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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 285 354
Rank change year-on-year -121 +69 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 282 294 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.90% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.45% 5.00% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 213 147
10th Percentile £400 £425 £409
25th Percentile £431 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £788 £650 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -8.00% -1.38% -7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £70.60 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £74.13 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
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 8,183 5,877 7,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 17.97% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,453 3,943 4,930
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.31%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 92 100
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.21 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £19.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.00 £54.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £69.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £33.88 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.90% +12.93% -44.19%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -110 229 £530 +0.90% 176
London -80 143 £550 -5.17% 107
Work from Home -78 94 £525 -5.41% 106
UK excluding London -123 88 £460 -8.00% 104
North of England -50 32 £463 -7.50% 29
Midlands -62 27 £469 -1.26% 14
West Midlands -68 23 £469 -1.26% 6
Yorkshire -31 18 £500 - 6
Scotland -16 9 £425 -14.59% 14
South West -30 9 £538 -0.92% 16
South East -68 8 £460 -20.00% 15
North East -34 7 £425 -2.86% 8
North West -48 7 £525 -4.55% 15
East of England -25 4 £348 -36.82% 10
East Midlands -18 3 £449 +18.16% 8
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 23 (8.16%) Confluence
2 13 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.55%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.48%) Apache
4 7 (2.48%) SAS
4 7 (2.48%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.71%) Camunda
7 2 (0.71%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.71%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 271 (96.10%) AWS
2 180 (63.83%) Amazon S3
3 159 (56.38%) AWS Lambda
4 158 (56.03%) Serverless
5 112 (39.72%) Amazon EC2
6 108 (38.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 78 (27.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 72 (25.53%) Amazon ECS
9 68 (24.11%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (18.79%) Azure
11 52 (18.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 51 (18.09%) GitHub
13 41 (14.54%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (12.41%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (11.35%) AWS KMS
16 28 (9.93%) Route 53
17 26 (9.22%) AWS Step Functions
18 23 (8.16%) Amazon EventBridge
19 19 (6.74%) GCP
20 18 (6.38%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.38%) Firewall
2 11 (3.90%) DNS
3 7 (2.48%) DHCP
3 7 (2.48%) VPN
4 6 (2.13%) Network Security
4 6 (2.13%) SMTP
5 4 (1.42%) HTTP
5 4 (1.42%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.71%) FTP
6 2 (0.71%) IMAP
6 2 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.71%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.71%) SSH
6 2 (0.71%) SSL
7 1 (0.35%) AMQP
7 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.35%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (27.66%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (24.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 62 (21.99%) DynamoDB
4 36 (12.77%) MySQL
5 25 (8.87%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (8.16%) MongoDB
6 23 (8.16%) SQL Server
7 20 (7.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (6.03%) Data Lake
10 15 (5.32%) Redis
11 13 (4.61%) Big Data
11 13 (4.61%) Power BI
12 12 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.84%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (2.84%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.84%) Pentaho
13 8 (2.84%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 85 (30.14%) Jenkins
2 55 (19.50%) Git
3 46 (16.31%) GitLab
4 32 (11.35%) JIRA
5 15 (5.32%) JUnit
6 14 (4.96%) Mockito
7 13 (4.61%) Maven
8 12 (4.26%) Bitbucket
8 12 (4.26%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.55%) Claude Code
10 8 (2.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (2.48%) DbUnit
12 6 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.13%) jMock
12 6 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.77%) Postman
14 4 (1.42%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.42%) Cypress.io
15 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
15 3 (1.06%) Gradle
General
1 83 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 65 (23.05%) Public Sector
3 33 (11.70%) Finance
4 26 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.80%) Banking
6 7 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.48%) Front Office
6 7 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.13%) Back Office
7 6 (2.13%) Legal
8 3 (1.06%) Billing
8 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.71%) Law
9 2 (0.71%) Local Government
9 2 (0.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Games
10 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.35%) Military
10 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (24.82%) AWS Engineer
2 50 (17.73%) Senior
3 45 (15.96%) Architect
4 42 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (13.83%) Developer
6 36 (12.77%) Data Engineer
7 28 (9.93%) AWS Architect
7 28 (9.93%) DBA
8 27 (9.57%) AWS DevOps
9 23 (8.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 22 (7.80%) Lead
11 20 (7.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (6.03%) Java Developer
12 17 (6.03%) Technical Architect
13 15 (5.32%) Administrator
13 15 (5.32%) AWS Data Engineer
14 13 (4.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 13 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (4.61%) Technical Leader
15 11 (3.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (49.65%) Terraform
2 40 (14.18%) React
3 37 (13.12%) REST
4 36 (12.77%) Node.js
5 33 (11.70%) RESTful
6 31 (10.99%) Spring
6 31 (10.99%) Spring Boot
7 24 (8.51%) AngularJS
7 24 (8.51%) AWS CDK
8 20 (7.09%) .NET
9 19 (6.74%) Kafka
10 16 (5.67%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.61%) SOAP
12 12 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
13 11 (3.90%) GraphQL
14 10 (3.55%) JSON
15 9 (3.19%) Django
15 9 (3.19%) Hibernate
15 9 (3.19%) JPA
15 9 (3.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (24.82%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.93%) Product Ownership
3 25 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (8.51%) Replication
5 10 (3.55%) NHS
6 9 (3.19%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.84%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.48%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.48%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.13%) PKI
10 5 (1.77%) Clustering
11 4 (1.42%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.06%) PropTech
12 3 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.09%) Linux
2 22 (7.80%) Windows
3 14 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.19%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (2.13%) Unix
7 4 (1.42%) AIX
7 4 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.06%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (65.25%) CI/CD
2 133 (47.16%) DevOps
3 129 (45.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (40.07%) Agile
5 72 (25.53%) Microservices
6 56 (19.86%) Containerisation
7 53 (18.79%) Observability
8 52 (18.44%) Data Modelling
9 48 (17.02%) Performance Tuning
10 46 (16.31%) High Availability
10 46 (16.31%) Software Engineering
11 44 (15.60%) Event-Driven
12 42 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (14.89%) Data Pipeline
12 42 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (14.54%) Migration
14 35 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (11.70%) Scrum
16 32 (11.35%) AI
16 32 (11.35%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 125 (44.33%) Python
2 78 (27.66%) SQL
3 71 (25.18%) Java
4 40 (14.18%) TypeScript
5 29 (10.28%) Bash
6 24 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 24 (8.51%) PowerShell
7 17 (6.03%) C#
7 17 (6.03%) Groovy
8 10 (3.55%) Scala
8 10 (3.55%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.48%) Perl
10 3 (1.06%) Go
10 3 (1.06%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.71%) Ruby
12 1 (0.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 109 (38.65%) Security Cleared
2 87 (30.85%) SC Cleared
3 50 (17.73%) AWS Certification
4 32 (11.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (9.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (6.03%) Degree
7 12 (4.26%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.55%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.13%) CISM
10 6 (2.13%) CISSP
11 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.06%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.71%) PMP
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.48%) NIST
3 6 (2.13%) QA
4 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.06%) GDPR
5 3 (1.06%) HL7
5 3 (1.06%) NCSC
5 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.06%) PMO
5 3 (1.06%) SLA
6 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 94 (33.33%) Docker
2 14 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.48%) Postfix
4 6 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.42%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.42%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.42%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.71%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.71%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.71%) Squid
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 74 (26.24%) Kubernetes
2 57 (20.21%) Grafana
3 42 (14.89%) Prometheus
4 27 (9.57%) Ansible
5 9 (3.19%) Istio
5 9 (3.19%) Kibana
6 8 (2.84%) Argo
7 5 (1.77%) Puppet
8 4 (1.42%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.42%) vMotion
9 3 (1.06%) Nagios
9 3 (1.06%) Packer
9 3 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.06%) Rancher
10 2 (0.71%) Consul
10 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.71%) Foglight
10 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.71%) Nessus
10 2 (0.71%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 28 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.45%) ServiceNow
3 19 (6.74%) Oracle
4 15 (5.32%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.55%) Databricks
5 10 (3.55%) Informatica
5 10 (3.55%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (3.55%) VMware
6 8 (2.84%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.48%) Denodo
7 7 (2.48%) Google
7 7 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.48%) Splunk
8 5 (1.77%) Amplitude
8 5 (1.77%) Citrix
8 5 (1.77%) Talend
9 4 (1.42%) Brio
9 4 (1.42%) Cisco
9 4 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.42%) Symantec