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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 261 375
Rank change year-on-year -91 +114 -60
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 279 279 236
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.96% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.94% 5.08% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 202 177
10th Percentile £368 £426 £400
25th Percentile £413 £476 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £639 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.06% -2.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £73.40 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
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 7,074 5,492 7,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.89% 18.89% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,873 3,820 5,165
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £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 £760 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 100 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.72 £14.04
25th Percentile £32.19 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.75 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.56% -20.90% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.63 £55.94
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £29.90 £39.25
% change year-on-year +67.22% -23.82% -28.64%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -88 229 £513 -10.09% 80
London -82 122 £513 -14.58% 38
UK excluding London -53 118 £500 -2.06% 53
Work from Home -81 77 £550 -3.51% 44
Midlands -32 50 £500 -1.86% 2
West Midlands -30 41 £500 -5.48% 2
North of England -51 26 £480 -7.43% 16
Scotland -6 12 £358 -27.53% 2
Yorkshire -44 12 £500 -13.04% 4
South East -51 12 £530 -7.83% 18
South West -22 11 £561 -3.98% 8
North West -29 10 £390 -14.47% 11
East Midlands -29 9 £444 +42.77%
East of England -34 5 £538 +7.50% 5
North East - 4 £500 - 1
Wales -11 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 19 (6.81%) Confluence
2 3 (1.08%) Apache
2 3 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
4 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 278 (99.64%) AWS
2 184 (65.95%) Amazon S3
3 167 (59.86%) Amazon EC2
4 162 (58.06%) Serverless
5 159 (56.99%) AWS Lambda
6 102 (36.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 90 (32.26%) Amazon ECS
8 86 (30.82%) Amazon EKS
9 81 (29.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 80 (28.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 71 (25.45%) GitHub
12 53 (19.00%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (14.34%) Route 53
14 37 (13.26%) Azure
15 27 (9.68%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (7.17%) Amazon MSK
16 20 (7.17%) AWS CodePipeline
16 20 (7.17%) AWS Fargate
17 18 (6.45%) AWS CloudTrail
17 18 (6.45%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.45%) Firewall
2 11 (3.94%) DNS
3 9 (3.23%) VPN
4 6 (2.15%) Network Security
5 3 (1.08%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.72%) HTTP
6 2 (0.72%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.36%) AMQP
7 1 (0.36%) DHCP
7 1 (0.36%) Internet
7 1 (0.36%) LAN
7 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.36%) SMTP
7 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (24.73%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (21.15%) DynamoDB
3 37 (13.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 30 (10.75%) MySQL
5 24 (8.60%) Relational Database
6 22 (7.89%) SQL Server
7 17 (6.09%) MongoDB
7 17 (6.09%) NoSQL
8 15 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (3.94%) Power BI
10 10 (3.58%) Redis
11 8 (2.87%) Hadoop
11 8 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (2.87%) Tableau
12 7 (2.51%) DB2
12 7 (2.51%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.51%) Pentaho
13 6 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (2.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 112 (40.14%) Jenkins
2 77 (27.60%) Git
3 62 (22.22%) GitLab
4 32 (11.47%) JIRA
5 22 (7.89%) JUnit
6 16 (5.73%) Maven
7 14 (5.02%) Mockito
8 12 (4.30%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.58%) Bitbucket
9 10 (3.58%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (2.87%) DbUnit
10 8 (2.87%) jMock
11 7 (2.51%) Cypress.io
12 6 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.79%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.79%) git-flow
13 5 (1.79%) Snyk
14 4 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (1.43%) Postman
15 3 (1.08%) Gradle
General
1 59 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.28%) Public Sector
3 42 (15.05%) Finance
4 27 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.09%) Banking
6 11 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.87%) Legal
8 5 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Billing
10 1 (0.36%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.36%) Games
10 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.36%) Military
10 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (17.20%) AWS Engineer
2 44 (15.77%) Developer
3 43 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (15.41%) Senior
4 24 (8.60%) Java Developer
5 23 (8.24%) Software Engineer
6 22 (7.89%) DBA
6 22 (7.89%) Site Engineer
7 21 (7.53%) AWS DevOps
7 21 (7.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 20 (7.17%) Data Engineer
9 17 (6.09%) Architect
10 16 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.38%) AWS Developer
11 15 (5.38%) Lead
11 15 (5.38%) Senior DevOps
11 15 (5.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 14 (5.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.34%) Node.js
1 40 (14.34%) Spring
1 40 (14.34%) Spring Boot
2 39 (13.98%) Kafka
3 38 (13.62%) RESTful
4 28 (10.04%) React
5 27 (9.68%) REST
6 19 (6.81%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (5.38%) AngularJS
7 15 (5.38%) Hibernate
7 15 (5.38%) JPA
7 15 (5.38%) SOAP
7 15 (5.38%) Spring Cloud
8 13 (4.66%) AWS CDK
9 12 (4.30%) Django
10 11 (3.94%) ActiveMQ
10 11 (3.94%) GraphQL
10 11 (3.94%) Spring Batch
10 11 (3.94%) Web Services
11 10 (3.58%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.20%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.66%) Replication
4 8 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.43%) NHS
7 4 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.08%) Clustering
8 3 (1.08%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.72%) Derivative
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.72%) PKI
10 1 (0.36%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 75 (26.88%) Linux
2 7 (2.51%) Unix
3 6 (2.15%) Windows
4 4 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.08%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.36%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (60.22%) CI/CD
2 117 (41.94%) DevOps
3 108 (38.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (37.99%) Agile
5 88 (31.54%) Containerisation
6 62 (22.22%) Microservices
7 47 (16.85%) Observability
8 41 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (13.62%) Software Engineering
10 34 (12.19%) ETL
11 33 (11.83%) Cost Optimisation
11 33 (11.83%) Performance Tuning
11 33 (11.83%) TDD
12 32 (11.47%) Configuration Management
12 32 (11.47%) Migration
12 32 (11.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 29 (10.39%) High Availability
13 29 (10.39%) Scrum
14 28 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (9.68%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 119 (42.65%) Python
2 104 (37.28%) SQL
3 79 (28.32%) Java
4 42 (15.05%) Bash
5 24 (8.60%) Shell Script
6 22 (7.89%) PowerShell
7 20 (7.17%) JavaScript
8 17 (6.09%) TypeScript
9 16 (5.73%) Go
10 12 (4.30%) Ruby
11 9 (3.23%) Perl
12 8 (2.87%) PL/SQL
13 7 (2.51%) C#
14 6 (2.15%) Groovy
15 5 (1.79%) JSX
16 2 (0.72%) Scala
16 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.36%) Bicep
17 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 111 (39.78%) Security Cleared
2 89 (31.90%) SC Cleared
3 42 (15.05%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (5.73%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.94%) Degree
7 10 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.15%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.08%) OCP
11 3 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.36%) CEH
13 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.36%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.45%) QA
2 11 (3.94%) NIST
3 10 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.23%) GDPR
4 9 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.51%) PMO
6 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.72%) GxP
7 2 (0.72%) NCSC
7 2 (0.72%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 128 (45.88%) Docker
2 7 (2.51%) Postfix
3 6 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.72%) HDFS
7 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 135 (48.39%) Terraform
2 90 (32.26%) Kubernetes
3 64 (22.94%) Grafana
4 48 (17.20%) Prometheus
5 35 (12.54%) Ansible
6 18 (6.45%) Progress Chef
7 12 (4.30%) Puppet
8 8 (2.87%) Data Guard
9 5 (1.79%) Argo
9 5 (1.79%) Rancher
10 4 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.43%) Packer
11 3 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.08%) Foglight
11 3 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.08%) Kibana
11 3 (1.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.72%) Istio
12 2 (0.72%) Sysdig
12 2 (0.72%) systemd
Vendors
1 36 (12.90%) Oracle
2 18 (6.45%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.73%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.58%) Databricks
4 10 (3.58%) Jaspersoft
5 9 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.23%) PagerDuty
5 9 (3.23%) Talend
6 8 (2.87%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.87%) Sybase
7 7 (2.51%) Informatica
8 6 (2.15%) Splunk
9 5 (1.79%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.43%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.43%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.43%) Qualys
10 4 (1.43%) Tenable
11 3 (1.08%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.08%) Confluent
11 3 (1.08%) Google