33% -12.50% +4.35%

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 446 653 806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.60% 11.47% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 408 563
10th Percentile £287 £313 £340
25th Percentile £375 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -7.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £563 £607 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 34 42
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.20 £22.18
25th Percentile £22.18 £21.16 £32.30
Median hourly rate £24.00 £43.34 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -44.62% -22.95% +150.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.60 £72.78
90th Percentile £36.25 £78.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £39.25 £58.05
% change year-on-year -13.38% -32.38% +53.56%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the South East

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon RDS in the South East

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 July 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 +41 11 £575 -3.36% 10
Thames Valley +21 5 £575 +35.29% 18
Buckinghamshire +10 3 £575 +35.29% 4
Berkshire +20 2 £500 +10.50% 9
East Sussex -3 1 - - 8
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 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) Confluence
3 2 (11.76%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) PaaS
3 8 (47.06%) GCP
3 8 (47.06%) IaaS
3 8 (47.06%) OpenShift
4 6 (35.29%) Amazon S3
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (29.41%) GitHub
5 5 (29.41%) Serverless
6 4 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (11.76%) Azure
8 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (11.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) DHCP
1 8 (47.06%) DNS
1 8 (47.06%) Firewall
1 8 (47.06%) SMTP
1 8 (47.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Big Data
1 8 (47.06%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Terragrunt
3 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (5.88%) DbUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) jMock
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Mockito
3 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (47.06%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Support Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Technical Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Ruby Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
2 3 (17.65%) Node.js
2 3 (17.65%) RESTful
2 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.76%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) Keycloak
3 2 (11.76%) OpenJDK
3 2 (11.76%) React
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (11.76%) Vue
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.88%) Bootstrap
4 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.88%) JPA
4 1 (5.88%) JSON
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless Framework
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Batch
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Clustering
1 8 (47.06%) Data Centre
1 8 (47.06%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (47.06%) Machine Learning
2 8 (47.06%) Software Deployment
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) Microservices
6 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (17.65%) Open Source
7 2 (11.76%) API Development
7 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Release Management
7 2 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
8 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
8 1 (5.88%) Generative AI
8 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
2 3 (17.65%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) Degree
3 8 (47.06%) DV Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Docker
2 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 8 (47.06%) BitLocker
2 8 (47.06%) Hyper-V
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (47.06%) Terminal Services
2 8 (47.06%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (52.94%) Ansible
3 8 (47.06%) Nagios
3 8 (47.06%) Puppet
3 8 (47.06%) vCenter Server
3 8 (47.06%) vMotion
4 6 (35.29%) Terraform
5 1 (5.88%) Grafana
5 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) Citrix
2 8 (47.06%) Google
2 8 (47.06%) HP
2 8 (47.06%) Symantec
2 8 (47.06%) VMware
3 3 (17.65%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (5.88%) New Relic
4 1 (5.88%) UiPath