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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 306 354
Rank change year-on-year -24 +48 -34
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 279 233 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.75% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.43% 4.07% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 145 188
10th Percentile £368 £428 £406
25th Percentile £419 £477 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% -8.70%
75th Percentile £583 £626 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £528
% change year-on-year +0.40% -5.59% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £75.38 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 6,295 5,728 7,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.54% 18.42% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,329 3,766 5,146
10th Percentile £335 £355 £350
25th Percentile £413 £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 108 85 180
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.86
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £45.75 £35.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +30.71% -17.35% -28.23%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.52% -28.38% -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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -25 220 £525 -4.55% 164
London -34 117 £520 -7.96% 38
UK excluding London -6 114 £500 +0.40% 146
Work from Home -44 82 £575 +8.49% 94
Midlands -32 35 £488 -7.93% 17
West Midlands -15 31 £500 -5.48% 9
North of England -32 31 £500 -4.76% 30
North West -16 17 £450 +20.00% 10
South East -18 17 £475 +11.76% 46
Scotland 0 12 £358 -24.95% 6
South West -8 12 £606 +7.66% 18
Yorkshire -37 10 £509 -13.40% 16
North East -13 4 £500 - 4
East of England -13 4 £538 +8.86% 20
East Midlands -22 4 £375 -34.78% 8
Wales -4 2 £488 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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 20 (7.17%) Confluence
2 8 (2.87%) nginx
3 6 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.08%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (2.87%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 279 (100.00%) AWS
2 180 (64.52%) Amazon S3
3 165 (59.14%) Serverless
4 164 (58.78%) AWS Lambda
5 162 (58.06%) Amazon EC2
6 108 (38.71%) Amazon ECS
7 99 (35.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 98 (35.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 90 (32.26%) Amazon EKS
10 82 (29.39%) GitHub
11 78 (27.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 60 (21.51%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (15.77%) Azure
14 42 (15.05%) Route 53
15 27 (9.68%) Amazon Kinesis
16 26 (9.32%) AWS Fargate
17 25 (8.96%) AWS Step Functions
18 23 (8.24%) Datadog
19 21 (7.53%) Amazon MSK
20 16 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.11%) Firewall
2 27 (9.68%) DNS
3 14 (5.02%) HTTP
4 12 (4.30%) FTP
4 12 (4.30%) SMTP
4 12 (4.30%) SSH
5 8 (2.87%) IMAP
5 8 (2.87%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (2.87%) VPN
6 4 (1.43%) Network Security
7 3 (1.08%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.36%) Internet
8 1 (0.36%) LAN
8 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (25.45%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (18.28%) DynamoDB
3 46 (16.49%) Amazon Aurora
4 42 (15.05%) MySQL
5 30 (10.75%) NoSQL
6 28 (10.04%) Relational Database
7 25 (8.96%) MongoDB
8 23 (8.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (8.24%) SQL Server
9 16 (5.73%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (5.73%) Redis
10 11 (3.94%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (3.94%) Hadoop
10 11 (3.94%) RDBMS
11 10 (3.58%) Oracle Database
12 8 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (2.15%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.15%) Couchbase
13 6 (2.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 123 (44.09%) Jenkins
2 77 (27.60%) Git
3 71 (25.45%) GitLab
4 34 (12.19%) JIRA
5 13 (4.66%) Bitbucket
5 13 (4.66%) Maven
6 12 (4.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (4.30%) Vagrant
7 8 (2.87%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.87%) Gradle
8 7 (2.51%) JUnit
8 7 (2.51%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.79%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (1.43%) Snyk
10 4 (1.43%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.08%) git-flow
12 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.72%) Gatling
General
1 74 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.05%) Finance
3 39 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.09%) Banking
5 16 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.08%) Legal
9 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.72%) Military
9 2 (0.72%) Publishing
10 1 (0.36%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.36%) Front Office
10 1 (0.36%) Games
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Marketing
10 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (25.09%) AWS Engineer
2 63 (22.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (13.62%) AWS DevOps
3 38 (13.62%) Senior
4 36 (12.90%) Developer
5 34 (12.19%) Platform Engineer
6 32 (11.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 27 (9.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 26 (9.32%) Architect
9 24 (8.60%) Software Engineer
10 23 (8.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 21 (7.53%) Data Engineer
12 20 (7.17%) Lead
12 20 (7.17%) Site Engineer
13 19 (6.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 17 (6.09%) DBA
15 13 (4.66%) AWS Developer
15 13 (4.66%) Oracle DBA
15 13 (4.66%) Senior DevOps
15 13 (4.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (17.56%) Kafka
2 32 (11.47%) RESTful
3 30 (10.75%) Node.js
4 28 (10.04%) Spring Boot
5 26 (9.32%) React
6 24 (8.60%) Spring
7 21 (7.53%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (5.38%) REST
9 14 (5.02%) AWS CDK
10 12 (4.30%) CSS
11 10 (3.58%) FastAPI
12 9 (3.23%) Jest
12 9 (3.23%) LDAP
12 9 (3.23%) Next.js
13 8 (2.87%) .NET
13 8 (2.87%) Flask
13 8 (2.87%) Keycloak
13 8 (2.87%) PySpark
14 7 (2.51%) Django
14 7 (2.51%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.56%) Cloud Native
2 31 (11.11%) Replication
3 23 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.87%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.51%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.79%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.43%) Clustering
8 4 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.43%) NHS
8 4 (1.43%) PKI
9 3 (1.08%) Derivative
9 3 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.36%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 78 (27.96%) Linux
2 15 (5.38%) Amazon Linux
2 15 (5.38%) Windows
3 13 (4.66%) VMS
4 11 (3.94%) Unix
5 8 (2.87%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.43%) CentOS
8 3 (1.08%) Solaris
9 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.36%) Android
10 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (65.95%) CI/CD
2 139 (49.82%) DevOps
3 124 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 77 (27.60%) Agile
6 71 (25.45%) Microservices
7 51 (18.28%) Observability
8 47 (16.85%) Configuration Management
9 45 (16.13%) Software Engineering
10 44 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (15.05%) Performance Tuning
12 40 (14.34%) Event-Driven
13 37 (13.26%) Platform Engineering
14 35 (12.54%) Migration
15 32 (11.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 31 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
17 30 (10.75%) High Availability
18 29 (10.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 28 (10.04%) Analytics
19 28 (10.04%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 155 (55.56%) Python
2 90 (32.26%) SQL
3 77 (27.60%) Java
4 52 (18.64%) Bash
5 38 (13.62%) PowerShell
6 28 (10.04%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.53%) Go
7 21 (7.53%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.81%) Groovy
9 17 (6.09%) TypeScript
10 15 (5.38%) Perl
11 12 (4.30%) Ruby
12 10 (3.58%) C#
13 8 (2.87%) PL/SQL
14 6 (2.15%) JSX
15 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.72%) C
17 1 (0.36%) Bicep
17 1 (0.36%) PHP
17 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 90 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 71 (25.45%) SC Cleared
3 53 (19.00%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.45%) Degree
5 16 (5.73%) DV Cleared
6 14 (5.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.66%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.79%) OCP
10 5 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.72%) PMP
14 1 (0.36%) CEH
14 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.36%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.73%) GDPR
2 14 (5.02%) QA
3 11 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.58%) NIST
5 8 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.87%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.15%) NCSC
7 3 (1.08%) SLA
8 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.72%) GxP
8 2 (0.72%) WCAG
9 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 135 (48.39%) Docker
2 12 (4.30%) DFS Replication
3 8 (2.87%) Dovecot
3 8 (2.87%) Postfix
3 8 (2.87%) Squid
3 8 (2.87%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (2.51%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.08%) NFS
6 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 165 (59.14%) Terraform
2 105 (37.63%) Kubernetes
3 69 (24.73%) Grafana
4 59 (21.15%) Prometheus
5 42 (15.05%) Ansible
6 20 (7.17%) Progress Chef
7 16 (5.73%) Puppet
8 8 (2.87%) Nessus
8 8 (2.87%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.51%) Data Guard
9 7 (2.51%) Packer
10 5 (1.79%) Argo
11 4 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.43%) Kibana
11 4 (1.43%) Rancher
12 3 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.08%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.72%) systemd
Vendors
1 36 (12.90%) Oracle
2 17 (6.09%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.09%) ServiceNow
3 11 (3.94%) Splunk
4 10 (3.58%) PagerDuty
5 8 (2.87%) Confluent
5 8 (2.87%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.87%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (2.51%) IBM
7 5 (1.79%) Gigya
7 5 (1.79%) Sybase
7 5 (1.79%) Talend
8 4 (1.43%) CloudEndure
8 4 (1.43%) Okta
8 4 (1.43%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.08%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.08%) Databricks
9 3 (1.08%) Informatica
9 3 (1.08%) SAP
9 3 (1.08%) Tenable