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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 295 347
Rank change year-on-year -86 +52 -27
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 252 252 241
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.86% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.47% 4.55% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 185 179
10th Percentile £400 £422 £400
25th Percentile £421 £471 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £575
90th Percentile £696 £653 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £498
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.53% -13.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £71.90 - -
25th Percentile £73.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 7,262 5,538 7,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 18.99% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 3,800 5,234
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £475
% change year-on-year -1.86% +1.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 98 148
10th Percentile £15.39 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.99 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.27 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.72% -13.56% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.19 £65.90 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.86 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.90 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +45.07% -20.90% -29.08%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -87 217 £500 -11.19% 89
London -59 121 £503 -13.36% 29
UK excluding London -58 105 £475 -9.52% 67
Work from Home -77 71 £500 -13.42% 45
Midlands -27 54 £475 -5.00% 5
West Midlands -21 46 £469 -10.67% 5
North of England -51 22 £419 -16.25% 21
South East -67 12 £531 -7.61% 15
South West -36 9 £591 +1.16% 18
Yorkshire -51 9 £400 -20.00% 6
North West -38 8 £445 -2.41% 13
East Midlands -23 7 £519 +66.88%
Scotland -28 5 £392 -21.23% 1
North East - 5 £425 - 2
East of England -31 2 - - 3
Wales - 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 28 (11.11%) Confluence
2 7 (2.78%) SAS
3 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.19%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.40%) Apache
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 249 (98.81%) AWS
2 161 (63.89%) Amazon S3
3 134 (53.17%) AWS Lambda
3 134 (53.17%) Serverless
4 127 (50.40%) Amazon EC2
5 88 (34.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 61 (24.21%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (24.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 58 (23.02%) Amazon EKS
8 52 (20.63%) GitHub
9 43 (17.06%) Amazon SQS
9 43 (17.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 39 (15.48%) Azure
11 35 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
12 34 (13.49%) Route 53
13 30 (11.90%) AWS KMS
14 19 (7.54%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (6.75%) AWS Fargate
15 17 (6.75%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (6.35%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.57%) DNS
2 5 (1.98%) Firewall
3 4 (1.59%) Network Security
3 4 (1.59%) VPN
4 3 (1.19%) DHCP
4 3 (1.19%) HTTP
4 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.79%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.40%) AMQP
6 1 (0.40%) Internet
6 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) SMTP
6 1 (0.40%) SSL
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (29.76%) DynamoDB
2 66 (26.19%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (22.62%) Amazon Aurora
4 29 (11.51%) MySQL
5 18 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 17 (6.75%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (6.35%) Power BI
8 15 (5.95%) MongoDB
8 15 (5.95%) NoSQL
9 14 (5.56%) Pentaho
10 10 (3.97%) Redis
11 9 (3.57%) Data Lake
11 9 (3.57%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (3.17%) Oracle Database
12 8 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (3.17%) Tableau
13 7 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 84 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 64 (25.40%) Git
3 39 (15.48%) GitLab
4 32 (12.70%) JIRA
5 27 (10.71%) JUnit
6 22 (8.73%) Maven
6 22 (8.73%) Mockito
7 20 (7.94%) SonarQube
8 14 (5.56%) DbUnit
9 13 (5.16%) jMock
10 11 (4.37%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.98%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.98%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.98%) git-flow
11 5 (1.98%) Postman
11 5 (1.98%) Snyk
11 5 (1.98%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (1.59%) Flyway
12 4 (1.59%) Oracle APEX
General
1 62 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 57 (22.62%) Public Sector
3 32 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.13%) Finance
5 11 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.97%) Banking
7 9 (3.57%) Legal
8 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Front Office
10 2 (0.79%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (21.83%) Developer
2 42 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 42 (16.67%) Senior
3 29 (11.51%) Java Developer
4 27 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (10.32%) Architect
6 25 (9.92%) DBA
7 23 (9.13%) Data Engineer
8 21 (8.33%) AWS Architect
9 19 (7.54%) Software Engineer
10 16 (6.35%) Lead
11 15 (5.95%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (5.95%) Senior Developer
12 14 (5.56%) AWS Developer
13 13 (5.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
14 12 (4.76%) Python Developer
15 11 (4.37%) Analyst
16 10 (3.97%) Delivery Manager
16 10 (3.97%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (18.25%) Spring
1 46 (18.25%) Spring Boot
2 43 (17.06%) RESTful
3 42 (16.67%) REST
4 36 (14.29%) Node.js
5 33 (13.10%) React
6 30 (11.90%) AngularJS
6 30 (11.90%) Kafka
7 23 (9.13%) Hibernate
7 23 (9.13%) JPA
8 22 (8.73%) SOAP
9 21 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (7.54%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (7.54%) Web Services
11 18 (7.14%) AWS CDK
11 18 (7.14%) Spring Batch
11 18 (7.14%) Spring Integration
12 16 (6.35%) GraphQL
13 13 (5.16%) PowerMock
14 12 (4.76%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 60 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (8.73%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.37%) Replication
5 7 (2.78%) NHS
6 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.19%) Clustering
8 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.79%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.79%) Derivative
9 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.40%) Digital Wallet
10 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (20.24%) Linux
2 8 (3.17%) Unix
3 6 (2.38%) Windows
4 4 (1.59%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 116 (46.03%) Agile
3 103 (40.87%) DevOps
4 81 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (26.98%) Microservices
6 66 (26.19%) Containerisation
7 48 (19.05%) Scrum
8 39 (15.48%) Software Engineering
9 37 (14.68%) Event-Driven
9 37 (14.68%) Performance Tuning
10 36 (14.29%) Observability
11 35 (13.89%) TDD
12 33 (13.10%) ETL
12 33 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (11.90%) Kanban
13 30 (11.90%) Migration
13 30 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 101 (40.08%) SQL
2 85 (33.73%) Python
3 83 (32.94%) Java
4 21 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 20 (7.94%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.14%) Bash
7 16 (6.35%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.35%) Shell Script
8 11 (4.37%) C#
9 9 (3.57%) Groovy
10 7 (2.78%) Go
10 7 (2.78%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.38%) Scala
12 5 (1.98%) Perl
13 3 (1.19%) Ruby
13 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 113 (44.84%) Security Cleared
2 94 (37.30%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.10%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.37%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.57%) Degree
7 6 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.19%) OCP
9 3 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.19%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.79%) PMP
10 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CEH
11 1 (0.40%) CISSP
11 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.40%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.37%) QA
2 10 (3.97%) NIST
3 9 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.57%) GDPR
3 9 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.78%) PMO
5 3 (1.19%) SLA
6 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.79%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) HL7
7 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (40.87%) Docker
2 11 (4.37%) Postfix
3 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.40%) HDFS
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 105 (41.67%) Terraform
2 68 (26.98%) Kubernetes
3 59 (23.41%) Grafana
4 35 (13.89%) Prometheus
5 17 (6.75%) Ansible
6 9 (3.57%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.17%) Data Guard
8 6 (2.38%) Argo
9 4 (1.59%) Kibana
9 4 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.59%) Puppet
10 3 (1.19%) Foglight
10 3 (1.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.19%) Rancher
11 2 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.79%) Istio
11 2 (0.79%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.79%) systemd
12 1 (0.40%) Packer
12 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (13.49%) Oracle
2 21 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.75%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (5.95%) Atlassian
5 13 (5.16%) Informatica
6 12 (4.76%) Microsoft
7 10 (3.97%) Dynatrace
8 9 (3.57%) Talend
9 8 (3.17%) Databricks
10 7 (2.78%) Denodo
11 6 (2.38%) Splunk
12 5 (1.98%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.98%) Sybase
13 4 (1.59%) AVEVA
13 4 (1.59%) Brio
13 4 (1.59%) Qualys
13 4 (1.59%) Tenable
14 2 (0.79%) Netlify
14 2 (0.79%) PagerDuty
14 2 (0.79%) UiPath