Amazon RDS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 98 141 135
Rank change year-on-year +43 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 4 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.15% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.72% 1.17% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 12
10th Percentile £513 - £267
25th Percentile £531 £413 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £455
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -6.59% -4.21%
75th Percentile £588 £459 £500
90th Percentile - £472 -
South East median daily rate £575 £530 £588
% change year-on-year +8.49% -9.79% +21.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 232 341 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 12.70% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 195 300
10th Percentile £325 £316 £331
25th Percentile £412 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £22.97 £19.59 £22.90
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 £26.08
Median hourly rate £32.05 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% +7.27% +266.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £75.75
90th Percentile £65.62 £65.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the Thames Valley

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the Thames Valley

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon RDS in the Thames Valley

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +30 2 £500 +10.50% 3
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £575 +35.29% 4
Amazon RDS
South East

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (50.00%) Camunda
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Route 53
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Terragrunt
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (25.00%) DbUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) jMock
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Mockito
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Java Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (50.00%) OpenJDK
3 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (25.00%) New Relic