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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 289 343
Rank change year-on-year -98 +54 -7
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 253 248 245
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.87% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.44% 4.60% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 183 183
10th Percentile £397 £425 £385
25th Percentile £418 £473 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £575
90th Percentile £684 £650 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £511 £490
% change year-on-year -6.95% +4.29% -14.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £71.90 - -
25th Percentile £73.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 7,352 5,397 7,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 18.89% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,944 3,705 5,228
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
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 227 94 148
10th Percentile £14.51 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.02 £23.69 £20.77
Median hourly rate £43.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.46% -17.60% -31.73%
75th Percentile £70.47 £65.62 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.13 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £31.64 £38.50
% change year-on-year +29.58% -17.82% -32.40%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -99 215 £500 -9.09% 80
London -66 119 £505 -12.17% 29
UK excluding London -93 104 £475 -6.95% 54
Work from Home -74 74 £500 -13.04% 35
Midlands -39 52 £469 -1.26% 7
West Midlands -37 44 £469 -3.79% 7
North of England -58 24 £406 -18.75% 20
Yorkshire -45 12 £400 -20.00% 4
South East -62 12 £533 -7.39% 10
South West -28 10 £575 -1.50% 14
North West -39 8 £445 -17.13% 13
East Midlands -25 7 £519 +66.88%
Scotland -20 4 £392 -21.23%
North East - 4 £425 - 3
East of England -33 2 - - 2
Wales - 2 £488 - 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 28 (11.07%) Confluence
2 7 (2.77%) SAS
3 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.19%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.40%) Apache
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 249 (98.42%) AWS
2 155 (61.26%) Amazon S3
3 136 (53.75%) AWS Lambda
3 136 (53.75%) Serverless
4 123 (48.62%) Amazon EC2
5 89 (35.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 63 (24.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 59 (23.32%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (22.92%) Amazon ECS
9 55 (21.74%) GitHub
10 45 (17.79%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (15.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (15.42%) Azure
13 37 (14.62%) Route 53
14 34 (13.44%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (11.46%) AWS KMS
16 18 (7.11%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (6.72%) AWS CloudTrail
17 17 (6.72%) AWS Step Functions
18 16 (6.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.95%) DNS
2 6 (2.37%) Firewall
3 5 (1.98%) VPN
4 4 (1.58%) DHCP
4 4 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.19%) HTTP
5 3 (1.19%) Network Security
6 2 (0.79%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.40%) AMQP
7 1 (0.40%) Internet
7 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.40%) LAN
7 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.40%) SMTP
7 1 (0.40%) SSL
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (30.83%) DynamoDB
2 69 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (24.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 30 (11.86%) MySQL
5 17 (6.72%) SQL Server
6 16 (6.32%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (6.32%) MongoDB
6 16 (6.32%) Power BI
7 15 (5.93%) NoSQL
8 14 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (5.53%) Pentaho
9 10 (3.95%) Redis
10 9 (3.56%) Data Lake
11 8 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (3.16%) Oracle Database
11 8 (3.16%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (3.16%) Tableau
12 7 (2.77%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (2.37%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 84 (33.20%) Jenkins
2 65 (25.69%) Git
3 41 (16.21%) GitLab
4 34 (13.44%) JIRA
5 28 (11.07%) JUnit
6 23 (9.09%) Mockito
7 22 (8.70%) Maven
8 20 (7.91%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.53%) DbUnit
10 13 (5.14%) jMock
11 11 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.77%) Claude Code
13 6 (2.37%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.37%) Postman
14 5 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.98%) git-flow
14 5 (1.98%) Snyk
14 5 (1.98%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (1.58%) Flyway
15 4 (1.58%) Oracle APEX
General
1 64 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 57 (22.53%) Public Sector
3 29 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.49%) Finance
5 11 (4.35%) Banking
5 11 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.95%) Legal
7 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.79%) Front Office
9 2 (0.79%) Local Government
10 1 (0.40%) Billing
10 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Marketing
10 1 (0.40%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (20.95%) Developer
2 47 (18.58%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (17.00%) Senior
4 29 (11.46%) Architect
4 29 (11.46%) Java Developer
5 28 (11.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (9.88%) AWS Architect
6 25 (9.88%) DBA
7 23 (9.09%) Data Engineer
8 19 (7.51%) Software Engineer
9 16 (6.32%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (5.93%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (5.53%) Lead
12 13 (5.14%) Technical Architect
13 12 (4.74%) AWS Developer
13 12 (4.74%) Oracle DBA
13 12 (4.74%) Python Developer
14 11 (4.35%) Analyst
15 10 (3.95%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (18.58%) Spring
1 47 (18.58%) Spring Boot
2 46 (18.18%) RESTful
3 44 (17.39%) REST
4 34 (13.44%) Node.js
5 33 (13.04%) React
6 30 (11.86%) AngularJS
7 29 (11.46%) Kafka
8 23 (9.09%) Hibernate
8 23 (9.09%) JPA
8 23 (9.09%) SOAP
9 21 (8.30%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (7.51%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (7.51%) AWS CDK
10 19 (7.51%) GraphQL
10 19 (7.51%) Web Services
11 18 (7.11%) Spring Batch
11 18 (7.11%) Spring Integration
12 13 (5.14%) PowerMock
13 12 (4.74%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 59 (23.32%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.07%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (9.49%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.95%) Replication
5 8 (3.16%) NHS
6 6 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.58%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.79%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.79%) Clustering
9 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.79%) Derivative
9 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.40%) Equities
10 1 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.40%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.40%) Life Science
10 1 (0.40%) PKI
10 1 (0.40%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 49 (19.37%) Linux
2 8 (3.16%) Unix
3 7 (2.77%) Windows
4 4 (1.58%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (61.26%) CI/CD
2 117 (46.25%) Agile
3 104 (41.11%) DevOps
4 81 (32.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (29.25%) Microservices
6 61 (24.11%) Containerisation
7 48 (18.97%) Scrum
8 38 (15.02%) Event-Driven
8 38 (15.02%) Performance Tuning
9 37 (14.62%) Software Engineering
10 36 (14.23%) Observability
11 35 (13.83%) TDD
12 34 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (12.25%) ETL
13 31 (12.25%) Kanban
14 30 (11.86%) Migration
15 28 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
16 27 (10.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 27 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 95 (37.55%) SQL
2 82 (32.41%) Java
3 79 (31.23%) Python
4 23 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.11%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.72%) Bash
7 16 (6.32%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.53%) C#
8 14 (5.53%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.16%) Groovy
10 7 (2.77%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.37%) Scala
12 5 (1.98%) Perl
13 4 (1.58%) Go
14 3 (1.19%) Ruby
14 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 111 (43.87%) Security Cleared
2 94 (37.15%) SC Cleared
3 32 (12.65%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (4.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.74%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.56%) Degree
8 6 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.19%) OCP
10 3 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.19%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.79%) PMP
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.40%) CEH
12 1 (0.40%) CISSP
12 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.35%) QA
2 9 (3.56%) NIST
2 9 (3.56%) PCI DSS
3 8 (3.16%) GDPR
3 8 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.77%) PMO
5 4 (1.58%) SLA
6 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.79%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) HL7
7 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (39.13%) Docker
2 11 (4.35%) Postfix
3 5 (1.98%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.58%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.40%) HDFS
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 103 (40.71%) Terraform
2 70 (27.67%) Kubernetes
3 57 (22.53%) Grafana
4 34 (13.44%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.53%) Ansible
6 8 (3.16%) Data Guard
7 7 (2.77%) Argo
7 7 (2.77%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.58%) Kibana
8 4 (1.58%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.58%) Puppet
9 3 (1.19%) Foglight
9 3 (1.19%) Istio
9 3 (1.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (1.19%) Rancher
10 2 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.79%) Sysdig
10 2 (0.79%) systemd
11 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (13.83%) Oracle
2 22 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.72%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (5.93%) Atlassian
5 13 (5.14%) Informatica
6 11 (4.35%) Microsoft
7 10 (3.95%) Dynatrace
8 9 (3.56%) Talend
9 8 (3.16%) Databricks
10 7 (2.77%) Denodo
11 6 (2.37%) Splunk
12 5 (1.98%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.98%) Sybase
13 4 (1.58%) AVEVA
13 4 (1.58%) Brio
13 4 (1.58%) Qualys
13 4 (1.58%) Tenable
14 2 (0.79%) Google
14 2 (0.79%) NetApp
14 2 (0.79%) VMware