Amazon RDS Contracts

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon RDS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 368 311
Rank change year-on-year +82 -57 +106
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 257 241 493
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 0.55% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.64% 3.30% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 176 354
10th Percentile £425 £403 £450
25th Percentile £475 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £589
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -12.95% +3.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £745 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £498 £575
% change year-on-year +7.94% -13.48% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £52.50
25th Percentile - - £59.35
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS.

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Top 14 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +62 195 £575 +9.52% 209
London +39 137 £600 +14.29% 128
Work from Home +48 109 £600 +17.07% 116
UK excluding London +45 66 £537 +7.94% 85
Scotland +1 21 £494 -0.35% 1
South East +47 15 £575 +8.49% 9
Midlands +30 12 £525 +5.00% 13
West Midlands +25 11 £550 +22.22% 9
South West +44 8 £584 +6.14% 11
North of England +18 7 £500 +11.11% 37
North West +3 6 £456 +1.62% 25
East of England +35 4 £500 -23.08% 9
Yorkshire +14 1 £500 - 9
East Midlands +7 1 £311 -48.17% 4

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.23%) Apache
1 16 (6.23%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (4.28%) Confluence
4 9 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.78%) Camunda
6 2 (0.78%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.39%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.78%) SAP MM
1 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 253 (98.44%) AWS
2 151 (58.75%) Amazon S3
3 125 (48.64%) Serverless
4 122 (47.47%) AWS Lambda
5 104 (40.47%) Amazon EC2
6 91 (35.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (19.46%) Amazon EKS
7 50 (19.46%) Amazon SQS
8 39 (15.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 36 (14.01%) Amazon ECS
10 28 (10.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 27 (10.51%) GitHub
12 26 (10.12%) Azure
13 24 (9.34%) Route 53
14 21 (8.17%) AWS CodePipeline
14 21 (8.17%) AWS Step Functions
15 20 (7.78%) GCP
15 20 (7.78%) OpenShift
16 19 (7.39%) PaaS
17 15 (5.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.23%) DNS
2 26 (10.12%) VPN
3 19 (7.39%) Firewall
4 17 (6.61%) DHCP
4 17 (6.61%) TCP/IP
5 12 (4.67%) HTTP
6 9 (3.50%) SMTP
7 8 (3.11%) Internet
8 4 (1.56%) Kerberos
9 3 (1.17%) IPsec
9 3 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.17%) SSL
10 1 (0.39%) NAS
10 1 (0.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (29.57%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (15.95%) Amazon Aurora
3 34 (13.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (12.06%) DynamoDB
5 27 (10.51%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (10.12%) Relational Database
7 25 (9.73%) Big Data
7 25 (9.73%) NoSQL
8 23 (8.95%) MySQL
9 19 (7.39%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (6.23%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (5.45%) Data Lake
11 14 (5.45%) Oracle Database
12 11 (4.28%) Hadoop
12 11 (4.28%) SQL Server
13 9 (3.50%) Power BI
14 7 (2.72%) MongoDB
14 7 (2.72%) Tableau
15 5 (1.95%) Apache Hive
15 5 (1.95%) Flink
Development Applications
1 47 (18.29%) Jenkins
2 29 (11.28%) GitLab
3 17 (6.61%) Git
4 14 (5.45%) JIRA
5 9 (3.50%) Maven
6 8 (3.11%) JUnit
6 8 (3.11%) Mockito
7 7 (2.72%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.33%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.95%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.56%) DbUnit
10 4 (1.56%) jMock
11 3 (1.17%) ERwin
12 2 (0.78%) Postman
12 2 (0.78%) Selenium
12 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
13 1 (0.39%) Spinnaker
General
1 59 (22.96%) Public Sector
2 50 (19.46%) Finance
3 48 (18.68%) Social Skills
4 27 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.45%) Banking
5 14 (5.45%) Front Office
6 5 (1.95%) Billing
7 4 (1.56%) Marketing
7 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.17%) Military
8 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Electronics
9 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.78%) Retail
10 1 (0.39%) Aviation
10 1 (0.39%) German Language
10 1 (0.39%) Local Government
10 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (19.84%) Developer
2 46 (17.90%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (17.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (16.34%) Architect
5 37 (14.40%) Senior
6 36 (14.01%) Data Engineer
7 31 (12.06%) AWS DevOps
7 31 (12.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (9.34%) AWS Architect
9 19 (7.39%) Lead
10 17 (6.61%) Senior DevOps
11 16 (6.23%) DBA
11 16 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (6.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 15 (5.84%) Python Engineer
13 12 (4.67%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.67%) Java Developer
14 11 (4.28%) AWS Data Engineer
14 11 (4.28%) AWS Developer
15 10 (3.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.34%) Node.js
2 21 (8.17%) REST
2 21 (8.17%) Spring Boot
3 19 (7.39%) Kafka
4 18 (7.00%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (7.00%) React
5 16 (6.23%) .NET
5 16 (6.23%) AWS CDK
6 15 (5.84%) Spring
7 13 (5.06%) .NET Framework
7 13 (5.06%) RESTful
8 12 (4.67%) Entity Framework
8 12 (4.67%) Web Services
9 11 (4.28%) Nunjucks
10 10 (3.89%) AngularJS
10 10 (3.89%) Hibernate
11 8 (3.11%) Express.js
11 8 (3.11%) hapi
11 8 (3.11%) Sass
11 8 (3.11%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.00%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.06%) PKI
3 11 (4.28%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.89%) Clustering
4 10 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.50%) Replication
6 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.95%) Tandem
7 3 (1.17%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.17%) Derivative
7 3 (1.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.17%) iPad
7 3 (1.17%) Oracle Licensing
8 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.78%) Life Science
8 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.12%) Linux
2 26 (10.12%) Windows
3 15 (5.84%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.72%) Unix
5 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.78%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (40.86%) DevOps
2 97 (37.74%) CI/CD
3 79 (30.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (30.35%) Agile
4 78 (30.35%) Containerisation
5 47 (18.29%) Migration
5 47 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (17.90%) ETL
7 39 (15.18%) High Availability
8 34 (13.23%) Microservices
9 33 (12.84%) Open Source
9 33 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (12.45%) Continuous Integration
10 32 (12.45%) Data Pipeline
11 29 (11.28%) Software Engineering
12 25 (9.73%) Data Modelling
13 24 (9.34%) Analytics
13 24 (9.34%) Data Migration
14 23 (8.95%) Data Engineering
15 22 (8.56%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 111 (43.19%) Python
2 82 (31.91%) SQL
3 53 (20.62%) Java
4 41 (15.95%) JavaScript
5 26 (10.12%) PowerShell
6 21 (8.17%) Bash
7 16 (6.23%) C#
8 15 (5.84%) PL/SQL
9 11 (4.28%) RPG
9 11 (4.28%) RPG IV
10 10 (3.89%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.11%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.72%) Go
13 6 (2.33%) Perl
13 6 (2.33%) Scala
14 5 (1.95%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.56%) R
16 2 (0.78%) ABAP
16 2 (0.78%) PHP
16 2 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 89 (34.63%) Security Cleared
2 76 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 40 (15.56%) AWS Certification
4 30 (11.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (10.12%) Degree
6 13 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.28%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.39%) OCP
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.39%) VCAP
10 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.72%) NCSC
3 6 (2.33%) GDPR
4 5 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.95%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.17%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.78%) QA
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (41.25%) Docker
2 20 (7.78%) Active Directory
3 14 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.50%) BitLocker
4 9 (3.50%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.50%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (3.50%) Terminal Services
4 9 (3.50%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.95%) Postfix
5 5 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.56%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.17%) RACF
7 3 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.39%) HDFS
8 1 (0.39%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 103 (40.08%) Terraform
2 95 (36.96%) Kubernetes
3 46 (17.90%) Ansible
4 30 (11.67%) Puppet
5 25 (9.73%) Grafana
6 23 (8.95%) Prometheus
7 22 (8.56%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.89%) Nagios
9 9 (3.50%) vCenter Server
9 9 (3.50%) vMotion
10 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.56%) Packer
12 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.39%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.39%) Istio
14 1 (0.39%) Kibana
14 1 (0.39%) logstash
14 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 31 (12.06%) Oracle
2 18 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.61%) Google
4 15 (5.84%) VMware
5 10 (3.89%) Informatica
6 9 (3.50%) Citrix
6 9 (3.50%) HP
6 9 (3.50%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.50%) Symantec
7 6 (2.33%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.33%) SAP
8 5 (1.95%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (1.95%) Talend
9 4 (1.56%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.56%) Solace
9 4 (1.56%) Teradata
9 4 (1.56%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.17%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.17%) Splunk