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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 295 367
Rank change year-on-year -86 +72 -59
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 249 252 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.86% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.43% 4.53% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 191 174
10th Percentile £368 £425 £402
25th Percentile £413 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -13.14%
75th Percentile £563 £617 £600
90th Percentile £650 £703 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £537 £498
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.94% -13.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £73.25 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
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 7,260 5,560 7,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.35% 18.96% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,938 3,837 5,211
10th Percentile £350 £357 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £478
% change year-on-year -3.06% +2.51% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 104 144
10th Percentile £16.72 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.19 £24.06 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -31.73%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.15 £58.55
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.13 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.13 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.43% -25.00% -27.27%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -77 216 £500 -13.04% 73
London -81 118 £503 -16.25% 25
UK excluding London -59 110 £499 -7.08% 53
Work from Home -81 63 £500 -16.67% 43
Midlands -27 55 £500 -4.76% 6
West Midlands -25 48 £500 -9.09% 4
North of England -46 21 £425 -15.00% 18
South East -58 12 £530 -7.83% 10
Scotland -11 9 £342 -30.87% 1
South West -30 9 £591 +1.16% 13
Yorkshire -41 8 £400 -20.00% 4
East Midlands -29 7 £519 +66.88% 2
North West -37 7 £445 -2.41% 10
North East - 6 £425 - 4
East of England -33 3 - - 3
Wales - 2 £488 - 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 26 (10.44%) Confluence
2 7 (2.81%) SAS
3 5 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 248 (99.60%) AWS
2 164 (65.86%) Amazon S3
3 134 (53.82%) Amazon EC2
4 128 (51.41%) AWS Lambda
4 128 (51.41%) Serverless
5 85 (34.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 73 (29.32%) Amazon ECS
7 68 (27.31%) Amazon EKS
7 68 (27.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 56 (22.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 46 (18.47%) GitHub
10 34 (13.65%) Azure
11 31 (12.45%) Amazon SQS
11 31 (12.45%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (12.45%) Route 53
12 25 (10.04%) AWS KMS
13 19 (7.63%) Amazon Kinesis
14 17 (6.83%) Amazon MSK
14 17 (6.83%) Power Platform
15 16 (6.43%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.02%) Firewall
2 8 (3.21%) DNS
3 6 (2.41%) Network Security
4 5 (2.01%) VPN
5 3 (1.20%) HTTP
6 2 (0.80%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.80%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.40%) AMQP
7 1 (0.40%) DHCP
7 1 (0.40%) Internet
7 1 (0.40%) LAN
7 1 (0.40%) SMTP
7 1 (0.40%) SSL
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (28.11%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (26.51%) DynamoDB
3 47 (18.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 28 (11.24%) MySQL
5 23 (9.24%) SQL Server
6 19 (7.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (6.83%) NoSQL
7 17 (6.83%) Power BI
8 16 (6.43%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (6.43%) MongoDB
9 14 (5.62%) Pentaho
9 14 (5.62%) Relational Database
10 11 (4.42%) Redis
11 10 (4.02%) Data Lake
12 9 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (3.21%) Oracle Database
13 8 (3.21%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (3.21%) Tableau
14 6 (2.41%) Big Data
14 6 (2.41%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 89 (35.74%) Jenkins
2 58 (23.29%) Git
3 47 (18.88%) GitLab
4 33 (13.25%) JIRA
5 23 (9.24%) JUnit
6 18 (7.23%) Maven
6 18 (7.23%) Mockito
7 16 (6.43%) SonarQube
8 11 (4.42%) DbUnit
8 11 (4.42%) jMock
9 9 (3.61%) Bitbucket Server
10 7 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (2.41%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.01%) Cucumber
12 5 (2.01%) git-flow
12 5 (2.01%) Snyk
13 4 (1.61%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (1.61%) Postman
14 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 3 (1.20%) Gradle
General
1 54 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 50 (20.08%) Public Sector
3 32 (12.85%) Finance
4 29 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.22%) Banking
6 12 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.61%) Legal
8 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.80%) Front Office
10 2 (0.80%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (17.27%) Developer
2 42 (16.87%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (16.06%) Senior
4 33 (13.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (9.64%) Data Engineer
5 24 (9.64%) DBA
6 23 (9.24%) Java Developer
7 22 (8.84%) Architect
8 19 (7.63%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (7.63%) Site Engineer
9 17 (6.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (6.43%) AWS Architect
10 16 (6.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 16 (6.43%) Lead
11 15 (6.02%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.82%) Analyst
12 12 (4.82%) AWS Developer
12 12 (4.82%) Oracle DBA
13 10 (4.02%) Administrator
13 10 (4.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.87%) Spring
1 42 (16.87%) Spring Boot
2 38 (15.26%) RESTful
3 36 (14.46%) Node.js
4 32 (12.85%) Kafka
5 29 (11.65%) REST
6 26 (10.44%) React
7 20 (8.03%) AngularJS
8 19 (7.63%) Hibernate
8 19 (7.63%) JPA
8 19 (7.63%) SOAP
8 19 (7.63%) Spring Cloud
9 15 (6.02%) ActiveMQ
9 15 (6.02%) Spring Batch
9 15 (6.02%) Web Services
10 14 (5.62%) Spring Integration
11 12 (4.82%) AWS CDK
12 11 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (4.42%) PowerMock
13 10 (4.02%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 55 (22.09%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.44%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.82%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.82%) Replication
4 6 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.01%) NHS
6 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.61%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.20%) Clustering
7 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.80%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.80%) Derivative
8 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.40%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 65 (26.10%) Linux
2 8 (3.21%) Unix
3 4 (1.61%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (1.61%) Windows
4 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (59.04%) CI/CD
2 108 (43.37%) DevOps
3 106 (42.57%) Agile
4 87 (34.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 76 (30.52%) Containerisation
6 58 (23.29%) Microservices
7 39 (15.66%) Observability
7 39 (15.66%) Scrum
7 39 (15.66%) Software Engineering
8 36 (14.46%) ETL
9 35 (14.06%) Performance Tuning
10 34 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (12.85%) Migration
12 30 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (11.24%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (11.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 28 (11.24%) TDD
15 27 (10.84%) Data Modelling
15 27 (10.84%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 102 (40.96%) Python
2 100 (40.16%) SQL
3 82 (32.93%) Java
4 30 (12.05%) Bash
5 19 (7.63%) PowerShell
5 19 (7.63%) Shell Script
6 17 (6.83%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.42%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.02%) Go
9 9 (3.61%) Groovy
10 8 (3.21%) C#
10 8 (3.21%) Perl
10 8 (3.21%) Ruby
11 7 (2.81%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.41%) Scala
13 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (44.98%) Security Cleared
2 92 (36.95%) SC Cleared
3 40 (16.06%) AWS Certification
4 17 (6.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.02%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.42%) Degree
7 10 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.61%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.20%) OCP
11 3 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.40%) CEH
13 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.40%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.82%) QA
2 10 (4.02%) NIST
3 9 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.61%) GDPR
3 9 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.61%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.81%) PMO
5 5 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 111 (44.58%) Docker
2 10 (4.02%) Postfix
3 4 (1.61%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.80%) HDFS
6 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 114 (45.78%) Terraform
2 69 (27.71%) Kubernetes
3 63 (25.30%) Grafana
4 35 (14.06%) Prometheus
5 27 (10.84%) Ansible
6 13 (5.22%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.42%) Puppet
8 8 (3.21%) Data Guard
9 6 (2.41%) Argo
10 5 (2.01%) Kibana
11 4 (1.61%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.61%) Rancher
12 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.20%) Foglight
12 3 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.80%) Istio
13 2 (0.80%) Packer
13 2 (0.80%) Sysdig
13 2 (0.80%) systemd
Vendors
1 39 (15.66%) Oracle
2 19 (7.63%) ServiceNow
3 16 (6.43%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.62%) Jaspersoft
5 13 (5.22%) Informatica
6 12 (4.82%) Atlassian
6 12 (4.82%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.61%) PagerDuty
7 9 (3.61%) Splunk
7 9 (3.61%) Talend
8 8 (3.21%) Databricks
9 7 (2.81%) Denodo
10 5 (2.01%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.01%) Sybase
11 4 (1.61%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.61%) Qualys
11 4 (1.61%) Tenable
12 3 (1.20%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.80%) Google
13 2 (0.80%) UiPath