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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 300 364
Rank change year-on-year -94 +64 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 297 287 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.87% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.59% 4.82% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 204 139
10th Percentile £400 £410 £409
25th Percentile £437 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £527
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.28% -4.27%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £600
90th Percentile £788 £640 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 8,280 5,956 6,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 18.04% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,519 3,982 4,798
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year - -4.90% -2.86%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £745 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 93 86
10th Percentile £16.49 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £30.96 £20.88
Median hourly rate £39.84 £40.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +16.06% -34.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.89% +18.30% -42.86%

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 12 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 12 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 -109 239 £533 +1.43% 174
London -48 150 £550 -6.38% 94
Work from Home -68 103 £530 -3.68% 712
UK excluding London -132 90 £460 -8.00% 121
North of England -59 32 £500 -2.44% 28
Midlands -69 26 £469 -1.26% 14
West Midlands -66 23 £469 -1.26% 7
Yorkshire -32 18 £500 - 7
South West -40 10 £542 -0.14% 16
South East -69 10 £460 -20.00% 22
Scotland -29 9 £425 -14.59% 21
North East -40 7 £425 -2.86% 8
North West -50 7 £525 -4.55% 13
East of England -27 4 £348 -36.82% 13
East Midlands -20 2 £449 +18.16% 7
Wales - 1 £550 - 3

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 (7.74%) Confluence
2 17 (5.72%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.36%) Apache
4 7 (2.36%) SAS
4 7 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.68%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.68%) WebLogic Portal
7 3 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.01%) nginx
8 2 (0.67%) Camunda
9 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.68%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.01%) 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
1 285 (95.96%) AWS
2 185 (62.29%) Amazon S3
3 165 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
4 164 (55.22%) Serverless
5 118 (39.73%) Amazon EC2
6 112 (37.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 76 (25.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 74 (24.92%) Amazon ECS
9 72 (24.24%) Amazon EKS
10 60 (20.20%) Azure
11 55 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 54 (18.18%) GitHub
13 42 (14.14%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (12.46%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (10.77%) AWS KMS
16 30 (10.10%) Route 53
17 25 (8.42%) AWS Step Functions
18 24 (8.08%) Amazon EventBridge
19 21 (7.07%) GCP
20 18 (6.06%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.06%) Firewall
2 13 (4.38%) DNS
3 8 (2.69%) DHCP
3 8 (2.69%) VPN
4 6 (2.02%) Network Security
4 6 (2.02%) SMTP
5 4 (1.35%) HTTP
5 4 (1.35%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.67%) FTP
6 2 (0.67%) IMAP
6 2 (0.67%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.67%) SSH
6 2 (0.67%) SSL
7 1 (0.34%) AMQP
7 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.34%) IPsec
7 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (29.97%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (24.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 66 (22.22%) DynamoDB
4 37 (12.46%) MySQL
5 26 (8.75%) MongoDB
6 25 (8.42%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (8.42%) SQL Server
7 21 (7.07%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (6.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (5.72%) Redis
10 16 (5.39%) Data Lake
11 13 (4.38%) Big Data
11 13 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (4.04%) Power BI
13 11 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (3.37%) NoSQL
15 8 (2.69%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.69%) Pentaho
15 8 (2.69%) Relational Database
16 6 (2.02%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 86 (28.96%) Jenkins
2 63 (21.21%) Git
3 50 (16.84%) GitLab
4 33 (11.11%) JIRA
5 18 (6.06%) JUnit
6 16 (5.39%) Mockito
7 15 (5.05%) Maven
8 13 (4.38%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.70%) SonarQube
10 10 (3.37%) Claude Code
11 8 (2.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.36%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.36%) DbUnit
13 6 (2.02%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (2.02%) Flyway
13 6 (2.02%) jMock
13 6 (2.02%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.68%) Gradle
14 5 (1.68%) Postman
15 4 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 65 (21.89%) Public Sector
3 32 (10.77%) Finance
4 25 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.41%) Banking
6 10 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.69%) Front Office
8 7 (2.36%) Back Office
8 7 (2.36%) Legal
9 6 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.35%) Billing
11 3 (1.01%) Law
11 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Local Government
12 2 (0.67%) 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 (24.92%) AWS Engineer
2 56 (18.86%) Senior
3 49 (16.50%) Architect
4 45 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 40 (13.47%) Developer
6 39 (13.13%) Data Engineer
7 33 (11.11%) DBA
8 28 (9.43%) AWS Architect
9 27 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
10 25 (8.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 24 (8.08%) Lead
12 20 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (6.40%) Java Developer
14 17 (5.72%) AWS Data Engineer
14 17 (5.72%) Technical Architect
15 15 (5.05%) Administrator
15 15 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (4.71%) Technical Leader
17 13 (4.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 13 (4.38%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (49.16%) Terraform
2 40 (13.47%) React
3 38 (12.79%) REST
4 34 (11.45%) Node.js
5 33 (11.11%) Spring
5 33 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 31 (10.44%) RESTful
7 24 (8.08%) AngularJS
8 23 (7.74%) AWS CDK
9 22 (7.41%) .NET
10 19 (6.40%) Kafka
11 17 (5.72%) FastAPI
12 13 (4.38%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (4.38%) SOAP
13 12 (4.04%) GraphQL
14 11 (3.70%) .NET Core
14 11 (3.70%) Hibernate
14 11 (3.70%) JPA
15 10 (3.37%) JSON
16 9 (3.03%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 72 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 28 (9.43%) Replication
3 24 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 10 (3.37%) Clustering
5 10 (3.37%) NHS
6 8 (2.69%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.36%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.02%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.02%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.02%) PKI
9 5 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.68%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.35%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.35%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 55 (18.52%) Linux
2 24 (8.08%) Windows
3 14 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.70%) Unix
5 10 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.03%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.35%) AIX
7 4 (1.35%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.01%) 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 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 145 (48.82%) DevOps
3 137 (46.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (39.39%) Agile
5 71 (23.91%) Microservices
6 61 (20.54%) Containerisation
7 58 (19.53%) Data Modelling
8 57 (19.19%) Observability
9 51 (17.17%) Performance Tuning
10 49 (16.50%) Event-Driven
10 49 (16.50%) Software Engineering
11 47 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (15.49%) High Availability
13 45 (15.15%) Migration
13 45 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 41 (13.80%) Data Pipeline
15 38 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
16 37 (12.46%) Data Integration
17 35 (11.78%) Scrum
18 34 (11.45%) AI
Programming Languages
1 131 (44.11%) Python
2 87 (29.29%) SQL
3 72 (24.24%) Java
4 41 (13.80%) TypeScript
5 31 (10.44%) Bash
6 25 (8.42%) JavaScript
7 24 (8.08%) PowerShell
8 18 (6.06%) Groovy
9 17 (5.72%) C#
10 12 (4.04%) Scala
11 8 (2.69%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.36%) Perl
12 7 (2.36%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.01%) Go
13 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.67%) Bicep
14 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.67%) Ruby
15 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 116 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 96 (32.32%) SC Cleared
3 52 (17.51%) AWS Certification
4 34 (11.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (8.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (6.06%) Degree
7 12 (4.04%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.70%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.36%) CISM
10 7 (2.36%) CISSP
11 6 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.67%) PMP
14 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.08%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.69%) NIST
3 7 (2.36%) QA
4 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.01%) GDPR
5 3 (1.01%) HL7
5 3 (1.01%) NCSC
5 3 (1.01%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.01%) SLA
6 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.67%) PMO
6 2 (0.67%) WCAG
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 97 (32.66%) Docker
2 15 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.36%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.36%) Postfix
4 5 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.35%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.35%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.67%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.67%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.67%) Squid
6 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 77 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 59 (19.87%) Grafana
3 43 (14.48%) Prometheus
4 29 (9.76%) Ansible
5 9 (3.03%) Istio
5 9 (3.03%) Kibana
6 8 (2.69%) Argo
7 5 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (1.68%) Puppet
8 4 (1.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.35%) Packer
8 4 (1.35%) Rancher
8 4 (1.35%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.35%) vMotion
9 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.01%) Nagios
9 3 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.67%) Consul
10 2 (0.67%) Nessus
10 2 (0.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (10.10%) Microsoft
1 30 (10.10%) Oracle
2 22 (7.41%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.39%) Dynatrace
4 12 (4.04%) Informatica
5 11 (3.70%) Databricks
6 10 (3.37%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (3.37%) VMware
7 9 (3.03%) Google
8 8 (2.69%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.36%) Denodo
9 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.36%) Splunk
9 7 (2.36%) Talend
10 6 (2.02%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.68%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.68%) Citrix
12 4 (1.35%) Cisco
12 4 (1.35%) HP
12 4 (1.35%) Symantec