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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 308 365
Rank change year-on-year -27 +57 -44
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 275 227 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.73% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.30% 3.95% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 145 194
10th Percentile £363 £425 £402
25th Percentile £412 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +0.95% -10.52%
75th Percentile £577 £632 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.88 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £89.38 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 6,398 5,750 7,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.39% 18.49% 16.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,403 3,797 5,247
10th Percentile £335 £355 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 89 184
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.92
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.09 £21.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -9.41% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.20 £70.75 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £30.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.69% -24.74% -29.65%

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 7 February 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 7 February 2026.

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 7 February 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 -31 212 £525 -4.55% 85
London -32 113 £513 -10.87% 42
UK excluding London -25 109 £490 -2.00% 61
Work from Home -34 80 £575 +9.11% 49
Midlands -27 36 £500 -5.57% 8
West Midlands -25 31 £525 -0.76% 7
North of England -43 28 £500 +11.11% 20
South East -12 17 £475 +5.56% 17
Scotland -1 13 £358 -24.95% 1
North West -21 13 £394 +5.00% 10
Yorkshire -44 11 £518 -11.91% 9
South West -12 9 £566 -5.88% 8
East Midlands -23 5 £375 -34.78% 1
North East -13 4 £500 - 1
East of England -22 3 £538 +8.86% 3
Wales 0 2 £488 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 19 (6.91%) Confluence
2 6 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.18%) nginx
3 3 (1.09%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 275 (100.00%) AWS
2 176 (64.00%) Amazon S3
3 159 (57.82%) Serverless
4 158 (57.45%) AWS Lambda
5 157 (57.09%) Amazon EC2
6 104 (37.82%) Amazon ECS
7 100 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 92 (33.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 92 (33.45%) Amazon EKS
9 77 (28.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 75 (27.27%) GitHub
11 59 (21.45%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (13.82%) Azure
12 38 (13.82%) Route 53
13 26 (9.45%) Amazon Kinesis
14 22 (8.00%) AWS Fargate
15 21 (7.64%) Amazon MSK
16 20 (7.27%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (6.55%) Datadog
18 16 (5.82%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.82%) Firewall
2 22 (8.00%) DNS
3 10 (3.64%) HTTP
4 8 (2.91%) FTP
4 8 (2.91%) SMTP
4 8 (2.91%) SSH
4 8 (2.91%) VPN
5 6 (2.18%) IMAP
5 6 (2.18%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.45%) Network Security
7 3 (1.09%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.36%) Internet
8 1 (0.36%) LAN
8 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (18.91%) DynamoDB
3 42 (15.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 39 (14.18%) MySQL
5 25 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 25 (9.09%) NoSQL
6 24 (8.73%) Relational Database
7 22 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (8.00%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.09%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (4.00%) Hadoop
9 11 (4.00%) Redis
10 10 (3.64%) Oracle Database
11 8 (2.91%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (2.18%) Couchbase
13 6 (2.18%) Data Lake
13 6 (2.18%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.82%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 115 (41.82%) Jenkins
2 70 (25.45%) Git
3 69 (25.09%) GitLab
4 33 (12.00%) JIRA
5 13 (4.73%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (3.64%) JUnit
8 9 (3.27%) Maven
9 8 (2.91%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.91%) Vagrant
10 4 (1.45%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (1.45%) Snyk
10 4 (1.45%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.45%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.09%) git-flow
11 3 (1.09%) Gradle
11 3 (1.09%) Mockito
12 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.73%) DbUnit
General
1 70 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.27%) Finance
3 35 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.18%) Banking
5 16 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.45%) Legal
9 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.73%) Military
10 2 (0.73%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (23.27%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (21.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (14.18%) Senior
4 38 (13.82%) Developer
5 32 (11.64%) AWS DevOps
6 29 (10.55%) Platform Engineer
7 26 (9.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (8.36%) Software Engineer
9 22 (8.00%) Architect
9 22 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (7.64%) Data Engineer
10 21 (7.64%) Site Engineer
11 20 (7.27%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 20 (7.27%) DBA
11 20 (7.27%) Lead
11 20 (7.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (5.45%) Java Developer
13 14 (5.09%) AWS Architect
14 13 (4.73%) AWS Developer
14 13 (4.73%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (17.82%) Kafka
2 29 (10.55%) Node.js
2 29 (10.55%) Spring
3 28 (10.18%) RESTful
3 28 (10.18%) Spring Boot
4 27 (9.82%) React
5 20 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (6.18%) REST
7 14 (5.09%) AWS CDK
8 11 (4.00%) CSS
9 10 (3.64%) FastAPI
10 9 (3.27%) Jest
10 9 (3.27%) Next.js
11 8 (2.91%) .NET
11 8 (2.91%) Django
11 8 (2.91%) Flask
11 8 (2.91%) Keycloak
11 8 (2.91%) PySpark
12 7 (2.55%) JSON
12 7 (2.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.18%) Replication
3 24 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.55%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.18%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.45%) Clustering
8 4 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.45%) NHS
8 4 (1.45%) PKI
9 3 (1.09%) Derivative
9 3 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.73%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.36%) Life Science
11 1 (0.36%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 80 (29.09%) Linux
2 11 (4.00%) Amazon Linux
2 11 (4.00%) Unix
2 11 (4.00%) Windows
3 9 (3.27%) VMS
4 7 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.18%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.45%) CentOS
7 3 (1.09%) Solaris
8 1 (0.36%) Android
8 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (65.45%) CI/CD
2 134 (48.73%) DevOps
3 126 (45.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (32.73%) Containerisation
5 74 (26.91%) Agile
6 64 (23.27%) Microservices
7 51 (18.55%) Observability
8 44 (16.00%) Configuration Management
9 43 (15.64%) Performance Tuning
9 43 (15.64%) Software Engineering
10 41 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (13.09%) Migration
12 33 (12.00%) Cost Optimisation
12 33 (12.00%) Event-Driven
12 33 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 32 (11.64%) Platform Engineering
14 31 (11.27%) High Availability
15 28 (10.18%) Analytics
16 26 (9.45%) ETL
17 25 (9.09%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 144 (52.36%) Python
2 90 (32.73%) SQL
3 71 (25.82%) Java
4 49 (17.82%) Bash
5 34 (12.36%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.55%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.64%) Go
8 19 (6.91%) JavaScript
9 16 (5.82%) TypeScript
10 15 (5.45%) Groovy
11 13 (4.73%) Perl
12 12 (4.36%) Ruby
13 10 (3.64%) C#
14 8 (2.91%) PL/SQL
15 6 (2.18%) JSX
16 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.36%) Bicep
17 1 (0.36%) PHP
17 1 (0.36%) R
17 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 84 (30.55%) Security Cleared
2 69 (25.09%) SC Cleared
3 54 (19.64%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.09%) Degree
5 14 (5.09%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.73%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.82%) OCP
9 5 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.73%) PMP
12 1 (0.36%) CEH
12 1 (0.36%) CISSP
12 1 (0.36%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.82%) GDPR
1 16 (5.82%) QA
2 11 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.64%) NIST
4 8 (2.91%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.18%) NCSC
7 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.73%) GxP
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 127 (46.18%) Docker
2 8 (2.91%) DFS Replication
2 8 (2.91%) Postfix
2 8 (2.91%) Virtual Servers
3 6 (2.18%) Dovecot
3 6 (2.18%) Squid
4 5 (1.82%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.09%) NFS
6 3 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 158 (57.45%) Terraform
2 100 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 65 (23.64%) Grafana
4 55 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 43 (15.64%) Ansible
6 20 (7.27%) Progress Chef
7 15 (5.45%) Puppet
8 7 (2.55%) Data Guard
8 7 (2.55%) Packer
9 6 (2.18%) Nessus
9 6 (2.18%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.82%) Argo
11 4 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.45%) Kibana
11 4 (1.45%) Rancher
12 3 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.09%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.73%) systemd
Vendors
1 36 (13.09%) Oracle
2 17 (6.18%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.73%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.64%) PagerDuty
4 10 (3.64%) Splunk
5 8 (2.91%) Confluent
5 8 (2.91%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.91%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (2.55%) IBM
7 6 (2.18%) Sybase
8 5 (1.82%) Talend
9 4 (1.45%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.45%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.45%) Okta
9 4 (1.45%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.09%) Databricks
10 3 (1.09%) Informatica
10 3 (1.09%) Qualys
10 3 (1.09%) Tenable