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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 316 359
Rank change year-on-year -82 +43 -5
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 304 266 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.80% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.71% 4.39% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 183 133
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £430 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £510 £527
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -3.13% -4.27%
75th Percentile £672 £588 £600
90th Percentile £786 £640 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £475 £494
% change year-on-year -3.16% -3.85% -9.77%
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 8,205 6,066 6,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.94% 18.35% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,462 4,055 4,602
10th Percentile £351 £340 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 89 90
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.05 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.36 £38.96 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +11.31% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.00 £71.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -79 238 £533 +6.50% 248
London -34 155 £550 +4.76% 128
Work from Home -47 109 £527 +2.83% 132
UK excluding London -124 89 £460 -3.16% 139
North of England -66 30 £500 - 38
Midlands -72 22 £459 -3.37% 18
West Midlands -58 20 £464 -2.32% 10
Yorkshire -28 18 £500 - 5
Scotland -18 13 £425 -14.40% 16
South West -32 11 £438 -15.87% 29
South East -67 11 £460 -3.16% 16
North East -34 6 £419 -1.47% 7
North West -56 6 £600 +9.09% 26
East of England -32 3 £345 -37.27% 12
East Midlands -19 1 £358 -5.79% 8
Wales - 1 £550 - 5

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 24 (7.89%) Confluence
2 17 (5.59%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.62%) Apache
4 9 (2.96%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.97%) SAS
5 6 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.97%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.97%) WebLogic Portal
6 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.32%) nginx
8 3 (0.99%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.99%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.66%) Camunda
10 1 (0.33%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (1.97%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (0.99%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 289 (95.07%) AWS
2 190 (62.50%) Amazon S3
3 166 (54.61%) AWS Lambda
4 163 (53.62%) Serverless
5 123 (40.46%) Amazon EC2
6 116 (38.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 82 (26.97%) Amazon EKS
8 81 (26.64%) Amazon ECS
8 81 (26.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 63 (20.72%) Azure
10 57 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 53 (17.43%) GitHub
12 47 (15.46%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (12.83%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (10.86%) AWS KMS
15 31 (10.20%) Route 53
16 27 (8.88%) Amazon EventBridge
17 26 (8.55%) AWS Step Functions
18 22 (7.24%) GCP
19 18 (5.92%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.58%) Firewall
2 16 (5.26%) DNS
3 10 (3.29%) VPN
4 9 (2.96%) Network Security
5 7 (2.30%) DHCP
6 6 (1.97%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.64%) SMTP
8 4 (1.32%) HTTP
8 4 (1.32%) NetScaler
8 4 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.66%) FTP
9 2 (0.66%) IMAP
9 2 (0.66%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.66%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.66%) SSH
9 2 (0.66%) SSL
10 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.33%) IPsec
10 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (29.61%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (25.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 65 (21.38%) DynamoDB
4 38 (12.50%) MySQL
5 31 (10.20%) MongoDB
6 28 (9.21%) Amazon Athena
6 28 (9.21%) SQL Server
7 22 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (6.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (6.58%) Redis
9 16 (5.26%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.28%) Big Data
11 12 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (3.62%) Power BI
13 9 (2.96%) NoSQL
14 8 (2.63%) Apache Iceberg
14 8 (2.63%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.30%) Metadata
15 7 (2.30%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 87 (28.62%) Jenkins
2 69 (22.70%) Git
3 53 (17.43%) GitLab
4 34 (11.18%) JIRA
5 18 (5.92%) JUnit
6 16 (5.26%) Maven
7 15 (4.93%) Bitbucket
7 15 (4.93%) Mockito
8 11 (3.62%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.29%) Claude Code
10 8 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (2.63%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.97%) DbUnit
11 6 (1.97%) Gradle
11 6 (1.97%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.64%) Flyway
12 5 (1.64%) jMock
12 5 (1.64%) Postman
12 5 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 88 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 65 (21.38%) Public Sector
3 38 (12.50%) Finance
4 25 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.22%) Banking
5 11 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.96%) Back Office
6 9 (2.96%) Front Office
7 6 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.97%) Legal
8 4 (1.32%) Billing
8 4 (1.32%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.32%) Local Government
9 3 (0.99%) Law
9 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 77 (25.33%) AWS Engineer
2 57 (18.75%) Senior
3 49 (16.12%) Architect
4 48 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (12.83%) Data Engineer
5 39 (12.83%) Developer
6 34 (11.18%) DBA
7 29 (9.54%) AWS Architect
8 28 (9.21%) AWS DevOps
9 26 (8.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 25 (8.22%) Lead
11 22 (7.24%) Java Developer
12 21 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (5.92%) AWS Data Engineer
14 16 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (5.26%) Technical Architect
14 16 (5.26%) Technical Leader
15 15 (4.93%) Administrator
16 14 (4.61%) Senior Data Engineer
17 13 (4.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (50.00%) Terraform
2 43 (14.14%) REST
3 38 (12.50%) React
4 34 (11.18%) Spring
4 34 (11.18%) Spring Boot
5 32 (10.53%) RESTful
6 26 (8.55%) Node.js
7 24 (7.89%) .NET
7 24 (7.89%) AngularJS
8 23 (7.57%) Kafka
9 22 (7.24%) AWS CDK
10 18 (5.92%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.61%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (4.61%) GraphQL
11 14 (4.61%) SOAP
12 12 (3.95%) Hibernate
12 12 (3.95%) JPA
13 11 (3.62%) .NET Core
13 11 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (2.96%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 76 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.53%) Replication
3 29 (9.54%) Product Ownership
4 24 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.95%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.95%) Clustering
6 10 (3.29%) NHS
7 9 (2.96%) PKI
8 8 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.30%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.97%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.64%) PropTech
11 5 (1.64%) Reinsurance
12 4 (1.32%) Autonomous Agent
12 4 (1.32%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.32%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 57 (18.75%) Linux
2 28 (9.21%) Windows
3 15 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.62%) Unix
6 9 (2.96%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (1.97%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.64%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.32%) AIX
10 1 (0.33%) CentOS
10 1 (0.33%) VMS
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (67.11%) CI/CD
2 153 (50.33%) DevOps
3 148 (48.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (40.13%) Agile
5 77 (25.33%) Microservices
6 67 (22.04%) Containerisation
7 65 (21.38%) Observability
8 57 (18.75%) Data Modelling
8 57 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
9 53 (17.43%) Event-Driven
10 52 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 51 (16.78%) Migration
12 47 (15.46%) Software Engineering
13 45 (14.80%) High Availability
14 41 (13.49%) Data Integration
15 40 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
15 40 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
15 40 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
16 38 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 132 (43.42%) Python
2 92 (30.26%) SQL
3 68 (22.37%) Java
4 39 (12.83%) TypeScript
5 31 (10.20%) Bash
6 26 (8.55%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.22%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.25%) Groovy
9 18 (5.92%) C#
10 12 (3.95%) Scala
11 8 (2.63%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.30%) Perl
13 4 (1.32%) Bicep
14 3 (0.99%) Go
14 3 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.99%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 110 (36.18%) Security Cleared
2 93 (30.59%) SC Cleared
3 55 (18.09%) AWS Certification
4 34 (11.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (8.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (6.25%) Degree
7 11 (3.62%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.62%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.30%) CISM
9 7 (2.30%) CISSP
10 6 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.66%) MCSA
13 2 (0.66%) MCSE
13 2 (0.66%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.55%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.63%) QA
3 7 (2.30%) NIST
4 4 (1.32%) SLA
5 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.99%) HL7
5 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.99%) NCSC
6 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.66%) GDPR
6 2 (0.66%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 104 (34.21%) Docker
2 18 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.97%) Postfix
4 6 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.32%) DFS Replication
5 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.99%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.99%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.66%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.66%) Squid
7 2 (0.66%) vSphere
8 1 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 84 (27.63%) Kubernetes
2 64 (21.05%) Grafana
3 49 (16.12%) Prometheus
4 31 (10.20%) Ansible
5 10 (3.29%) Kibana
6 8 (2.63%) Istio
7 7 (2.30%) Argo
7 7 (2.30%) Puppet
8 6 (1.97%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.64%) Packer
10 4 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (1.32%) Rancher
11 3 (0.99%) Nagios
11 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.99%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.99%) vMotion
11 3 (0.99%) WSUS
12 2 (0.66%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 34 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.87%) Oracle
3 22 (7.24%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.95%) Informatica
6 11 (3.62%) VMware
7 9 (2.96%) Databricks
7 9 (2.96%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (2.63%) Splunk
9 7 (2.30%) Google
9 7 (2.30%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.30%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.97%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.97%) Citrix
10 6 (1.97%) Denodo
10 6 (1.97%) Talend
11 5 (1.64%) Amplitude
12 4 (1.32%) Brio
12 4 (1.32%) Cisco
13 3 (0.99%) HP