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

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Amazon RDS 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.36% - 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.31% - 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £422 - £477
25th Percentile £440 - £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £719
Median % change year-on-year - - +49.74%
75th Percentile £544 - £864
90th Percentile £623 - £946
South East median daily rate £575 £595 £600
% change year-on-year -3.36% -0.83% +25.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 260 344 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.70% 15.21% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 213 272
10th Percentile £325 £363 £340
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% -6.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £659 £700
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 11
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.75 £26.08
25th Percentile £18.95 £48.18 £32.30
Median hourly rate £24.00 £61.60 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -61.04% +90.59% +65.74%
75th Percentile £32.05 - £59.50
90th Percentile £38.56 - £72.00
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £48.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -50.19% -3.64% +122.22%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the Thames Valley

Amazon RDS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
DemandTrendContract 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 27 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 4 £450 - 6
Buckinghamshire - 2 £650 - 1
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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) OCI
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (33.33%) Couchbase
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (16.67%) DbUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) jMock
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) JPA
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) PowerMock
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Security Patching
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Logistics
5 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Confluent
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (16.67%) JDA
3 1 (16.67%) UiPath