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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 287 359
Rank change year-on-year -124 +72 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 272 287 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.88% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.34% 4.82% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 214 154
10th Percentile £399 £413 £405
25th Percentile £430 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +1.62% -10.64%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £776 £650 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.21% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £80.25 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -
75th Percentile £73.50 £85.63 -
90th Percentile £73.80 £86.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 8,153 5,954 7,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.42% 18.18% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,407 4,032 5,135
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 92 106
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.28 £14.63
25th Percentile £25.10 £23.50 £20.19
Median hourly rate £41.36 £36.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% -3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £61.31 £64.06 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.15 £78.58 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% +5.47% -41.46%

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 28 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
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 28 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 -108 224 £500 -4.76% 71
London -69 127 £544 -1.09% 31
UK excluding London -88 104 £475 -5.00% 54
Work from Home -83 88 £525 -5.41% 40
Midlands -39 47 £475 - 4
West Midlands -42 40 £469 -1.26% 3
North of England -58 29 £500 -3.57% 18
Yorkshire -26 19 £500 - 4
South West -34 9 £538 -7.92% 10
South East -79 9 £440 -23.57% 16
Scotland -21 8 £425 -14.07% 2
East Midlands -11 6 £519 +36.58% 1
North West -50 6 £600 +9.09% 6
North East -38 4 £425 -5.56% 8
East of England -26 3 £350 -36.36% 3
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 29 (10.66%) Confluence
2 7 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.57%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.57%) SAS
2 7 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.47%) Apache
5 3 (1.10%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 262 (96.32%) AWS
2 178 (65.44%) Amazon S3
3 152 (55.88%) AWS Lambda
4 151 (55.51%) Serverless
5 120 (44.12%) Amazon EC2
6 99 (36.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 73 (26.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 63 (23.16%) Amazon ECS
9 61 (22.43%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (19.85%) Azure
10 54 (19.85%) GitHub
11 49 (18.01%) Amazon SQS
12 41 (15.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (12.50%) AWS KMS
15 32 (11.76%) Route 53
16 23 (8.46%) AWS Step Functions
17 21 (7.72%) Amazon EventBridge
18 19 (6.99%) AWS CloudTrail
18 19 (6.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.78%) Firewall
2 8 (2.94%) DNS
3 7 (2.57%) DHCP
3 7 (2.57%) VPN
4 5 (1.84%) Network Security
5 4 (1.47%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.47%) SMTP
6 3 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.74%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.37%) AMQP
8 1 (0.37%) HTTP
8 1 (0.37%) IPsec
8 1 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (26.84%) DynamoDB
2 70 (25.74%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (22.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 27 (9.93%) MySQL
5 24 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (6.99%) Power BI
7 18 (6.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (5.51%) SQL Server
9 14 (5.15%) Data Lake
9 14 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (4.78%) Big Data
11 11 (4.04%) Pentaho
12 10 (3.68%) MongoDB
12 10 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (3.31%) Relational Database
13 9 (3.31%) Tableau
14 8 (2.94%) Apache Iceberg
14 8 (2.94%) NoSQL
15 6 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (2.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (29.04%) Jenkins
2 65 (23.90%) Git
3 38 (13.97%) JIRA
4 37 (13.60%) GitLab
5 27 (9.93%) JUnit
6 24 (8.82%) Mockito
7 21 (7.72%) Maven
7 21 (7.72%) SonarQube
8 14 (5.15%) DbUnit
9 13 (4.78%) jMock
10 11 (4.04%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (3.68%) Claude Code
12 7 (2.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.57%) Bitbucket
13 6 (2.21%) Postman
13 6 (2.21%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (1.47%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.47%) Flyway
15 3 (1.10%) Artifactory
15 3 (1.10%) Cypress.io
General
1 76 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.79%) Public Sector
3 35 (12.87%) Finance
4 30 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.35%) Banking
6 9 (3.31%) Legal
6 9 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.21%) Front Office
7 6 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.47%) Back Office
8 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.74%) Law
10 2 (0.74%) Local Government
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Billing
11 1 (0.37%) Games
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (21.32%) AWS Engineer
2 45 (16.54%) Developer
3 44 (16.18%) Senior
4 43 (15.81%) Architect
5 33 (12.13%) Data Engineer
6 29 (10.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (10.29%) AWS Architect
7 28 (10.29%) Java Developer
8 22 (8.09%) Lead
9 20 (7.35%) DBA
10 19 (6.99%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (5.88%) Technical Architect
13 13 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (4.41%) Senior Developer
15 11 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (4.04%) Technical Leader
16 10 (3.68%) Delivery Manager
16 10 (3.68%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (16.54%) REST
2 39 (14.34%) RESTful
2 39 (14.34%) Spring
2 39 (14.34%) Spring Boot
3 37 (13.60%) Node.js
4 36 (13.24%) React
5 29 (10.66%) AngularJS
6 26 (9.56%) AWS CDK
7 24 (8.82%) SOAP
8 21 (7.72%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (7.72%) Kafka
9 19 (6.99%) Hibernate
9 19 (6.99%) JPA
9 19 (6.99%) Web Services
10 18 (6.62%) Spring Batch
10 18 (6.62%) Spring Integration
11 17 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
12 16 (5.88%) .NET
13 14 (5.15%) FastAPI
13 14 (5.15%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 61 (22.43%) Cloud Native
2 31 (11.40%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (9.93%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.41%) Replication
5 9 (3.31%) NHS
6 8 (2.94%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.94%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.21%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.21%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.84%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.84%) Clustering
9 4 (1.47%) Autonomous Agent
9 4 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.47%) PKI
10 3 (1.10%) Derivative
10 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.10%) Equities
10 3 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.10%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.59%) Linux
2 22 (8.09%) Windows
3 14 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.94%) Unix
6 5 (1.84%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.47%) AIX
8 3 (1.10%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.37%) CentOS
9 1 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (57.72%) CI/CD
2 123 (45.22%) Agile
3 114 (41.91%) DevOps
4 92 (33.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (27.57%) Microservices
6 59 (21.69%) Containerisation
7 47 (17.28%) Observability
8 41 (15.07%) Scrum
9 40 (14.71%) Event-Driven
10 39 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (14.34%) Data Modelling
10 39 (14.34%) Performance Tuning
11 38 (13.97%) ETL
11 38 (13.97%) Migration
12 36 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (11.76%) Software Engineering
15 31 (11.40%) High Availability
16 30 (11.03%) Kanban
16 30 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 109 (40.07%) Python
2 83 (30.51%) SQL
3 72 (26.47%) Java
4 34 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 28 (10.29%) Bash
6 22 (8.09%) PowerShell
7 20 (7.35%) JavaScript
8 14 (5.15%) C#
9 10 (3.68%) Groovy
10 9 (3.31%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.84%) Perl
11 5 (1.84%) Scala
12 4 (1.47%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.10%) Go
14 2 (0.74%) Ruby
15 1 (0.37%) Bicep
15 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (38.60%) Security Cleared
2 89 (32.72%) SC Cleared
3 38 (13.97%) AWS Certification
4 21 (7.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (6.25%) Degree
6 16 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.68%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.31%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.74%) CISM
12 2 (0.74%) CISSP
12 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.37%) PMP
13 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.94%) QA
3 7 (2.57%) PMO
4 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.47%) NIST
4 4 (1.47%) SLA
5 3 (1.10%) GDPR
5 3 (1.10%) HL7
5 3 (1.10%) NCSC
5 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (31.62%) Docker
2 12 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.04%) Postfix
4 6 (2.21%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.47%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.47%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 109 (40.07%) Terraform
2 66 (24.26%) Kubernetes
3 54 (19.85%) Grafana
4 33 (12.13%) Prometheus
5 23 (8.46%) Ansible
6 9 (3.31%) Argo
7 6 (2.21%) Istio
8 5 (1.84%) Kibana
8 5 (1.84%) Puppet
9 4 (1.47%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.47%) vMotion
10 3 (1.10%) Foglight
10 3 (1.10%) Nagios
10 3 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.10%) Rancher
11 2 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.74%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.37%) Consul
12 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (9.93%) ServiceNow
2 25 (9.19%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.09%) Oracle
4 17 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (5.51%) Atlassian
6 14 (5.15%) Dynatrace
7 11 (4.04%) Informatica
8 10 (3.68%) VMware
9 9 (3.31%) Databricks
10 7 (2.57%) Denodo
10 7 (2.57%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.21%) Splunk
11 6 (2.21%) Talend
12 5 (1.84%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.84%) Citrix
12 5 (1.84%) Google
13 4 (1.47%) Cisco
13 4 (1.47%) HP
13 4 (1.47%) OpenAI
13 4 (1.47%) Symantec