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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 314 356
Rank change year-on-year -9 +42 -30
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 287 235 258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.75% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.47% 4.04% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 149 190
10th Percentile £365 £425 £405
25th Percentile £413 £471 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £579 £625 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £530
% change year-on-year +0.40% -6.04% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.88 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £89.38 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 6,417 5,811 7,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.56% 18.48% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,415 3,820 5,197
10th Percentile £335 £356 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 89 183
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.91
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.75 £21.00
Median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -17.65% -27.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.55 £77.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £29.80 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.56% -25.50% -28.48%

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 31 January 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 31 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Top 17 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 31 January 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 -12 225 £525 -4.55% 69
London -47 118 £513 -8.07% 35
UK excluding London -2 117 £500 +0.40% 48
Work from Home -29 82 £575 +8.49% 38
Midlands -22 35 £500 -5.57% 7
North of England -27 34 £500 -4.76% 12
West Midlands -24 31 £525 -0.76% 7
North West -14 18 £450 +20.00% 5
South East -12 17 £475 +11.76% 15
Scotland -4 12 £358 -24.95% 1
South West -11 12 £606 +7.66% 8
Yorkshire -37 12 £509 -13.40% 7
East of England -13 4 £538 +8.86% 2
North East -15 4 £500 -
East Midlands -19 4 £375 -34.78%
Wales -2 2 £488 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 19 (6.62%) Confluence
2 7 (2.44%) nginx
3 6 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (2.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 287 (100.00%) AWS
2 182 (63.41%) Amazon S3
3 169 (58.89%) Serverless
4 168 (58.54%) AWS Lambda
5 164 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
6 113 (39.37%) Amazon ECS
7 102 (35.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 99 (34.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 95 (33.10%) Amazon EKS
10 84 (29.27%) GitHub
11 79 (27.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 62 (21.60%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (14.98%) Azure
13 43 (14.98%) Route 53
14 27 (9.41%) Amazon Kinesis
14 27 (9.41%) AWS Fargate
15 25 (8.71%) AWS Step Functions
16 23 (8.01%) Datadog
17 21 (7.32%) Amazon MSK
18 17 (5.92%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.10%) Firewall
2 24 (8.36%) DNS
3 12 (4.18%) HTTP
4 10 (3.48%) FTP
4 10 (3.48%) SMTP
4 10 (3.48%) SSH
5 8 (2.79%) VPN
6 7 (2.44%) IMAP
6 7 (2.44%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (1.39%) Network Security
8 3 (1.05%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.35%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) LAN
9 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (25.09%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (18.82%) DynamoDB
3 46 (16.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 43 (14.98%) MySQL
5 30 (10.45%) NoSQL
6 29 (10.10%) Relational Database
7 25 (8.71%) MongoDB
8 24 (8.36%) SQL Server
9 23 (8.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (5.57%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (5.57%) Redis
11 11 (3.83%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (3.83%) Hadoop
11 11 (3.83%) RDBMS
12 10 (3.48%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.79%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (2.09%) BigQuery
15 6 (2.09%) Couchbase
15 6 (2.09%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 124 (43.21%) Jenkins
2 75 (26.13%) Git
3 73 (25.44%) GitLab
4 33 (11.50%) JIRA
5 13 (4.53%) Bitbucket
5 13 (4.53%) Maven
6 12 (4.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (3.48%) Vagrant
8 8 (2.79%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.79%) Gradle
8 8 (2.79%) JUnit
9 7 (2.44%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.74%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.39%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (1.39%) Snyk
11 4 (1.39%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.05%) git-flow
13 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.70%) Gatling
General
1 74 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.63%) Finance
3 36 (12.54%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.92%) Banking
5 16 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.39%) Legal
9 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Military
10 2 (0.70%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Marketing
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (24.04%) AWS Engineer
2 63 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (13.94%) Senior
4 36 (12.54%) AWS DevOps
4 36 (12.54%) Developer
5 32 (11.15%) Platform Engineer
6 30 (10.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 28 (9.76%) Architect
8 25 (8.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 25 (8.71%) Software Engineer
9 22 (7.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 21 (7.32%) Data Engineer
10 21 (7.32%) Site Engineer
11 20 (6.97%) Lead
11 20 (6.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 19 (6.62%) DBA
13 14 (4.88%) AWS Architect
14 13 (4.53%) AWS Developer
14 13 (4.53%) Java Engineer
14 13 (4.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.42%) Kafka
2 32 (11.15%) RESTful
3 31 (10.80%) Spring Boot
4 30 (10.45%) Node.js
5 27 (9.41%) React
5 27 (9.41%) Spring
6 21 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (5.23%) AWS CDK
7 15 (5.23%) REST
8 11 (3.83%) CSS
9 10 (3.48%) FastAPI
10 9 (3.14%) Jest
10 9 (3.14%) Next.js
11 8 (2.79%) .NET
11 8 (2.79%) Flask
11 8 (2.79%) GraphQL
11 8 (2.79%) Keycloak
11 8 (2.79%) LDAP
11 8 (2.79%) PySpark
12 7 (2.44%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.77%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.45%) Replication
3 22 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.14%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.74%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.39%) Clustering
9 4 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.39%) NHS
9 4 (1.39%) PKI
10 3 (1.05%) Derivative
10 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 80 (27.87%) Linux
2 14 (4.88%) Windows
3 13 (4.53%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (3.83%) Unix
4 11 (3.83%) VMS
5 7 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.39%) CentOS
7 3 (1.05%) Solaris
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.35%) Android
9 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (65.85%) CI/CD
2 140 (48.78%) DevOps
3 129 (44.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (33.45%) Containerisation
5 79 (27.53%) Agile
6 70 (24.39%) Microservices
7 51 (17.77%) Observability
8 46 (16.03%) Configuration Management
8 46 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (16.03%) Software Engineering
9 43 (14.98%) Performance Tuning
10 41 (14.29%) Event-Driven
11 38 (13.24%) Migration
12 35 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (11.50%) Cost Optimisation
13 33 (11.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 32 (11.15%) High Availability
15 30 (10.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 28 (9.76%) Analytics
16 28 (9.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 152 (52.96%) Python
2 93 (32.40%) SQL
3 78 (27.18%) Java
4 50 (17.42%) Bash
5 37 (12.89%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.10%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.32%) Go
8 20 (6.97%) JavaScript
9 17 (5.92%) Groovy
10 16 (5.57%) TypeScript
11 14 (4.88%) Perl
12 12 (4.18%) Ruby
13 10 (3.48%) C#
14 8 (2.79%) PL/SQL
15 6 (2.09%) JSX
16 3 (1.05%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.70%) C
18 1 (0.35%) PHP
18 1 (0.35%) R
18 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (31.01%) Security Cleared
2 70 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 53 (18.47%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.92%) Degree
5 16 (5.57%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (4.18%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.74%) OCP
10 5 (1.74%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.70%) PMP
13 1 (0.35%) CEH
13 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.57%) GDPR
1 16 (5.57%) QA
2 11 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.48%) NIST
4 8 (2.79%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.09%) NCSC
7 3 (1.05%) SLA
8 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.70%) GxP
9 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 135 (47.04%) Docker
2 10 (3.48%) DFS Replication
3 8 (2.79%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (2.44%) Dovecot
4 7 (2.44%) Postfix
4 7 (2.44%) Squid
5 6 (2.09%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.39%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.05%) NFS
7 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 168 (58.54%) Terraform
2 107 (37.28%) Kubernetes
3 67 (23.34%) Grafana
4 58 (20.21%) Prometheus
5 43 (14.98%) Ansible
6 20 (6.97%) Progress Chef
7 15 (5.23%) Puppet
8 7 (2.44%) Data Guard
8 7 (2.44%) Nessus
8 7 (2.44%) Packer
8 7 (2.44%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.74%) Argo
10 4 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.39%) Kibana
10 4 (1.39%) Rancher
11 3 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.05%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.70%) systemd
Vendors
1 37 (12.89%) Oracle
2 18 (6.27%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.23%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.83%) Splunk
5 10 (3.48%) PagerDuty
6 8 (2.79%) Confluent
6 8 (2.79%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.44%) IBM
7 7 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (2.09%) Sybase
9 5 (1.74%) Gigya
9 5 (1.74%) Talend
10 4 (1.39%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.39%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.39%) Okta
10 4 (1.39%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.05%) Databricks
11 3 (1.05%) Informatica
11 3 (1.05%) SAP
11 3 (1.05%) Tenable