Amazon RDS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 321 319
Rank change year-on-year +54 -2 +61
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 67 73 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.35% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.32% 2.81% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 56 113
10th Percentile £417 £413 £447
25th Percentile £466 £425 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £498 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -13.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £613
90th Percentile £630 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £590
% change year-on-year +7.32% -13.14% +3.51%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +52.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,017 2,594 3,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 12.53% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,396 1,829 2,653
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £663 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 97 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.46
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.20 £31.84
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.62 £59.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.98% -30.43% +35.29%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Scotland +3 21 £494 -0.35% 5
South East +40 15 £575 +8.49% 35
Midlands +26 13 £525 +16.67% 18
West Midlands +23 12 £550 +22.22% 12
South West +29 8 £584 +6.14% 14
North of England +2 7 £500 +11.11% 46
North West +3 6 £456 +1.33% 33
East of England +40 4 £500 -23.08% 14
East Midlands +12 1 £311 -30.89% 4
Yorkshire +7 1 £500 - 8
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (14.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.46%) Confluence
3 3 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.99%) Apache
4 2 (2.99%) Camunda
5 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.49%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 67 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (62.69%) Amazon S3
3 29 (43.28%) Amazon EC2
4 28 (41.79%) Serverless
5 27 (40.30%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (28.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (22.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (20.90%) OpenShift
9 12 (17.91%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (17.91%) PaaS
10 10 (14.93%) GCP
11 9 (13.43%) AWS CodePipeline
12 8 (11.94%) GitHub
12 8 (11.94%) IaaS
12 8 (11.94%) Route 53
13 7 (10.45%) AWS KMS
14 6 (8.96%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (7.46%) Azure
15 5 (7.46%) SaaS
15 5 (7.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.43%) DHCP
1 9 (13.43%) DNS
1 9 (13.43%) VPN
2 8 (11.94%) Firewall
2 8 (11.94%) SMTP
3 1 (1.49%) HTTP
3 1 (1.49%) Internet
3 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (41.79%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (17.91%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (17.91%) DynamoDB
3 9 (13.43%) Big Data
3 9 (13.43%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (13.43%) MySQL
4 8 (11.94%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (11.94%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (10.45%) Relational Database
6 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
7 5 (7.46%) Oracle Database
8 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.99%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.99%) Power BI
9 2 (2.99%) PowerCenter
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (32.84%) Jenkins
2 11 (16.42%) GitLab
3 8 (11.94%) JUnit
3 8 (11.94%) Mockito
4 6 (8.96%) Git
4 6 (8.96%) Maven
5 5 (7.46%) JIRA
5 5 (7.46%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (5.97%) DbUnit
6 4 (5.97%) jMock
7 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.99%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.49%) Flyway
8 1 (1.49%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.49%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.49%) webpack
General
1 26 (38.81%) Public Sector
2 12 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Finance
4 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Aviation
6 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Developer
2 10 (14.93%) Java Developer
3 9 (13.43%) Data Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (11.94%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Support Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (10.45%) AWS Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Lead
6 5 (7.46%) Architect
6 5 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) DBA
7 4 (5.97%) Senior
8 3 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.39%) Spring Boot
2 12 (17.91%) REST
3 11 (16.42%) AWS CDK
4 10 (14.93%) Spring
5 9 (13.43%) AngularJS
5 9 (13.43%) RESTful
6 8 (11.94%) Hibernate
6 8 (11.94%) Web Services
7 6 (8.96%) Node.js
8 5 (7.46%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (7.46%) JPA
8 5 (7.46%) SOAP
8 5 (7.46%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (5.97%) Bootstrap
9 4 (5.97%) HTML
9 4 (5.97%) PowerMock
9 4 (5.97%) Spring Batch
9 4 (5.97%) Spring Integration
10 3 (4.48%) jQuery
10 3 (4.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Clustering
1 8 (11.94%) Data Centre
1 8 (11.94%) PKI
2 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.97%) Replication
4 3 (4.48%) Oracle Licensing
5 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.49%) FMCG
6 1 (1.49%) IoT
6 1 (1.49%) NHS
6 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.39%) Linux
2 10 (14.93%) Windows
3 8 (11.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.49%) CentOS
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.28%) DevOps
2 28 (41.79%) Agile
3 26 (38.81%) CI/CD
4 19 (28.36%) Microservices
4 19 (28.36%) Migration
5 18 (26.87%) Scrum
6 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (25.37%) TDD
7 15 (22.39%) Kanban
8 12 (17.91%) Containerisation
8 12 (17.91%) Data Migration
8 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (16.42%) ETL
10 10 (14.93%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (11.94%) Computer Science
12 8 (11.94%) Machine Learning
12 8 (11.94%) Open Source
12 8 (11.94%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (11.94%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 26 (38.81%) SQL
2 22 (32.84%) Python
3 20 (29.85%) Java
4 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.48%) Bash
7 3 (4.48%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.99%) R
9 1 (1.49%) C#
9 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.49%) Perl
9 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 19 (28.36%) Degree
3 11 (16.42%) SC Cleared
4 10 (14.93%) DV Cleared
5 9 (13.43%) AWS Certification
5 9 (13.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (8.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.46%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.48%) NCSC
4 2 (2.99%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.49%) NIST
5 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (47.76%) Docker
2 10 (14.93%) Active Directory
3 9 (13.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (11.94%) BitLocker
4 8 (11.94%) Hyper-V
4 8 (11.94%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (11.94%) Terminal Services
4 8 (11.94%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (7.46%) Postfix
6 3 (4.48%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (31.34%) Kubernetes
2 18 (26.87%) Terraform
3 14 (20.90%) Ansible
4 10 (14.93%) Grafana
5 9 (13.43%) Puppet
6 8 (11.94%) Nagios
6 8 (11.94%) vCenter Server
6 8 (11.94%) vMotion
7 7 (10.45%) Prometheus
8 3 (4.48%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (2.99%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) Oracle
2 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.43%) Google
3 9 (13.43%) VMware
4 8 (11.94%) Citrix
4 8 (11.94%) HP
4 8 (11.94%) Symantec
5 5 (7.46%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (5.97%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.48%) Teradata
8 2 (2.99%) Informatica
8 2 (2.99%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.49%) Databricks
9 1 (1.49%) New Relic
9 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.49%) TSYS
9 1 (1.49%) Veracode