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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 282 358
Rank change year-on-year -114 +76 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 295 291 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.88% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.56% 4.89% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 205 140
10th Percentile £400 £410 £409
25th Percentile £437 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -1.08% -3.50%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £788 £640 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -8.00% +1.21% -10.18%
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 8,290 5,950 6,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.21% 18.04% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,519 3,980 4,756
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £748 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 94 86
10th Percentile £15.99 £22.86 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.24 £20.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £39.48 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +14.55% -35.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.48% +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 10 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 10 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 -105 236 £527 +0.38% 121
London -54 148 £550 -4.35% 69
Work from Home -67 104 £527 -4.18% 77
UK excluding London -139 90 £460 -8.00% 83
North of England -55 32 £500 - 21
Midlands -73 26 £469 -1.26% 13
West Midlands -60 23 £469 -1.26% 7
Yorkshire -31 18 £500 - 5
South West -40 10 £542 -0.14% 8
South East -76 10 £460 -20.00% 17
Scotland -45 9 £425 -14.59% 11
North East -41 7 £425 -2.86% 7
North West -57 7 £525 -4.55% 9
East of England -34 4 £348 -36.82% 7
East Midlands -20 2 £449 +18.16% 6
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 (7.80%) Confluence
2 17 (5.76%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.37%) Apache
4 7 (2.37%) SAS
4 7 (2.37%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.69%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.69%) WebLogic Portal
7 3 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.68%) Camunda
8 2 (0.68%) nginx
9 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.02%) Aladdin
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
1 283 (95.93%) AWS
2 187 (63.39%) Amazon S3
3 166 (56.27%) AWS Lambda
4 165 (55.93%) Serverless
5 120 (40.68%) Amazon EC2
6 113 (38.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 77 (26.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 74 (25.08%) Amazon ECS
9 71 (24.07%) Amazon EKS
10 60 (20.34%) Azure
11 55 (18.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 54 (18.31%) GitHub
13 40 (13.56%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (12.54%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (10.85%) AWS KMS
16 30 (10.17%) Route 53
17 25 (8.47%) AWS Step Functions
18 24 (8.14%) Amazon EventBridge
19 21 (7.12%) GCP
20 18 (6.10%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.10%) Firewall
2 13 (4.41%) DNS
3 8 (2.71%) DHCP
3 8 (2.71%) VPN
4 6 (2.03%) Network Security
4 6 (2.03%) SMTP
5 4 (1.36%) HTTP
5 4 (1.36%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.36%) 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 (29.15%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (24.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 64 (21.69%) DynamoDB
4 36 (12.20%) MySQL
5 26 (8.81%) MongoDB
6 25 (8.47%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (8.47%) SQL Server
7 21 (7.12%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (5.42%) Data Lake
9 16 (5.42%) Redis
10 13 (4.41%) Big Data
10 13 (4.41%) Power BI
10 13 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (3.39%) NoSQL
12 9 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (2.71%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (2.71%) Pentaho
13 8 (2.71%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.03%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 85 (28.81%) Jenkins
2 62 (21.02%) Git
3 50 (16.95%) GitLab
4 33 (11.19%) JIRA
5 18 (6.10%) JUnit
6 16 (5.42%) Mockito
7 15 (5.08%) Maven
8 13 (4.41%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.73%) SonarQube
10 10 (3.39%) Claude Code
11 8 (2.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.37%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.37%) DbUnit
13 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (2.03%) Flyway
13 6 (2.03%) jMock
13 6 (2.03%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.69%) Gradle
14 5 (1.69%) Postman
15 4 (1.36%) Cypress.io
General
1 84 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.03%) Public Sector
3 33 (11.19%) Finance
4 26 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.46%) Banking
6 9 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.71%) Front Office
8 7 (2.37%) Back Office
8 7 (2.37%) Legal
9 6 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.36%) Billing
11 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.68%) Law
12 2 (0.68%) Local Government
12 2 (0.68%) Marketing
13 1 (0.34%) Games
13 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.34%) Military
13 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (25.08%) AWS Engineer
2 55 (18.64%) Senior
3 47 (15.93%) Architect
4 44 (14.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 40 (13.56%) Developer
6 38 (12.88%) Data Engineer
7 33 (11.19%) DBA
8 28 (9.49%) AWS Architect
9 26 (8.81%) AWS DevOps
10 24 (8.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 24 (8.14%) Lead
11 20 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (6.44%) Java Developer
13 17 (5.76%) AWS Data Engineer
13 17 (5.76%) Technical Architect
14 15 (5.08%) Administrator
15 14 (4.75%) Technical Leader
16 13 (4.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 13 (4.41%) Senior Data Engineer
16 13 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (48.47%) Terraform
2 39 (13.22%) REST
3 38 (12.88%) React
4 34 (11.53%) Node.js
5 33 (11.19%) Spring
5 33 (11.19%) Spring Boot
6 32 (10.85%) RESTful
7 24 (8.14%) AngularJS
8 23 (7.80%) AWS CDK
9 20 (6.78%) .NET
10 18 (6.10%) Kafka
11 17 (5.76%) FastAPI
12 13 (4.41%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (4.41%) SOAP
13 12 (4.07%) GraphQL
14 11 (3.73%) Hibernate
14 11 (3.73%) JPA
15 10 (3.39%) JSON
16 9 (3.05%) Spring Batch
16 9 (3.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (24.07%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.49%) Product Ownership
3 27 (9.15%) Replication
4 24 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.73%) AI Agents
5 11 (3.73%) NHS
6 10 (3.39%) Clustering
7 8 (2.71%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.37%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.03%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.03%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.03%) PKI
10 5 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.69%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.36%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.36%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.36%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.36%) PropTech
12 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 55 (18.64%) Linux
2 24 (8.14%) Windows
3 14 (4.75%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.73%) Unix
5 10 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.05%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.36%) AIX
7 4 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.02%) 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
1 189 (64.07%) CI/CD
2 145 (49.15%) DevOps
3 134 (45.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 118 (40.00%) Agile
5 72 (24.41%) Microservices
6 60 (20.34%) Containerisation
7 59 (20.00%) Data Modelling
8 56 (18.98%) Observability
9 51 (17.29%) Performance Tuning
10 49 (16.61%) Event-Driven
11 48 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (16.27%) Software Engineering
12 46 (15.59%) High Availability
13 44 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 43 (14.58%) Migration
15 41 (13.90%) Data Pipeline
16 38 (12.88%) Technical Leadership
17 37 (12.54%) Data Integration
18 35 (11.86%) Scrum
19 34 (11.53%) AI
Programming Languages
1 129 (43.73%) Python
2 87 (29.49%) SQL
3 72 (24.41%) Java
4 39 (13.22%) TypeScript
5 30 (10.17%) Bash
6 24 (8.14%) PowerShell
7 23 (7.80%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.76%) C#
8 17 (5.76%) Groovy
9 12 (4.07%) Scala
10 8 (2.71%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.37%) Perl
11 7 (2.37%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.02%) Go
12 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.68%) Bicep
13 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.68%) Ruby
14 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 113 (38.31%) Security Cleared
2 93 (31.53%) SC Cleared
3 50 (16.95%) AWS Certification
4 32 (10.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (8.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (5.76%) Degree
7 12 (4.07%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.73%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.37%) CISM
9 7 (2.37%) CISSP
9 7 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.68%) PMP
13 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.71%) NIST
3 7 (2.37%) QA
4 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.02%) GDPR
5 3 (1.02%) HL7
5 3 (1.02%) NCSC
5 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.02%) PMO
5 3 (1.02%) 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 95 (32.20%) Docker
2 15 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.37%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.37%) Postfix
4 5 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.36%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.36%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.36%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.68%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.68%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.68%) Squid
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 76 (25.76%) Kubernetes
2 58 (19.66%) Grafana
3 42 (14.24%) Prometheus
4 29 (9.83%) Ansible
5 9 (3.05%) Istio
5 9 (3.05%) Kibana
6 8 (2.71%) Argo
7 5 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (1.69%) Puppet
8 4 (1.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.36%) Packer
8 4 (1.36%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.36%) vMotion
9 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.02%) Nagios
9 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.02%) Rancher
10 2 (0.68%) Consul
10 2 (0.68%) Nessus
10 2 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.49%) Oracle
3 21 (7.12%) ServiceNow
4 15 (5.08%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.07%) Informatica
6 11 (3.73%) Databricks
7 10 (3.39%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (3.39%) VMware
8 9 (3.05%) Google
9 8 (2.71%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.37%) Denodo
10 7 (2.37%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.37%) Splunk
10 7 (2.37%) Talend
11 6 (2.03%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.69%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.69%) Citrix
13 4 (1.36%) Cisco
13 4 (1.36%) HP
13 4 (1.36%) Symantec