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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 278 363
Rank change year-on-year -132 +85 -13
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 281 301 218
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.92% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.44% 5.07% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 218 145
10th Percentile £400 £423 £409
25th Percentile £430 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +2.10% -5.85%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £778 £650 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.38% -10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £70.60 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £74.13 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
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 8,180 5,941 7,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.10% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,466 3,998 4,956
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 93 100
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £27.11 £19.90
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.55% -37.34%
75th Percentile £60.50 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.74 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -40.00%

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 19 August 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 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 19 August 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 -118 230 £523 -1.42% 106
London -77 138 £550 -5.17% 62
UK excluding London -95 96 £450 -10.00% 57
Work from Home -88 92 £525 -7.08% 50
Midlands -45 34 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -63 32 £450 -14.29% 17
West Midlands -62 28 £469 -1.26% 3
Yorkshire -30 18 £500 - 5
Scotland -20 9 £425 -13.98% 4
South West -44 9 £538 -7.92% 11
South East -80 9 £459 -20.17% 14
North East -32 7 £425 -5.56% 3
North West -56 7 £525 -6.67% 9
East Midlands -14 5 £449 +18.16% 3
East of England -33 4 £348 -36.82% 7
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 20 (7.12%) Confluence
2 10 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.49%) SAS
4 7 (2.49%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.14%) Apache
5 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.07%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.71%) Camunda
7 2 (0.71%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 270 (96.09%) AWS
2 176 (62.63%) Amazon S3
3 158 (56.23%) AWS Lambda
4 157 (55.87%) Serverless
5 113 (40.21%) Amazon EC2
6 106 (37.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 74 (26.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 68 (24.20%) Amazon ECS
9 67 (23.84%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (19.22%) GitHub
11 53 (18.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 51 (18.15%) Azure
13 45 (16.01%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (13.17%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (11.39%) AWS KMS
16 27 (9.61%) Route 53
17 25 (8.90%) AWS Step Functions
18 22 (7.83%) Amazon EventBridge
19 18 (6.41%) AWS CloudTrail
20 17 (6.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.98%) Firewall
2 9 (3.20%) DNS
3 7 (2.49%) DHCP
3 7 (2.49%) VPN
4 6 (2.14%) Network Security
5 4 (1.42%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.42%) SMTP
5 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.71%) HTTP
6 2 (0.71%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.71%) SSL
7 1 (0.36%) AMQP
7 1 (0.36%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (27.05%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (24.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 64 (22.78%) DynamoDB
4 36 (12.81%) MySQL
5 25 (8.90%) Amazon Athena
6 24 (8.54%) SQL Server
7 21 (7.47%) MongoDB
8 19 (6.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (5.69%) Data Lake
11 15 (5.34%) Redis
12 14 (4.98%) Power BI
13 13 (4.63%) Big Data
14 11 (3.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (3.56%) NoSQL
16 9 (3.20%) Pentaho
17 8 (2.85%) Apache Iceberg
18 7 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
19 6 (2.14%) BusinessObjects
19 6 (2.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 89 (31.67%) Jenkins
2 56 (19.93%) Git
3 44 (15.66%) GitLab
4 29 (10.32%) JIRA
5 21 (7.47%) JUnit
6 19 (6.76%) Mockito
7 17 (6.05%) Maven
8 16 (5.69%) SonarQube
9 12 (4.27%) Bitbucket
10 10 (3.56%) Claude Code
10 10 (3.56%) DbUnit
11 9 (3.20%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (3.20%) jMock
12 8 (2.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.14%) Postman
13 6 (2.14%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (1.42%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.42%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.42%) Flyway
15 3 (1.07%) Gradle
General
1 82 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 68 (24.20%) Public Sector
3 34 (12.10%) Finance
4 27 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.83%) Banking
6 7 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.49%) Legal
7 6 (2.14%) Front Office
8 5 (1.78%) Back Office
9 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
10 2 (0.71%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Billing
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (23.13%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (18.15%) Senior
3 44 (15.66%) Developer
4 43 (15.30%) Architect
5 36 (12.81%) Data Engineer
5 36 (12.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (10.68%) DBA
7 28 (9.96%) AWS Architect
8 23 (8.19%) AWS DevOps
8 23 (8.19%) Java Developer
9 20 (7.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 20 (7.12%) Lead
10 19 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (6.05%) Technical Architect
12 15 (5.34%) Administrator
13 14 (4.98%) AWS Data Engineer
14 13 (4.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 13 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (4.27%) Senior Developer
16 11 (3.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.59%) REST
2 40 (14.23%) RESTful
3 39 (13.88%) Node.js
3 39 (13.88%) React
4 37 (13.17%) Spring
4 37 (13.17%) Spring Boot
5 28 (9.96%) AngularJS
6 25 (8.90%) AWS CDK
7 22 (7.83%) Kafka
8 20 (7.12%) .NET
9 18 (6.41%) SOAP
10 16 (5.69%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (4.98%) FastAPI
12 13 (4.63%) GraphQL
12 13 (4.63%) Hibernate
12 13 (4.63%) JPA
12 13 (4.63%) Spring Batch
12 13 (4.63%) Spring Integration
12 13 (4.63%) Web Services
13 11 (3.91%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 68 (24.20%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.96%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.90%) Product Ownership
4 21 (7.47%) Replication
5 9 (3.20%) AI Agents
5 9 (3.20%) NHS
6 8 (2.85%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.49%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.49%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.14%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.14%) Clustering
9 5 (1.78%) PKI
10 4 (1.42%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.07%) Derivative
11 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.07%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.15%) Linux
2 21 (7.47%) Windows
3 14 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.49%) Unix
6 6 (2.14%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.42%) AIX
8 3 (1.07%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.36%) CentOS
9 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (62.99%) CI/CD
2 124 (44.13%) DevOps
3 118 (41.99%) Agile
4 117 (41.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 77 (27.40%) Microservices
6 57 (20.28%) Containerisation
7 49 (17.44%) Data Modelling
8 48 (17.08%) Observability
9 46 (16.37%) Performance Tuning
10 45 (16.01%) High Availability
11 43 (15.30%) Event-Driven
11 43 (15.30%) Software Engineering
12 41 (14.59%) Data Pipeline
12 41 (14.59%) Migration
13 40 (14.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (13.52%) Scrum
15 33 (11.74%) ETL
16 31 (11.03%) AI
16 31 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 120 (42.70%) Python
2 83 (29.54%) SQL
3 77 (27.40%) Java
4 38 (13.52%) TypeScript
5 30 (10.68%) Bash
6 23 (8.19%) JavaScript
7 22 (7.83%) PowerShell
8 18 (6.41%) C#
9 14 (4.98%) Groovy
10 10 (3.56%) Scala
10 10 (3.56%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.14%) Perl
12 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.07%) Go
14 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.71%) Ruby
15 1 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 114 (40.57%) Security Cleared
2 91 (32.38%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.73%) AWS Certification
4 31 (11.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (8.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (6.05%) Degree
7 12 (4.27%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.85%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.42%) CISM
10 4 (1.42%) CISSP
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.07%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.71%) PMP
13 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.14%) NIST
2 6 (2.14%) QA
3 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.07%) GDPR
4 3 (1.07%) HL7
4 3 (1.07%) NCSC
4 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.07%) PMO
4 3 (1.07%) SLA
5 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.71%) WCAG
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 92 (32.74%) Docker
2 13 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.85%) Postfix
4 6 (2.14%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.42%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.42%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.42%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 131 (46.62%) Terraform
2 74 (26.33%) Kubernetes
3 56 (19.93%) Grafana
4 38 (13.52%) Prometheus
5 23 (8.19%) Ansible
6 9 (3.20%) Istio
6 9 (3.20%) Kibana
7 8 (2.85%) Argo
8 5 (1.78%) Puppet
9 4 (1.42%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.42%) vMotion
10 3 (1.07%) Foglight
10 3 (1.07%) Nagios
10 3 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.07%) Rancher
11 2 (0.71%) Consul
11 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.71%) Sysdig
11 2 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.12%) Oracle
2 20 (7.12%) ServiceNow
3 15 (5.34%) Dynatrace
4 12 (4.27%) Jaspersoft
5 11 (3.91%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.56%) VMware
7 9 (3.20%) Databricks
7 9 (3.20%) Informatica
8 7 (2.49%) Denodo
8 7 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.49%) Splunk
9 5 (1.78%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.78%) Citrix
9 5 (1.78%) Google
10 4 (1.42%) Cisco
10 4 (1.42%) HP
10 4 (1.42%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.42%) Symantec
10 4 (1.42%) Talend