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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 177 185
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 15 2 29
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.40% 0.048% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.97% 0.34% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 25
10th Percentile £388 - £513
25th Percentile £410 £375 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -30.43% +19.79%
75th Percentile £450 £425 £600
90th Percentile £525 - -
England median daily rate £500 £538 £565
% change year-on-year -7.06% -4.78% -5.83%

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 505 593 759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.51% 14.16% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 384 554
10th Percentile £205 £236 £302
25th Percentile £325 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.32% +7.90%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £660 £680
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 41
10th Percentile - £22.07 £20.25
25th Percentile £13.25 £30.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £48.18 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.08% -1.67% +130.05%
75th Percentile £40.90 £61.60 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.41 £64.73 £76.53
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +24.29% -29.29% -1.00%

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 30 October 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 30 October 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 - 12 £435 - 9
Berkshire - 9 £435 - 6
Hampshire - 3 £447 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 2 £650 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 - 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (73.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (66.67%) Serverless
4 7 (46.67%) Amazon S3
5 6 (40.00%) OCI
6 5 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (20.00%) GitHub
7 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (13.33%) Azure
9 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (40.00%) Couchbase
3 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (26.67%) MySQL
4 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (6.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Specialist
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
5 2 (13.33%) Database Specialist
5 2 (13.33%) Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Ruby Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Architect
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Architect
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (13.33%) Node.js
2 2 (13.33%) React
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (13.33%) Vue
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Replication
2 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (13.33%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
1 6 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) High Availability
3 8 (53.33%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) Security Patching
5 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
8 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
8 2 (13.33%) Data Security
8 2 (13.33%) Database Tuning
8 2 (13.33%) Project Management
8 2 (13.33%) Release Management
8 2 (13.33%) Resilience Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Ruby
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (13.33%) OCP
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) IBM
2 6 (40.00%) Confluent
3 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) JDA
4 1 (6.67%) UiPath