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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 331 358
Rank change year-on-year +12 +27 -28
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 290 233 258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.68% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.56% 3.76% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 144 189
10th Percentile £377 £433 £413
25th Percentile £435 £499 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +1.29% -3.47%
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 6,364 6,193 7,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.30% 18.00% 16.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,383 4,096 5,203
10th Percentile £328 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -1.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £701 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 85 140
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.20 £16.11
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.48 £21.56
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +42.20% -33.76% -7.69%
75th Percentile £68.19 £60.75 £64.65
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.85 £77.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.35 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.82% -40.78% +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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +3 218 £510 -9.13% 64
UK excluding London +21 125 £475 -0.68% 62
London -41 105 £513 -14.58% 16
Work from Home -24 90 £565 +4.82% 43
Midlands +5 45 £475 -6.77% 5
West Midlands -4 37 £475 -6.77% 5
North of England -29 28 £500 -23.08% 16
South East +2 19 £475 +11.76% 17
Scotland +1 15 £358 -24.11% 1
North West -18 15 £400 -40.74% 8
Yorkshire -36 9 £518 -11.91% 7
South West +6 8 £525 -12.62% 16
East of England -6 8 £550 -
East Midlands -17 8 £380 -24.00%
North East -6 4 £500 - 1
Wales 0 1 £475 - 7
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 (9.31%) Confluence
2 11 (3.79%) nginx
3 9 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.41%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) IIS
5 2 (0.69%) 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 (3.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 285 (98.28%) AWS
2 196 (67.59%) Amazon S3
3 177 (61.03%) Amazon EC2
4 172 (59.31%) Serverless
5 171 (58.97%) AWS Lambda
6 116 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 110 (37.93%) Amazon ECS
8 108 (37.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 96 (33.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 91 (31.38%) Amazon EKS
10 91 (31.38%) GitHub
11 68 (23.45%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (16.55%) Azure
13 43 (14.83%) Route 53
14 26 (8.97%) AWS Step Functions
14 26 (8.97%) Datadog
15 25 (8.62%) AWS Fargate
16 23 (7.93%) Amazon ELB
16 23 (7.93%) Amazon Kinesis
16 23 (7.93%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (13.10%) Firewall
2 34 (11.72%) DNS
3 24 (8.28%) HTTP
4 20 (6.90%) SMTP
5 19 (6.55%) FTP
5 19 (6.55%) SSH
6 13 (4.48%) VPN
7 11 (3.79%) IMAP
7 11 (3.79%) OpenLDAP
8 6 (2.07%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (1.38%) Internet
9 4 (1.38%) Network Security
9 4 (1.38%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.03%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.69%) LAN
11 2 (0.69%) 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 78 (26.90%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (16.55%) DynamoDB
3 47 (16.21%) Amazon Aurora
4 34 (11.72%) MySQL
5 30 (10.34%) Relational Database
6 28 (9.66%) SQL Server
7 25 (8.62%) NoSQL
8 23 (7.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (7.24%) Amazon Athena
10 19 (6.55%) MongoDB
11 12 (4.14%) RDBMS
11 12 (4.14%) Redis
12 9 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.10%) Hadoop
12 9 (3.10%) Oracle Database
13 7 (2.41%) BigQuery
13 7 (2.41%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.07%) Couchbase
14 6 (2.07%) DB2
Development Applications
1 133 (45.86%) Jenkins
2 88 (30.34%) Git
3 78 (26.90%) GitLab
4 41 (14.14%) JIRA
5 20 (6.90%) Vagrant
6 14 (4.83%) Bitbucket
7 12 (4.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (3.79%) Maven
9 8 (2.76%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.41%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.07%) JUnit
12 5 (1.72%) Gradle
12 5 (1.72%) SonarLint
13 4 (1.38%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.69%) Gatling
15 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
15 1 (0.34%) ERwin
15 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 86 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.17%) Public Sector
3 42 (14.48%) Finance
4 18 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.86%) Banking
6 12 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.38%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Legal
9 2 (0.69%) Marketing
9 2 (0.69%) 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 84 (28.97%) AWS Engineer
1 84 (28.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (18.28%) AWS DevOps
3 46 (15.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 42 (14.48%) Senior
5 39 (13.45%) Platform Engineer
6 33 (11.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 33 (11.38%) Developer
7 26 (8.97%) Architect
7 26 (8.97%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 25 (8.62%) Lead
9 19 (6.55%) Data Engineer
10 18 (6.21%) Site Engineer
11 17 (5.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 16 (5.52%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 14 (4.83%) AWS Developer
15 13 (4.48%) Software Engineer
16 12 (4.14%) DBA
16 12 (4.14%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.48%) Kafka
2 36 (12.41%) Node.js
3 31 (10.69%) RESTful
4 30 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (6.55%) React
5 19 (6.55%) Spring Boot
6 15 (5.17%) AWS CDK
6 15 (5.17%) Spring
7 12 (4.14%) LDAP
8 10 (3.45%) CSS
8 10 (3.45%) Jest
9 8 (2.76%) Django
9 8 (2.76%) GraphQL
9 8 (2.76%) Keycloak
9 8 (2.76%) PySpark
9 8 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (2.76%) REST
10 7 (2.41%) JSON
10 7 (2.41%) Lambda Expressions
10 7 (2.41%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.14%) Replication
2 36 (12.41%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.14%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.07%) Clustering
7 6 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.72%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.72%) PKI
9 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.03%) Derivative
10 3 (1.03%) NHS
11 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 95 (32.76%) Linux
2 26 (8.97%) Windows
3 23 (7.93%) Amazon Linux
4 21 (7.24%) VMS
5 13 (4.48%) Unix
6 11 (3.79%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.72%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.38%) CentOS
9 4 (1.38%) Solaris
10 1 (0.34%) AIX
10 1 (0.34%) Android
10 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.34%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (64.83%) CI/CD
2 161 (55.52%) DevOps
3 131 (45.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (34.83%) Containerisation
5 77 (26.55%) Agile
6 61 (21.03%) Microservices
7 58 (20.00%) Configuration Management
8 49 (16.90%) Observability
8 49 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (15.52%) Platform Engineering
10 42 (14.48%) Migration
11 39 (13.45%) Performance Tuning
12 36 (12.41%) Cloud Security
12 36 (12.41%) Event-Driven
12 36 (12.41%) Software Engineering
13 30 (10.34%) Cost Optimisation
14 29 (10.00%) Change Management
14 29 (10.00%) Secrets Management
15 27 (9.31%) Analytics
15 27 (9.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 169 (58.28%) Python
2 81 (27.93%) SQL
3 76 (26.21%) Java
4 56 (19.31%) Bash
5 46 (15.86%) PowerShell
6 27 (9.31%) Groovy
6 27 (9.31%) Shell Script
7 25 (8.62%) JavaScript
8 20 (6.90%) Go
8 20 (6.90%) Perl
9 18 (6.21%) TypeScript
10 12 (4.14%) Ruby
11 8 (2.76%) C#
12 6 (2.07%) JSX
13 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.69%) C
14 2 (0.69%) PHP
15 1 (0.34%) COBOL
15 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 89 (30.69%) Security Cleared
2 73 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 60 (20.69%) AWS Certification
4 28 (9.66%) Degree
5 21 (7.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (5.17%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.10%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.72%) OCP
10 5 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.34%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.34%) PMP
13 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.86%) QA
2 15 (5.17%) GDPR
3 9 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.41%) NCSC
5 6 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.38%) NIST
7 3 (1.03%) SLA
8 2 (0.69%) GxP
8 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 138 (47.59%) Docker
2 19 (6.55%) DFS Replication
3 13 (4.48%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.79%) Dovecot
4 11 (3.79%) Postfix
4 11 (3.79%) Squid
5 8 (2.76%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.03%) NFS
8 2 (0.69%) HDFS
9 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 179 (61.72%) Terraform
2 102 (35.17%) Kubernetes
3 86 (29.66%) Grafana
4 74 (25.52%) Prometheus
5 44 (15.17%) Ansible
6 23 (7.93%) Progress Chef
7 21 (7.24%) Puppet
8 11 (3.79%) Nessus
9 10 (3.45%) Proxmox
10 8 (2.76%) Packer
11 5 (1.72%) Argo
12 4 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.38%) Kibana
12 4 (1.38%) 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 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.69%) systemd
Vendors
1 31 (10.69%) Oracle
2 26 (8.97%) ServiceNow
3 23 (7.93%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.48%) IBM
5 12 (4.14%) Splunk
6 11 (3.79%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (3.45%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.45%) PagerDuty
8 8 (2.76%) Confluent
9 7 (2.41%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.72%) Gigya
11 4 (1.38%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.38%) Okta
11 4 (1.38%) 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 (0.69%) Informatica