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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 358 340
Rank change year-on-year +72 -18 +72
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 275 245 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 0.56% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.79% 3.22% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 177 288
10th Percentile £425 £393 £450
25th Percentile £463 £413 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -15.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £663 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £480 £588
% change year-on-year +8.33% -18.30% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £60.45
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 5,737 7,601 9,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.31% 17.48% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 5,428 6,756
10th Percentile £356 £350 £371
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £751 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 150 170
10th Percentile £19.71 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.20 £20.77 £32.32
Median hourly rate £34.99 £39.25 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% -31.08% +50.66%
75th Percentile £63.31 £51.87 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £82.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £31.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.44% -42.73% +57.14%

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 3 July 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 15 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 3 July 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 +73 211 £550 +4.76% 286
London +44 122 £563 +7.14% 160
Work from Home +34 109 £563 +10.45% 147
UK excluding London +40 97 £520 +8.33% 130
Midlands +35 29 £475 +5.56% 21
West Midlands +30 27 £475 +5.56% 17
Scotland -12 20 £500 +6.67% 3
South East +50 17 £575 +19.79% 28
North of England -4 13 £537 +19.33% 39
South West +31 11 £543 -9.58% 18
East of England +29 8 £550 -12.00% 21
North West +6 8 £550 +22.91% 27
Yorkshire -6 4 £500 -1.38% 9
East Midlands +2 2 £346 -23.22% 4
North East - 1 £450 - 3

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 18 (6.55%) Apache
2 17 (6.18%) Confluence
3 12 (4.36%) Apache Spark
4 11 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (2.18%) IIS
5 6 (2.18%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.45%) nginx
7 2 (0.73%) Camunda
7 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.36%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Maximo
2 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 267 (97.09%) AWS
2 168 (61.09%) Amazon S3
3 132 (48.00%) Amazon EC2
4 125 (45.45%) Serverless
5 122 (44.36%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (29.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 67 (24.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 54 (19.64%) Amazon EKS
9 53 (19.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 50 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
11 42 (15.27%) GitHub
12 33 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (9.45%) AWS KMS
13 26 (9.45%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (9.45%) Route 53
14 23 (8.36%) Azure
15 21 (7.64%) AWS CodePipeline
16 19 (6.91%) GCP
17 16 (5.82%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (5.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (16.00%) DNS
2 33 (12.00%) VPN
3 26 (9.45%) Firewall
4 21 (7.64%) TCP/IP
5 19 (6.91%) HTTP
6 18 (6.55%) DHCP
7 17 (6.18%) SMTP
8 8 (2.91%) Internet
8 8 (2.91%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (2.18%) FTP
9 6 (2.18%) SSH
10 3 (1.09%) SSL
11 2 (0.73%) IMAP
11 2 (0.73%) Network Security
11 2 (0.73%) OpenLDAP
12 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.36%) LAN
12 1 (0.36%) NAS
12 1 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (34.91%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (19.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 45 (16.36%) DynamoDB
4 24 (8.73%) MySQL
4 24 (8.73%) Relational Database
5 23 (8.36%) SQL Server
6 21 (7.64%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (7.64%) Big Data
7 17 (6.18%) Oracle Database
8 16 (5.82%) NoSQL
9 14 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (3.64%) Data Lake
12 9 (3.27%) DB2
13 6 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (1.82%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.82%) Power BI
15 4 (1.45%) MariaDB
15 4 (1.45%) MongoDB
15 4 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (26.55%) Jenkins
2 44 (16.00%) Git
3 29 (10.55%) GitLab
4 20 (7.27%) JUnit
4 20 (7.27%) Maven
5 19 (6.91%) JIRA
6 17 (6.18%) SonarQube
7 12 (4.36%) Mockito
8 8 (2.91%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (2.91%) DbUnit
8 8 (2.91%) jMock
8 8 (2.91%) Vagrant
9 5 (1.82%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.45%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.45%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.09%) Storybook
12 2 (0.73%) Postman
12 2 (0.73%) Selenium
12 2 (0.73%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 70 (25.45%) Public Sector
2 58 (21.09%) Social Skills
3 34 (12.36%) Finance
4 28 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.82%) Billing
6 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.09%) Banking
6 3 (1.09%) Military
7 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.73%) Retail
8 1 (0.36%) Aviation
8 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.36%) Local Government
8 1 (0.36%) Marketing
8 1 (0.36%) Police
8 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (26.18%) Developer
2 47 (17.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (15.64%) Senior
4 38 (13.82%) Architect
5 37 (13.45%) AWS Engineer
6 27 (9.82%) Lead
7 26 (9.45%) AWS Architect
7 26 (9.45%) Java Developer
8 24 (8.73%) Data Engineer
9 23 (8.36%) AWS DevOps
9 23 (8.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 21 (7.64%) AWS Developer
11 17 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (5.09%) DBA
12 14 (5.09%) Senior DevOps
13 13 (4.73%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.36%) .NET Developer
14 12 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (3.27%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.00%) Node.js
2 32 (11.64%) Spring
3 31 (11.27%) Spring Boot
4 25 (9.09%) REST
5 24 (8.73%) React
6 23 (8.36%) SOAP
7 22 (8.00%) RESTful
8 21 (7.64%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (7.64%) Web Services
9 20 (7.27%) Hibernate
10 19 (6.91%) AngularJS
11 16 (5.82%) ActiveMQ
12 15 (5.45%) JPA
13 14 (5.09%) .NET
14 13 (4.73%) Kafka
15 12 (4.36%) .NET Framework
15 12 (4.36%) Entity Framework
16 11 (4.00%) Spring Batch
16 11 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
16 11 (4.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.18%) Replication
3 16 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.09%) PKI
5 13 (4.73%) Clustering
6 11 (4.00%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.45%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.09%) Oracle Licensing
11 2 (0.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.36%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.36%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.36%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.91%) Linux
2 39 (14.18%) Windows
3 21 (7.64%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.91%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (2.91%) VMS
5 6 (2.18%) Unix
6 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.73%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.36%) SUSE
9 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (45.45%) DevOps
2 106 (38.55%) CI/CD
3 93 (33.82%) Containerisation
4 91 (33.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (26.91%) Agile
6 65 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (16.36%) High Availability
7 45 (16.36%) Microservices
8 43 (15.64%) Migration
9 34 (12.36%) Continuous Integration
10 32 (11.64%) Cloud Security
10 32 (11.64%) ETL
10 32 (11.64%) Open Source
11 31 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (10.18%) Configuration Management
13 26 (9.45%) Mentoring
14 25 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (9.09%) Scrum
15 24 (8.73%) Full-Stack Development
15 24 (8.73%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 101 (36.73%) Python
2 79 (28.73%) SQL
3 67 (24.36%) Java
4 37 (13.45%) PowerShell
5 35 (12.73%) JavaScript
6 19 (6.91%) Bash
7 18 (6.55%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.09%) C#
8 14 (5.09%) PL/SQL
9 11 (4.00%) RPG
9 11 (4.00%) RPG IV
10 10 (3.64%) Perl
10 10 (3.64%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.91%) Groovy
12 7 (2.55%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.45%) R
14 3 (1.09%) Scala
15 2 (0.73%) C++
15 2 (0.73%) Go
15 2 (0.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 116 (42.18%) Security Cleared
2 101 (36.73%) SC Cleared
3 49 (17.82%) AWS Certification
4 36 (13.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (11.64%) Degree
6 16 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.36%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.73%) MCSE
10 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.36%) OCP
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.36%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.09%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.36%) QA
3 10 (3.64%) GDPR
4 6 (2.18%) NCSC
5 5 (1.82%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.82%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.73%) NIST
8 2 (0.73%) WCAG
9 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 112 (40.73%) Docker
2 26 (9.45%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.00%) Postfix
4 10 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (3.27%) BitLocker
5 9 (3.27%) Hyper-V
5 9 (3.27%) Microsoft App-V
5 9 (3.27%) Terminal Services
5 9 (3.27%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.18%) DFS Replication
6 6 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.73%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.73%) Squid
10 1 (0.36%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 109 (39.64%) Terraform
2 89 (32.36%) Kubernetes
3 45 (16.36%) Ansible
4 39 (14.18%) Prometheus
5 38 (13.82%) Grafana
6 33 (12.00%) Puppet
7 23 (8.36%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.64%) Nagios
8 10 (3.64%) vCenter Server
9 9 (3.27%) vMotion
10 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (1.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.73%) Data Guard
13 2 (0.73%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.73%) Nessus
14 1 (0.36%) Apache Ranger
14 1 (0.36%) Istio
14 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
14 1 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 33 (12.00%) Oracle
2 27 (9.82%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.18%) Google
4 14 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.36%) Atlassian
5 12 (4.36%) VMware
6 11 (4.00%) IBM
6 11 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (3.64%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.27%) Citrix
8 9 (3.27%) HP
8 9 (3.27%) Symantec
9 6 (2.18%) Informatica
10 4 (1.45%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.45%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.45%) Solace
10 4 (1.45%) Splunk
10 4 (1.45%) Teradata
10 4 (1.45%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.09%) New Relic