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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 318 314
Rank change year-on-year +53 -4 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 93 87 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.41% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.41% 3.26% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 63 105
10th Percentile £433 £410 £463
25th Percentile £475 £423 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £480 £588
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% -18.30% +17.50%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £608
90th Percentile £625 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%

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 2,107 2,669 3,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.55% 12.57% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,853 2,353
10th Percentile £313 £319 £336
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £655 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.19% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 112 110
10th Percentile £18.62 £13.72 £21.05
25th Percentile £22.19 £18.03 £27.83
Median hourly rate £31.64 £33.47 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -39.15% +57.14%
75th Percentile £59.25 £49.54 £72.78
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.99 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.53% -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 24 June 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 24 June 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
Midlands +28 26 £475 +5.56% 19
West Midlands +25 25 £475 +5.56% 17
Scotland -11 19 £500 +6.67% 2
South East +56 17 £575 +19.79% 40
North of England +17 14 £519 +15.22% 48
South West +37 11 £543 -9.58% 19
North West +8 9 £550 +22.91% 32
East of England +27 7 £550 -12.00% 23
Yorkshire -8 4 £500 -1.38% 13
East Midlands +4 1 £311 -30.89% 2
North East - 1 £450 - 3
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 12 (12.90%) Confluence
2 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (9.68%) Apache
4 5 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (5.38%) IIS
4 5 (5.38%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.15%) Camunda
5 2 (2.15%) nginx
6 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Maximo
2 2 (2.15%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 88 (94.62%) AWS
2 59 (63.44%) Amazon S3
3 51 (54.84%) Amazon EC2
4 33 (35.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 29 (31.18%) Serverless
6 28 (30.11%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (23.66%) Amazon SQS
7 22 (23.66%) AWS KMS
8 16 (17.20%) GitHub
8 16 (17.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (16.13%) Route 53
10 13 (13.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (12.90%) PaaS
12 10 (10.75%) GCP
12 10 (10.75%) OpenShift
13 9 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (8.60%) Amazon ELB
14 8 (8.60%) Azure
14 8 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (8.60%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.20%) DNS
2 14 (15.05%) Firewall
2 14 (15.05%) SMTP
3 11 (11.83%) VPN
4 9 (9.68%) DHCP
5 5 (5.38%) HTTP
6 4 (4.30%) FTP
6 4 (4.30%) SSH
6 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.23%) SSL
8 2 (2.15%) IMAP
8 2 (2.15%) Network Security
8 2 (2.15%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (39.78%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (24.73%) DynamoDB
3 21 (22.58%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (13.98%) SQL Server
5 9 (9.68%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (9.68%) Big Data
6 8 (8.60%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (8.60%) MySQL
6 8 (8.60%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.38%) DB2
7 5 (5.38%) Oracle Database
8 4 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.15%) Power BI
10 2 (2.15%) PowerCenter
10 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (41.94%) Jenkins
2 23 (24.73%) Git
3 15 (16.13%) JUnit
3 15 (16.13%) Maven
4 13 (13.98%) Mockito
5 12 (12.90%) SonarQube
6 11 (11.83%) JIRA
7 9 (9.68%) GitLab
8 8 (8.60%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (8.60%) DbUnit
8 8 (8.60%) jMock
9 6 (6.45%) Vagrant
10 4 (4.30%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.15%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.15%) Terragrunt
12 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
12 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (1.08%) Flyway
12 1 (1.08%) Liquibase
12 1 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 35 (37.63%) Public Sector
2 18 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.68%) Finance
4 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.08%) Aviation
6 1 (1.08%) Banking
6 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (33.33%) Developer
2 18 (19.35%) Java Developer
3 14 (15.05%) Lead
4 13 (13.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (11.83%) Senior
6 10 (10.75%) AWS Developer
7 9 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (8.60%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) Support Engineer
9 7 (7.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure Support
9 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 6 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.45%) Lead Developer
10 6 (6.45%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.73%) Spring Boot
2 20 (21.51%) SOAP
3 19 (20.43%) Web Services
4 18 (19.35%) Spring
5 17 (18.28%) AngularJS
5 17 (18.28%) REST
6 15 (16.13%) RESTful
7 14 (15.05%) ActiveMQ
8 13 (13.98%) Hibernate
8 13 (13.98%) JPA
9 11 (11.83%) Spring Cloud
10 10 (10.75%) Bootstrap
10 10 (10.75%) Spring Batch
10 10 (10.75%) Spring Integration
11 9 (9.68%) Node.js
12 8 (8.60%) PowerMock
13 6 (6.45%) AWS CDK
14 5 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (5.38%) React
14 5 (5.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.83%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (10.75%) Replication
3 8 (8.60%) Clustering
3 8 (8.60%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.60%) PKI
4 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.23%) Oracle Licensing
6 2 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.08%) FMCG
7 1 (1.08%) IoT
7 1 (1.08%) NHS
7 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (30.11%) Linux
2 21 (22.58%) Windows
3 13 (13.98%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.45%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (6.45%) VMS
5 3 (3.23%) Unix
5 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.76%) DevOps
2 40 (43.01%) CI/CD
3 33 (35.48%) Agile
4 25 (26.88%) Microservices
5 24 (25.81%) Containerisation
6 22 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (22.58%) Scrum
7 21 (22.58%) TDD
8 20 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (17.20%) Migration
10 15 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (13.98%) ETL
11 13 (13.98%) Kanban
12 12 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (12.90%) Cloud Security
12 12 (12.90%) Open Source
13 11 (11.83%) BDD
13 11 (11.83%) Configuration Management
14 10 (10.75%) Computer Science
14 10 (10.75%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 36 (38.71%) SQL
2 32 (34.41%) Java
3 31 (33.33%) Python
4 17 (18.28%) JavaScript
5 16 (17.20%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.45%) Groovy
6 6 (6.45%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.38%) Perl
7 5 (5.38%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.23%) Bash
10 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.15%) R
10 2 (2.15%) Ruby
11 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 30 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 23 (24.73%) Degree
4 14 (15.05%) AWS Certification
5 11 (11.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (10.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (10.75%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.15%) MCSE
7 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) Data Quality
1 5 (5.38%) QA
2 4 (4.30%) GDPR
3 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.15%) NCSC
4 2 (2.15%) NIST
4 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (48.39%) Docker
2 15 (16.13%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.83%) Postfix
4 9 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (8.60%) BitLocker
5 8 (8.60%) Hyper-V
5 8 (8.60%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (8.60%) Terminal Services
5 8 (8.60%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.30%) DFS Replication
7 3 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (2.15%) Dovecot
8 2 (2.15%) Squid
9 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (30.11%) Terraform
2 23 (24.73%) Kubernetes
3 21 (22.58%) Grafana
3 21 (22.58%) Prometheus
4 15 (16.13%) Ansible
5 10 (10.75%) Puppet
6 8 (8.60%) Nagios
6 8 (8.60%) vCenter Server
6 8 (8.60%) vMotion
7 3 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (2.15%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.15%) Nessus
9 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.05%) Oracle
3 11 (11.83%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (10.75%) Atlassian
5 9 (9.68%) Google
5 9 (9.68%) VMware
6 8 (8.60%) Citrix
6 8 (8.60%) HP
6 8 (8.60%) Symantec
7 7 (7.53%) IBM
8 6 (6.45%) ServiceNow
9 4 (4.30%) Informatica
10 3 (3.23%) Splunk
10 3 (3.23%) Teradata
11 2 (2.15%) MuleSoft
12 1 (1.08%) Databricks
12 1 (1.08%) New Relic
12 1 (1.08%) TSYS
12 1 (1.08%) UiPath
12 1 (1.08%) Veracode