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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 145 179
Rank change year-on-year -71 +34 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 8 18 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.12% 0.51% 0.085%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.08% 3.89% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 2
10th Percentile £436 £460 £580
25th Percentile £455 £540 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £528 £600 £608
90th Percentile £549 £616 £609
England median daily rate £533 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +1.43% -2.42% -6.43%

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 741 463 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.23% 13.14% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 325 402
10th Percentile £314 £205 £290
25th Percentile £413 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £638 £660
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 9 21
10th Percentile £13.55 £13.25 £22.40
25th Percentile £27.75 £20.85 £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £24.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -56.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £32.05 £61.60
90th Percentile £81.78 £39.75 £62.96
England median hourly rate £38.38 £38.23 £33.93
% change year-on-year +0.38% +12.67% -38.31%

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
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 1 September 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
Hampshire -35 4 £533 -7.39% 1
Surrey - 2 £460 - 4
East Sussex +1 1 £459 -
Buckinghamshire -36 1 £417 -35.81%
Thames Valley -38 1 £417 -12.16% 1
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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (75.00%) Serverless
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (25.00%) GitHub
6 2 (25.00%) Route 53
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (12.50%) Azure
7 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) MySQL
4 1 (12.50%) Pentaho
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Database Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Database Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) API Design
4 2 (25.00%) Build Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Debt
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) Denodo
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle