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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 285 370
Rank change year-on-year -56 +85 -45
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 284 266 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.91% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.09% 4.78% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 181 169
10th Percentile £363 £425 £397
25th Percentile £412 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £632 £610
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £499
% change year-on-year - +0.25% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £73.40 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
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 6,937 5,562 7,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.03% 18.97% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,760 3,831 5,173
10th Percentile £350 £351 £340
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £488
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.33% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 99 172
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.21 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +65.51% -24.94% -29.32%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.50 £58.81
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.78 £40.00
% change year-on-year +73.73% -28.05% -27.27%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -68 234 £513 -6.82% 89
London -58 123 £513 -9.29% 43
UK excluding London -34 118 £500 - 58
Work from Home -72 78 £550 - 47
Midlands -28 48 £500 -5.48% 4
West Midlands -31 39 £506 -4.30% 4
North of England -45 29 £453 -13.81% 11
South East -41 14 £530 +3.41% 20
North West -29 13 £389 -14.75% 8
Scotland +1 12 £358 -25.34% 1
Yorkshire -50 12 £500 -4.76% 2
South West -20 10 £538 -12.30% 14
East Midlands -31 9 £444 +0.23%
North East -10 4 £500 - 1
East of England -22 3 £538 +8.86% 5
Wales -7 2 £488 - 2

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 19 (6.69%) Confluence
2 4 (1.41%) Apache
2 4 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 283 (99.65%) AWS
2 187 (65.85%) Amazon S3
3 172 (60.56%) Amazon EC2
4 161 (56.69%) Serverless
5 160 (56.34%) AWS Lambda
6 99 (34.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 95 (33.45%) Amazon ECS
8 92 (32.39%) Amazon EKS
9 85 (29.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 85 (29.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 73 (25.70%) GitHub
11 56 (19.72%) GitHub Actions
12 40 (14.08%) Azure
13 39 (13.73%) Route 53
14 24 (8.45%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (7.75%) Amazon MSK
15 22 (7.75%) AWS Fargate
16 19 (6.69%) AWS CloudTrail
17 18 (6.34%) Amazon Kinesis
17 18 (6.34%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.04%) Firewall
2 13 (4.58%) DNS
3 9 (3.17%) VPN
4 5 (1.76%) Network Security
5 3 (1.06%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.70%) HTTP
6 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.35%) DHCP
7 1 (0.35%) Internet
7 1 (0.35%) LAN
7 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.35%) SMTP
7 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (23.24%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (21.48%) DynamoDB
3 38 (13.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 32 (11.27%) MySQL
5 25 (8.80%) Relational Database
5 25 (8.80%) SQL Server
6 22 (7.75%) MongoDB
7 18 (6.34%) NoSQL
8 15 (5.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (3.52%) Oracle Database
10 10 (3.52%) Power BI
10 10 (3.52%) Redis
11 9 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (2.82%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (2.46%) DB2
13 7 (2.46%) Tableau
14 6 (2.11%) Pentaho
14 6 (2.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 112 (39.44%) Jenkins
2 78 (27.46%) Git
3 65 (22.89%) GitLab
4 32 (11.27%) JIRA
5 22 (7.75%) JUnit
6 15 (5.28%) Maven
7 13 (4.58%) Bitbucket
7 13 (4.58%) Mockito
8 12 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (3.87%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.46%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.46%) DbUnit
10 7 (2.46%) jMock
11 5 (1.76%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.76%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.76%) Snyk
12 4 (1.41%) git-flow
12 4 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (1.06%) Flyway
13 3 (1.06%) Gradle
General
1 66 (23.24%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.25%) Public Sector
3 45 (15.85%) Finance
4 28 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.69%) Banking
6 11 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.82%) Legal
8 5 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Front Office
9 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.70%) Military
10 1 (0.35%) Billing
10 1 (0.35%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.35%) Games
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
10 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (18.31%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (15.14%) Developer
2 43 (15.14%) Senior
3 42 (14.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (8.45%) DBA
4 24 (8.45%) Java Developer
4 24 (8.45%) Software Engineer
5 21 (7.39%) AWS DevOps
5 21 (7.39%) Site Engineer
6 20 (7.04%) Data Engineer
6 20 (7.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 18 (6.34%) Lead
8 17 (5.99%) Architect
8 17 (5.99%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.63%) AWS Developer
10 15 (5.28%) Senior DevOps
10 15 (5.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.93%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.44%) Kafka
1 41 (14.44%) Spring
1 41 (14.44%) Spring Boot
2 39 (13.73%) Node.js
2 39 (13.73%) RESTful
3 29 (10.21%) React
4 25 (8.80%) REST
5 18 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (4.93%) AngularJS
6 14 (4.93%) AWS CDK
6 14 (4.93%) Hibernate
6 14 (4.93%) JPA
6 14 (4.93%) SOAP
6 14 (4.93%) Spring Cloud
7 13 (4.58%) Django
8 11 (3.87%) CSS
8 11 (3.87%) GraphQL
8 11 (3.87%) Spring Batch
9 10 (3.52%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (3.52%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.25%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.28%) Replication
4 8 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.76%) Clustering
6 5 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.41%) NHS
7 4 (1.41%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.06%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.06%) Derivative
8 3 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.06%) PKI
9 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.70%) Equities
9 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 76 (26.76%) Linux
2 7 (2.46%) Unix
3 6 (2.11%) Windows
4 5 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.70%) CentOS
6 2 (0.70%) Solaris
7 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (60.92%) CI/CD
2 124 (43.66%) DevOps
3 111 (39.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 105 (36.97%) Agile
5 91 (32.04%) Containerisation
6 66 (23.24%) Microservices
7 47 (16.55%) Observability
7 47 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (14.44%) Software Engineering
9 37 (13.03%) Performance Tuning
10 36 (12.68%) Migration
11 35 (12.32%) ETL
12 34 (11.97%) Cost Optimisation
12 34 (11.97%) TDD
13 33 (11.62%) Configuration Management
14 31 (10.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 30 (10.56%) High Availability
16 29 (10.21%) Scrum
17 26 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (9.15%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 124 (43.66%) Python
2 105 (36.97%) SQL
3 79 (27.82%) Java
4 42 (14.79%) Bash
5 25 (8.80%) PowerShell
6 24 (8.45%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.39%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.99%) Go
9 16 (5.63%) TypeScript
10 12 (4.23%) Ruby
11 11 (3.87%) Perl
12 8 (2.82%) C#
12 8 (2.82%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.11%) JSX
14 5 (1.76%) Groovy
15 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.35%) Bicep
16 1 (0.35%) PHP
16 1 (0.35%) R
16 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 106 (37.32%) Security Cleared
2 86 (30.28%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.55%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (5.63%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.23%) Degree
6 10 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.46%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.41%) OCP
9 4 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CEH
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.35%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.63%) QA
2 12 (4.23%) NIST
3 10 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.82%) GDPR
5 7 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.46%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.76%) PMO
7 3 (1.06%) NCSC
8 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.70%) GxP
8 2 (0.70%) SLA
9 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 129 (45.42%) Docker
2 8 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
3 6 (2.11%) Postfix
4 4 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.70%) HDFS
6 2 (0.70%) NFS
7 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 135 (47.54%) Terraform
2 94 (33.10%) Kubernetes
3 61 (21.48%) Grafana
4 45 (15.85%) Prometheus
5 39 (13.73%) Ansible
6 18 (6.34%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.58%) Puppet
8 8 (2.82%) Data Guard
9 5 (1.76%) Argo
9 5 (1.76%) Packer
10 4 (1.41%) Kibana
10 4 (1.41%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.41%) Rancher
11 3 (1.06%) Foglight
11 3 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.70%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.70%) systemd
Vendors
1 40 (14.08%) Oracle
2 19 (6.69%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.99%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.52%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.17%) Databricks
5 9 (3.17%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (2.82%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.82%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.82%) Splunk
6 8 (2.82%) Sybase
6 8 (2.82%) Talend
7 6 (2.11%) Informatica
8 5 (1.76%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.41%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.41%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.41%) Qualys
9 4 (1.41%) Tenable
10 3 (1.06%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.06%) Confluent
10 3 (1.06%) Google