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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 293 342
Rank change year-on-year -98 +49 -20
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 244 252 241
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.86% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.36% 4.51% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 185 179
10th Percentile £399 £422 £400
25th Percentile £419 £471 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £577 £611 £575
90th Percentile £691 £653 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £531 £498
% change year-on-year -10.55% +6.73% -13.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £71.90 - -
25th Percentile £73.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 7,253 5,585 7,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 19.01% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,891 3,830 5,236
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £475
% change year-on-year -1.86% +1.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 98 148
10th Percentile £15.94 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.59 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -15.49% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.81 £65.62 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.63 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.55% -20.90% -28.19%

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 18 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

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 18 May 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 -80 210 £500 -9.26% 94
London -64 118 £505 -12.55% 30
UK excluding London -70 100 £475 -10.55% 67
Work from Home -70 65 £500 -13.79% 221
Midlands -27 51 £475 -5.00% 4
West Midlands -27 44 £472 -10.10% 4
North of England -63 21 £425 -15.00% 20
South East -65 11 £530 -7.83% 16
South West -22 9 £591 +1.16% 21
North West -36 8 £445 -2.41% 12
Yorkshire -54 8 £400 -20.00% 5
East Midlands -21 7 £519 +66.88%
Scotland -16 5 £392 -20.75% 1
North East - 5 £425 - 3
East of England -31 2 - - 3
Wales - 2 £488 - 1

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 (11.07%) Confluence
2 7 (2.87%) SAS
3 5 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 241 (98.77%) AWS
2 158 (64.75%) Amazon S3
3 131 (53.69%) AWS Lambda
3 131 (53.69%) Serverless
4 124 (50.82%) Amazon EC2
5 81 (33.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 62 (25.41%) Amazon ECS
7 59 (24.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 57 (23.36%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (20.08%) GitHub
10 45 (18.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (15.16%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (14.75%) Azure
12 36 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (11.48%) Route 53
14 26 (10.66%) AWS KMS
15 19 (7.79%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (6.56%) AWS CodePipeline
16 16 (6.56%) Power Platform
17 15 (6.15%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.69%) DNS
2 5 (2.05%) Firewall
2 5 (2.05%) Network Security
2 5 (2.05%) VPN
3 3 (1.23%) DHCP
3 3 (1.23%) HTTP
3 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.82%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.82%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.41%) AMQP
5 1 (0.41%) Internet
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
5 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.41%) SMTP
5 1 (0.41%) SSL
5 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (28.28%) DynamoDB
2 62 (25.41%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (20.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 29 (11.89%) MySQL
5 18 (7.38%) SQL Server
6 17 (6.97%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (6.56%) Power BI
8 15 (6.15%) NoSQL
9 14 (5.74%) MongoDB
9 14 (5.74%) Pentaho
10 11 (4.51%) Redis
10 11 (4.51%) Relational Database
11 10 (4.10%) Data Lake
12 8 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (3.28%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.28%) Tableau
13 7 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (2.46%) Big Data
14 6 (2.46%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 78 (31.97%) Jenkins
2 57 (23.36%) Git
3 40 (16.39%) GitLab
4 31 (12.70%) JIRA
5 23 (9.43%) JUnit
6 18 (7.38%) Maven
6 18 (7.38%) Mockito
7 16 (6.56%) SonarQube
8 11 (4.51%) DbUnit
8 11 (4.51%) jMock
9 9 (3.69%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.05%) Claude Code
10 5 (2.05%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.05%) git-flow
10 5 (2.05%) Postman
10 5 (2.05%) Snyk
11 4 (1.64%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (1.23%) Flyway
12 3 (1.23%) Gradle
13 2 (0.82%) Artifactory
General
1 58 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.72%) Public Sector
3 28 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.43%) Finance
5 10 (4.10%) Banking
5 10 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.28%) Legal
7 4 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.82%) Front Office
9 2 (0.82%) Local Government
10 1 (0.41%) Billing
10 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.41%) Marketing
10 1 (0.41%) Military
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (20.08%) Developer
2 42 (17.21%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (15.57%) Senior
4 28 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (10.25%) DBA
5 25 (10.25%) Java Developer
6 23 (9.43%) Data Engineer
7 22 (9.02%) Architect
8 19 (7.79%) Software Engineer
9 17 (6.97%) AWS Architect
10 16 (6.56%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (5.74%) AWS Developer
11 14 (5.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (5.33%) Lead
13 12 (4.92%) Oracle DBA
13 12 (4.92%) Site Engineer
13 12 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (4.51%) Analyst
14 11 (4.51%) Senior Developer
15 10 (4.10%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.21%) Spring
1 42 (17.21%) Spring Boot
2 36 (14.75%) RESTful
3 35 (14.34%) REST
4 34 (13.93%) Node.js
5 31 (12.70%) Kafka
5 31 (12.70%) React
6 23 (9.43%) AngularJS
7 19 (7.79%) Hibernate
7 19 (7.79%) JPA
7 19 (7.79%) Spring Cloud
8 18 (7.38%) SOAP
9 17 (6.97%) AWS CDK
10 15 (6.15%) ActiveMQ
10 15 (6.15%) Web Services
11 14 (5.74%) Spring Batch
11 14 (5.74%) Spring Integration
12 12 (4.92%) Django
12 12 (4.92%) GraphQL
13 11 (4.51%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 60 (24.59%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.25%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.79%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.92%) Replication
5 7 (2.87%) NHS
6 5 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.64%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.23%) Clustering
8 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.82%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.82%) Derivative
9 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Life Science
10 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 50 (20.49%) Linux
2 8 (3.28%) Unix
3 6 (2.46%) Windows
4 4 (1.64%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (60.25%) CI/CD
2 109 (44.67%) Agile
3 101 (41.39%) DevOps
4 86 (35.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (26.23%) Containerisation
6 56 (22.95%) Microservices
7 41 (16.80%) Scrum
8 39 (15.98%) Observability
8 39 (15.98%) Software Engineering
9 35 (14.34%) Performance Tuning
10 34 (13.93%) Event-Driven
11 32 (13.11%) ETL
12 30 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (12.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (11.89%) Migration
13 29 (11.89%) TDD
14 27 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (11.07%) High Availability
15 26 (10.66%) Data Modelling
15 26 (10.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 93 (38.11%) SQL
2 86 (35.25%) Python
3 75 (30.74%) Java
4 20 (8.20%) Bash
5 17 (6.97%) Shell Script
6 16 (6.56%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.56%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.15%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.51%) C#
9 10 (4.10%) Groovy
10 8 (3.28%) Go
11 7 (2.87%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.46%) Scala
13 5 (2.05%) Perl
14 3 (1.23%) Ruby
14 3 (1.23%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 111 (45.49%) Security Cleared
2 91 (37.30%) SC Cleared
3 32 (13.11%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.15%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.10%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.69%) Degree
8 7 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.23%) OCP
10 3 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.23%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.82%) PMP
11 2 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.41%) CISSP
12 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.51%) QA
2 10 (4.10%) NIST
3 9 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.69%) GDPR
3 9 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.69%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.87%) PMO
5 3 (1.23%) SLA
6 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.82%) NCSC
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.41%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (40.57%) Docker
2 10 (4.10%) Postfix
3 4 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.82%) HDFS
5 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 110 (45.08%) Terraform
2 62 (25.41%) Kubernetes
3 55 (22.54%) Grafana
4 33 (13.52%) Prometheus
5 19 (7.79%) Ansible
6 11 (4.51%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.28%) Data Guard
8 6 (2.46%) Argo
8 6 (2.46%) Puppet
9 4 (1.64%) Kibana
9 4 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.64%) Rancher
10 3 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.23%) Foglight
10 3 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.82%) Istio
11 2 (0.82%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.82%) systemd
12 1 (0.41%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.41%) vMotion
Vendors
1 34 (13.93%) Oracle
2 21 (8.61%) ServiceNow
3 14 (5.74%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (5.33%) Informatica
4 13 (5.33%) Microsoft
5 12 (4.92%) Atlassian
6 11 (4.51%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.69%) Talend
8 7 (2.87%) Databricks
8 7 (2.87%) Denodo
9 6 (2.46%) Splunk
10 5 (2.05%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.05%) Sybase
11 4 (1.64%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.64%) Brio
11 4 (1.64%) Qualys
11 4 (1.64%) Tenable
12 3 (1.23%) PagerDuty
13 2 (0.82%) Blue Prism
13 2 (0.82%) Cloudera