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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 134 196
Rank change year-on-year -65 +62 -19
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 10 18 8
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.60% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.40% 4.24% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 5
10th Percentile £404 £508 -
25th Percentile £414 £563 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £575 £480
Median % change year-on-year -20.17% +19.79% -20.00%
75th Percentile £549 £588 £606
90th Percentile £557 £600 £608
England median daily rate £500 £550 £507
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.48% -15.50%

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 716 425 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.85% 14.28% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 294 379
10th Percentile £301 £307 £313
25th Percentile £392 £403 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £606
90th Percentile £650 £648 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 12 38
10th Percentile £13.48 £14.01 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.99 £22.84 £22.61
Median hourly rate £36.71 £29.91 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year +22.76% -47.49% -1.88%
75th Percentile £51.89 £40.63 £62.96
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.43 £80.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -32.54%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -48 5 £419 -27.20% 2
Hampshire -36 4 £533 -7.39% 2
Buckinghamshire -37 3 £406 -29.37%
Berkshire -30 2 £491 -1.75% 2
East Sussex -3 1 £459 - 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 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) Route 53
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (10.00%) Pentaho
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) DBA
2 3 (30.00%) SQL DBA
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Apollo GraphQL
1 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) JPA
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) API Design
4 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) OCP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Grafana
2 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Data Guard
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (10.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Denodo
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat