Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 282 347
Rank change year-on-year -111 +65 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 288 296 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.90% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.53% 4.95% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 217 147
10th Percentile £400 £423 £409
25th Percentile £429 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £543 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +1.40% -6.96%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £766 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -7.50% -1.38% -11.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £80.25 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £85.63 -
90th Percentile - £86.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 - -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,149 5,974 7,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.12% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,434 4,031 4,977
10th Percentile £357 £343 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 93 102
10th Percentile £15.94 £20.88 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.32 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +1.55% -34.35%
75th Percentile £60.94 £62.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.46 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -38.77%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Amazon RDS
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
England -103 238 £500 -6.28% 157
London -64 141 £535 -7.36% 93
UK excluding London -106 104 £463 -7.50% 84
Work from Home -71 96 £513 -7.66% 82
Midlands -43 45 £472 -0.63% 12
West Midlands -41 38 £469 -1.26% 8
North of England -60 31 £456 -16.05% 27
Yorkshire -30 18 £500 - 7
Scotland -14 9 £425 -13.98% 8
South West -43 8 £542 -7.19% 13
South East -77 8 £440 -23.57% 13
North West -52 7 £525 -4.63% 13
East Midlands -5 6 £498 +31.05% 4
North East -37 6 £425 -5.56% 7
East of England -24 4 £348 -36.82% 9
Wales - 1 £550 - 3

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 27 (9.38%) Confluence
2 8 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.43%) SAS
3 7 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.74%) Apache
6 3 (1.04%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 277 (96.18%) AWS
2 186 (64.58%) Amazon S3
3 158 (54.86%) AWS Lambda
4 157 (54.51%) Serverless
5 125 (43.40%) Amazon EC2
6 116 (40.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 85 (29.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 67 (23.26%) Amazon ECS
9 64 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (18.40%) Azure
11 52 (18.06%) GitHub
12 47 (16.32%) Amazon SQS
12 47 (16.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 41 (14.24%) AWS KMS
14 35 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (10.07%) Route 53
16 24 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
17 22 (7.64%) Amazon EventBridge
18 19 (6.60%) Power Platform
19 18 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.86%) Firewall
2 9 (3.13%) DNS
3 7 (2.43%) DHCP
3 7 (2.43%) VPN
4 6 (2.08%) Network Security
5 4 (1.39%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.39%) SMTP
5 4 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.69%) HTTP
6 2 (0.69%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.69%) SSL
7 1 (0.35%) AMQP
7 1 (0.35%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (26.39%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (23.96%) Amazon Aurora
3 64 (22.22%) DynamoDB
4 33 (11.46%) MySQL
5 24 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (6.94%) SQL Server
7 19 (6.60%) Power BI
8 18 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (6.25%) MongoDB
9 15 (5.21%) Data Lake
9 15 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (4.86%) Redis
11 13 (4.51%) Big Data
12 11 (3.82%) Pentaho
13 10 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (3.13%) Tableau
15 8 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.78%) NoSQL
16 7 (2.43%) Relational Database
17 6 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 90 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 66 (22.92%) Git
3 42 (14.58%) GitLab
4 36 (12.50%) JIRA
5 24 (8.33%) JUnit
6 22 (7.64%) Mockito
7 20 (6.94%) Maven
8 19 (6.60%) SonarQube
9 12 (4.17%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.82%) Bitbucket
10 11 (3.82%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (3.82%) jMock
11 10 (3.47%) Claude Code
12 7 (2.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.08%) Postman
13 6 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.39%) Flyway
15 3 (1.04%) Gradle
General
1 85 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 76 (26.39%) Public Sector
3 38 (13.19%) Finance
4 30 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.64%) Banking
6 9 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.43%) Legal
8 6 (2.08%) Front Office
9 5 (1.74%) Back Office
9 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Law
11 2 (0.69%) Local Government
11 2 (0.69%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (21.53%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (17.71%) Senior
3 45 (15.63%) Developer
4 42 (14.58%) Architect
5 36 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 35 (12.15%) Data Engineer
7 28 (9.72%) DBA
8 27 (9.38%) AWS Architect
8 27 (9.38%) Java Developer
9 23 (7.99%) AWS DevOps
10 21 (7.29%) Lead
11 20 (6.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 18 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (5.90%) Technical Architect
14 14 (4.86%) Administrator
15 13 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
16 12 (4.17%) Senior Developer
17 11 (3.82%) Software Engineer
17 11 (3.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.28%) REST
2 41 (14.24%) RESTful
3 40 (13.89%) Node.js
4 39 (13.54%) Spring
4 39 (13.54%) Spring Boot
5 38 (13.19%) React
6 31 (10.76%) AngularJS
7 25 (8.68%) AWS CDK
8 22 (7.64%) Kafka
9 21 (7.29%) SOAP
10 19 (6.60%) .NET
10 19 (6.60%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (5.56%) Hibernate
11 16 (5.56%) JPA
11 16 (5.56%) Spring Batch
11 16 (5.56%) Spring Integration
11 16 (5.56%) Web Services
12 14 (4.86%) FastAPI
12 14 (4.86%) GraphQL
12 14 (4.86%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (9.03%) Product Ownership
4 20 (6.94%) Replication
5 9 (3.13%) NHS
6 8 (2.78%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.78%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.43%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.43%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.74%) Clustering
9 5 (1.74%) PKI
10 4 (1.39%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.04%) Derivative
11 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.04%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.40%) Linux
2 21 (7.29%) Windows
3 14 (4.86%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.43%) Unix
6 6 (2.08%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.39%) AIX
8 3 (1.04%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (59.03%) CI/CD
2 125 (43.40%) Agile
3 123 (42.71%) DevOps
4 107 (37.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (27.43%) Microservices
6 56 (19.44%) Containerisation
7 50 (17.36%) Data Modelling
8 48 (16.67%) Observability
9 46 (15.97%) Performance Tuning
10 43 (14.93%) High Availability
10 43 (14.93%) Migration
11 42 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (14.24%) Event-Driven
13 39 (13.54%) Scrum
13 39 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (13.19%) Data Pipeline
14 38 (13.19%) ETL
14 38 (13.19%) Software Engineering
15 33 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (10.07%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 115 (39.93%) Python
2 89 (30.90%) SQL
3 78 (27.08%) Java
4 37 (12.85%) TypeScript
5 30 (10.42%) Bash
6 22 (7.64%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.64%) PowerShell
7 17 (5.90%) C#
8 14 (4.86%) Groovy
9 10 (3.47%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.13%) Scala
11 6 (2.08%) Perl
12 4 (1.39%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.04%) Go
14 2 (0.69%) Ruby
15 1 (0.35%) Bicep
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (42.71%) Security Cleared
2 103 (35.76%) SC Cleared
3 43 (14.93%) AWS Certification
4 27 (9.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (7.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (5.90%) Degree
7 10 (3.47%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.78%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.69%) CISM
11 2 (0.69%) CISSP
11 2 (0.69%) PMP
12 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.94%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.43%) PMO
3 6 (2.08%) QA
4 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.39%) NIST
4 4 (1.39%) SLA
5 3 (1.04%) GDPR
5 3 (1.04%) HL7
5 3 (1.04%) NCSC
5 3 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.69%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 91 (31.60%) Docker
2 13 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.13%) Postfix
4 6 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.39%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.39%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.39%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 121 (42.01%) Terraform
2 71 (24.65%) Kubernetes
3 59 (20.49%) Grafana
4 38 (13.19%) Prometheus
5 23 (7.99%) Ansible
6 9 (3.13%) Kibana
7 8 (2.78%) Argo
8 7 (2.43%) Istio
9 5 (1.74%) Puppet
10 4 (1.39%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.39%) vMotion
11 3 (1.04%) Foglight
11 3 (1.04%) Nagios
11 3 (1.04%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.04%) Rancher
12 2 (0.69%) Consul
12 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.69%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (9.72%) ServiceNow
2 24 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.29%) Oracle
4 15 (5.21%) Dynatrace
4 15 (5.21%) Jaspersoft
5 13 (4.51%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.82%) Informatica
7 10 (3.47%) VMware
8 9 (3.13%) Databricks
9 7 (2.43%) Denodo
9 7 (2.43%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.43%) Splunk
10 6 (2.08%) Talend
11 5 (1.74%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.74%) Citrix
11 5 (1.74%) Google
12 4 (1.39%) Cisco
12 4 (1.39%) HP
12 4 (1.39%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.39%) Symantec