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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 289 352
Rank change year-on-year -108 +63 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 292 286 213
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.88% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.55% 4.90% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 201 143
10th Percentile £400 £410 £409
25th Percentile £437 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £788 £640 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -8.00% -0.10% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
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 8,233 5,833 6,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.23% 17.97% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,500 3,894 4,772
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.30%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 94 86
10th Percentile £15.95 £22.86 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.11 £30.24 £20.19
Median hourly rate £39.50 £39.48 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +18.86% -37.92%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.89% +18.30% -42.86%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -106 236 £530 +0.90% 211
London -46 149 £550 -4.35% 133
Work from Home -71 101 £526 -4.36% 716
UK excluding London -126 90 £460 -8.00% 120
North of England -58 32 £500 - 30
Midlands -75 26 £469 -1.26% 15
West Midlands -63 23 £469 -1.26% 7
Yorkshire -27 18 £500 - 7
South West -43 10 £542 -0.14% 20
South East -81 10 £460 -20.00% 21
Scotland -31 9 £425 -14.59% 16
North East -37 7 £425 -2.86% 9
North West -57 7 £525 -4.55% 14
East of England -29 4 £348 -36.82% 11
East Midlands -16 2 £449 +18.16% 8
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 23 (7.88%) Confluence
2 17 (5.82%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.08%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.40%) Apache
4 7 (2.40%) SAS
4 7 (2.40%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.03%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.68%) Camunda
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.68%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 280 (95.89%) AWS
2 183 (62.67%) Amazon S3
3 163 (55.82%) AWS Lambda
4 162 (55.48%) Serverless
5 115 (39.38%) Amazon EC2
6 113 (38.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 76 (26.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 73 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
9 70 (23.97%) Amazon EKS
10 59 (20.21%) Azure
11 53 (18.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 53 (18.15%) GitHub
12 40 (13.70%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (12.67%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (10.96%) AWS KMS
15 29 (9.93%) Route 53
16 25 (8.56%) AWS Step Functions
17 24 (8.22%) Amazon EventBridge
18 21 (7.19%) GCP
19 18 (6.16%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.16%) Firewall
2 12 (4.11%) DNS
3 7 (2.40%) DHCP
3 7 (2.40%) VPN
4 6 (2.05%) Network Security
4 6 (2.05%) SMTP
5 4 (1.37%) HTTP
5 4 (1.37%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.68%) FTP
6 2 (0.68%) IMAP
6 2 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.68%) SSH
6 2 (0.68%) SSL
7 1 (0.34%) AMQP
7 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (29.45%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (25.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 64 (21.92%) DynamoDB
4 36 (12.33%) MySQL
5 25 (8.56%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (8.56%) MongoDB
5 25 (8.56%) SQL Server
6 21 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (5.82%) Redis
9 16 (5.48%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.45%) Big Data
10 13 (4.45%) Power BI
10 13 (4.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (3.08%) NoSQL
12 8 (2.74%) Apache Iceberg
12 8 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (2.74%) Pentaho
12 8 (2.74%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.05%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 85 (29.11%) Jenkins
2 60 (20.55%) Git
3 49 (16.78%) GitLab
4 33 (11.30%) JIRA
5 17 (5.82%) JUnit
6 15 (5.14%) Mockito
7 14 (4.79%) Maven
8 13 (4.45%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.77%) SonarQube
10 10 (3.42%) Claude Code
11 8 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.40%) DbUnit
13 6 (2.05%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (2.05%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.05%) jMock
13 6 (2.05%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.71%) Postman
15 4 (1.37%) Cypress.io
15 4 (1.37%) Flyway
15 4 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.26%) Public Sector
3 33 (11.30%) Finance
4 26 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.53%) Banking
6 9 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.74%) Front Office
8 7 (2.40%) Back Office
9 6 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.05%) Legal
10 3 (1.03%) Billing
10 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Local Government
11 2 (0.68%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (25.68%) AWS Engineer
2 55 (18.84%) Senior
3 47 (16.10%) Architect
4 45 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (13.36%) Data Engineer
5 39 (13.36%) Developer
6 30 (10.27%) DBA
7 28 (9.59%) AWS Architect
8 27 (9.25%) AWS DevOps
9 25 (8.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 23 (7.88%) Lead
11 20 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (6.16%) Java Developer
13 17 (5.82%) AWS Data Engineer
13 17 (5.82%) Technical Architect
14 15 (5.14%) Administrator
15 14 (4.79%) Technical Leader
16 13 (4.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 13 (4.45%) Senior Data Engineer
16 13 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (49.32%) Terraform
2 39 (13.36%) React
3 38 (13.01%) REST
4 35 (11.99%) Node.js
5 32 (10.96%) RESTful
5 32 (10.96%) Spring
5 32 (10.96%) Spring Boot
6 24 (8.22%) AngularJS
7 23 (7.88%) AWS CDK
8 20 (6.85%) .NET
9 18 (6.16%) Kafka
10 17 (5.82%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.45%) ActiveMQ
11 13 (4.45%) SOAP
12 11 (3.77%) GraphQL
12 11 (3.77%) JSON
13 10 (3.42%) Hibernate
13 10 (3.42%) JPA
14 9 (3.08%) Spring Batch
14 9 (3.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.59%) Product Ownership
3 27 (9.25%) Replication
4 24 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.77%) NHS
6 10 (3.42%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.74%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.40%) Clustering
8 7 (2.40%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.05%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.05%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.05%) PKI
10 5 (1.71%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.37%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.37%) PropTech
12 3 (1.03%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 52 (17.81%) Linux
2 23 (7.88%) Windows
3 14 (4.79%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.08%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (2.74%) Unix
7 4 (1.37%) AIX
7 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.03%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.34%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.34%) VMS
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (64.38%) CI/CD
2 142 (48.63%) DevOps
3 135 (46.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (39.73%) Agile
5 72 (24.66%) Microservices
6 59 (20.21%) Containerisation
7 57 (19.52%) Data Modelling
8 55 (18.84%) Observability
9 51 (17.47%) Performance Tuning
10 48 (16.44%) Event-Driven
10 48 (16.44%) Software Engineering
11 47 (16.10%) High Availability
12 46 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 43 (14.73%) Migration
15 42 (14.38%) Data Pipeline
16 38 (13.01%) Technical Leadership
17 37 (12.67%) Data Integration
18 34 (11.64%) Scrum
19 33 (11.30%) AI
Programming Languages
1 130 (44.52%) Python
2 84 (28.77%) SQL
3 72 (24.66%) Java
4 39 (13.36%) TypeScript
5 30 (10.27%) Bash
6 24 (8.22%) PowerShell
7 23 (7.88%) JavaScript
8 18 (6.16%) Groovy
9 17 (5.82%) C#
10 11 (3.77%) Scala
11 8 (2.74%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.40%) Perl
13 4 (1.37%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.03%) Go
14 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.68%) Bicep
15 2 (0.68%) Ruby
16 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 111 (38.01%) Security Cleared
2 91 (31.16%) SC Cleared
3 50 (17.12%) AWS Certification
4 32 (10.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (8.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (5.48%) Degree
7 12 (4.11%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.77%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.40%) CISM
9 7 (2.40%) CISSP
10 6 (2.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.03%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.68%) PMP
13 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.74%) NIST
3 6 (2.05%) QA
4 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.03%) GDPR
5 3 (1.03%) HL7
5 3 (1.03%) NCSC
5 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.03%) PMO
5 3 (1.03%) SLA
6 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.68%) WCAG
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 96 (32.88%) Docker
2 14 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.40%) Postfix
4 6 (2.05%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.37%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.37%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.37%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.68%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.68%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.68%) Squid
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 76 (26.03%) Kubernetes
2 58 (19.86%) Grafana
3 43 (14.73%) Prometheus
4 28 (9.59%) Ansible
5 9 (3.08%) Istio
5 9 (3.08%) Kibana
6 8 (2.74%) Argo
7 5 (1.71%) Puppet
8 4 (1.37%) Packer
8 4 (1.37%) Rancher
8 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.37%) vMotion
9 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.03%) Nagios
9 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.68%) Consul
10 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.68%) Nessus
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 29 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.22%) Oracle
3 21 (7.19%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.48%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.11%) Databricks
5 12 (4.11%) Informatica
6 10 (3.42%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (3.42%) VMware
7 9 (3.08%) Google
8 8 (2.74%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.40%) Denodo
9 7 (2.40%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.40%) Splunk
9 7 (2.40%) Talend
10 5 (1.71%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.71%) Citrix
10 5 (1.71%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.37%) Brio
11 4 (1.37%) HP
11 4 (1.37%) Symantec
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