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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 315 362
Rank change year-on-year -19 +47 -37
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 293 233 237
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.76% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.35% 4.09% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 153 176
10th Percentile £368 £421 £400
25th Percentile £410 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £626 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.40% -4.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £71.65 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
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 6,735 5,690 7,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.31% 18.68% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,645 3,833 5,098
10th Percentile £342 £350 £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 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 92 167
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.96
25th Percentile £28.93 £25.21 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.25 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.63% -9.87% -22.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.48 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -25.00% -27.27%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -22 232 £513 -6.82% 78
UK excluding London -22 122 £498 -0.40% 62
London -45 119 £513 -10.87% 28
Work from Home -33 86 £550 - 42
Midlands -26 47 £500 -5.48% 12
West Midlands -26 41 £500 -5.48% 11
North of England -46 28 £500 -4.76% 20
South East -22 20 £447 -12.78% 14
North West -31 13 £394 -13.65% 10
Scotland +1 12 £358 -24.95% 1
Yorkshire -51 11 £518 -1.43% 8
South West -21 10 £538 -12.30% 9
East Midlands -24 6 £383 -13.66% 1
North East -14 4 £500 - 2
East of England -21 3 £538 +8.86% 4
Wales -3 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 24 (8.19%) Confluence
2 4 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.02%) Apache
3 3 (1.02%) nginx
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 293 (100.00%) AWS
2 193 (65.87%) Amazon S3
3 179 (61.09%) Amazon EC2
4 163 (55.63%) Serverless
5 162 (55.29%) AWS Lambda
6 109 (37.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 102 (34.81%) Amazon ECS
8 97 (33.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 92 (31.40%) Amazon EKS
10 87 (29.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 76 (25.94%) GitHub
12 60 (20.48%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (14.68%) Route 53
14 41 (13.99%) Azure
15 23 (7.85%) Amazon Kinesis
15 23 (7.85%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (7.85%) AWS Fargate
16 21 (7.17%) AWS KMS
17 20 (6.83%) Amazon MSK
18 18 (6.14%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.85%) Firewall
2 17 (5.80%) DNS
3 8 (2.73%) VPN
4 6 (2.05%) HTTP
5 4 (1.37%) FTP
5 4 (1.37%) Network Security
5 4 (1.37%) SMTP
5 4 (1.37%) SSH
6 3 (1.02%) IMAP
6 3 (1.02%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.02%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.34%) Internet
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (23.21%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (20.82%) DynamoDB
3 41 (13.99%) Amazon Aurora
4 39 (13.31%) MySQL
5 26 (8.87%) Relational Database
6 25 (8.53%) NoSQL
7 24 (8.19%) MongoDB
7 24 (8.19%) SQL Server
8 21 (7.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (3.75%) Oracle Database
11 10 (3.41%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (3.41%) Hadoop
11 10 (3.41%) Redis
12 9 (3.07%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (3.07%) Power BI
13 7 (2.39%) DB2
14 6 (2.05%) Couchbase
14 6 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (2.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 122 (41.64%) Jenkins
2 83 (28.33%) Git
3 69 (23.55%) GitLab
4 37 (12.63%) JIRA
5 21 (7.17%) JUnit
6 17 (5.80%) Maven
7 13 (4.44%) Bitbucket
8 12 (4.10%) Mockito
8 12 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (3.75%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.39%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.39%) DbUnit
10 7 (2.39%) jMock
11 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.71%) Snyk
12 4 (1.37%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.37%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (1.37%) Vagrant
13 3 (1.02%) git-flow
13 3 (1.02%) Gradle
General
1 74 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.04%) Public Sector
3 45 (15.36%) Finance
4 24 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.80%) Banking
6 14 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.05%) Legal
8 5 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Military
9 2 (0.68%) Publishing
10 1 (0.34%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.34%) Front Office
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (20.14%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (17.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (15.36%) Developer
4 43 (14.68%) Senior
5 27 (9.22%) AWS DevOps
6 26 (8.87%) Java Developer
6 26 (8.87%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (7.85%) DBA
7 23 (7.85%) Software Engineer
8 22 (7.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 21 (7.17%) Architect
9 21 (7.17%) Data Engineer
9 21 (7.17%) Lead
9 21 (7.17%) Site Engineer
10 20 (6.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 19 (6.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 18 (6.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 14 (4.78%) AWS Developer
13 14 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
13 14 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.02%) Kafka
2 41 (13.99%) Spring
3 40 (13.65%) Spring Boot
4 37 (12.63%) RESTful
5 35 (11.95%) Node.js
6 25 (8.53%) React
6 25 (8.53%) REST
7 20 (6.83%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (5.12%) AWS CDK
9 14 (4.78%) AngularJS
9 14 (4.78%) Hibernate
9 14 (4.78%) JPA
9 14 (4.78%) Spring Cloud
10 13 (4.44%) SOAP
11 11 (3.75%) CSS
11 11 (3.75%) Spring Batch
12 10 (3.41%) ActiveMQ
12 10 (3.41%) FastAPI
12 10 (3.41%) Web Services
13 9 (3.07%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.04%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.56%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.19%) Replication
4 8 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.71%) Clustering
8 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.37%) NHS
9 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.02%) Derivative
9 3 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.02%) PKI
10 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.34%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 85 (29.01%) Linux
2 13 (4.44%) Unix
3 8 (2.73%) Windows
4 7 (2.39%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.71%) VMS
7 3 (1.02%) CentOS
7 3 (1.02%) Solaris
7 3 (1.02%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (63.14%) CI/CD
2 133 (45.39%) DevOps
3 123 (41.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (33.79%) Agile
4 99 (33.79%) Containerisation
5 72 (24.57%) Microservices
6 50 (17.06%) Observability
7 47 (16.04%) Performance Tuning
8 44 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (14.68%) Software Engineering
10 40 (13.65%) Configuration Management
10 40 (13.65%) Migration
11 36 (12.29%) Cost Optimisation
12 33 (11.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 32 (10.92%) High Availability
14 31 (10.58%) ETL
14 31 (10.58%) Event-Driven
14 31 (10.58%) TDD
15 29 (9.90%) Scrum
16 28 (9.56%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (46.42%) Python
2 103 (35.15%) SQL
3 82 (27.99%) Java
4 50 (17.06%) Bash
5 31 (10.58%) PowerShell
6 28 (9.56%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.17%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.48%) Go
9 15 (5.12%) TypeScript
10 12 (4.10%) Perl
10 12 (4.10%) Ruby
11 10 (3.41%) C#
11 10 (3.41%) Groovy
12 8 (2.73%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.05%) JSX
14 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.34%) Bicep
15 1 (0.34%) PHP
15 1 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 101 (34.47%) Security Cleared
2 84 (28.67%) SC Cleared
3 56 (19.11%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.78%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.75%) Degree
7 9 (3.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.71%) OCP
9 5 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.34%) CEH
13 1 (0.34%) CISSP
13 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.46%) QA
2 13 (4.44%) GDPR
3 11 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.75%) NIST
4 8 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.39%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.71%) NCSC
7 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.37%) PMO
8 3 (1.02%) SLA
9 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.68%) GxP
10 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 136 (46.42%) Docker
2 9 (3.07%) Postfix
3 8 (2.73%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.37%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.02%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.02%) NFS
5 3 (1.02%) Squid
5 3 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.68%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 149 (50.85%) Terraform
2 99 (33.79%) Kubernetes
3 68 (23.21%) Grafana
4 52 (17.75%) Prometheus
5 42 (14.33%) Ansible
6 20 (6.83%) Progress Chef
7 15 (5.12%) Puppet
8 8 (2.73%) Data Guard
9 6 (2.05%) Argo
9 6 (2.05%) Packer
10 4 (1.37%) Kibana
10 4 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.02%) Nessus
11 3 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.02%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.02%) Rancher
12 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.68%) systemd
Vendors
1 39 (13.31%) Oracle
2 18 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.14%) ServiceNow
3 12 (4.10%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (3.41%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.07%) Splunk
6 8 (2.73%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.73%) Confluent
6 8 (2.73%) Sybase
7 7 (2.39%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.39%) IBM
7 7 (2.39%) Talend
8 5 (1.71%) Informatica
9 4 (1.37%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.37%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.37%) Databricks
9 4 (1.37%) Qualys
9 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.37%) Tenable
10 3 (1.02%) Okta