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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 286 362
Rank change year-on-year -123 +76 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 291 283 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.87% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.53% 4.84% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 199 145
10th Percentile £400 £413 £409
25th Percentile £437 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £788 £640 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -8.00% -0.10% -5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
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 8,232 5,846 6,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 17.97% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 3,904 4,769
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.75%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 94 90
10th Percentile £15.94 £21.73 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.05 £29.50 £19.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £38.90 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +17.12% -39.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £34.74 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.82% +15.80% -42.86%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -115 235 £527 +0.38% 179
London -59 148 £550 -8.33% 109
Work from Home -66 101 £526 -4.36% 104
UK excluding London -118 90 £460 -8.00% 107
North of England -52 32 £500 - 31
Midlands -72 26 £469 -1.26% 13
West Midlands -64 23 £469 -1.26% 6
Yorkshire -31 18 £500 - 7
South West -35 10 £542 -0.14% 15
South East -78 10 £460 -20.00% 20
Scotland -37 9 £425 -14.59% 11
North East -34 7 £425 -2.86% 11
North West -61 7 £525 -4.55% 13
East of England -28 4 £348 -36.82% 9
East Midlands -21 2 £449 +18.16% 7
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 23 (7.90%) Confluence
2 17 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.09%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.41%) Apache
4 7 (2.41%) SAS
4 7 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.03%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.69%) Camunda
7 2 (0.69%) nginx
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.69%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 279 (95.88%) AWS
2 182 (62.54%) Amazon S3
3 162 (55.67%) AWS Lambda
4 161 (55.33%) Serverless
5 114 (39.18%) Amazon EC2
6 112 (38.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 76 (26.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 73 (25.09%) Amazon ECS
9 69 (23.71%) Amazon EKS
10 59 (20.27%) Azure
11 53 (18.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 52 (17.87%) GitHub
13 40 (13.75%) Amazon SQS
14 36 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (11.00%) AWS KMS
16 29 (9.97%) Route 53
17 24 (8.25%) AWS Step Functions
18 23 (7.90%) Amazon EventBridge
19 21 (7.22%) GCP
20 18 (6.19%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.19%) Firewall
2 12 (4.12%) DNS
3 7 (2.41%) DHCP
3 7 (2.41%) VPN
4 6 (2.06%) Network Security
4 6 (2.06%) SMTP
5 4 (1.37%) HTTP
5 4 (1.37%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.69%) FTP
6 2 (0.69%) IMAP
6 2 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.69%) SSH
6 2 (0.69%) SSL
7 1 (0.34%) AMQP
7 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.34%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (29.55%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (25.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 64 (21.99%) DynamoDB
4 36 (12.37%) MySQL
5 25 (8.59%) MongoDB
5 25 (8.59%) SQL Server
6 24 (8.25%) Amazon Athena
7 21 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (6.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (5.84%) Redis
10 16 (5.50%) Data Lake
11 13 (4.47%) Big Data
11 13 (4.47%) Power BI
11 13 (4.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (3.09%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.75%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (2.75%) Pentaho
13 8 (2.75%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.06%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 85 (29.21%) Jenkins
2 60 (20.62%) Git
3 48 (16.49%) GitLab
4 33 (11.34%) JIRA
5 17 (5.84%) JUnit
6 15 (5.15%) Mockito
7 14 (4.81%) Maven
8 12 (4.12%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.78%) SonarQube
10 10 (3.44%) Claude Code
11 8 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.41%) DbUnit
13 6 (2.06%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (2.06%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.06%) jMock
13 6 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.72%) Postman
15 4 (1.37%) Cypress.io
15 4 (1.37%) Flyway
15 4 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.34%) Public Sector
3 32 (11.00%) Finance
4 25 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.56%) Banking
6 9 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.41%) Front Office
8 6 (2.06%) Back Office
8 6 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.06%) Legal
9 3 (1.03%) Billing
9 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Law
10 2 (0.69%) Local Government
10 2 (0.69%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Military
11 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (25.43%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (18.56%) Senior
3 47 (16.15%) Architect
4 45 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (13.40%) Developer
6 38 (13.06%) Data Engineer
7 30 (10.31%) DBA
8 28 (9.62%) AWS Architect
9 27 (9.28%) AWS DevOps
10 25 (8.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 23 (7.90%) Lead
12 20 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (6.19%) Java Developer
14 17 (5.84%) Technical Architect
15 16 (5.50%) AWS Data Engineer
16 15 (5.15%) Administrator
17 14 (4.81%) Technical Leader
18 13 (4.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 13 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
19 12 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (49.14%) Terraform
2 39 (13.40%) React
3 38 (13.06%) REST
4 35 (12.03%) Node.js
5 32 (11.00%) RESTful
5 32 (11.00%) Spring
5 32 (11.00%) Spring Boot
6 24 (8.25%) AngularJS
7 23 (7.90%) AWS CDK
8 20 (6.87%) .NET
9 18 (6.19%) Kafka
10 17 (5.84%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.47%) SOAP
12 12 (4.12%) ActiveMQ
13 11 (3.78%) GraphQL
13 11 (3.78%) JSON
14 10 (3.44%) Hibernate
14 10 (3.44%) JPA
15 9 (3.09%) Spring Batch
15 9 (3.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (24.05%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.62%) Product Ownership
3 27 (9.28%) Replication
4 24 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.78%) NHS
6 10 (3.44%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.75%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.41%) Clustering
8 7 (2.41%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.06%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.06%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.06%) PKI
10 5 (1.72%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.37%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 52 (17.87%) Linux
2 23 (7.90%) Windows
3 14 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.09%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (2.75%) Unix
7 4 (1.37%) AIX
7 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.03%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.34%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.34%) VMS
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (64.26%) CI/CD
2 142 (48.80%) DevOps
3 134 (46.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (39.86%) Agile
5 72 (24.74%) Microservices
6 59 (20.27%) Containerisation
7 56 (19.24%) Data Modelling
8 55 (18.90%) Observability
9 50 (17.18%) Performance Tuning
10 48 (16.49%) Software Engineering
11 47 (16.15%) Event-Driven
11 47 (16.15%) High Availability
12 45 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
14 43 (14.78%) Migration
15 41 (14.09%) Data Pipeline
16 38 (13.06%) Technical Leadership
17 36 (12.37%) Data Integration
18 34 (11.68%) Scrum
19 33 (11.34%) AI
Programming Languages
1 129 (44.33%) Python
2 83 (28.52%) SQL
3 72 (24.74%) Java
4 39 (13.40%) TypeScript
5 30 (10.31%) Bash
6 24 (8.25%) PowerShell
7 23 (7.90%) JavaScript
8 18 (6.19%) Groovy
9 17 (5.84%) C#
10 11 (3.78%) Scala
11 8 (2.75%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.41%) Perl
13 4 (1.37%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.03%) Go
14 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.69%) Bicep
15 2 (0.69%) Ruby
16 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 111 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 91 (31.27%) SC Cleared
3 50 (17.18%) AWS Certification
4 32 (11.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (8.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (5.50%) Degree
7 12 (4.12%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.78%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.41%) CISM
9 7 (2.41%) CISSP
10 6 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.03%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.69%) PMP
13 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.90%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.75%) NIST
3 6 (2.06%) QA
4 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.03%) GDPR
5 3 (1.03%) HL7
5 3 (1.03%) NCSC
5 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.03%) PMO
5 3 (1.03%) SLA
6 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.69%) WCAG
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 96 (32.99%) Docker
2 14 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.41%) Postfix
4 6 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.37%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.37%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.37%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.69%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.69%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.69%) Squid
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 76 (26.12%) Kubernetes
2 58 (19.93%) Grafana
3 43 (14.78%) Prometheus
4 28 (9.62%) Ansible
5 9 (3.09%) Istio
5 9 (3.09%) Kibana
6 8 (2.75%) Argo
7 5 (1.72%) Puppet
8 4 (1.37%) Packer
8 4 (1.37%) Rancher
8 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.37%) vMotion
9 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.03%) Nagios
9 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.69%) Consul
10 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.69%) Nessus
10 2 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.25%) Oracle
3 21 (7.22%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.50%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.12%) Databricks
5 12 (4.12%) Informatica
6 10 (3.44%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (3.44%) VMware
7 9 (3.09%) Google
8 8 (2.75%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.41%) Denodo
9 7 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.41%) Splunk
9 7 (2.41%) Talend
10 5 (1.72%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.72%) Citrix
10 5 (1.72%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.37%) Brio
11 4 (1.37%) HP
11 4 (1.37%) Symantec
215 Amazon RDS jobs Nationwide