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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 309 346
Rank change year-on-year -75 +37 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 317 272 208
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.83% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.89% 4.55% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 192 127
10th Percentile £400 £400 £421
25th Percentile £437 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £509 £535
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -4.91% -2.73%
75th Percentile £658 £581 £600
90th Percentile £775 £640 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £475 £507
% change year-on-year -3.16% -6.31% -7.82%
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 8,145 5,983 6,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.83% 18.17% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,423 4,014 4,503
10th Percentile £356 £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 £734 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 82 89
10th Percentile £16.88 £20.78 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.00 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +16.36% -35.37%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -41.24%

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 13 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 13 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 -83 251 £534 +6.75% 236
London -19 163 £550 +4.76% 140
Work from Home -44 112 £530 -2.44% 135
UK excluding London -107 94 £460 -3.16% 116
North of England -52 31 £500 - 30
Midlands -66 21 £459 -3.37% 14
Yorkshire -23 18 £500 - 7
West Midlands -70 18 £464 -2.32% 7
South East -70 14 £496 +10.28% 20
Scotland -22 13 £425 -14.40% 17
South West -27 12 £488 -6.25% 12
North West -57 7 £525 -4.55% 20
North East -38 6 £419 -1.47% 3
East of England -31 3 £345 -37.27% 16
East Midlands -14 2 £358 -5.79% 7
Northern Ireland +4 1 £600 - 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 25 (7.89%) Confluence
2 17 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.47%) Apache
4 9 (2.84%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.21%) nginx
5 7 (2.21%) SAS
6 6 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (1.89%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.89%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.89%) WebLogic Portal
7 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.95%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.95%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.63%) Camunda
10 1 (0.32%) Appian
10 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (1.89%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.63%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 299 (94.32%) AWS
2 195 (61.51%) Amazon S3
3 174 (54.89%) AWS Lambda
4 171 (53.94%) Serverless
5 128 (40.38%) Amazon EC2
6 121 (38.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 87 (27.44%) Amazon ECS
7 87 (27.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 84 (26.50%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (21.77%) Azure
10 62 (19.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 53 (16.72%) GitHub
12 47 (14.83%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (12.30%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (10.09%) AWS KMS
15 30 (9.46%) Route 53
16 29 (9.15%) Amazon EventBridge
17 28 (8.83%) AWS Step Functions
18 24 (7.57%) GCP
19 20 (6.31%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.31%) Firewall
2 16 (5.05%) DNS
3 13 (4.10%) VPN
4 10 (3.15%) Network Security
5 7 (2.21%) DHCP
6 6 (1.89%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.58%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (1.58%) SMTP
8 4 (1.26%) HTTP
8 4 (1.26%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.26%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.63%) FTP
9 2 (0.63%) IMAP
9 2 (0.63%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.63%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.63%) SSH
9 2 (0.63%) SSL
10 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (29.34%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (25.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 67 (21.14%) DynamoDB
4 39 (12.30%) MySQL
5 32 (10.09%) MongoDB
6 31 (9.78%) Amazon Athena
6 31 (9.78%) SQL Server
7 23 (7.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (5.99%) Redis
10 18 (5.68%) Data Lake
11 13 (4.10%) Big Data
12 12 (3.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (3.47%) Power BI
14 10 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (2.84%) NoSQL
15 9 (2.84%) Relational Database
16 8 (2.52%) Apache Iceberg
17 7 (2.21%) Metadata
17 7 (2.21%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 93 (29.34%) Jenkins
2 70 (22.08%) Git
3 58 (18.30%) GitLab
4 36 (11.36%) JIRA
5 16 (5.05%) JUnit
6 15 (4.73%) Bitbucket
6 15 (4.73%) Maven
7 13 (4.10%) Mockito
8 10 (3.15%) Claude Code
9 9 (2.84%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.84%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (2.21%) Gradle
12 6 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.58%) DbUnit
13 5 (1.58%) Flyway
13 5 (1.58%) Postman
13 5 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (1.26%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (1.26%) jMock
General
1 94 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.82%) Public Sector
3 42 (13.25%) Finance
4 30 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.89%) Banking
6 11 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.15%) Back Office
8 8 (2.52%) Front Office
9 7 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.89%) Legal
11 5 (1.58%) Billing
11 5 (1.58%) Law
12 4 (1.26%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.26%) Local Government
13 3 (0.95%) Police
13 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Marketing
14 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.63%) Retail
14 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (24.29%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (18.61%) Senior
3 49 (15.46%) Architect
3 49 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (12.93%) Data Engineer
5 39 (12.30%) DBA
6 37 (11.67%) Developer
7 30 (9.46%) AWS Architect
8 28 (8.83%) AWS DevOps
9 26 (8.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 24 (7.57%) Lead
11 22 (6.94%) Java Developer
12 21 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (5.68%) Administrator
13 18 (5.68%) AWS Data Engineer
13 18 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (5.36%) Technical Leader
15 14 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
16 13 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 13 (4.10%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (51.42%) Terraform
2 44 (13.88%) REST
3 37 (11.67%) React
4 33 (10.41%) Spring
4 33 (10.41%) Spring Boot
5 32 (10.09%) RESTful
6 26 (8.20%) .NET
7 23 (7.26%) AWS CDK
8 22 (6.94%) AngularJS
9 21 (6.62%) Node.js
10 20 (6.31%) Kafka
11 19 (5.99%) FastAPI
12 15 (4.73%) GraphQL
13 12 (3.79%) ActiveMQ
13 12 (3.79%) SOAP
14 11 (3.47%) .NET Core
14 11 (3.47%) Hibernate
14 11 (3.47%) JPA
14 11 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (2.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 79 (24.92%) Cloud Native
2 36 (11.36%) Replication
3 28 (8.83%) Product Ownership
4 24 (7.57%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.79%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.79%) Clustering
6 9 (2.84%) NHS
6 9 (2.84%) PKI
6 9 (2.84%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.21%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.58%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.58%) PropTech
9 5 (1.58%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.58%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.93%) Linux
2 34 (10.73%) Windows
3 15 (4.73%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.47%) Unix
6 9 (2.84%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.89%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.26%) AIX
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (66.25%) CI/CD
2 160 (50.47%) DevOps
3 156 (49.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (39.43%) Agile
5 80 (25.24%) Microservices
6 73 (23.03%) Observability
7 68 (21.45%) Containerisation
8 61 (19.24%) Performance Tuning
9 60 (18.93%) Data Modelling
10 58 (18.30%) Migration
11 56 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 53 (16.72%) Event-Driven
14 48 (15.14%) High Availability
15 47 (14.83%) Disaster Recovery
15 47 (14.83%) Software Engineering
16 45 (14.20%) Technical Leadership
17 44 (13.88%) Data Integration
17 44 (13.88%) Root Cause Analysis
18 43 (13.56%) AI
Programming Languages
1 140 (44.16%) Python
2 94 (29.65%) SQL
3 66 (20.82%) Java
4 42 (13.25%) TypeScript
5 33 (10.41%) Bash
6 31 (9.78%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.52%) JavaScript
8 22 (6.94%) Groovy
9 21 (6.62%) C#
10 12 (3.79%) Scala
11 8 (2.52%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.52%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.21%) Perl
13 4 (1.26%) Bicep
13 4 (1.26%) Go
14 3 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.95%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 116 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 99 (31.23%) SC Cleared
3 59 (18.61%) AWS Certification
4 36 (11.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (5.99%) Degree
7 12 (3.79%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.47%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.21%) CISM
10 7 (2.21%) CISSP
11 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.95%) PMP
13 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.63%) MCSA
13 2 (0.63%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.52%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.84%) QA
3 7 (2.21%) NIST
4 4 (1.26%) SLA
5 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.95%) HL7
5 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.95%) NCSC
6 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.63%) GDPR
6 2 (0.63%) WCAG
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 109 (34.38%) Docker
2 19 (5.99%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (2.52%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.58%) Postfix
7 4 (1.26%) DFS Replication
7 4 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.95%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.95%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.95%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.63%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.63%) Squid
9 2 (0.63%) vSphere
10 1 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 83 (26.18%) Kubernetes
2 63 (19.87%) Grafana
3 49 (15.46%) Prometheus
4 33 (10.41%) Ansible
5 13 (4.10%) Kibana
6 8 (2.52%) Puppet
7 7 (2.21%) Istio
8 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.89%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (1.58%) Packer
10 4 (1.26%) Argo
10 4 (1.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.26%) Rancher
11 3 (0.95%) Nagios
11 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.95%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.95%) vMotion
11 3 (0.95%) WSUS
12 2 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 39 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.46%) Oracle
3 25 (7.89%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.05%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.79%) Informatica
6 11 (3.47%) VMware
7 9 (2.84%) Databricks
7 9 (2.84%) Google
8 8 (2.52%) Citrix
8 8 (2.52%) Splunk
9 7 (2.21%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (2.21%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.21%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.89%) Denodo
10 6 (1.89%) Talend
11 5 (1.58%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.58%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.26%) Brio
12 4 (1.26%) Cisco
13 3 (0.95%) HP