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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 287 365
Rank change year-on-year -99 +78 -26
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 284 271 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.88% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.62% 4.80% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 200 175
10th Percentile £386 £425 £389
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £650 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.14% +9.38% -18.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 7,845 5,647 7,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 18.36% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,192 3,828 5,379
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £751 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 100 150
10th Percentile £15.21 £19.56 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.57 £20.82
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.99 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.03% -12.53% -29.08%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.94 £53.29
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.31 £31.64 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.92% -4.12% -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -85 238 £500 -9.09% 94
London -59 134 £525 -6.67% 40
UK excluding London -83 110 £477 -9.14% 65
Work from Home -65 91 £500 -9.26% 49
Midlands -34 51 £472 -0.63% 7
West Midlands -34 44 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -58 30 £425 -20.86% 15
Yorkshire -36 18 £500 - 6
South West -29 12 £580 +6.91% 17
South East -72 9 £440 -23.57% 19
North West -39 8 £390 -29.09% 6
East Midlands -7 6 £519 +66.88% 1
Scotland -20 5 £483 -3.40% 1
North East -29 4 £425 -5.56% 3
East of England -26 3 £350 -36.36% 3
Wales - 2 £525 - 2

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 29 (10.21%) Confluence
2 7 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.46%) SAS
2 7 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.76%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 275 (96.83%) AWS
2 176 (61.97%) Amazon S3
3 154 (54.23%) AWS Lambda
4 153 (53.87%) Serverless
5 130 (45.77%) Amazon EC2
6 98 (34.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 74 (26.06%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (26.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 67 (23.59%) Amazon EKS
9 59 (20.77%) GitHub
10 50 (17.61%) Amazon SQS
11 49 (17.25%) Azure
12 44 (15.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (13.38%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (13.03%) Route 53
15 31 (10.92%) AWS KMS
16 22 (7.75%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (6.69%) AWS CloudTrail
17 19 (6.69%) Power Platform
18 17 (5.99%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.87%) Firewall
2 9 (3.17%) DNS
3 7 (2.46%) DHCP
4 6 (2.11%) VPN
5 4 (1.41%) Network Security
5 4 (1.41%) SMTP
6 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.70%) NetScaler
7 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.35%) AMQP
8 1 (0.35%) HTTP
8 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (27.46%) DynamoDB
2 72 (25.35%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (22.54%) Amazon Aurora
4 34 (11.97%) MySQL
5 20 (7.04%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (6.69%) Power BI
7 16 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (5.63%) SQL Server
8 14 (4.93%) MongoDB
8 14 (4.93%) Pentaho
9 12 (4.23%) Big Data
10 11 (3.87%) NoSQL
11 10 (3.52%) Data Lake
11 10 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (3.52%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (3.17%) Tableau
13 8 (2.82%) Redis
14 7 (2.46%) Apache Iceberg
15 6 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 87 (30.63%) Jenkins
2 69 (24.30%) Git
3 39 (13.73%) GitLab
4 36 (12.68%) JIRA
5 29 (10.21%) JUnit
6 24 (8.45%) Mockito
7 23 (8.10%) Maven
8 21 (7.39%) SonarQube
9 14 (4.93%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.58%) jMock
11 11 (3.87%) Bitbucket Server
12 10 (3.52%) Claude Code
13 7 (2.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (2.46%) Postman
14 6 (2.11%) Cucumber
14 6 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (1.41%) Flyway
15 4 (1.41%) git-flow
15 4 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
16 3 (1.06%) Snyk
General
1 72 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 61 (21.48%) Public Sector
3 34 (11.97%) Finance
4 29 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.69%) Banking
6 10 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.17%) Legal
8 6 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
11 2 (0.70%) Law
11 2 (0.70%) Local Government
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (19.37%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (17.96%) Developer
3 47 (16.55%) Senior
4 37 (13.03%) Architect
5 32 (11.27%) Data Engineer
6 31 (10.92%) Java Developer
7 30 (10.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (9.15%) AWS Architect
9 23 (8.10%) DBA
10 20 (7.04%) Lead
11 19 (6.69%) AWS DevOps
12 18 (6.34%) Software Engineer
13 16 (5.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 16 (5.63%) Technical Architect
14 14 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (4.93%) Senior Developer
15 12 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (3.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 11 (3.87%) Python Engineer
17 10 (3.52%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.90%) REST
2 47 (16.55%) Spring
2 47 (16.55%) Spring Boot
3 42 (14.79%) RESTful
4 36 (12.68%) React
5 33 (11.62%) Node.js
6 29 (10.21%) AngularJS
7 25 (8.80%) Kafka
7 25 (8.80%) SOAP
8 24 (8.45%) AWS CDK
9 20 (7.04%) Hibernate
9 20 (7.04%) JPA
10 19 (6.69%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (6.69%) Web Services
11 18 (6.34%) GraphQL
11 18 (6.34%) Spring Batch
11 18 (6.34%) Spring Cloud
11 18 (6.34%) Spring Integration
12 17 (5.99%) .NET
13 13 (4.58%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 63 (22.18%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.97%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (9.86%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.87%) Replication
5 10 (3.52%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.17%) NHS
7 8 (2.82%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.76%) Clustering
10 4 (1.41%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.41%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.41%) PKI
10 4 (1.41%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.06%) PropTech
12 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.35%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 55 (19.37%) Linux
2 19 (6.69%) Windows
3 13 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.82%) Unix
5 7 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.06%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.70%) AIX
9 1 (0.35%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (57.39%) CI/CD
2 121 (42.61%) Agile
3 117 (41.20%) DevOps
4 89 (31.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (30.63%) Microservices
6 66 (23.24%) Containerisation
7 46 (16.20%) Observability
8 44 (15.49%) Scrum
9 41 (14.44%) Event-Driven
10 40 (14.08%) Performance Tuning
11 38 (13.38%) Software Engineering
12 37 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (12.32%) ETL
14 34 (11.97%) Migration
14 34 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (10.92%) High Availability
15 31 (10.92%) TDD
16 30 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (10.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 29 (10.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 98 (34.51%) Python
2 89 (31.34%) SQL
3 83 (29.23%) Java
4 29 (10.21%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.10%) Bash
6 20 (7.04%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.04%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.63%) C#
8 11 (3.87%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.82%) Groovy
10 6 (2.11%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.11%) Scala
11 4 (1.41%) Go
11 4 (1.41%) Perl
11 4 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.70%) Ruby
13 1 (0.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 115 (40.49%) Security Cleared
2 96 (33.80%) SC Cleared
3 38 (13.38%) AWS Certification
4 20 (7.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.99%) Degree
6 14 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (4.93%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.82%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.06%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.70%) PMP
10 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.87%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.17%) QA
3 7 (2.46%) PMO
4 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.76%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.41%) GDPR
5 4 (1.41%) NIST
5 4 (1.41%) SLA
6 3 (1.06%) NCSC
7 2 (0.70%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 100 (35.21%) Docker
2 11 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.87%) Postfix
3 6 (2.11%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.41%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.41%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.41%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 111 (39.08%) Terraform
2 73 (25.70%) Kubernetes
3 54 (19.01%) Grafana
4 36 (12.68%) Prometheus
5 22 (7.75%) Ansible
6 7 (2.46%) Argo
7 6 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.76%) Data Guard
8 5 (1.76%) Puppet
9 4 (1.41%) Istio
9 4 (1.41%) Kibana
9 4 (1.41%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.41%) vMotion
10 3 (1.06%) Foglight
10 3 (1.06%) Nagios
10 3 (1.06%) Rancher
11 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.70%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (10.92%) Oracle
2 24 (8.45%) ServiceNow
3 23 (8.10%) Microsoft
4 17 (5.99%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (5.28%) Atlassian
6 14 (4.93%) Dynatrace
7 13 (4.58%) Informatica
8 9 (3.17%) Talend
9 8 (2.82%) Databricks
9 8 (2.82%) VMware
10 7 (2.46%) Denodo
10 7 (2.46%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.11%) Splunk
12 5 (1.76%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.76%) Citrix
12 5 (1.76%) Google
12 5 (1.76%) Sybase
13 4 (1.41%) HP
13 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
13 4 (1.41%) Symantec
104 Amazon RDS jobs Nationwide