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

 6 months to
8 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 309 348
Rank change year-on-year -89 +39 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 314 263 216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.80% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.87% 4.38% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 180 135
10th Percentile £400 £400 £415
25th Percentile £437 £450 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £505 £527
Median % change year-on-year +5.55% -4.18% -4.27%
75th Percentile £657 £584 £600
90th Percentile £775 £640 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -3.16% -3.85% -10.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile - £68.25 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £71.19 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -
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 8,110 6,002 6,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.87% 18.16% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,395 4,007 4,601
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 82 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.58 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.36 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +12.80% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.88 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +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 8 October 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 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 8 October 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 -62 248 £533 +6.50% 268
London -31 159 £550 +5.26% 151
Work from Home -45 112 £530 +4.64% 131
UK excluding London -124 95 £460 -3.16% 136
North of England -52 31 £500 - 37
Midlands -72 22 £459 -3.37% 18
West Midlands -65 19 £464 -2.32% 11
Yorkshire -22 18 £500 - 6
South East -67 14 £496 +7.30% 21
Scotland -14 13 £425 -14.40% 19
South West -33 12 £488 -6.25% 22
North West -51 7 £525 -4.55% 27
North East -36 6 £419 -1.47% 4
East of England -40 3 £345 -37.27% 13
East Midlands -15 2 £358 -5.79% 7
Northern Ireland +9 1 £600 - 5
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 24 (7.64%) Confluence
2 17 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.50%) Apache
4 9 (2.87%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.23%) nginx
5 7 (2.23%) SAS
6 6 (1.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.91%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.91%) WebLogic Portal
7 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.96%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.96%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.64%) Camunda
10 1 (0.32%) Appian
10 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.91%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (1.91%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.64%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 296 (94.27%) AWS
2 193 (61.46%) Amazon S3
3 171 (54.46%) AWS Lambda
4 168 (53.50%) Serverless
5 127 (40.45%) Amazon EC2
6 120 (38.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 85 (27.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 84 (26.75%) Amazon ECS
9 82 (26.11%) Amazon EKS
10 68 (21.66%) Azure
11 60 (19.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (16.88%) GitHub
13 48 (15.29%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (12.42%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (10.51%) AWS KMS
16 31 (9.87%) Route 53
17 29 (9.24%) Amazon EventBridge
18 28 (8.92%) AWS Step Functions
19 24 (7.64%) GCP
20 20 (6.37%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.37%) Firewall
2 16 (5.10%) DNS
3 13 (4.14%) VPN
4 10 (3.18%) Network Security
5 7 (2.23%) DHCP
6 6 (1.91%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (1.59%) SMTP
8 4 (1.27%) HTTP
8 4 (1.27%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.27%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.64%) FTP
9 2 (0.64%) IMAP
9 2 (0.64%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.64%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.64%) SSH
9 2 (0.64%) SSL
10 1 (0.32%) AMQP
10 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (29.62%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (25.48%) Amazon Aurora
3 67 (21.34%) DynamoDB
4 39 (12.42%) MySQL
5 32 (10.19%) MongoDB
6 31 (9.87%) Amazon Athena
6 31 (9.87%) SQL Server
7 23 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (6.05%) Redis
10 18 (5.73%) Data Lake
11 13 (4.14%) Big Data
12 12 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (3.50%) Power BI
14 10 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (2.87%) NoSQL
15 9 (2.87%) Relational Database
16 8 (2.55%) Apache Iceberg
17 7 (2.23%) Metadata
17 7 (2.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 93 (29.62%) Jenkins
2 71 (22.61%) Git
3 58 (18.47%) GitLab
4 35 (11.15%) JIRA
5 17 (5.41%) JUnit
6 16 (5.10%) Maven
7 15 (4.78%) Bitbucket
8 14 (4.46%) Mockito
9 10 (3.18%) Claude Code
9 10 (3.18%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.87%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.23%) Gradle
13 6 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.59%) DbUnit
14 5 (1.59%) Flyway
14 5 (1.59%) Postman
14 5 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (1.27%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (1.27%) jMock
General
1 93 (29.62%) Social Skills
2 67 (21.34%) Public Sector
3 40 (12.74%) Finance
4 30 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.64%) Banking
6 11 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.18%) Back Office
8 8 (2.55%) Front Office
9 7 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.91%) Legal
11 5 (1.59%) Billing
11 5 (1.59%) Law
12 4 (1.27%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.27%) Local Government
13 3 (0.96%) Police
13 3 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.64%) Marketing
14 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.32%) Advertising
15 1 (0.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 77 (24.52%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (18.79%) Senior
3 49 (15.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (14.97%) Architect
5 41 (13.06%) Data Engineer
6 38 (12.10%) DBA
6 38 (12.10%) Developer
7 28 (8.92%) AWS Architect
7 28 (8.92%) AWS DevOps
8 26 (8.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (7.64%) Lead
10 23 (7.32%) Java Developer
11 21 (6.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (5.73%) AWS Data Engineer
13 17 (5.41%) Administrator
13 17 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (5.41%) Technical Leader
14 14 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
15 13 (4.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 13 (4.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (50.96%) Terraform
2 45 (14.33%) REST
3 37 (11.78%) React
4 33 (10.51%) Spring
4 33 (10.51%) Spring Boot
5 32 (10.19%) RESTful
6 26 (8.28%) .NET
7 23 (7.32%) AngularJS
7 23 (7.32%) AWS CDK
8 22 (7.01%) Node.js
9 20 (6.37%) Kafka
10 19 (6.05%) FastAPI
11 15 (4.78%) GraphQL
12 13 (4.14%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (4.14%) SOAP
13 12 (3.82%) Hibernate
13 12 (3.82%) JPA
14 11 (3.50%) .NET Core
14 11 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (2.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 76 (24.20%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.15%) Replication
3 28 (8.92%) Product Ownership
4 23 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.82%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.82%) Clustering
6 9 (2.87%) NHS
6 9 (2.87%) PKI
6 9 (2.87%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.91%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.59%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.59%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.59%) PropTech
9 5 (1.59%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 60 (19.11%) Linux
2 34 (10.83%) Windows
3 15 (4.78%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.50%) Unix
6 9 (2.87%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (1.91%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.91%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.27%) AIX
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (66.56%) CI/CD
2 158 (50.32%) DevOps
3 155 (49.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (39.81%) Agile
5 79 (25.16%) Microservices
6 72 (22.93%) Observability
7 68 (21.66%) Containerisation
8 61 (19.43%) Performance Tuning
9 59 (18.79%) Data Modelling
10 55 (17.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (17.52%) Migration
11 54 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 53 (16.88%) Event-Driven
13 47 (14.97%) High Availability
13 47 (14.97%) Software Engineering
14 46 (14.65%) Disaster Recovery
15 44 (14.01%) Data Integration
15 44 (14.01%) Technical Leadership
16 43 (13.69%) Root Cause Analysis
17 42 (13.38%) AI
Programming Languages
1 140 (44.59%) Python
2 94 (29.94%) SQL
3 66 (21.02%) Java
4 41 (13.06%) TypeScript
5 33 (10.51%) Bash
6 31 (9.87%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.60%) JavaScript
8 22 (7.01%) Groovy
9 21 (6.69%) C#
10 12 (3.82%) Scala
11 8 (2.55%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.23%) Perl
13 4 (1.27%) Bicep
13 4 (1.27%) Go
14 3 (0.96%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 116 (36.94%) Security Cleared
2 99 (31.53%) SC Cleared
3 58 (18.47%) AWS Certification
4 36 (11.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (7.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (5.73%) Degree
7 12 (3.82%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.50%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.23%) CISM
10 7 (2.23%) CISSP
11 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.64%) MCSA
13 2 (0.64%) MCSE
13 2 (0.64%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.60%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.87%) QA
3 7 (2.23%) NIST
4 4 (1.27%) SLA
5 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.96%) HL7
5 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.96%) NCSC
6 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.64%) GDPR
6 2 (0.64%) WCAG
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 109 (34.71%) Docker
2 19 (6.05%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.59%) Postfix
7 4 (1.27%) DFS Replication
7 4 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.96%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.96%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.96%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.64%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.64%) Squid
9 2 (0.64%) vSphere
10 1 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 82 (26.11%) Kubernetes
2 64 (20.38%) Grafana
3 49 (15.61%) Prometheus
4 33 (10.51%) Ansible
5 13 (4.14%) Kibana
6 8 (2.55%) Puppet
7 7 (2.23%) Istio
8 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.91%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (1.59%) Packer
10 4 (1.27%) Argo
10 4 (1.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (1.27%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.27%) Rancher
11 3 (0.96%) Nagios
11 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.96%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.96%) vMotion
11 3 (0.96%) WSUS
12 2 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (12.42%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.55%) Oracle
3 25 (7.96%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.10%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.82%) Informatica
6 11 (3.50%) VMware
7 9 (2.87%) Databricks
7 9 (2.87%) Google
8 8 (2.55%) Citrix
8 8 (2.55%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (2.55%) Splunk
9 7 (2.23%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.23%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.91%) Denodo
10 6 (1.91%) Talend
11 5 (1.59%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.59%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.27%) Brio
12 4 (1.27%) Cisco
13 3 (0.96%) webMethods
314 Amazon RDS jobs Nationwide