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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 280 355
Rank change year-on-year -102 +75 -36
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 263 281 243
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.96% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.63% 5.03% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 206 182
10th Percentile £365 £425 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £503
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.45% -16.25%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £788 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £496
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.90% -13.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £73.25 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
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 7,251 5,589 7,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.79% 19.08% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,971 3,854 5,175
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £595 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £485
% change year-on-year -2.71% +0.77% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 107 152
10th Percentile £18.00 £21.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.56% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.75 £74.00 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +59.61% -9.60% -39.70%

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 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -80 225 £513 -10.87% 59
London -71 126 £513 -14.58% 21
UK excluding London -50 113 £500 -4.76% 41
Work from Home -91 68 £506 -12.72% 42
Midlands -34 51 £500 -1.86% 6
West Midlands -32 43 £500 -5.48% 3
North of England -54 24 £480 -4.00% 15
South East -52 12 £530 -7.83% 7
Scotland -6 11 £342 -31.01% 1
Yorkshire -45 11 £500 - 5
South West -25 10 £575 -1.50% 6
North West -32 9 £395 -13.38% 9
East Midlands -26 8 £498 +60.13% 3
North East - 4 £500 - 1
East of England -36 3 - - 5
Wales -13 2 £488 -

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 17 (6.46%) Confluence
2 7 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) SAS
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 262 (99.62%) AWS
2 175 (66.54%) Amazon S3
3 148 (56.27%) Amazon EC2
4 144 (54.75%) AWS Lambda
4 144 (54.75%) Serverless
5 90 (34.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 81 (30.80%) Amazon ECS
7 76 (28.90%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (27.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 69 (26.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 54 (20.53%) GitHub
11 37 (14.07%) GitHub Actions
12 34 (12.93%) Azure
12 34 (12.93%) Route 53
13 31 (11.79%) Amazon SQS
14 21 (7.98%) Amazon MSK
14 21 (7.98%) AWS KMS
15 17 (6.46%) AWS CodePipeline
16 15 (5.70%) AWS Fargate
16 15 (5.70%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.70%) Firewall
2 9 (3.42%) DNS
3 6 (2.28%) Network Security
4 5 (1.90%) VPN
5 2 (0.76%) HTTP
5 2 (0.76%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.76%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.38%) AMQP
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) Internet
6 1 (0.38%) LAN
6 1 (0.38%) SMTP
6 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (28.90%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (23.95%) DynamoDB
3 43 (16.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 29 (11.03%) MySQL
5 23 (8.75%) SQL Server
6 21 (7.98%) Relational Database
7 19 (7.22%) MongoDB
7 19 (7.22%) NoSQL
8 13 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (4.18%) Power BI
9 11 (4.18%) Redis
10 10 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (3.04%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (3.04%) Tableau
12 7 (2.66%) DB2
12 7 (2.66%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.66%) Pentaho
13 6 (2.28%) Big Data
13 6 (2.28%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.90%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 100 (38.02%) Jenkins
2 65 (24.71%) Git
3 47 (17.87%) GitLab
4 29 (11.03%) JIRA
5 25 (9.51%) JUnit
6 18 (6.84%) Maven
7 17 (6.46%) Mockito
8 15 (5.70%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.80%) DbUnit
9 10 (3.80%) jMock
10 9 (3.42%) Bitbucket
10 9 (3.42%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (3.04%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.66%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.90%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.90%) git-flow
13 5 (1.90%) Snyk
14 4 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (1.52%) Postman
15 3 (1.14%) Flyway
General
1 55 (20.91%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.01%) Public Sector
3 38 (14.45%) Finance
4 33 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.46%) Banking
6 11 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.04%) Legal
8 5 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.76%) Front Office
10 2 (0.76%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.76%) Local Government
11 1 (0.38%) Billing
11 1 (0.38%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Military
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (17.49%) Developer
2 43 (16.35%) Senior
3 39 (14.83%) AWS Engineer
4 34 (12.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (10.27%) Java Developer
6 23 (8.75%) DBA
7 22 (8.37%) Data Engineer
8 21 (7.98%) Architect
9 20 (7.60%) Site Engineer
10 19 (7.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 18 (6.84%) Software Engineer
12 17 (6.46%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (6.08%) AWS Architect
14 15 (5.70%) AWS Developer
14 15 (5.70%) Lead
14 15 (5.70%) Senior Developer
15 13 (4.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 13 (4.94%) Senior Java Developer
16 12 (4.56%) Analyst
17 11 (4.18%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (17.49%) Spring
1 46 (17.49%) Spring Boot
2 43 (16.35%) RESTful
3 42 (15.97%) Node.js
4 37 (14.07%) Kafka
5 29 (11.03%) React
6 28 (10.65%) REST
7 19 (7.22%) AngularJS
8 18 (6.84%) Hibernate
8 18 (6.84%) JPA
8 18 (6.84%) SOAP
8 18 (6.84%) Spring Cloud
9 14 (5.32%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (5.32%) Spring Batch
9 14 (5.32%) Web Services
10 13 (4.94%) Spring Integration
11 12 (4.56%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (4.18%) AWS CDK
12 11 (4.18%) Django
12 11 (4.18%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 52 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.42%) Replication
5 6 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.90%) NHS
6 5 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.14%) Clustering
7 3 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.14%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.76%) Derivative
8 2 (0.76%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.38%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 68 (25.86%) Linux
2 8 (3.04%) Unix
3 5 (1.90%) Windows
4 3 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (58.94%) CI/CD
2 108 (41.06%) Agile
3 107 (40.68%) DevOps
4 97 (36.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 81 (30.80%) Containerisation
6 63 (23.95%) Microservices
7 39 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (14.45%) Observability
9 37 (14.07%) Software Engineering
10 34 (12.93%) Scrum
11 33 (12.55%) ETL
12 32 (12.17%) Migration
13 31 (11.79%) Performance Tuning
13 31 (11.79%) TDD
14 30 (11.41%) High Availability
15 29 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (11.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 28 (10.65%) Continuous Integration
17 27 (10.27%) Configuration Management
18 25 (9.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 107 (40.68%) Python
2 105 (39.92%) SQL
3 86 (32.70%) Java
4 34 (12.93%) Bash
5 24 (9.13%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.37%) PowerShell
7 19 (7.22%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.70%) TypeScript
9 11 (4.18%) Ruby
10 10 (3.80%) Go
11 8 (3.04%) Perl
11 8 (3.04%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.66%) C#
13 6 (2.28%) Scala
14 5 (1.90%) Groovy
15 3 (1.14%) JSX
15 3 (1.14%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 108 (41.06%) Security Cleared
2 87 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 41 (15.59%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (5.70%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.18%) Degree
7 10 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.28%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.14%) OCP
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.38%) CEH
13 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.38%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.70%) QA
2 11 (4.18%) NIST
3 10 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.42%) GDPR
4 9 (3.42%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.66%) PMO
6 5 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.76%) GxP
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.38%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
8 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (44.87%) Docker
2 9 (3.42%) Postfix
3 5 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.76%) HDFS
7 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 118 (44.87%) Terraform
2 79 (30.04%) Kubernetes
3 57 (21.67%) Grafana
4 36 (13.69%) Prometheus
5 31 (11.79%) Ansible
6 14 (5.32%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.18%) Puppet
8 8 (3.04%) Data Guard
9 7 (2.66%) Argo
9 7 (2.66%) Kibana
10 4 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.52%) Rancher
11 3 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.14%) Foglight
11 3 (1.14%) Istio
11 3 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.14%) Packer
12 2 (0.76%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.76%) systemd
Vendors
1 37 (14.07%) Oracle
2 17 (6.46%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.46%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.94%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (4.18%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.42%) Databricks
5 9 (3.42%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.42%) Splunk
5 9 (3.42%) Talend
6 8 (3.04%) Sybase
7 7 (2.66%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.66%) Informatica
8 5 (1.90%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.52%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.52%) Qualys
9 4 (1.52%) Tenable
10 3 (1.14%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.76%) Blue Prism
11 2 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.76%) Google