Amazon RDS Contracts in the South West

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 148 159
Rank change year-on-year +45 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 8 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.48% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.64% 2.89% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 6
10th Percentile £506 £523 £506
25th Percentile £518 £525 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £644 £588 -
90th Percentile £650 £600 £716
England median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +4.80%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 220 311 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.11% 9.72% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 213 344
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% -3.38% +3.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £720
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 24
10th Percentile £25.31 £16.53 £18.63
25th Percentile £52.56 - £34.35
Median hourly rate £68.75 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.88% -38.46% -5.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.75 £75.50
90th Percentile - £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the South West

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the South West

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the South West

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire - 5 £588 -
Bristol +20 2 £584 - 7
Devon - 1 - - 1
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 4 (50.00%) GitHub
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (12.50%) Datadog
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
2 3 (37.50%) MySQL
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Aviation
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (12.50%) API Development
5 1 (12.50%) API Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
5 1 (12.50%) Protective Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce