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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 290 364
Rank change year-on-year -87 +74 -39
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 279 262 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.88% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.64% 4.73% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 193 174
10th Percentile £386 £425 £387
25th Percentile £425 £475 £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 £713 £650 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £531 £480
% change year-on-year -10.17% +10.63% -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 7,657 5,544 7,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 18.68% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,109 3,775 5,324
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 101 153
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £34.98 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.24% -12.55% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.72 £66.00 £54.13
90th Percentile £78.58 £78.70 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.68% -9.60% -38.54%

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 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -82 240 £500 -9.09% 73
London -48 138 £525 -6.67% 28
UK excluding London -84 105 £477 -10.17% 59
Work from Home -72 84 £500 -11.19% 40
Midlands -33 49 £469 -1.26% 10
West Midlands -36 42 £469 -1.26% 7
North of England -51 30 £425 -18.03% 18
Yorkshire -43 17 £500 - 4
South West -26 12 £580 +6.91% 10
North West -38 9 £445 -19.09% 10
South East -65 9 £440 -23.57% 13
East Midlands -15 6 £519 +66.88% 3
North East -29 4 £425 -5.56% 4
East of England -31 3 £350 -36.36% 3
Scotland -26 2 - - 1
Wales - 2 £525 - 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 29 (10.39%) Confluence
2 7 (2.51%) SAS
3 6 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 270 (96.77%) AWS
2 171 (61.29%) Amazon S3
3 151 (54.12%) AWS Lambda
3 151 (54.12%) Serverless
4 124 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
5 99 (35.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 73 (26.16%) Amazon ECS
7 71 (25.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 70 (25.09%) Amazon EKS
9 56 (20.07%) GitHub
10 50 (17.92%) Amazon SQS
11 49 (17.56%) Azure
12 42 (15.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (14.34%) Route 53
14 35 (12.54%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (10.39%) AWS KMS
16 20 (7.17%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (6.81%) Power Platform
18 18 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
19 17 (6.09%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.30%) DNS
2 11 (3.94%) Firewall
3 7 (2.51%) DHCP
4 6 (2.15%) VPN
5 4 (1.43%) Network Security
5 4 (1.43%) SMTP
6 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.36%) AMQP
8 1 (0.36%) HTTP
8 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (27.96%) DynamoDB
2 74 (26.52%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (23.66%) Amazon Aurora
4 35 (12.54%) MySQL
5 19 (6.81%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (6.81%) Power BI
6 17 (6.09%) SQL Server
7 15 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (5.38%) MongoDB
7 15 (5.38%) NoSQL
8 14 (5.02%) Pentaho
9 11 (3.94%) Redis
10 10 (3.58%) Big Data
10 10 (3.58%) Data Lake
10 10 (3.58%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.23%) Tableau
12 7 (2.51%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 85 (30.47%) Jenkins
2 67 (24.01%) Git
3 42 (15.05%) GitLab
4 34 (12.19%) JIRA
5 28 (10.04%) JUnit
6 23 (8.24%) Mockito
7 22 (7.89%) Maven
8 21 (7.53%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.02%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.66%) jMock
11 11 (3.94%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.51%) Claude Code
13 6 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.15%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.15%) Postman
13 6 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.79%) git-flow
15 4 (1.43%) Flyway
15 4 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
15 4 (1.43%) Snyk
General
1 69 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 60 (21.51%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (10.39%) Finance
4 15 (5.38%) Banking
5 11 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.58%) Legal
7 6 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.72%) Front Office
10 2 (0.72%) Law
10 2 (0.72%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Billing
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Military
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (19.71%) Developer
2 53 (19.00%) AWS Engineer
3 46 (16.49%) Senior
4 36 (12.90%) Architect
5 30 (10.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (10.75%) Java Developer
6 29 (10.39%) Data Engineer
7 27 (9.68%) AWS Architect
8 25 (8.96%) DBA
9 20 (7.17%) Software Engineer
10 19 (6.81%) Lead
11 18 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
12 15 (5.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 15 (5.38%) Senior Developer
12 15 (5.38%) Technical Architect
13 12 (4.30%) AWS Developer
13 12 (4.30%) Python Developer
13 12 (4.30%) Python Engineer
14 11 (3.94%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.92%) Spring
1 50 (17.92%) Spring Boot
2 47 (16.85%) REST
3 45 (16.13%) RESTful
4 37 (13.26%) React
5 33 (11.83%) Node.js
6 31 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 29 (10.39%) Kafka
8 23 (8.24%) Hibernate
8 23 (8.24%) JPA
8 23 (8.24%) SOAP
9 22 (7.89%) AWS CDK
10 21 (7.53%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (6.81%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (6.81%) Web Services
12 18 (6.45%) GraphQL
12 18 (6.45%) Spring Batch
12 18 (6.45%) Spring Integration
13 14 (5.02%) .NET
13 14 (5.02%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 65 (23.30%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.83%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.96%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.94%) Replication
5 8 (2.87%) NHS
5 8 (2.87%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.79%) Clustering
8 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.43%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.43%) PKI
9 3 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
9 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.08%) PropTech
10 2 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.72%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.36%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.56%) Linux
2 15 (5.38%) Windows
3 12 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.87%) Unix
5 4 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.08%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (57.35%) CI/CD
2 120 (43.01%) Agile
3 114 (40.86%) DevOps
4 89 (31.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 85 (30.47%) Microservices
6 67 (24.01%) Containerisation
7 47 (16.85%) Scrum
8 45 (16.13%) Observability
9 43 (15.41%) Performance Tuning
10 41 (14.70%) Event-Driven
11 39 (13.98%) Software Engineering
12 35 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (12.54%) ETL
12 35 (12.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (11.47%) High Availability
13 32 (11.47%) Migration
13 32 (11.47%) TDD
14 31 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 30 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (10.39%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 96 (34.41%) SQL
2 94 (33.69%) Python
3 85 (30.47%) Java
4 29 (10.39%) TypeScript
5 22 (7.89%) Bash
6 21 (7.53%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.17%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.66%) C#
9 10 (3.58%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.87%) Groovy
10 8 (2.87%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.15%) Scala
12 4 (1.43%) Go
12 4 (1.43%) Perl
12 4 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.72%) Ruby
14 1 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 116 (41.58%) Security Cleared
2 96 (34.41%) SC Cleared
3 34 (12.19%) AWS Certification
4 17 (6.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (5.73%) Degree
6 15 (5.38%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.87%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.72%) PMP
13 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.36%) CEH
13 1 (0.36%) CISSP
13 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.30%) QA
2 10 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.87%) NIST
4 7 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.51%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.51%) PMO
5 4 (1.43%) GDPR
5 4 (1.43%) SLA
6 3 (1.08%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.36%) HL7
7 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (37.28%) Docker
2 11 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.94%) Postfix
3 6 (2.15%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.43%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.43%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 109 (39.07%) Terraform
2 77 (27.60%) Kubernetes
3 55 (19.71%) Grafana
4 37 (13.26%) Prometheus
5 20 (7.17%) Ansible
6 8 (2.87%) Argo
7 6 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.79%) Data Guard
8 5 (1.79%) Puppet
9 4 (1.43%) Istio
9 4 (1.43%) Kibana
9 4 (1.43%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.43%) vMotion
10 3 (1.08%) Foglight
10 3 (1.08%) Nagios
10 3 (1.08%) Rancher
11 2 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.72%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (11.47%) Oracle
2 22 (7.89%) ServiceNow
3 20 (7.17%) Microsoft
4 17 (6.09%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (5.38%) Atlassian
6 14 (5.02%) Dynatrace
7 13 (4.66%) Informatica
8 9 (3.23%) Talend
9 8 (2.87%) Databricks
10 7 (2.51%) Denodo
11 6 (2.15%) Splunk
12 5 (1.79%) Citrix
12 5 (1.79%) Google
12 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.79%) Sybase
12 5 (1.79%) VMware
13 4 (1.43%) AVEVA
13 4 (1.43%) Brio
13 4 (1.43%) HP
13 4 (1.43%) Symantec