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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 311 375
Rank change year-on-year -16 +64 -54
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 286 226 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.74% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.35% 4.01% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 145 179
10th Percentile £364 £425 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £632 £600
90th Percentile £640 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £525
% change year-on-year +0.81% -5.52% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £71.65 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
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 6,569 5,640 7,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.34% 18.51% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,508 3,755 5,174
10th Percentile £339 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £423 £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 £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 90 177
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £16.07
25th Percentile £28.86 £24.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.06% -9.87% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.93 £63.00
90th Percentile £85.20 £70.38 £76.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.60 £30.00 £41.38
% change year-on-year +78.67% -27.49% -26.02%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -25 223 £523 -5.00% 94
London -33 116 £513 -10.87% 41
UK excluding London -24 115 £500 +0.81% 72
Work from Home -49 84 £550 +3.77% 55
Midlands -30 41 £500 -5.48% 14
West Midlands -26 36 £513 -3.12% 12
North of England -41 28 £500 +33.33% 22
South East -12 18 £475 +5.56% 20
North West -19 13 £394 +5.00% 12
Scotland -7 12 £358 -24.95% 1
Yorkshire -42 11 £518 -11.91% 8
South West -16 10 £538 -10.54% 8
East Midlands -20 5 £375 -15.35% 2
North East -11 4 £500 - 2
East of England -23 3 £538 +8.86% 2
Wales -5 2 £488 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 25 (8.74%) Confluence
2 5 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.40%) nginx
4 3 (1.05%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 286 (100.00%) AWS
2 189 (66.08%) Amazon S3
3 171 (59.79%) Amazon EC2
4 163 (56.99%) Serverless
5 162 (56.64%) AWS Lambda
6 104 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 102 (35.66%) Amazon ECS
8 97 (33.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 92 (32.17%) Amazon EKS
10 89 (31.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 77 (26.92%) GitHub
12 61 (21.33%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (13.64%) Route 53
14 37 (12.94%) Azure
15 23 (8.04%) Amazon Kinesis
16 22 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
17 19 (6.64%) Amazon MSK
17 19 (6.64%) AWS KMS
17 19 (6.64%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (5.94%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.74%) Firewall
2 20 (6.99%) DNS
3 8 (2.80%) HTTP
3 8 (2.80%) VPN
4 6 (2.10%) FTP
4 6 (2.10%) SMTP
4 6 (2.10%) SSH
5 4 (1.40%) IMAP
5 4 (1.40%) Network Security
5 4 (1.40%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.05%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.35%) Internet
7 1 (0.35%) LAN
7 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (22.38%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (19.23%) DynamoDB
3 39 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 38 (13.29%) MySQL
5 25 (8.74%) MongoDB
5 25 (8.74%) Relational Database
6 23 (8.04%) NoSQL
7 22 (7.69%) SQL Server
8 21 (7.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (4.90%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (3.50%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (3.50%) Hadoop
10 10 (3.50%) Oracle Database
10 10 (3.50%) Redis
11 8 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (2.80%) Power BI
12 6 (2.10%) Couchbase
12 6 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.10%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.75%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 116 (40.56%) Jenkins
2 78 (27.27%) Git
3 70 (24.48%) GitLab
4 38 (13.29%) JIRA
5 13 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 13 (4.55%) JUnit
6 12 (4.20%) Maven
6 12 (4.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.45%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.10%) Mockito
8 6 (2.10%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.10%) Vagrant
9 4 (1.40%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (1.40%) Snyk
9 4 (1.40%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.05%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.05%) git-flow
10 3 (1.05%) Gradle
10 3 (1.05%) jMock
General
1 77 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.38%) Finance
3 42 (14.69%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.59%) Banking
6 14 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.75%) Legal
8 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.70%) Military
9 2 (0.70%) Publishing
10 1 (0.35%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.35%) Front Office
10 1 (0.35%) Games
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (21.33%) AWS Engineer
2 59 (20.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (13.99%) Senior
4 38 (13.29%) Developer
5 30 (10.49%) AWS DevOps
6 28 (9.79%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (8.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (8.04%) Software Engineer
9 22 (7.69%) Architect
9 22 (7.69%) Lead
10 21 (7.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (7.34%) Site Engineer
11 20 (6.99%) DBA
11 20 (6.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 19 (6.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 19 (6.64%) Data Engineer
13 18 (6.29%) Java Developer
14 14 (4.90%) AWS Architect
14 14 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (4.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.38%) Kafka
2 32 (11.19%) Spring
3 31 (10.84%) Node.js
3 31 (10.84%) Spring Boot
4 29 (10.14%) RESTful
5 25 (8.74%) React
6 20 (6.99%) Elastic Stack
6 20 (6.99%) REST
7 15 (5.24%) AWS CDK
8 11 (3.85%) CSS
9 10 (3.50%) FastAPI
10 9 (3.15%) .NET
10 9 (3.15%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.15%) Hibernate
10 9 (3.15%) Jest
10 9 (3.15%) JPA
10 9 (3.15%) Spring Cloud
11 8 (2.80%) Django
11 8 (2.80%) Flask
11 8 (2.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.08%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.74%) Replication
3 24 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.10%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.10%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.40%) Clustering
8 4 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.40%) NHS
8 4 (1.40%) PKI
9 3 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.05%) Derivative
9 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (29.02%) Linux
2 13 (4.55%) Unix
3 9 (3.15%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (3.15%) Windows
4 7 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.45%) VMS
5 4 (1.40%) CentOS
5 4 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.05%) Solaris
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 135 (47.20%) DevOps
3 126 (44.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (32.52%) Containerisation
5 88 (30.77%) Agile
6 65 (22.73%) Microservices
7 53 (18.53%) Observability
8 44 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (14.69%) Configuration Management
9 42 (14.69%) Performance Tuning
9 42 (14.69%) Software Engineering
10 39 (13.64%) Migration
11 36 (12.59%) Cost Optimisation
12 34 (11.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 31 (10.84%) Event-Driven
13 31 (10.84%) High Availability
14 30 (10.49%) Platform Engineering
15 29 (10.14%) ETL
16 26 (9.09%) Analytics
17 24 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 140 (48.95%) Python
2 92 (32.17%) SQL
3 73 (25.52%) Java
4 50 (17.48%) Bash
5 32 (11.19%) PowerShell
6 30 (10.49%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.34%) JavaScript
8 20 (6.99%) Go
9 14 (4.90%) TypeScript
10 13 (4.55%) Perl
11 12 (4.20%) Groovy
11 12 (4.20%) Ruby
12 11 (3.85%) C#
13 8 (2.80%) PL/SQL
14 6 (2.10%) JSX
15 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.35%) Bicep
16 1 (0.35%) PHP
16 1 (0.35%) R
16 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 97 (33.92%) Security Cleared
2 82 (28.67%) SC Cleared
3 54 (18.88%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.90%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.85%) Degree
7 9 (3.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.10%) 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
12 1 (0.35%) CEH
12 1 (0.35%) CISSP
12 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.35%) PMP
12 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.59%) QA
2 14 (4.90%) GDPR
3 11 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.50%) NIST
5 8 (2.80%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.45%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.10%) NCSC
8 4 (1.40%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.40%) PMO
9 3 (1.05%) SLA
10 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.70%) GxP
11 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 130 (45.45%) Docker
2 8 (2.80%) Virtual Servers
3 7 (2.45%) Postfix
4 6 (2.10%) DFS Replication
5 5 (1.75%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.40%) Dovecot
6 4 (1.40%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (1.40%) Squid
7 3 (1.05%) NFS
7 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 156 (54.55%) Terraform
2 101 (35.31%) Kubernetes
3 65 (22.73%) Grafana
4 53 (18.53%) Prometheus
5 43 (15.03%) Ansible
6 20 (6.99%) Progress Chef
7 15 (5.24%) Puppet
8 7 (2.45%) Data Guard
8 7 (2.45%) Packer
9 6 (2.10%) Argo
10 4 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.40%) Kibana
10 4 (1.40%) Nessus
10 4 (1.40%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.05%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.05%) Rancher
12 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.70%) systemd
Vendors
1 36 (12.59%) Oracle
2 18 (6.29%) ServiceNow
3 17 (5.94%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.50%) PagerDuty
4 10 (3.50%) Splunk
5 8 (2.80%) Confluent
5 8 (2.80%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (2.45%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.45%) IBM
7 6 (2.10%) Sybase
8 5 (1.75%) Talend
9 4 (1.40%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.40%) AVEVA
9 4 (1.40%) CloudEndure
9 4 (1.40%) Okta
9 4 (1.40%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.05%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.05%) Databricks
10 3 (1.05%) Qualys
10 3 (1.05%) Tenable