Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 35 24
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.18% 1.40% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.11% 8.11% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £406 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £625 - £650
90th Percentile £715 - -
North East median daily rate £500 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 36 37 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 10.65% 17.21% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 25
10th Percentile £363 £345 £313
25th Percentile £425 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.22% +8.82% -22.73%
75th Percentile £725 £576 £500
90th Percentile £750 £647 £576
North East median daily rate £538 £475 £454
% change year-on-year +13.16% +4.63% -17.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £36.00 - £46.18
% change year-on-year - - -5.76%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon RDS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in Tyne and Wear

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -11 4 £500 -
Amazon RDS
North East

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (25.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Munging
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (25.00%) UiPath