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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 305 361
Rank change year-on-year -92 +56 -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 320 278 208
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.84% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.92% 4.60% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 198 127
10th Percentile £400 £400 £421
25th Percentile £448 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £511 £535
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -4.44% -2.73%
75th Percentile £674 £578 £600
90th Percentile £775 £638 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £475 £507
% change year-on-year -2.89% -6.31% -7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile - £68.25 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £71.19 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 8,169 6,043 6,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.77% 18.16% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,433 4,055 4,509
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -5.21% -2.31%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £736 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 82 90
10th Percentile £16.88 £20.78 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.63 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +18.86% -34.94%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.69 £61.19
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -40.63%

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 16 October 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 17 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 16 October 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 -93 253 £536 +7.20% 50
London -24 164 £550 +6.54% 25
Work from Home -62 110 £526 -0.85% 32
UK excluding London -121 93 £461 -2.89% 33
North of England -61 30 £500 - 9
Midlands -74 20 £459 -3.37% 2
Yorkshire -22 18 £500 - 3
West Midlands -68 17 £464 -2.32% 2
South East -62 14 £533 +18.33% 10
Scotland -24 13 £425 -13.79% 1
South West -30 13 £538 +2.87% 7
North East -35 6 £419 -1.47% 1
North West -55 6 £525 -2.33% 5
East of England -35 3 £345 -37.27% 1
East Midlands -10 2 £358 -5.79%
Northern Ireland +4 1 £600 - 2
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 25 (7.81%) Confluence
2 13 (4.06%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.44%) Apache
4 7 (2.19%) nginx
4 7 (2.19%) SAS
5 6 (1.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.88%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.88%) WebLogic Portal
6 5 (1.56%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.94%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.94%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.63%) Camunda
9 1 (0.31%) Appian
9 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (1.88%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.63%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 302 (94.38%) AWS
2 192 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 174 (54.38%) AWS Lambda
3 174 (54.38%) Serverless
4 133 (41.56%) Amazon EC2
5 121 (37.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 91 (28.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 89 (27.81%) Amazon EKS
8 84 (26.25%) Amazon ECS
9 68 (21.25%) Azure
10 65 (20.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 53 (16.56%) GitHub
12 48 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (12.19%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (10.63%) Route 53
15 31 (9.69%) AWS KMS
16 30 (9.38%) Amazon EventBridge
17 29 (9.06%) AWS Step Functions
18 24 (7.50%) GCP
19 21 (6.56%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.25%) Firewall
2 16 (5.00%) DNS
3 13 (4.06%) VPN
4 11 (3.44%) Network Security
5 7 (2.19%) DHCP
6 6 (1.88%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (1.56%) SMTP
8 4 (1.25%) HTTP
8 4 (1.25%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.25%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.63%) AMQP
9 2 (0.63%) FTP
9 2 (0.63%) IMAP
9 2 (0.63%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.63%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.63%) SSH
9 2 (0.63%) SSL
10 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.31%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (27.81%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (23.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 66 (20.63%) DynamoDB
4 38 (11.88%) MySQL
5 32 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
6 30 (9.38%) SQL Server
7 28 (8.75%) MongoDB
8 24 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (5.94%) Data Lake
10 19 (5.94%) Redis
11 12 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (3.44%) Power BI
12 11 (3.44%) Relational Database
13 10 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (2.81%) Big Data
15 8 (2.50%) Apache Iceberg
16 7 (2.19%) Metadata
16 7 (2.19%) Oracle Database
16 7 (2.19%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 89 (27.81%) Jenkins
2 69 (21.56%) Git
3 63 (19.69%) GitLab
4 36 (11.25%) JIRA
5 15 (4.69%) Bitbucket
5 15 (4.69%) JUnit
6 14 (4.38%) Maven
7 12 (3.75%) Mockito
8 10 (3.13%) Claude Code
9 9 (2.81%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (2.50%) SonarQube
11 7 (2.19%) Gradle
12 6 (1.88%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.88%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.56%) Flyway
13 5 (1.56%) Postman
13 5 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (1.25%) DbUnit
15 3 (0.94%) Mocha
General
1 94 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.63%) Public Sector
3 43 (13.44%) Finance
4 25 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.81%) Banking
5 11 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.13%) Back Office
7 8 (2.50%) Front Office
8 7 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.88%) Legal
10 5 (1.56%) Billing
10 5 (1.56%) Law
11 4 (1.25%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.94%) Police
12 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Local Government
13 2 (0.63%) Marketing
13 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.63%) Retail
13 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (24.06%) AWS Engineer
2 61 (19.06%) Senior
3 53 (16.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (15.00%) Architect
5 39 (12.19%) DBA
6 38 (11.88%) Data Engineer
6 38 (11.88%) Developer
7 29 (9.06%) AWS Architect
8 28 (8.75%) AWS DevOps
9 26 (8.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 24 (7.50%) Lead
11 22 (6.88%) Java Developer
12 21 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (5.94%) Administrator
14 18 (5.63%) AWS Data Engineer
14 18 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (5.31%) Technical Leader
16 14 (4.38%) Senior Data Engineer
17 13 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 13 (4.06%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (52.50%) Terraform
2 44 (13.75%) REST
3 37 (11.56%) React
4 33 (10.31%) Spring
4 33 (10.31%) Spring Boot
5 28 (8.75%) RESTful
6 26 (8.13%) .NET
7 24 (7.50%) AWS CDK
8 21 (6.56%) AngularJS
8 21 (6.56%) Node.js
9 20 (6.25%) Kafka
10 19 (5.94%) FastAPI
11 15 (4.69%) GraphQL
12 12 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (3.44%) .NET Core
13 11 (3.44%) ActiveMQ
13 11 (3.44%) SOAP
14 10 (3.13%) Django
14 10 (3.13%) Hibernate
14 10 (3.13%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 79 (24.69%) Cloud Native
2 37 (11.56%) Replication
3 24 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 23 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.75%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.75%) Clustering
6 9 (2.81%) NHS
6 9 (2.81%) PKI
6 9 (2.81%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.19%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.88%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.56%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.56%) PropTech
10 5 (1.56%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 57 (17.81%) Linux
2 34 (10.63%) Windows
3 15 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.81%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (2.50%) Unix
7 6 (1.88%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.88%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.25%) AIX
9 1 (0.31%) CentOS
9 1 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.31%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (67.19%) CI/CD
2 164 (51.25%) DevOps
3 159 (49.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 121 (37.81%) Agile
5 80 (25.00%) Microservices
6 73 (22.81%) Observability
7 72 (22.50%) Containerisation
8 61 (19.06%) Data Modelling
8 61 (19.06%) Performance Tuning
9 57 (17.81%) Migration
10 56 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 54 (16.88%) Event-Driven
11 54 (16.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 48 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 47 (14.69%) High Availability
14 45 (14.06%) Data Integration
14 45 (14.06%) Root Cause Analysis
14 45 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
15 44 (13.75%) Software Engineering
16 43 (13.44%) AI
Programming Languages
1 137 (42.81%) Python
2 91 (28.44%) SQL
3 62 (19.38%) Java
4 42 (13.13%) TypeScript
5 32 (10.00%) Bash
6 30 (9.38%) PowerShell
7 23 (7.19%) JavaScript
8 22 (6.88%) Groovy
9 21 (6.56%) C#
10 9 (2.81%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.50%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.50%) Scala
12 7 (2.19%) Perl
13 4 (1.25%) Bicep
13 4 (1.25%) Go
14 3 (0.94%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 123 (38.44%) Security Cleared
2 105 (32.81%) SC Cleared
3 59 (18.44%) AWS Certification
4 36 (11.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (6.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (5.94%) Degree
7 13 (4.06%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.44%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.19%) CISM
10 7 (2.19%) CISSP
11 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.94%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.94%) PMP
13 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.63%) MCSA
13 2 (0.63%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.44%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.81%) QA
3 7 (2.19%) NIST
4 4 (1.25%) SLA
5 3 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.94%) HL7
5 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.94%) NCSC
6 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.63%) GDPR
6 2 (0.63%) WCAG
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 112 (35.00%) Docker
2 19 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.25%) DFS Replication
6 4 (1.25%) Postfix
6 4 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.94%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.94%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.94%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.63%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.63%) Squid
8 2 (0.63%) vSphere
9 1 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 84 (26.25%) Kubernetes
2 59 (18.44%) Grafana
3 49 (15.31%) Prometheus
4 39 (12.19%) Ansible
5 9 (2.81%) Argo
5 9 (2.81%) Kibana
6 8 (2.50%) Puppet
7 7 (2.19%) Istio
8 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.88%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (1.56%) Packer
9 5 (1.56%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (1.25%) Rancher
11 3 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.94%) Nagios
11 3 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.94%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.94%) vMotion
11 3 (0.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.38%) Oracle
3 25 (7.81%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.75%) Informatica
6 11 (3.44%) VMware
7 9 (2.81%) Databricks
7 9 (2.81%) Google
8 8 (2.50%) Citrix
9 7 (2.19%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.19%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.88%) Denodo
10 6 (1.88%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (1.88%) Talend
11 5 (1.56%) Amplitude
12 4 (1.25%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.25%) Brio
12 4 (1.25%) Cisco
12 4 (1.25%) Splunk
13 3 (0.94%) webMethods
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