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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 321 353
Rank change year-on-year +7 +32 -11
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 292 233 258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.68% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.58% 3.80% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 145 189
10th Percentile £378 £431 £413
25th Percentile £430 £496 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +1.29% -2.60%
75th Percentile £577 £675 £608
90th Percentile £635 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £545
% change year-on-year -0.68% -12.25% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,378 6,133 7,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.32% 17.94% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,390 4,048 5,230
10th Percentile £326 £340 £350
25th Percentile £409 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £767 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 84 140
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.15 £16.11
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.27 £21.56
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.11 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +49.48% -34.81% -7.73%
75th Percentile £68.19 £61.69 £64.65
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.89 £77.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.35 £27.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +93.00% -41.26% +2.62%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +5 219 £510 -8.52% 58
UK excluding London +42 125 £475 -0.68% 56
London -42 106 £513 -12.77% 15
Work from Home -21 90 £565 +4.82% 37
Midlands -6 44 £475 -6.77% 4
West Midlands -4 36 £475 -6.77% 4
North of England -30 29 £500 -23.08% 15
South East -7 19 £475 +11.76% 15
North West -15 16 £413 -38.89% 6
Scotland -1 15 £358 -24.11% 1
Yorkshire -34 9 £518 -11.91% 8
South West 0 8 £525 -12.62% 15
East Midlands -12 8 £380 -24.00%
East of England -13 8 £550 - 2
North East -5 4 £500 - 1
Wales +4 1 £475 - 5
Northern Ireland - 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 27 (9.25%) Confluence
2 11 (3.77%) nginx
3 9 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.68%) IIS
5 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (3.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 287 (98.29%) AWS
2 196 (67.12%) Amazon S3
3 177 (60.62%) Amazon EC2
4 175 (59.93%) Serverless
5 173 (59.25%) AWS Lambda
6 116 (39.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 111 (38.01%) Amazon ECS
8 110 (37.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 96 (32.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 93 (31.85%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (31.16%) GitHub
12 68 (23.29%) GitHub Actions
13 48 (16.44%) Azure
14 43 (14.73%) Route 53
15 26 (8.90%) AWS Step Functions
15 26 (8.90%) Datadog
16 25 (8.56%) AWS Fargate
17 23 (7.88%) Amazon Kinesis
18 22 (7.53%) Amazon ELB
18 22 (7.53%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.67%) Firewall
2 33 (11.30%) DNS
3 23 (7.88%) HTTP
4 19 (6.51%) SMTP
5 18 (6.16%) FTP
5 18 (6.16%) SSH
6 13 (4.45%) VPN
7 11 (3.77%) IMAP
7 11 (3.77%) OpenLDAP
8 6 (2.05%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (1.37%) Internet
9 4 (1.37%) Network Security
9 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.03%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.68%) LAN
11 2 (0.68%) WAN
12 1 (0.34%) DHCP
12 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.34%) VLAN
12 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (27.05%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (16.78%) DynamoDB
3 47 (16.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 35 (11.99%) MySQL
5 30 (10.27%) Relational Database
6 29 (9.93%) SQL Server
7 26 (8.90%) NoSQL
8 23 (7.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (7.19%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (6.85%) MongoDB
11 12 (4.11%) RDBMS
11 12 (4.11%) Redis
12 9 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.08%) Hadoop
12 9 (3.08%) Oracle Database
13 7 (2.40%) BigQuery
13 7 (2.40%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.05%) Couchbase
14 6 (2.05%) DB2
Development Applications
1 132 (45.21%) Jenkins
2 88 (30.14%) Git
3 79 (27.05%) GitLab
4 41 (14.04%) JIRA
5 19 (6.51%) Vagrant
6 14 (4.79%) Bitbucket
7 12 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (3.77%) Maven
9 8 (2.74%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.40%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.05%) JUnit
12 5 (1.71%) Gradle
12 5 (1.71%) SonarLint
13 4 (1.37%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.68%) Gatling
15 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
15 1 (0.34%) RStudio
15 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 86 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.07%) Public Sector
3 42 (14.38%) Finance
4 18 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.82%) Banking
6 12 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.37%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Legal
9 2 (0.68%) Marketing
9 2 (0.68%) Publishing
10 1 (0.34%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.34%) Military
10 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (29.11%) AWS Engineer
2 83 (28.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 53 (18.15%) AWS DevOps
4 46 (15.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 43 (14.73%) Senior
6 39 (13.36%) Platform Engineer
7 34 (11.64%) Developer
8 33 (11.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (8.90%) Architect
9 26 (8.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 25 (8.56%) Lead
11 19 (6.51%) Data Engineer
12 18 (6.16%) Site Engineer
13 17 (5.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 16 (5.48%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (5.14%) AWS Developer
15 15 (5.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 14 (4.79%) Software Engineer
17 12 (4.11%) DBA
17 12 (4.11%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.73%) Kafka
2 37 (12.67%) Node.js
3 32 (10.96%) RESTful
4 30 (10.27%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (6.85%) Spring Boot
6 19 (6.51%) React
7 16 (5.48%) AWS CDK
7 16 (5.48%) Spring
8 12 (4.11%) LDAP
9 10 (3.42%) CSS
9 10 (3.42%) Jest
10 8 (2.74%) Django
10 8 (2.74%) GraphQL
10 8 (2.74%) Keycloak
10 8 (2.74%) PySpark
10 8 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (2.74%) REST
11 7 (2.40%) .NET
11 7 (2.40%) JSON
11 7 (2.40%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.70%) Replication
2 37 (12.67%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.05%) Clustering
7 6 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (2.05%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.71%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.71%) PKI
9 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.03%) Derivative
10 3 (1.03%) NHS
11 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 95 (32.53%) Linux
2 25 (8.56%) Windows
3 22 (7.53%) Amazon Linux
4 20 (6.85%) VMS
5 13 (4.45%) Unix
6 11 (3.77%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.71%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.37%) CentOS
9 4 (1.37%) Solaris
10 1 (0.34%) AIX
10 1 (0.34%) Android
10 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.34%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (65.41%) CI/CD
2 161 (55.14%) DevOps
3 134 (45.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (34.59%) Containerisation
5 78 (26.71%) Agile
6 62 (21.23%) Microservices
7 58 (19.86%) Configuration Management
8 50 (17.12%) Observability
8 50 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (15.07%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (14.73%) Migration
11 39 (13.36%) Performance Tuning
12 37 (12.67%) Event-Driven
12 37 (12.67%) Software Engineering
13 36 (12.33%) Cloud Security
14 30 (10.27%) Cost Optimisation
15 29 (9.93%) Secrets Management
16 28 (9.59%) Change Management
16 28 (9.59%) Mentoring
17 27 (9.25%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 170 (58.22%) Python
2 83 (28.42%) SQL
3 76 (26.03%) Java
4 57 (19.52%) Bash
5 46 (15.75%) PowerShell
6 27 (9.25%) Shell Script
7 26 (8.90%) Groovy
7 26 (8.90%) JavaScript
8 20 (6.85%) Go
8 20 (6.85%) TypeScript
9 19 (6.51%) Perl
10 12 (4.11%) Ruby
11 8 (2.74%) C#
12 6 (2.05%) JSX
13 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.68%) C
14 2 (0.68%) PHP
15 1 (0.34%) Bicep
15 1 (0.34%) COBOL
15 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 72 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 61 (20.89%) AWS Certification
4 28 (9.59%) Degree
5 21 (7.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (5.14%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.08%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.71%) OCP
10 5 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.34%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.82%) QA
2 16 (5.48%) GDPR
3 9 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.40%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.40%) NCSC
6 6 (2.05%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.71%) NIST
8 3 (1.03%) SLA
9 2 (0.68%) GxP
9 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.68%) WCAG
10 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 138 (47.26%) Docker
2 18 (6.16%) DFS Replication
3 12 (4.11%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.77%) Dovecot
4 11 (3.77%) Postfix
4 11 (3.77%) Squid
5 8 (2.74%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.03%) NFS
8 2 (0.68%) HDFS
9 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 180 (61.64%) Terraform
2 104 (35.62%) Kubernetes
3 86 (29.45%) Grafana
4 74 (25.34%) Prometheus
5 45 (15.41%) Ansible
6 23 (7.88%) Progress Chef
7 21 (7.19%) Puppet
8 11 (3.77%) Nessus
9 10 (3.42%) Proxmox
10 8 (2.74%) Packer
11 6 (2.05%) Argo
12 4 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.37%) Kibana
12 4 (1.37%) Rancher
13 3 (1.03%) Data Guard
13 3 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.68%) systemd
Vendors
1 31 (10.62%) Oracle
2 25 (8.56%) ServiceNow
3 23 (7.88%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.45%) IBM
5 12 (4.11%) Splunk
6 11 (3.77%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (3.42%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.42%) PagerDuty
8 8 (2.74%) Confluent
9 7 (2.40%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.71%) Gigya
11 4 (1.37%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.37%) Okta
11 4 (1.37%) Sybase
12 3 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (1.03%) Cloudera
12 3 (1.03%) Databricks
12 3 (1.03%) Google
12 3 (1.03%) SAP
13 2 (0.68%) Qualys