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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 293 358
Rank change year-on-year -104 +65 -44
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 241 250 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.86% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.34% 4.52% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 188 175
10th Percentile £385 £425 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% -14.04%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £575
90th Percentile £675 £654 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £537 £498
% change year-on-year -11.55% +7.94% -13.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £71.90 - -
25th Percentile £73.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 7,210 5,533 7,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 18.95% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,864 3,812 5,210
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 98 145
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -15.49% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.94 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.63 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -29.76%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -108 207 £500 -13.04% 93
London -70 112 £505 -15.83% 31
UK excluding London -69 105 £475 -11.55% 65
Work from Home -86 62 £500 -16.67% 49
Midlands -15 53 £475 -9.52% 8
West Midlands -30 46 £475 -13.64% 8
North of England -52 22 £425 -15.00% 21
South East -60 11 £530 -7.83% 17
South West -31 9 £591 +1.16% 16
North West -35 8 £445 -2.41% 12
Yorkshire -47 8 £400 -20.00% 5
Scotland -15 7 £323 -34.72% 1
East Midlands -27 7 £519 +66.88%
North East - 6 £425 - 4
East of England -30 2 - - 2
Wales - 2 £488 -

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 27 (11.20%) Confluence
2 7 (2.90%) SAS
3 5 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 239 (99.17%) AWS
2 156 (64.73%) Amazon S3
3 127 (52.70%) AWS Lambda
3 127 (52.70%) Serverless
4 125 (51.87%) Amazon EC2
5 85 (35.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 64 (26.56%) Amazon ECS
7 63 (26.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 58 (24.07%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (19.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (19.09%) GitHub
11 36 (14.94%) Azure
12 34 (14.11%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (13.28%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (12.03%) Route 53
15 26 (10.79%) AWS KMS
16 19 (7.88%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (6.64%) AWS CodePipeline
17 16 (6.64%) Power Platform
18 14 (5.81%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.32%) DNS
2 7 (2.90%) Firewall
3 6 (2.49%) Network Security
4 5 (2.07%) VPN
5 3 (1.24%) HTTP
5 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.83%) DHCP
6 2 (0.83%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.83%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.41%) AMQP
7 1 (0.41%) Internet
7 1 (0.41%) LAN
7 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.41%) SMTP
7 1 (0.41%) SSL
7 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (27.39%) DynamoDB
2 64 (26.56%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (19.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 27 (11.20%) MySQL
5 20 (8.30%) SQL Server
6 17 (7.05%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (6.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (6.64%) MongoDB
7 16 (6.64%) NoSQL
7 16 (6.64%) Power BI
8 14 (5.81%) Pentaho
9 13 (5.39%) Relational Database
10 11 (4.56%) Redis
11 10 (4.15%) Data Lake
12 8 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (3.32%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.32%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (3.32%) Tableau
13 6 (2.49%) Big Data
13 6 (2.49%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 83 (34.44%) Jenkins
2 56 (23.24%) Git
3 44 (18.26%) GitLab
4 32 (13.28%) JIRA
5 23 (9.54%) JUnit
6 18 (7.47%) Maven
6 18 (7.47%) Mockito
7 16 (6.64%) SonarQube
8 11 (4.56%) DbUnit
8 11 (4.56%) jMock
9 9 (3.73%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.07%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.07%) git-flow
10 5 (2.07%) Snyk
11 4 (1.66%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (1.66%) Postman
11 4 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.24%) Claude Code
12 3 (1.24%) Flyway
General
1 53 (21.99%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.16%) Public Sector
3 29 (12.03%) Finance
4 28 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.15%) Banking
5 10 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.32%) Legal
7 4 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.83%) Front Office
9 2 (0.83%) Local Government
10 1 (0.41%) Billing
10 1 (0.41%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.41%) Military
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (18.26%) Developer
2 39 (16.18%) AWS Engineer
2 39 (16.18%) Senior
3 31 (12.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (10.37%) DBA
5 23 (9.54%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.54%) Java Developer
6 22 (9.13%) Architect
7 18 (7.47%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (6.64%) AWS Architect
8 16 (6.64%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (6.22%) Lead
10 14 (5.81%) Site Engineer
10 14 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (4.98%) AWS Developer
11 12 (4.98%) Oracle DBA
12 11 (4.56%) Analyst
13 10 (4.15%) Administrator
13 10 (4.15%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (17.84%) Spring
1 43 (17.84%) Spring Boot
2 36 (14.94%) RESTful
3 33 (13.69%) Node.js
4 30 (12.45%) Kafka
5 29 (12.03%) REST
6 28 (11.62%) React
7 20 (8.30%) AngularJS
8 19 (7.88%) Hibernate
8 19 (7.88%) JPA
8 19 (7.88%) Spring Cloud
9 18 (7.47%) SOAP
10 15 (6.22%) ActiveMQ
10 15 (6.22%) Spring Batch
10 15 (6.22%) Web Services
11 14 (5.81%) AWS CDK
11 14 (5.81%) Spring Integration
12 11 (4.56%) PowerMock
13 10 (4.15%) Django
13 10 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 53 (21.99%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.79%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.98%) Replication
5 6 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.07%) NHS
7 4 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.66%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.24%) Clustering
8 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.83%) Derivative
9 2 (0.83%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.41%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.41%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 57 (23.65%) Linux
2 8 (3.32%) Unix
3 5 (2.07%) Windows
4 4 (1.66%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (60.58%) CI/CD
2 106 (43.98%) DevOps
3 102 (42.32%) Agile
4 85 (35.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (28.63%) Containerisation
6 57 (23.65%) Microservices
7 41 (17.01%) Observability
8 39 (16.18%) Scrum
9 37 (15.35%) Software Engineering
10 35 (14.52%) Performance Tuning
11 33 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (13.28%) ETL
13 31 (12.86%) Migration
14 30 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (12.03%) High Availability
15 29 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
16 28 (11.62%) Event-Driven
16 28 (11.62%) TDD
17 26 (10.79%) Continuous Integration
17 26 (10.79%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 95 (39.42%) SQL
2 90 (37.34%) Python
3 79 (32.78%) Java
4 25 (10.37%) Bash
5 18 (7.47%) Shell Script
6 17 (7.05%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.64%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.98%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.15%) C#
9 10 (4.15%) Go
9 10 (4.15%) Groovy
10 7 (2.90%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.49%) Perl
11 6 (2.49%) Scala
12 5 (2.07%) Ruby
13 3 (1.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (46.06%) Security Cleared
2 91 (37.76%) SC Cleared
3 36 (14.94%) AWS Certification
4 17 (7.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.81%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.15%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.32%) Degree
8 7 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.24%) OCP
10 3 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.41%) CEH
12 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.98%) QA
2 10 (4.15%) NIST
3 9 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.73%) GDPR
3 9 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.73%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.90%) PMO
5 4 (1.66%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.83%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.41%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) NCSC
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (42.32%) Docker
2 10 (4.15%) Postfix
3 4 (1.66%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.24%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.83%) HDFS
6 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 110 (45.64%) Terraform
2 65 (26.97%) Kubernetes
3 59 (24.48%) Grafana
4 35 (14.52%) Prometheus
5 21 (8.71%) Ansible
6 12 (4.98%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.32%) Data Guard
8 7 (2.90%) Puppet
9 6 (2.49%) Argo
10 5 (2.07%) Kibana
11 4 (1.66%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.66%) Rancher
12 3 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.24%) Foglight
12 3 (1.24%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.83%) Istio
13 2 (0.83%) Sysdig
13 2 (0.83%) systemd
14 1 (0.41%) vMotion
Vendors
1 37 (15.35%) Oracle
2 21 (8.71%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.22%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.81%) Jaspersoft
5 13 (5.39%) Informatica
6 12 (4.98%) Atlassian
6 12 (4.98%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.73%) Talend
8 8 (3.32%) Databricks
9 7 (2.90%) Denodo
9 7 (2.90%) Splunk
10 5 (2.07%) PagerDuty
10 5 (2.07%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.07%) Sybase
11 4 (1.66%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.66%) Qualys
11 4 (1.66%) Tenable
12 2 (0.83%) Blue Prism
12 2 (0.83%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.83%) Google