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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 302 356
Rank change year-on-year -22 +54 -34
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 276 235 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.74% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.41% 4.04% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 144 188
10th Percentile £368 £427 £411
25th Percentile £425 £477 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +1.46% -7.83%
75th Percentile £582 £633 £600
90th Percentile £639 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £496 £525
% change year-on-year -0.60% -5.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £89.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,261 5,810 7,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.78% 18.26% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,321 3,825 5,052
10th Percentile £331 £350 £350
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.45% -3.14%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 79 157
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.78 £15.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.50 £64.61 £64.40
90th Percentile £84.50 £67.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £28.65 £42.50
% change year-on-year +70.05% -32.59% -22.73%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -24 216 £525 -4.55% 135
London -29 115 £516 -9.43% 29
UK excluding London +6 113 £493 -0.60% 123
Work from Home -31 79 £575 +7.68% 113
Midlands -15 37 £475 -10.29% 12
West Midlands -17 32 £500 -5.48% 11
North of England -42 28 £500 -4.76% 26
South East -1 17 £475 +11.76% 40
North West -16 14 £450 +20.00% 9
South West -6 12 £606 +7.66% 11
Scotland -8 12 £358 -24.95% 6
Yorkshire -42 10 £509 -13.40% 11
East Midlands -24 5 £378 -34.35%
North East -9 4 £500 - 6
East of England -16 4 £538 +22.86% 21
Wales +1 2 £488 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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 22 (7.97%) Confluence
2 9 (3.26%) nginx
3 6 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.09%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (3.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 276 (100.00%) AWS
2 176 (63.77%) Amazon S3
3 163 (59.06%) Serverless
4 162 (58.70%) AWS Lambda
5 156 (56.52%) Amazon EC2
6 103 (37.32%) Amazon ECS
7 98 (35.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 97 (35.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 87 (31.52%) Amazon EKS
10 80 (28.99%) GitHub
11 77 (27.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 60 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (16.30%) Azure
14 41 (14.86%) Route 53
15 27 (9.78%) Amazon Kinesis
15 27 (9.78%) AWS Step Functions
16 24 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
17 22 (7.97%) Amazon MSK
17 22 (7.97%) Datadog
18 18 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.96%) Firewall
2 30 (10.87%) DNS
3 17 (6.16%) HTTP
4 14 (5.07%) FTP
4 14 (5.07%) SMTP
4 14 (5.07%) SSH
5 9 (3.26%) IMAP
5 9 (3.26%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (2.90%) VPN
7 4 (1.45%) Network Security
8 3 (1.09%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.72%) Internet
9 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.36%) LAN
10 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (18.12%) Amazon Aurora
2 50 (18.12%) DynamoDB
3 42 (15.22%) MySQL
4 30 (10.87%) NoSQL
5 28 (10.14%) Relational Database
6 25 (9.06%) MongoDB
7 23 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (8.33%) SQL Server
8 17 (6.16%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (5.80%) Redis
10 11 (3.99%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (3.99%) Hadoop
10 11 (3.99%) RDBMS
11 10 (3.62%) Oracle Database
12 8 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.90%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (2.17%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.17%) Couchbase
13 6 (2.17%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 121 (43.84%) Jenkins
2 76 (27.54%) Git
3 70 (25.36%) GitLab
4 35 (12.68%) JIRA
5 14 (5.07%) Vagrant
6 13 (4.71%) Bitbucket
7 12 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (3.62%) Maven
9 8 (2.90%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.54%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.17%) JUnit
12 5 (1.81%) Gradle
12 5 (1.81%) SonarLint
13 4 (1.45%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (1.45%) Snyk
13 4 (1.45%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.72%) Gatling
14 2 (0.72%) git-flow
14 2 (0.72%) Storybook
General
1 75 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 41 (14.86%) Finance
4 16 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.80%) Banking
5 13 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.09%) Legal
8 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.72%) Military
8 2 (0.72%) Publishing
9 1 (0.36%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.36%) Front Office
9 1 (0.36%) Games
9 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.36%) Marketing
9 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (26.45%) AWS Engineer
2 65 (23.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (14.49%) AWS DevOps
4 38 (13.77%) Developer
5 35 (12.68%) Platform Engineer
5 35 (12.68%) Senior
6 34 (12.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 29 (10.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 27 (9.78%) Architect
9 24 (8.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 22 (7.97%) Software Engineer
11 21 (7.61%) Data Engineer
12 20 (7.25%) Lead
13 19 (6.88%) Site Engineer
14 18 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 17 (6.16%) DBA
16 15 (5.43%) AWS Developer
17 14 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
17 14 (5.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 13 (4.71%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.39%) Kafka
2 34 (12.32%) RESTful
3 33 (11.96%) Node.js
4 23 (8.33%) React
4 23 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.61%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (6.88%) Spring
7 14 (5.07%) AWS CDK
7 14 (5.07%) REST
8 12 (4.35%) CSS
9 10 (3.62%) FastAPI
9 10 (3.62%) LDAP
10 9 (3.26%) Jest
10 9 (3.26%) Next.js
11 8 (2.90%) .NET
11 8 (2.90%) Django
11 8 (2.90%) Flask
11 8 (2.90%) Keycloak
11 8 (2.90%) PySpark
12 7 (2.54%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.96%) Replication
3 22 (7.97%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.54%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.81%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.45%) Clustering
9 4 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.45%) NHS
9 4 (1.45%) PKI
10 3 (1.09%) Derivative
10 3 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 79 (28.62%) Linux
2 17 (6.16%) Amazon Linux
2 17 (6.16%) Windows
3 15 (5.43%) VMS
4 11 (3.99%) Unix
5 9 (3.26%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.45%) CentOS
8 3 (1.09%) Solaris
9 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.36%) Android
10 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 136 (49.28%) DevOps
3 121 (43.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (32.97%) Containerisation
5 74 (26.81%) Agile
6 68 (24.64%) Microservices
7 52 (18.84%) Observability
8 49 (17.75%) Configuration Management
9 44 (15.94%) Software Engineering
10 42 (15.22%) Event-Driven
10 42 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (14.86%) Performance Tuning
12 38 (13.77%) Platform Engineering
13 34 (12.32%) Migration
14 31 (11.23%) Cost Optimisation
14 31 (11.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 31 (11.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 30 (10.87%) Analytics
15 30 (10.87%) Cloud Security
15 30 (10.87%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 161 (58.33%) Python
2 90 (32.61%) SQL
3 76 (27.54%) Java
4 52 (18.84%) Bash
5 40 (14.49%) PowerShell
6 27 (9.78%) Shell Script
7 22 (7.97%) JavaScript
8 21 (7.61%) Go
8 21 (7.61%) Groovy
9 17 (6.16%) TypeScript
10 16 (5.80%) Perl
11 12 (4.35%) Ruby
12 9 (3.26%) C#
13 8 (2.90%) PL/SQL
14 6 (2.17%) JSX
15 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.72%) C
17 1 (0.36%) Bicep
17 1 (0.36%) PHP
17 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 90 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 71 (25.72%) SC Cleared
3 53 (19.20%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.88%) Degree
5 16 (5.80%) DV Cleared
6 14 (5.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.07%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.81%) OCP
8 5 (1.81%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CEH
12 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.80%) GDPR
2 14 (5.07%) QA
3 12 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.62%) NIST
5 8 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.90%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.54%) NCSC
7 4 (1.45%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.09%) SLA
9 2 (0.72%) GxP
9 2 (0.72%) WCAG
10 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 130 (47.10%) Docker
2 14 (5.07%) DFS Replication
3 9 (3.26%) Dovecot
3 9 (3.26%) Postfix
3 9 (3.26%) Squid
4 8 (2.90%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.90%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.09%) NFS
6 3 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 164 (59.42%) Terraform
2 103 (37.32%) Kubernetes
3 71 (25.72%) Grafana
4 59 (21.38%) Prometheus
5 42 (15.22%) Ansible
6 20 (7.25%) Progress Chef
7 17 (6.16%) Puppet
8 9 (3.26%) Nessus
8 9 (3.26%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.54%) Data Guard
9 7 (2.54%) Packer
10 5 (1.81%) Argo
11 4 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.45%) Kibana
11 4 (1.45%) Rancher
12 3 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.09%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.72%) systemd
Vendors
1 36 (13.04%) Oracle
2 19 (6.88%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.16%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.99%) Splunk
5 10 (3.62%) PagerDuty
6 9 (3.26%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.26%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (2.90%) Confluent
8 7 (2.54%) IBM
9 5 (1.81%) Gigya
9 5 (1.81%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.81%) Sybase
9 5 (1.81%) Talend
10 4 (1.45%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.45%) Okta
11 3 (1.09%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.09%) Databricks
11 3 (1.09%) Informatica
11 3 (1.09%) Qualys
11 3 (1.09%) SAP