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

 6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 309 337
Rank change year-on-year -74 +28 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 306 260 214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.79% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.80% 4.34% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 178 135
10th Percentile £400 £400 £415
25th Percentile £431 £450 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.28% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £661 £582 £600
90th Percentile £778 £640 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -3.16% -2.96% -11.00%
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 8,053 5,991 6,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.81% 18.15% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,357 4,002 4,614
10th Percentile £351 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £482
% change year-on-year - -1.45% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 87 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.91 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.71 £38.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +10.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.63 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.25 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £34.43 £30.00
% change year-on-year +21.14% +14.77% -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 5 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 5 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 -90 239 £533 +6.50% 325
London -32 155 £550 +5.26% 140
Work from Home -48 110 £527 +5.40% 219
UK excluding London -125 91 £460 -3.16% 231
North of England -63 31 £500 - 60
Midlands -66 21 £459 -3.37% 26
West Midlands -69 19 £464 -2.32% 13
Yorkshire -22 18 £500 - 11
Scotland -11 13 £425 -14.40% 32
South East -64 12 £460 -0.54% 40
South West -33 11 £438 -15.87% 37
North West -52 7 £525 -4.55% 38
North East -35 6 £419 -1.47% 11
East of England -29 3 £345 -37.27% 19
Northern Ireland +4 1 £600 - 7
East Midlands -14 1 £358 -5.79% 13
Wales - 1 £550 - 11

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 24 (7.84%) Confluence
2 17 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.59%) Apache
4 9 (2.94%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.96%) SAS
5 6 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.96%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.96%) WebLogic Portal
6 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.31%) nginx
8 3 (0.98%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.98%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.65%) Camunda
10 1 (0.33%) Appian
10 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (1.96%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.65%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 291 (95.10%) AWS
2 189 (61.76%) Amazon S3
3 166 (54.25%) AWS Lambda
4 163 (53.27%) Serverless
5 122 (39.87%) Amazon EC2
6 116 (37.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 83 (27.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 82 (26.80%) Amazon EKS
9 80 (26.14%) Amazon ECS
10 64 (20.92%) Azure
11 58 (18.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 52 (16.99%) GitHub
13 47 (15.36%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (12.42%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (10.78%) AWS KMS
16 30 (9.80%) Route 53
17 27 (8.82%) Amazon EventBridge
18 26 (8.50%) AWS Step Functions
19 23 (7.52%) GCP
20 18 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.54%) Firewall
2 16 (5.23%) DNS
3 10 (3.27%) VPN
4 9 (2.94%) Network Security
5 7 (2.29%) DHCP
6 6 (1.96%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.63%) SMTP
8 4 (1.31%) HTTP
8 4 (1.31%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.65%) FTP
9 2 (0.65%) IMAP
9 2 (0.65%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.65%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.65%) SSH
9 2 (0.65%) SSL
10 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.33%) IPsec
10 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (30.39%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (26.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 64 (20.92%) DynamoDB
4 40 (13.07%) MySQL
5 33 (10.78%) MongoDB
6 31 (10.13%) SQL Server
7 29 (9.48%) Amazon Athena
8 22 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (6.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (6.54%) Redis
11 16 (5.23%) Data Lake
12 13 (4.25%) Big Data
13 12 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (3.59%) Power BI
15 9 (2.94%) NoSQL
15 9 (2.94%) Relational Database
16 8 (2.61%) Apache Iceberg
17 7 (2.29%) Metadata
17 7 (2.29%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 88 (28.76%) Jenkins
2 70 (22.88%) Git
3 54 (17.65%) GitLab
4 35 (11.44%) JIRA
5 17 (5.56%) JUnit
6 16 (5.23%) Maven
7 15 (4.90%) Bitbucket
8 14 (4.58%) Mockito
9 10 (3.27%) Claude Code
9 10 (3.27%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.94%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.29%) Gradle
13 6 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.63%) DbUnit
14 5 (1.63%) Flyway
14 5 (1.63%) Postman
14 5 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (1.31%) jMock
General
1 90 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 66 (21.57%) Public Sector
3 39 (12.75%) Finance
4 25 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.17%) Banking
5 11 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.27%) Back Office
7 8 (2.61%) Front Office
8 7 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.96%) Legal
10 5 (1.63%) Billing
11 4 (1.31%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.31%) Local Government
12 3 (0.98%) Law
12 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Marketing
13 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.33%) German Language
14 1 (0.33%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (25.16%) AWS Engineer
2 58 (18.95%) Senior
3 48 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (15.36%) Architect
5 39 (12.75%) Data Engineer
5 39 (12.75%) Developer
6 38 (12.42%) DBA
7 28 (9.15%) AWS Architect
7 28 (9.15%) AWS DevOps
8 26 (8.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (7.84%) Lead
10 23 (7.52%) Java Developer
11 21 (6.86%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
13 17 (5.56%) Administrator
14 16 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (5.23%) Technical Leader
15 14 (4.58%) Senior Data Engineer
15 14 (4.58%) Technical Architect
16 13 (4.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (50.65%) Terraform
2 42 (13.73%) REST
3 36 (11.76%) React
4 33 (10.78%) Spring
4 33 (10.78%) Spring Boot
5 31 (10.13%) RESTful
6 24 (7.84%) Node.js
7 23 (7.52%) .NET
7 23 (7.52%) AngularJS
7 23 (7.52%) AWS CDK
8 22 (7.19%) Kafka
9 18 (5.88%) FastAPI
10 14 (4.58%) GraphQL
11 13 (4.25%) ActiveMQ
11 13 (4.25%) SOAP
12 12 (3.92%) Hibernate
12 12 (3.92%) JPA
13 11 (3.59%) .NET Core
13 11 (3.59%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (2.94%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 74 (24.18%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.44%) Replication
3 28 (9.15%) Product Ownership
4 23 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.92%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.92%) Clustering
6 9 (2.94%) NHS
6 9 (2.94%) PKI
7 7 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.29%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.29%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.63%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.63%) PropTech
9 5 (1.63%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.63%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.31%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 57 (18.63%) Linux
2 29 (9.48%) Windows
3 15 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.59%) Unix
6 9 (2.94%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (1.96%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.63%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.31%) AIX
10 1 (0.33%) CentOS
10 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.33%) VMS
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 152 (49.67%) DevOps
3 149 (48.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 120 (39.22%) Agile
5 75 (24.51%) Microservices
6 66 (21.57%) Observability
7 65 (21.24%) Containerisation
8 61 (19.93%) Performance Tuning
9 59 (19.28%) Data Modelling
10 53 (17.32%) Migration
11 52 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (16.99%) Event-Driven
12 51 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (15.36%) High Availability
14 46 (15.03%) Software Engineering
15 42 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
15 42 (13.73%) Root Cause Analysis
16 41 (13.40%) Data Integration
17 40 (13.07%) Data Pipeline
18 39 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 132 (43.14%) Python
2 94 (30.72%) SQL
3 66 (21.57%) Java
4 40 (13.07%) TypeScript
5 32 (10.46%) Bash
6 27 (8.82%) PowerShell
7 24 (7.84%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.21%) Groovy
9 18 (5.88%) C#
10 12 (3.92%) Scala
11 8 (2.61%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.61%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.29%) Perl
13 4 (1.31%) Bicep
13 4 (1.31%) Go
14 3 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 113 (36.93%) Security Cleared
2 96 (31.37%) SC Cleared
3 58 (18.95%) AWS Certification
4 36 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (8.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (5.88%) Degree
7 12 (3.92%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.59%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.29%) CISM
10 7 (2.29%) CISSP
11 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.65%) MCSA
13 2 (0.65%) MCSE
13 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.94%) QA
3 7 (2.29%) NIST
4 4 (1.31%) SLA
5 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.98%) HL7
5 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.98%) NCSC
6 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.65%) GDPR
6 2 (0.65%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 103 (33.66%) Docker
2 18 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.61%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.63%) Postfix
6 4 (1.31%) DFS Replication
6 4 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.98%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.98%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.65%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.65%) Squid
8 2 (0.65%) vSphere
9 1 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 82 (26.80%) Kubernetes
2 64 (20.92%) Grafana
3 49 (16.01%) Prometheus
4 32 (10.46%) Ansible
5 10 (3.27%) Kibana
6 8 (2.61%) Istio
7 7 (2.29%) Puppet
8 6 (1.96%) Argo
8 6 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.63%) Packer
10 4 (1.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (1.31%) Rancher
11 3 (0.98%) Nagios
11 3 (0.98%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.98%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.98%) vMotion
11 3 (0.98%) WSUS
12 2 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (11.44%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.13%) Oracle
3 22 (7.19%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.23%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.92%) Informatica
6 11 (3.59%) VMware
7 9 (2.94%) Databricks
8 8 (2.61%) Google
8 8 (2.61%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (2.61%) Splunk
9 7 (2.29%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.29%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.96%) Citrix
10 6 (1.96%) Denodo
10 6 (1.96%) Talend
11 5 (1.63%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.63%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.31%) Brio
12 4 (1.31%) Cisco
13 3 (0.98%) HP
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