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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 125 140
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 10 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.52% 0.43% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.95% 3.68% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 9
10th Percentile £516 - £600
25th Percentile £520 £525 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% -11.11% +31.71%
75th Percentile £638 - £738
90th Percentile £641 - £756
England median daily rate £530 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -1.49% -10.33% -

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 202 326 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.60% 11.76% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 241 285
10th Percentile £294 £363 £390
25th Percentile £373 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £674 £676 £725
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 29
10th Percentile £38.90 - £17.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £17.50 £32.40
Median hourly rate £70.00 £30.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -54.55% +21.10%
75th Percentile £71.88 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £78.58 £85.00 £82.93
England median hourly rate £34.82 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.53% -36.36% +35.04%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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
Bristol - 4 £584 - 6
Devon - 3 £520 - 1
Gloucestershire +18 2 £625 +13.64% 6
Wiltshire +22 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub
3 5 (50.00%) Serverless
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Aviation
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Database Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) DBA
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
1 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Management
5 2 (20.00%) Database Security
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) C
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) MCSE
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Jaspersoft