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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 323 354
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 -38
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 285 224 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.73% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.46% 3.92% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 141 189
10th Percentile £364 £425 £405
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -10.41%
75th Percentile £580 £627 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £530
% change year-on-year +0.81% -6.42% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.88 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £89.38 - -
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 6,385 5,715 7,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.49% 18.51% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,404 3,754 5,221
10th Percentile £335 £356 £350
25th Percentile £412 £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 £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 88 183
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.96 £15.65
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.94 £20.99
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -17.65% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.33 £77.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £29.80 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.56% -25.50% -28.48%

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 3 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 3 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

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 3 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 -22 222 £525 -4.55% 75
UK excluding London -6 118 £500 +0.81% 51
London -28 115 £516 -10.22% 38
Work from Home -32 81 £575 +9.11% 34
Midlands -35 35 £500 -5.57% 7
North of England -34 34 £500 +11.11% 15
West Midlands -18 31 £525 -0.76% 7
North West -19 18 £450 +20.00% 6
South East -13 17 £475 +11.76% 13
Scotland -2 13 £358 -24.95% 1
South West -11 12 £606 +7.66% 10
Yorkshire -39 12 £509 -13.40% 9
North East -12 4 £500 -
East of England -16 4 £538 +8.86% 3
East Midlands -24 4 £375 -34.78%
Wales +2 2 £488 - 2
Northern Ireland - 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 19 (6.67%) Confluence
2 7 (2.46%) nginx
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (2.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 285 (100.00%) AWS
2 181 (63.51%) Amazon S3
3 168 (58.95%) Serverless
4 167 (58.60%) AWS Lambda
5 164 (57.54%) Amazon EC2
6 113 (39.65%) Amazon ECS
7 102 (35.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 98 (34.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 95 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
10 83 (29.12%) GitHub
11 79 (27.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 61 (21.40%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (15.09%) Azure
13 43 (15.09%) Route 53
14 27 (9.47%) Amazon Kinesis
14 27 (9.47%) AWS Fargate
15 25 (8.77%) AWS Step Functions
16 23 (8.07%) Datadog
17 21 (7.37%) Amazon MSK
18 17 (5.96%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.18%) Firewall
2 24 (8.42%) DNS
3 12 (4.21%) HTTP
4 10 (3.51%) FTP
4 10 (3.51%) SMTP
4 10 (3.51%) SSH
5 8 (2.81%) VPN
6 7 (2.46%) IMAP
6 7 (2.46%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (1.40%) Network Security
8 3 (1.05%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.35%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) LAN
9 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (25.26%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (18.95%) DynamoDB
3 47 (16.49%) Amazon Aurora
4 44 (15.44%) MySQL
5 30 (10.53%) NoSQL
6 29 (10.18%) Relational Database
7 25 (8.77%) MongoDB
8 23 (8.07%) SQL Server
9 22 (7.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (5.61%) Redis
11 14 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (3.86%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (3.86%) Hadoop
12 11 (3.86%) RDBMS
13 10 (3.51%) Oracle Database
14 8 (2.81%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (2.11%) BigQuery
16 6 (2.11%) Couchbase
16 6 (2.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 123 (43.16%) Jenkins
2 75 (26.32%) Git
3 72 (25.26%) GitLab
4 33 (11.58%) JIRA
5 13 (4.56%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.21%) Maven
6 12 (4.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (3.51%) Vagrant
8 8 (2.81%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.81%) Gradle
8 8 (2.81%) JUnit
9 7 (2.46%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.75%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.40%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (1.40%) Snyk
11 4 (1.40%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.05%) git-flow
13 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.70%) Gatling
General
1 74 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.74%) Finance
3 37 (12.98%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.96%) Banking
5 16 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.40%) Legal
9 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Military
10 2 (0.70%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Marketing
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (23.86%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (21.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (14.04%) Senior
4 36 (12.63%) Developer
5 35 (12.28%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (11.23%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (10.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 27 (9.47%) Architect
9 25 (8.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 25 (8.77%) Software Engineer
10 22 (7.72%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 21 (7.37%) Data Engineer
11 21 (7.37%) Site Engineer
12 20 (7.02%) DBA
12 20 (7.02%) Lead
12 20 (7.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (4.91%) AWS Architect
14 13 (4.56%) AWS Developer
14 13 (4.56%) Java Engineer
14 13 (4.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (17.19%) Kafka
2 32 (11.23%) RESTful
3 31 (10.88%) Spring Boot
4 30 (10.53%) Node.js
5 27 (9.47%) React
5 27 (9.47%) Spring
6 21 (7.37%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (5.26%) AWS CDK
7 15 (5.26%) REST
8 11 (3.86%) CSS
9 10 (3.51%) FastAPI
10 9 (3.16%) Jest
10 9 (3.16%) Next.js
11 8 (2.81%) .NET
11 8 (2.81%) Flask
11 8 (2.81%) GraphQL
11 8 (2.81%) Keycloak
11 8 (2.81%) LDAP
11 8 (2.81%) PySpark
12 7 (2.46%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.53%) Replication
3 22 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.46%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.75%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.40%) Clustering
9 4 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.40%) NHS
9 4 (1.40%) PKI
10 3 (1.05%) Derivative
10 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 80 (28.07%) Linux
2 14 (4.91%) Windows
3 13 (4.56%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (3.86%) Unix
4 11 (3.86%) VMS
5 7 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.46%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.40%) CentOS
7 3 (1.05%) Solaris
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.35%) Android
9 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (65.96%) CI/CD
2 138 (48.42%) DevOps
3 128 (44.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (33.68%) Containerisation
5 79 (27.72%) Agile
6 69 (24.21%) Microservices
7 51 (17.89%) Observability
8 46 (16.14%) Configuration Management
8 46 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 43 (15.09%) Performance Tuning
11 40 (14.04%) Event-Driven
12 38 (13.33%) Migration
13 35 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
14 33 (11.58%) Cost Optimisation
14 33 (11.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 32 (11.23%) High Availability
16 29 (10.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 28 (9.82%) Analytics
18 27 (9.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 151 (52.98%) Python
2 93 (32.63%) SQL
3 78 (27.37%) Java
4 50 (17.54%) Bash
5 37 (12.98%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.18%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.37%) Go
8 20 (7.02%) JavaScript
9 17 (5.96%) Groovy
10 16 (5.61%) TypeScript
11 14 (4.91%) Perl
12 12 (4.21%) Ruby
13 10 (3.51%) C#
14 8 (2.81%) PL/SQL
15 6 (2.11%) JSX
16 3 (1.05%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.70%) C
18 1 (0.35%) PHP
18 1 (0.35%) R
18 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 88 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 69 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 53 (18.60%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.61%) Degree
4 16 (5.61%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.21%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.75%) OCP
9 5 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.70%) PMP
12 1 (0.35%) CEH
12 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.35%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.61%) GDPR
1 16 (5.61%) QA
2 11 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.51%) NIST
4 8 (2.81%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.46%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.11%) NCSC
7 3 (1.05%) SLA
8 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.70%) GxP
9 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 135 (47.37%) Docker
2 10 (3.51%) DFS Replication
3 8 (2.81%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (2.46%) Dovecot
4 7 (2.46%) Postfix
4 7 (2.46%) Squid
5 6 (2.11%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.40%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.05%) NFS
7 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 167 (58.60%) Terraform
2 106 (37.19%) Kubernetes
3 67 (23.51%) Grafana
4 58 (20.35%) Prometheus
5 43 (15.09%) Ansible
6 20 (7.02%) Progress Chef
7 15 (5.26%) Puppet
8 7 (2.46%) Data Guard
8 7 (2.46%) Nessus
8 7 (2.46%) Packer
8 7 (2.46%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.75%) Argo
10 4 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.40%) Kibana
10 4 (1.40%) Rancher
11 3 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.05%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.70%) systemd
Vendors
1 37 (12.98%) Oracle
2 18 (6.32%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.86%) Splunk
5 10 (3.51%) PagerDuty
6 8 (2.81%) Confluent
6 8 (2.81%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.46%) IBM
7 7 (2.46%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (2.11%) Sybase
9 5 (1.75%) Gigya
9 5 (1.75%) Talend
10 4 (1.40%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.40%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.40%) Okta
10 4 (1.40%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.05%) Databricks
11 3 (1.05%) Informatica
11 3 (1.05%) SAP
11 3 (1.05%) Tenable