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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 272 350
Rank change year-on-year -108 +78 -37
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 260 280 244
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.95% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.59% 5.00% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 206 181
10th Percentile £367 £425 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £496
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.90% -13.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £73.25 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
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 7,250 5,595 7,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.76% 19.06% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,965 3,853 5,185
10th Percentile £350 £354 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £640 £650
90th Percentile £694 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £483
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.24% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 108 152
10th Percentile £18.00 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.03 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.30% -15.49% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.63 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -9.60% -39.70%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -98 224 £505 -12.17% 57
London -93 126 £509 -15.21% 19
UK excluding London -48 111 £500 -4.76% 41
Work from Home -79 67 £500 -13.87% 42
Midlands -38 52 £500 -1.86% 6
West Midlands -31 44 £500 -5.48% 3
North of England -54 23 £425 -15.00% 15
South East -54 12 £530 -7.83% 7
South West -28 10 £575 -1.50% 6
Scotland -9 9 £342 -31.01% 1
North West -31 9 £395 -13.38% 9
Yorkshire -45 9 £480 -4.00% 5
East Midlands -25 8 £498 +60.13% 3
North East - 5 £425 - 1
East of England -29 3 - - 5
Wales -8 2 £488 -

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 17 (6.54%) Confluence
2 7 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) SAS
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 259 (99.62%) AWS
2 173 (66.54%) Amazon S3
3 145 (55.77%) Amazon EC2
4 140 (53.85%) AWS Lambda
4 140 (53.85%) Serverless
5 88 (33.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 79 (30.38%) Amazon ECS
7 75 (28.85%) Amazon EKS
8 68 (26.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 65 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 54 (20.77%) GitHub
11 37 (14.23%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (13.46%) Azure
12 35 (13.46%) Route 53
13 32 (12.31%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (8.46%) AWS KMS
15 19 (7.31%) Amazon MSK
16 17 (6.54%) AWS CodePipeline
17 15 (5.77%) Amazon Kinesis
17 15 (5.77%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.23%) Firewall
2 9 (3.46%) DNS
3 6 (2.31%) Network Security
4 5 (1.92%) VPN
5 2 (0.77%) HTTP
5 2 (0.77%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.77%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.38%) AMQP
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) Internet
6 1 (0.38%) LAN
6 1 (0.38%) SMTP
6 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (29.62%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (24.62%) DynamoDB
3 45 (17.31%) Amazon Aurora
4 28 (10.77%) MySQL
5 23 (8.85%) SQL Server
6 21 (8.08%) Relational Database
7 19 (7.31%) MongoDB
7 19 (7.31%) NoSQL
8 13 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (4.62%) Redis
10 11 (4.23%) Power BI
11 10 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (3.08%) Tableau
13 7 (2.69%) DB2
13 7 (2.69%) Oracle Database
13 7 (2.69%) Pentaho
14 6 (2.31%) Big Data
14 6 (2.31%) Data Lake
15 5 (1.92%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 97 (37.31%) Jenkins
2 63 (24.23%) Git
3 46 (17.69%) GitLab
4 27 (10.38%) JIRA
5 26 (10.00%) JUnit
6 19 (7.31%) Maven
7 18 (6.92%) Mockito
8 16 (6.15%) SonarQube
9 11 (4.23%) DbUnit
9 11 (4.23%) jMock
10 9 (3.46%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (2.69%) Bitbucket
11 7 (2.69%) Cypress.io
11 7 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.92%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.92%) git-flow
12 5 (1.92%) Snyk
13 4 (1.54%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (1.54%) Postman
14 3 (1.15%) Gradle
General
1 56 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 51 (19.62%) Public Sector
3 36 (13.85%) Finance
4 34 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.77%) Banking
6 12 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.08%) Legal
8 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.77%) Front Office
10 2 (0.77%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.77%) Local Government
11 1 (0.38%) Billing
11 1 (0.38%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Military
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (18.08%) Developer
2 40 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (15.38%) Senior
3 32 (12.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (10.77%) Java Developer
5 23 (8.85%) DBA
6 22 (8.46%) Data Engineer
7 21 (8.08%) Architect
8 20 (7.69%) Site Engineer
9 19 (7.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 18 (6.92%) AWS DevOps
10 18 (6.92%) Software Engineer
11 16 (6.15%) AWS Architect
12 15 (5.77%) AWS Developer
12 15 (5.77%) Lead
12 15 (5.77%) Senior Developer
13 14 (5.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
15 12 (4.62%) Analyst
16 11 (4.23%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (18.08%) Spring
1 47 (18.08%) Spring Boot
2 44 (16.92%) RESTful
3 41 (15.77%) Node.js
4 38 (14.62%) Kafka
5 29 (11.15%) React
5 29 (11.15%) REST
6 20 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 19 (7.31%) Hibernate
7 19 (7.31%) JPA
7 19 (7.31%) SOAP
7 19 (7.31%) Spring Cloud
8 15 (5.77%) ActiveMQ
8 15 (5.77%) Spring Batch
8 15 (5.77%) Web Services
9 14 (5.38%) Spring Integration
10 13 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (4.23%) Django
11 11 (4.23%) GraphQL
11 11 (4.23%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.62%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.85%) Replication
5 6 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.92%) NHS
6 5 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.15%) Clustering
8 3 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.77%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.77%) Derivative
9 2 (0.77%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (25.77%) Linux
2 8 (3.08%) Unix
3 5 (1.92%) Windows
4 3 (1.15%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (59.23%) CI/CD
2 109 (41.92%) Agile
3 104 (40.00%) DevOps
4 95 (36.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (30.38%) Containerisation
6 62 (23.85%) Microservices
7 38 (14.62%) Observability
7 38 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (14.23%) Software Engineering
9 35 (13.46%) Scrum
10 33 (12.69%) ETL
11 32 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
11 32 (12.31%) TDD
12 30 (11.54%) High Availability
13 29 (11.15%) Migration
13 29 (11.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 28 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (10.77%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (10.38%) Configuration Management
16 26 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 106 (40.77%) SQL
2 104 (40.00%) Python
3 85 (32.69%) Java
4 33 (12.69%) Bash
5 24 (9.23%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.31%) Shell Script
7 18 (6.92%) PowerShell
8 15 (5.77%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.85%) Go
10 9 (3.46%) Ruby
11 8 (3.08%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.69%) C#
13 6 (2.31%) Groovy
13 6 (2.31%) Perl
13 6 (2.31%) Scala
14 3 (1.15%) JSX
14 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 109 (41.92%) Security Cleared
2 88 (33.85%) SC Cleared
3 39 (15.00%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (5.77%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.23%) Degree
7 10 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.15%) OCP
9 3 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.38%) CEH
11 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.38%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.77%) QA
2 11 (4.23%) NIST
3 10 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.46%) GDPR
4 9 (3.46%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.69%) PMO
6 5 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.77%) GxP
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.38%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
8 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 117 (45.00%) Docker
2 10 (3.85%) Postfix
3 4 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.77%) HDFS
6 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 116 (44.62%) Terraform
2 77 (29.62%) Kubernetes
3 59 (22.69%) Grafana
4 37 (14.23%) Prometheus
5 28 (10.77%) Ansible
6 14 (5.38%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.23%) Puppet
8 8 (3.08%) Data Guard
9 7 (2.69%) Argo
10 6 (2.31%) Kibana
11 5 (1.92%) Rancher
12 4 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (1.15%) Foglight
13 3 (1.15%) Istio
13 3 (1.15%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (1.15%) Packer
14 2 (0.77%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.77%) systemd
Vendors
1 35 (13.46%) Oracle
2 18 (6.92%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.54%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.38%) Jaspersoft
5 12 (4.62%) Atlassian
6 9 (3.46%) Databricks
6 9 (3.46%) PagerDuty
6 9 (3.46%) Splunk
6 9 (3.46%) Talend
7 8 (3.08%) Sybase
8 7 (2.69%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.69%) Informatica
9 5 (1.92%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.54%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.54%) Qualys
10 4 (1.54%) Tenable
11 3 (1.15%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.77%) Blue Prism
12 2 (0.77%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.77%) Google