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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 282 360
Rank change year-on-year -119 +78 -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 279 301 218
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.92% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.42% 5.06% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 218 145
10th Percentile £400 £425 £409
25th Percentile £430 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% -5.98%
75th Percentile £647 £600 £600
90th Percentile £787 £650 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -8.10% -1.38% -10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £70.60 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £74.13 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
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 8,169 5,949 7,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.25% 18.15% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,449 3,991 4,958
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £605 £625 £650
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 253 96 100
10th Percentile £15.79 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £19.90
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% +1.52% -37.34%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.34% +6.83% -40.00%

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 21 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 21 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 -124 227 £525 -3.23% 46
London -83 138 £550 -8.33% 17
Work from Home -89 92 £525 -5.41% 30
UK excluding London -118 92 £460 -8.10% 37
Midlands -56 32 £464 -2.32% 6
North of England -62 32 £463 -7.50% 12
West Midlands -60 26 £464 -2.32% 4
Yorkshire -29 18 £500 - 4
Scotland -24 9 £425 -13.98%
South West -49 9 £538 -7.92% 7
North East -30 7 £425 -5.56% 2
North West -46 7 £525 -6.67% 6
South East -75 7 £460 -20.00% 11
East Midlands -17 5 £449 +18.16% 2
East of England -20 4 £348 -36.82% 4
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 21 (7.53%) Confluence
2 13 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.58%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.51%) Apache
4 7 (2.51%) SAS
4 7 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.72%) Camunda
7 2 (0.72%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 268 (96.06%) AWS
2 175 (62.72%) Amazon S3
3 157 (56.27%) AWS Lambda
4 156 (55.91%) Serverless
5 111 (39.78%) Amazon EC2
6 104 (37.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 74 (26.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 67 (24.01%) Amazon ECS
9 66 (23.66%) Amazon EKS
10 52 (18.64%) GitHub
11 51 (18.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 50 (17.92%) Azure
13 43 (15.41%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (12.54%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (11.47%) AWS KMS
16 27 (9.68%) Route 53
17 25 (8.96%) AWS Step Functions
18 22 (7.89%) Amazon EventBridge
19 18 (6.45%) GCP
20 17 (6.09%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.38%) Firewall
2 9 (3.23%) DNS
3 7 (2.51%) DHCP
3 7 (2.51%) VPN
4 6 (2.15%) Network Security
5 4 (1.43%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.43%) SMTP
5 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.72%) HTTP
6 2 (0.72%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.72%) SSL
7 1 (0.36%) AMQP
7 1 (0.36%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (27.24%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (25.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 63 (22.58%) DynamoDB
4 35 (12.54%) MySQL
5 25 (8.96%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (8.24%) SQL Server
7 22 (7.89%) MongoDB
8 20 (7.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (6.09%) Data Lake
11 15 (5.38%) Redis
12 13 (4.66%) Big Data
12 13 (4.66%) Power BI
13 12 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (3.23%) Pentaho
15 8 (2.87%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.87%) NoSQL
16 7 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (2.51%) Relational Database
17 6 (2.15%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 85 (30.47%) Jenkins
2 54 (19.35%) Git
3 45 (16.13%) GitLab
4 31 (11.11%) JIRA
5 18 (6.45%) JUnit
6 17 (6.09%) Mockito
7 15 (5.38%) Maven
8 14 (5.02%) SonarQube
9 12 (4.30%) Bitbucket
10 10 (3.58%) Claude Code
11 8 (2.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (2.87%) DbUnit
12 7 (2.51%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.51%) jMock
13 6 (2.15%) Postman
13 6 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.79%) Cucumber
15 4 (1.43%) Cypress.io
16 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
16 3 (1.08%) Gradle
General
1 82 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 67 (24.01%) Public Sector
3 33 (11.83%) Finance
4 26 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.89%) Banking
6 7 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.15%) Front Office
7 6 (2.15%) Legal
8 5 (1.79%) Back Office
9 3 (1.08%) Billing
9 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.72%) Law
10 2 (0.72%) Local Government
10 2 (0.72%) Marketing
10 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (22.94%) AWS Engineer
2 50 (17.92%) Senior
3 45 (16.13%) Architect
4 41 (14.70%) Developer
5 39 (13.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (12.90%) Data Engineer
7 28 (10.04%) AWS Architect
7 28 (10.04%) DBA
8 23 (8.24%) AWS DevOps
9 20 (7.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 20 (7.17%) Lead
10 19 (6.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 19 (6.81%) Java Developer
11 17 (6.09%) Technical Architect
12 15 (5.38%) Administrator
13 14 (5.02%) AWS Data Engineer
14 13 (4.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 13 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.94%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (3.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (48.03%) Terraform
2 39 (13.98%) React
2 39 (13.98%) REST
3 37 (13.26%) Node.js
4 36 (12.90%) RESTful
5 34 (12.19%) Spring
5 34 (12.19%) Spring Boot
6 26 (9.32%) AngularJS
7 24 (8.60%) AWS CDK
8 20 (7.17%) .NET
9 19 (6.81%) Kafka
10 16 (5.73%) SOAP
11 14 (5.02%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (5.02%) FastAPI
12 13 (4.66%) GraphQL
13 11 (3.94%) Django
13 11 (3.94%) Hibernate
13 11 (3.94%) Spring Batch
13 11 (3.94%) Spring Integration
13 11 (3.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (24.01%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.04%) Product Ownership
3 26 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (7.89%) Replication
5 10 (3.58%) NHS
6 9 (3.23%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.87%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.51%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.51%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.79%) Clustering
10 5 (1.79%) PKI
11 4 (1.43%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.08%) PropTech
12 3 (1.08%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.56%) Linux
2 20 (7.17%) Windows
3 13 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.51%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (2.15%) Unix
7 4 (1.43%) AIX
8 3 (1.08%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.36%) CentOS
9 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (63.80%) CI/CD
2 128 (45.88%) DevOps
3 120 (43.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (41.22%) Agile
5 73 (26.16%) Microservices
6 55 (19.71%) Containerisation
7 51 (18.28%) Data Modelling
8 49 (17.56%) Observability
9 46 (16.49%) Performance Tuning
10 45 (16.13%) High Availability
11 44 (15.77%) Software Engineering
12 42 (15.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (14.70%) Data Pipeline
13 41 (14.70%) Event-Driven
13 41 (14.70%) Migration
14 39 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (12.54%) Scrum
16 34 (12.19%) Technical Leadership
17 32 (11.47%) AI
17 32 (11.47%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 121 (43.37%) Python
2 78 (27.96%) SQL
3 74 (26.52%) Java
4 39 (13.98%) TypeScript
5 28 (10.04%) Bash
6 24 (8.60%) JavaScript
7 22 (7.89%) PowerShell
8 18 (6.45%) C#
9 15 (5.38%) Groovy
10 10 (3.58%) Scala
10 10 (3.58%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.51%) Perl
12 3 (1.08%) Go
12 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.72%) Ruby
14 1 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 111 (39.78%) Security Cleared
2 88 (31.54%) SC Cleared
3 46 (16.49%) AWS Certification
4 31 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (8.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (5.73%) Degree
7 12 (4.30%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.87%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.79%) CISM
11 5 (1.79%) CISSP
12 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.72%) PMP
14 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.15%) NIST
2 6 (2.15%) QA
3 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.08%) GDPR
4 3 (1.08%) HL7
4 3 (1.08%) NCSC
4 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.08%) PMO
4 3 (1.08%) SLA
5 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.72%) WCAG
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 91 (32.62%) Docker
2 14 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.15%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.15%) Postfix
4 5 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.43%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.43%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 73 (26.16%) Kubernetes
2 55 (19.71%) Grafana
3 39 (13.98%) Prometheus
4 25 (8.96%) Ansible
5 9 (3.23%) Istio
5 9 (3.23%) Kibana
6 8 (2.87%) Argo
7 5 (1.79%) Puppet
8 4 (1.43%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.43%) vMotion
9 3 (1.08%) Nagios
9 3 (1.08%) Packer
9 3 (1.08%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.08%) Rancher
10 2 (0.72%) Consul
10 2 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.72%) Foglight
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.72%) Sysdig
10 2 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.17%) Oracle
3 19 (6.81%) ServiceNow
4 15 (5.38%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.94%) Informatica
6 10 (3.58%) Databricks
6 10 (3.58%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (3.58%) VMware
7 9 (3.23%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.51%) Denodo
8 7 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.51%) Splunk
9 6 (2.15%) Google
9 6 (2.15%) Talend
10 5 (1.79%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.79%) Citrix
11 4 (1.43%) Cisco
11 4 (1.43%) HP
11 4 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.43%) Symantec