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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 291 356
Rank change year-on-year -99 +65 -16
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 290 292 245
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.89% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.59% 4.91% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 218 177
10th Percentile £391 £425 £393
25th Percentile £425 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £546 £510
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +7.11% -13.19%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £769 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £520 £490
% change year-on-year -8.27% +6.23% -16.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 8,077 5,942 7,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.33% 18.18% 17.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,341 4,029 5,376
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 103 139
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.13 £25.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £64.88 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £31.25
% change year-on-year +20.89% +1.25% -39.02%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -97 240 £500 -6.89% 73
London -59 135 £525 -4.55% 34
UK excluding London -86 111 £477 -8.27% 57
Work from Home -75 93 £500 -9.58% 41
Midlands -29 51 £469 -1.26% 2
West Midlands -49 44 £469 -1.26% 1
North of England -56 33 £463 -13.87% 15
Yorkshire -36 20 £500 - 4
South West -34 9 £546 +0.65% 13
North West -51 9 £535 -2.73% 4
South East -84 9 £440 -23.57% 19
East Midlands -11 6 £519 +36.58% 1
Scotland -28 6 £462 -7.70% 3
North East -31 4 £425 -5.56% 7
East of England -28 3 £350 -36.36%
Wales - 2 £525 - 3

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 30 (10.34%) Confluence
2 7 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.41%) SAS
2 7 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.69%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 280 (96.55%) AWS
2 182 (62.76%) Amazon S3
3 158 (54.48%) AWS Lambda
4 157 (54.14%) Serverless
5 131 (45.17%) Amazon EC2
6 102 (35.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 74 (25.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 73 (25.17%) Amazon ECS
9 67 (23.10%) Amazon EKS
10 58 (20.00%) GitHub
11 52 (17.93%) Azure
12 48 (16.55%) Amazon SQS
13 44 (15.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (13.10%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (12.41%) Route 53
16 32 (11.03%) AWS KMS
17 25 (8.62%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (6.90%) Amazon EventBridge
19 19 (6.55%) AWS CloudTrail
19 19 (6.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.48%) Firewall
2 8 (2.76%) DNS
3 7 (2.41%) DHCP
3 7 (2.41%) VPN
4 5 (1.72%) Network Security
5 4 (1.38%) SMTP
6 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.69%) NetScaler
7 2 (0.69%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.34%) AMQP
8 1 (0.34%) HTTP
8 1 (0.34%) IPsec
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (25.86%) DynamoDB
2 69 (23.79%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (21.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 31 (10.69%) MySQL
5 23 (7.93%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (6.55%) Power BI
7 16 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (5.52%) SQL Server
8 14 (4.83%) Pentaho
9 12 (4.14%) Big Data
10 11 (3.79%) Data Lake
10 11 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (3.79%) MongoDB
11 10 (3.45%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (3.10%) Tableau
13 8 (2.76%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (2.76%) NoSQL
14 7 (2.41%) Redis
15 6 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 88 (30.34%) Jenkins
2 69 (23.79%) Git
3 40 (13.79%) GitLab
4 39 (13.45%) JIRA
5 27 (9.31%) JUnit
6 24 (8.28%) Maven
6 24 (8.28%) Mockito
7 21 (7.24%) SonarQube
8 14 (4.83%) DbUnit
9 13 (4.48%) jMock
10 11 (3.79%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (3.45%) Claude Code
12 7 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.41%) Bitbucket
12 7 (2.41%) Postman
13 6 (2.07%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.72%) Cucumber
15 4 (1.38%) Flyway
15 4 (1.38%) Gradle
16 3 (1.03%) git-flow
General
1 76 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 64 (22.07%) Public Sector
3 39 (13.45%) Finance
4 29 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.90%) Banking
6 9 (3.10%) Legal
6 9 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.72%) Front Office
9 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Back Office
10 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Law
11 2 (0.69%) Local Government
11 2 (0.69%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (20.34%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (16.90%) Senior
3 47 (16.21%) Developer
4 39 (13.45%) Architect
5 36 (12.41%) Data Engineer
6 31 (10.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (10.00%) Java Developer
8 25 (8.62%) AWS Architect
9 22 (7.59%) Lead
10 21 (7.24%) DBA
11 19 (6.55%) AWS DevOps
12 18 (6.21%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (5.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 16 (5.52%) Technical Architect
14 15 (5.17%) Software Engineer
14 15 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (4.14%) Python Engineer
15 12 (4.14%) Senior Developer
16 11 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 10 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.21%) REST
2 45 (15.52%) Spring
2 45 (15.52%) Spring Boot
3 41 (14.14%) RESTful
4 38 (13.10%) React
5 36 (12.41%) Node.js
6 29 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 26 (8.97%) AWS CDK
8 25 (8.62%) SOAP
9 23 (7.93%) Kafka
10 21 (7.24%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (6.55%) Hibernate
11 19 (6.55%) JPA
11 19 (6.55%) Web Services
12 18 (6.21%) GraphQL
12 18 (6.21%) Spring Batch
12 18 (6.21%) Spring Integration
13 17 (5.86%) .NET
13 17 (5.86%) Spring Cloud
14 13 (4.48%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 66 (22.76%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.72%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (9.66%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.14%) Replication
5 10 (3.45%) NHS
5 10 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.76%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.07%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.72%) Clustering
8 5 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.38%) Autonomous Agent
9 4 (1.38%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.38%) PKI
10 3 (1.03%) Derivative
10 3 (1.03%) Equities
10 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.03%) PropTech
11 2 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (19.31%) Linux
2 20 (6.90%) Windows
3 14 (4.83%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.76%) Unix
5 5 (1.72%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.69%) AIX
8 1 (0.34%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (57.93%) CI/CD
2 125 (43.10%) Agile
3 122 (42.07%) DevOps
4 95 (32.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 85 (29.31%) Microservices
6 65 (22.41%) Containerisation
7 46 (15.86%) Observability
8 43 (14.83%) Scrum
9 42 (14.48%) Event-Driven
10 40 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
11 39 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (13.10%) ETL
12 38 (13.10%) Software Engineering
13 36 (12.41%) Migration
14 35 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (11.38%) Data Modelling
16 32 (11.03%) Data Pipeline
16 32 (11.03%) High Availability
17 31 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (10.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 108 (37.24%) Python
2 86 (29.66%) SQL
3 82 (28.28%) Java
4 32 (11.03%) TypeScript
5 25 (8.62%) Bash
6 21 (7.24%) PowerShell
7 20 (6.90%) JavaScript
8 16 (5.52%) C#
9 11 (3.79%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.45%) Groovy
11 6 (2.07%) Scala
12 5 (1.72%) Perl
13 4 (1.38%) Go
13 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.69%) Ruby
15 1 (0.34%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 112 (38.62%) Security Cleared
2 96 (33.10%) SC Cleared
3 38 (13.10%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.86%) Degree
6 14 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.10%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.03%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.69%) PMP
12 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.76%) QA
3 7 (2.41%) PMO
4 4 (1.38%) GDPR
4 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.38%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.38%) SLA
5 3 (1.03%) HL7
5 3 (1.03%) NCSC
5 3 (1.03%) NIST
6 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 98 (33.79%) Docker
2 12 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.79%) Postfix
4 6 (2.07%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.38%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.38%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.38%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 114 (39.31%) Terraform
2 68 (23.45%) Kubernetes
3 54 (18.62%) Grafana
4 36 (12.41%) Prometheus
5 24 (8.28%) Ansible
6 7 (2.41%) Argo
7 5 (1.72%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.72%) Puppet
8 4 (1.38%) Istio
8 4 (1.38%) Kibana
8 4 (1.38%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.38%) vMotion
9 3 (1.03%) Foglight
9 3 (1.03%) Nagios
9 3 (1.03%) Rancher
10 2 (0.69%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.69%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (9.31%) Oracle
2 26 (8.97%) ServiceNow
3 25 (8.62%) Microsoft
4 17 (5.86%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (5.17%) Atlassian
6 14 (4.83%) Dynatrace
7 13 (4.48%) Informatica
8 9 (3.10%) Databricks
8 9 (3.10%) Talend
9 8 (2.76%) VMware
10 7 (2.41%) Denodo
10 7 (2.41%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.07%) Splunk
12 5 (1.72%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.72%) Citrix
12 5 (1.72%) Google
13 4 (1.38%) Brio
13 4 (1.38%) HP
13 4 (1.38%) OpenAI
13 4 (1.38%) Symantec
88 Amazon RDS jobs Nationwide