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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 310 367
Rank change year-on-year -25 +57 -52
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 291 231 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.75% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.40% 4.04% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 149 179
10th Percentile £368 £419 £400
25th Percentile £410 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +2.29% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £627 £600
90th Percentile £625 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.20% -4.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £71.65 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
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 6,613 5,720 7,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.22% 18.61% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,556 3,833 5,164
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 93 171
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £16.00
25th Percentile £28.93 £25.09 £21.31
Median hourly rate £54.75 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.66% -10.33% -24.01%
75th Percentile £75.63 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.78 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £40.13
% change year-on-year +83.33% -25.23% -28.26%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -21 230 £513 -6.82% 86
UK excluding London -24 121 £489 -2.20% 66
London -36 117 £513 -10.87% 36
Work from Home -38 85 £550 +1.85% 50
Midlands -20 46 £500 -5.48% 13
West Midlands -34 40 £500 -5.48% 12
North of England -45 28 £500 -4.76% 20
South East -12 20 £447 -0.67% 20
North West -20 13 £394 +5.00% 10
Scotland -10 12 £358 -24.95% 1
Yorkshire -51 11 £518 -11.91% 8
South West -18 10 £538 -10.54% 8
East Midlands -23 6 £383 -13.66% 1
North East -19 4 £500 - 2
East of England -24 3 £538 +8.86% 2
Wales -5 2 £488 - 1

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 25 (8.59%) Confluence
2 4 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.03%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) nginx
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 291 (100.00%) AWS
2 191 (65.64%) Amazon S3
3 177 (60.82%) Amazon EC2
4 162 (55.67%) Serverless
5 161 (55.33%) AWS Lambda
6 107 (36.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 102 (35.05%) Amazon ECS
8 97 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 92 (31.62%) Amazon EKS
10 88 (30.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 75 (25.77%) GitHub
12 60 (20.62%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (14.09%) Azure
13 41 (14.09%) Route 53
14 23 (7.90%) Amazon Kinesis
14 23 (7.90%) AWS Fargate
15 21 (7.22%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (6.87%) Amazon MSK
16 20 (6.87%) AWS KMS
17 18 (6.19%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.25%) Firewall
2 18 (6.19%) DNS
3 8 (2.75%) VPN
4 7 (2.41%) HTTP
5 5 (1.72%) FTP
5 5 (1.72%) SMTP
5 5 (1.72%) SSH
6 4 (1.37%) Network Security
7 3 (1.03%) IMAP
7 3 (1.03%) Kerberos
7 3 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.34%) Internet
8 1 (0.34%) LAN
8 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (22.68%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (19.93%) DynamoDB
3 39 (13.40%) Amazon Aurora
3 39 (13.40%) MySQL
4 26 (8.93%) Relational Database
5 25 (8.59%) NoSQL
6 24 (8.25%) MongoDB
6 24 (8.25%) SQL Server
7 21 (7.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (4.12%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (3.78%) Oracle Database
10 10 (3.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (3.44%) Hadoop
10 10 (3.44%) Redis
11 9 (3.09%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (3.09%) Power BI
12 7 (2.41%) DB2
13 6 (2.06%) Couchbase
13 6 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (2.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 120 (41.24%) Jenkins
2 81 (27.84%) Git
3 68 (23.37%) GitLab
4 37 (12.71%) JIRA
5 18 (6.19%) JUnit
6 15 (5.15%) Maven
7 13 (4.47%) Bitbucket
8 12 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (3.09%) Mockito
9 9 (3.09%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.41%) Cypress.io
11 6 (2.06%) DbUnit
11 6 (2.06%) jMock
12 5 (1.72%) Snyk
12 5 (1.72%) Vagrant
13 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.37%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
14 3 (1.03%) git-flow
14 3 (1.03%) Terragrunt
General
1 74 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.81%) Public Sector
3 44 (15.12%) Finance
4 23 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.50%) Banking
6 14 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.06%) Legal
8 5 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Military
9 2 (0.69%) Publishing
10 1 (0.34%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.34%) Front Office
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (20.62%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (17.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (14.78%) Developer
4 42 (14.43%) Senior
5 28 (9.62%) AWS DevOps
6 27 (9.28%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (8.25%) Java Developer
8 23 (7.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.90%) DBA
8 23 (7.90%) Software Engineer
9 21 (7.22%) Architect
9 21 (7.22%) Data Engineer
9 21 (7.22%) Lead
9 21 (7.22%) Site Engineer
10 20 (6.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 20 (6.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 18 (6.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.81%) AWS Developer
12 14 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
12 14 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.78%) Kafka
2 38 (13.06%) Spring
3 37 (12.71%) Spring Boot
4 36 (12.37%) RESTful
5 34 (11.68%) Node.js
6 25 (8.59%) React
7 23 (7.90%) REST
8 20 (6.87%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (5.15%) AWS CDK
10 12 (4.12%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.12%) Hibernate
10 12 (4.12%) JPA
10 12 (4.12%) Spring Cloud
11 11 (3.78%) CSS
12 10 (3.44%) FastAPI
12 10 (3.44%) SOAP
13 9 (3.09%) .NET
13 9 (3.09%) Django
13 9 (3.09%) Jest
13 9 (3.09%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.15%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.59%) Replication
4 8 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.06%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.72%) Clustering
8 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.37%) NHS
9 3 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.03%) Derivative
9 3 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.03%) PKI
10 2 (0.69%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.69%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.34%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 85 (29.21%) Linux
2 13 (4.47%) Unix
3 9 (3.09%) Windows
4 8 (2.75%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.06%) VMS
6 3 (1.03%) CentOS
6 3 (1.03%) Solaris
6 3 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (62.89%) CI/CD
2 132 (45.36%) DevOps
3 123 (42.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 96 (32.99%) Agile
6 70 (24.05%) Microservices
7 50 (17.18%) Observability
8 46 (15.81%) Performance Tuning
9 44 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (14.78%) Software Engineering
11 41 (14.09%) Configuration Management
12 40 (13.75%) Migration
13 36 (12.37%) Cost Optimisation
14 33 (11.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 32 (11.00%) High Availability
16 31 (10.65%) ETL
16 31 (10.65%) Event-Driven
17 29 (9.97%) Platform Engineering
17 29 (9.97%) TDD
18 27 (9.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 137 (47.08%) Python
2 101 (34.71%) SQL
3 80 (27.49%) Java
4 50 (17.18%) Bash
5 32 (11.00%) PowerShell
6 28 (9.62%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.22%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.53%) Go
9 15 (5.15%) TypeScript
10 13 (4.47%) Perl
11 12 (4.12%) Ruby
12 11 (3.78%) Groovy
13 9 (3.09%) C#
14 8 (2.75%) PL/SQL
15 6 (2.06%) JSX
16 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.34%) Bicep
17 1 (0.34%) PHP
17 1 (0.34%) R
17 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 100 (34.36%) Security Cleared
2 84 (28.87%) SC Cleared
3 56 (19.24%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.81%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.78%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.78%) Degree
7 9 (3.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.72%) OCP
9 5 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.34%) CEH
13 1 (0.34%) CISSP
13 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.50%) QA
2 13 (4.47%) GDPR
3 11 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.78%) NIST
4 8 (2.75%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.41%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.72%) NCSC
7 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.37%) PMO
8 3 (1.03%) SLA
9 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.69%) GxP
10 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 134 (46.05%) Docker
2 8 (2.75%) Postfix
2 8 (2.75%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.72%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.03%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.03%) NFS
5 3 (1.03%) Squid
5 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 150 (51.55%) Terraform
2 98 (33.68%) Kubernetes
3 67 (23.02%) Grafana
4 52 (17.87%) Prometheus
5 42 (14.43%) Ansible
6 20 (6.87%) Progress Chef
7 15 (5.15%) Puppet
8 8 (2.75%) Data Guard
9 6 (2.06%) Argo
9 6 (2.06%) Packer
10 4 (1.37%) Kibana
10 4 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.03%) Nessus
11 3 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.03%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.03%) Rancher
12 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.69%) systemd
Vendors
1 39 (13.40%) Oracle
2 19 (6.53%) ServiceNow
3 18 (6.19%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.44%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (3.44%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.09%) Splunk
6 8 (2.75%) Confluent
6 8 (2.75%) Sybase
7 7 (2.41%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.41%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.41%) IBM
7 7 (2.41%) Talend
8 5 (1.72%) Informatica
9 4 (1.37%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.37%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.37%) Databricks
9 4 (1.37%) Qualys
9 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.37%) Tenable
10 3 (1.03%) Okta