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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 288 355
Rank change year-on-year -110 +67 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 281 296 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.90% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.41% 4.93% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 218 148
10th Percentile £400 £419 £409
25th Percentile £430 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £541 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +1.64% -7.39%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £774 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -6.20% -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 8,233 6,002 7,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.36% 18.25% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,480 4,057 4,971
10th Percentile £356 £344 £350
25th Percentile £418 £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 £656
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 255 91 100
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.59 £14.93
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%
75th Percentile £60.75 £62.88 £58.11
90th Percentile £76.30 £78.70 £71.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -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 8 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 8 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 -105 231 £500 -6.28% 102
London -70 134 £535 -7.76% 49
UK excluding London -102 104 £469 -6.20% 67
Work from Home -85 94 £519 -6.53% 62
Midlands -43 44 £475 - 9
West Midlands -47 38 £469 -1.26% 8
North of England -69 30 £463 -14.90% 23
Yorkshire -27 18 £500 - 6
Scotland -16 9 £425 -13.98% 5
South West -45 9 £538 -7.92% 9
South East -71 9 £440 -23.57% 12
North East -38 6 £425 -5.56% 5
North West -52 6 £600 +8.99% 12
East Midlands -10 5 £519 +36.58% 1
East of England -22 4 £348 -36.82% 6
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 26 (9.25%) Confluence
2 8 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.85%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.49%) SAS
3 7 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.78%) Apache
6 3 (1.07%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 271 (96.44%) AWS
2 184 (65.48%) Amazon S3
3 157 (55.87%) AWS Lambda
4 156 (55.52%) Serverless
5 124 (44.13%) Amazon EC2
6 109 (38.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 80 (28.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 66 (23.49%) Amazon ECS
8 66 (23.49%) Amazon EKS
9 56 (19.93%) GitHub
10 52 (18.51%) Azure
11 48 (17.08%) Amazon SQS
12 43 (15.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (13.17%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (12.81%) AWS KMS
15 30 (10.68%) Route 53
16 24 (8.54%) AWS Step Functions
17 22 (7.83%) Amazon EventBridge
18 19 (6.76%) Power Platform
19 18 (6.41%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.63%) Firewall
2 9 (3.20%) DNS
3 7 (2.49%) DHCP
3 7 (2.49%) VPN
4 6 (2.14%) Network Security
5 4 (1.42%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.42%) SMTP
5 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.71%) HTTP
6 2 (0.71%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.71%) SSL
7 1 (0.36%) AMQP
7 1 (0.36%) IPsec
7 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (25.62%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (24.20%) DynamoDB
3 62 (22.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 29 (10.32%) MySQL
5 25 (8.90%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (6.76%) Power BI
7 18 (6.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (6.05%) SQL Server
9 15 (5.34%) Data Lake
9 15 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (4.98%) MongoDB
11 13 (4.63%) Big Data
12 11 (3.91%) Pentaho
13 10 (3.56%) Redis
13 10 (3.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (3.20%) Tableau
15 8 (2.85%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.85%) NoSQL
15 8 (2.85%) Relational Database
16 6 (2.14%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 86 (30.60%) Jenkins
2 66 (23.49%) Git
3 41 (14.59%) GitLab
4 35 (12.46%) JIRA
5 25 (8.90%) JUnit
6 23 (8.19%) Mockito
7 21 (7.47%) Maven
8 19 (6.76%) SonarQube
9 12 (4.27%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.91%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (3.91%) jMock
11 10 (3.56%) Claude Code
12 9 (3.20%) Bitbucket
13 7 (2.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (2.14%) Postman
14 6 (2.14%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (1.42%) Cucumber
15 4 (1.42%) Cypress.io
15 4 (1.42%) Flyway
16 3 (1.07%) Gradle
General
1 79 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 69 (24.56%) Public Sector
3 37 (13.17%) Finance
4 30 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.83%) Banking
6 9 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.85%) Legal
8 7 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.14%) Front Office
10 5 (1.78%) Back Office
10 5 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Law
12 2 (0.71%) Local Government
12 2 (0.71%) Marketing
13 1 (0.36%) Games
13 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (22.06%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (17.08%) Senior
3 46 (16.37%) Developer
4 43 (15.30%) Architect
5 34 (12.10%) Data Engineer
6 33 (11.74%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (9.96%) AWS Architect
7 28 (9.96%) Java Developer
8 22 (7.83%) AWS DevOps
8 22 (7.83%) Lead
9 21 (7.47%) DBA
10 19 (6.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (6.05%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (6.05%) Technical Architect
12 14 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.27%) Senior Developer
14 11 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 11 (3.91%) AWS Data Engineer
14 11 (3.91%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.91%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (16.01%) REST
2 41 (14.59%) RESTful
3 40 (14.23%) Node.js
3 40 (14.23%) Spring
3 40 (14.23%) Spring Boot
4 38 (13.52%) React
5 31 (11.03%) AngularJS
6 26 (9.25%) AWS CDK
7 22 (7.83%) Kafka
7 22 (7.83%) SOAP
8 20 (7.12%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (6.76%) .NET
10 17 (6.05%) Hibernate
10 17 (6.05%) JPA
10 17 (6.05%) Web Services
11 16 (5.69%) Spring Batch
11 16 (5.69%) Spring Integration
12 15 (5.34%) Spring Cloud
13 14 (4.98%) FastAPI
13 14 (4.98%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (23.49%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (9.25%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.34%) Replication
5 9 (3.20%) NHS
6 8 (2.85%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.85%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.49%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.14%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.14%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.78%) Clustering
9 5 (1.78%) PKI
10 4 (1.42%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.07%) Derivative
11 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.07%) Equities
11 3 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.07%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.86%) Linux
2 21 (7.47%) Windows
3 14 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.20%) Unix
5 5 (1.78%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.42%) AIX
7 3 (1.07%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (59.43%) CI/CD
2 126 (44.84%) Agile
3 119 (42.35%) DevOps
4 103 (36.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (28.11%) Microservices
6 58 (20.64%) Containerisation
7 48 (17.08%) Observability
8 45 (16.01%) Data Modelling
9 41 (14.59%) Event-Driven
9 41 (14.59%) Migration
9 41 (14.59%) Scrum
10 40 (14.23%) Performance Tuning
11 39 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (13.52%) Data Pipeline
12 38 (13.52%) ETL
13 37 (13.17%) Software Engineering
14 35 (12.46%) High Availability
14 35 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
16 30 (10.68%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 115 (40.93%) Python
2 84 (29.89%) SQL
3 76 (27.05%) Java
4 37 (13.17%) TypeScript
5 31 (11.03%) Bash
6 23 (8.19%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.47%) PowerShell
8 17 (6.05%) C#
9 13 (4.63%) Groovy
10 11 (3.91%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.85%) Scala
12 5 (1.78%) Perl
13 4 (1.42%) Go
13 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.71%) Ruby
15 1 (0.36%) Bicep
15 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 114 (40.57%) Security Cleared
2 95 (33.81%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.23%) AWS Certification
4 24 (8.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (6.05%) Degree
7 10 (3.56%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.49%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.07%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.71%) CISM
12 2 (0.71%) CISSP
12 2 (0.71%) PMP
13 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.05%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.49%) PMO
3 6 (2.14%) QA
4 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.42%) NIST
4 4 (1.42%) SLA
5 3 (1.07%) GDPR
5 3 (1.07%) HL7
5 3 (1.07%) NCSC
5 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 91 (32.38%) Docker
2 12 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.20%) Postfix
4 6 (2.14%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.42%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.42%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.42%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 118 (41.99%) Terraform
2 71 (25.27%) Kubernetes
3 56 (19.93%) Grafana
4 36 (12.81%) Prometheus
5 23 (8.19%) Ansible
6 9 (3.20%) Argo
7 7 (2.49%) Istio
7 7 (2.49%) Kibana
8 5 (1.78%) Puppet
9 4 (1.42%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.42%) vMotion
10 3 (1.07%) Foglight
10 3 (1.07%) Nagios
10 3 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.07%) Rancher
11 2 (0.71%) Consul
11 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.71%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (9.61%) ServiceNow
2 24 (8.54%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.47%) Oracle
4 15 (5.34%) Dynatrace
4 15 (5.34%) Jaspersoft
5 13 (4.63%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.91%) Informatica
7 10 (3.56%) VMware
8 9 (3.20%) Databricks
9 7 (2.49%) Denodo
9 7 (2.49%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.49%) Splunk
10 6 (2.14%) Talend
11 5 (1.78%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.78%) Citrix
11 5 (1.78%) Google
12 4 (1.42%) Cisco
12 4 (1.42%) HP
12 4 (1.42%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.42%) Symantec