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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 294 364
Rank change year-on-year -102 +70 -15
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 294 287 212
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.87% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.58% 4.83% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 205 141
10th Percentile £406 £410 £409
25th Percentile £448 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £527
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -0.28% -4.27%
75th Percentile £657 £600 £600
90th Percentile £788 £640 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -7.50% +1.21% -10.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 8,212 5,947 6,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 18.07% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,471 3,973 4,785
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.21%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £747 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 92 86
10th Percentile £16.49 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £30.55 £20.88
Median hourly rate £39.84 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +12.80% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.98 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.49% +16.60% -43.93%

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 13 September 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
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 13 September 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 -95 236 £533 +1.43% 164
London -62 149 £550 -8.33% 101
Work from Home -73 103 £530 -3.68% 692
UK excluding London -123 88 £463 -7.50% 103
North of England -58 30 £500 -2.44% 25
Midlands -62 26 £469 -1.26% 12
West Midlands -63 23 £469 -1.26% 6
Yorkshire -28 17 £500 - 7
South West -40 10 £542 -0.14% 11
South East -73 10 £460 -20.00% 17
Scotland -28 9 £425 -14.59% 19
North East -36 7 £425 -2.86% 7
North West -61 6 £600 +9.09% 11
East of England -27 4 £348 -36.82% 11
East Midlands -19 2 £449 +18.16% 6
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 22 (7.48%) Confluence
2 17 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.38%) Apache
4 7 (2.38%) SAS
4 7 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.70%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.70%) WebLogic Portal
6 3 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.02%) nginx
7 2 (0.68%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (1.70%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.70%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.02%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 283 (96.26%) AWS
2 184 (62.59%) Amazon S3
3 164 (55.78%) AWS Lambda
4 163 (55.44%) Serverless
5 117 (39.80%) Amazon EC2
6 111 (37.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 76 (25.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 73 (24.83%) Amazon ECS
9 71 (24.15%) Amazon EKS
10 59 (20.07%) Azure
11 54 (18.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 54 (18.37%) GitHub
12 42 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (12.59%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (10.88%) AWS KMS
15 30 (10.20%) Route 53
16 25 (8.50%) AWS Step Functions
17 24 (8.16%) Amazon EventBridge
18 20 (6.80%) GCP
19 18 (6.12%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.78%) Firewall
2 12 (4.08%) DNS
3 7 (2.38%) DHCP
3 7 (2.38%) VPN
4 6 (2.04%) Network Security
5 5 (1.70%) SMTP
6 4 (1.36%) HTTP
6 4 (1.36%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) FTP
7 2 (0.68%) IMAP
7 2 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.68%) SSH
7 2 (0.68%) SSL
8 1 (0.34%) AMQP
8 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.34%) IPsec
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (30.27%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (25.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 65 (22.11%) DynamoDB
4 37 (12.59%) MySQL
5 26 (8.84%) MongoDB
6 25 (8.50%) Amazon Athena
7 24 (8.16%) SQL Server
8 21 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (5.78%) Redis
11 16 (5.44%) Data Lake
12 13 (4.42%) Big Data
13 12 (4.08%) Power BI
13 12 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (3.40%) NoSQL
16 8 (2.72%) Apache Iceberg
16 8 (2.72%) Pentaho
16 8 (2.72%) Relational Database
17 6 (2.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 84 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 61 (20.75%) Git
3 49 (16.67%) GitLab
4 33 (11.22%) JIRA
5 18 (6.12%) JUnit
6 16 (5.44%) Mockito
7 15 (5.10%) Maven
8 13 (4.42%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.74%) SonarQube
10 10 (3.40%) Claude Code
11 8 (2.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.38%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.38%) DbUnit
13 6 (2.04%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (2.04%) jMock
13 6 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.70%) Flyway
14 5 (1.70%) Gradle
14 5 (1.70%) Postman
15 4 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.11%) Public Sector
3 32 (10.88%) Finance
4 24 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.48%) Banking
6 10 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.72%) Front Office
8 7 (2.38%) Back Office
9 6 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.04%) Legal
10 4 (1.36%) Billing
11 3 (1.02%) Law
11 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.68%) Local Government
12 2 (0.68%) Marketing
13 1 (0.34%) Games
13 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.34%) Military
13 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (25.17%) AWS Engineer
2 56 (19.05%) Senior
3 49 (16.67%) Architect
4 45 (15.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 40 (13.61%) Developer
6 39 (13.27%) Data Engineer
7 32 (10.88%) DBA
8 28 (9.52%) AWS Architect
9 27 (9.18%) AWS DevOps
10 25 (8.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 24 (8.16%) Lead
12 20 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (6.46%) Java Developer
14 17 (5.78%) AWS Data Engineer
14 17 (5.78%) Technical Architect
15 15 (5.10%) Administrator
15 15 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (4.76%) Technical Leader
17 13 (4.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 13 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (49.32%) Terraform
2 40 (13.61%) React
3 38 (12.93%) REST
4 34 (11.56%) Node.js
5 32 (10.88%) Spring
5 32 (10.88%) Spring Boot
6 31 (10.54%) RESTful
7 24 (8.16%) AngularJS
8 22 (7.48%) .NET
8 22 (7.48%) AWS CDK
9 19 (6.46%) Kafka
10 17 (5.78%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.42%) ActiveMQ
11 13 (4.42%) SOAP
12 12 (4.08%) GraphQL
13 11 (3.74%) .NET Core
13 11 (3.74%) Hibernate
13 11 (3.74%) JPA
14 10 (3.40%) JSON
15 9 (3.06%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 71 (24.15%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 28 (9.52%) Replication
3 24 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.74%) AI Agents
5 10 (3.40%) NHS
6 9 (3.06%) Clustering
7 8 (2.72%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.38%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.04%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.70%) PKI
10 5 (1.70%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.36%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.36%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.36%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.36%) PropTech
12 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 55 (18.71%) Linux
2 23 (7.82%) Windows
3 13 (4.42%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.74%) Unix
5 10 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.06%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.36%) AIX
7 4 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.02%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.34%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.34%) VMS
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 144 (48.98%) DevOps
3 137 (46.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (39.12%) Agile
5 70 (23.81%) Microservices
6 61 (20.75%) Containerisation
7 58 (19.73%) Data Modelling
8 57 (19.39%) Observability
9 51 (17.35%) Performance Tuning
10 49 (16.67%) Event-Driven
10 49 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 47 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (15.31%) High Availability
12 45 (15.31%) Stakeholder Management
13 44 (14.97%) Migration
14 41 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
15 38 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
16 37 (12.59%) Data Integration
17 34 (11.56%) AI
17 34 (11.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 131 (44.56%) Python
2 86 (29.25%) SQL
3 71 (24.15%) Java
4 40 (13.61%) TypeScript
5 31 (10.54%) Bash
6 25 (8.50%) JavaScript
7 23 (7.82%) PowerShell
8 18 (6.12%) Groovy
9 17 (5.78%) C#
10 12 (4.08%) Scala
11 8 (2.72%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.38%) Perl
12 7 (2.38%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.02%) Go
13 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.68%) Bicep
14 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.68%) Ruby
15 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 115 (39.12%) Security Cleared
2 96 (32.65%) SC Cleared
3 52 (17.69%) AWS Certification
4 34 (11.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (8.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (5.44%) Degree
7 11 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.74%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.38%) CISM
8 7 (2.38%) CISSP
8 7 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.68%) PMP
12 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.72%) NIST
3 6 (2.04%) QA
4 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.02%) GDPR
5 3 (1.02%) HL7
5 3 (1.02%) NCSC
5 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.02%) SLA
6 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.68%) PMO
6 2 (0.68%) WCAG
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 96 (32.65%) Docker
2 14 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.38%) Postfix
4 6 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.02%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (1.02%) Terminal Services
7 3 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.68%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.68%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.68%) Squid
8 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 77 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 59 (20.07%) Grafana
3 43 (14.63%) Prometheus
4 29 (9.86%) Ansible
5 9 (3.06%) Istio
5 9 (3.06%) Kibana
6 8 (2.72%) Argo
7 5 (1.70%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (1.70%) Puppet
8 4 (1.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.36%) Packer
8 4 (1.36%) Rancher
9 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.02%) Nagios
9 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.02%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.02%) vMotion
10 2 (0.68%) Consul
10 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.68%) Nessus
Vendors
1 30 (10.20%) Oracle
2 28 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.44%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.08%) Informatica
6 10 (3.40%) Databricks
6 10 (3.40%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (3.06%) VMware
8 8 (2.72%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.72%) Google
9 7 (2.38%) Denodo
9 7 (2.38%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.38%) Splunk
9 7 (2.38%) Talend
10 6 (2.04%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.70%) Amplitude
12 4 (1.36%) Brio
12 4 (1.36%) Cisco
12 4 (1.36%) Citrix
13 3 (1.02%) Symantec